Remains of the Day (03/31)

Poz: Irish documentary explores HIV stigma and fear

Die Alone With Me: The trials of Man Solo: It's a puzzlement!

NY Magazine: The meltdown of a gay bank: What went wrong when an LGBT start-up set out to disrupt finance

HuffPost: Biden celebrates Transgender Day of Visibility, calls out hateful 'MAGA extremists'

Susan V. Meyers: I wanted to get pregnant with my gay friend's sperm, but had no idea of the fight we were in for

TV Insider: Eric McCormack and Steven Weber launch podcast: Find out who’s joining them

Gayety: 18 ’90s heartthrobs every closeted gay boy secretly loved

Medical XPress: Gay, lesbian, bisexual preteens spend four more hours on screens daily, finds study

Back2Stonewall: When Coretta Scott King advocated for gay rights

Boy Culture: Highlights from last night's GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles

HotSpots: Jason T. Gaffney’s new series on Dekkoo, 'Marriage of Convenience,' is a family affair

BosGuy: Who's ready to catch up on Furry Friday?

MetroWeekly: Alabama school district settles with family of bullied gay student who killed himself

Pride: Amazon is turning black gay novel 'Boys Come First' into a series

Matthew's Island: Black Speedo alert HERE and HERE!

Hot Cat of the Day: I've never met a kitty who would go along with this, but I'm glad the World Wide Web is around to educate me!

On the Rag, Vol. 753

A weekly look at what's making news in the gay magazines:

HotSpots: Sandra Bernhard talks hosting the VIP beach affair at Miami Beach Pride 2023

Follow cover man Bar Mizi HERE.

Grab: Palm Springs getaway

Between the Lines: The complete timeline of LGBT civil rights expansion in Michigan, 50 years in the making

DNA: Russian model and personal trainer Konstantin Kostyn finds himself living on the Indonesian island of Bali while Russia’s war against Ukraine drags on

Out: Billy Porter talks importance of representation and big return to music

Poz: A new generation is using TikTok to promote sexual health

Adelante: Andrew Velazquez on fire

Gay Times: Sasha Colby says 'Drag Race' needed someone like her

Dallas Voice: And the winner is …Nando Moreno

Got That Rite

 

Although I am fortunate to make a living wage in a two-income household, I still cannot believe how much more expensive CVS and Duane Reade stores are than Rite Aid. (My loyalty status gave me 20% off everything in the joint!) The one by me closed last year in some merger bullshit as did the one by my ex-workwife, who knows me so well. I honestly don't understand how most people live in this city.

Page 1 Roundup (03/31)

Daily  News: Trump indicted by grand jury in Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s ‘hush money’ probe; surrender expected Tuesday

New York Post: Donald Trump indicted in Stormy Daniels hush money probe by Manhattan grand jury

The New York Times: Donald Trump is indicted in New York

 A president faces prosecution, and a democracy is tested

At Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s camp is caught off guard

The Wall Street Journal: Grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump

Trump hush-money case will likely hinge on evidence of coverup

The Washington Post: Trump indicted by N.Y. grand jury, first ex-president charged with crime

The porn star, the checks and the president: Trump’s tawdry path to peril

Trump indictment follows 50 years of investigation on many fronts

Queens Daily Eagle: Queens man inndicted

Remains of the Day (03/30)

The Guardian: Wearing gayness on their sleeves’: 60 years of LGBT T-shirts

CNN: A secret deal between Justices John Roberts and Anthony Kennedy on gay rights and what it means today

Socialite Life: 6-foot-2 Ethan Vaughan in the male model spotlight 

Back2Stonewall: Elon 'The King of Free Speech' Musk's Twitter deletes thousands of tweets about planned trans-rights protest

Fortune: Roddick, Agassi, McEnroe, Chang are all selling their souls to pickle ball

Queerty: The true story of the 'Grey Gardens' gay handyman is being turned into a movie, based on a book published by the same man who edited my memoir!

The Real Deal: Flatiron Building auction winner fails to pay $19 million deposit

She's the Femme: Recently retired tennis player Carla Suarez Nava announces she's pregnant with twins

WSJ: A $140,000-a-month apartment lets you live like a rich New Yorker -- for 30 days at a time, at least 

WaPo: Cats save lives ... and so do dogs ... when they're not mauling people

Various: Martina Navratilova was blacklisted for saying there needs to be more than just self-ID for trans women to compete in elite sports -- and now someone is hilariously driving the point home ... to the dismay of a champion trans(!) power-lifter in Alberta. BTW: No one is saying average trans people are "obsessed" with sports -- that's what rightwing lunatics do, blow issues that affect very few out of proportion. But by not getting AHEAD of this, activists hurt all LGBT people by letting extremist views -- allowing someone with XY chromosomes who has taken zero measures to transition to compete in girls' sports -- help ignite a culture war, a war we were winning just a few years ago.

