KENNETH IN THE (212): The true story — straight from the formerly straight horse’s mouth — about how the movie Campus Man and the Men of ASU/Campus Men USA movie and calendar series came to be.
NEW YORK TIMES: Here comes The Fantasticks for its first-ever Broadway run (TICKETS), and there’s a gender change.
JOE.MY.GOD.: Now even Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says we need to slow the pace of AI. These experts all concur AI could feasibly be an extinction event for the human race, and yet … at least I got to see how you all woulda looked in the ‘80s! (Even though you actually lived through the ‘80s and had real photos from that time already.)
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: Alan Cumming is raking it in as the host of The Traitors, but he found time to star in Tip Toe, a U.K. drama about the murder of a gay man that is described as “visceral, discomfiting and uncompromising.” From the write-up:
“Tip Toe makes a statement, loud and proud and outraged, about rising levels of bigotry, hate crimes and systemic violence in Britain and around the world over the last decade or so. It imagines, through the lens of a thriller but all too realistically, how these bubbling tensions can spiral out of control. It’s a spirited portrait of queer resilience against the resurgent force of cultural homophobia.”
VARIETY: Lilly Wachowski talks about how Hollywood is dropping the ball on queer and specifically trans projects.
REELING FILM FESTIVAL: Chicago’s queer Reeling Film Festival is here!
DEADLINE: Megan Rapinoe stars in the TIFF-premiering doc Rapinoe.
PEOPLE: Céline Dion just gave her first full concert in six years.
NEWSWEEK: “My Mom Thought My Gay Marriage Meant I Was Safe. Then My Husband Asked for a Divorce.”
YOUTUBE: The fabulous Annie Korzen talks about having played Doris Klompus on several episodes of Seinfeld. She says she has made $100,000 in residuals since 1991 — a part for which she had about 27 lines.
MENCRUSH: JFC, there’s a charmless reality show called Crush House that is made up of OnlyFans creators. Hey, I could have gone along with it, but the winner is crowned Most Valuable Crush.
REUTERS: Hungary is set to get rid of its ban on gay adoption.