Kai Schwemmer is the newly appointed Political Director of College Republicans of America (CRA), a conservative student organisation founded in 2023 with more than 200 chapters across the United States. College Republicans is an umbrella term for college and university students who support the Republican Party, and the CRA has positioned itself further to the...
Samuel Roberts spent two decades playing Australian Rules football. He also spent most of that time hiding who he was. Now, the cabaret comedian has turned that experience into FAAG: Footballers Are A Godsend, and it is playing at the 2026 Melbourne International Comedy Festival (MICF) from 26 March to 6 April at the Grouse...
The RuPaul’s Drag Race universe is getting its first feature film, and the teaser trailer for Stop! That! Train! dropped on 28 March. It looks exactly as ridiculous as you’d hope. RuPaul is Madam President The action-comedy is directed by Adam Shankman, best known for the 2007 remake of Hairspray. RuPaul stars as President Judy...
Hudson Williams and Dylan O’Brien have signed on to star in Apparatus, a darkly comedic thriller from Canadian filmmaker Sofia Banzhaf. The independent feature marks Banzhaf’s directorial debut, and filming kicked off in Toronto on 30 March 2026, running through 12 May. The casting announcement sent social media into overdrive, with fans of both actors...
Four years ago, Zack Hilton was a skinny young man with dry skin and chronic acne who drank alcohol and smoked every day. Now he’s on the cover of DNA and… wow! “I’m not AI and I don’t need to put socks down my underwear,” he says. Is America ready for its first gay president? Or...
Independent artist Conleth Kane has released Erasure-esque, an EP paying tribute to Erasure on the synth-pop duo’s 40th anniversary. It is a project made with genuine care, and Erasure’s lead singer Andy Bell has made his support for it very public. Bell backed the release in the official Erasure newsletter in February. For an artist...
The Humanitas Prize-winning web series about three mates over 50 figuring out love, work and everything in between is back with new episodes. What to know about The Disappointments The Disappointments follows longtime friends Ray, Gary and James as they face career setbacks, romantic complications and the challenge of redefining their lives in middle age....
Texas Democratic state representative James Talarico is no stranger to political attacks. This week, they came fast and strange. Within 48 hours, a pastor with direct ties to US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth prayed for Talarico’s death on a podcast. Then Donald Trump piled on via Truth Social. The pattern is hard to ignore. Talarico,...
He started as the boy everyone wanted on Queer As Folk. Charlie Hunnam was just 18 when Russell T Davies cast him as 15-year-old Nathan Maloney in the original British Queer As Folk. The year was 1999. The Channel 4 series followed the lives of gay men in Manchester, and it changed television. Hunnam’s Nathan...
On 22 March, Donald Trump took to his Truth Social account to go after James Talarico, the Texas Democrat who won his party’s Senate primary. Trump called him a “FRAUD,” claimed he had “six genders,” ate “only vegan food,” wore a mask in 2023 and 2024, and described his views as “an insult to Jesus.”...
EastEnders has officially started its most talked-about storyline of the year, and it began with a kiss. In the Monday 23 March episode of the BBC soap, Oscar Branning (Pierre Counihan-Moullier) crossed paths with the newly arrived Josh Goodwin (Joshua Vaughan). The chemistry was instant. After some back-and-forth, Josh played it cool with a simple:...
Lisa Kudrow’s The Comeback is back for a third and final season, with the new run premiering on HBO and HBO Max on 22 March 2026. The cult comedy picks up more than a decade after season two, with Valerie Cherish now stepping into a new Hollywood mess shaped by social media, stunt casting, and...
Former Brisbane Lions player Leigh Ryswyk has made history, becoming the first male Australian Football League (AFL) player, past or present, to come out as gay publicly. Mitch Brown came out last year, but as bisexual. Ryswyk, now 41, shared the news on 25 March on GayFL, a show broadcast on JOY 94.9, the LGBTQIA+...
Boots is gone. No second season. And yes, that still stings. But if Angus O’Brien’s social media is anything to go by, he is doing just fine and looking better than ever. The 30-year-old actor, best known for his role in the now-cancelled Netflix series Boots, has been steadily flooding timelines with shirtless mirror selfies....
Luke Evans is stepping into one of theatre’s most loaded roles, and the first look is already doing its job. New images shared through Vogue show the Welsh actor in fishnets, corsetry, and heels as Dr Frank-N-Furter for the new Broadway revival of The Rocky Horror Show, which begins performances on 26 March at Studio...