AP: Biden administration condemns Russia's bogus detention of Wall Street Journal reporter

Boy Culture: 21-year-old Carson Garrett is the twink of the moment

OMG Blog: Troye Sivan posts picture of his daily PrEP and Metamucil regimen, says the combo 'keeps him gay'

RN: Mothers with gay children beg Ugandan president not to sign anti-homosexuality bill into law

Hot Cat of the Day: When the photographer called him a pretty boy!

Indoorsy

I would totally buy one of these ... if I ever had the desire to spend time outside.

Related: Eight places to see art by Keith Haring in New York City

Postcard From Xmas 1988

Came across this impossibly great postcard my brother Bill sent me from London over the holidays back in 1988. (Yes, only in Britain would you find a postcard of Annabel Croft, who of course is now a television "presenter.” the U.K.'s most-ubiquitous profession.) 

The references to Kate Brasher, Shakin' Stevens, bootleg cassettes and young Madonna sure take me back, as does cat-sitting for Twinkie. I do occasionally come across old emails from friends and family, but never do they move me the way an old letter or card does. xo

Bill and the feline in question 

P.S. I happen to follow Croft on Twitter but haven't heard back about this find!

LGB Without T?

 

I'm not saying I'm on board with the so-called LGB Without the T sentiment that is currently trending on Twitter. But as someone who has edited a lot of business copy, I've learned that many companies that become too bloated do indeed blossom when they split in two, allowing them become more focused and better-equipped when they specialize in what they're doing. 

Of course, this will never go anywhere because it's mainly fueled by strange (read: ugly, name-calling) bedfellows I don't want anything to do with: No, the trans community is not "sexualizing children," "mutilating minors" or "betraying the gay community." 

Read why a transgender power-lifter wasn't too happy when a self-identified woman went up against her in Alberta HERE. 

But sexuality and gender identity are two entirely different things. And biology is real, which is why I find it baldly disingenuous that so many smart people who beg everyone to "believe in science" seem to say otherwise here. Ultimately, though, being a gay man or lesbian woman has nothing to do with people who are neither genders (or both) and/or people who desperately need medical intervention to be their authentic selves. So it's unfortunate that we can't get gender-diverse people the specialized medical and political allies they need, stat. 

Remains of the Day (03/29)

NYT: How John Owen Lowe turned trolling his father, Rob Lowe, into a Netflix series and a Men's Health cover

Wrestle Wednesday: Three men, three packed singlets

USA Today: How a Supreme Court case about a gay couple's wedding cake got caught up in Israeli judicial reform

Vancouver Sun: Dad killed outside Starbucks after allegedly asking attacker not to vape near his toddler ... in f**king Canada

Instagram: When my photographer friend Greg Endries paid homage to physique model enthusiast Bob Mizer (barely safe for work)

Queerty: Gay Twitter™ is obsessed with Gwyneth Paltrow’s ski crash trial and we hope Ryan Murphy is taking notes

Dazed: Remembering Paul O’Grady, the anarchic gay performer who infiltrated British television

BAR: Gay Castro hair stylist found dead in Grand Canyon, in suspected suicide

BBC: Gay Ugandan asks 'Where will I go?' as secret shelters under threat

Back2Stonewall: Puritan boys gone wild!

CJN: ‘Seinfeld,' 'Frasier’ and the gay-ish, Jew-ish 1990s: Phoebe Maltz Bovy on sitcom codes of yore

Greg in Hollywood: Sean Hayes talks with Stephen Colbert about his return to Broadway in 'Good Night, Oscar'

Dekkoo: The powerful gay drama 'The Last Match' celebrates its 10th anniversary this year 

Dlisted: Steffi Graf's bald husband is even more of a fool than we already knew

Gr8er Days: Legendary sex bomb Warren Beatty turns 86(!)

Hot Cat of the Day: Meet the fashionable feline NYPD cops rescued from the subway wrapped in a feather boa! She's up for adoption ... info HERE.

