VARIETY: Orville Peck dedicates perf to “all the gay cowboys.” Meanwhile, he stripped (not all the way) down for Playgirl.
DEADLINE: Liberal-state AGs have caved — the Paramount deal is set to go through, and the entertainment business will never be the same. Huge win for Trump on his way out the door.
G&LR: From his forthcoming memoir, legendary gay-porn director Phil Tarley writes about sex on the NYC subway system in 1964
“On the uptown side, a muscular young man with long blond hair in a black leather jacket saunters down the stairs. We stare across the tracks, at first nonchalantly, then more intently. He feels like an unattainable fantasy; after all, there are four tracks between us.”
NEW YORK TIMES: Trump and Grenell are actively purging art from the Kennedy Center. It would appear Trump won’t rest until the building is looted and leveled.
LGBTQ NATION: Pietro Graza was chained up for 36 hours and dumped in a hotel in Equatorial Guinea. Yet, he’s (a gay man) from Brazil, one who was deported from Arizona. Once his phone was taken earlier this month, he became completely unreachable — in a petrostate where gay men are routinely battered and raped.
STOLEN HOLIDAY: Cher, the movie star.
QUEERTY: Josh Dixon talks about being on Team USA and his influencer side.
THE GUARDIAN: There’s talk that Andrew Scott could become the first out gay actor to win a Best Actor Oscar.
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: Hudson Williams recounts how surreal it felt to get back to work on Heated Rivalry after the show blew up, making him and Connor Storrie famous overnight.
AUTOSTRADDLE: I can’t bring myself to watch Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story, even though there’s gay shit in it.