The GLAAD Wrap: ‘Adults’ and ‘Project Runway’ Renewed, New Music from Brandi Carlile, Reneé Rapp, Cat Burns, and more!

Caleb Hearon, Zooey Deschanel, Kyle Marvin And Jaboukie Young-White To Star in ‘Trash Mountain’ With Colin Trevorrow’s Metronome Banner Producing https://t.co/uqbLVSEnPe

— Deadline (@DEADLINE) October 27, 2025

2) Out actor Colman Domingo has joined the cast of Wicked: For Good as the voice of the iconic Cowardly Lion. He joins fellow queer stars Cynthia Erivo, Jonathan Bailey, Bowen Yang, and Marissa Bode. Wicked: For Good will be in theaters on November 20.In more casting news, out actor Kit Connor has joined the cast of A Long Winter, the upcoming film from out writer and director Andrew Haigh. The film follows two sons whose alcoholic mother goes missing during a snowstorm. 

3) Samo Lives, the upcoming biopic of groundbreaking artist Jean-Michael Basquiat has added several to its cast, including out actor Lukas Gage. Kelvin Harrison Jr. will play Basquiat in the film. Casting has been announced for upcoming indie C-Side, from writer-director Stacey Maltin. The cast includes out actors Andy Mientus, Lea DeLaria, Jelani Alladin and Rivkah Reyes. The film follows “a messy, heartbroken man who returns to the city hoping to win back the ex he ghosted and reconnect with his chosen family, but he finds that everyone’s moved on — except him.”

4) FX’s comedy Adults has been renewed for a second season. The show follows a group of friends who live in one of their childhood homes in Queens and their misadventures of being in their 20s. The show features a mainly queer ensemble including Anton, played by out actor Owen Thiele, and the Canadian and sexuality fluid Paul Baker (Jack Innanen). 

5) Out filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun has been tapped to create, write, and direct Black Hole, an adaption of bestselling graphic novels, for Netflix. The show follows a mysterious virus that attacks people from a small town who have sex to young, and casts those infected out to live in the woods. 

Babe wake up new lifelong dream project just dropped. https://t.co/61DYBMqOja

— Jane Schoenbrun (@sapphicspielbrg) October 23, 2025

6) Project Runway has been renewed for season 22, with the judges and mentors returning, including out mentor Christian Siriano and out judge Law Roach. The new season will debut in 2026. Apple TV’s comedy Shrinking announced that it will premiere its third season on Wednesday, January 28. The show will continue to feature out actor Michael Urie as Brian, the best friend of protagonist Jimmy. 

7) Out Actor Murray Bartlett has been cast in Netflix’s All the Sinners Bleed, a new limited series that follows the first Black sheriff in a small town. Bartlett will portray the charmain fo the board of supervisors in the town. In more casting news, out actor Michael Hsu Rosen has been cast in the second season of Presumed Innocent, an anthology legal thriller from Apple TV. The show follows a new high profile legal case each season. 

8) Out actress Evan Rachel Wood has been cast in The Shards, a new series from FX and out creator Ryan Murphy. The series is an adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s thriller novel of the same name. In other Ryan Murphy news, the cast has been announced for the 13th season of American Horror Story. Out actress Sarah Paulson is returning to the series along with a slew of other stars, including Ariana Grande. 

9) The nominations for the Gotham Film Awards have been announced. LGBTQ nominees include Eva Victor in the Best Original Screenplay for Sorry, Baby, Harry Lighton in Best Adapted Screenplay for Pillion, Tessa Thompson in Outstanding Lead Performance for Hedda, Indya Moore and Andrew Scott in Best Supporting Performance for Father Mother Sister Brother and Blue Moon respectively, and Tonatiuh in Breakthrough Performer for Kiss of the Spider Woman. Read the full list of Gotham Award nominees here. 

Congratulations to all #thegothams2025 nominees! Winners will be announced live at Cipriani Wall Street on December 1st.

— The Gotham Film & Media Institute (@weare_thegotham) October 28, 2025

10) Singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile released her ninth studio album Returning to Myself last week, hitting number one on the charts. Listen here. Out singer and UK Celebrity Traitors star Cat Burns has a new album How to Be Human, which is out now. Listen here! Out signer Reneé Rapp released a new single “Lucky” this week for the upcoming film Now You See Me: Now You Don’t. Listen here!