Remains of the Day (07/18)

Queerty: A steamy gay Belgian series offers something sorely missing on American TV right now

Foreign Affairs: The global threat to LGBTQ rights

The Advocate: Barack Obama explains why he thinks all men need LGBTQ people in their lives

Threads: Revisiting the time Chris O'Donnell stripped down to boxers and black socks to do a stupid human trick for David Letterman

Watermark: Orlando approves land buy, picks builder for Pulse memorial

Saturday 'Stache: Thick thighs save lives

NYT: How "gay" became an identity in art

GCN: Federal government restores $6.2 million in funding for LGBTQ nonprofits

Instinct: Luke MacFarlane gets sweaty and sexy in "Platonic" season 2

MetroWeekly: Church settles over exorcism performed on gay man

The Hill: LGBTQ advocates brace for Thursday closure of 988 lifeline service

KIT212: Tom Brady spotted on yacht in Saint Tropez

BBC: Rare backstage Blondie photos go on show in London

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

Instinct: Hunky wrestler Anthony Bowens faces protesters with a kiss -- and zero fear

AP: Alan Bergman, Oscar-winning lyricist who co-wrote "The Way We Were," dies at 99

Speedo Sunday: Tom Daley dives into fashion with new swimwear collection

Hot Cat of the Day: 100% yes.

RIP: Connie Francis, whose songs dominated ’60s pop music, is dead at 87

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 a lesbian who jumped." 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 did a little digging around and it sounds like we do eventually hear from a woman she briefly dated -- and the circumstances around that breakup only bolster my suicide theory. (This may change when I watch parts 2 and 3.)

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 (aka 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.