NEW YORK TIMES: Legendary gay poet Edward Field died Sunday at 102. He first had sex with a man in the 1930s, bedded his platoon sergeant at boot camp in 1942, was a WWII hero and then published a dozen indelibly important works in the field that led Publishers Weekly to describe him as “irreplaceable.” The audio is not optimal, but check out Mike Balaban’s chat with Edward from about seven years ago.
BALTIMORE BANNER: RIP Baltimore gay bar owner Ron Singers, 66.
AWARDS WATCH: Rave for La Bola Negra, Netflix’s sweeping gay epic.
VARIETY: Julianne Moore is drawing raves for her work as a wallflower actor who goes full-on Method in a play. The film, The Debut is by Jesse Eisenberg, but it being compared to work by the Coen Brothers and Christopher Guest.
EXTRATV: Barbara Eden, 95, is okay after all!
NEW YORK TIMES: Germany’s far right BARELY missed an electoral majority in a key state in Germany. Still, the result is chilling in a country that has spent 80 years living down its willing descent into fascism.
POLITICO: This has seemed the case for a while now, but with the midterm election less than two months away, it seems clear that Republicans will lose at least half the seats they gerrymandered into their favor.
HUFFINGTON POST: Sen. John Fetterman (D?-Pennsylvania) shrugs off reports he is an incompetent asshole, framing the critical stories about his underperformance as being the result of some disgruntled former staffers.
Fetterman at first seemed like a disarming, sweet curmudgeon. He has morphed into an intractable obstacle. Get rid of the creep.