Vikings are particularly well known for their gayness – although there were undoubtedly a fair few who preferred the same sex – but the world of Vikings is getting a bit gayer this summer, as How To Train Your Dragon 2 will include an out gay character.

It’s someone we’ve met before, as Gobber The Belch, the man who teaches youngsters how to train dragons, is the one who’s coming out.

Apparently it wasn’t in the original script, but Craig Ferguson added a subtle coming out moment as an ad lib. The scene in question sees Gobber watching a husband and wife argue, before saying “This is why I never got married”. He then adds that there’s one more reason.

While Gobber doesn’t say exactly what that reason is, director Dean DeBlois isn’t leaving us in any doubt. He tells E!, “When we were recording Craig Ferguson, I had written the line, ‘This is why I never got married,” and he, as he often does, added it as an ad lib and he said, ‘Yup, Gobber is coming out of the closet. I think that’s a really fun [and] daring move to put in. I love the idea that Gobber is Berk’s resident gay.”

He’s not the first out gay character in a mainstream animated movie, as one of the characters in ParaNorman reveals towards the end that he has a boyfriend, but it’s still relatively rare.

You’ll be able to see for yourself when the film hits cinemas (June 13th in the US and July 3th in the UK).

Tyra Banks (left) and Carmer Carrera (right)

It’s been revealed that Tyra Banks will be behind the scenes on a new VH1 docuseries about a group of five Chicago trans women, according to THR.

The show, called TransAmerica, will follow the, ‘shared experience of being transgender. The series is described as an earnest look at a group of millennial women — who happen to be transgender — living, loving and building their careers. The series will explore how their sexuality impacts their lives.’

The series will be anchored by Carmen Carrera, who became known to a wider audience as a contestant on the third series of RuPaul’s Drag Race (at that point she still publicly identified as male, but is now a proud trans woman).

Since then she has had huge success as a model and activist, often successfully turning bad situations around. This includes her 2012 appearance on Cake Boss, which she initially agreed to in the hope it would promote equality for transgender people. However it ended up with her being the offensive punchline in a joke where the person she went on a date was later told she was ‘a man’. Carrera wrote eloquently about it on her Facebook page, which garnered a lot of attention, as well forcing apologies and the removal of that part of the Cake Boss episode.

Banks comments on the new series, “TransAmerica is a groundbreaking docuseries that will blow the roof off stereotypes and set the record straight as we experience the lives of these fun, stunning women. I am so happy to be a part of telling their fierce story.”

Other prominent trans people, such as Calpernia Addams, will appear on the show, which is due to air in the US late 2014 or early 2015.

Carrera adds, “Being a woman means everything to me. Before my transition I felt trapped, and now I’ve been set free. Carmen has arrived and I can’t wait to share my story.”

It’s been announced at Cannes that a movie version of Stephen Fry’s debut novel The Hippopotamus is coming together, with Roger Allam set to play the lead role, according to Variety.

Allam is most acclaimed as a stage actor who’s won three Olivier Awards (his take on Shakespeare’s Falstaff was lauded as one of the best in recent years), but has also appeared in the likes of V For Vendetta, The Queen, The Woman In Black and various UK TV shows.

Fry’s book was first published in 1994, and while it got a mixed reaction from critics it’s stayed popular with reader.

Allam will play ‘disgraced poet Ted Wallace, who is summoned to his friend’s country manor to investigate a series of unexplained miracles.’ In the novel, Ted’s godson has been ascribed healing powers, but its the uncovering of the Logan family’s back story and sexual proclivities that proves more interesting.

The movie will shoot in the UK this August.

MIX NYC, New York’s Queer Experiment Film Festival had a great idea with its Naked Eye Celebrity Camera Auction. And now it’s back!

The idea is that celebs donate disposable cameras which ‘are being auctioned “naked,” i.e. with undeveloped negatives included, giving you a unique opportunity to own original, one-of-a-kind photographic artworks, unseen selfies, and real-life photos. Bid and be the first to see—images created just for you by your favorite celebrities.’

While you might expect an experimental queer film festival to only have rather obscure supporters, MIX NYC has pulled together a great mix of ‘actors, musicians, writers, models, photographers, performance artists, directors, porn stars, drag queens, and more’.

Cameras have been given by movie and TV favourites such as James Franco, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Joan Allen, Parker Posey, Modern Family’s Julie Bowen and Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Broadway legend Betty Buckley, Michael Cera, Brady Corbet, and Amy Sedaris. There’s plenty of queer interest with filmmakers like Ira Sachs, Travis Mathews, Gregg Araki and Sebastian Silva, Looking’s O-T Fagbele and Frankie J. Alvarez, singer Jake Shears, and Scandal’s Guillermo Diaz and Dan Bucatinsky.

And if you’re hoping you might get something a bit naughtier on your camera (although you won’t know what pictures were taken until they’re developed), porn folks such as Jake Jaxson, Max Ryder and Colby Keller are also involved. The last of those isn’t too surprising, as anyone who knows anything about him outside porn will be aware Keller’s a little bit of a hipster experimental art lover.

There are some hints as to what will be included on some of the cameras though, as it’s known actress Lea DeLaria’s camera contains behind-the-scenes pics from the new season of Orange is the New Black, while Jesse Tyler Ferguson took his shots on the set of Modern Family.

The signed cameras are available for bidding on eBay now through May 22nd, and you can find out more on the MIX NYC website.