Thor: Love and Thunder goes gay and so does Monster High: The Movie. Glamorous announces some appropriately glamorous casting, Barbie embraces androgyny, and Rebel Wilson gets naked with her girlfriend.
Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin & The Vampire Academy
Peacock spilled the tea on its upcoming fall schedule and two shows caught our eye. The first is the Pitch Perfect spinoff, Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin will star Adam DeVine, Sarah Hyland, Lera Above, Jameela Jamil, and German actor Flula Borg. In the series, Bumper (DeVine) moves to Germany to revive his music career after one of his songs blows up in that country.
The second series that we can’t wait to take a bite out of is The Vampire Academy. The show is based on the supernatural YA series by Richelle Mead and “follows the students of St. Vladimir’s Academy — a hidden place where vampire royals are educated alongside students descended from Vampires and Humans who train to protect from the savage ‘Strigoi’ vampires who would like to see them destroyed.” It's being helmed by Julie Plec (The Vampire Diaries) alongside Marguerite MacIntyre (The Originals) and is rumored to be very queer.
Glamorous
Kim Cattrall (Queer as Folk) and Fire Island hottie Zane Phillips have both signed onto the upcoming LGBTQ+ drama Glamorous. The series “tells the story of Marco Mejia, played by previously announced Miss Benny, a gender-nonconforming queer young man whose life seems to be stuck in place until he lands a job working for legendary makeup mogul Madolyn Addison. It’s Marco’s first chance to figure out what he wants out of life, who he actually is, and what it means for him to be queer,” reports Deadline.
The Witchery
Your summer reads just got witchy, thanks to the debut young adult novel from author S. Isabelle. “The Witchery is a 6-person-POV story that follows four witches and two mundane boys who cross their paths. It’s a thrilling and atmospheric read with an inclusive narrative, a diverse magical school, Black girls front and center, and on-the-page queer characters,” reads the press release.
Password
The teaser trailer for Password, featuring Keke Palmer and Jimmy Fallon is here. “Throughout the series, contestants partner with Fallon and other celebrities to face off in a game of words. There will be eight hour-long episodes, featuring celebrity/contestant duos as they compete for cash prizes using only one-word clues to guess a secret password,” reports Entertainment Weekly.
What We Do in the Shadows
Kayvan Novak and Harvey Guillén opened up about the special relationship between their characters Nandor and Guillermo to E! News. “He’s got the best relationship he will probably ever experience under his nose, and that’s his relationship with Guillermo,” Novak told E! “He’s sniffing around in all the wrong places.”Guillén is a little more hopeful for the two.
“They will always have love for each other, to the point where they’re in each other’s lives,” he said. “They’re intertwined.”
“Sometimes you can love somebody and be in their lives, but it doesn’t mean you have to put a ring on it,” Guillén said. “Love looks different for everybody.”
What We Do In The Shadows returns July 12 on FX.
Monster High
The Monster High: The Movie trailer is here and queer. Per the logline, the film “follows Clawdeen Wolf (Miia Harris), born half human and half werewolf, after arriving at her new school, Monster High. She quickly makes friends with her classmates Frankie Stein (Ceci Balagot) and Draculaura (Nayah Damasen), and for the first time in her life, Clawdeen feels like she has finally found a place where she fits in and can truly be herself, despite keeping her human half a secret. When a devious plan to destroy Monster High threatens to reveal her real identity, Clawdeen must learn to embrace her true monster heart and find a way to save the day.”
Conjuring Kesha Kesha stopped by Late Night with Seth Meyers to talk about her new ghost-hunting series Conjuring Kesha. The “Timber” singer also told a creepy story about Whitney Cummings’ supernatural experience during filming. “I took her to a haunted prison in the middle of the Tennessee mountains,” Kesha told host Seth Meyers, noting that they were accompanied by a demonologist. “[Cummings is] upstairs having this beautiful moment, crying — she believes that she’s connected and is having a full conversation with a trans ghost, which may be true.”
Conjuring Kesha premieres on July 8 on Discovery+.
Thor: Love and Thunder
Thor: Love and Thunder star Tessa Thompson confirmed that her character Valkyrie’s sexuality is a big topic of conversation in the film. “Because I think rightfully there’s this real want in audiences to see characters be very clearly queer or LGBTQIA inside these spaces. And I think it’s hugely important to have representation,” Thompson, who’s bisexual, told Yahoo! Entertainment.
“It becomes the only storyline, particularly in a movie like this where you don’t, frankly, have a lot of room for storyline,” Thompson says. “So there was a lot of conversation in terms of how to treat that with Valkyrie. And I feel really good, personally, about where we got to. I hope that she’s a character that fans continue to connect to, that we have a lot of time to explore her, in all of her humanity. But whether or not she finds love in this movie doesn’t mean she’s not still a fabulous queer character that is open to finding love when it makes sense.”
Thor: Love and Thunder opens Friday, July 8.
