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SHOT BY LESTER: Mountain Lion is a new book written by and starring Andrés Camilo and photographed by Lester Villarama. It’s $85 or $120 signed.
THE GUARDIAN: “‘Homosexuality Was Coined by a Hungarian’: The Gay-Sauna Travelogue Questioning Central Europe’s Illiberal Image.”
WASHINGTON BLADE: Owner of VIDA Fitness, the D.C. spa that was the site of a shooting November 12, is thanking the queer community for support. The one person killed was James Stuart, a gay man and LGBTQ Stonewall sports league member. Stuart was the building’s manager, and the shooter — IDed as Matt Lambert — was a disgruntled apartment owner who was suing the building over mold.
WAKE UP TO POLITICS: I feel kinda sad that so many Democratic voters passionately believe we lost our chance to impeach Hegseth because 11 Dems were not at the vote (many legitimately tied up in traffic). Had every Dem been present, the Republicans would have held the vote open for more of the missing Rs to show up anyway. Plus, the Senate is not voting to impeach. So, he’ll get his ass impeached by the new Congress. And probably then it still won’t be enough for some.
THE ADVOCATE: Stella Parton happily accepted The Advocate’s Advocate of the Year Award at the OUT100 gala on behalf of her late sister Dolly Parton. Lily Tomlin was on hand, saying of Dolly:
“Dolly proved that you don’t have to choose between tradition and acceptance. You can be a Christian girl from Tennessee who loves transgender people.”
OUT: At the same ceremony, Lisa Kudrow handed Andrew Scott his Icon of the Year honor. (He did Season 3 of The Comeback.) He said:
“I just want to say one thing about friendship, and queer friendship particularly. I feel — of course I love my straight friends — but as I move through life, I feel like the friendships and the connections that I’ve made with queer people have just been more and more and more important to me and our shared experience and the common interest, and most of all really, our sense of humor … When you’re going through a bad time, the first thing that you may need is maybe not a hug but someone to make you laugh, someone to make fun of you, someone to just look towards the light. I feel like our community is so excellent at that. We have to just understand how resilient and how emotionally intelligent having a sense of humor is.”
THE RANDY REPORT: Florida is still a shithole — a Miami city commission is considering disbanding the city’s LGBTQ Advisory Board.
OUTSPORTS: Soccer star Felix Nmecha has been formally asked to stop doing his Crowns Down goal celebration, as it’s linked to an anti-LGBTQ Christian group.
CHICAGO TRIBUNE: RIP Richard Posner, one of the most influential jurists and legal scholars ever. A same-sex marriage skeptic in the ‘90s, he was one of the architects of the gay freedom to marry.
HUFFINGTON POST: The longest ground stoppage of flights since 9/11 is everyone’s fault except for former reality star turned Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy’s. So says Sean Duffy.
THE ADVOCATE: My boy Robert Garcia is demanding answers about the stoppage.
AP NEWS: Finally, the AP has decided to officially call the race in Colorado’s 4th District — and MAGAt Lauren Boebert has lost her race in a “safe red” district by about 3,500 votes. Glad she is handing off power to someone else. (BTW, the victor, Eileen Laubacher, is a Navy vet who was a lifelong Republican before running.)
DAILY KOS: Bobby Pulido, one of the many red-to-blue reps set to enter the House of Representatives in January, is a Grammy-winning Tejano singer.
PINK NEWS: Musician John Violinist aka John Randolph asked for those celebrating anniversaries to stand at his recent show, then pointedly snubbed the only gay couple.
EXTRATV: Jeff Lewis wants us to believe that of the two of him, his ex is the “challenging” one.
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: Seems like a particularly bad year for voice actors — Dawn Greenhalgh, voice of Queen Celeste in the Babar cartoons, has died at 93.