Remains of the Day (02/28)

WSJ: What did Vanity say about "pretty messes"?

PinkNews: Gay cruise rescues refugees adrift in Gulf of Mexico 

The Caftan Chronicles: Fades, mullets, embracing gray: The owner of a cool gay(ish) Hell's Kitchen barbershop tells you everything about your hair

Press Gazette: Newspaper print circulation continues to plummet

The Randy Report: Hungarian government bans Budapest pride parade "in public" ... meanwhile, the U.S. has ordered the Pentagon to identify and fire transgender members of the military for no reason other than being trans

Saturday 'Stache: This must be what they mean by "the luck of the Irish"

Dekkoo: Are you ready to be in a "Throuple"? (NYC premiere info HERE)

The Miami Student: Catching up with Jesse Tyler Ferguson

UWS Rag: Did you know the late-great Roberta Flack was a longtime resident of the Dakota, who became particularly close to Yoko Ono after John Lennon's assassination outside the storied apartment building?

Gr8er Days: Introducing my husband to "Swingtown" (2008) has really driven home the fact that (birthday boy) Grant Show is one hot piece of ass

BuzzFeed: Kristin Davis's podcast has some fun dish about her "Sex and the City" experiences

Socialite Life: Sarah Michelle Gellar honors Buffy little sister Michelle Trachtenberg in emotional tribute

Stereogun: "Pretty Persuasion" gets us another R.E.M. reunion

OMG Blog!: Does it count as incest if it's your brother-in-law?

The Wrap: Of everyone from "The Office," I must say Oscar wasn't on my shortlist to star in a spinoff

Out: Gus Kenworthy talks threesomes, foursomes and public sex

BBC: Edward II: Did a gay love affair spark a 14th-Century royal crisis?

Speedo Sunday: I think we're gonna need a bigger swimsuit

Hot Cat of the Day: Excuse me while I monitor this adorable situation!

Record of the Month: It always tickles me to realize I'm not the only weirdo who still sits around thinking about bands like Lone Justice

17 the Hard Way: I'm being truthful when I say I'm looking forward to the documentary “Janis Ian – Breaking Silence,” which opens in theaters on March 28

First Splash: Revisiting Susan Seidelman's "She-Devil," which my hubby remembers making his "bathing-suit area" tingle as a 12-year-old the moment he laid eyes on Meryl Streep's houseboy played by A Martinez, who was in fact all man. 

Deaths of Gene Hackman, Wife Called 'Suspicious'

As the world tries to make sense of the mysterious death of Gene Hackman -- whose wife and dog were also found dead in their New Mexico home -- these spectacular photos from a 1972 Academy Awards party popped up on social media, bittersweet reminders of an era gone by. RIP, "Popeye."

From left: Ben Johnson (best supporting actor for "The Last Picture Show"), Gene Hackman (best actor for "The French Connection"), Cloris Leachman (best supporting actress for "The Last Picture Show") and Charlie Chaplin (Academy Honorary Award)

On the Rag, Vol. 848

This week's rag 'n' mag roundup features "White Lotus" heart-throb Patrick Schwarzenegger; YouTube sensation Ollie Muhl; David Beckham at 50; and much more BELOW.

Remains of the Day (02/26)

SI: Suited up Rob Gronkowski looks ready to "play"

MetroWeekly: (Wait'll the Roberts Court finds out) A California appeals court ruled that a baker doesn't have a right to refuse to sell a generic cake to a lesbian couple 

IG: Valentin Royer has quite a juicy changing-room story about Rafael Nadal

The Guardian: Grace Slick on sex, drugs and Jefferson Airplane: "I was sober in the '80s. That was a mistake"

Wrestle Wednesday: Locker-room pose

NYP: Bryson DeChambeau had "absolutely zero" involvement in this season of Netflix's "Full Swing" / More of his muscle-bound body HERE.

GQ: The best men’s underwear to undress and impress

Michigan Advance: (Wait'll the Roberts Court finds out) A gay Democrat stole the show as a Michigan Republican made his case to ban same-sex marriage

Edge: What's going on with curly-haired porn performer Timothy Champagne?

DNA: Safe to say Patrick Schwarzenegger has everyone hot and bothered

Socialite Life: Joe Goldberg, aka “the unluckiest guy in New York,” returns for the fifth and final season of "You" on April 24. Watch the official teaser HERE.

NYP: Inside the wealthy "all-American" family torn apart by Princeton fratricide -- as coach says accused killer was "very talented"

Boy Culture: Mr. Man's 11th annual Manatomy Awards 

RIP: Sorry to hear about the death of TV sportscaster Al Trautwig, whom I grew up with when he called women's tennis matches with a very young Mary Carillo right when she had to retire from the sport

WSJ: The missing $25 gift card that’s rocking the Hamptons

Hot Cat of the Day: I'm probably his biological father

Art Exhibition(ist) "Fun With Dick"

Threesome: I've been on a bit of a "Three's Company" bender recently, finally watching the 2003 "unauthorized" film that Joyce DeWitt sure seemed to authorize to paint her in the best light possible. From there I stumbled upon the "Ropers" episode where Jack, Janet and Chrissy stop by their former landlords' new place, which led me down a rabbit hole to finding out the actual locale of the Royal Dale Townhouses where Helen and Stanley moved next door to Jeffrey Tambor!

