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As Olympic ice dancers swirl across our TV screens this week, we get to play another round of everyone's favorite figure-skating game: Are they or aren't they dating? I'll give you one free answer to this Milan Cortina pop quiz: Team USA's gold medal hopefuls, Madison Chock and Evan Bates, got married in 2024. But the answer to ice dancing's perpetual are-they-or-aren't-they question isn't always so straightforward.

In a post shared to the app's website, Grindr announced that it would become an AI-first company, which it says means "a faster, smarter, more personalised app that helps you connect with less effort and makes every conversation count". Powered by gAI™, Grindr's own AI stack, EDGE is embedded across the entire user journey of the app. New AI features include recaps of previous conversations with other users, daily personalised profile recommendations

On the night of her 60th birthday, Sally Goldner climbed on to the top rope of the wrestling ring, to the roars of the crowd, and launched herself on to her competitors with a missile dropkick. The crowd roared. For a second, she was completely airborne, before landing on her opponents. Wow, I'm doing this,' she thought. Exhilarating. I couldn't think of anything I'd rather be doing on my birthday.

"We are super hyped to open Super Bowl 60 right in our backyard!" "We are honored to welcome the MVPs who've shaped the game and open the night for fans all over the world. Let's have fun! Let's get loud!"

My parents were not a love match. My dad was at the very least not straight. They got married because they got pregnant, and it was like, my dad came from a Catholic family.

Are you not that into football? Do you not stay informed on the who is who in the football world? Are you really only interested in the half time show! I mean Bad Bunny is going to be ah-mazing! Well this watch party is for you.

New data has shown that one in six children that died by suicide in England between April 2019 and March 2025 were part of the LGBTQ+ community. Out of the 647 children that died by suicide during that time period, 107 were LGBTQ+ and 46 were transgender. The figures were obtained by QueerAF via a Freedom of Information request to the National Child Mortality Database.

Since 1997 Nottingham Pride has existed with one purpose: to support, uplift and represent the LGBTQ+ community in Nottinghamshire. Nottingham Pride is a small authentically LGBTQ+ volunteer run charity,

Join us @hotelbironwinebar for National Inspire Your Art With Art Day (1/30 @ 5pm)! We will provide art supplies for you as you sip your wine. Our feature artist will be @cajobcase ! Her show will be up until the end of Feb. Want to join but still doing dry January, we got you covered! Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.

He's gay, she's gay, I'm gay, we're all gay for Maye! Throughout the 2025 NFL season, New England Patriots quarterback Drake Maye has led his team to victory after victory, snagging them a spot in the upcoming Super Bowl 60. Naturally, the (mostly heterosexual) Boston football fans yearned for a catchy and viral slogan to support the 23-year-old hotshot. So, they searched the depths of their imagination, realized what word his last name rhymed with, and "Gay for Maye" was born.

I just randomly started talking to this guy,

Here are this week's most popular positive stories, with some fun social media posts tossed in too. Like seeing uplifting content like this? Sign up for our Good News email. Congratulations - you've made it past winter's darkest days! (Literally! The days are just getting longer from now until the middle of summer.) But seeing as most of the U.S. is experiencing winter storms this weekend, let our weekly Good News Roundup help keep you warm!

For most people playing or just watching The Traitors, each day is filled with physical and mental stress and anxiety. For Colton Underwood, it's just another day at work. "Everybody's like, 'That show had to be so hard and so intense,'" he tells Bustle over the phone. "I was like, 'Compared to the other shows I've done, Traitors was a cakewalk.'"

I've never felt so certain and so loved,

Six federal prosecutors in Minnesota resigned on Tuesday after the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) began investigating whether Becca Good, the widow of a queer woman killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent last week, had any criminal associations or ties to anti-government groups. The current presidential administration has repeatedly tried to portray Renee Good, the woman killed by an ICE agent, as a "domestic terrorist" who was part of a "sinister left-wing movement" that criminally sought to interfere with ICE's actions.

The removal of San Antonio's rainbow crosswalks, which were originally installed in 2018 with the help of nonprofit Pride San Antonio, follows Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's (R) October 8 order directing the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) to remove "any and all political ideologies" from streets across the state.

"Luckily, the opposite impulse also exists," she wrote, "despite the increasing onslaught of deliberate cruelty, lost ground, and assaults on our very understanding of who we are over the last year, our better instincts prevail-our instincts not only to subsist and survive, but to thrive." She explained that on January 20, 2025, she was given the opportunity to live a life "alternative to the shuttered, circumscribed, and lonely life" she'd been living.

When I first heard of Heated Rivalry, I didn't think much about it. The words Canadian ice-hockey TV series slid into my brain and slipped right back out. But a week later, approximately everyone I'd ever met wanted to talk about it. People kept telling me that it was fun, sweet, and addicting. Most of all, they emphasized that it was really smutty. Every recommendation seemed to come with a warning to not watch with my parents.

The internet has turned fringe belief into mainstream politics and policy from authoritarianism to vaccines. With democracy itself threatened, is it time to go back to a previous world of landlines, letters and face-to-face-contact, audiotapes and Ansaphones? What would we miss about the online world that is worth the risk to liberal culture and basic freedoms? Should we turn the internet off?

"We're celebrating out five years today,"

The Boyfriend is structured around queer men living and working together for two months. Throughout their time, they navigate love and friendship, which flits between sweet and intense. In the first season, the men lived in a beachside house. However, for season 2, Netflix is swapping the beach for the snow. The second season sees the men live in the winter landscape of Lake Akan in Hokkaido. This time, their group will work at a peppermint-coloured coffee truck.