Glam, girls

or a luscious frozen margarita and be dazzled. And just like that, your stress level dropped, right?

A good morning ABC’s “Good Morning America” celebrated Pride Month with a live, surprise marriage proposal during the June 23 broadcast. “GMA” helped Gen Agosto propose to her partner, Ari Lopez, who thought she was on the show to participate in a quiz game for couples.

Agosto said she was “slightly” nervous, but guessed, “She’s going to start crying, and then I’m going to start crying, and then we’re all going to start crying…”

by Victoria A. Brownworth

As Pride moves seamlessly into the Independence Day holiday and a coup is quelled in Russia, we’re looking for uplift as the days get hotter and the politics get more dicey. But we can also take a breath and relax with some queer TV.

‘Sex and the City’ sequel Season 2 of “And Just Like That...” the sequel to the HBO series “Sex and the City” is back, baby. If you needed the hot middle-aged women of summer to make you feel grounded, here they are, this time with a much hyped cameo ap pearance from Kim Cattrall’s Samantha. People pronounced the new season “Sexy, daring and sizzling.”

“You don’t move on because you’re ready to, you move on because you’ve outgrown who you used to be.” So says Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) and we are catapulted back to our ’90s youth and our middle-aged present. It’s not terrible to feel all those things at once. Life comes at you hard between one’s 30s and one’s 50s and this series addresses that to varying degrees.

You’ll get to see Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) exploring her queer side we just knew she always had with Che (Sara Ramirez, whom we’ve loved since “Grey’s Anatomy”), who this time is less cipher than in season 1. And Charlotte (Kristin Davis) is a deeply invested helicopter mom. Sarita Choudhury’s Seema Patel is a terrific addition, making the case for menopausal sex. Nicole Ari Parker as Lisa Todd Wexley is fabulous. And a lot more. It’s not deep, it’s not heavy. It’s just as much as we can bear with 2024 bleating all around us.

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“It’s mad fun to create this kind of theater,” Moore said. “Mainly because I think it affords our actors/clowns license to be emotional acrobats while being wonderfully, wackily physical. This form is rooted in the craft of clowning while employing a traditional theater narrative that’s sprinkled with some really cool and interesting filmed elements and visual effects.”

The filmed elements come in the form of Sharon Gless, the actress best known for her long TV runs on “Cagney & Lacey” and the LGBT serial drama “Queer as Folk.” Gless play’s Moore’s therapist as an outrageously inappropriate character. Moore and Gless found each other because Gless is close friends with Moore’s co-producer Debbie Mosk. Gless wanted to be part of the project but was unable to do the run of the show due to other commitments. So Moore came up with the idea of filming Gless on video, which was done in 2019. Gless will appear during the show via faux Zoom.

“And as we all know she’s a fantastic actor and a pro on camera, so we have a great performance from her,” Moore said. “The trick for me is to get the timing right when responding to her because I’m live and she’s on video, so she just keeps going. I can’t miss any lines.”

But if you don’t expect too much, you will have a good time with some old friends you reconnected with at the Pride march.

“And Just Like That...” is about how we craft new beginnings, next chapters, finding joy when it feels like none exists. And all with these people we know so well they feel like old friends. It’s streaming now on whatever we’re calling HBO these days.

Make-up to break up

Did you want to see “The Devil Wears Prada” meets “Ugly Betty” meets “The Bold Type” as a queer series starring Kim Cattrall and a young gender nonconforming queer person?

Yes you did, kids. You just didn’t know it until you tuned in to Netflix’s “Glamorous.”

It’s everything you imagined it could/would be: fun, arch, painful, catty, queer, delightful. Yes, “Glamorous” brings joy and we need as much of that as we can find this summer.

Marco Mejia (Ben J. Pierce, YouTube breakout star Miss Benny) is an aspiring influencer who has to get a real job. Rather than get stuck in cubicle world, Marco looks for a better life at the make-up counter and ends up landing a job working for legendary makeup mogul Madolyn Addison (Kim Cattrall). From there Marco tries to revolutionize the fashion industry. Hilarity, romance and more ensue.

And yes, it’s as queer as that proverbial $3 bill we always heard about growing up, with Zane Phillips as Madolyn’s hunky son Chad, and Michael Hsu Rosen as the nerdy-but-nice Ben for a love triangle. Add out queer actor Ayesha Harris (“The L Word: Generation Q”), and Jade Payton and some fun queer cameos from Joel Kim Booster and drag star Monét X Change.

There are a lot of intersecting queer and trans storylines, which makes the series feel very fresh and Gen Z. Miss Benny is a delight and Cattrall is just fabulous.

Not for nothing, Netflix dropped all 10 episodes of “Glamorous” as HBO/

MAX dropped “And Just Like That...” so there’s definitely some shade somewhere. Bask in it, delight in it, watch both shows with a really dirty martini

Lopez said, “I’m just surprised, honestly…” adding “This is fabulous!”

We love a love story! Watch at www. goodmorningamerica.comt

Moore hopes that “Atomic Comic” will be seen as a queer show first and foremost.

“I’d love to have this production and future productions benefit LGBTQ teens and trans teens in particular, because I myself am non-binary and the show is all about resilience and humor as therapy,” they said. “I hope too that it can have some measure of universal appeal because it’s about overcoming trouble with humor and friendships. This is a blisteringly funny show but also a heartfelt trip into the tunnel of love. It’s 70 to 80 minutes of fun, high sensory theater that will give you an emotional workout and leave you smiling. Oh, and please support your local queer clowns.”t

‘Atomic Comic: A Human Cartoon Fantasia,’ June 30, July 1, July 6-8, $20-$55, Z Space, 450 Florida St. www.zspace.org

Read the full interview on www.ebar.com.

SF Pride

Photos by Steven Underhill

San Francisco’s annual LGBTQ Pride parade and Civic Center celebrations on June 25 also included a VIP party at the Asian Art Museum, and other festivities.

See plenty more photos on BARtab’s Facebook page, facebook.com/lgbtsf.nightlife. See more of Steven Underhill’s photos at StevenUnderhill.com.