#Latergram From España

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 We got back from Spain earlier this month, but I'm only now getting around to putting together something on Instagram (Sigh.) While experiencing Hemingway's Madrid, the Aqueduct of Segovia, live Flamenco dancing in the Sacromonte caves of Granada and touring the 13th century Alhambra compound were all beyond spectacular, none of it compares with getting to spend time with my hubby and his sweet sisters, one of whom we are so thankful is in remission after successful cancer treatment. Life is sweet. xo

 

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Gentleman Took Polaroids

 

Was ripping my apartment apart looking for something last night and came across these Polaroids I don't even recall taking, circa 1988. That's me at my desk in my parents' house -- notice the tennis and bowling trophies on the top shelf -- I'd won the Turkey Tourney doubles crown with my friend who later turned on me because he was a closet case too -- as well as my vintage Paris poster (a gift from my French teacher) and Edward Hopper calendar. I'm not sure what the alcohol collection was -- notice it's not in the next photo. I'd guess it had something to do with a party I'd hosted, but our house had a wet bar to complement the conversation pit -- the peak of '70s chic! -- so it makes no sense why it'd be stored in my room. 

I was so cool I had my own (black & white!) television in my room -- that's gotta be a good 12 inches -- and notice the Blondie "Autoamerican" poster in the upper right, a remnant from before my room got an "adult" makeover! I also spot my Tennis, World Tennis, Vanity Fair and Interview magazine collections on the shelves.

And here we have my beloved Tweet. He -- a red-point Siamese -- was the smartest and chattiest little guy I've ever met. Not sure how I would have gotten through high school without him.

Ditto for my Arizona best friend, Greg, seen here in a B-52s “Whammy” tour T-shirt and his signature jorts! 

And lastly was my bed with a(n unframed) Monet "Palazzo da Mula, Venice" poster, freshly purchased at the National Gallery of Art during a trip to visit my mom's aunt and uncle in Potomac, Md. About five years later I would end up working there briefly after moving to Washington from Los Angeles in early '93 -- and 30 years after these photos I would finally get to Venezia, fulfilling one of my earliest travel dreams! 

At my desk in the East Wing (1993)

With Damian in Venice (2018) 

Remains of the Day (03/28)

NYP: How do I get invited on one of these Tom Brady weekends?

Ishaan Tharoor: The U.S. connection to Uganda’s ‘kill the gays’ bill

Yahoo Music: Wanna feel old? Dave Stewart has a grown daughter and she's not even a child he had with Siobhan Fahey

Boy Culture: Lee Pace's (birthday) suit

NYT: Isaac Fitzgerald’s 'Dirtbag, Massachusetts' is a memoir about male misbehavior and the struggle to make sense of oneself

The Wrap: Gun violence surpasses auto accidents as the No. 1 killer of children -- people are surviving school shootings only to be in other ones -- but 'both parties' are the problem

NYDN: The latest school shooting is horrific for a myriad of reasons, not the least of which because a friend of the assailant called 911 to report impending doom but was told to hang up and dial the non-emergency number where she sat on hold for nearly seven minutes

DailyMail: Take it with a grain of salt given the source, but DM is reporting that school shooter Audrey Hale was at odds with her devout Christian parents because they 'couldn't accept' she was gay and later transgender, refusing to let Hale -- who had recently adopted the name Aiden and used he/him pronouns -- dress as a man in their home

Dallas Voice: Madonna adds Nashville stop to world tour to celebrate gay community in wake of anti-LGBT laws

Petula Dvorak: This mom decided to tell the story of her trans son because she nearly lost him

 

TV Line: 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' poised to end with Season 12 at HBO?

AP: Adnan Syed’s conviction wisely reinstated by Maryland appellate court panel

OMG Blog: Shawn Mendes got his tits out to show off the burn he got after climbing the Pyramids in Mexico

WaPo: Georgetown house where JFK and Jackie lived as newlyweds hits the market

Gay City News: ACT UP, GLAAD target Simon & Schuster HQ over ‘AIDS denialism’ book

Hot Cat of the Day: Woman uses hookup apps to find her missing cat

Tru to a Fault

Over the weekend I watched Ebs Burnough's (Covid-interrupted) "The Capote Tapes" and can't stop thinking about it. Having grown up with virtually no gay role models, it was hard not to be fascinated by Truman Capote from the first time I laid eyes on him, if only in self-conscious horror that someone like him/me would have the audacity to actually live his life. (His talk-show visits and appearances in "Murder by Death" and "Annie Hall" all came before I'd ever read anything he'd written, as did my fawning over photos from his famed Black and White Ball at the Plaza Hotel!)

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