Even in the world of messy, high-profile divorces, love always wins… especially when there are billions of dollars involved!

Earlier this year, 83-year-old media mogul David Geffen—one of the richest gays in the world—reached a divorce settlement with ex-husband Donovan Michaels, the former model & go-go boy 50 years his junior.

That news came as quite the shock to anyone who’d been following along with the drama, which quickly got ugly once the pair separated in February 2025, less than two years after getting married.

A few months after that, Geffen made the divorce official, citing irreconcilable differences. Then came the bombshell: Michaels filed one hell of a lawsuit alleging his ex had breached an “oral contract” in which he promised lifelong financial support—why he didn’t push for an actual prenup is beyond us—while also claiming he had been continually exploited by the Hollywood hotshot.

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There were accusations of paid sex, illicit drug use, and other domineering behavior, including the claim that he had to undergo painful body hair removal procedures because seeing as mush as an ingrown could send Geffen into a rage. The tea was absolutely scalding!

The lawsuit also shed some light on the couple’s “meet-cute” back in 2016, with Michaels alleging they initially connected through SeekingArrangements.com—a site most known for helping “sugar daddies” meet their “sugar babies”—when he was paid $10k for sex on their first night together.

Yes, despite that rock-solid romantic foundation, their love couldn’t last… or could it?

In response to Michaels’s lawsuit, Geffen fired back with one of his own, describing his young ex’s claims as “salacious lies” coupled with his legal team’s assertion that that no such “oral contract” ever existed between the two.

As things got more & more heated between the two, it felt like the divorce battle would never end. Until one day it did, just like that. This past April it was reported the pair had confidentially settled their differences, which made it clear we weren’t going to find out how much money Michaels would be walking away with. Boo, where’s the fun in that?

And while we certainly wouldn’t wish pain or unhappiness on anyone, we have to admit we were a little bummed it was over because we were living for the drama!

Thankfully, these two know how to keep us entertained. Back in June, the exes were spotted together on Geffen’s superyacht, the Rising Sun, off the coast of Mallroca, Spain, and they looked downright cordial. Perhaps they decided to let bygones be bygones and just be friends?

But new reports suggest this wasn’t a one-off thing: According to Page Six, the pair were seen together last week on yet another outing aboard the Rising Sun, this time looking cozier still! An eye-witness says they were seen having an “intimate chat” before Michael walked the deck of the massive yacht to take in the scenic view.

So are they rekindling the romance? Neither Geffen nor Michaels has made a public comment on the current state of their relationship, though this reunion could be an indication that they’re ready to give their marriage another shot—they just had to air out one another’s dirty laundry first!

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In response to the rumors, an apparent “insider” hilariously tells Page Six, “the heart wants what the heart wants.” And, you know, girl? You’re damn right. And what our hearts want is for this drama-filled, on-again-off-again rocky relationship to never end.

Making matters funnier still, the news rag shared the update on social media with an old photo of the couple together featuring a *ahem* focus-pulling asset. Naturally, the gays of the internet are having a ball with it—here are just a few of our favorite reactions:

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Gay sports fans thirsting over Jude Bellingham had one wish this past summer when a photo of the soccer star’s legs went viral.

They wanted to see more!

On Monday, their desire was granted. Calvin Klein unveiled its highly anticipated ad campaign with the English national team standout, who scored seven goals in a mesmerizing World Cup run.

The sultry photos show the 23-year-old midfielder wearing pairs of CK’s classic black and white boxer briefs in a variety of poses.

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Sometimes the cut is short, and sometimes the cut is long. But the image always hits just right…

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Already, Bellingham’s “icon” campaign is a contender for one of Calvin Klein’s most homoerotic offerings. The iconic brand has a long and distinguished history of featuring hot AF athletes and celebs wearing their merchandise.

It’s fair to say that Bellingham has certainly captured the gay gaze. “We are so lucky to be alive at a time like this,” added comedian Jay Jurgen.

After seeing a bod like that, it’s hard to disagree…

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As for the shoot itself, GQ has the deets. The campaign was shot by Oliver Hadlee Pearch on a steamy summer day in Madrid, Spain. In all the pics, Bellingham poses against a white background.

The contrast causes Bellingham’s 6’1″, Adonis-like build to pop–just like when one of his goals hit the back of the net.

“I really enjoyed working on this campaign,” he told GQ. “I liked the idea of ‘the icon underneath’—that confidence starts with feeling comfortable in yourself.”

