Remains of the Day (10/31)

Foxwoods: Jennie and Tori took my advice and are taking this show on the road

Instagram: Alessandro Cavagnola models low-slung black Speedo

The Hill: Michelle Obama: "I can't make people not afraid of black people"

Express: Sophia Loren, 85, dazzles as she accepts lifetime achievement award (presented by son Carlo)

Back2Stonewall: Happy HOMOween! The Haunted Gay Carpe Diem Guesthouse in Provincetown

Towleroad: Another gay Republican sells his soul for notoriety ... and I actually know this one

Rolling Stone: Obama calls out online call-out culture: "That’s not activism"

Instagram: Steve Grand in a black Speedo at the Hotel Riviera Maya

Tennis: Federer withdraws from inaugural (and unnecessary) ATP Cup citing family needs

The WoW Report: Andy Warhol’s trans/drag series “Ladies & Gentlemen” featured at the Tate in London

Newsweek: ICE allegedly detaining LGBT asylum seeker in defiance of court ruling

Boy Culture: Terry Miller in pink animal-print briefs

Baseline: Alexander Zverev looking adorable answering questions and singing "We Are the World"(!)

Dlisted: A lot more than you would ever want to know about Suzanne Somers

Eater: Eat your foie gras now, New Yorkers

Greg in Hollywood: Pro golfer Tadd Fujikawa: “Many gays are femme-phobic when it comes to dating and sex”

Metrosource: This is how Mare Winningham surprised Café Carlyle

Intelligencer: Is there a good solution to the Uber crunch at airports?

ORANGUTAN ADOPTS THREE TIGER BABIES pic.twitter.com/uqVNMCaMjc

— Sha (@sha_ji1) October 20, 2019

Hot Cat of the Days: Looks like Mom's got her hands full!

Thursday Ad Watch

Ken is also a bearded cat freak. Now if I could also just look like a Hemsworth! 

Happy Halloween!

Hope you have a starry night.

Song of the Day: 'The Boys Are Back in Town' by Thin LIzzy

Thought of this great single by Thin Lizzy -- who were just nominated to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame -- after reading Anatomy of a Song in The Wall Street Journal. The 1976 hit, inspired by a tough character called Johnny, brought the struggling Irish band new life. Read HERE.

Page 1 Roundup (10/31)

The Daily News: Chicken salad surprise: NYC shelter served rotten chicken salad, sickening at least six people

Deadspin staffers quit en masse after interim editor fired by "stick to sports" bosses

KIT212: Tim Teblow's tits in a tight blue shirt

Washington Blade: Trump anti-LGBT judicial nominee cries over accusation he’s anti-LGBT

Towleroad: New ‘Politico/Morning Consult’ poll asks if voters and Americans are ready for a gay president

Intelligencer: Is it curtains for Kamala Harris?

Time 24: Son of new president of Argentina is very successful as drag queen

Gr8er Days: Harry Hamlin fleshback

ICYMI: I was a teenage scream queen

NPR: National Security Council official set to testify in impeachment inquiry is leaving his post

 Trump aide George Papadopoulos, who sparked and went to jail in Mueller probe, to run for Katie Hill’s House seat

New York Post: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is proudly un-American

Page Six: Carrie Fisher sent Marcia Clark flowers during the O.J. Simpson trial

The Randy Report: Twitter to ban all political ads -- are you reading, f**king Jesse Eisenberg?

The Washington Post: White House lawyer moved transcript of Trump call to classified server after Ukraine adviser raised alarms

An ad smeared a Kansas Democrat for sexual harassment. The main charge actually described a Republican.

After 95 years, D.C. is baseball’s capital again after 6-2 win vs. Astros

ICYMI: Stephen Strasburg's ass wins MVP

An ‘extreme’ haunted house requires a 40-page waiver. Critics say it’s a torture chamber.

The New York Times: John Bolton is summoned to testify in Trump impeachment inquiry

Farhad Manjoo: It’s the end of California as we know it  

The Wall Street Journal: Trick or Treat on Halloween? Horrifying.

Victim’s family sues accused El Paso shooter, his family and 8chan

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Stee anything you like?

Remains of the Day (10/30)

Cutting News: How many times should the barber’s cock touch your elbow?

Los Angeles Times: House overwhelmingly approves resolution recognizing Armenian genocide

Instagram: Steve Grand's ass in a black Speedo

Dlisted: Kevin Spacey is off the hook for allegedly assaulting a massage therapist who died before the trial

Architectural Digest: Greg Brady sells oceanfront Malibu home for $5.82 million

The New York Times: Folsom Europe, a five-day festival of concerts and street parties, celebrates gay life, the leather scene and hard-won freedoms in Berlin.

St. Martin's Press: "Insightful...a whirlwind tale spanning eight decades studded with glamour, bravado, and desire set against the backdrop of Greenwich Village and the Hamptons."

