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#GAYNRDDAILY Our sometimes daily, but always relevant round-up of news, art, tweets, anecdotes, and ephemera from around the world and social media for September 30, 2022.
QUOTE OF THE DAY This quote by Arundhati Roy lives rent-free in my head:
“There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless’. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.”
DQ realness at night.
COVER BOY Tomas ripped his jeans.
BACK TO BASICS
WHO’S WHO It’s an Owl fool.
TAKE MY MONEY Pre-order your Grogu Tamagotchis. Coming January 27, 2023.
Grogu Tamagotchis are releasing on January 27.
Pre-order here: https://t.co/eQMOX1DK9J pic.twitter.com/kYGMEGMMdg
— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) September 30, 2022
IT’S A SMALL terrifying world.
SHE-HULKS
TWEET OF THE DAY #facts
When you incorporate every note from the studio, network, director, and producer. pic.twitter.com/y4Nx1MsbLe
— Gennefer Gross (@Gennefer) September 29, 2022
BETTE MIDLER “I don’t need Hocus Pocus 2 to burnish my gay icon status.” No, Page Six, she does not!
MONKEY BUSINESS LGBTQ+ Organizations Call on Congress to Urgently Approve Increased Funding to Address the Monkeypox Crisis.
In response to the nationwide MPX (monkeypox) public health emergency, President Biden requested that Congress allocate $4.5 billion in emergency funding, including $1.6 billion to strengthen vaccine manufacturing and hundreds of millions more to support state and local testing, vaccination, and treatment efforts. Congress heinously chose not to include this funding in a Continuing Resolution, endangering the lives of LGBTQ+ people across the country. As the outbreak continues to disproportionately impact LGBTQ+ communities and, more specifically, Black and Latinx individuals, Congress has failed to allocate one cent in response. As a result, states, local health departments, and community-based organizations have effectively been abandoned at this crucial point in the outbreak.
“The failure of Congress to respond with the urgency and funding necessary to prevent the physical and emotional suffering felt by the LGBTQ+ community is beyond disappointing. Despite the declaration of human monkeypox as a federal public health emergency, there are still too many members of Congress who do not care about our communities,” said Los Angeles LGBT Center CEO Joe Hollendoner. “What’s most appalling is that the COVID response has provided us with lessons on how to properly manage a public health crisis. Still, the lessons learned to prevent an outbreak from becoming a pandemic are not being used for the LGBTQ+ community.”
“We’re at a key inflection point where we can prevent MPX from spreading to the general population,” stated Jim Mangia, CEO of St. John’s Community Health. “If Congress fails to appropriately fund this effort, they will be responsible for creating the environment for another public health crisis— fresh on the heels of the COVID pandemic. We implore Congress to act.”
“We are dismayed to learn that critically-needed funding to address the continuing MPX public health crisis was not included in the Continuing Resolution,” said Tyler TerMeer, PhD, CEO of San Francisco AIDS Foundation. “San Francisco continues to see the harmful effects of this entirely preventable infection on members of our community—harm that is only exacerbated by the lack of a coordinated and consistent response at the federal level. We continue to call on our leaders in government to address MPX with the long overdue funding and resources we need to end this public health emergency.”
Congress’ failure to fund the nation’s response to the MPX outbreak tells us they learned nothing from HIV/AIDS, COVID, or the nation’s out-of-control STD epidemic,” said APLA Health CEO Craig E. Thompson. “All these public health disasters, all of the deaths, and all of the disease could have been reduced with some political courage and up-front funding to address emerging pandemics. Congress failed before; they have failed again. Congress must act. Their failure is not just reprehensible; it will cost us more in human suffering and higher health care costs in the long run.”
Our organizations urge Congress to approve increased funding through the regular or supplemental appropriations process to meaningfully address the MPX outbreak and the needs of impacted communities.
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BE QUIET CHARLIE! Puth’s new single.
Read more here.
ART BASEL Season Kicks Off iin Miami Beach: Lady Liberty – A Bonnie Lautenberg Retrospective at the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU: “Powerful Images of Women Championing Freedom from Two Decades of Art by Bonnie Lautenberg.”
Opens November 16 through March 26.
The Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU kicks off Art Basel Season in Miami Beach with the premiere of the new exhibition Lady Liberty: A Bonnie Lautenberg Retrospective (opens November 16th through March 26th). The new solo museum show celebrates powerful images of women from two decades of art by Lautenberg. Spanning her multiple series of photography and conceptual art, the women in these works are admired by Lautenberg for their spirit of freedom.
