Tip Toe is Russell T Davies’ new five-part Channel 4 drama, set on Manchester’s Canal Street, with Alan Cumming as a gay bar owner living with HIV and David Morrissey as the neighbour whose prejudice turns dangerous. It aired from 31 May to 9 June 2026, and all five episodes are streaming now. So what...
Ballmaxxing is the practice of injecting fluid, usually saline or a surgical lubricant called Surgilube, into the scrotum to make the testicles look dramatically bigger. The term went viral in May 2026 after a Men’s Health feature on the practice, and doctors warn it can cause infection, permanent damage and, in the worst cases, life-threatening...
About 10 men in matching red and black, roughly half of them masked, turned up at Athens PrideFest in Georgia on Saturday 6 June, waved a swastika flag and threw Nazi salutes. They were gone within minutes. The crowd booed them, organisers blocked their view with a banner, and the parade kept moving. Attendees filmed...
Chris Appleton has spent years making other people look good in front of a camera. Now the celebrity hairstylist is stepping in front of one himself, with an acting debut in the Baywatch reboot. True to the franchise, the shirt did not survive the trip. How a beach photo became an audition Back in March,...
Kane Evans has come out as gay, becoming the first men’s professional rugby league player to do so since Ian Roberts more than three decades ago. The former Roosters, Eels and Warriors prop told his story on Channel Nine’s 100% Footy on Monday night, and it is not an easy watch. Across a career of...
Madonna has released Confessions II – The Film, a 13-minute short that plays like one long, half-remembered night on the dancefloor. It went up on YouTube on 8 June 2026, days after premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York, where it reportedly earned several standing ovations. The film runs across six chapters, each...
Drake Von arrested over alleged domestic violence in Las Vegas Bisexual adult star Drake Von was arrested in Las Vegas on Tuesday 2 June and charged with several domestic battery offences, according to Attitude, citing TMZ. The 23-year-old, one of OnlyFans’ biggest earners, faces alleged charges of domestic battery by strangulation, coercion involving domestic violence,...
Madonna opened Pride Month by turning Times Square into a free, open-air nightclub. On 4 June she played a surprise pop-up concert with Grindr. The set ran from 6pm to 7pm and gave fans a first listen to new songs from her upcoming album Confessions II. Thousands packed the intersection on a Thursday evening to...
On the second day of Pride Month, a sitting US congressman told the country that gay people do not belong in America. The post on Republican Andy Ogles’ X account read, “Homosexuality has no place in America,” with a cheerful sign-off: “Happy Nuclear Family Month.” It was gone within hours. A Pride Month post that...
For Pride Month, a straight critic sat down with the gayest film he could find and walked away a fan. At The Film Experience, critic Ben Miller opened the blog’s “Very Gay Film/Very Straight Guy” series with Alain Guiraudie’s Stranger by the Lake, the 2013 French thriller set at a lakeside cruising spot. Rather than...
Hoyt Richards had the kind of face that built fashion houses. Tall, blond and Princeton-educated, he became the first male supermodel of the 1980s. He fronted campaigns for Versace, Valentino and Ralph Lauren, and posed beside Cindy Crawford and Fabio. Almost every dollar he earned went to a doomsday cult that believed its leader was...
Dave Rubin, a gay conservative commentator, sat down for a public debate, was asked to name a single thing Donald Trump has made better for Americans… and came up empty. The clip, from a Jubilee Media debate published online on 31 May, has been doing the rounds ever since, mostly because of how badly it...
He-Man has been read as a gay icon for more than 40 years, long before any Hollywood studio said it out loud. The muscle, the leather harness, the closeted prince with a double life: the subtext was never very sub. Now Nicholas Galitzine is raising the Sword of Power in a new live-action Masters of...
Off Campus kicks the locker-room door open and shows you everything. The Prime Video adaptation of Elle Kennedy’s best-selling college romance novels has had viewers talking since it premiered on 13 May, and one scene in particular lit up the internet. Yes, it was all real The moment lands when Hannah, played by Ella Bright,...
Hudson Williams turned an internet in-joke into one of the best acceptance speeches of the year. Collecting his first major award at the 2026 Canadian Screen Awards, the 25-year-old credited the unlikeliest of co-stars: his own face. “If I could cut this award down the middle I would,” he told the room, “because if these...