Greg in Hollywood: Ricky Martin and Jean Yosef introduce their newborn son Renn Martin-Yosef to the world

Baseline: It's been quite a year for Matteo Berrettini

Gothamist: The most impressive Halloween house in Brooklyn is extra spooky this year

Metro Weekly: Apple CEO Tim Cook: Being gay is "not a limitation, it’s God’s greatest gift"

Back2Stonewall: 16 LGBT activists released in Uganda, condemn police conduct and anal exams

EaterNY: And to think, Peter Luger was the reason I first set foot in Brooklyn

Politico: Kyrsten Sinema. Arizona's first Democratic senator in ages, is threatening party unity at a crucial moment. She doesn't care.

Instagram: When really bad tattoos happen to really hot men

Towleroad: Strapping saxophonists successfully destroy street preacher’s homophobic vibe

CBS News: Rising seas will erase more cities by 2050, new research shows

NewNowNext: The “Call Me by Your Name” sequel is finally here -- but it may not be the one you wanted

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Hot Cat of the Day: Simmer down, Beavis.

Wrestle Wednesday

Even better IN MOTION.

Song of the Day: 'Everything Goes My Way' by Metronomy

Heard this playing when I stepped into West Elm with a friend yesterday. Was so proud of myself for liking a new artist -- only to find out this is from 2011 and has nearly 9 million views on YouTube!

Page 1 Roundup (10/30)

The Daily News: Yet another reason to avoid parochial schools

LaGuardia Airport’s new $3.9 billion concourse opens to fanfare, part of $8 billion revamp

Instagram: An Ass Wednesday you shouldn't view at work, unless you work at a bath house

USA Today: Yes, demonstrating a grasp of Spanish grammatical endings is right up there with separating children from their parents and putting them in cages

Facebook doesn't have to run paid ads peddling politicians' lies

KIT212: Pitcher Stephen Strasburg's ass was the star of last night's Nats-Astros game

Towleroad: Gay students thrown out of frat party, threatened: ‘You don’t belong here faggot. I’m going to beat the life out of you’

Woman who survived horrific 2012 execution-style shooting in which girlfriend was killed appears on ‘The View’

New York Post: Families confront Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg on Capitol Hill with photos of 737 MAX crash victims

Massachusetts high school teacher swapped nude photo with teen student: authorities

Newsroom shooting suspect Jarrod Ramos pleads guilty to murder

Katie Hill’s alleged male lover says their ‘lives are ruined’ following resignation

The Washington Post: Two volatile meetings at the White House have become central to the impeachment inquiry

Dread in northern Syria as U.S. troops withdraw and cease-fire ends



The New York Times: Account of Trump’s Ukraine call omitted key details, official testifies

Thomas Friedman: Not in the Cold War, not during Vietnam, not during Watergate did I ever fear more for my country.

The Wall Street Journal: U.K. Parliament authorizes December general election

Elizabeth Warren is proposing tighter restrictions on the revolving door between government and big business as part of her overall anticorruption platform

Chateau viking: Climate change makes northern wine a reality

Morning Wood

Remains of the Day (10/29)

People: Tom Hanks presents honor to Geena Davis at Governors Awards

The Daily News: Elton John returns to stage for marathon concert in Nashville after saying he was "extremely unwell" over weekend

Dlisted: Open post hosted by Kurt Cobain’s $334,000 cardigan

NewNowNext: How Prohibition helped launch America’s first great drag explosion

Gothamist: Happy 115th anniversary to the NYC subway, you barely look a day over 100

NBC News: Grandfather of toddler who fell out cruise ship window charged with manslaughter

The New York Times: You can get just about anything at an American diner. This illustrated history has some insights into why.

The Wow Report: Watch Now: Dami and Janet’s terrifying Halloween crafts

Bloomberg: Trump has never met a strongman to whom he wouldn't kowtow

Towleroad: Are "Great British Bake Off" contestants Michael and Henry the show’s first sweet gay romance?

Dlisted: It's moments like these that I really wish I hadn't given up "Real Housewives" cold turkey

Back2Stonewall: Self-loathing “ex-gays” to lobby Congress against the Equality Act

WSJ: Department-store restaurants are back -- going to the one at Hudson's with my mom as a child was a real treat!

Washington Blade: Gay icons Megan Rapinoe, John Waters among new faces of Nike

The Randy Report: Musicians drown out street preacher’s hate speech

Instagram: Madonna and Cher in London and Los Angeles

WHO: Woman killed by explosion that was part of gender reveal announcement

Washington Post: An untouchable Rachel Maddow busts her bosses at NBC News

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Hot Cat of the Day: I'm the same way on the elliptical machine, little girl

Larry Kramer Says AIDS Is 'Worse Than Ever'

Larry Kramer is circulating a "renewed call to arms." But rather than making me want to put my activist boots back on, it has me wondering if at 84 the legendary writer and AIDS activist isn't beginning to suffer from dementia. He writes:

“WHERE ARE WE NOW? 

I think we are in a terrible place.

I think AIDS is worse than ever, we are told otherwise, and no one is facing the reality of this situation. I think gay people are being made victims by our entire government from the president on down through the entire political system.

The state of both gay and AIDS activism -- fighting back -- is in the toilet.

The organizations we have started and funded (with only a few exceptions like Broadway Cares and Lambda Legal) are weak and bordering on the useless.

All parts of the gay population‘s main activity is squabbling with each other. We are totally not united on anything.

The sex lives of gay men, with the arrival and availability of second-rate medicines, is rapidly returning to the behaviors that got us into trouble in the first place. Unprotected sex, sex parties, back rooms, on line searches for sex partners, have led to record-high numbers of all infectious diseases.

Meth has returned as a drug of choice, leading to addictions.

Long-term survivors of AIDS are treated like outcasts.

Gays seem incapable of angrily responding to any example of homophobia. We allow people in power to say hateful things about us. Few are the politicians who will fight out loud for us, particularly at this election time.

I do not see our bodies on the streets protesting in unison against every attack on us.

Please distribute this message to everyone you can.

Larry Kramer

My response:

--No, AIDS is not worse than ever. Earlier this month, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo declared that New York, once the epicenter of the epidemic, is on track to meet its goal to end the AIDS epidemic in the state by 2020. Did you forget you wrote the seminal play "The Normal Heart" in which everyone dies, which was based on real life?

--Protease inhibitors, pre-exposure prophylaxis and post-exposure prophylaxis are not second-rate drugs. They’re lifesavers and they’re preventing a new generation from going through the horrors ours did.

--Long-term survivors are beloved and more visible than ever. People are writing bestselling memoirs about living with HIV.

--PrEP is what we've been fighting for. Sex negativity was quasi-understandable when we didn't even know what was killing us. But now it smacks of just shaming people for the sake of shaming.

--LGBTQ people are fighting the Trump administration every step of the way

--Are you OK? Your brand of outrage helped get us where we are today. It’s time to take yes for an answer. 

Tennis Tuesday

I'm ready to play with either of these guys.

Song of the Day: 'Cold War Spy' by Josie Cotton

You can never have too much Josie Cotton. But it is a little perplexing that she's releasing new material at the same time her long-shelved followup to 1984's "From the Hip" finally came out -- an album that might just be her best ever. Here's the b-side from "Ukrainian Cowboy," her latest single that came out in August. 

Page 1 Roundup (10/29)

The Daily News: Out of coma, Brooklyn NYPD cop slugged with chair heads home to wave of supportive cops

 Rep. Katie Hill vowed to fight revenge porn so that women and girls would not be deterred from participating in public life.

Instagram: Ass-tastic

Back2Stonewall: When Republican Sen. Jesse Helms reminded us that we're "disgusting" 

NBC News: Officials cringe as Trump spills sensitive details of al-Baghdadi raid

Informant proved access to ISIS chief by stealing his underwear, Kurds say

Boy Culture: Legendary movie producer Robert Evans dies at 89

New York Post: Military dog wounded chasing al-Baghdadi is already back on the job

Doctor pleads guilty to sending 9,000 threatening texts to ex-Tinder date

The Washington Post: House to take first vote on impeachment inquiry of Trump, forcing lawmakers on record

She had ‘total control’ of her boyfriend, prosecutors say. Now she’s charged in his suicide.

State court blocks current House districts in North Carolina for 2020 elections

The New York Times: Army officer who heard Trump’s Ukraine call reported concerns

As Kurds tracked ISIS leader, Trump's decision to withdraw threw raid into turmoil 

The Wall Street Journal: Feel like you’re the only one at Whole Foods buying your own groceries? Possibly.

Employees ask Facebook to reverse policy on political-ad fact checking

Morning Wood

Remains of the Day (10/28)

Esquire: You've seen Jason Momoa rip out a man's tongue. now watch him cuddle this kitten 

Instagram: Giant man packed into dress shirt and chinos

PinkNews: Jeff Goldblum reveals how "cruel"’ dad forced his brother through traumatizing conversion therapy

Back2Stonewall: Gay Comcast executive files LGBT discrimination lawsuit against media giant

The Verge: Mark Zuckerberg is struggling to explain why Breitbart belongs on Facebook News

Instagram: Aaron Schock flaunts his body poolside

The New York Times: Justin Hartley of "This Is Us" meditates on his Rolexes

Greg in Hollywood: An “extremely unwell” Elton John forced to cancel concert in Indianapolis – reschedules for 2020

KIT212: Does James Tedesco have the hottest rugby ass ever?

Charlotte Observer: Former Sen. Kay Hagan dies at 66 

Instagram: "Three's Company" reunion in New Jersey

Gr8er Days: Marshall Cook fleshbeck

Dlisted: Jane Fonda accepted a BAFTA Award while being arrested

The WoW Report: Comic confronts Harvey Weinstein in her audience: ”I didn’t know we had to bring our own mace and rape whistles”

Towleroad: Lesbian elected mayor of Bogota, Colombia

Metrosource: “Jonathan Agassi Saved My Life”: This is the life of a gay porn star

The Guardian: Morrissey inches his way closer to becoming Donald Trump

HuffPost: Talk about a busy headline

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Hot Cat of the Day: He hit me (and it felt like a kiss)