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Friday, July 11, 2025

Remains of the Day (07/11)

THR: Yowza. Frankly, I think Tyler Perry showed remarkable restraint(!)

GCN: Report outlines New York state’s LGBTQ population and highlights disparities

IG: Sexbomb Jonathan demonstrates the Superman Chest workout

NBC News: Baylor University to return $643,000 LGBTQ-inclusion grant

Saturday 'Stache: Your English teacher returns in the fall looking like this

"Honey Don't": If a film featuring Aubrey Plaza, Chris Evans and Billy Eichner doesn't get me into the theater, nothing will!

Threads: Peter Onorati dump truck on “Kate & Allie”

Greg in Hollywood: Handsome Greg Rikaart gets Outstanding Lead actor in a Drama Series Daytime Emmy nod for “Days of Our Lives”

Out: Remembering Jewel Thais-Williams, activist and owner of iconic Los Angeles nightclub

Instinct: Cheyenne Jackson is bringing the heat and the briefs to Fire Island

Queerty: Matt Bomer (with hubby Simon Hall) and Ncuti Gatwa wow at Wimbledon in their finest Ralph Lauren

Boston: 3 facing charges after allegedly yelling homophobic slurs in Provincetown

Matthew's Island: Blue-collar beef

CNN: Websites serving Harvard undergrad women, minority and LGBTQ students taken down, Crimson reports

Speedo Sunday: Everything's bigger in Texas

Hot Cat of the Day: 4-month-old Johnny's first trip to the Golden Gate Bridge

Boystack: Remembering trailblazer Carleton Carpenter on his 99th

Encore! Encore! My pal Ellen Jovin's "Rebel With a Clause" is back at the New Plaza Cinema!

Thursday, July 10, 2025

On the Rag, Vol. 865

This week's rag 'n' mag roundup features Felipe Scalisa Oliveira, Luke Evans, Charlie Hunnam, David Corenswet and much more BELOW.

Wednesday, July 09, 2025

I mean, given how crazy the past 10 days have been at the All-England Club -- particularly on the women's side -- I must say we're pretty lucky to have these semifinals. Obviously I would love to see Novak Djokovic snuff out that homophobe Margaret Court's specious 24 majors co-record. But even if he does get past Sinner -- both of them are potentially not well -- the good news is I can live with his losing to Carlos again, who truly is a generational talent ... and adorable!

Here it's pretty much a win-win-win-win situation: Aryna should take home the trophy on Saturday, which would prevent her from potentially ending the year as a Slamless No. 1. I've always liked Belinda in a Madison Keys kind of way -- meaning that I've basically given up on her but would still be thrilled if she finally did it. (She's still only 28 because she was so young when she burst on the scene.) Anisimova is a brilliant player whose mind has always been her biggest weakness -- she’s constantly on the brink of tears -- so more power to her if she can put it all together. And Iga's been lost in the woods for over a year, so if she somehow won Wimbledon -- on her worst surface -- how could I complain?

Threeway Warning

Something you probably won't hear coming out of Jerri Blank's mouth.

Losing Proposition

I agree with Margaret Sullivan that the Gray Lady completely missed the boat with its non-GOTCHA story about Zohran Mamdani's Columbia University application.

But can someone tell me how we arrived at the place where Ben Ryan, the driving force behind the NYT piece, got labeled by anyone as a "right-wing freelancer" and a "major transphobe"? Ben was so destroyed by Clinton's loss in 2016 that he wound up in Bellevue, prompting the Daily Caller to gleefully make fun of him for it. (Wow, what a right-winger.) Later, Ben ripped me a new asshole for a comment I made online about Billy Porter's wearing a dress, which was intended to be pro genderqueer but was written tongue-in-cheek leading Ben to think I was being otherwise. (If anything, his overreaction shows that he's extremely sensitive to the gender plight.)

"Regardless of whether there will ever be any winners in the battle of the genders, I choose being kind over waging war," he wrote earlier this year, in a piece that fleshed out his unenviable position reporting on pediatric gender medicine, which led to his getting ripped a new asshole, largely by the left. His infraction? Not being pro-trans in the "right" way. (Spoiler: As a science journalist, he has a nagging belief in science, which used to be a big-D Democratic tenet.)

How depressing -- not to mention shockingly counterproductive -- that we have reached the point where everyone who doesn't agree with 100% of the most extreme orthodoxy is now instantly labeled "right-wing" or "anti-trans." At least when the right idiotically called all people they disagreed with "socialists" they were going after members of the OPPOSITE party. Look for Dems to continue losing national elections until this (and more) stops.

By the way: Am I the only one who remembers how well things were going -- a pro-trans NBA boycott! -- before these unforced errors opened the door for the right to turn this nonballot issue into the most important thing on the minds of low-information voters, aka the majority of the electorate?