Cooper Kim Came Out as Gay. Now He Has Won International Gold for Team USA.

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Cooper Kim came out as gay earlier this year.

Now he has won international gold for Team USA.

The 20-year-old Stanford gymnast made his World Challenge Cup debut in Paris over the weekend.

After finishing fifth in qualifying, Kim delivered a stunning horizontal-bar routine in the final.

He scored 14.533 to win gold — ahead of 2024 Olympian and defending World Challenge Cup champion Carlo Macchini.

Kim also recorded top-six finishes in floor exercise and vault.

It is the latest high point in a remarkable 2026.

He became an NCAA champion, won high-bar gold at the U.S. Championships, earned a place on the U.S. senior national team and was named an alternate for the World Championships.

Earlier this year, Kim told Outsports that coming out helped him stop holding himself back.

“I really wanted to tap into my authentic self and show off my true gymnastics and my true personality in the gym.”

That is exactly what this year has looked like.

Cooper Kim is not just winning. He is competing as himself.

📷 @coop.kim

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Netflix’s Minerva Academy Gives Its Cadet a Bisexual Awakening

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Netflix’s Minerva Academy gives its cadet a bisexual awakening.

Diego Giordano starts the Italian teen drama dating Rachele.

Then he falls for Camilla, a new recruit at the military school.

And then things become even more complicated.

Before he disappears, Diego kisses Francesco at a party.

He has never been attracted to a boy before.

Later, Diego tells his sister that things felt different with Francesco — that he felt freer and happier with him.

What makes the storyline work is what Minerva Academy does not do.

It does not pretend Diego’s feelings for girls were fake. And it does not rush him into choosing a label.

The series leaves room for him to be bisexual, pansexual or simply still figuring himself out.

That uncertainty feels honest.

Especially in a story set inside a military academy built around discipline, rank and conformity — with Diego’s own father in charge.

The show’s queer storyline is not treated as a shock twist or a punishment. It is simply one part of a teenager’s increasingly complicated life.

And yes, viewers have also noticed Simone Secce, the actor who plays Diego.

But the more interesting detail is that the character is allowed to take his time.

📷 Netflix / @simonesecce_

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LEGO’s Queer Eye Jacket Lawsuit Is Moving Forward

LEGO made a tiny Queer Eye jacket.

Now a judge says the copyright lawsuit over it can move forward.

The original jacket was created by artist James Concannon for Antoni Porowski.

Porowski wore the one-of-a-kind leather piece on Queer Eye.

When LEGO released Queer Eye – The Fab Five Loft, its Antoni minifigure appeared to be wearing a miniature version with artwork arranged in a similar way.

Concannon sued LEGO, arguing that the company copied his artwork.

A federal judge has now refused to dismiss key copyright claims. The ruling also rejected LEGO’s fair-use defence at this stage and said that giving the original jacket to Porowski did not automatically give LEGO permission to reproduce the artwork.

That does not mean the court has made a final finding that LEGO infringed the copyright. It means the case can continue.

And because we are looking at the real Antoni, not just the minifigure, we are also including his boyfriend, Zacharias Niedzwiecki.

A Queer Eye fashion moment has become a legal fight over who gets to borrow from queer creativity — and who gets paid when they do.

📷 @antoni @zacharias

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Jesse Tyler Ferguson Is Playing Truman Capote — And He Knows Why It Feels Personal

Jesse Tyler Ferguson is playing Truman Capote in London.

And he says the role feels personal because he is a gay actor playing a gay literary icon.

Ferguson is starring in Tru at the Menier Chocolate Factory, an 85-minute solo performance about Capote.

The famous writer was known for watching how he behaved, finding freedom in New York and building a life outside the world that had first constrained him.

Ferguson sees something familiar in that journey.

He grew up as a gay boy in Albuquerque and knew he would eventually have to leave to find a bigger life.

He also points out that some of the most famous actors to play Capote before him, including Robert Morse and Philip Seymour Hoffman, were not openly gay.

That difference matters to Ferguson.

And then there is the perfect little detail.

Another gay boy from Albuquerque used to beat him for local theatre roles.

His name?

Neil Patrick Harris.

Ferguson has recalled that Harris, who attended a nearby rival school, regularly won the roles they were both competing for.

The Guardian has praised Ferguson’s performance as five-star, even while finding the play itself much less convincing.

So this is Modern Family, Truman Capote, gay theatre history and a childhood rivalry with Doogie Howser — all in one story.

📷 @jessetyler

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Kit Connor, Manu Ríos, Will Poulter and Medieval Zombies — Meet the Gay Man Behind Rapture

Kit Connor. Manu Ríos. Will Poulter.

Two monks in love. Medieval zombies. Queer body horror.

And the gay man behind it all?

He’s married to Brandon Flynn.

Rapture is Jordan Tannahill’s feature directorial debut. The film is set at a Cistercian monastery in Yorkshire in 1348, as the Black Death arrives.

At the centre of the story is a deep, passionate relationship between two young monks who have grown up together. Tannahill has described the project as queer body horror.

The cast includes Heartstopper’s Kit Connor, Elite’s Manu Ríos and Will Poulter. Filming is expected to begin in October 2026.

The film has been circulating for more than a year, so the new hook is not the casting itself. It is the production update — and the delightful discovery that Tannahill is married to Brandon Flynn, known for 13 Reasons Why.

The couple married in New York in October 2024, after meeting during rehearsals for Tannahill’s play Prince Faggot.

But Tannahill deserves to be known for more than his husband. He is an established queer playwright and writer-director whose work explores identity, power and desire.

That makes Rapture especially intriguing: a medieval plague story, a love story between two men and a queer filmmaker bringing the whole strange, sexy, terrifying world to the screen.

Apparently one hottie universe simply wasn’t enough.

📷 @jordan.tannahill @brandonflynn

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