ABOVE: The great Johnny Slash.

BELOW: Keep reading for yes homo from Luke Macfarlane, suicide by plane averted, CNN goes MAGA and more ...

ABOVE: Sean ... Sean.

BELOW: Keep reading for Michael K. Williams's words from beyond the grave, Dark Brandon's supremacy, Trump's cooked goose, a gay NYC nightlifer gets the #MeToo treatment and more ...

The boys (and girl) in the band

Last week, I was invited to a special reception and preview performance of the revival of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart, which you will—and should, immediately—find at the Golden Theatre. A show widely regarded as a seminal part of gay and AIDS history is having its Broadway debut; it is co-directed by Joel Grey and George C. Wolfe; and its stars include Ellen Barkin (finally good again in something good again!), Joe Mantello (the director's first acting gig since the original Angels in America), Lee Pace, Jim Parsons, John Benjamin Hickey, Patrick Brreen, Mark Harelik, Luke MacFarlane, Richard Topol and Wayne Alan Wilcox...for those reasons, sight unseen, this was always going to be a must-attend. But having seen it, I can't unsee it, am likely to forget it and can't recommend it highly enough.