Remains of the Day (01/12)

SCMP: Malaysian LGBTQ glamping event faces conservative backlash: "We are not criminals"

Reuters: U.S. Supreme Court rejects challenge to $2.46 billion Boy Scouts sex abuse settlement; congrats to all who sued.

The Randy Report: MacKenzie Scott donates $45 million to the Trevor Project amid a rising mental health crisis for LGBTQ youth in the U.S.

Erasing 76 Crimes: Spotlight on Libya, where the LGBTQ community hides in the shadows  

New Ways Ministry: Biography examines life of an unsung hero of the Catholic LGBTQ movement

EW: Can we please STOP with purity tests and absolutism -- and the corresponding vilification -- and accept that sometimes good people may have opinions that other good people don't agree with? It's a HUGE turnoff to centrist voters, but apparently losing all three branches of government has taught us nothing.

NBC4: Residents at D.C. housing created for LGBTQ seniors describe harassment, police calls

The Advocate: U.S. Supreme Court to hear major cases on trans women in sports on Tuesday

Wichita Eagle: LGBTQ advocate wins Kansas House seat

Socialite Life: Male Model Monday featuring Moritz Hau, Carlos Dan, Miquel Llaudet and more

Attitude: Josh Cavallo alleges Adelaide United exit was driven by homophobia within the club

Bucks County Beacon: Judge rebukes conservative law firm for error-filled brief in case seeking to roll back LGBTQ protections in Pennsylvania public schools

Out: "Heated Rivalry" character Ilya Rozanov is now a gay icon in Russia, where homosexuality "propaganda" is against law; the next chapter in the saga comes out in print this fall

Queerty: Miguel Ángel Silvestre bulges out of leather hot shorts in new photos

Gr8er Days: Bob Weir, legendary founding member of the Grateful Dead, dead at 78

Hot Cat of the Day: Another day of cuddles

Weekend Tennis Roundup

Medvedev, Bublik, Sabalenka and Svitolina won titles; Poland captured the United Cup; Milos Ranoic announced his retirement and Flavio and Carlos heat things up Down Under. Full report plus all the ATP beef that's fit to post BELOW.

Remains of the Day (01/09)

Attitude: "9-1-1" fans react to bisexual hookup scenes as Oliver Stark reveals why they were "awkward" to film

Dallas Voice: A transgender couple left Dallas and found safety along the Canadian border

Boystack: In "My Neighbor Adolf," the recently deceased Udo Kier was still up for causing a führer

JTA: Trans screenwriter Our Lady J condemns anti-Zionism in LGBTQ spaces: "Zionism is not a dirty word"

Saturday 'Stache: Tom Blyth 10 times

85 Candles: Here's wishing Joan Baez a very happy birthday! I finally caught the "I Am a Noise" documentary about the legendary folk singer/civil rights activist and I must say I almost wish I hadn't. While I enjoyed hearing about her early career, learning that she and her sister had fallen prey to the "repressed memory therapy" fad of the late '80s and '90s really broke my heart.

Us Weekly: Another boldface suicide, this time James Ransone of "The Wire" and "It: Chapter Two"

Gr8er Days: Erica Gavin hits MoMA for a "Vixen!" Q&A

Queerty: Jonathan Bennett bangs hubby Jaymes Vaughan’s cakes like bongo drums

The Randy Report: None of THIS would be happening if even just the people who know better would vote blue every year in every election instead of suppressing turnout by bitching and both-sidesing about Democrats, which can be done AFTER they're in power

Book Riot: The most anticipated LGBTQ books of 2026

The PinkNews: Journeyman João Lucas Reis da Silva set to become the first openly gay man to play Aussie Open quallies 

DWT: Romeo Voice singer Debora Iyall remembers rock journalist and activist Howie Klein

Instinct: The only way this grandfather/son romance could be more perfect is if the former gets brutally murdered by the latter!

Speedo Sunday: Orange or blue?

Hot Cat of the Day: Ken Burns announces new 10-part "Mr. Biscuits" documentary after adopting cat

Page Six: Fans of LA billboard queen Angelyne blast Marc Jacobs

RIP: Roger Ewing, who played dreamy blond Thad Greenwood on "Gunsmoke," has died at 83

This Reader's Digiest

I so unexpectedly enjoyed Jennifer Otter Bickerdike's "Eternal Flame" that it relit my reading light, and I've since finished Chrissy Amphlett's "Pleasure and Pain" (only for hardcore fans), Woody Allen's "Apropos of Nothing" (thoroughly enjoyable and pulls no punches about Mia Farrow and the false allegations), and Sheila Weller's "Girls Like Us," which I had bought for the flight to Argentina in 2019 but never finished. If you're a Carole-Joni-Carly queen, you'll enjoy it. Like the Bangles biography, I didn't think there was anything more I could learn about Jesse's girl, but boy was I wrong! 

What are you reading? 

UPDATE: My literary agent friend told me he's been enjoying audiobooks of late -- and I'm wondering if anyone else has feelings about them, too. In addition to my post-Covid attention-span problem with reading, I've noticed that even with my up-to-date glasses, I find it hard to see sometimes, especially in bed. (Those clip-on lights are dreadfully cumbersome.) I'm thinking about giving my old high-school pal Sal Paradise a try! 

Our Tree Means Business

 

I don’t think either of us expected to see our Christmas tree again when we took it out to the sidewalk on Three Kings’ Day. So perhaps it’s not completely surprising -- if still a little cute -- that Damian and I individually snapped photos and sent them to each other when we spotted it on our block today!

On the Rag, Vol. 890

 

This week's rag 'n' mag features Alejo Ospina, Gustavo Naspolini, Wellington Lopes, Zohran Mamdani and more BELOW.