If they could just bring back Zachary Quinto, American Horror Story: Freak Show would have the full trifecta of gay male acting royalty from the US. Just a couple of days ago it was announced that Neil Patrick Harris (and his hubby David Burtka) would show up in the final two episodes, and Matt Bomer also took a week off shooting Magic Mike XXL so that he could show up.

Now the first pic of Bomer in AMH has arrived via Out, and he’s looking good. Indeed he’s looking almost ridiculously youthful for a man who’s just turned 37.

We like the quiff/bouffand hairdo though.

Bomer will share the screen with  Michael Chiklis, and Finn Wittrock. However creator Ryan Murphy has hinted that he may not be around for long, telling THR, “[He’s in] maybe one of the most disturbing things we’ve ever done and a true horror scene.” And from other things Murphy has said, that’s likely to involve Twisty the Clown.

Sean Hayes spent many years dodging the question over whether he was gay (even though most people didn’t even realise it was it was a fact that was in contention). However that all changed in 2010 when he officially came out, and now he’s moving through the next step in the modern gay experience – announcing your engagement.

Rumorfix noticed that Sean has been wearing a gold ring during recent interviews and so reached out to the actor’s representatives for comment. The reps said, “Sean Hayes and Scott Icenogle have been together for eight years. They are not yet married but they have been engaged for quite some time.”

Icenogle is a music producer and composer. Hayes of course is the former star of Will & Grace who is currently appearing on the sitcom The Millers, and who has also had success as an executive producer on series such as Hot In Cleveland and Grimm.

There’s no news on when and if Sean and Scott intend to head down the aisle, but we wish them luck if they decide to.

If there’s one genre where gay-themed entertainment has had to fight to make inroads on the screen, it’s sci-fi. Although some TV series have included LGBT characters, they’re still the exception rather than the rule. And in the movies gay content in sci-fi is even rarer.

With the BFI (British Film Institute) holding a major season called Sci-Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder, which largely concentrates on major moments and movies in the visionary genre, they’ve also decided to include a gay strand featuring a couple of little seen but very interesting gay-themes movie, a screening of the camp classic Barbarella and a look at gay and lesbians in TV sci-fi.

Films screening include Liquid Sky, a 1980s slice of punk sci-fi about aliens addicted to the chemicals humans produce while having sex. There’s also the controversial 1998 transgender splatter movie Dandy Dust, which features a Q&A with the creative team behind the movie.

Then on November 25th comes the panel discussion ‘Gays of Fear and Wonder: Queer Sci-Fi TV‘, which will look into both the past and future of LGBTs in TV sci-fi, with experts talking about and presenting clips showing how the possibilities for pushing the boundaries of sexuality and gender in sci-fi have been addressed on TV.

All this takes place within a season that ranges from screenings of The Hunger Games movies (including Mockingjay Part 1) and ET to 2001: A Space Odyssey and Metropolis, along with focuses on things such as Afrofutrism. The season is already underway and runs through to December 31st. You can find out more here.

Bisexual director Bryan Singer has decided he wants to become a family man, as E! News reports he’s set to become a dad. The mother is actress Michelle Clunie, and while she and Singer aren’t a couple they do intend to raise the child together.

Singer’s rep comments, “Best friends for 25 years, mother and father are both very excited about the upcoming birth and look forward to co-parenting the child together. The pair have been planning this baby for years and have been trying for the last two.”

Clunie isn’t acting as a surrogate, but it’s now known whether she conceived via artificial insemination or whether Singer allowed his bisexual side out for the occasion.

It’s also being reported that Singer has bought a house for Clunie so that the two can be closer together and make it easier for them to raise the baby.

The child is due sometime in early 2015.

It’s certainly better news than Singer’s been having for the last few months, where he’s been mired in legal woes stemming from allegations of sex abuse and rape of an underage boy. However the cases filed against him have since been dropped due to issues over the reliability of his main accuser, Michael F. Egan (who’s getting into trouble himself now, with cases taken against him for malicious prosecution, and in the last week he was admonished by a judge over lying about whether lawyers had been helping him with his defence or not).

And if you’re wondering why we’re referring to Singer as bisexual when most have always referred to him as gay, earlier this year he told Out, “I’m quite bisexual. In the last five years, I’ve had two girlfriends—one for two years, one for eight months…In the end, it’s probably going to be a guy. I emotionally lean towards male relationships, so I’m happy to say I’m gay, too, if it’s a one-syllable, easy answer.”

The feature films, short films, exhibitions, events and workshops that will be showcased at the fourth outing for East London’s Fringe! Queer Film and Arts Festival, has been announced. And this year, thanks to the support of Arts Council England and Film Hub London, the festival will extend from a long weekend to a week-long festival, running from November 3rd-9th November.

The art strand will open with a joint private view of punk art installation Pauline Boudry / Renate Laurent: No Future/No Past and RCA Queer: Skin/Cells on 4th November. The heart-warming documentary Peter de Rome: Grandfather of Gay Porn opens the film festival on November 6th, with a drinks reception, followed by a Q&A with the film-makers. The closing night, in partnership with London and Sydney-based online film viewing and discovery platform FilmDoo, sees the premier of Finnish film Open Up To Me at the Hackney Picturehouse on 9th November.

Fringe! inclues UK premieres such as Naomi Campbel, an experimental film following a trans* woman who turns to reality TV for surgery and Out in the Night, a doc following a group of friends whose New York night out ends with them being branded a ‘gang of killer lesbians’. Something In Between, a personal political doc about transition and Popular Education Terror, a post-gender DIY musical odyssey, will get their international premieres. Also screening will be the Swiss entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Annual Academy Awards, the acclaimed The Circle.

The Visual Arts programme will showcase work created especially for Fringe! including Jeffrey Hinton’s new project Willy Nilly, as well as a retrospective of the work of Stuart Sandford. Other exhibitions include Ken. To Be Destroyed by Sara Davidmann, previously shown at homotopia and further developed especially for Fringe!

A specially curated programme ‘There’s a Dyke In The Pit’ will pay tribute to the queercore and Riot Grrrl movements through a day of film, conversation and live music, culminating in a screening of Jill Reiter’s ‘lost film’ In Search of Margo-go starring Kathleen Hanna.

Fringe! takes place in a range of venues across including the Hackney Picturehouse, Rio Cinema, the Rose Lipman Building – this year’s festival hub, Forge & Co, Looking Glass Cocktail Club, Dalston Superstore and more. The festival includes 20 feature films, 15 programmes of short films, 5 exhibitions, 17 events including 5 panel discussions and 4 workshops. Among the film-makers and artists attending are Jill Reiter, Sébastien Lifshitz, Slava Mogutin & Brian Kenny (Superm), and Antonio da Silva. The full programme is online at fringefilmfest.com, tickets are available on the website and from participating venues.