Bellingham has been comfortable showing himself for years, dating back to his 2024 shoot with SKIMS, where he stripped down to his skivvies.

At the time, Bellingham wasn’t even 21. He’s a true phenom!

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The English-born Bellingham plays professionally for Real Madrid in Spain, one of the most storied sports franchises in the world. On the international stage, he represents England.

Gays got their first glimpse of Bellingham during this year’s World Cup… at a training session in Kansas City of all places. There’ photographers caught a glimpse of Bellingham’s bulging pics.

His glutes were so glorious, in fact, sports scientists rushed to explain the physical phenomenon. Turns out, Bellingham’s shorts provided an assist.

He was wearing a special brand of restriction compression shorts, which feature tight bands that wrap around one’s thigh. The pressure is said to stimulate muscle growth.

For the record, the ensuing results are also quite stimulating for us…

Whether Bellingham is starring in an underwear ad or scoring goals, he rises to the occasion. He also promotes a men’s body care brand, whose products he likes to try in a red sauna.

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As one of the World Cup’s hottest players, it’s only fitting that Bellingham was nominated for a Grindr award. The bronze medalist may soon have another trophy to add to his shelf: “Bulge of the Year.“

Like we said, he always rises to the occasion.

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Sebastian “Bash” Croft has used his successful Celebrity Traitors UK run to his advantage, and after putting up a strong fight, the openly gay Heartstopper star just won the game—and half the £83k prize (roughly $111,000.) And he’s got some pointers for future competitors. To borrow a phrase from Mel Brooks’ The Producers, “keep it gay.”

“I saw a post about how you don’t have to be gay to win The Traitors, but, it’s kind of mad that so many people are,” Joe Locke’s ex told BuzzFeed after his win. “And one of the top comments was about, which I think is true, about how you learn to read rooms, and you learn to, try and survive…So it is interesting, the subconscious skill sets, I guess. If being gay means winning The Traitors, then I guess I’m grateful.”

Definitely an intriguing theory, and the number of LGBTQ+ franchise winners certainly bears it out. Not only is the original show hosted by beloved gay actor Alan Cumming, whose history of delicious queer villain roles is well known, the Mafia-style game has given us a handful of openly gay winners in the past few years, including Bachelor star and podcaster Gabby Windey, and gay royal Lord Ivar Mountbatten. In fact, the very first series crowned two Dutch lesbians—basketballer Chatilla van Grinsven and singer Samantha Steenwijk—as winners, perhaps setting the informal standard for all future seasons.

Someone did the math, and apparently of the 104 participants in all the franchise’s series, 18 are openly LGBTQ+. Which means queer people account for nearly 20% (one fifth? one fourth? Girl, don’t ask me to do math!) of all winners.

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So yes, maybe the theory is solid. Queer people are used to keeping our true feelings close to the vest for survival’s sake. Between the lavender marriages we were once forced into and the lies we once had to tell just to serve in the military (and apply for certain jobs!) it makes sense that we’re good at playing the role we need to play in order to get by. Perhaps this reality show is the place where we can truly shine.

It’s also pertinent that in a quickly dwindling LGBTQ+ reality landscape, it’s one of the few shows left where queer people can actually be seen, and be themselves. Earlier this year, the UK cancelled the twin dating shows I Kissed a Boy and I Kissed a Girl. This loss, along with the axing of Drag Race UK, felt like an ominous portent of programming to come. In the US, one of the few mainstream reality shows centering on queer life—The Ultimatum: Queer Love—was also cancelled.

Queer performers still show up on plenty of reality shows both in the UK and stateside—let’s not forget that memorable Big Brother bisexual blowout from earlier this fall—but The Traitors seems to carry queerness in its very DNA. Is there anything campier than Alan Cumming, a Scottish mansion, and a literal cloak-and-dagger mission where you can’t trust anyone? Betrayal, deception, Bob the Drag Queen, and giant coffins? Come on. If the gays didn’t thrive in that environment, something would be seriously wrong with the pitch.

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Many happy returns to Queer Eye alum Karamo Brown, who turned 46 yesterday.

Brown marked the occasion with a carousel of photos on social media. In the first, he stood alongside his father, his son Jason, and Jason’s infant son, Kyrie.

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“As I enter my 46th year… I never would have imagined being in a room with my father, my son & my grandson! 4 generations of healing & hope!

