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We’ve reached the end of another week. But before we clock out for the weekend, we’re giving credit where it’s due. Sapphics are the latest champions in our series.Amid the many , a few bright spots shine.

Naman Ramachandran From facing angry mobs in Varanasi to fielding calls from George Lucas, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Deepa Mehta has built a fearless career challenging cultural taboos — and at 74, she’s not slowing down. In a wide-ranging conversation ahead of her career retrospective “Through the Fire: The Films of Deepa Mehta” at Toronto’s TIFF Cinematheque, the filmmaker sat down with Variety to discuss her journey from reluctant cinephile to celebrated auteur whose works have consistently challenged social and political norms over the last 30 years.

Melanie Lynskey feels confident in her husband Jason Ritter‘s ability to fight for her.

Big Boys is coming to an end.

Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer After teasing the song for weeks, and months after its live debut, Chappell Roan has released her new country single “The Giver.” The lesbian country anthem is all fiddles and kickin’ up dirt, a hoedown about how it takes a real woman to please another woman: “Ain’t no country boy quitter, I get the job done,” she sings on the chorus. Roan first debuted “The Giver” with a live rendition of the tune during her “Saturday Night Live” performance in Nov.

The second season of award-winning Taiwanese LGBTQ+ series Fragrance Of The First Flower will be available on Netflix Asia from February 18 following a deal with GOL Studios, marking the first time the Taipei-based company has sold a series to the global streamer. 

Marta Balaga “The Haunting of Hill House” star Victoria Pedretti hyped fellow actor – and co-creator of Netflix’s “Anne+” – Hanna van Vliet at International Film Festival Rotterdam Sunday evening. “You are a leader,” she told her. “True.

Donald last week for empathy towards those he maligns, she had no idea that she’d soon be the latest woman he’d call “”—and that her words would soon spread through the nation. All she was thinking about, she tells Glamour, was how she could meet the moment.“The first word that came to me was empathy,” , the first woman to lead the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, says. “We need empathy.

In Snow Wife’s music video for “What Do Girls Do?,” premiering exclusively on The FADER today, she kisses, writhes, and lovingly strokes the face of a mannequin. But according to the Los Angeles-based pop singer, reading it as a display of woman-on-woman love would be a mistake.

We’ve reached the end of another week. But before we clock out for the weekend, we’re giving credit where it's due. Bishop Budde is the latest champion in our series.Bishop Budde and her respectful leadership couldn't have come at a better time.If you'll recall, the day after President Trump took office the first time, an agenda they predicted—correctly, it turned out—would do serious damage to civil rights in this country.

Rebel Wilson on the next season of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills?!

Aramide Tinubu Sarah Sherman opened the first “Saturday Night Live” episode of 2025 by portraying political commentator Rachel Maddow. In the sketch, Maddow hosted an MSNBC panel, which included Marcello Hernandez as Ari Melber, Ego Nwodim as Joy Reed, Heidi Gardner as Stephanie Ruhle and Andrew Dismukes as Chris Hayes. The panelist began discussing the forthcoming inauguration, the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles and the TikTok ban.

passed her firefighter exam) or that the department’s diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives took money away from firefighting efforts.Experts believe that the wildfires currently ravaging Southern California are caused by climate change, which has altered wind and rain patterns in the region, and, when combined with a lack of rainfall, hot Santa Ana winds that have dehydrated vegetation, and a series of extended droughts that have plagued California in recent years, creates fires that are more severe and harder to contain.Additionally, the Los Angeles infrastructure contains an abundance of flammable materials, including low-hanging power cables and wooden telephone poles, that make perfect fuel for a fire. Due to these conditions, any small spark can lead to an out-of-control fire.Still, according to conservative news outlets, the wildfires are an example of “death by DEI,” in which either allegedly unqualified individuals are promoted to positions where they are ineffective in stopping natural disasters or preventable crimes, or where people in positions of power have prioritized diversifying their workforce over promoting people on “merit.”Newsmax host Rob Finnerty claimed last week that Crowley was “incompetent” at her job, citing, as evidence for this claim, the fact that the Los Angeles city website notes she is the first female and LGBTQ fire chief in the city’s history.Finnerty appeared to link Crowley’s sexual orientation to DEI, alleging that Crowley was more concerned about promoting pro-diversity hiring efforts than preparing for “wildfire season” by ensuring there was enough water in fire hydrants.

Jack Dunn Michelle Buteau slammed Dave Chappelle and his controversial jokes about the transgender community in her new comedy special “Michelle Buteau: A Buteau-ful Mind at Radio City Music Hall,” which debuted Tuesday on Netflix. Buteau began criticizing Chappelle after telling a story about her “Black lesbian friend.” She noted the subject matter elicited a spectrum of reactions from the crowd, with some laughing and some uncomfortable, but emphasized that comedians should be able “to tell jokes and stories and not disparage a whole community.” “We can do that.

A former Coronation Street actress - who played part of the soap's first ever lesbian couple - has announced she is pregnant with her first child.

After eight years, the BBC brought Outnumbered back for a Christmas special on Boxing Day.

Gavin and Stacey star Mathew Horne has detailed his "awful" experience following the backlash he received from a movie role with co-star James Corden. Just a few years after the first series of Gavin and Stacey aired, Mathew and James starred alongside each other in the 2009 comedy horror film Lesbian Vampire Killers, but it wasn't received too well by critics. Mathew, who starred as Jimmy McLaren in the movie, revealed that it was "anxiety-inducing" after his character received heavy criticism - a far cry from his role as Gavin Shipman in the beloved BBC series.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Writer and director Nahnatchka Khan, who is best known for sitcoms “Fresh Off the Boat,” “Don’t Trust the B—- In Apartment 23,” and NBC’s “Young Rock” with Dwayne Johnson, is celebrating the launch of her latest laugh, the Stephanie Hsu-led murder comedy “Laid” on Peacock, Thursday with the reveal of her next projects: two more dark comedies, one starring Tony Hale and the other based on the LGBTQ graphic novel “Fuck This Place.” Titled “Boy Next Door,” the in-the-works TV series is inspired by John Hinckley Jr’s release from prison into his misguided and controlling mother’s house, this dark comedy follows a man who made a huge mistake a long time ago and now just wants to live a normal, unremarkable second half of his life: get a regular job, meet a regular girl, learn how to take a selfie. Per the project’s logline, “Boy Next Door” asks the question, are we defined by our worst possible moment? And also, how do you send the emojis that move in a text? Written by Corey Nickerson, the show — which is not yet attached to a network or streaming platform — is produced by Khan’s film and TV production company Fierce Baby Productions (which has a first-look deal with with Universal Television) and CBS Productions with Hale executive producing.

Gregg Wallace has been accused of making 'lesbian jokes' and 'highly inappropriate' comments in the latest of a string of complaints made against the TV presenter by people who claim they previously worked with him.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Her kink is… country? Chappell Roan went from the “Pink Pony Club” to the country club on “Saturday Night Live,” surprising fans by going country in both look and sound for her second number of the show, the premiere of a brand new song that marries C&W with LGBTQ+. “I get the job done,” Roan sang in the refrain of the new song, which shares a theme with “Femininomenon” in making the argument that pleasing a woman is sometimes (or always?) a job best left to a fellow woman.

The View just had one of its most shocking moments of the year so far, all thanks to Joy Behar!