ATTITUDE: Season 2 of Benito Skinner’s Overcompensating is coming to Prime February 17.
Meanwhile, he’s in Jordan Firstman’s Club Kid, which is in select theaters now and in theaters nationwide at Thanksgiving.
THE BULWARK: Christopher Pohlhaus, a neo-Nazi streamer, accidentally stayed live when he went from election reporting to whacking off with a female pal. Then, he seemed to overlook all the frantic messages from people helpfully trying to warn him of his very public mistake.
LGBTQ NATION: French First Lady Brigitte Macron has sued Candace Owens again over claims she is trans and raped her now-husband when he was underage.
REUTERS: Appropriately, the new crop of Democratic senators posed for a photo with Sen. Chuck Schumer. Minority Leader Schumer is most likely going to become Majority Leader soon. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries is a lock for Speaker of the House. Both men have naysayers, but it feels like the votes are there? (If not, Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, seems to be the most realistic alternative.)
JOE.MY.GOD.: Reports suggest Hegseth used Google searches to ferret out Black and women officers in the armed services in order to shit-can them.
NEW YORK TIMES: Right-wing Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky) is leading the charge to impeach Hegseth, basing it on a violation of the constitution.
LEGACY: RIP Rochelle Fleming, 72. She was the lead singer of First Choice, whose “Armed and Extremely Dangerous” was an early (1973) and enduring disco classic.
NEW YORK TIMES: Michael Ward Stout, a lawyer who ran the Mapplethorpe Foundation, has died.
METRO WEEKLY: “Gay Brothers, Bad Habits.”
THE STRANGER: There is a new 4K restoration of The Devils (1971) by Ken Russell.
VINCENNES SUN-COMMERCIAL: A gay man recounts enduring conversion therapy for 10 years, winding up suicidal.
OFFSCREEN: A book that is a list — I wonder how many of the 50 I’ve seen?
CBS NEWS: A cop was caught on video interacting with a teen and calling the kid an anti-gay slur.
VARIETY: Jonathan Bailey and Bill Nighy will star in the gay romantic drama Insomniac City by Dominic Cooke. Cooke directed On Chesil Beach (2017) and The Courier (2020) and was, at one point, supposed to direct a feature film of Follies.
EXTRATV: Russell Brand will spend the better part of 10 years in prison before becoming eligible for parole. The judge pointed out that several of his crimes were perpetrated in public, suggesting a particularly depraved indifference to his victims’ humiliation.
THE GUARDIAN: Kerr Smith remembers having to do like TEN takes of his famous Dawson’s Creek kiss.
TIMES UNION: A “Big Gay Market” that’s a big deal for helping LGBTQ+ youth.
US WEEKLY: Matt Gaetz’s wife actually lets him fuck her.
CBS SUNDAY MORNING: Julia Garner was tapped — by Madonna — years ago to play Madonna. Will that long-simmering biopic ever really happen? Maybe not, but she seems to have made a lifelong friend.