Dan Clarendon

The gay-to-gardening pipeline is stronger than ever! Yes, there seems to be a natural progression between coming out of the closet and realizing that the room beyond needs more greenery. And Twitter/X users have been seeding funny posts about plant gays and plant theys for years now.

You NFL fans out there might have tried adjusting your television sets on Oct. 29, 2023, as the Tennessee Titans wore uniforms in the colors of their predecessors, the Houston Oilers, in a nod to the team’s beginnings. So, why did the Oilers change their name anyway? As football historians know, the Oilers switched cities and got a new nickname following a falling-out between the late team owner Bud Adams and the city of Houston. Here’s how it all went down…

Who loves ya, baby? A half century ago now — on October 24, 1973 — Kojak debuted on CBS, with the late Telly Savalas playing the tough-guy NYPD detective TV Guide Magazine once named the 18th greatest television character in the history of the medium. To celebrate Kojak’s 50th anniversary, here are 10 fascinating facts about the cop drama.

Time to tune your television to the latest Tinseltown take on tic-tac-toe. Celebrity Squares, a new spin on the classic game show Hollywood Squares, hits VH1 on Tuesday, October 17, at 8/7c, with comedian DC Young Fly hosting. And now, with the introduction of Celebrity Squares, the Hollywood Squares format has aired during every decade since the 1960s.

At the end of the 20th century, broadcast networks were still giving the green light to daytime dramas, including Port Charles, a half-hour spinoff of ABC’s long-running hit General Hospital. The series, created by Wendy Riche, lasted only six years — GH has already run ten times as long — but it had made a lasting impression with soap fans by the time it ended two decades ago.

Arrests, convictions, and even prison sentences don’t necessarily spell the end of a Housewife’s time on Bravo—though the cable network certainly put the spotlight these Housewives and House-Husbands’ brushes with the law.

In every generation, there is a chosen one… who inspires hours upon hours of entertainment. Twenty years after the series finale of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the Buffyverse is still expanding, with the franchise’s first-ever audio drama on the way.

Lily Gladstone, who’s earning Oscar buzz for her role in the upcoming Martin Scorsese film Killers of the Flower Moon, has two strong words for Yellowstone. In a new New York magazine interview, the actor — whose father is Blackfeet and Nez Perce — says that Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan’s version of the American West in the Paramount Network series is “delusional” and “deplorable.”

It’s the most wonderful time of the year…for Hallmark Channel executives! We’re honoring Hallmark’s holiday programming and also roasting it like a chestnut on an open fire with this chronological list of the most Hallmark titles in Countdown to Christmas history. If our eyes happened to land on these titles in the pages of TV Guide Magazine, we’d know right away we were looking at a Hallmark Channel listing.

Paria Hassouri and her husband were thousands of miles from home, on vacation in Thailand, when they got a call from their daughter’s school. A teacher told them that Ava, then 13, was questioning her gender identity. During Ava’s coming-out experience, Hassouri educated herself about how best to support her daughter. Other parents are trying to do the same, as children and teens are opening up — sometimes even earlier in their lives — about their placement in a galaxy of queer existence.

Fans’ love for Hogwarts’ witches and wizards need not snuffed by the ramblings of a 50-something cisgender white lady. They have used Vanishing Spells on the woman whose words hurt trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer people around the world. Call it the Fandom That Lived.

On March 13, the American College of Surgeons recommended hospitals across the country minimize, postpone, or cancel all scheduled elective surgeries because of the COVID-19 pandemic. As many hospitals took that advice and shed certain procedures from the books, many transgender people were left with devastating setbacks as gender-affirming surgeries were canceled or indefinitely postponed as the question of which procedures are “elective” looms.

After declaring the violence epidemic against transgender people a “myth,” journalist and self-described “gay conservative” Chad Felix Greene is now attacking the idea of the use of “they” as a singular pronoun and criticizing the APA for endorsing the usage.

Color photography was developed, so to speak, with a definite bias toward lighter skin — a reality cinematographer Ava Berkofsky sought to overcome when she was hired to light season 2 of the HBO comedy Insecure.