Explore HERE.

Tennis Tuesday: Tommy Paul

I'm going to be honest with you guys: If it weren't for the constant boner-killing fishing expeditions, Tennis Tuesday would probably just be a weekly link to Tommy Paul's social media. I mean, come on -- clearly he knows what he's doing! More BELOW.

Remains of the Day (02/24)

Edge: Porn fave Johnny Sins misidentified as Delta pilot in Toronto air crash

KFYR: North Dakota House lawmakers overwhelmingly voted to support a resolution calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn its ruling on gay marriage rights ... Michigan, Iowa, Montana and South Dakota. too

Stolen Holiday: On Anjelica Huston and her greatest role, Lilly Dillon in "The Grifters" (1990) 

Positively Aware: Lie low or mobilize? HIV researchers agonize over how to respond to attacks on science

Talk Your Head Off: Kathy Griffin has a new YouTube show, premiering Tuesday

Potentially Inappropriate Posts: Rich Volo fell in love at the Waffle House

AR: Alabama representative makes new attempt to expand state’s "Don’t Say Gay" law

NYT Magazine: The singular charm of Parker Posey

AP: Judge tosses part of a lawsuit against U.K. band The 1975 for gay kiss at Malaysian music festival

NYT: Edmund White is in his 80s, and recalling all the men he’s loved before

The Sun: Tennis player Alexandre Muller's OnlyFans sponsorship turns heads in Rio

The Randy Report: Supreme Court declines to hear challenge to Tennessee’s anti-drag law

AP: Shariah court in Indonesia sentences two men to up to 85 lashes for having gay sex 

Boy Culture: Lynne Marie Stewart, Miss Yvonne for 40 years, has died at 78

USA Today: Straight woman lost two jobs to gay colleagues. Supreme Court will decide if she can sue.

Hot Cats of the Day: My new favorite watering hole (ICYMI)

RIP: Roberta Flack, virtuoso singer-pianist who ruled the charts, dies at 88

Love Story: The lives of a gay couple who lived in a Dorset village for nearly six decades have been turned into an exhibition.

‘Mid-Century Modern’ Arrives March 28 on Hulu

So we got the official promo artwork for Max Mutchnick and David Kohan's "Mid-Century Modern." set to premiere March 28 on Hulu. From the get-go it's been described as a "gay 'Golden Girls'" -- which of course seemed redundant. 

But now for the first time I'm reading what was actually meant by that: Apparently it's about three gay men and one of their mothers living together as roommates, with Matt Bomer playing a Rose Nylund type character (pretty but ditzy); Nathan Lane as a Dorothy Zbornak type (caustic); Nathan Lee Graham as a Blanche Deveraux type (slutty); and Linda Lavin as Nathan's mom, a Sophia Petrillo type. (With Lavin's sudden passing I guess we better understand the utility of casting Estelle Getty -- who was born the year after "daughter" Bea Arthur -- and putting her in a white wig.) 

At first I didn't think I was familiar with Graham -- until I realized he was the wardrobe guy on the show ("Room & Bored") within a show ("The Comeback"), which he played to great effect, and was a standout in the musical "The View UpStairs." 

Very excited for this one -- and will be curious to see how they handle Lavin's death. 

SYNOPSIS: “Mid-Century Modern” follows three best friends -- gay gentlemen of a certain age –- who, after an unexpected death, decide to spend their golden years living together in Palm Springs where the wealthiest one lives with his mother. As a chosen family, they prove that no matter how hard things get, there’s always someone around to remind you it would be better if you got your neck done.

Weekend Tennis Roundup

Titles for Baez, Rublev and Andreev. Full report -- including an Onlyfans star who reached the final in Rio -- BELOW.

Fairy Bust

 

Thank you, Erik. Since curbing is clearly asking too much, I'll settle for picking it up at all.

Remains of the Day (02/21)

Attitude: Everyone but me is getting an incest vibe from Patrick Schwarzenegger (and his entire family) on this season of "White Lotus"

People: Alice Hirson, Ellen DeGeneres's sitcom mom, dies at 95

THR: Claire Danes re-teams with "My So-Called Life" creator Winnie Holzman for HBO drama

The Randy Report: Gallup poll finds 9.3% of U.S. adults now identify as LGBT(Q+)

Saturday 'Stache: Phase one complete

PinkNews: Paul Mescal and Josh O'Connor gay film gets release details

MetroWeekly: A troubled teen's foul-mouthed puppet leads him down an ill-begotten path in Keegan's hilarious "Hand to God"

NYT: New L.A. prosecutor appears skeptical of Menendez brothers’ appeal for freedom

Dallas Voice: Gay couple adopts three siblings through foster care

NY1: Here's the beef

 

DM: Finally some details about why Stefano Vukov, Elena Rybakina's coach, has been banned by the WTA , even though she insists he's done nothing wrong

Gr8er Days: Christopher Atkins is somehow 64 today!

