Does it really need to be said? Apparently so. (Image via Facebook)

ABOVE: I belong to a group on FB that encourages pics of pre-1990 hot models and actors, so of course some self-loathing gay posts Stalin and I get to see Stalin called a “vibrant stallion.” What is happening to gay men?

BELOW: Keep reading for two stars in extreme pain, Trump shouting out the Moonies, Rudy drunk again and more ...

ABOVE: Buddy forever!

Bonus image — '70s Yianni ad. Gay men LOVE their jewels. (Image via Yianni)

BELOW: Keep reading for Trump's 9/11 snub and 2024 wink, remembering gay heroes Mark Bingham and Father Mychal Judge, how the end of Flash spelled the end of a wealth of 9/11 information, a gay teacher fired and more ...

Something I drew, something I knew. (Images by Matthew Rettenmund)

As I posted on social media, I'm at a loss for words about 9/11. I was close enough to experience it from far too close-up — yet far enough away that I was spared the kind of visceral memories others have. Still, I had sense of creeping doom reading the inevitable remembrances on Twitter this morning.

Click here to check out my full take on what happened that day. I wrote it 15 years ago. It feels more embittered than I feel now, but it does have all the details I can remember.

I think it is terrifying how in 2001, everyone banded together — and it led us into a pointless 2o-year war and on a path of even greater polarization. And yet today, if a massive terror attack occurred, I have no doubt the right would use it to try to mount insurrection; there would be no banding together bullcrap.

Tell me I'm wrong.

ABOVE: No unity with Nazis and Nazi sympathizers.

BELOW: RIP Mark Bingham's mom, Joe Exotic unloads on corrupt Trump, Rep. Maloney wants Parler investigated by the FBI and more ...

Neither one of them has any idea what the words to the Pledge of Allegiance are. I bet the Obamas and the Bidens and the Emhoff-Harrises know them. I bet the Romneys, McCains, Bushes, Clintons, Gores and Carters know them. I bet Bernie Sanders and AOC know them. pic.twitter.com/T8ZCsWXZTo

— Matthew Rettenmund (@mattrett) September 11, 2020

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Guess they chose America over Trump! They know #TrumpHasNoCredibilty

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— Truth Matters (@TruthsOverTrump) July 5, 2020

ABOVE: Rome burns, Trump fiddles with Confederate flags.

BELOW: Keep reading for that anti-Trump book by Mary Trump, Prince Royce's diagnosis, some dudes who used to be cool, a Merv Griffin flashback and more ...

ABOVE: Well, the name of the magazine is Yup.

BELOW: Keep reading for sexy-as-hell tennis jock, Chris Cuomo's COVID-19 diagnosis, Trump called out by a Republican governor and more ...

ABOVE: If that were me, that would be my passport photo until I died.

BELOW: Remembering 9/11, Trump misremembering 911, WWL Radio's Twitter slurs a gay writer, Abel Cedeno gets a harsh sentence and more ...