ATTITUDE: Vlad Parker is DNA’s Sexiest Man Alive — he’s very into ass.
SOCIALITE LIFE: Dolly Parton’s chauffeur and personal assistant was Jason Pirro, a trans man who was outed as such in 1990. Dolly stuck with him.
PINK NEWS: Be more like Dolly and less like Charles Barkley. The moron thinks there are trans women playing in the WNBA, and refers to them as men.
FINANCIAL TIMES: Grindr’s George Arison is banking on wealthy gay men shelling out even more money for better and better matches.
NEW YORK TIMES: I’ve linked to items about the new Marlon James novel before, but this NYT review is a wow: “This Masterpiece Is the Novel of the Decade, it Not the Century.”
VARIETY: Randy Quaid really ruined a lot of moves retroactively; he was bad to okay in them at the time, but now that he’s a QAnon weirdo, it’s fucking hard to accept him in Brokeback Mountain. Turns out he was also in Days of Thunder — and now that Tom Cruise is doing a sequel with Anne Hathaway, turns out Quaid has unsolicited thoughts. See, he thinks Anne is too “woke” and Tom needs “the original girl.” (His ex-wife, Nicole Kidman.)
THE MOTH: This has been out a while, but Doug Wright’s crush on John Boy is evergreen: