Turning my attention to a non-menstruating queer group, the cast issues with now-defunct Queer Eye are back in the news.  The unemployed Karamo Brown finally spoke out, exclusively to People magazine (in return for a cover, no doubt).  As had been rumored, the final straw came when Brown’s mom was in the control room during a taping and heard several of his costars criticizing him (Van Ness, France and Porowski were in the conversation).  “The thing I know is the tears I saw in my mother’s eyes.  She kept repeating, ‘I thought they were your friends.’  It made me realize I can no longer stay silent about how often I was made to feel like an outsider.”  Karamo also reveals that a sexual harassment complaint was filed during the first days of the show when he was “fun and flirty” with a costar.  He claims the complaint came from a third party and was resolved (but insiders say that is not exactly what happened).  Karamo adds, “I think we all deserve a bit of grace for how we handled ourselves and one another.  We were just doing our best.  It may not have felt like that in the moment, but it’s very clear to me now.”

Some people work together and create real friendships.  Take Jonathan Groff and Daniel Radcliffe.  They got extremely close during their time on and off-Broadway in Merrily We Roll Along in 2023 and 2024 (which earned them each a Tony Award).  They both went on to do other Broadway projects (Groff in Just In Time and Radcliffe in Every Brilliant Thing).  But they are reuniting for a film project.  Radcliffe was already signed for Trust the Man, which is termed as a “Vietnam War thriller”.  And now, Groff has signed on to costar.