ABOVE: Rafael Nadal ... is a legend.

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Bar Shozan, a Canadian Japanese eatery, used gay conversion therapy in a social media post meant as a joke. And then used #conversiontherapy as a hashtag. 

Yeah, I imagine their food is probably as tasteless as the joke.

From here.

ABOVE: I guess he felt cute, and won't likely delete this later.

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Ryan O'Connell's groundbreaking — and just plain funny — series Special is returning for its second and final season on Netflix May 20.

Check out the teaser ...

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ABOVE: For the win.

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Fashion designer Alber Elbaz, who was favored by such stars as Meryl Streep, has died at 59 from COVID-19. 🙏 https://t.co/Zaw2o9RvoV

— ExtraTV (@extratv) April 25, 2021

How tragic that Alber Elbaz — named in 2007 as one of the TIME 100 and a universally well-liked designer — has succumbed to COVID-19 just months after mounting a comeback with his AZ Factory line.

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Elbaz is survived by his partner of 27 years, Alex Koo, who had worked with him during his most influential years at Lanvin.

Full obit here.

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Alan Light sent me this link to his footage of a gay house party in Davenport, Iowa, from 30 years ago. Nothing too eventful happens (though some are clearly thinking, “Why is this guy filming me at a gay party?!”), but it's still an interesting sociological slice of gay life from the It's a Sin era — but in the middle of the U.S.

Alan says several people here would later die of AIDS. I hope their families and friends see this unusual documentation — not many people had the forethought and balls to show up to parties like this with a video camera ...

ABOVE: This bitch is playing Divine in Halston. Good choice.

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