I Like Me Better, a tale of queer joy

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Hope you’re ready to start planning your summer reading list, because I Like Me Better is the tale of queer romance and joy you absolutely need in your life. Autumn might have just arrived, but as anyone with a BookTok account and TBR pile knows, there’s no time like the present to start prepping for your next great. Lucky for fans of  swoon-worthy and fun in the sun, Robby Weber, the author behind If You Change Your Mind, is back with a brand new book.

I Like Me Better doesn’t arrive until May 2, 2023, but Teen Vogue has your first exclusive look at a cover. The very queer rom-com centers on Zack Martin, a soccer-star. Per a press description of the book, Zack’s plans for summer are thrown out the window, after he’s forced to take the blame for a team prank.

Now he’s trading parties and beach days for community service at a seaside conservation center—fair enough. But thanks to his new reputation, the cute intern, Chip, won’t even give him a shot. Still, Zack finds himself falling for Chip between dolphin encounters and shark costume disasters, which means he suddenly has way more on the line than he ever expected. Zack may be good at winning on the field, but can he keep up the lie without losing himself?

Read on…

New Hellraiser is still queer but oddly sanitized

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Spooky season is well underway, and networks and streaming platforms are rolling out their horror-laden line-ups of films and series. In addition to AMC’s very gay new take on Interview with the Vampire, Syfy’s second season of Chucky, and FX’s upcoming 11th season of American Horror Story, Hulu’s remake of classic 80s horror flick Hellraiser arrived Friday.

The film is a new take on queer writer Clive Barker’s novella The Hellbound Heart and stars trans actress Jamie Clayton as a new version of the iconic Hell Priest, a.k.a. Pinhead. But it’s also apparently a significant departure from the 1987 film version, which Barker himself directed. According to its official synopsis, Hellraiser depicts a young woman named Riley (Odessa A’zion) who struggles with addiction and comes into possession of the puzzle box which summons Pinhead and the other demonic Cenobites.

Ahead of the film’s debut, here’s what critics are saying about the new Hellraiser. Read on…