ABOVE: Billy Campbell, a forever dream.

Bonus booty (Image by Matthew Rettenmund)

BELOW: Keep reading for my chat with Randy Wicker, how France shocked the world (in a good way) and more ...

HUFF POST: In a truly shocking outcome, France has voted overhwhelmingly against the far right. This follows the U.K.'s repudiation of the Tories. Could this mean Biden will hang on in November? (I continue to think he is our best shot, but I also continue to think the drumbeats demanding he withdraw are going to make that less and less likely day by day.)

My picture of Wicker from 2019, one of his famous buttons that's in the Smithsonian and a shot of his great friends Marsha P. Johnson and Willie Brashears (Images by Matthew Rettenmund, Smithsonian & Randy Wicker)

SUBSTACK: Would definitely appreciate your subs — and my latest post is a long interview with Randy Wicker, 86, who has been involved in so many major LGBTQ+ rights moments, from the Mattachine Society to the first public gay demonstration to the Sip-In at Julius'. I think his story and his stories are important and fascinating.

EXTRATV: Hollywood mourns the death of super producer Jon Landau.

OMG.BLOG!: Zac Efron looks back at Zac Efron.

WAPO: Inside a gay elder prom.

1011NOW: Man, I wish I could have attended this drag yard sale!