Jan 7
Gay Twitter Roundup: Grindr Chats, Horny New Year's Resolutions, and 'Conclave' is 'Drag Race'
Andrea Marks Joseph READ TIME: 4 MIN.
Happy 2025! This "new year, new you" season comes with new ways to be horny, new gay outlooks on popular films, and new creative ways to be called gay.
We're cinefiles, we've tuned into Club Chalamet, we're horny for Murray Barlett, and we always enjoy Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper's drunk, gay New Year's Eve livestream.
This week "Conclave" is "Drag Race,"and "Drag Race" became "Squid Game." Grindr screenshots shared on X range from a successful pick-up line to a request to drink douche water. We've got really important gag-reflex-related information about the "Squid Game" salesman, someone's dog is in a toxic age-gap yaoi romance, and someone else's mom needs a gay joke explained.
Before we get into Gay Twitter's new year's resolutions and the films we've made even gayer than they were before, let's discuss how much Twitter enjoyed the annual Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper New Year's Eve festive tequila shot livestream. From gay mispronunciations ("embottom" as a sincere compliment hit the group chat immediately), to learning "how to blow a conch" (conveniently pronounced as a word a million times closer to "cock") and a bonus reference to "The Substance," here's what Twitter couldn't stop talking about on New Year's Eve:
