Page 1 Roundup (12/21)

The Daily News: Unless fully vaccinated people are suddenly getting hospitalized, is there really a need for mass hysteria over Omicron?

Pride: Straight actors playing gay characters used to be applauded. Now they're just shit on -- ask Darren Criss

Just Jared: Leslie Jordan explains why he thought Max Greenfield was gay when they first met

MetroWeekly: U.S. Senate approves gay man as ambassador to Cameroon, where homosexuality is criminalized

Boy Culture: Only click if you like hairy men in banana hammocks

ABJ: 6-foot-7, 275-pound defensive end Carl Nassib, first active gay NFL player, returns to play his former team in Cleveland 

Irish Times: Presbyterian Church threat over gay man sparks outrage

Back2Stonewall: Listen to the full audio of the 1949 radio broadcast of 'Christmas Eve With Joan Crawford'

Record Herald: Gay life in small-town Pennsylvania has improved, but fear persists at times

GCN: U.K. Supreme Court rejects “X” gender marker on passport

New York Post: 'Sex and the City' stars issue statement supportive of Chris Noth's accusers, but a million bucks says they're rolling their eyes in private 

 Inside the most outrageous Airbnb listings just in time for the holidays

The Randy Report: First long-acting injectable PrEP approved by FDA

Metrosource: The full-frontal majesty of ‘Primary’

Brooklyn Vegan: Watch Bjork in the trailer for Robert Eggers’s ‘The Northman,’ her first film since ‘Dancer in the Dark’

The New York Times: Naples, a city of contradictions, is once again a home for cinema

Broadway shows “Hadestown,” “Aladdin,” “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” and more temporarily shut down amid a surge in coronavirus cases. “Jagged Little Pill” is closing for good.

The Wall Street Journal: Christie’s sells $7.1 billion in art, the highest in five years

Himalayan glaciers are melting at furious rate, new study shows

 Think Santa is busy? Ham sniffers are pushing their noses to the limit

Hot Cat of the Day: And I thought Harvey resembled a stuffed animal!