ABOVE: I'll take both!

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ABOVE: Today would've been Divine's 76th birthday. He'd be around the same age as Cher and Dolly Parton. Instead, we lost him in 1988. Still remember the sting when a co-worker told me. I didn't believe her (no Internet) and went back to my dorm and dug through recycled newspapers to find the obit.

BELOW: Keep reading for Marvel's foray into LGBTQ representation, Billy Porter's bold proclamation, how MTV hopes to fight for our rights and more ...

Mags of the week (Image via Rage & Metrosource)

ABOVE: Kenneth covers it all.

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ABOVE: Jacob Whitesides is celebrating show week with a show-and-tell photo.

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Celebrating improvements and progressions over time and embracing love no matter what your color, creed, or sexual preference is a good excuse for a mini party. You can, of course, throw an all-out party but you don’t have to; you can have just a few friends round and create a stylish mini party for those select few.

My shot of Randy from 2019, when he was celebrating Gertrude Stein's birth anniversary (Image by Matthew Rettenmund)

Randy Wicker is an LGBTQ activist who has been at it longer than almost anyone else in the world — at age 83, he has been fighting the gay fight for 63 years and counting.

If you Google him, you will find references to him that verify who he is and what he has done, which is not true of some others over the years who have claimed to have been things they were not. He was the first publicist for any LGBTQ movement, he worked in the South to bring reform and gay rights, he launched the Homosexual League of New York after having been an early Mattachine Society member, he was on radio and TV as an out gay man in the 1960s and to top it off, he was a roommate of Marsha P. Johnson's.

Today, Randy posted a long message on Facebook reflecting on his experiences with gay Pride parades over the years, and I think his words are important. They also reveal that being older is no excuse for being closed to change.

He writes:

ABOVE: Help Dave raise some cash for a great cause.

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