Barbie
Mattel is releasing an androgynous David Bowe-inspired Barbie doll. “David Bowie was a one-man cultural phenomenon for his contributions to music, art, fashion, and film. Our second tribute doll celebrates the 50th anniversary of his classic Hunky Dory, the iconic ‘Life on Mars?’ video, and an outfit forever associated with this ultimate pop chameleon,” reads Mattel’s website. “This Barbie doll models an authentic replica of the bespoke powder-blue suit Bowie wore in the ‘Life on Mars?’ music video, including a foil-printed pin-stripe shirt, statement tie, and platform shoes. Her hairstyle and bold blue eyeshadow are inspired by Bowie’s ‘70s glam era look.”
Thanos’s Butt
In a video featuring Rudd as his character Scott Lang a.k.a. Ant-Man and Hope van Dyne a.k.a. The Wasp (Evangeline Lilly) which played on the Disney Wish cruise ship, Rudd starts to launch into an explanation.
“I’ve heard a lot of chatter out there asking why I didn’t shrink down, go in, and uh... kill Thanos in a really creative way,” Rudd says in the video shared on social media by an attendee who previewed the cruise ship. “First of all: gross. Secondly, it’s much more complicated than that. Allow me to explain — “
“If only we had the time!” Hope cuts in.
Beyonce’s New Album Art
Queen Bey released the art for her new album Renaissance on Instagram and we are shaking. “Creating this album allowed me a place to dream and to find escape during a scary time for the world. It allowed me to feel free and adventurous in a time when little else was moving. My intention was to create a safe place, a place without judgment. A place to be free of perfectionism and overthinking. A place to scream, release, feel freedom. It was a beautiful journey of exploration. I hope you find joy in this music. I hope it inspires you to release the wiggle. Ha! And to feel as unique, strong, and sexy as you are,” she wrote in the caption.
Rebel Wilson’s Sexy Turkey Vacation
After coming out about her relationship with girlfriend Ramona Agruma, Rebel Wilson has been living her best life. Case in point, the two jet-setted off to Turkey for some very gorgeous (and naked) snaps.
Strangers Sounds Like Our New Gay Movie Obsession
Weekend and Looking creator Andrew Haigh is at it again, this time with the film Strangers starring Andrew Scott (Fleabag) and Paul Mescal (Normal People). “Strangers follows screenwriter Adam (Scott) who, one night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, has a chance encounter with his mysterious neighbor Harry (Mescal) that punctures the rhythm of his everyday life. As Adam and Harry get closer, Adam is pulled back to his childhood home where he discovers that his long-dead parents are both living and look the same age as the day they died over 30 years ago,” reports Variety.
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11 times J.K. Rowling did something wildly transphobic, ranked
J.K. Rowling attends day four of Royal Ascot at Ascot Racecourse on June 20, 2025 in Ascot, England.
This story originally appeared on Out.
For almost a decade now, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has been spreading transphobia and has become the poster child for the UK’s troubling movement of TERFs (trans-exclusionary radical feminists). She has gone on transphobic tirades on social media, written a nearly 4,000-word anti-trans manifesto, donated some of her fortune to anti-trans causes, regularly misgenders trans women, and gleefully celebrates every time the transgender community has their rights stripped away.
The author, once revered for creating an inclusive fantasy world where good triumphs over evil, let her LGBTQ+ fans down by consistently doubling down on her transphobic rhetoric. She has painted trans women as predators who are lying about their gender to take away women’s rights and enter women’s spaces under false pretenses. This dangerous vitriol has even caused many of the stars of the Harry Potter franchise to come forward and call her out for her anti-trans takes.
For queer and trans fans of Harry Potter, this abrupt turn was jarring and has undermined their love of a fictional world where marginalized groups are loved and fought for. But Rowling hasn’t just disappointed her fans by spreading her hateful views; she’s also done so in some of the most bizarre ways, leaving many people not just outraged, but scratching their heads.
11. Tone deaf Dolly Parton tribute
Rowling joined the world in mourning Dolly Parton by posting a tribute on X that backfired when the country music legend’s fans came out in droves to point out that Parton loved the LGBTQ+ community and wouldn’t have supported Rowling’s TERF views.
After Parton fans flooded Rowling’s comment section with messages like, “She certainly would have thought of you as a nasty, hateful woman. Nice little tweet though,” Rowling attempted to hit back after a user called her “a fucking monster” by posting, “Well, joke’s on you, because neither of us want Jolene to take our man.”
10. Accidentally wrote “f*ck up some TERFs” on a child’s drawing
Seemingly by mistake, Rowling replied to post on X about a nine-year-old kid’s drawing of Ickabog, a monster from her children’s book, by including text she likely meant to copy and paste elsewhere.
“I love this truly fabulous Ickabog, with its bat ears, mismatched eyes, and terrifying bloodstained teeth! In court, Wolf claimed the Facebook post in which he’d said he wanted to ‘f*** up some TERFs’ was just ‘bravado’. #TheIckabog.”
Internet sleuths figured out that in the post, Rowling was misgendering Tara Wolf, a trans woman accused of assaulting Maria MacLachlan, who was at an anti-trans protest in 2017.
