When Freddie Fraser Came Out, His Mum Was Terrified. Not for the Reason You Might Think.

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When Freddie Fraser Came Out, His Mum Was Terrified. Not for the Reason You Might Think.

When Freddie Fraser came out as bisexual, his mum was terrified.

Not because she had a problem with his sexuality.

She was afraid people would be cruel to her son again.

Fraser has shared a new update from his first days as an openly bisexual student at City St George’s, University of London, where he is studying for a master’s degree in broadcast journalism.

He says being open about his identity at university has helped him reclaim a part of himself that used to be scared of being judged or bullied.

“I was petrified”

In the comments beneath Freddie’s Instagram video, his mum Kate explained what had been going through her mind when he came out.

She said she was “petrified” that people might treat him badly, remembering what he had experienced when he was younger.

Her fear was not about Freddie being bisexual. It was about the possibility that the world might punish him for being honest about who he was.

But Kate also admitted that she had been wrong to expect the worst.

Freddie’s friends had shown her that things had changed. And seeing him so happy now makes her “the happiest mum on the planet.”

A new kind of coming-out story

That is a part of coming out that is not always discussed. Sometimes the people who love us are not afraid of our identity. They are afraid of what other people might do with it.

For Freddie, university has become a place where he can be open without expecting rejection. He has described that experience as progress — and as a chance to recover something he once had to protect.

With boyfriend Bailey Ramsden beside him, he is building an open life that includes love, study and the freedom to be seen.

His mum’s reaction is emotional because it contains both fear and relief. She worried that Freddie might be hurt again. Now she gets to watch him become happier and more fully himself.

📷 @freddiefraserr

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You May Remember Him From Love, Simon. Now Joey Pollari Is in American Horror Story.

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You May Remember Him From Love, Simon. Now Joey Pollari Is in American Horror Story.

Joey Pollari has gone from playing Lyle in Love, Simon to one of the new central roles in American Horror Story: 13.

Pollari plays Ben DeSoto, a hospice worker who is drawn into the world of Constance Langdon in the latest season of Ryan Murphy’s horror anthology.

For an openly gay actor, it is a strikingly visible role in one of television’s biggest horror franchises.

A role in a queer-friendly TV universe

Pollari’s connection to queer screen history began with Love, Simon, the 2018 film about a closeted high-school student navigating love, friendship and coming out.

His new role is very different. American Horror Story is darker, stranger and much less interested in making its characters feel safe.

But the visibility matters. Pollari is now part of a long-running television universe that has repeatedly made room for queer characters, queer desire and performers who do not have to hide who they are.

Bringing Polari into the present

Pollari is also making music that reaches back into queer history.

His new song, “The Low Gives Weight,” was inspired by Polari, the coded language once used by gay men in Britain to communicate discreetly when homosexuality was criminalised.

Pollari discovered Polari during the pandemic and began exploring its history and vocabulary. He uses the language as part of a larger artistic interest in the movement from private identity to public expression.

That gives his current moment an extra layer. While audiences are meeting him as Ben DeSoto in a major horror franchise, Pollari is also bringing a hidden piece of gay history into new music.

From Lyle to Ben

Many viewers will recognise Pollari from Love, Simon. Now they are seeing him in a very different kind of story — one involving hospice care, supernatural danger and Constance Langdon.

It is a memorable new chapter for an openly gay actor who is exploring queer identity both on screen and through music.

📷 @joeypollari @fxnetworks

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Marc Almond and Dave Ball Made Music Together for 47 Years. This Is Their Final Album.

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Marc Almond and Dave Ball Made Music Together for 47 Years. This Is Their Final Album.

For 47 years, Marc Almond and Dave Ball made music together.

Now Soft Cell’s final album, Danceteria, has been released — a last piece of work from the partnership behind “Tainted Love,” “Say Hello, Wave Goodbye” and some of the most distinctive electronic pop of the 1980s.

Almond says Ball heard the finished album two days before he died. He was proud of it and excited about what they had created together.

A final piece of their partnership

Danceteria is inspired by early 1980s New York and named after the legendary club where Soft Cell spent time while working on their debut album, Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret.

For Almond, the record is also a farewell. He has said there can be no more new Soft Cell recordings without Ball, because making music together was at the heart of what the group was.

