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JUNE 21, 2026
PBA GALLERIES: There is some really interesting ephemera up for grabs at PBA Thursday! Art, photography, magazines, posters, letters — a ton of queeriana.
JOE.MY.GOD.: Joe runs this every year, but I can’t find the 2026 version. Still, this essay is such a great rebuttal to the sticks in the mud who feel Pride is a “parade of defectives” who bring us down in the eyes of … people who will always hate us.
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: Casey LaLonde, a grandson of Joan Crawford’s, died suddenly at 54 last Monday. LaLonde was a controversial figure in the understandably sensitive Joan Crawford community, with some prominent sites pointing out he licensed the Crawford name without a legal right to do so, etc. I do not wish to wade into all that, but it’s shocking he died so young, just about six years after his mom, one of the twins Crawford adopted with Alfred Steele.
COLUMBIA CHRONICLE: Here comes Chicago Pride!
BRAVO: RuPaul accepts Artist of the Millennium at Las Culturistas 2026.
MS NOW: I really think Jason Page might be wrong here; this out gay sportswriter argues that players who refuse to honor Pride Night shouldn’t be punished, saying that at least we know where they stand. Where he veers into self-described Boomer territory is in writing that young people take acceptance for granted. This isn’t a great argument, because … what if a team that has had Pride Night for years announces it is doing away with it in favor of a Christian Pride Night (which shouldn’t be diametrically opposed to Pride Night, but you get where I’m going). If that happened … we shouldn’t protest? We shouldn’t, what, do anything? React? I appreciate his comments, but I think we need not give up on persuading people that gay is okay, even if it’s not who they are personally. Honoring Pride Night, performing a same-sex wedding or baking a cake for one, these are not acts that should conflict with any reasonable religious view.
BUZZFEED: I personally think that if these are gay icons, we’re reaching.
AOL: Noah Michelson writes of how not saying “gay” almost did him in.
YOUTUBE: My podcast interview with former Falcon star Dean Johnson has quickly become my most popular one so far:
Matthew, what do you mean he licensed the Crawford name without a right to it? His Mom Cathy & Cindy inherited the estate and settled with Christina and Christopher after a lawsuit.