THE RANDY REPORT: A federal judge has struck down Texas’s ban on drag shows, suggesting that anyone offended by them should, “Just don’t go.”
THEM: Anthony Bourdain was not queer, but his biopic Tony takes place in P-Town … and you almost wouldn’t know it, says Them.
LAW DORK: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has DENIED the DOJ’s request for the right to access minor patients’ personal medical records as part of a push to end all gender-affirmative care for kids. Again, no kids are having sex-reassignment surgeries, but that hasn’t stopped the right from saying it’s as common as going to school.
JOE.MY.GOD.: Sen. Jon Husted (R-Ohio) doesn’t give a fuck that a grieving family doesn’t want their loves ones used as political fodder in his hotly contested Senate race, which he is expected to lose to Sherrod Brown, a former senator who is challenging him for his seat.
THE GUARDIAN: Australian One Nation leader Malcolm Roberts is “in two minds” about whether queer people deserve equal rights at all.
NBC4: Two Columbus, Ohio, gay bars are now in LGBTQ+ hands.
LGBTQ NATION: Everton Blair has become Georgia’s first out gay congressperson.
THE NEW YORK TIMES: NYT frames Darline Graham winning the South Carolina Republican senatorial primary as a sign Trump’s influence hasn’t gone away. Uh, she was the sister of the asshole (Sen. Lindsey Graham) South Carolina voters returned to time and again. I would think her relationship with him trumped a nod from Trump. (Also, stay stupid, South Carolina.)
PEOPLE: Post-rehab, Lil Nas X is celebrating his 10,000th day alive.
INSTAGRAM: Cher, who is also 80, remembered Dolly Parton fondly on a call to CBS News. They met via Sandy Gallin, their shared manager at the time. Notice in the above clip that CBS asshole Tony Dokoupil frames being political as a bad thing for celebrities … while chatting with Cher.
INSTAGRAM: A close friend reveals that Dolly Parton’s cancer was known to her inner circle to be unsurvivable, says she ultimately died of respiratory distress and reveals that Dolly was broken when her late husband Carl could not recognize her at the very end of his life in 2025.
BOY CULTURE: RIP to Tim Curry. The Rocky Horror Show, Rocky Horror Picture Show and Clue icon was 80.
GR8ERDAYS: RIP to Jaye P. Morgan. The demure ‘50s recording artist turned raunchy ‘70s Gong Show panelist died Monday at 94.