9. Accused Olympic boxer Imane Khelif of being trans
When Algerian boxer Imane Khelif took home gold at the 2024 Paris Olympics, Rowling joined fellow wealthy bigot Elon Musk in spreading the rumor that the cisgender boxer was secretly a man, leaning hard into the ever-present transphobia and anti-intersex hate in women's sports.
Even after both Rowling and Musk were named in a criminal complaint filed with French authorities over alleged “acts of aggravated cyber harassment,” Rowling refused to let it go and continued to post anti-trans posts accusing Khelif of lying about her gender.
8. Transvestigated another athlete
Less than five months after harassing Olympic boxer Imane Khelif for supposedly being trans, Rowling joined in on another transvestigation of a woman in sports when she accused cisgender Zambian soccer player Barbra Banda of secretly being a man — she is not.
Rowling took exception to the BBC naming Banda the 2024 Women’s Footballer of the Year. “Presumably the BBC decided this was more time efficient than going door to door to spit directly in women's faces," Rowling wrote on X.
7. Smoked a cigar to celebrate being a TERF
After donating £70,000 (roughly $88,200) to the anti-trans group For Women Scotland in 2024 to help them fight against a 2018 Scottish law that legally recognized trans women as women, Rowling celebrated in a ghoulish way when the U.K. Supreme Court decided that trans women aren’t considered women under the nation’s Equality Act.
Rowling responded to the court decision by posting a photo of herself with a drink in one hand and smoking a cigar with the other. While people like right-wing commentator Megyn Kelly commented “God bless you,” the post was also full of people slamming her for her cruelty in the face of people having their rights taken away. Pedro Pascal even called her out for doing “Voldemort villain s---" and referred to Rowling as a "heinous loser."
6. Accidentally turned herself into a meme
Rowling accidentally turned herself into a meme when she changed her profile pic on X to a photo that showed what looked like black mold-covered walls inside her mansion.
While the photo most likely shows wallpaper and not mold, users ran with it and began joking that the black mold had infected her brain as an explanation for her hateful anti-trans views.
5. Whined about being doxxed
On the eve of Transgender Day of Remembrance in 2021, comedian Holly Stars, actor Georgia Frost and drag king Richard Energy protested Rowling’s anti-trans views by staging a demonstration and posting a photo holding signs in front of the author’s home near Edinburgh, Scotland.
Rowling took exception to her house numbers being visible in the photo and accused the “actor activists” of “doxxing” her in an eight-tweet rant on X. But is it doxxing if the information is already public? Rowling claimed she received “so many death threats I could paper the house with them,” but both of her residences are historical landmarks, and one even has its own Wikipedia page.
4. Wrote a transphobic character that sounds an awful lot like herself
Under her pen name Robert Galbraith, Rowling wrote The Ink Black Heart, where a character gets harassed and doxxed because of their transphobic and racist views.
Rowling claimed that the character wasn’t based on her own experience, despite Rolling Stone writing that the character is doxxed “with photos of her home plastered on the internet” and subjected “to death and rape threats for having an opinion,” which probably sounds pretty familiar to people who have been following the author’s anti-trans outbursts.
3. Called David Tennant the "gender Taliban"
Rowling called Harry Potter actor David Tennant and people like him the “gender Taliban” in a post on X after he spoke out at the British LGBT Awards, where he called transgender critics “a tiny bunch of little whinging f*ckers who are on the wrong side of history, and they’ll all go away soon” and said they are on the “wrong side of history.”
In response, Rowling leaned into hateful anti-trans rhetoric that conflates being transgender with being an abuser of women. “This man is talking about rape survivors who want female-only care, the nurses currently suing their health trust for making them change in front of a man, girls and women losing sporting opportunities to males and female prisoners incarcerated with convicted sex offenders,” she wrote.
2. Dared police to arrest her
Rowling spoke out against Scotland’s new hate crime act in 2024 by daring police to arrest her for misgendering trans women. The act criminalizes “stirring up hatred” regarding age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity and variations in sex characteristics, which can result in a fine or a seven-year prison sentence.
Rowling then went on a lengthy tirade on X — something she is known for at this point — where she accused lawmakers of protecting trans women at the expense of “the rights and freedoms of actual women and girls.” She finished by telling the police to come and arrest her if what she wrote “qualifies as an offense” under the new law. “I look forward to being arrested when I return to the birthplace of the Scottish Enlightenment,” she wrote.
1. Posted an upskirt photo
Rowling, who claims to be a protector of women and rails against trans women being allowed in women’s restrooms, targeted a transgender British podcaster who she disagrees with by posting an upskirt photo of her. Freda Wallace became Rowling’s latest target when she refused to engage with the transphobe online.
Rowling responded by misgendering Wallace and posting a photo of her originally taken by anti-trans activist and fellow transphobe Maya Forstater, from slightly below Wallace to show her upper thigh. Rowling said that Wallace refused to debate her but to prove she has “no hard feelings” she posted the photo of another debate. “I hear he left an indelible impression on the audience. And the chair,” Rowling wrote.