A Gay Basketball Coach Went Recruiting. He Found His Future Husband.

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A Gay Basketball Coach Went Recruiting. He Found His Future Husband.

Matt Lynch went to Washington, D.C., hoping to find a basketball player for his team. He also found a man he didn’t want to leave.

Lynch, the head men’s basketball coach at USC Salkehatchie in South Carolina, met tennis coach Cody Aaron during the trip more than two years ago. By the next day, his return flight was becoming a problem.

He kept pushing it back, buying himself a few more hours with Cody.

Then there was Cody’s journey home to Texas. Matt suggested he visit South Carolina first and spend a few days together. The geography may have required a little optimism, but Cody accepted the invitation.

“I did what I do best, I recruited him,” Lynch told Outsports.

On September 25, that relationship reached another milestone. Matt got down on one knee in Wilmington, North Carolina, and asked Cody to marry him.

Cody said yes.

The proposal was a surprise, with Matt arranging for both their families and friends to be present. With basketball season approaching, he had found a moment in the coaching calendar to ask a very personal question.

Now the two coaches are hoping to marry in 2027.

Matt’s openness also gives the celebration a meaningful place in his professional story. Outsports describes him as the only publicly out head coach in men’s college basketball. His team competes in the National Junior College Athletic Association.

He publicly came out in 2020. In an earlier Outsports interview, he explained how he told a new team about his sexuality so he could coach with honesty.

Today, that public life includes the man he plans to marry.

Cody, a high school tennis coach, had his own life and journey when they met. His decision to take that extra trip gave both men the chance to see where their connection could go.

More than two years later, the answer is a wedding.

Congratulations to Matt and Cody—and to the recruiting trip that turned into something neither itinerary had planned.

📷 Instagram: @lynch5_ @codyaaronn.

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Jonathan Bailey’s Dracula Has Our Attention—and He’s Only Using His Voice

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Jonathan Bailey’s Dracula Has Our Attention—and He’s Only Using His Voice

Jonathan Bailey leans into the microphone, closes his eyes and delivers a rather persuasive invitation: “Drink from me.”

The recording-booth footage promoting Audible’s new Bram Stoker’s Dracula makes one thing clear: Bailey is giving the vampire a full performance, even when listeners can only hear him.

For fans of the openly gay Bridgerton and Wicked star, it is an appealing introduction to his latest role. The production arrived on October 1, just as Halloween season began.

Bailey plays Count Dracula alongside Ella Purnell as Mina, Aimee Lou Wood as Lucy, Louis Partridge as Jonathan Harker and Maggie Gyllenhaal as Professor Van Helsing. The ensemble also includes David Jonsson, Johnny Flynn and Lesley Manville.

This is a full-cast audio drama, with music and sound design accompanying the performances. Directed by Pet Sematary filmmaker Mary Lambert, it was adapted by Robyn Ahern, with an original score by Ilan Eshkeri.

The story places Mina at the heart of the struggle against Dracula. When her fiancé disappears in Transylvania, she follows letters, diary entries and testimony, trying to understand the threat closing in on the people she loves.

Bailey’s part requires both the charm that draws people toward the Count and the danger beneath it.

In a new interview with Bustle, he discusses the story through desire, fear and the restrictions placed on people’s identities. He connects its Victorian setting with the enduring pressure to suppress what people want and who they are.

He also describes shame as an important part of Dracula’s appeal, and says the intimacy of audio offers a way to reach listeners directly.

That is an interesting perspective from an openly gay actor whose work has often explored longing and the cost of hiding it.

There is also a practical pleasure in the behind-the-scenes material. Bailey tells Bustle that performing without being seen allowed him to commit completely. The promotional footage gives fans a glimpse of that physical commitment: the closed eyes, the movement, the concentration.

A microphone may be the only thing in front of him, but he is clearly doing more than reading words from a page.

For anyone looking for an atmospheric October listen, this Count comes with quite a cast—and a voice that might make you hesitate before reaching for the pause button.

Bram Stoker’s Dracula is available on Audible.

📷 @audible

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Lil Nas X Returns to Music With His Late Mother’s Voice Beside Him

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Lil Nas X Returns to Music With His Late Mother’s Voice Beside Him

Before Lil Nas X shared his new song, he shared a message from his mother.

In a voicemail posted to Instagram on September 30, Tamikia Hill encourages her son to keep his head up and keep going.

She reminds him that she loves him, and returns to a saying he had heard from her many times: “Walk by faith, not by sight.”

Nas explained that it was her favorite phrase, adding that its meaning has grown for him as he moves through life.

He announced his mother’s death in August. A little over a month later, her voice helped introduce his return to music.

World’s Greatest!, released October 1, is his first new song of 2026. Its accompanying six-minute video makes room for both the artist he has become and the child he once was.

