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Thursday, May 26, 2022

Page 1 Roundup (05/26)

Daily News: Homeroom teachers being hailed as heroes day after teenage gunman stormed Texas elementary school, barricaded himself inside classroom and callously murdered 19 students and two of their instructors

The Advocate: Black gay candidates make history with primary wins in Texas

Raw Story: State Farm criticized after celebrating Pride then dropping program supporting LGBT books in schools

Los Angeles Times: A Glendale, Calif., teacher showed gay pride videos. Now, a furious debate erupts

MetroWeekly: Because the massacre in Texas wasn't bad enough, an Arizona rep felt the need to tweet the false claim that the shooter was transgender

Boy Culture: Naked came the Israelis

New York Post: Texas school shooting: What we know about the victims

Gimme Shelter: NYC penthouse in tower known for Johnny Carson and Capote asks $4.2M

NewNowNext: “Heartstopper” cutie Yasmin Finney boards the TARDIS for “Doctor Who”

The Randy Report: ‘The Time Traveler’s Wife’ serves up mind-bending BJ scene

The Washington Post: At French Open, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga stages a brave, brilliant farewell

Matthew's Island: Five male models in the tropics

The New York Times: A Brooklyn man charged in the unprovoked killing of a Q train rider last weekend allegedly instructed other passengers to “put their cellphones away” after the fatal shooting

‘Not again’: A weary Europe greets monkeypox with a touch of fatalism

The Old Gays are sharing a new vision of aging

I agree with Pam Shriver that predatory coaches in tennis exist. But I also think we need to be careful not to introduce sexism and ageism as well as strip women of their agency if, say, a 20-year-old does want to hook up with her coach, no matter how old he is

John McWhorter: Every day, we’re told to use new lingo. What does that really accomplish?

The Wall Street Journal: The 'easy-breezy' long weekend has rarely been this hard to pull off

Are your shorts hopelessly dorky?

How a design pro brought New Orleans grandeur to a tiny Manhattan flat

Hot Cat of the Day: "My cat politely told our dog to STFU."

Morning Wood

Chest-hair pattern is almost as good as my husband's! More fur HERE.

Wednesday, May 25, 2022

A Look 'Beyond the Law'

I don't know about you, but I can't think of a better way to kick off Pride month than sitting in a room full of men in the West Village discussing buggery.

The BGSQD writes:

The first parliamentary debates over the immorality of the death penalty for sodomy occurred in Britain in the early 19th century, as part of a fragmented and largely forgotten political effort to lessen the penalties for sex between men.

This talk explains how a form of queer politics was possible before modern homosexual identity, recounting the new discoveries published in “Beyond the Law: The Politics Ending the Death Penalty for Sodomy in Britain" (Temple University Press, 2021). Jeffrey Weeks, author of the first landmark works of LGBT history for 19th century Britain, has called this research “a triumph of historical detective work… [that] is genuinely breaking new ground.” Join the author, Charles Upchurch, and an eminent historian of LGBT history, Jonathan Ned Katz, for an illustrated presentation and discussion of this new research.

This event will take place in person on June 1 at 7 p.m. at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, in room 210 of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St.

Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.

Suggested donation $5 to benefit the Bureau’s work.

Order HERE.

Wrestle Wednesday

Trust me: There's a lot going on in this VIDEO.

Song of the Day: 'I Belong in Your Arms' by Chairlift

After watching 10 black people get massacred in their local supermarket, a gay man get executed on the subway and now 19 Hispanic children getting slaughtered at a school in Texas -- on top of war raging on in Ukraine and the fact that our democracy is crumbling before our eyes -- I think it's safe to say real life has become unbearably depressing. So if you haven't already, stop what you're doing and watch "Heartstopper." It's just what the doctor ordered. xo