ABOVE: I'll take both!

BELOW: Keep reading for Billy Eichner, John Fetterman and straight girls on poppers ...

ABOVE: Joe Lando, one of the sexiest 60-year-olds alive.

BELOW: Keep reading for yet another '80s-music star dying before his time, a 12-year-old takes his own life over bullying, Broadway honors Sondheim ...

ABOVE: Something-something ugly-cry.

BELOW: Keep reading for a gay breakup, Meghan McCain thrashing Lindsey Graham, Biden closing in on Build Back Better deal, Kyrsten Sinema's wickest, witchiest stunt yet and more ...

ABOVE: Gosh, 40+ years after Madonna arrived in NYC and went to the center of it all, Times Square, and 34 years after the massive Who's That Girl movie premiere there, and 33 years after I arrived in NYC on my first trip here to see her in Speed-the-Plow, I'll be back in Times Square tonight for her Madame X movie premiere. Wish me luck.

BELOW: Cassandra Peterson introduces her partner of 19 years, gay Republicans mad that Biden called out anti-LGBTQ countries for some reason, here comes the Academy Museum and more ...

ABOVE: Buddy forever!

Bonus image — '70s Yianni ad. Gay men LOVE their jewels. (Image via Yianni)

BELOW: Keep reading for Trump's 9/11 snub and 2024 wink, remembering gay heroes Mark Bingham and Father Mychal Judge, how the end of Flash spelled the end of a wealth of 9/11 information, a gay teacher fired and more ...

ABOVE: Not your father's robe. (Though those can be fun, too.)

BELOW: Keep reading for the South African gay movie Moffie, RIP Prince Philip and (more so) Anne Beatts, Lil Nas X's Satan Shoes recalled and more ...

Dr. Levine, who endured anti-trans rhetoric during her confirmation hearing. (Image via video still)

Making history, Dr. Rachel Levine today became the first trans person to win Senate confirmation to a government post — Assistant Secretary for Health.

Levine, who made a name for herself as Pennsylvania's COVID-19 czar, won 52 votes vs. 48 who voted against. All Democratic senators were on her side, and she picked up the support of Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) along the way:

ABOVE: This is like trigger food for me.

BELOW: Keep reading for a trans traitor, Trump's tax return blues, Clarence Thomas's latest pube in the Coke, a Trumper gets put on ice and more ...