Queerty: Dan Stevens admits he’s been on Grindr (once) -- but that’s not the only time he drove the gays wild

People: Anthony Michael Hall, who was on "Saturday Night Live" when he was just 17, had a healing experience watching his season

Speedo Sunday: If Cole Blue can't be a slut, he doesn't want to go

Hot Cat of the Day: Someone got a purrmotion!

Book Review: "Food for Thought: Essays and Ruminations" by Alton Brown

Reading List: Jeff Copeland's much-anticipated "Love You Madly, Holly Woodlawn: A Walk on the Wild Side with Andy Warhol's Most Fabulous Superstar" is available for preorder now HERE! 

Boystack: Inside the history of Vinylmania, Charlie Grappone's taste-making Greenwich Village record store that offered gotta-have tunes and a safe space for music obsessives across four decades

On the Rag, Vol. 847

This week's rag 'n' mag roundup features Cooper Koch, Taylor Zakhar Perez, Margaret Cho, Alan Ritchson and much more BELOW.

Positively Reckless

Well, this certainly isn’t something I would have ever seen coming -- especially having grown up in the era of HIV hysteria and shaming.

The famed Ethicist column in the New York Times actually told a reader that it was hunky dory for people living with HIV to not disclose their status to their sexual partners -- leaving out the fact that 25 states still have laws criminalizing people with HIV for not disclosing their status before sex, often even if they are undetectable and hence no HIV is transmitted. 

Educators and activists are calling on writer Kwame Anthony Appiah and the Gray Lady to correct this "grievous error," but so far this request has fallen on deaf ears.

Tim Murphy writes: 

The really appalling thing is that other advocates have pointed this out to the Ethicist himself, his editors and NYT communications people SINCE EARLY FEBRUARY and they have not replied to anyone OR made a correction. Talk about not taking responsibility for an omission that could put people in grave danger.

The full story -- including how you can voice your concerns as well -- HERE.

Meanwhile: Andrew Spieldenner, head of the global nonprofit MPACT, talks to Tim about LGBT health rollbacks likely to happen in the U.S. -- and whether today's gays can meet this moment they way we did in the 1980s. Read HERE.

Remains of the Day (02/19)

Brian Ferrari: 27 years after his death, photographer George Platt Lynes’s male nudes were published in the August 1982 issue of In Touch magazine, introducing what is now considered to be his best work

Tennis: Novak Djokovic says tennis players have a "lack of trust" in doping agencies after Sinner case

Threads: Young and hot Adrian Zmed and Peter Scolari on a 1979 episode of the beloved but short-lived sitcom “Angie.”

The Guardian: Trans military members on feared ban

Wrestle Wednesday: Joss Dominguez knows how to wear -- and remove -- a singlet

NBC News: The photo booth is turning 100 -- meet the people keeping it alive

Advocate: In a surprise to no one, the Kennedy Center has canceled Gay Men's Chorus performance planned for WorldPride

The Randy Report: Guy Pearce felt targeted by "handsy" Kevin Spacey filming "L.A. Confidential" -- Spacey thinks Pearce needs to grow up

Fashionably Male: Former rugby player Alvise Rigo is packing in Yamamay Man’s latest underwear collection

NYT: South African imam and gay rights advocate Muhsin Hendricks is shot dead

The Gene Pool: Hilarious interview with Drew Goins, everyone's favorite "Jeopardy!" contestant

Attitude: "Baby Reindeer" star Richard Gadd begins filming next TV show alongside Jamie Bell

BBC: Rick Buckler, drummer of The Jam, dies at 69 ... Paul Weller remembers his bandmate HERE.

Here in NY: Limelight was once New York’s hottest club, but the music inside this church has long been gone

Boy Culture: Patrick Schwarzenegger's body -- clothed or otherwise -- did not disappoint in "The White Lotus"

Hot Cat of the Day: For a Muslim, my boyfriend doesn't seem as tickled as I would have expected/hoped!

Ruin Road: Thanks to the reader who pointed me to a brand new documentary about the Oakland County child killer that terrorized my youth in suburban Detroit. Learned a lot -- including the fact that the blue Gremlin was a red herring and a kid in my Madison Heights neighborhood had been abducted but later released. Free to watch HERE.

ICYMI: Terry Sweeney recounts what it was like to be the first openly gay cast member on "Saturday Night Live"

The secret gay history of "SNL"

The best (and worst) LGBT sketches in "Saturday Night Live" history ... Matt points out that "Pinklisting" and "Schmitts Gay" both should have been included

Entanglements: If you're in the Hudson Valley, please be sure to check out my friend Mark Allen and partner Will McLeod's ode to Mary Richards (and inflation!) at Circle 45 Gallery through March 30. 

T-shirts available HERE.