Remains of the Day (11/12)

Deadline: Michael Urie, Raven-Symoné, Dan Bucatinsky and Michael Feinstein will be honored at wayOUT's 10th-anniversary Gayla, co-chaired by Liza Minnelli

Socialite Life: "The Wheel of Time" actor Taylor Napier shows off his furry chest

TVLine: "Adults," my favorite show on television right now, has been renewed for a supersized third season, with 16 episodes instead of the usual eight

NYP: DC gym shooter ID'd as Dr. Matt Lambert, who reportedly clashed with his HOA over black mold in his $1.1 million apartment before fatally shooting a building manager at VIDA Fitness in Logan Circle and dying by suicide

Saturday 'Stache: If I redid my hottest ATP players list today, he might be No. 1

Brian Ferrari: A look back at punk icon and longtime LGBTQ ally Henry Rollins's revealing appearances in gay magazine "In Touch" between 1983 and 1985

Attitude: Mitchell Robertson will play James Dean's lover in "One Hand Tied," an upcoming biopic exploring the Hollywood icon's same-sex relationships

Woody Allen Pages: How the original ending of "Hannah and Her Sisters" differed from the beloved 1986 film's final version

The Hill: Homo representation on television has declined, with a new report documenting a drop in LGBTQ characters across broadcast, cable and streaming shows

Gr8erdays: Anthony Clark, the quietly gay stand-up comic who starred in "Boston Common" and "Yes, Dear," dead at 62 from complications of pneumonia

People: Dylan Efron says big brother Zac is the most important person in his life, revealing that he still turns to him for advice before every major decision as he considers a move into acting

Washington Blade: LGBTQ ally tapped to form new Israeli government

The Guardian: "Dawson's Creek" star Kerr Smith recalls the homophobic backlash to his character's groundbreaking gay kiss and the vandalism that followed

PinkNews: Pennsylvania officer tells minor he’ll be "glad" to jail him at 18, then calls him a faggot

NYDN: Steve Carell and John C. Reilly to play "The Odd Couple" on Broadway

Hot Cat of the Day: New York Yankees pitcher Cam Schlittler celebrates his American League Cy Young Award victory with his beloved kitty, Arya, by his side

Speedo Sunday: Thiago in lime green

Homo Hunt: Collector and archivist Matthew Rettenmund is looking for vintage gay magazines, photographs, bar memorabilia, artwork and other pieces of homo history from anyone looking to unload

Driving While Gay: As close as I'll ever come to going viral! 

On the Rag, Vol. 933

 

In this week's rag 'n' mag roundup: Julia Louis-Dreyfus's hot son makes a splash, Ramiro Lozano strips down, Ezra Moreland turns heads, Morgan Spector brings the daddy appeal and more BELOW.

Remains of the Day (11/11)

DM: Wife-and-child killer Chris Watts reportedly has a secret gay prison sex harem of younger inmates

SCMP: South Korea apologises for classing gay teens as delinquents

The Caftan Chronicles: NYC nightlife legend Mario Diaz, who founded the notoriously raunchy East Village gay bar The Cock, looks back on his wild early years and his new life in Los Angeles

Brian Ferrari: Remembering the gay porn actors we lost in 2026

Woody Allen Films: A look back at the director's underrated 1988 masterpiece "Another Woman," featuring one of Gena Rowlands's finest performances, 38 years after its release

Wrestle Wednesday: Yearning in yellow

The Guardian: Billie Jean King, 82, reflects on the challenges of coming out, the price she paid for being gay and how much has changed since she was forced out of the closet in 1981

Single-Issue Fixation: It's great to be passionate about something you believe in. But if you think THIS, THIS or THIS are in any way sane behavior, you've also lost your f**king mind / See also: Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten puts a mezuzah on his own front door in solidarity with Jewish families who have stopped displaying the religious symbol for fear of antisemitic attacks 

Out: KJ Apa rocks tight black briefs in sexy new clip

Salon: One of the pioneering publications of the internet age says goodbye after 31 years, citing the increasingly difficult economics of independent digital journalism

Variety: Jonathan Bailey and Bill Nighy will star in "Insomniac City," a film based on the real-life romance between writer Bill Hayes and celebrated neurologist Oliver Sacks, who was nearly 30 years his senior

Instinct: We're going to be talking about Patrick Schwarzenegger's wiener again

KIT212: I finally found it!