Above: Even Lady Liberty Lost Some of Her Freedoms in 2020. From the collection of the New York Historical Society Museum. (2020) SEG Lightbox (6 ft. x 6 ft.)
The exhibition includes her portrayals of the Statue of Liberty confronting some of today’s most challenging issues. In response to the recent Supreme Court vote to overturn Roe vs. Wade, Lautenberg created Tears of Roe – a large-scale lightbox with tears running down the Statue of Liberty’s cheeks and the word Roe added to her crown, lamenting the current challenges to women’s freedoms making headlines today. Bonnie Lautenberg is an artist, photographer and writer based in New York and Palm Beach. Her works have been featured in gallery shows, museums and art fairs throughout the country.
“I am so honored to be selected by the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU during Miami Art Week and Art Basel Miami Beach, especially at this time when women’s issues are at the forefront,” says Bonnie Lautenberg.
One of her Lady Liberty works is currently on view at the New York Historical Society Museum’s Center for the Study of American Culture, in an exhibition about how New York artists found original ways to express their appreciation for health care workers during the pandemic.
Above: Tears of Roe, by Bonnie Lautenberg (2022). SEG Lightbox (6 ft. x 6 ft.)
ALL BOYS AREN’T BLUE George M. Johnson on The Daily Show.
MUY CALIENTE Batman artist Jorge Jimenez is hot hot hot…. here holding his cover to issue #128 out next week.
FLASHBACK FRIDAY Godfrey on The Breakfast Club.
BROS Gay rom-com is light and bright while making movie history.
Billy Eichner and Luke MacFarlane star in the first major studio gay romantic comedy with an almost entirely gay cast.
SEE IT THEATERS!
PEARL NECKLACE Kweengan style.
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BRAVE AND THE BOLD #22 featuring the original founding members of the Teen Titans: Robin (Dick), Wonder Girl (Donna), Speedy (Roy), Kid-Flash (Wally), and Aqualad (Garth).
THE RENT IS TOO DAMN HIGH or something.
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PHOTOGRAPHY Harry Carr captures the idyll of life on gay beaches. From Fire Island to Sitges, the photographer shot the community of these liberated spaces for i-D magazine.
FLASH FACT When the platypus feeds, as seen in the video, the characteristic side-to-side motion of its bill serves to sensorily map out its food sources via electroreception. Because the platypus uses neither sight nor smell when feeding, it is reliant on detecting electrical impulses generated by its prey.
A BOY MOURNS HIS DOG “Not all friendships are meant to last (swipe).”
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A POEM for Friday.
#FBF Tim Drake is a #gaynrd.
SO HOT Dylan Geick doing anything really.
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“Adventuring. Riding ma steed.”
“Fulfilling destiny. Slaying Dragons.”
SIMP POST for Tom Holland.
tom holland’s torso details 🥵🫠 pic.twitter.com/ZAYCPxv88J
— alfonso (@lfonsoHolland) September 30, 2022
ULTIMATE BRO Chris Evans for Bros the movie.
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TOO SOON? Nah. Also read: “Jeffrey Dahmer was white & gay — Deal with it” over at The Los Angeles Blade.
FOOTSIE
BIG MOOD
ART AND COMMERCE Jason Todd RED HOOD Traditional commission NYCC Pre Show commissions list open, traditional or digital. Message for info.
ART AND COMMERCE If you WERE in Paris, on Thursday 29.09, Slava and Guram Gvasalia launched VTMNTS UNCENSORED.
Follow Slava on Instagram.
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SEAN FORD sends love and congratulations to Mogutin.
And Ford tastes the forbidden fruit.
workin up a sweat in the jungle 😉 pic.twitter.com/6OcTD5vjfW
— Sean Ford (@theonlyseanford) September 30, 2022
would you eat the forbidden fruit? 🍑 pic.twitter.com/z6MXIchGTQ
— Sean Ford (@theonlyseanford) September 30, 2022
DAILY YAOI
DAILY YAOI TOO
#FBF SONG Years and Years “Gold.”
Everything is brighter nowIt shimmers like a stoneAnd everything surrounds you nowIt’s you and you alone
JUST IN The WR23 cover of the calendar is out, and our crowdfunder is live! Our 2023 calendar is set to be our best ever, and you can already pre-order it by visiting worldwideroar.org #CALENDAR #WR23 #CROWDFUNDER
CROCODILE COLTON Says good bye to Bondi Beach.
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NATIONAL COMING OUT DAY is October 11, 2022.
DON’T MISS your stop.
RIDE THE WAVE Best Silver Surfer ever? By Mike Allred.
TFW When you would rather top a twink… than stop and think.