“Kyrie, grandpa loves you with all my heart!

“I’m so excited for everything to come!” added Brown, before giving a shoutout to actor and singer Jussie Smollett: “I’m at such peace because I have such a good man by my side. I Love you @jussiesmollett”

Online, many expressed shock at learning for the first time that Brown and Smollett are an item.

Along with photos of himself and Smollett feeding Kyrie from a bottle, Brown also announced he’ll soon publish his first self-help book, The Unpredictable Choice.

Releasing in March 2027, the book aims to help people break repetitive patterns and behaviors that keep them from progressing in life.

“Your brain is ruining your life. Shocking, I know, but it’s true!” Brown told PEOPLE. “It holds on to unhealthy patterns because familiar feels safe, and I wrote The Unpredictable Choice to show you how to break the patterns your brain keeps you stuck in, just like I broke mine.”

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Among those to reply to Brown was Smollett, who said, “I love you so much. I have so much respect for you as a human. Happiest of birthdays my love.”

Smollett posted his own tribute to Brown on his own Instagram, featuring several photos of them together.

“It’s international @Karamo day! Happy birthday my love. Baby K&J #Mine #ScorpioSeason” said Smollett in an accompanying caption, along with “my man” on subsequent photos.

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Brown only learned he was a father to 10-year-old Jason in 2007. He’d enjoyed a brief tryst with Jason’s mother in High School when he and she were 15. However, he was unaware she became pregnant. Brown took custody of Jason that year, and then also adopted Jason’s half brother, Christian, in 2010.

Jason became a dad in September.

Rumors that Brown and Smollett were dating first emerged in June when paparazzi snapped photos of them together in Los Angeles. Brown was also in attendance that month when Smollett performed at a Pride concert in Harlem, NYC.

Neither man has commented on the exact nature of their relationship, but “#Mine” and “My man” on Smollett’s posts would appear to confirm they’re together.

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Hot people vote!

With Democrats poised for a strong night, gay people of all stripes are rushing to the polls. Though D*n*ld Tr*mp will be president for another two years, his decade-long vice grip on our politics could very well end tonight.

Marred as a lame duck, Tr*mp would spend the rest of his term fending off investigations and contending with a contentious Congress. Polls show the Dems are all but guaranteed to retake the House, and have an edge in the Senate, where they need a net four-seat gain to win control.

Just six months ago, that seemed like a long shot. But with Tr*mp’s approval rating near a record low, deep red states are suddenly in play. The final NYT/Siena poll shows Democrat James Talarico with a lead in Texas, and Democrats also ahead in Maine, Ohio, Kansas, Alaska and Iowa. Some prognostications even show Florida, Nebraska, South Carolina and Mississippi in play.

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Tr*mp demagogued his way into office by fear-mongering over immigrants, LGBTQ+ people and other marginalized groups. But those dirty tricks don’t work when an increasing number of people can’t afford food, housing and other life necessities.

As queer people, we saw this disaster coming. LGBTQ+ folks are the most progressive voting bloc in the country, with 86% of gay people supporting Kamala Harris in 2024.

Now two years later, the rest of the country has followed our lead. From culture to politics, we always set the trends.

Speaking of which, if you need extra motivation to head to the polls–or a little Election Day distraction–the gays are here to provide. Per tradition, many tempting thots are posting civic-minded selfies.

Some of those patriotic pics are below. There’s just something about voting out MAGA Republicans that makes us stand to attention…

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We’ve long established that some gay bars are for both the girls and the gays.

But does the equation change when a dark room enters the mix?

On Reddit, gay bros in New York City recently debated whether straight women belong at The Eagle, the city’s most iconic leather and cruising bar. “Please stop bringing your girl friends to the eagle,” a poster pleaded.

Despite his forceful tone, the Redditor insists he’s not being exclusionary. “I’m all for bringing your girl friends out to experience a night in our world,” he says, “and I genuinely love that so many women are welcoming of us and embrace our culture.”

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But he thinks there are some spaces that should only be for the boys. The Eagle, with its libidinal energy and hedonistic vibes, is one of them.

“Part of what makes the Eagle different is that it’s one of the few places in NYC where guys can really let loose without feeling like they’re being watched or judged,” he adds.

While that sentiment is uncontroversial–hardly any gay man enjoys drunken bachelorettes being messy on the dance floor–there are nuances to the longstanding debate.