Reuters: Trinidad and Tobago's highest court strikes down the country's ban on gay sex in a landmark victory for LGBTQ rights that could pave the way for similar rulings across the Caribbean

PinkNews: Carson Jones, the hot gay son of former U.S. Sen. Doug Jones, pays heartfelt tribute to his father after his narrow loss in Alabama's governor's race

Out: Meet Tom Francis, Benito Skinner's hot new love interest in "Overcompensating" season 2

Advocate: Sarah Schulman and Jim Hubbard reflect on their ACT UP Oral History Project, which has preserved the stories of 188 AIDS activists and the extraordinary grassroots movement that helped change the course of the epidemic

Attitude: Pro beach volleyball player Alex Ukkelberg comes out as gay

Hot Cat of the Day: Guess which 12-year-old cutie pie got a clean bill of health this week at the vet, where he was really upset about going? 

Transfixed: Here's your periodic reminder that this is the "transphobic" tweet that got J.K. Rowling -- who had spent years championing LGBTQ rights and inclusivity, which you might think would have earned her some goodwill -- labeled Trans Enemy Number One: defending a woman who lost her job over her materialist view of human biology. Sadly, Rowling is one of those thin-skinned egomaniacs who then doubled and tripled down in increasingly uncharitable ways. But if you'd been on the receiving end of such unwarranted vitriol, there's no telling how you might have reacted -- especially knowing that all of it was coming from within your own tribe. How I wish my community could get over its single-issue fixation and learn to pick its battles, because god knows there are plenty of actual enemies out there.

Sí, Seniority: We elected our senators and representatives. Now they get to choose their leadership -- that's how the system works. If you're determined to challenge the status quo, here's an idea: Don't waste the next two years squabbling over who's in charge of legislation that's only going to get vetoed anyway. Focus instead on winning back the White House, when control of House and Senate leadership would really matter. Until then, all this infighting is doing is suffocating the joy and momentum we've waited so long to achieve. (Please let me be happy for five minutes.) 

RIP: Stacy Keach, the acclaimed Shakespearean actor best known as TV detective Mike Hammer, dies at 85 after a career that survived a notorious cocaine bust and prison sentence

Tennis Tuesday

Shockingly, he's not even AI. Get to the front of this BELOW.

The Webb of Life

Had a wonderful time seeing legendary songwriter Jimmy Webb at City Winery with my friends David, Lynn and Lucy.

Webb, who is now 80 but still has something of a boyish look about him, treated us to a set that included "Galveston," "Up, Up and Away," "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress," "All I Know," "Didn't We," "By the Time I Get to Phoenix," "MacArthur Park" and, of course, the incomparable "Wichita Lineman." (I still maintain that Maria McKee did the definitive version!)

He also performed several newer and lesser-known songs, with the awfully handsome singer-songwriter Pete Mancini joining him for part of the show, following an entertaining opening set.

The highlight of the evening for me wound up being the closing number, "Adios," which I fell ion love with in college when Linda Ronstadt included it on her smash album "Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind" (1989).

In addition to being one of the finest songwriters of this generation, Webb is an incredible storyteller, somehow managing to humble-brag and be self-deprecating at the same time. 

Our table had the added bonus of hearing some behind-the-scenes gossip from David, who edited Webb's book "Tunesmith: Inside the Art of Songwriting" some 30 years ago and had plenty of fun memories about the process.

My only disappointment was that he didn't perform anything from what I consider his finest work: the songs he wrote for Art Garfunkel's 1977 album "Watermark," including "Crying in My Sleep," "Saturday Suit," "Paper Chase" and "Shine It on Me," the last of which contains perhaps the most codependent romantic lyrics of all time:

I remember times when you'd touch me 

And you'd, you'd freeze my spine 

We were looking in the mirror at the time 

I got confused and thought your eyes were mine

But that's a minor complaint about an evening spent in the company of such a remarkable talent. (In fairness, he did perform the biggest hit he wrote for Art, the aforementioned “All I Know.”)

As it happens, I've just started reading a biography of the '80s band Prefab Sprout, and wouldn't you know it, there's an entire chapter devoted to Webb's influence on frontman Paddy McAloon. 

Apparently, McAloon first heard "Wichita Lineman" while running past a pub as a schoolboy, an experience he later described as something akin to a chemical shift. 

It's fascinating to think about the connection between two songwriters whose work I've loved for so long -- and even more fascinating that the one born in 1946 is the one still performing live! 

How about that Little Island? 

Weekend Tennis Roundup

Carlos Alcaraz conquers Paris, Quentin Halys and Pierre-Hugues Herbert delight the home crowd, Jessica Pegula and Mirra Andreeva make peace, plus all the ATP beef that's fit to post BELOW.