The album therefore carries the feeling of a final conversation between two people who had been making music, arguing, reconnecting and influencing each other since the late 1970s.

“Unless you lived through it”

In a new interview, Almond also reflects on what it meant to be gay through the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s.

He speaks about homophobia, the devastation of the AIDS crisis and the gay men who spent decades unable to come out. Some older gay men, he says, still carry the shame so deeply that they have never been able to live openly.

“Unless you lived through it, it’s almost impossible to understand,” Almond says.

That history is part of what makes Soft Cell’s work feel so important. Almond did not simply sing about alienation, desire and nightlife from a distance. He was making music inside a culture that was often punished for being visible.

A goodbye with the music still playing

Danceteria is more than a final album. It is a record Dave Ball got to hear, approve of and feel proud of before he was gone.

Marc Almond and Dave Ball made music together for almost half a century.

This is their last album together. But the sound of that partnership is still here.

Via The Guardian.

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Hallmark Cancelled Finding Mr. Christmas. Jonathan Bennett Wants It Back.

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Hallmark Cancelled Finding Mr. Christmas. Jonathan Bennett Wants It Back.

Hallmark has cancelled Finding Mr. Christmas after two seasons — but Jonathan Bennett is not ready to close the Christmas cabin door.

The reality competition, hosted by Bennett, brought ten hopefuls together each season to compete for the chance to become Hallmark’s next leading man.

The winners went on to star in Hallmark holiday movies.

Bennett told EntertainmentNow that show business can be unpredictable and that sometimes a programme is cancelled seemingly without warning. But he is still hoping Finding Mr. Christmas might return in a year or two.

More than a competition

The show had a simple format: ten men, Christmas-themed challenges and the promise of a leading role in a holiday movie.

But the contestants also built a genuine community. Bennett says they are still friends, and two of them became fathers within weeks of each other. Viewers even held parties around the country to watch the episodes.

That is part of what made the show feel different. It was not only a search for Hallmark’s next handsome leading man. It was a group of men being ambitious, vulnerable, silly and supportive while the cameras were rolling.

Still hoping for a return

Bennett has not given up on the idea that the series could find a new home. The show had received a GLAAD Award nomination, and its contestants went on to become part of Hallmark’s wider Christmas universe.

For viewers, the appeal was not difficult to understand: attractive men in festive clothes, a little competition and a host who made the whole thing feel welcoming.

Hallmark may have cancelled Finding Mr. Christmas. But the friendships, the watch parties and the Christmas spirit are still very much alive.

📷 Hallmark Media / Jonathan Bennett

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A Councillor Has a Grindr Profile. Why Should That Be a Scandal?

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A Councillor Has a Grindr Profile. Why Should That Be a Scandal?

Paul John O’Neill is a Labour councillor for North Heywood. He is also a gay man with a dating life — a fact some people apparently considered grounds for demanding his resignation.

Images and details from O’Neill’s Grindr profile were shared online, accompanied by comments suggesting that a public figure should be more discreet and calls for him to quit ( PinkNews ).

O’Neill responded with a photograph of himself holding a pint of Murphy’s and a joke about being “not bitter.” He said people had created accounts on the dating app to find his profile, screenshot it and circulate it with unpleasant comments.

His position was straightforward: he is not ashamed of having a social and dating life, and it has no bearing on the work he does for his ward.

Private life is not a qualification test

This is not a story about outing someone who was hiding his sexuality. O’Neill is openly gay. It is a story about people treating a gay man’s private dating life as if it were evidence that he is unfit for public office.

That standard makes no sense. Councillors can be judged on their decisions, their responsiveness and the way they serve their communities. A profile on a dating app tells voters none of those things.

O’Neill also said he is single and joked that the episode might result in a date or two. The humour is welcome, but the underlying point matters more: gay men should not have to make themselves invisible to be treated as serious professionals.

A refusal to be shamed

Supporters, including fellow councillors and members of the public, pushed back against the attempt to turn ordinary private life into a political weapon.

O’Neill’s pint-and-boundary response lands because it refuses the premise. There is no apology needed for being gay, having a dating life or expecting basic privacy.

📷 Paul John O’Neill / Facebook

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