ATTITUDE: Luke Evans drops trou and opens up to Attitude, saying:
“As an actor who’s mostly known for playing these very masc-presenting action roles, and also being a gay man, to come and do [the part of Frank-N-Furter], it really meant quite a lot to me personally. I think it also was a really strong message we were sending to the audience: this is a person who’s comfortable with who he is and has just loved spreading his wings and doing something really outside of his comfort zone that I’ve lived in and thoroughly enjoyed.”
In releated news, the cast of Broadway’s The Rocky Horror Show — including a returning Evans, current Frank Paul Soileau and soon-to-be Frank Jake Shears — paid tribute to the late, great Tim Curry:
TMZ: Milo Yiannopoulos, the anti-gay, ex-gay gay who worked for Kanye and is still in his orbit, was arrested by ICE and is being detained at an ICE detention center in Louisiana. It doesn’t get sweeter than reading that.
EW.COM: Jelly Roll really threw everyone for a loop as he effortlessly hosted Jimmy Kimmel Live! this past week, slamming Trump after everyone was sure he was MAGA. Welp, it’s safe to say he ain’t. In his latest monologue:
“He also clarified his previous comments about the UFC fight at the White House last month, adding, ‘Just because I watched a fight on TV doesn’t mean I support everything this administration does, just like hosting Jimmy Kimmel’s show doesn’t mean I have all of Jimmy Kimmel’s politics.’
“However, during his monologue, Jelly Roll explained that he leans ‘left on some things’ but is ‘pretty down the middle’ politically.
“‘I am a Christian. I am a country music singer. I’m a farmer,’ he said. ‘But I also spent this past week working in a building with the kindest, most talented group of chihuahua-hugging, oat-milk-latte-loving lefties on God’s green earth, and it was a blast, y’all.’”
KENNETH IN THE (212): LGBTQ+ and -adjacent mags of the moment.
HUFFINGTON POST: Jasmine Crockett is an embarrassingly sore loser in Texas. She resigned her seat to be anointed the Democratic Senate candidate, only to lose to James Talarico. She endorsed him but has reneged on her promise to campaign with him — and has even done interviews bitching about his electability with Black voters. Remember when Obama came from nowhere and took Hillary’s “turn”? She suffered a crushing defeat … and then embraced and worked with him.
NEW YORK TIMES: The Mapplethorpe Foundation has denied use of an arresting portrait of Roy Cohn for a book critical of the late (checks notes) demon … possibly because it feels retribution from Cohn acolyte Trump.
THE AP: Cohn acolyte Trump claims Lake Ontario is now called Lake America. Fuck this guy.
UNDER ARMOUR: François Arnaud for Under Armour.
OUTSPORTS: Jesus Christ — out lesbian soccer star Esther González left NYC’s team Gotham FC to tend to family matters, persuading the team to relieve her of her obligations. Turns out it was all a ruse — she’s just been signed to Al-Qadsiah Saudi Women’s Football Club. Imagine being a dyke and liking the smell of cash so much you decide living in Saudi Arabia makes total sense. She has a wife and child!
GIANTS.COM: Unflagging support for the New York Gay Flag Football League.
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: Eklipse, from Austrian filmmaker Manuel Wetscher, is hitting Horizons at the Venice Film Festival on September 5:
“Eklipse is inspired by Wetscher’s experience when details of the death of his father from AIDS back in the 1990s were kept from him. The film stars Moritz Hohlrieder as Tomy and Finley Brown as his best friend Chris. The two teenagers spend a summer at an alpine dairy farm in Austria, helping Tomy’s uncle, portrayed by Hannes Perkmann, with the milking and exploring the outdoors. But their time together is not just fun and games.”
YOUTUBE: An exclusive sit-down with Dutch PM Rob Jetten, the out politician, on how to combat the far right: