Dan Clarendon

Reis’ success on the court has coincided with his coming out. Late last year, he went Instagram official with his boyfriend, Brazilian actor Guilherme Ricardo. Reis posted a brief birthday message and declaration of love. “Feliz aniversário,” he wrote. “Feliz vida. Te amo muito.” (Translation: “Happy birthday. Happy life. I love you very much.”) Those seven words made Reis the first player to ever publicly come out on the men’s ATP Tour.

Suffice it to say, CBS blindsided Hollywood and the viewing public last week when it announced the imminent end of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. The talk show had been a leader in its time slot, but CBS contended the cancellation was a matter of dollars and cents. The Late Show’s unexpected demise isn’t the first late-night shift to send shockwaves through the TV industry, though. See our selections for the biggest shake-ups in American late-night TV history.

By television standards, Rizzoli and Isles were atypical partners-in-crime-solving. From the jump, viewers suspected that the relationship between the lead characters wasn’t just professional. In a review of the pilot episode, The Washington Post critic Hank Stuever noted “faintly lesbian undertones” between the two lead characters. Those undertones, of course, became less faint as the show went on.

If you caught Bad Bunny performing “PERFuMITO NUEVO” in the Saturday Night Live Season 50 finale, you also witnessed him trading verses with RaiNao, three years after the King of Latin Trap jumpstarted her career with a social-media endorsement of her track “LUV” and an invitation to his Un Verano Sin Ti tour stage weeks later. And now, the San Juan-raised RaiNao seems destined to follow her countryman to reggaetón superstardom, and she’s repping queer femmes all the while.

The CBS newsmagazine 60 Minutes isn’t just television’s longest continually running primetime series — it has also been the top U.S. news program for more than 50 years and won more Emmy Awards than any other primetime series, as its network touts. That legacy is not without controversy, however. Many times in its five-plus-decade history, the program has gone from reporting the news to becoming the news. Here are our picks for the ten biggest 60 Minutes controversies…

The audience members who gave Conan O’Brien a standing ovation upon his appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last year — whom O’Brien then playfully chided for cutting into his 10 minutes on the late-night NBC talk show — likely remember that for a moment, the Tonight Show desk was his. That stint came to an end 15 years ago now as O’Brien lost the job to Jay Leno, his predecessor, after just seven months and fewer than 150 episodes.

While some people pined over Gladiator II actors, a Reddit user gazed upon the sculpted visages of real-life Roman Empire figures. And in a recent post on the r/askgaybros forum, we have the results: a chart showing dozens of Roman emperors, ranked by the OP’s appraisal of their hotness.

Theoretical physicist Albert Einstein died in 1955, but the story of his brain has continued for years now, all because of one man who took the gray matter into his own hands and kept it for decades, even crossing state lines with the brain. What happened to Einstein’s brain? Believe it or not, it was the pathologist who conducted Einstein’s autopsy who just took the brain without permission, as detailed in last year’s documentary film The Man Who Stole Einstein’s Brain.

Hang out on Reddit long enough, and you’ll eventually see transphobic attitudes show up—explicitly and implicitly—in queer communities on the platform. And social media is, of course, a microcosm of a society which some think LGB equality is an acceptable substitute for LGBT equality. One Reddit user recently shed light on transphobia in the gay male population, saying that although he loves being gay and trans, his interactions with cis gay men “[have], by and large, been less than ideal.”

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.