Complain all you want about the Orwellian nature of targeting advertising -- that Mark Zuckerberg knows me better than I know myself. More proof BELOW.
Thursday, July 31, 2025
On the Rag, Vol. 868
This week's rag 'n' mag roundup features Garrett Swann, Federico Díaz, Cowboy Cooks, Benito Skinner, Sandra Bernhard, Carlos Alcaraz and more BELOW.
Carlos Alcaraz Gets Physical
Are we sure it's just Alexandre Muller and Pedro Martinez making content for OnlyFans these days? Watch Carlitos' way BELOW.
Wednesday, July 30, 2025
Holding on by a Strand
While it's certainly depressing that Shakespeare & Co. has twice failed to make a go of it on the friggin' Upper West Side of Manhattan -- is there a place that buys more books? -- I'm happy to see that Strand Books stepped in to keep the location up and running. Do you still have a local bookstore near you?
June 13, 2024: In more Shakespearean times.
Remains of the Day (07/30)
Chicago Tribune: Former Northwestern University staffer sues alleging he was fired for protesting cuts to LGBTQ resources
The Advocate: "Fake Lionel" from "The Jeffersons" -- aka out actor Damon Evans -- says Sherman Hemsley was also gay and deserves a posthumous Emmy / See other replacement stars HERE.
SF Chronicle: Harvey Milk has yet another reason to turn in his grave
Wrestle Wednesday: When your ass is so huge your singlet rips
MetroWeekly: Azealia Banks still isn't very bright
Boy Culture: One of Madonna's earliest magazine reprinted
Washington Blade: EEOC sued for refusing to enforce protections for trans workers
Hot Cat of the Day: I'd adopt either of them. (Looks like a baby Harvey!)
Pin-Ups: Teenagers in their bedrooms, before the age of selfies ... I wonder why EVERYONE keeps sending me this story!
Trailer: "A Big Gay Hairy Hit! Where the Bears Are: The Documentary" ... I could never get enough of Chad Sanders!
Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Monday, July 28, 2025
Remains of the Day (07/28)
The Advocate: Meet Mike Pruitt, the gay Navy veteran trying to flip a red congressional seat in Virginia
Boy Culture: New York Historical acquires Bill Cunningham archive
Washington Blade: Anti-LGBTQ party gains power in Japanese Diet
MetroWeekly: Vermont superintendent Wilmer Chavarria, a gay U.S. citizen, detained after trip to Nicaragua
Greg in Hollywood: 81-year-old Diana Ross wows 'em at the Hollywood Bowl
WanderLuxe: Jonathan Bennett and Jaymes Vaughn share pics and videos while cruising in the Caribbean
ICYMI: The marriage of Grindr CEO George Arison and Robert Luo and their lives as parents warmed my big gay heart
Hot Cat of the Day: Might need to relocate to Hong Kong so Harvey can have his own ID card!
The Caftan Chronicles: Joe Westmoreland's exhilarating, heartbreaking and mainly autobiographical 1970s-1980s homo road novel
Weekend Tennis Roundup
Titles for De Minaur, Darderi, Bublik, Fernandez and Bouzkova. Full report plus all the ATP beef that's fit to post BELOW.
Friday, July 25, 2025
Remains of the Day (07/25)
Pride: The Efron brothers continue to drive the gays wild, now with a steamy round of shirtless golf / My ode to the fairiest of them all HERE.
The Randy Report: Kim Davis is once again asking the Supreme Court to overturn Obergefell, all because she didn’t like doing her job
Ad Watch: Does the carpet match the socks?
The Guardian: Harvey Fierstein laments that "There are so few heterosexual men that I know that I look up to"
The Advocate: Gay makeup artist Andry Hernández Romero describes horrific sexual and physical abuse at CECOT in El Salvador
Greg in Hollywood: Watch the trailer for "The History of Sound," Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor's gay historical romance
The Guardian: "You think God didn’t make gay men?" Comedian Leslie Jones on religion, grief and getting famous at 47
Hot Cat of the Day: Someone's got a fetish!
Song of the Day: Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham announce first ever "Buckingham Nicks" reissue. I've owned this album forever -- my friend and I did a "reissue" of our own from my vinyl 20 years ago -- and let me tell you that it is really good! Now if only they'd kiss, make up and tour for it.
Thursday, July 24, 2025
On the Rag, Vol. 867
This week's rag 'n' mag roundup features Miguel Angel Silvestre, Rich Burns, Michele Morrone, Johnie Bravo, Will Sharpe and more BELOW.
Wednesday, July 23, 2025
Remains of the Day (07/23)
Queerty: David Geffen's hustler hubby had no idea the billionaire was just using him for his body(!)
Wrestle Wednesday: They're packing heat
Detroit News: Texas man accused of assaulting LGBTQ couples outside MGM Casino charged with hate crime
Washington Blade: Rising political violence raises safety questions for LGBTQ candidates, officeholders
Greg in Hollywood: Andrew Rannells's hair stars in “The Great American Baking Show”
Hindustan Times: India's first LGBTQ film, "Badnaam Basti" (1971), to screen at Indian Film Festival of Melbourne
Architects' Journal: Yikes. I'm not sure how I feel about these Wimbledon expansion plans.
