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Wrestle Wednesday
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Page 1 Roundup (06/07)
The New York Post: First Bill Cosby drugged and raped them, now he's going to try to drag them through the mud (I wonder why more victims don't come forward?)
The Daily News: Cosby's accuser denies they were romantically involved
The New York Times: Comey told Sessions to not leave him alone with Trump
The Wall Street Journal: Jeans Aren’t Allowed at School—Unless You Pay
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Getting Personal With TV's Hottest Dad
The Post's Alexa magazine has a tasty fashion spread featuring Milo Ventimiglia, who talks love, fatherhood, family.
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ABC News Adds Out Foreign Correspondent James Longman
Just last week I linked to a story about the challenges James Longman faces as an openly gay BBC reporter in the Middle East. Now comes news that he will join the ABC News team as a foreign correspondent, starting Monday. The hunky reporter joins ABC News’s London bureau after spending five years reporting for the BBC from Beirut. He’s fluent in Arabic, French and English and I'm guessing the language of love.
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Bidding My 40s Adieu ...
Birthday Eve drinks at Bob Bar NYC with two of my favorite people in the world, Seimond and Alisa. Has it really been about 20 years?
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Page 1 Roundup (06/08)
The Daily News: Best birthday present a guy could ever ask for
Not a fan of his last album, but I'm curious about his new material
The New York Post: Trump to Comey: ‘I need loyalty, I expect loyalty’
The New York Times: How long before I plead with Jeff Sessions to leave me alone in a room with this one? #washingtonhot
The Wall Street Journal: Where do Cuban tourists go to splurge? Moscow's flea markets
Los Angeles Times: This is going to be good
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Morning Wood
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Song of the Day: 'Happy Birthday' by Altered Images
I'd be mortified to be 50 today if I weren't so acutely aware how lucky I am to have lived this long. Between the AIDS epidemic, f**king cancer and a fluke case of meningitis, I've lost more people before they even reached the half-century mark than I care to remember. So before this gets too somber, I'll just keep trying to adhere to the adage that is meant to be funny but is so true: Live every day like it's your last, because one day it will be. xo
My Kenyan father planted this in the local paper in case I ever wanted to run for president ...
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My grandmother ended it all when she turned the big 5-0 ... I figure I'll just ride it out!
My grandmother ended it all when she turned the big 5-0 ... I figure I'll just ride it out!
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The History of the Invasion of the Pines
I've never been to this seminal Fourth of July event on the gayest island in the world, but friends who have swear it's unforgettable. Now a new book delves into its history.
From a release:
"Mascara, Mirth & Mayhem" is a collection of photographs taken by renowned photographer Susan Kravitz over the past 30 years at the annual LGBTQ event known as the Invasion of the Pines. The Invasion of the Pines occurs every July 4th and involves participants from the Fire Island communities of Cherry Grove and Fire Island Pines. It began in 1976, when a member of the Cherry Grove community had been refused service in a Pines' restaurant because he had been dressed in drag. In protest, a small group of Cherry Grove residents cross-dressed and took a water taxi to the Pines on Independence Day of that year, to stand up against this "height of insult" by "invading" their neighboring community.
Four decades later, the Invasion has evolved into a uniquely raucous event that joyfully celebrates human rights and freedom of expression by thousands of people, straight and gay. Kravitz’s photographs capture the rebelliousness, the high camp, and the joy of the Invasion. They are provocative, introspective, sad and funny, and tinged with sexual innuendo. Yet they also reflect another journey, one that gives insight into the LGBTQ movement itself. From the fearful, AIDS-ridden years of the 1980s and 1990s, to the joyous years of this decade when LGBTQ people are out and proud (and, if they choose, legally married), these Invasion photographs celebrate a day to be free, to be whoever you want to be, and to be gay. "My photographs are as much about the times I which they were taken as they are about the people who populate them. Ultimately, they are about human rights and freedom of expression seen through the lens of the Invasion." said Kravitz of her eighty-eight color and black and white photographs.Order HERE.
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Harvey Birthday to Me
Thanks for all the birthday wishes, guys! Damian and our son have been spoiling me today as we switch between the French Open semifinals and the Comey testimony -- what a way to start a new decade of life! xo
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Morning Wood
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Song of the Day: 'Unopened Fan Mail' by Saint Etienne
Here's my favorite song of the trio's new LP, "Home Counties." Coincidentally, my favorite album track by Blondie is called "Fan Mail."
For Damian.
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The French (Canadian) Connection
I had so much fun the one time I went to Montreal. My friend Ken and I stayed in the heart of the Gay Village (right off Saint Catherine Street) at this cute bed & breakfast called Ruta Bagage -- and went out drinking and cruising every night. Now these two French Canadian boys have me thinking it's time for ANOTHER VISIT ...
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A Lesson in LGBT Herstory
As my Latin lover and I board the Amtrak to Washington today for this weekend's Equality March for Unity and Pride, head over to Boy Culture to read a nice piece about Marsha P. Johnson -- one of the pivotal figures in the LGBT rights movement -- who is the subject of what promises to be a fascinating new documentary set to air on Netflix.
Johnson was born in 1945 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, running off to NYC in the '60s ...
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Page 1 Roundup (06/09)
The New York Post: Lordy, indeed
The Daily News: Trump is big fat liar
The New York Times: Trump tried to sink inquiry, Comey says
The Wall Street Journal: How Low Has the Dollar Sunk? Rappers Prefer Euros
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Adam West, TV's Batman, Is Dead at 88
Rest in peace to the man whose partnership with Robin has been the unlikely role model for my same-sex relationships throughout my life.
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Speedo Sunday
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Page 1 Roundup (06/12)
The Daily News: Is there nothing this loon can't ruin?
The Wall Street Journal: First job of dismantling nuclear plants: find a Russian speaker
More TK
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Morning Wood
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Song of the Day: 'All Night Train' by the Allman Brothers Band
Greg Allman (1947-2017) with Cher, Chastity (Chaz) and Elijah Blue
Having traveled to Washington a dozen times in the past year to spend time with my brother -- usually taking the train one way and the bus the other in the interest of saving money -- we decided to splurge and take the train both ways for this past weekend's Equality and Unity March. Naturally, though, I would pay for it more than once, as the train left unusually late in both directions and then "police activity" outside Philadelphia kept us stranded at 30th Street station for about two hours in the wee hours on the way home. We left D.C. at 10 p.m. and got to New York at 4 making us nostalgic for the bus for the first time ever! Thank God I took today off from work -- I am miserable.
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