Heated Rivalry star wins Best TV Performance as show named Best TV Drama at Queerties
Heated Rivalry picks up two Queerties Award wins. (Sabrina Lantos/HBO Max)
Heated Rivalry continues its awards run, winning Best TV Drama at the LGBTQ Queerties Awards while star François Arnaud won Best TV Performance.
On Tuesday (10 March), the 14th annual LGBTQ Queerties Awards also honoured Jonathan Bailey, Lady Gaga and Cynthia Erivo.
After winning the Outstanding New TV Series award at the 2026 GLAAD Awards just last week, Heated Rivalry now adds a Queertie to its trophy cabinet.
The steamy queer ice hockey drama follows lya Rozanov (Connor Storrie) and Shane Hollander (Hudson Williams). The pair are rivals on the ice but secret lovers in private. Alongside their burgeoning enemies-to-lovers story, the show also spotlights the subplot of Kip Grady (Robbie GK) and Scott Hunter (Arnaud).
Episode three focuses on smoothie king Kip and hockey player Scott as the pair negotiate their relationship away from the spotlight.
Arnaud was not there in person but appeared in a pre-recorded acceptance speech. “This really means a lot to me,” Arnaud began.
“I think probably the most important and political thing that we can do right now is just unapologetically be.”
‘I want to share this with my scene partner Robbie GK.’
“I want to share this with my scene partner Robbie GK, because whatever I did in there, we did it together. This is for you, buddy.”
Also at the awards, Bailey received the Badass award, considered the ceremony’s top honour.
Gaga’s “Abracadabra” was named best anthem. Meanwhile, Erivo nabbed two awards, Film Performance for her work in Wicked: For Good and the Read award for her memoir Simply More.
Furthermore, Margaret Cho won the Icon Award, Megan Stalter nabbed the Vanguard Award and Mae Martin won the Groundbreaker Award.
KATSEYE also won the Breakout Musical Artist. The award comes after singer Manon Bannerman took a hiatus from the girl group.
The Queerties Awards were hosted by Trixie Mattel and will stream on WOW Presents Plus from March 19.
As the Queerties proved, the hyped around Heated Rivalry isn’t even close to slowing down. Season two, which will adapt Rachel Reid’s sixth novel, The Long Game, in her Game Changers book series, is set to film this summer, with a 2027 release date.
The book picks up with Shane and Ilya’s romance ten years on from the Heated Rivalry novel, with the pair still together but still publicly closeted.