Directed by Phillip Youmans and filmed in Atlanta, the video opens with Nas rehearsing choreography in a dance studio. From there, it moves between the present and dramatized scenes from his childhood.

The younger version of Nas is part of the film’s storytelling. These are recreated scenes, rather than a collection of childhood home movies.

By the final moments, the video returns to his mother. Her voicemail plays again, and the film closes with a dedication to her.

For an artist whose music and visuals have reached audiences around the world, it is a deeply personal way to begin a new chapter. The encouragement comes from a familiar voice, using familiar words.

Nas’s openness as a gay man has made him an important figure for many queer listeners. Here, the connection also comes through something people across generations may recognize: keeping a recording of someone you love because hearing them still matters.

A voicemail preserves small things that a photograph cannot—the rhythm of a sentence, a family nickname, the way someone says they will check on you again.

In this new release, Nas has chosen to share that part of his mother with the people listening.

Sources: Pitchfork and People.

📷 @lilnasx

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Andrew Scott’s Elsinore Trailer Captures Ian Charleson’s Hunger for Joy

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Andrew Scott’s Elsinore Trailer Captures Ian Charleson’s Hunger for Joy

In the first trailer for Elsinore, Andrew Scott’s Ian Charleson has a difficult conversation with his doctor, played by Olivia Colman. She is concerned with preserving his life. He wants to know what that life can still hold.

“It’s quality that I want. It’s glory. It’s joy.”

The line belongs to the film’s portrayal of Charleson. But it introduces a real story of an actor who was seriously ill with AIDS and still wanted to do the work he loved.

Charleson, the gay Scottish actor remembered by many for Chariots of Fire, played Hamlet at London’s National Theatre in 1989. He had performed the role earlier in his career, but, as Ian McKellen later recalled, felt he had unfinished business with it.

McKellen attended Charleson’s final performance on November 13. In his tribute to his friend, he remembered a performance full of intimacy and humor, delivered despite the enormous physical effort it required. Illness had already prevented Charleson from completing every scheduled performance.

Afterward, McKellen went backstage to congratulate him. Charleson was exhausted. He would not perform again.

He died eight weeks later, in January 1990, aged 40. During those last weeks, McKellen wrote, Charleson continued discussing Hamlet and kept a copy of the script beside his bed.

That small detail says something about the place the role held in his life. The illness was real, and so was his attachment to the words, the character and the audience.

Now Scott, who is openly gay himself, is bringing Charleson’s story to the screen. Directed by Simon Stone and written by Pride screenwriter Stephen Beresford, Elsinore pairs Scott with Colman as the doctor trying to care for him.

The new trailer offers a fresh reason to revisit the film: the chance to hear Charleson’s desire for a meaningful life expressed in the performance itself.

For viewers who remember the AIDS crisis, the setting carries painful history. Charleson’s story also makes room for the pleasure of making art, sharing it and remaining connected to something that matters.

Elsinore opens in select US theaters on November 20, 2026.

📷 © 2026 Focus Features LLC.

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The Boys Who Had a Crush on Wil Wheaton Grew Up. Wil Wheaton Has Noticed.

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The Boys Who Had a Crush on Wil Wheaton Grew Up. Wil Wheaton Has Noticed.

If Wesley Crusher was one of your earliest television crushes, Wil Wheaton has a rather flattering update: he is enjoying meeting the men those young fans became.

In a September 29 interview with The Advocate, also published by Out, the 54-year-old actor described his delight when gay fans tell him about their childhood crushes.

He jokingly admires how well they have aged, affectionately referring to the men he meets as hot dads.

It is a funny exchange between people who have grown older together, even if one of them spent those formative years on a television screen.

Wheaton’s connection with gay fans goes back much further than this interview. Speaking to GayCalgary in 2012, he described feeling flattered that someone would consider him their ideal. He also spoke warmly about gay friends and their loving relationships, and about the importance of accepting people as they are.

The newer conversation offers a playful continuation of that connection. Fans remember the boy they watched growing up; Wheaton gets to meet them as adults.

His own life has moved through plenty of chapters, too. Wheaton is straight and married to Anne. On his personal blog, he wrote about celebrating their 26th wedding anniversary in November 2025.

Today, storytelling occupies much of his working life. In a September Reddit Q&A, he introduced himself as an author, narrator and host, looking back on playing Gordie in Stand by Me, Wesley in Star Trek: The Next Generation and a version of himself on The Big Bang Theory.

He also discussed his audiobook work and his fiction podcast, It’s Storytime With Wil Wheaton, which introduces listeners to writers whose stories he enjoys performing.

For longtime fans, those projects offer ways to keep following someone they first encountered decades ago. And for the gay men who finally get to tell him about that old crush, his response sounds wonderfully welcoming.

There are worse ways to discover that your childhood television crush remembers your generation fondly.

Was Wil yours—or was there another Star Trek actor you were watching more closely?

📷 @itswilwheaton

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