Quite a few people have commented that while Arrow-verse producer Greg Berlanti is openly gay, his superhero TV shows haven’t dealt with all that many LGBT characters or issues. While it’s been promised there will be more representation in the upcoming seasons – particularly with The Flash, which will be getting a gay character – it turns out Berlanti is planning on bringing a gay-themed movie to the big screen.
THR reports that he’s in talks to direct an adaptation of Becky Albertalli’s young adult best-seller Simon Vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda. The book is ‘Described as a coming-of-age coming-out story, the plot centers on a high school junior named Simon whose sexual-orientation secret falls into the hands of the class clown. The latter blackmails the teen into playing cupid and while that unfolds, Simon tries to navigate a way that will let him come out to his friends and family, not pushed out.’
Some will undoubtedly roll their eyes that its ‘yet another’ coming out drama, but if handled well it could be a lot of fun. It should also be noted that Hollywood still rarely touches gay-themed topics, especially those that aren’t grown-up dramas, so it’s certainly good that one of the major studios’ indie arms, Fox 2000, is hoping to bring this young adult tale to the big screen.
For the past few months Johnny Depp has been making headlines, but not for his movies, but now that his divorce from Amber Heard is dying down (for now at least), he’s hoping he can put accusations of assault and violent behaviour behind him. Whether they will go away is yet to be seen.
When it was announced that Michelle Williams was joining the PT Barnum musical biopic The Greatest Showman, many assumed she would be playing Swedish opera star Jenny Lind. However, that role is actually going to Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation’s Rebecca Ferguson, according the 
It’s time for another sequel that no one asked for, but with Hollywood looking for any and every way to entice Chinese audience, it’s been revealed that Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson getting back together for a follow-up to Shanghai Noon and Shanghai Knights, according to 
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Borrowing a title from a classic Doris Day and Rock Hudson movie, Pillow Talk is a 1990s-set coming-of tale, that’s hoping to shoot very soon. However, to get it in the can it needs your help, and so the gay-themed short film has launched an Indiegogo campaign in the hope of raising £1500.
After four episodes exploring the world of Caleb Gallo and his friends, it feels like we’re moving towards a bit of resolution with Episode 5. We’ve had gay hookups and straight hookups, people saying they’re bi because it’s in, long distance relationships, and plenty of people with unresolved entanglements.
There’s a lot of talk about the intersection of masculinity/femininity and sexuality, with many still feeling male homosexuality as being feminine, and even some gay people feeling that bottoms are less masculine, or that they must put comments about the need for masculinity on their gay dating profile. Now Ian McKellen has stepped into the debate, suggesting he thinks that gay men are more masculine than their straight counterparts.