Page 1 Roundup (12/24)

The Daily News: NYC’s Times Square New Year’s Eve bash still on, but de Blasio mandates masks and sets capacity at 15K amid omicron surge

BTL: Gay sex after 50: Researcher on a mission to normalize, promote sex at all ages

Outsports: Gay Brazilian Olympic diver dies of lung infection at 32

The Advocate: God, I wish I had these Chechnya brothers' will power

The Arizona Republic: If someone has a login for this story about the Nu Towne Saloon in Phoenix, a college hangout of mine, please send me this article (I already subscribe to four newspapers!)

New York Post: Scarlett Johansson drops price on NYC penthouse after year on the market

Radio Free Europe: The worrying regression of gay rights in Eastern Europe

Independent: 58-year-old screenwriter/producer Russell T Davies says he’s been on Grindr for years but never actually met anyone

GCN: New LGBT films to watch in January

Boy Culture: Ricky Martin sprawled out in a bathtub 

The New York Times: Joan Didion, writer who explored culture and chaos, dies at 87; Question: Am I the only one who thought 'The Year of Magical Thinking' should have been a magazine article and 'Blue Nights" should have been her magnum opus?

A former Boston College student who sent her boyfriend tens of thousands of frenzied text messages, some telling him to “go kill yourself,” before he jumped to his death, received a suspended sentence and probation after pleading guilty on Thursday to involuntary manslaughter.

Frank Bruni: My gay retort to all the grimness

The Wall Street Journal: How the Carpenters’ 1970s Christmas song became an ageless hit

Do they know it’s Christmastime in Saudi Arabia? Increasingly, yes

Hot Cat of the Day: 'I thought I heard a meow.'