Heated Rivalry Melts All the Tuna

Move over RuPaul’s Drag Race! Straight women are now obsessing over a whole new TV show packed with competitive queens, only this time it’s hunky hockey players playing a little tonsil hockey off the ice.

Heated Rivalry, the sizzling new TV show based on Rachel Reid’s bestselling series about the secret gay romances of rival star hockey players, is scoring big with audiences. Like Brokeback Mountain, it’s got everyone thinking about how the puck slides into the net without lube.

The series has also sent the four lead actors’ careers skating into the spotlight, leaving fans drooling over every off-ice action in their real-life love lives. Looks like the ice isn’t the only thing getting slippery.

Today we take a look at the cultural impact of all the new queer TV shows streaming right now, including: Pluribus, Heated Rivalry, Stranger Things, Starfleet Academy, and, of course, RuPaul’s Drag Race.

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