@abbeyyygrace: do better GQ. #gq #heatedrivalry #queermedia #queerrepresentation

savannah_sommerr :

“Heated Rivalry is the reason we wanna see straight men kiss” STOP INVALIDATING QUEER LOVE STORIES.

m. :

i havent read the article cause i refuse to fall for clickbait but adding a photo of jordan firstman, an openly gay man to a list of "straight men" is crazy.

itme :

and sadly a queer woman wrote it!

🫐🌟 :

yeah like we love queer shows not fetishizing gay men wtf

Jess ☀️ :

Putting heated rivalry in the same article as “straight men kissing “is insane!! This whole article is so beyond tone deaf! To post anything like that in 2026 I’ll never understand it

Jalen :

Mind you most of the men they posted are queer. Connor Storrie, Hudson Williams, Bad Bunny, and Zach from love island had a boyfriend in the past… so like what is the point??

Julia Kathryn Fergus :

Especially when GQ literally did a huge spread with Hudson and Conner back in like December

Mel :

I'm so tired of clickbait rage as a strategy for entertainment "journalism".

Brittanee :

And the fact that they turned off the comments on Twitter instead of deleting the article…shameful.

megs_allthingsbookish :

It made me sick reading that post. Thank you for this and say it louder my girl 🗣️👏🏻 WORD. FOR. WORD

Camila :

Couldn’t like this more. Absolutely insane to assume everyone’s sexuality and then to invalidate a queer show by stating people only liked STRAIGHT guys kissing. WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT??

talia 💫 :

the point of progress is so that queer people can simply exist without having to explicitly come out. it’s so damaging to automatically list them as “straight”. so disappointing

abbey :

* & yessss I know it’s a whole article but I didn’t read it, their Instagram post got a lot more traffic than the article did (:

leiley :

god forbid the world is just bloodthirsty for truly good queer rep

e w :

Heated Rivalry took the spot of like.. 10 of my favorite comfort romance movies/shows. It’s just THAT good

In A China Shoppe :

Jennifer B. :

It also crosses the line between actor and character. In Heated Rivalry, two queer characters kiss!! The actors are separate people with their own realities. No one is doing this with other jobs. We don’t site Grey’s Anatomy and then say “here are 5 celebs we want to see perform surgery!”this shit is WEIRD.

savannah_sommerr :

SPEAK ON IT MAMA!!! All of this YUPP. This is why I love and respect you sm!

Becky N :

Preach!!!!!

h 🍉 :

citing it as the reason heated rivalry blew up when Connor, at the very least, is as openly gay as you can be without wearing a sign is just fucking crazy

carla :

Lola ✨️ :

men talk abt straight women like this all the time 😂

Travis✗topher ☠ :

It's Gentleman's Quarterly... it's straight men writing about straight men lol

dottidgtz5o :

It’s extremely reductive and lazy!

Tessa Kurtz :

Thank you for this 👏👏👏