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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The George Michael tribute at the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards already had a strong lineup: Sombr, RAYE and Teddy Swims.

Sombr opened with “Faith” and “Father Figure,” reportedly wearing George Michael’s Faith-era leather jacket.

RAYE followed with “I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me),” and Teddy Swims performed “Careless Whisper.”

Then Adam Lambert walked onto the stage.

Lambert closed the tribute with “Freedom! ’90,” joined by MNEK, Saint Harison and MEEK. Orville Peck had introduced the segment.

The surprise appearance gave the performance an emotional lift, but the moment meant more than a clever awards-show reveal. It was a new generation of queer performers honoring a gay pop icon whose career unfolded during a time when living openly was still far more difficult than it should have been.

George Michael became famous while navigating intense pressure around his private life. Later, he lived more openly and became an enduring figure for queer listeners around the world.

Now his songs were being carried by artists who could stand on that stage as themselves.

And when Lambert reached “Freedom! ’90,” the tribute became joyful, defiant and completely right.

📷 @mtv @vmas @adamlambert

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Sean Maher is familiar to many viewers as Dr. Simon Tam in Firefly and its follow-up film, Serenity.

Fifteen years ago, he became known for something far more personal.

On September 26, 2011, Maher publicly came out as gay in an interview connected to his role as a closeted gay man on The Playboy Club.

He described the decision as frightening — and liberating.

When Maher first arrived in Hollywood as a young actor, he said a manager advised him to get a girlfriend so people would not assume he was gay. He was even told that presenting as bisexual might be easier.

His publicists later encouraged him to keep a girlfriend away from the spotlight so he would remain appealing to a female audience.

Maher did not describe a single villain so much as an industry culture that treated heterosexuality as part of an actor’s marketability.

When he finally spoke openly, he gave the interview a memorable name.

“This is my coming out ball,” Maher said.

He also spoke about the family he had been reluctant to show the world: his partner Paul and their two children.

Maher said that having children made the secrecy feel even harder to accept. He did not want his family to be treated as something that had to remain separate from his professional life.

In the years since, Sean and Paul married. They continued raising their two adopted children and building the life Maher had once been told to keep out of view.

That is what makes the anniversary worth remembering.

The story is not only about a gay actor finally saying the word publicly. It is about refusing to let an industry decide which parts of his life were safe enough to be seen.

Hollywood wanted a girlfriend in the picture.

Sean wanted the truth.

Fifteen years later, his coming-out ball still feels like a celebration.

📷 Sean Maher / Science channel

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