ABOVE: Joe Dallesandro forever!

BELOW: Keep reading for a sad coming-out occasion, the gay-porn stars we lost in 2024, that terrorist attack and more ...

“I want you to meet my true self. I am gay. I have kept this fact a secret for years — from you, from the media and sometimes even from myself.” (Image via Instagram)

OUTSPORTS: Andrzej Stekala, an elite ski jumper, has come out as gay — but the occasion is anything but celebratory ... he is mourning his late boyfriend.

HUFF POST: An ISIS-sympathizing U.S. citizen (who did not, in fact, cross the border to commit his crimes), drove a pickup truck down Bourbon Street in New Orleans on New Year's Eve in what has been officially declared to be an act of terrorism. (However, a rando Army veteran born and raised in Texas taking it upon himself to kill Americans isn't exactly an international plot, so simmer down, Trump.)

Sen. Foghorn Leghorn aka Kennedy from Louisiana made an official presser on the incident into an opportunity to take political potshots:

NYT: A Tesla blew up outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas, and authorities aren't ruling out a connection to the NOLA attack.

TWITTER: Whitney Cummings came out as a full-on right-winger with some, er, JOKES this New Year's Eve. One was about how the Democratic Party rammed Kamala Harris down our throats. Really, though? She was a popular candidate who probably saved the Dems from a far more catastrophic outcome, if Biden's private polling is to be believed. (He didn't believe it, and has since supposedly privately suggested he think he could have beaten Trump, which seems impossible to me now.) Meanwhile, a ridiculously early poll of Dems shows the #1 pick to run in 2028 is ... Kamala Harris.

PEOPLE: According to her lover, Jocelyn Wildenstein died in her sleep.

BRIAN FERRARI: All the gay-porn stars who died in 2024.

Bo Dixon even made my general farewell list, coming in the next post. (GIF via Brian Ferrari)