Weekend Tennis Roundup

Titles for Baez, Rublev and Andreev. Full report -- including an Onlyfans star who reached the final in Rio -- BELOW.

Fairy Bust

 

Thank you, Erik. Since curbing is clearly asking too much, I'll settle for picking it up at all.

Remains of the Day (02/21)

Attitude: Everyone but me is getting an incest vibe from Patrick Schwarzenegger (and his entire family) on this season of "White Lotus"

People: Alice Hirson, Ellen DeGeneres's sitcom mom, dies at 95

THR: Claire Danes re-teams with "My So-Called Life" creator Winnie Holzman for HBO drama

The Randy Report: Gallup poll finds 9.3% of U.S. adults now identify as LGBT(Q+)

Saturday 'Stache: Phase one complete

PinkNews: Paul Mescal and Josh O'Connor gay film gets release details

MetroWeekly: A troubled teen's foul-mouthed puppet leads him down an ill-begotten path in Keegan's hilarious "Hand to God"

NYT: New L.A. prosecutor appears skeptical of Menendez brothers’ appeal for freedom

Dallas Voice: Gay couple adopts three siblings through foster care

NY1: Here's the beef

 

DM: Finally some details about why Stefano Vukov, Elena Rybakina's coach, has been banned by the WTA , even though she insists he's done nothing wrong

Gr8er Days: Christopher Atkins is somehow 64 today!

Queerty: Dan Stevens admits he’s been on Grindr (once) -- but that’s not the only time he drove the gays wild

People: Anthony Michael Hall, who was on "Saturday Night Live" when he was just 17, had a healing experience watching his season

Speedo Sunday: If Cole Blue can't be a slut, he doesn't want to go

Hot Cat of the Day: Someone got a purrmotion!

Book Review: "Food for Thought: Essays and Ruminations" by Alton Brown

Reading List: Jeff Copeland's much-anticipated "Love You Madly, Holly Woodlawn: A Walk on the Wild Side with Andy Warhol's Most Fabulous Superstar" is available for preorder now HERE! 

Boystack: Inside the history of Vinylmania, Charlie Grappone's taste-making Greenwich Village record store that offered gotta-have tunes and a safe space for music obsessives across four decades

On the Rag, Vol. 847

This week's rag 'n' mag roundup features Cooper Koch, Taylor Zakhar Perez, Margaret Cho, Alan Ritchson and much more BELOW.

Positively Reckless

Well, this certainly isn’t something I would have ever seen coming -- especially having grown up in the era of HIV hysteria and shaming.

The famed Ethicist column in the New York Times actually told a reader that it was hunky dory for people living with HIV to not disclose their status to their sexual partners -- leaving out the fact that 25 states still have laws criminalizing people with HIV for not disclosing their status before sex, often even if they are undetectable and hence no HIV is transmitted. 

Educators and activists are calling on writer Kwame Anthony Appiah and the Gray Lady to correct this "grievous error," but so far this request has fallen on deaf ears.

Tim Murphy writes: 

The really appalling thing is that other advocates have pointed this out to the Ethicist himself, his editors and NYT communications people SINCE EARLY FEBRUARY and they have not replied to anyone OR made a correction. Talk about not taking responsibility for an omission that could put people in grave danger.

The full story -- including how you can voice your concerns as well -- HERE.

Meanwhile: Andrew Spieldenner, head of the global nonprofit MPACT, talks to Tim about LGBT health rollbacks likely to happen in the U.S. -- and whether today's gays can meet this moment they way we did in the 1980s. Read HERE.

Remains of the Day (02/19)

Brian Ferrari: 27 years after his death, photographer George Platt Lynes’s male nudes were published in the August 1982 issue of In Touch magazine, introducing what is now considered to be his best work

Tennis: Novak Djokovic says tennis players have a "lack of trust" in doping agencies after Sinner case

Threads: Young and hot Adrian Zmed and Peter Scolari on a 1979 episode of the beloved but short-lived sitcom “Angie.”

The Guardian: Trans military members on feared ban

Wrestle Wednesday: Joss Dominguez knows how to wear -- and remove -- a singlet

NBC News: The photo booth is turning 100 -- meet the people keeping it alive

Advocate: In a surprise to no one, the Kennedy Center has canceled Gay Men's Chorus performance planned for WorldPride

The Randy Report: Guy Pearce felt targeted by "handsy" Kevin Spacey filming "L.A. Confidential" -- Spacey thinks Pearce needs to grow up

Fashionably Male: Former rugby player Alvise Rigo is packing in Yamamay Man’s latest underwear collection

NYT: South African imam and gay rights advocate Muhsin Hendricks is shot dead

The Gene Pool: Hilarious interview with Drew Goins, everyone's favorite "Jeopardy!" contestant

Attitude: "Baby Reindeer" star Richard Gadd begins filming next TV show alongside Jamie Bell

BBC: Rick Buckler, drummer of The Jam, dies at 69 ... Paul Weller remembers his bandmate HERE.

Here in NY: Limelight was once New York’s hottest club, but the music inside this church has long been gone

Boy Culture: Patrick Schwarzenegger's body -- clothed or otherwise -- did not disappoint in "The White Lotus"

Hot Cat of the Day: For a Muslim, my boyfriend doesn't seem as tickled as I would have expected/hoped!

Ruin Road: Thanks to the reader who pointed me to a brand new documentary about the Oakland County child killer that terrorized my youth in suburban Detroit. Learned a lot -- including the fact that the blue Gremlin was a red herring and a kid in my Madison Heights neighborhood had been abducted but later released. Free to watch HERE.

ICYMI: Terry Sweeney recounts what it was like to be the first openly gay cast member on "Saturday Night Live"

The secret gay history of "SNL"

The best (and worst) LGBT sketches in "Saturday Night Live" history ... Matt points out that "Pinklisting" and "Schmitts Gay" both should have been included

Entanglements: If you're in the Hudson Valley, please be sure to check out my friend Mark Allen and partner Will McLeod's ode to Mary Richards (and inflation!) at Circle 45 Gallery through March 30. 

T-shirts available HERE.