Rosanne Cash Dazzles in Tarrytown

We had a wonderful time last night up in Tarrytown with the incomparable Rosanne Cash, who along with hubby John Leventhal performed new and old material, plus an eclectic set of covers that included Woodie Guthrie’s “Deportee,” which reduced most of us to tears. What a performance!

It was the first time we got to spend a little time with her since she kindly performed “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly” for our wedding. They don’t make ‘em like this anymore. xo

Sign Language

 

Hair and makeup people are on their own ...

Remains of the Day (07/18)

Queerty: A steamy gay Belgian series offers something sorely missing on American TV right now

Foreign Affairs: The global threat to LGBTQ rights

The Advocate: Barack Obama explains why he thinks all men need LGBTQ people in their lives

Threads: Revisiting the time Chris O'Donnell stripped down to boxers and black socks to do a stupid human trick for David Letterman

Watermark: Orlando approves land buy, picks builder for Pulse memorial

Saturday 'Stache: Thick thighs save lives

NYT: How "gay" became an identity in art

GCN: Federal government restores $6.2 million in funding for LGBTQ nonprofits

Instinct: Luke MacFarlane gets sweaty and sexy in "Platonic" season 2

MetroWeekly: Church settles over exorcism performed on gay man

The Hill: LGBTQ advocates brace for Thursday closure of 988 lifeline service

KIT212: Tom Brady spotted on yacht in Saint Tropez

BBC: Rare backstage Blondie photos go on show in London

Greg in Hollywood: ABC News star James Longman wonders why he posed for pic with hunky star Chris Hemsworth: “I look like a child”

The Signorile Report: CBS cancels "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" weeks after the most-watched late-night host accused parent company Paramount of paying a "big fat bribe" to settle a lawsuit over  "60 Minutes" interview

Instinct: Hunky wrestler Anthony Bowens faces protesters with a kiss -- and zero fear

AP: Alan Bergman, Oscar-winning lyricist who co-wrote "The Way We Were," dies at 99

Speedo Sunday: Tom Daley dives into fashion with new swimwear collection

Hot Cat of the Day: 100% yes.

RIP: Connie Francis, whose songs dominated ’60s pop music, is dead at 87

Anchors a-gay! I started watching "Amy Bradley Is Missing" about the young woman who "vanished" off a family cruise and immediately remembered what I thought when it happened in 1998: "She's gay and jumped because her family didn’t exactly approve." Seems I may have been at least half right, although the article I linked to matter-of-factly calls her a lesbian in the headline but then doesn't mention it again. (There’s zero mention of her sexuality in the first episode, but I’m intrigued that my 27-year-old gaydar was apparently spot-on.) UPDATE: I finished the other two episodes and we do end up hearing from two women she dated, including one she’d hit a rough patch with. While the family truly believes Amy is out there somewhere the victim of human trafficking, it seems far more likely that she fell overboard. (Eyewitness accounts are notoriously inaccurate, no matter how convinced the sighter is.) My heart, of course, goes out to her loved ones.

X Offenders: Voters are so ill-informed that I truly believe they will lean right -- aka vote against their own interests -- over trivial stuff like THIS. See also: Denying biological sexes. What makes this so infuriating -- textbook unforced errors -- is that NOBODY WAS ASKING FOR EITHER. It's like two cisgender non-Hispanic white academics were sitting in a classroom one day and said: What would be ideal in our narrow erudite view -- completely clueless of the fact that it is very likely to annoy the general public and not even please a fraction of the principals. (My Latino husband thinks Latinx is completely moronic.) Keep it up and I guarantee we won't see another Democrat in the White House in my lifetime. The Electoral College alone has all but guaranteed that. P.S. For those who think my reasoning is the along the lines of "maybe if we didn't have drag queens and half-naked men in Pride parades people would like us better" you are dead wrong. Yes, people who hate LGBTQ people are going to hate us no matter what. But when you start trying to tell the general public how to live THEIR OWN LIVES -- say, a Mexican American with a wife and three kids who is being told not to call himself Latino, or hectoring 99.1% of people that they're not men or women, they're cisgender men and cisgender woman -- it really rubs a lot of them the wrong way. (I've witnessed it with my own generally Democratic parents.) I couldn't care less about cis and Latinx. But the polling data doesn't lie, and the right has brilliantly (aka sickeningly) turned these non-ballot-box concepts into top priorities for the electorate. PLEASE STOP before it's too late, which it may already be.

On the Rag, Vol. 866

 

This week's rag 'n' mag roundup features Josha Stradowski, Santino Benamati, Nick Floyd, Tucker Pillsbury, Jordan Tan and more BELOW.

Remains of the Day (07/16)

 

MetroWeekly: What gay porn your state watches most

The Advocate: Alabama transgender woman survives brutal D.C. beating

Queerty: In "Salt Water," a young man reunites with the priest who took his innocence

6 Feet: Paul Newman’s Fifth Avenue co-op sells for $4 million above asking price

The Randy Report: Rainbow Pride crosswalk in Delray Beach, Fla., vandalized yet again

Wrestle Wednesday: We have a wiener -- I mean winner!

TV Line: "Virgin River" adds "One Tree Hill" hunk Austin Nichols in season 7

Out: Emmy 2025 nominations: LGBTQ nominees to root for

Attitude: Jordan Firstman recalls brutally honest story about about sex with an ex: "That’s why I haven’t spoken to you since"

AM NY: Laverne Cox brings one-woman show "Gurrl, How Did I Get Here?" to NYC 

NA: LGBTQ-friendly Thailand chases lucrative rainbow economy

Greg in Hollywood: Feast your eyes on a shirtless Scott Foley

Small Talk: MTV is bringing back videos 24/7 for a day. Gen X has notes.

HuffPost: Chip Gaines hits back at critics of gay dads featured on new reality series

NYP: Indian tennis pro allegedly killed by father in jealous dispute over career

Queerty: His two dads

EW: Lyle Menendez called Cooper Koch from prison to congratulate him on his Emmy nomination

RIP: Poet Andrea Gibson, candid explorer of life, death and identity, dies at 49

Hot Cat of the Day: Harvey's sleeping single in a double bed

"Plainclothes" Set in 1990s Syracuse, a promising undercover cop assigned to lure and arrest gay men defies professional orders when he falls in love with a target.

Off-label use: I must admit I was tickled to see I'm not alone on this "queer identity" thing. Sure, finding out two other gay men of a certain age agree with me isn't exactly earth-shattering -- only one of us is an actual "boomer," but if the label fits. ... But I find the majority of people are willing to suppress their intellect slash ignore logic in order to keep up with the kiddie Joneses, so I appreciate a little candid talk when I hear it.

Tennis Tuesday

 

I've got good news and bad news here: Hunky student doctor of physical therapy Zach Ermert seems to have removed all his tennis videos from Instagram -- but I've got copious screenshots for you to feast your eyes on BELOW.