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He's gay, she's gay, I'm gay, we're all gay for Maye! Throughout the 2025 NFL season, New England Patriots quarterback Drake Maye has led his team to victory after victory, snagging them a spot in the upcoming Super Bowl 60. Naturally, the (mostly heterosexual) Boston football fans yearned for a catchy and viral slogan to support the 23-year-old hotshot. So, they searched the depths of their imagination, realized what word his last name rhymed with, and "Gay for Maye" was born.

I just randomly started talking to this guy,

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For most people playing or just watching The Traitors, each day is filled with physical and mental stress and anxiety. For Colton Underwood, it's just another day at work. "Everybody's like, 'That show had to be so hard and so intense,'" he tells Bustle over the phone. "I was like, 'Compared to the other shows I've done, Traitors was a cakewalk.'"

I've never felt so certain and so loved,

Six federal prosecutors in Minnesota resigned on Tuesday after the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) began investigating whether Becca Good, the widow of a queer woman killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent last week, had any criminal associations or ties to anti-government groups. The current presidential administration has repeatedly tried to portray Renee Good, the woman killed by an ICE agent, as a "domestic terrorist" who was part of a "sinister left-wing movement" that criminally sought to interfere with ICE's actions.

The removal of San Antonio's rainbow crosswalks, which were originally installed in 2018 with the help of nonprofit Pride San Antonio, follows Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's (R) October 8 order directing the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) to remove "any and all political ideologies" from streets across the state.

"Luckily, the opposite impulse also exists," she wrote, "despite the increasing onslaught of deliberate cruelty, lost ground, and assaults on our very understanding of who we are over the last year, our better instincts prevail-our instincts not only to subsist and survive, but to thrive." She explained that on January 20, 2025, she was given the opportunity to live a life "alternative to the shuttered, circumscribed, and lonely life" she'd been living.

When I first heard of Heated Rivalry, I didn't think much about it. The words Canadian ice-hockey TV series slid into my brain and slipped right back out. But a week later, approximately everyone I'd ever met wanted to talk about it. People kept telling me that it was fun, sweet, and addicting. Most of all, they emphasized that it was really smutty. Every recommendation seemed to come with a warning to not watch with my parents.

I have never been more self-assured in life than I am now at 38. Every relationship in my lifefeels more secure with each waking day. I make more choices for myself now than I ever have,and I care far less about pleasing others than I ever did. But I still regularly pretend to be someone else - possibly even daily. Like Stephen, my formative years were spent playing a completely different character.

The internet has turned fringe belief into mainstream politics and policy from authoritarianism to vaccines. With democracy itself threatened, is it time to go back to a previous world of landlines, letters and face-to-face-contact, audiotapes and Ansaphones? What would we miss about the online world that is worth the risk to liberal culture and basic freedoms? Should we turn the internet off?

The Boyfriend is structured around queer men living and working together for two months. Throughout their time, they navigate love and friendship, which flits between sweet and intense. In the first season, the men lived in a beachside house. However, for season 2, Netflix is swapping the beach for the snow. The second season sees the men live in the winter landscape of Lake Akan in Hokkaido. This time, their group will work at a peppermint-coloured coffee truck.

"Well, everyone thought you were a little bit too gay," Cher told him. "But you know what? You're perfect for me."

The presidency once served as a reminder of our common humanity,

For seven years, straight people let the Queer Eye guys into their apartments. No questions asked by the way. They say 'Come in! Yeah, take my sofa and compost it. It was given to me by my grandmother. She fought for women's rights. I don't give a f*** about her anymore. Yeah, replace it with a slab of reclaimed wood'.

The LGBTQ+ sports drama based on Rachel Reid's erotic novel focuses on two rival hockey players, Ilya Rozanov and Shane Hollander ( Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams respectively) and their passionate secret affair. Since the show first debuted at the end of November it has quickly become known for its explicit gay sex scenes as well as the star's natural chemistry.

The state of Florida has become the epicenter of Republicans' rainbow crosswalk crackdown. The DeSantis administration has heeded warnings from federal Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, who has falsely claimed Pride art is distracting to drivers. Duffy wrote in a July 1 letter to the nation's governors that all non-freeway intersections and crosswalks must be kept "free from distractions." In a subsequent X post, he said, "Taxpayers expect their dollars to fund safe streets, not rainbow crosswalks."

"I have Stage 4 glioblastoma, one of the deadliest forms of brain cancer," Collins writes. "It came on incredibly fast."

Nestled within that outrageousness was swift promotion of her beautiful new short film, A Friend of Dorothy. In it, she plays Dorothy, an elderly widow with limited mobility who meets young, closeted queer man JJ (played with startling fragility by newcomer Alistair Nwachukwu) after he accidentally kicks his football into her garden. A friendship blossoms, as they provide a sense of belonging and stability to one another at a time when, despite their different life stages, both are feeling cast adrift.

forced his way into the doorway, grabbed [Barnett] by her waist, fondled her breast and buttocks and proceeded to kiss her neck,

Raine and Dumas, 24 and 26 respectively, share an Instagram account - @bigupsofficial - where they posted a reel of highlights from their time together already on Sunday (7 December). Captioned, "From day one.. to everything time can't erase," the reel is set to Charli XCX's "Everything is romantic feat. Caroline Polachek." The video sees the two sharing many a sweet moment including kisses, dinners, beach days, and the two attending a London screening of Johnson's latest film, The Smashing Machine, in September.