Gay Twitter Roundup: Grindr Chats, Horny New Year's Resolutions, and 'Conclave' is 'Drag Race'

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:

Whether your 2025 Resolutions and goals for the year to come are related to fitness, hotness, building a family, or your lifelong dreams for a fulfilling evening of DP, you can be assured that you're not alone. We wish you all the best with all your ambitions.

It was a great week for Grindr notifications: an offer to drink your douche water; an accusatory "did you enjoy my husband" text; a shockingly wholesome chat; and a clever workout-related pick-up line that worked for this guy, and would work on us.

Horniness is, of course, a priority for us all, and the sacred, unhinged app formerly known as Twitter always delivers on this. We've got a candid photo of Shawn Mendes' magnificent biceps out in the wild; a closeup of a tennis player in dripping wet, white shorts; lesbian rapper Cheechynaa and her over-18 fans have had an incredible time on stage as she's selected a few chosen people from the audience for a motor-boating experience they (and all of us who've seen the videos in the thread she posted) will never forget. One person says he'll risk it all for Murray Bartlett (relatable content); someone blessed us with a gif of Keke Palmer manspreading in "Nope," and someone's dog is caught up in a toxic yaoi age gap romance! What a time to be alive!

Gay Twitter's cinefiles know that "Queer Nosferatu" is not just a fun coincidence on the cinema marquee, but factually correct. We know and love that the cinema marquees often produce inspiring poetry with the collection of titles being screened, and we know that "Conclave" actually is "RuPaul's Drag Race." Just as clear, especially with the deleted scenes and commentary now released, is the lesbian narrative between the "Wicked" leads, Elphaba and Glinda. Also in this roundup, we reflect on ClubChalamet's best of 2024 films list, and the brilliance and insanity of "Riverdale."

If you'll be watching the new season of "Squid Game," please remember this important information:

Before we go, we present: A theory about Noah (of Biblical ark-building fame) being bisexual that feels immediately true, a Biblical selfie from Lorde (in the sky), and Cockroaches reimagined (yeah, you read that correctly).