NBC News: I don't know how LGBTQ Floridians do it
Boy Culture: Ozzy Osbourne somehow lived to be 76
Hot Cat of the Day: I think I've seen that face before on my mom!
On a personal note: A cousin of mine (whom I barely know) kindly sent me a DVD of a bunch of old Walsh home movies, and I can't tell you how exhilarating it was to see my father (and twin brother Kenny) in motion, running around, boxing and just growing up -- even the early days of Dad's relationship with my mom were captured (that's 17-year-old Molly, below, after picking up her paycheck at the Co-Op supermarket where she worked). My paternal grandmother didn't have a lot when her husband died unexpectedly at 51, leaving her with eight children to raise. But for whatever reason, she always had her cameras -- still and home movie -- and I can't help but think how pleased she would be to know that her youngest grandchild is soaking it all up more than a half century later.
Tuesday, July 22, 2025
Tennis Tuesday: Andrea Vavassori
I didn't think Andrea Vavassori could top his sexy socks-and-underwear pics -- until now. See BELOW.
Monday, July 21, 2025
Remains of the Day (07/21)
The Caftan Chronicles: George Towne's increasingly photo-like paintings of (usually hot) gay men
The Advocate: Kamala Harris’s former spokesman celebrates his bold gay love story on his wedding day (in photos)
Edge: Rich Burns of "Disappointments" fame gets sexier the more he ages. Now where the hell is the new season we've been hearing about forever????
West Side Rag: Dead man found floating in UWS boat basin last summer identified as missing Cuban artist
Trailer: New male exotic dancing documentary "Name of the Game" opening Aug. 15: "This isn't Magic Mike"
KGO: San Francisco's iconic LGBTQ nightclub Oasis to close its doors: Here's how legacy will continue.
Hot Cat of the Day: Judge rules she's Liza with a Z not Lisa with an S
Weekend Tennis Roundup
Titles for Darderi, Bublik, Shapovalov, Boisson and Begu. Full report plus all the ATP beef that's fit to post BELOW.
Saturday, July 19, 2025
Rosanne Cash Dazzles in Tarrytown
We had a wonderful time last night up in Tarrytown with the incomparable Rosanne Cash, who along with hubby John Leventhal performed new and old material, plus an eclectic set of covers that included Woody Guthrie’s “Deportee,” which reduced most of us to tears. What a performance!
It was the first time we got to spend a little time with her since she kindly performed “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly” for our wedding. They don’t make ‘em like this anymore. xo
Friday, July 18, 2025
Remains of the Day (07/18)
Greg in Hollywood: ABC News star James Longman wonders why he posed for pic with hunky star Chris Hemsworth: “I look like a child”
The Signorile Report: CBS cancels "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" weeks after the most-watched late-night host accused parent company Paramount of paying a "big fat bribe" to settle a lawsuit over "60 Minutes" interview
Speedo Sunday: Tom Daley dives into fashion with new swimwear collection
Hot Cat of the Day: 100% yes.
Anchors a-gay! I started watching "Amy Bradley Is Missing" about the young woman who "vanished" off a family cruise and immediately remembered what I thought when it happened in 1998: "She's gay and jumped because her family didn’t exactly approve." Seems I may have been at least half right, although the article I linked to matter-of-factly calls her a lesbian in the headline but then doesn't mention it again. (There’s zero mention of her sexuality in the first episode, but I’m intrigued that my 27-year-old gaydar was apparently spot-on.) UPDATE: I finished the other two episodes and we do end up hearing from two women she dated, including one she’d hit a rough patch with. While the family truly believes Amy is out there somewhere the victim of human trafficking, it seems far more likely that she fell overboard. (Eyewitness accounts are notoriously inaccurate, no matter how convinced the sighter is.) My heart, of course, goes out to her loved ones.
X Offenders: Voters are so ill-informed that I truly believe they will lean right -- aka vote against their own interests -- over trivial stuff like THIS. See also: Denying biological sexes. What makes this so infuriating -- textbook unforced errors -- is that NOBODY WAS ASKING FOR EITHER. It's like two cisgender non-Hispanic white academics were sitting in a classroom one day and said: What would be ideal in our narrow erudite view -- completely clueless of the fact that it is very likely to annoy the general public and not even please a fraction of the principals. (My Latino husband thinks Latinx is completely moronic.) Keep it up and I guarantee we won't see another Democrat in the White House in my lifetime -- the Electoral College alone has all but guaranteed that. P.S. For those who think my reasoning is the along the lines of "maybe if we didn't have drag queens and half-naked men in Pride parades people would like us better" you are dead wrong. Yes, people who hate LGBTQ people are going to hate us no matter what. But when you start trying to tell the general public how to live THEIR OWN LIVES -- say, a Mexican American with a wife and three kids who is being told not to call himself Latino, or hectoring 99.1% of people that they're not men or women, they're cisgender men and cisgender woman -- it really rubs a lot of them the wrong way. (I've witnessed it with my own generally Democratic parents.) I couldn't care less about cis and Latinx. But the polling data doesn't lie, and the right has brilliantly (sickeningly) turned these non-ballot-box concepts into top priorities for the electorate. PLEASE STOP before it's too late, which it may already be.