ABOVE: One moment in time.

BELOW: Keep reading for a tennis dreamboy, Maluma covering a Elle, the sitting Congress tools who were against MLK Jr. Day, Boeber gave a Capitol tour and more ...

Historian of coups and right-wing authoritarians here. If there are not severe consequences for every lawmaker & Trump govt official who backed this, every member of the Capitol Police who collaborated with them, this "strategy of disruption" will escalate in 2021

— Ruth Ben-Ghiat (@ruthbenghiat) January 7, 2021

ABOVE: She is right. I remain hopeful that the insurrectionists will be brought to justice.

BELOW: Keep reading for all the latest, especially regarding the insurrectionist coup attempt on Wednesday ...

Above: Jim Newman is a hunk of zaddy goodness.

Below: Why American Crime Story's 3rd ep rocked, new Rentboy.com, Robert Wagner implicated in Natalie Wood's death, gay Amazon ultimatum, Portia surprises Ellen, Kylie's new tune, lesbians get detention, gay Dumbledore smack-down, art tour, Mika vs. Michael Wolff ...

Scott Johnson in 1987, as photographed by his brother, Steve Johnson

The death of an American in Australia has been ruled an anti-gay murder — 30 years later.

Read about that, plus Roy Moore's heckler, Russell Simmons's sad downfall and Trump's dementia, plus, watch a hilarious take on Grindr in the '80s ...

Trump's unhinged speech in Phoenix has led to a new round of media figures speaking in hushed tones about his mental abilities.

Scarborough, speaking on MSNBC, asked, “Who talks like that?” and, “Who cheers for that?” in reference to Trump gushing about hitting the KKK and a Trump supporter chanting that John McCain must die.

Keep reading, but keep remembering that Trump is mentally unsound and must be removed from office ...

Vintage cover (Image via New York Daily News)

Salon: Ruh-roh! New reports suggest Michael Flynn was tied to Russian hacking, and expose Trump's massive Russian business ties. But ... her facelift.

New York: Would you be surprised if it turned out that Jared Kushner was the aide who threatened Mika & Joe with National Enquirer nastiness?

New Yorker: More on how much American Media (National Enquirer, Us Weekly) mogul David Pecker LOVES Trump, goes to bat for him.

Joe.My.God.: Texas Supreme Court unanimously rules gay married couples do NOT have an automatic right to state benefits. Unreal.

Don't ask me why, but she didn't know Annie Lennox was already a music goddess. (Image via Twitter)

Kenneth in the (212): Annie Lennox gets hit up as a promising new artist (!) by a new music coordinator at an L.A. station. Named Kylie.

NY Daily News: A Florida first responder with PTSD since the Pulse gay nightclub massacre is dead-broke, being forced to go back to work.

Gerry Realin (Image via Jessica Realin)

Huff Post: When NMPOTUS Trump went nuclear with that ugly tweet about Mika Brzezinksi's bleeding facelift (he sure has an issue with women and blood), who knew it would bear such fruit for his detractors?

Aside from the completely misguided liberals still clinging to the they go low, we go high mantra (which worked for the Obamas personally, but which didn't save them from having their eight years erased by Trump), the kerfuffle has now led to the allegation that when Mika and Joe Scarborough's relationship was about to be exposed by David Pecker's American Media via National Enquirer, top aides to Trump contacted the couple to warn them and demand that in order to scotch it, the couple had to call Trump personally and apologize for their coverage.

Trump is close with the vile Pecker.

It was reportedly Jared Kushner who told Scarborough he'd have to apologize to Trump for the negative coverage of his young presidency, a request which Scarborough refused. On cue, National Enquirer published a story exposing the morning co-hosts as a couple, and it if course had a sleazy slant to it.

This is the upper echelon of the White House blackmailing members of the media who had been critical of the President, and it is yet another impeachable offense.

National Enquirer has denied being a part of any such talks, a charge which is easy enough to believe, actually — Trump and his minions feel like they own the planet, let alone David Pecker, so it's not hard to believe they might negotiate first and involve Pecker later.

I wrote it on Facebook and I'll write it here — this is not like McCain or Romney or even Bush or Reagan: If you support or admire Trump you are a garbage person. End.

(Image via Time Magazine)

Time: Go inside Game of Thrones, which is now considered the world's most popular TV series. (Ever?)

Trump needs a mirror. Actually, he probably carries a small one with him wherever he goes. (Image via Internet meme)

The Hill: Trump, whose ridiculous hair is reportedly due to a botched job by Ivana's doc back in the day, and whose wife is a mannequin, trashes Mika Brzezinski's facelift.

Salon: A firsthand account of the Stonewall Riots: “The crowd outside was loving it as they came out striking poses, but the cops weren’t loving it.”

NEA: The National Education Assocation is honoring Jim Obergefell at its annual Human and Civil Rights Awards Dinner this Saturday. 

Towleroad: Betsy DeVos is aggressively trying to make it easier for LGBTQ students to be mistreated, bullied and disenfranchised. Happy Pride!

Kenneth in the (212): Dig it! Netflix is bringing back Tales of the City!

(GIF via PBS)