Remains of the Day (09/09)

Mug Shot Hotties: I'd like to play with his pickle (or balls)

Gr8er Days: Ernest Harden Jr., 73, dedicated his first Emmy, for “The Pitt,” to his “White Mama” co-star Bette Davis, whom he still remembers with fondness and gratitude

The Caftan Chronicles: “Studly” Dudley Saunders, 64, is a hot-daddy L.A. homeowner and husband with a true artist’s soul

PinkNews: Two women sentenced to life without parole in upstate New York for heinous torture and killing of trans man Sam Nordquist

Wrestle Wednesday: Who's ready to see who comes out on top?

Town & Country: The secret friendship between Billie Jean King and "Peanuts" creator Charles Schulz

IndyStar: An Indiana prosecutor declined to file criminal charges against the woman who made a false child welfare complaint against former transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg, which resulted in his brief separation from his children

Attitude: Gay dads Adam Frisby and Jamie Corbett speak out after the U.K. government rejects immediate reform of the country’s surrogacy laws

Stolen Holiday: A fond look back at Joan Hickson, the actress many Agatha Christie fans still consider the definitive Miss Marple

Dallas Voice: Content LAB XXX turns up the heat with “The Big D Pride: Dallas Daddies Edition,” a Texas-sized celebration of muscle, daddy energy and Pride 

EW: Kathleen Turner must have felt like the belle of the ball

GCN: NYC gay bars see drop in alcohol sales as Americans cut back on drinking

NYP: I suppose it's commendable that queers can rally behind interests that don't directly benefit them, no matter how much egg they have on their (slaughtered) faces #queersforpalestine

Instinct: Gay OnlyFans creator Hunter Hardin dead at 30 in apparent suicide

The Randy Report: Grindr agrees to pay $35 million for sharing users’ HIV statuses

Hot Cat of the Day: Envious. Harvey refuses to fly, let alone internationally

Kelly's Acolyte: Matthew Rettenmund finally meets childhood obsession Jaclyn Smith, the first star he ever wrote a fan letter to (at age 7!), further proving we were born this way

Tennis Tuesday

 

More of "cheerful" model Jordan making himself at home on the court BELOW.

Weekend Tennis Roundup

We're down to the final eight men and eight women in New York. Full report from around the grounds and more -- including 6-foot-7 Maxime Cressey flying on the beach -- BELOW.

Sunday Comics

 

A cat or me?

Ill-Lustrous

As seen in the 1902 book Vaught's Practical Character Reader, a historical publication that used phrenology and physiognomy to claim that human personality traits can be determined by physical features like hair -- which admittedly can be divisive.

Gloria Steinem, Feminist Icon, Dies at 92

 

These "ends of an era" sure seem to be coming fast and furious(ly) these days.

There has never been a time in my life when this woman's name wasn't synonymous with equality and women's lib -- how many times did Archie Bunker invoke her in a fit of disgust? -- so this loss stings. We were lucky to have her, a true original about whom my former New York Times boss said: "I grew aware of my value as a woman before I was one, because of Gloria Steinem and people like her. She showed us what we could do if we insisted. I'm grateful."

My pal Tim Murphy shared a sweet story about a brief encounter with the Ms. Magazine legend, which I think you will also enjoy as much as I did.

May she rest in power.

He writes:

In 2016, I was a reader at the book festival Sean Strub started in Milford PA when he was mayor there. The festival was centered at the hotel Sean owned at the time, and when I came down to the hotel dining room, there was Sean with a small table of people including Gloria Steinem, then 82, who was a marquee guest at the festival. So I ended up sitting next to her and telling her it was an honor to meet her. Then her friend said, "Gloria, your session starts in 5 minutes." Ms. Steinem said: "I've barely touched my omelette," so I -- who was starving and hadn't ordered food yet -- offered to eat it. She said, "Good -- my mother always said it's wrong to waste food."

That's a fun story but it doesn't convey how remarkable I thought she was. Particularly as a journalist all my life, I admired her especially for her smart, funny (and far more progressive/intersectional than her colleagues') columns for New York magazine in its earliest Nixon-era years. And as someone who has mainly been an HIV/AIDS and LGBTQ advocacy journalist my whole life, I always admired how Ms. did muscular advocacy journalism in such a fun and compelling package. Certainly it paved the way for many such future mags including POZ, which Sean started. 

I hope that, in her final days and hours, Ms. Steinem was suffused with a strong sense of the remarkable, courageous, moral, well-lived life that she lived.