DREAM JOB With The Rings of Power and House of the Dragon finally released, USDish.com is looking to pay one fantasy fan $2,000 to watch these top series and past fantasy favorites. Once the task is complete, the candidate’s final quest will be to re-imagine the infamous final episodes of Game of Thrones in summary (to be published on their site).
How to Apply All those who feel worthy, apply before October 21, 2022, 12:00 PM MST. To apply, entrants must explain in 100 words or less why they are interested in this dream job. Applicants can submit a video along with their submission to gain extra favor.
Check out the application and quest details here.
What’s the Quest? Find the fantasy show to rule them all—House of the Dragon, Game of Thrones, The Witcher, or The Rings of Power. Each entrant will have 30 days to watch 40 hours and help us determine whether the Targaryens, Elves, or Witchers deserve the top spot. The candidate will also get to write a summary of what ending they would have liked for Game of Thrones instead of the infamous one fans despised. After rising to the occasion, the winner will earn a $2,000 reward and a swag box valued at $350.
MARVEL XTREME VARIANT COVERS Because the 90s were extra.
FAREWELL Trevor Noah is leaving The Daily Show.
TEARJERKER Jim Parsons drops Spoiler Alert trailer.
They wanted a rom-com. They got a love story.
Jim Parsons, Ben Aldridge, and Sally Field star in #SpoilerAlert, from the director of The Big Sick. Only In theaters December 2. pic.twitter.com/fco3e8MyUI
— Focus Features (@FocusFeatures) September 29, 2022
KINGDOM of The Planet of the Apes is coming… The Hollywood Reporter:
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes picks up many years after War for the Planet of the Apes, the 2017 feature that concluded the previous trilogy and used motion capture technology to tell the origin story of Caesar, a chimp that leads the simians toward revolution. Andy Serkis starred as Caesar, with Matt Reeves directing the final two installments to critical acclaim.
Josh Friedman, Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver, and Patrick Aison will pen the script. Joe Hartwick Jr. Jaffa, Silver and Jason Reed are producing, with Peter Chernin and Jenno Topping executive producing.
Planet of the Apes, based on the 1963 novel by Pierre Boulle, was first adapted for the screen in the 1968 film starring Charlton Heston, which spawned four sequels and two TV series. Tim Burton directed a 2001 reboot, and Fox relaunched the franchise in 2011 with Rise of the Planet of the Apes. To date, the films have grossed $1.7 billion globally.
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes goes into production next month.
#FBF Teen Wolf edition.
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GRATUITOUS
GUYS WITH WIVES Over at Jezebel: “If there’s a particular kind of guy who is not having a great time right now, it’s the Wife Guy—a guy who has built an entire brand, or at least a running bit, around how much he loves his wife. Think: Alec Baldwin, Ryan Reynolds, former President Barack Obama, John Mulaney before last year, NBA player Steph Curry.
The Wife Guy is perhaps the bleakest manifestation of all the faults of compulsory heteronormativity because imagine a man being celebrated because he “really loves his wife!!” and we don’t see that as an indictment on the institution of marriage
— STOP DONATING TO BLM NATIONAL AND SHAUN KING (@WrittenByHanna) September 29, 2022
Ousted Try Guy Ned Fulmer broke the internet this week when he, his wife, and his (former) co-stars confirmed the great internet conspiracy theory that he’d been removed from the YouTube show for cheating on his wife with one of their producers. Yet another cheating scandal, and amongst a group of YouTubers, at that, probably wouldn’t have been so fascinating to the world had it not been for the fact that Fulmer was, if not the king of the Wife Guys, then something very close to that. Fulmer’s whole internet persona was that he loves his wife—he co-wrote a cookbook with her based on their date nights.”
BAD ASS literally.
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ROAD MAP Pete Buttigieg’s speech in New Hampshire is the best blueprint I’ve seen for (what should be) Democrats’ message this election season. He’s articulated this moment in US history and the stakes of this election so clearly – clearer than I’ve heard from anyone else.
Pete Buttigieg’s speech in New Hampshire is the best blueprint I’ve seen for (what should be) Democrats’ message this election season. 👇
He’s articulated this moment in US history and the stakes of this election so clearly – clearer than I’ve heard from anyone else. https://t.co/ZCED0fx3W8
— Nerdy Pursuit (@nerdypursuit) September 29, 2022
A NEW COVER for Frank Miller’s 300 by Jock.
STOP DROP AND ROLL with Spidey.
And again.
SORTED
LOOK CLOSELY The #Nightwing #99 cover is… wait a minute. Zoom in. Zoom in. Rotate.
PARTING SHOT TOO Tis the season.
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