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Jul 14 2021
Tyler Perry's Prostate Dialogue + Tennessee Goes Anti-Vaxxer + Blogger Mugged, Mugs Back + Texas Dems & Biden Push Voting Rights + Remembering Gay-Porn Legend Lance + MORE! — 12-PACK Comments (0)

Lance-gay-porn-star-boyculture(Image via Torso/Matthew Rettenmund Archive)

ABOVE: A shot of Lance in his prime. Keep reading for more on him.

BELOW: Tyler Perry's soapy prostate exam, Kenneth Attacked in the (212) or (646), how Ken Starr saved Jeffrey Epstein and more ...

TWITTER: Tyler Perry has some serious issues, and alllll the money in the world to force everyone else to deal with them.

TOWLEROAD: Bear Week photos from P-Town 10+ years ago.

KENNETH IN THE (212): Popular gay blogger gets attacked by some random guy for his phone in NYC. Luckily, he spotted the phone in the possession of a different man and was able to snatch it back. The guy's story about returning it to him reallllly doesn't play. Scary. Still wish we didn't have an Eric Adams-style clean-up to look forward to here.

THE GUARDIAN: Miami Herald reporter Julie K. Brown's new book Perversion of Justice makes a strong case for how the rich, powerful and connected can walk from just about anything — and in the case of Jeffrey Epstein, his initial walk was courtesy of a scorched-earth campaign by infamous prig Ken Starr:

[Prosecutors were warned] Epstein was probably still abusing underaged girls, but according to the unnamed prosecutor quoted by Brown “it was clear that she had to find a way to strike a deal because a decision had already been made not to prosecute Epstein.” The outcome of this process was a secret deal that only became public years later, largely through Brown’s own reporting. Given the number of victims and the severity of the allegations, Epstein got off exceptionally lightly with a sentence that saw him serve just 13 months in jail. During his sentence, Epstein was allowed out to work in his private office for 12 hours a day, six days a week, in a breach of jail norms.

TEXAS TRIBUNE: The Texas Dems who fled their state to deny a quorum to the state Senate in order to block a voting rights travesty failed to keep it from being passed — but if they stay out of town through August 6, there will be no quorum in the House, and the bill will not become law. Texas's A-hole Gov. Jim Abbott (R, duh) has sworn to arrest the Dems upon their return.

Meanwhile, President Biden gave a speech lending his full-throated support to the voting-rights movement, calling the current Republican push against voting rights the most dangerous threat to voting in our country's history:

Those Dems who left Texas were granted a meeting with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia) — the man has vowed to keep the filibuster intact, but they hope to persuade him to carve out an exception for something as crucial as the right to fuckin' vote.

It's insanity that Republicans position themselves as the party of patriotism, but are openly trying to disenfranchise voters. And they're DON'T TREAD ON ME hick supporters are all for it — because in their minds, fewer Black and poor voters means more votes for their team.

POLITICO: Disgraced former Alabama chief justice Roy Moore's case against Sacha Baron Cohen was tossed out of court.

WAPO: Republicans in Tennessee are so anti-vaxxer they've got the state's Department of Health now — as a rule — avoiding all talk of vaccines of any kind: measles, HPV, COVID-19. No school events to promote them. Just total fuckery.

JOE.MY.GOD.: Hate groups are infiltrating local library boards in order to jettison books on racism and LGBTQ history. I think the U.S. is careening backward, and might even end up more to the right than it was under Trump.

ADVOCATE: Wyoming bar sells shirts promoting murdering gays.

PRIDE SOURCE: Amy Grant, Christian artist, takes her LGBTQ support further with:

Gay. Straight It does not matter.

INSTAGRAM: I'm so happy I got to meet Nancy Olson of Sunset Boulevard — who turns 93 today. She has far out-lived her castmates, and achieved an age Gloria Swanson never approached.

My Interview with Porn Performer Shawn Mayotte

FACEBOOK: Adult performer Shawn Mayotte — whose books are out now — recalls his friendship with porn legend Lance.

Gay-porn-boyculture-Lance adWho could forget Lance?! (Image via David/Matthew Rettenmund Archive)

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