ABOVE: Intensity is a good word.

BELOW: Keep reading for shirtless Dylan Sprouse, RIP Phyllis Lyon & Mort Drucker, Trump looking to open the country (like a store?) in May and more ...

ABOVE: Who was this woman?!?!

BELOW: Keep reading for an ass flash, Buttigieg on the Rush to judgment, Modern parenting and more ...

ABOVE: Poor guy forgot to do up his pants.

BELOW: Keep reading for Theler's booty-ful side, Bernie's embrace of Joe Rogan, another Mean Girls movie and more ...

Uh-oh ... (Image via video still)

Taylor Swift's lyric video for her new single “You Need to Calm Down” makes it clear the song is a boost to bullied LGBTQ people — particularly the part where she sings, “Why are you mad/when you can be GLAAD?”

Cue GLAAD employees creaming.

Also, “Shade never made/Anybody less gay.”

Then, Friday night, she showed up at the Stonewall for an unannounced performance — videos after the jump ...

I’m surprised @FLOTUS isn’t more adept at fending off a big orange elephant’s ass. She’s had to have many years of practice. pic.twitter.com/aW3d2RpjUo

— Michael Ⓜ️ (@michaelschweitz) October 6, 2018

ABOVE: Melania better watch her ass, because a dead wife would go a long way toward giving Trump sympathy, and he is a sucker for stunts. Meanwhile, Susan Collins is undecided as to whether that pachyderm almost trampled that colonialist mannequin.

BELOW: Keep reading for a non-sexually harassed Shawn Mendes, a gladiator movie to make Joey tingle, Susan Collins calls Dr. Blasey Ford a liar, a referendum on whether Bradley Cooper is fuckable, gay lovebirds are songbirds and much, much more ...

Above: Guys galore here. (Follows & likes appreciated.)

Below: Keep reading for the scoop on Anderson Cooper going from taken to taken, Dylann Roof's insane sibling, the dude who dug up Natalee Holloway got stabbed to death, Alan Hollinghurst on sex, the idea of whether Love, Simon is gay enough, Mueller subpoenas Trump Org, Trump boasts of trade lie, trans suicide, Jesse Tyler Ferguson's embarrassing coming-out story, guy mostly in a kilt, Village People imposters, Dua Lipa on The Ellen DeGeneres Show ...

Above: Diego Arnary — plus more of him here.

Below: Keep reading for the service member defiant after a gay bashing, an underwear party, David Byrne's new tour, Modern Family's fate, Pence's shaming and Timothée Chalamet's rejection of Woody Allen ...

From lower L, clockwise: Roberts via ABC, Cyrus via NBC, Parsons via CBS, DeGeneres via Telepictures, Shepard via Fox, Cooper via CNN.

Some of these estimated salaries of top TV stars are pretty mind-blowing. I knew Judy Sheindlin made a bundle, but $47M a year?

And when it comes to episodic TV, how'd you like to knock down $1M per episode to do the backbreaking work Kaley Cuoco does on Big Bang Theory?

Variety's full list is here.

LGBTQ-related talent is well-represented, with two of us among the top-paid people in entertainment: