Bacon, Germaine star in Queer slasher flick
NBC News reported July 22 on They/Them (pronounced "they-slash-them"), a thriller film starring Kevin Bacon and Nonbinary actor Theo Germaine, which is set to air on the streaming platform Peacock on August 5. In the film, Kevin Bacon's character runs a conversion therapy camp for Queer teens; meanwhile, a masked killer stalks the campers.

Theo Germaine's character, a Trans, Nonbinary teen named Jordan, works with the other campers to stay alive and find out the truth about the camp's past. Germaine told Entertainment Weekly that his character Jordan doesn't "have a very positive relationship with their family, and they're out, and they're like, this is who I am."

"They want to legally emancipate themselves, and they make a deal with their parents," Germaine went on, "which is that they go to this conversion camp for a week, and if it doesn't work, their parents will get out of the way and make it easy for them to separate."

Of Bacon's character, Germaine said, "I think he represents the way that conversion therapy conditions you and tricks you and breaks your defenses down in order to try and get through to you to change who you are. He's kind of the embodiment of that idea in this film."

They/Them will be screenwriter John Logan's debut as a director. "I've loved horror movies as long as I can remember, I think because monsters represent 'the other' and as a gay kid I felt a powerful sense of kinship with those characters who were different, outlawed, or forbidden," he said. "I wanted to make a movie that celebrates Queerness, with characters that I never saw when I was growing up."

Congressman attends son's gay wedding, votes against gay marriage
NBC News reported on July 25 that Republican representative Glenn Thompson of Pennsylvania attended his gay son's wedding just three days after voting against a House bill that would codify legal protections for same-sex marriage.

Thompson's press secretary, Maddison Stone, and his son confirmed the congressman's attendance.

"Congressman and Mrs. Thomas were thrilled to attend and celebrate their son's marriage on Friday night as he began this new chapter in his life," Stone said in an email. She added that they were "very happy" to accept their new son-in-law "into their family."

In an email to Centre Daily, a local newspaper, Stone wrote that the Respect for Marriage Act was "nothing more than an election-year messaging stunt for the Democrats in Congress who have failed to address historic inflation and out of control prices at gas pumps and grocery stores."

The act is now being considered by the Senate. NBC added that 71% of Americans and a majority of Republicans support same-sex marriage, according to a July Gallup poll.