QUEERTY: How Ryan Phillippe helped bring soaps into modernity.
Phillippe has talked about how his religious-freak parents shunned him after he played this part and also the part in Cruel Intentions.
GRINDR: “A Harness, a Pair of Wings, and a Dream: Mastering the Art of Gay Halloween.”
FACEBOOK: Iconic porn pioneer Tom DeSimone died October 17 at 87.
Before he departed, he posted this touching message on social media:
“Dear friends, It appears that my time has come to say thank you and goodbye. To Each of you who have touched my life in some small way please know that it was meant to be. Loving family, childhood friends, career enemies (LOL) and to each of you who contributed in any way to my life’s journey. To my family, you know I loved from the start no matter what.. I wish I could be more poetic but I am doing a ‘one finger exercise’ on my iPad . I am not afraid but mostly curious. I hope some of you get to experience the joy and magic fate gave me. I LOVE you all. GOOD NIGHT.”
HUFFINGTON POST: Democrat Scott Colom is inching closer, ever closer to unseating underwhelming GOPer Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith.
NEW YORK TIMES: That poll suggesting fewer teens are IDing as gay or bisexual might have been a tad overblown.
THE RANDY REPORT: Trump again says he has a right (he doesn’t) to run for a third term (which he would lose against Kamala, Kamala’s laugh, Hillary’s pneumonia and Biden’s stage-4 cancer, so maybe we should encourage him to try an unconstitutional run). Nah, let’s nip it in the bud.
HYPERALLERGIC: Revisiting L’Homme blessé (1983), “one of cinema’s most intense and haunting portrayals of a destructive gay romantic obsession.”
THE TIMES: George Northwood, hairstylist to the stars, talks about fulfilling a lifelong urge to become a father.
INSTAGRAM: Kevin Kline is 79 today.
SOCIALITE LIFE: Pedro Pascal’s gay romance De Noche will be R-rated, not NC-17.
LGBTQ NATION: Lisa Ben (get it? Sounds like “lesbian”) was the credited writer of the first-ever U.S. lesbian publication, Vice Versa. It was years before Edythe Eyde, an RKO secretary, was identified as the real woman behind the pen name. Then, once she was known for her radical gesture, she withdrew from the community.