KENNETH IN THE (212): The queer and queer-adjacent mags of the week.
HUFFINGTON POST: Trump, sweating like a pig, was told to his fat face that he might be unwell. It really pissed him off.
NEW YORK TIMES: Right after her fiancé openly said he would vote against El-Sayed (why does he even need to go public with his vote?), losing Democrat Rep. Haley Stevens will campaign in person with El-Sayed in Michigan to help him in that tight race “A house divided.”
INSTAGRAM: See above. I’m with her!
YOUTUBE: Another brilliant response to GOPism.
JOLT: Forty years of gay rights in Olympia, Washington.
ORLANDO WEEKLY: Queer-owned businesses systematically wiped from Instagram.
AMC+: Yaga, the first Hudson Williams project since Heated Rivalry, is streaming now.
INSTAGRAM: Ian McKellen is remembering his close pal Patrick Stewart with a touching tribute:
“Before everything else, Patrick was defined by being born and bred in Yorkshire, the proud county in the north of England which he loved to the end. You could hear it in his accented voice and in the stern honesty with which he told you what he thought and felt. Yorkshiremen have no truck with half-truths or avoidance of big issues. He wore his heart on his sleeve, which made him a man to rely on, to admire and in my case, love.”
“We first met as ambitious young actors with the Royal Shakespeare Company half a century ago but we weren’t in the same productions. My first strong memory was a few years later, meeting him in the street in central London when he told me about an offer to take over a leading part in Star Trek. ‘But Patrick think of your stage career in the UK. Do you really want to risk—getting lost in Hollywood for years and years?’. Well, he took the risk and thank goodness for us all that he did for not just his devoted Trekkies but film and theatre audiences, who marvelled at his using international celebrity to star in a string of cinema successes (X-Men of course) and in great classical plays by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Arthur Miller, Peter Shaffer, Pinter and Beckett at Stratford-upon-Avon, in London’s West End and on Broadway.”
“America was his adopted home, where he met his adored Sunny who has cared for him through sickness and health, through thick and thin. But he never forsook his origins: and the proudest achievement of the most respected and beloved actor of his generation on either side of the Atlantic, was his appointment as Chancellor of Huddersfield University in Yorkshire.
“His farewell performance in Avengers: Doomsday is yet to be seen.”
GR8ERDAYS: RIP Elke Sommer, the German sex kitten of the ’60s who won a defamation lawsuit vs. Zsa Zsa Gabor in 1993.