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All women are not the same

This past weekend in Boystown, the dichotomy between girlfriends was clear. Halloween is one of the busiest nights of the year in Chicago’s raucous gayborhood. Since the sidewalks and bars are packed–it is nearly impossible to move–decorum is paramount.

En route to a house party, I noticed the girl friend of every gay’s nightmares. Obnoxiously drunk, she was barreling her way down North Halsted Street, dragging her mortified baby gay by his arm.

“EXCUSE ME! GET OUT OF THE WAY!” she yelled.

Last year, we covered the terrible tale of a straight woman who went to a gay bar and managed to enrage the entire community. Apparently, the gay patrons didn’t give her enough attention, prompting her to post a rant on TikTok.

The brash, inebriated girlie whom I saw on Saturday embodied the same loathsome energy.

Now, fast forward a few hours later, and my fiancé and I left the house party and started heading towards the bars. We wound up at Cell Block, a neighborhood leather bar with a clothes check and a sling. And… there were women there! (perhaps we even brought a couple ourselves).

But here’s the catch: the women hung out in the front room, where there is a pool table, dartboards and arcade games. I did not see any head into the back room, where there’s a sling and guys without clothes on. That would’ve been entirely inappropriate and over the line.

And besides, what straight girl wants to be around that anyway?

“What’s the goal of cis hetero women in cruising gay bars?” somebody commented on IG. “To observe us in the wild?”

That’s a good question. But for queer women–or even just cool chicks–the calculus is different.

“Some of my friends are queer and feel comfortable in a leather bar,” a person added. “Maybe they want to play pool with me. This means more business for the bar.”

With gay bars closing–at least 20 have shuttered this year–that shouldn’t be dismissed.

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Can we finally settle this debate?

Honestly… probably not! But there appear to be agreed-upon parameters.

Here’s a good rule of thumb: if the gay bar plays RuPaul’s Drag Race, girlies are welcome! But if the bar has a dark room… maybe not!

That brings us back to Eagle NYC, which has been a leather bar since 1970. The Chelsea staple briefly closed in 2000 before reopening in a new location the following year. Through the decades, Eagle NYC has withstood the AIDS crisis, gentrification and shifting social landscapes. Today, it’s filled with husky men all week long, and the dark room remains lascivious.

Understandably, NYC gays want to protect their sacred space.

“Eagle isn’t just any gay bar,” somebody posted. “It’s an institution and should be protected as such.”

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Gay Halloween showed out in rare form this year, with queer costumes that ran the gamut from the absurd to the obscure.

And for pop legend Madonna, it was a chance to resurrect the ghost of one of the 20th century’s most famous, prolific queer polymaths in style.

Even if you haven’t heard of the French playwright and filmmaker Jean Cocteau, you’ve almost certainly been exposed to echoes of his artistry. From Disney’s Beauty and The Beast to the dreampop ’80s band Cocteau Twins, the Cocteau influence is everywhere… and Madonna knows it.

“This Halloween,” she wrote in an Instagram post. “I was inspired by the surrealist, Jean Cocteau, who created and inspired dreamlike imagery beyond logic. I am accompanied by a donkey. Representing the heavy weight of societal expectations And bourgeois education dragging down the individual subconscious. I wish I had known Cocteau.”

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Obviously, Madonna is far from alone in this feeling. We all wish we could have known Cocteau, whose haunting fairy tale visions often mingled with lush homoerotic themes and imagery in his films. Along with the (very gay) 1946 adaptation of the French folktale Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bête,) Cocteau took on the myth of gay Greek icon Orpheus in a trilogy of gender-bending films spanning from the ’30s to the ’60s.

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If one frame from Cocteau’s 1950 film Orphee looks familiar, it’s because another iconic queer band, The Smiths, used the image of a beautiful young man gazing into the mirrored pool of his reflection on the 1983 single “This Charming Man.”

Cocteau also collaborated with other queer artists, including fellow gay icon Jean Genet, whose homoerotic masterpiece Querelle (later adapted as a very gay film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder) was illustrated by Cocteau in the 1940s.

Basically if something gay and French was happening in the mid-20th century, Cocteau said “let me get in on that.”

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Madonna’s donkey companion may represent, as she says, the burden of societal expectations, but it also calls back to several Cocteau creations.

