The new film, Pillion, which Hard Copy reported on last June, is starting to receive positive reviews. The film tells the story of the relationship between Colin, a timid man, who is swept off his feet by Ray, an enigmatic and impossibly handsome biker. Ray, a dom, takes Colin on as his submissive. After opening […]
2025 Year in Review and Trends for 2026
With the end of the year comes lists of trends from the past year and trends for the upcoming year. Grindr has provided an extensive overview of the trends and “best of” for 2025 in Grindr Unwrapped 2025. Favorite stats include most searched profile tag (“hung”), country sending most nudes (Finland), most proclaimed “daddies” (USA). […]
Gay Male Visibility in Pop Culture Varies
The popularity of the queer Canadian sports series, Heated Rivalry is still growing since its debut on November 28th. In contrast, the second season of Boots, the Netflix series about a closeted young gay man and his straight best friend who join the marines, has been cancelled after the Trump administration referred to it as […]
That Awkward World Cup Situation Continues to Unfold
There’s an interesting cultural phenomenon happening right now bringing queerness and organized sport together in the Zeitgeist. One example is the 2026 Fifa World Cup Match between Egypt and Iran scheduled in June in the midst of host city Seattle’s annual pride celebrations, a plan that was made prior to anyone knowing which teams would […]
Less Sex on Screen in Hollywood
A recent survey conducted by the Teens & Screens project at UCLA suggests that nearly half of Gen Z moviegoers think there is too much explicit sex in movies and on TV, and would like to see more narratives about non-romantic friendships. Hollywood producers have responded by scaling back on scenes of sex and nudity […]
AI Wrongly Makes Sex Offender Accusations
“Technology is not neutral. We’re inside of what we make and it’s inside of us.” Prominent feminist scholar of science and technology studies, Donna Haraway, quipped this in a 1997 interview with Wired. That idea checks out when applied to this recent story out of Canada. The nutshell scoop is that Cape Breton fiddler Ashley […]
“Nudify” Apps Causing Drama in Classrooms Globally
Apps that can realistically alter human bodies and put them in, let’s say, compromising positions in photographs and videos, have become very accessible and are rapidly growing in popularity all over the world, particularly amongst student populations. The Guardian’s education correspondent Sally Weale investigated what teachers and administrators are up against in trying to deal […]
Highlights from Pornhub’s 2025 Report
Pornhub’s annual report yields valuable insight into evolving sexual interests of men and women (who are 38% of Pornhub’s audience), gay and straight, different generations, countries, and US states. Perhaps most remarkable is the rise in appreciation of mature women, now the third most viewed category by men; “MILF” is the second most searched term, […]
We’re All Hockey Fans Now, Eh?
Heated Rivalry – that recently debuted Queer Canadian sports series which you’ve surely heard of – has just been green lit for a second season. It’s now Canadian streaming platform Crave’s biggest original production. The show is packed with gay jock sex, which has many horny toads croaking. But if we put those other-worldly asses […]
“Gay Sheep” Take Over New York Catwalk
1 in 12 male sheep (rams) show a preference for other males and exhibit homosexual behavior. Because a ram’s function is to breed, when a ram refuses to breed, they are usually sold for their meat. To save the gay rams from the slaughterhouse, Michel Stucke and Nadia Leytes came up with Rainbow Wool. They […]