DNA: Are we about to re-enter the boy-band era?
BROADWAY WORLD: The Human Rights Campaign honored Marcia Gay Harden, André De Shields and Junior LaBeija.
EW.COM: Will Reeve, Christopher and Dana Reeve’s son, has announced he just battled aggressive testicular cancer. He lost a testicle and “dozens” of abdominal lymph nodes, but reports feeling lucky to have been cured.
SAN ANTONIO CURRENT: See, I’m confused. I came up in a time when George W. Bush was the dumbest, war-crimiest, most incompetent possible president, and when Karl Rove was Satan hisself. And now here we have Rove being icked out by how Nazi-ish the GOP has become and calling out Texan criminal Ken Paxton? I mean, he’s still trash but — how could I not have detected there would be wiggle room for even worse people beneath him?!
INSTAGRAM: Madonna’s ex and longtime pal Tony Ward was a surprise cameo during her fab “Danceteria” number that opened the MTV VMAs, and he responded to my request for his thoughts on the experience:
“It was fun. Crazy, lots of moving parts. I had a really great time. The dancers were great with me. It was very inspiring to see them dance. Everybody was quite sweet She is, live, a machine, when she gets going. I was very impressed with her. Had a good time with Debi, too. I shared my dressing room trailer with Seth Rogen. I had many good moments with Madonna. Such good energy. I felt a full circle. Very happy I did it. And she made sure I had some camera moments with her onstage. All good.”
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: Fueled by Madonna and Taylor Swift, the VMAs hit an 11-year ratings high. This has to be the only award show in recent memory to increase its viewership.
OUT.COM: Jay Vinnedge of The Traitors has been prancing around like a proud queen — and then suddenly mentioned he’s married to a woman. It was a jaw-dropping moment. Mine, not his.
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: Dennis Haskins, who was the principal on Saved by the Bell, has died.
NEW YORK TIMES: Dee Brock, who created the world-famous Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, has died at 96.
PEOPLE: Archaeologists have unearthed the school where Aristotle taught Alexander.
ADVOCATE: Trump is stripping LGBTQ+ language from Title IX rules, creating long-lasting damage for queer people. Cathy Renna, communications director at the National LGBTQ Task Force, says:
“This has weakened protections for all students, especially trans students, women and girls, and those who experience sexual harassment or sexual assault.
THE RANDY REPORT: Trump’s Department of Education has formally rescinded LGBTQ+ protections.
THE HUFFINGTON POST: George Santos defends Trump’s lies by saying he’s really just disrupting the matrix. We really need to — one day — stop making stupid people famous.
QUEERTY: HIV-positive performer Billy Porter urges newly diagnosed people with HIV to “choose hope.”
MIDDLE EAST FORUM: Turkey’s Erdoğan is so obsessed with being anti-gay, is he … gay?