In his Beauty and the Beast, the beast himself, before resuming his handsome prince form, must woo his princess despite wearing the head of a lion. In several dreamlike sequences, Cocteau’s take on the fairy tale calls back to Shakespeare’s classic (and also very bisexual) romantic comedyA Midsummer Night’s Dream, in which a man briefly transformed into a donkey becomes the obsession of a bewitched fairy queen.

There’s also the French folktale The Donkey’s Skin, adapted in 1970 not by Cocteau, but fellow queer French surrealist Jacques Demy. Just seven years after Cocteau’s passing, Demy channeled the filmmaker’s influence to create a bizarre, colorful take on one of France’s oldest myths.

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In true Madonna fashion, of course, Cocteau isn’t the end of the story. In her post, Madonna tells readers to get out and see the film that’s the closest to something a modern Cocteau might have come up with: the lauded Los Javis production La Bola Negra, based partly on a work by queer Spanish poet (and Cocteau contemporary) Federico Garcia Lorca.

The Queen of Pop has always pulled her influences from far and wide, long ago and here and now—how else do you get a song that references Paris is Burning, Joe DiMaggio, and Rita Hayworth? We love the look, the style, and the woman’s ability to create something new out of the queer canon.

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Gay guys are not a monolith.

Though many of us modern-day homosexuals share similar experiences & interests—i.e. the “gay awakening childhood crush, the coming-out-to-mom moment, the complete & utter devotion to Kylie Minogue—we’re a pretty broad and diverse group.

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That’s right: not every gay is completely & utterly devoted to Kylie Minogue. *Gasp!*

Our differences are especially clear across generations. As society’s become more accepting of queerness, younger gays have had a much different path to coming-of-age and coming out, whereas many of our elders have spent much of their lifetime in the closet or behind closed doors.

That gay generational divide gets explored in the Spanish-language indie The Divine Tragedy which, despite its title, takes a comedic look at how two gay half-brothers can feel like they live an entire world apart.

Former telenovela actor Cristián (Artús Chávez) is a “refined traditionalist homosexual” who mostly keeps things buttoned-up, including his love life, having been married to the wealthy Carlos (Rosendo Gazpel) for 24 years.

But, just as the couple’s about to embark on what should be a romantic cruise getaway, Carlos suddenly kicks Cristián to the curb, leaving him nowhere else to turn…

Except to his younger half-brother Roy (Pablo Gómez), a wild, uninhibited, and sexually adventurous party gay who can barely figure out what to do for the afters, let alone come up with a five-year plan.

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So, despite not being able to see eye to eye on just about anything, the two must figure out how to cohabitate in Roy’s apartment in the bustling gayborhood of Zona Rosa, Mexico City. And maybe—just maybe—they’ll discover they both still have some growing up to do.

And it’s not all about brotherly love. There’s plenty of hot & steamy lovin’ going on, too, thanks especially to Roy’s proclivity for anonymous hookups that rarely linger for longer than an hour or two. Will Cristián’s influence help him see that he’s been denying himself the opportunity for real companionship?

The Divine Tragedy comes from writer/director Sergio Tovar Velarde whose previous work like the romantic anthology Four Moons and the trippy drama Mundos Cósmicos have made him something of film festival darling.

He’s said that the film was inspired by his own efforts to navigating the gay dating scene after an 18-year relationship had come to an end, but that he can see parts of himself in both Cristián and Roy.

“The Divine Tragedy is a film that comes from a very human place and embraces contradiction,” Velarde shares in a press statement. “It’s messy, emotional, sometimes funny, sometimes raw. That’s just part of it… “This is a film about love, but not the kind we’re used to. It’s about learning to stay with yourself”

Since having its world premiere at Boston’s Wicked Queer LGBTQ+ Film Festival back in April, The Divine Tragedy has traveled to festivals across the U.S. and charmed audiences every step of the way.

And now, as of today, it’s finally available on digital/VOD platforms and on DVD courtesy of Cinephobia Releasing. Head here for more information and check out the trailer for the film below:

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Isaiah Rashad may be one of the most revered rappers of our generation. But he admits the spotlight comes with its fair share of pressure. 

Rashad, who is openly queer and has been open about his troubles with addiction, said that labels like these come with responsibility. In an interview with Andscape’s David Dennis Jr., Rashad said that he is often described as a “voice” to “different communities.”

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“I know that people put that on me, but that’s too much pressure, man,” said Rashad. “I could see an imperfect reflection like that I could give to somebody, ‘cause I’ve definitely had that from other artists myself. But being the drug guy and the queer guy–it’s too much pressure. I’m just an imperfect person.”

