ABOVE: Banner day for LGBTQ favorites' birthdays — Gaultier is 70, Shirley MacLaine is 88 and all-time icon Streisand is (GULP) 80!

BELOW: Keep reading for a big win by Macron, a queer-poster exhibition, Republicans now openly admitting they're about to roll back marriage equality and more ...

When you get the cover and Elvis suffers. (Image via Hep Cats Review)

Mantique of the Day over at Gr8erDays on IG (follows appreciated) is the late Sal Mineo, a queer legend who was quite open about his sexuality in the '60s and '70s ahead of his (completely unrelated) death at 37.

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ABOVE: Jamie Lee Curtis honored her mom Janet Leigh at the Halloween Kills premiere. Brilliant. Now do Josephine!

BELOW: Keep reading for an anti-gay assumption in the case of a serial killer's victim, a counterpoint to the Dave Chappelle brouhaha, a review of Peter Staley's book and more ...

ABOVE: Gosh, 40+ years after Madonna arrived in NYC and went to the center of it all, Times Square, and 34 years after the massive Who's That Girl movie premiere there, and 33 years after I arrived in NYC on my first trip here to see her in Speed-the-Plow, I'll be back in Times Square tonight for her Madame X movie premiere. Wish me luck.

BELOW: Cassandra Peterson introduces her partner of 19 years, gay Republicans mad that Biden called out anti-LGBTQ countries for some reason, here comes the Academy Museum and more ...

ABOVE: And it's for a good cause.

BELOW: Keep reading for Nicki Minaj's testicular concerns, a Parkland Shooting survivor comes out, Dan Levy's queer statement at the Met Gala and more ...

ABOVE: I bought not one but TWO Keith Haring T-shirts this week. My interest in him never ends. I remember a young clerk asking me about my radiant baby shirt about seven years ago — he'd never seen his work, knew nothing about Keith, was sad to hear he died of AIDS. The story goes on.

BELOW: Keep reading for putting the “bi” in Robin, soon-to-be Gov. Hochul speaks, Beanie does Broadway and more ...

ABOVE: Plenty of soap-dropping in Lil Nas X's “Industry Baby” video.

BELOW: Keep reading for a viral v-baller, 50 Cent's complaint, Roe v. Wade in jeopardy, remembering Coral Browne and more ...

ABOVE: If you like that sort of thing.

BELOW: Keep reading for Boy Culture: The Series pre-news, queer Luca, gay man shot dead in front of a police station, a priest's unusual method for expelling homosexuality from willing bottoms and more ...