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Rashad signed to Top Dawg Entertainment — which has been home to the likes of Kendrick Lamar, Schoolboy Q, SZA, and Doechii — back in 2013, before releasing his debut album The Sun’s Tirade in 2014.

Like much of the Top Dawg crew, he’s known to take long breaks in between albums. His sophomore album, The House is Burning, dropped in 2021. Between these two albums, he revealed that he had almost been dropped from Top Dawg amid his struggles and behavior in active addiction. 

“Honestly, I got off [Schoolboy Q’s] Oxymoron tour kinda addicted to xans and an alcoholic,” Rashad said in a 2017 interview with Hot 97’s Peter Rosenberg. “I f*cked up…I f*cked up pretty bad. I almost got dropped like three times. I had access to sh*t I didn’t have before so I’d just wake up in the morning and go buy a pint.”

In 2022, a video of Rashad engaged in sex acts with other men leaked to the internet. He appeared to address the leak in his performance at Coachella that same year, thanking fans for their support.

“I see all the messages and all the positivity,” he said at the time. “Y’all kept me alive these past couple months.”

This past May, Rashad released his third album It’s Been Awful — the title of which, fans took as an allusion to how Rashad has felt in the years since being forced out of the closet. 

Though Rashad has previously identified as sexually fluid, he confirmed that he is bisexual during an interview with The Breakfast Club.

“At some point in time, I accepted that they don’t make a manual for being a bisexual Black dude,” he said at the time. “It made me confront a lot of stuff that I was saying about women. A lot of ways I was expressing myself was really coming just from a place of insecurity. I feel like I’ve gotten to love myself a little better.”

While Rashad’s journey is inspiring, being the poster child for queerness and recovery can prove daunting, he wants fans to know that you can always come out stronger on the other side. And by unpacking one’s own sexuality, one can feel more confident in ways they didn’t previously understand.

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Are you a pit fiend? Does the salty smell of a man’s armpit reduce you to a puddle of wax? If so, you are far from alone. Men who love pits are no strangers to this community, for several reasons.

“From the vigorous personal trainer to the oh-so-helpful handyman, to even the steamy fireman… there’s always something situational going on that’s getting the sweat flowing. That’s intentional,” one Irishman told Queerty in 2023. “It’s about a gay man’s yearning for ultimate masculinity.”

Apparently, we have science to thank for this very understandable reaction. According to Bros actor and gay relationship coach Aidan Wharton, there’s more going on inside the humble armpit than that very sexy scent. In fact, there’s a complex world of Darwinian evolutionary cues at work. Who knew?

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Our pits carry a completely unique signature scent, thanks to a reaction between the bacteria that live there and our apocrine glands, which work to produce sweat in our pits (and bits.) According to Wharton, gay body odor is different. Or at least, it produces a different response in other gay men. A 2005 study found that gay men not only recognize, but potentially prefer the smell of other gay men.

Which sounds kind of crazy, but listen—science IS crazy! But there’s a method to its madness. A separate, infamous 1995 study known as the “T-shirt test” found that people of all genders are most likely to be attracted to the scents of people with different immune makeup than their own. This is for standard evolutionary reasons: seeking out mates with different immunity profiles to boost your offspring’s survival chances is pretty much Darwin 101.

That’s why a man’s choice of fragrance can be so intoxicating. If it works with your natural scent, it can “enhance the chances to be guided to a partner with whom sex is not only pleasurable but also biologically useful,” according to one professor.

But don’t get it twisted: none of this means that skipping showers and going around in ratty gym shorts for a week is guaranteed to attract your dream partner, as straight men recently FAFO’ed with the doomed “pheromone-maxxing” trend. Because while, yes, we all love a good stinky armpit, evidence of the existence of pheromones in humans remains scant.

The good news is that we don’t need pheromones to know what we like. The old reliable human nose is a good enough instrument for figuring out whether someone’s unique scent turns us on or not. There’s also an important difference between gross old sweat that’s been hanging out in someone’s gym clothes all day and fresh, invigorating sweat—and yes, we can all smell the difference.

So yes, we know that pits are pretty much nature’s way of saying, go get your man. But as much as science tells us about why we like what we like, there’s still enough mystery concerning the human armpit to keep things sexy. So go forth, and sniff with pride! You’re in fine company.

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