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19/09/2026

Nothing like getting engaged under a full moon. Congratulations!

18/09/2026

This is a DISASTER, and it's getting worse. Days after top travel executives sat down with Trump to fix America's tourism collapse, the government's own numbers show August was the worst month yet — with international visits falling 12% from a year ago.

July was down 7%. August was down 12%. The problem isn't leveling off. It's accelerating.

And it's not one bad market dragging down the average. Every single region fell. Africa: down 25.5%. Central America: down 20.6%. Western Europe: down almost 15%.

Of the top 20 countries that send tourists to the US, only three grew at all: Israel, Taiwan, and Poland.

So far, travel to the U.S. is down nearly 6% year-over-year.

The industry had one job this summer: make the World Cup work. Instead, host cities cut hotel rates by a third just to fill rooms, and the tournament came and went without moving the needle.

Meanwhile, the United Nations' own tourism agency just slashed its global growth forecast in half, from 3-4% down to 1-2%, specifically because the US is dragging the whole world's numbers down.

The travel bonds. The visa crackdowns. The rhetoric. The world is watching how America treats visitors, and right now, it's repsonding with its wallet.

18/09/2026

I'll be that support. I'll be the whole support group. I'll set up a folding table and bring snacks.

Olympic swimmer Alex Di Giorgio competed for Italy at two Olympics while hiding who he was.

He came out publicly on Italian Dancing with the Stars, then went on to become part of the show's first openly gay male pairing.

Now he's dating Italian TV personality Tommaso Zorzi, and reflecting on what visibility could have meant for him earlier in his career.

"In the past, I may not have had the support I would have needed, but I still managed to make it," he said.

He's now 35, still training, still acting, still showing up for LGBTQ+ athletes coming up behind him.

18/09/2026

I would like to join the celebration.

Some guy in Idaho isn't gonna like this.

Mamdani just filled the 200,000th hole of his administration — pothole, that is.

And he did it standing next to the workers who actually made it happen. He used the entire moment to lift up city workers, telling New Yorkers the "Mayor Mamdani fix this" trend isn't magic.

It has an actual explanation: city workers show up.

The data shows that, since Mamdani took office, pothole repairs are up 27%, tree planting is up 61% to 55,000 trees, bus lanes have doubled from 5.5 to 12 miles, beach attendance is up 90%, and crime is at an all time low.

Turns out good things happen when you elect good people.

17/09/2026

I think he should do MORE photoshoots like this once he’s in Congress.

Back in 2010, Chris Gallant modeled gear for Mr. S Leather — the legendary San Francisco shop that's basically a landmark for anyone who's ever wandered SoMa or hit Folsom Street Fair.

He’s also an Army National Guard Black Hawk pilot, volunteer firefighter, former FAA air traffic controller, and union leader.

And now, he's running for Congress on Long Island. And he's still hot.

The New York Post dug up photos from that shoot with his then-partner and splashed them across the front page like they'd caught him committing a crime.

Gallant's response: "I wasn't scared flying Black Hawks in the Middle East. I'm not scared of some pictures."

“I am very proud of who I am. And I won’t be shamed into silence,” said Gallant. “I won’t allow my private life to be distorted and weaponised against me.”

“This represents everything that is wrong with our politics today,” he added.

Let's be clear about what Republicans actually consider disqualifying versus what they shrug off.

A gay veteran in a leather harness a decade ago: front-page scandal.

An administration sitting on Epstein's client list: no big deal.

A president who paid hush money to an adult star: leader of the free world.

Gallant flew combat missions, fought fires, and kept planes from colliding midair.

Somewhere in there he also posed for photos at a shop half of gay San Francisco has walked into at least once.

This is not a scandal. It’s a Tuesday in the Castro.

17/09/2026

This guy is somehow still FBI Director — and he just dropped be******ty as an automatic disqualifier for new hires.

This is not satire, and it's not a headline from The Onion.

Republican Sen. John Kennedy asked him about it point blank during a Senate Judiciary oversight hearing this week, and Patel's answer was "We are not into be******ty."

That was followed by a genuinely bizarre aside about "great canines" that left the room stunned and even fellow Republicans visibly baffled.

The FBI used to auto-reject any applicant with this kind of history. Now those cases get reviewed individually instead of an automatic no.

This is the same FBI under the same administration that spent years insisting it stands for "law and order" and "traditional values."

For over a decade, conservative politicians rolled out the exact same "joke" every single time marriage equality came up: "What's next, marrying your dog?"

Turns out they weren't joking. They were workshopping future HR policy.

Make it make sense.

16/09/2026

OKAY, we need to talk about Mister Kansas.

John Ahlstedt competed in the Mister USA pageant this month in an American flag Speedo that broke the gay internet within hours.

A compilation of the pageant's top 10 swimsuit looks started making the rounds, and while every guy in it was objectively working with something, Ahlstedt stood out — skin-tight flag Speedo among a sea of swim shorts.

Naturally, the g**s tracked him down within hours.

Then came the plot twist: Ahlstedt isn't gay. He's a straight ally, and a loud one. He wore pink nail polish on the runway, announced his pageant run in front of a "Love is love" flag, and his Instagram profile pic shows him in a shirt that reads "ICE can gargle my ...."

He's used his platform to push back on the Trump administration's treatment of trans people and immigrants, telling critics to have the debate "in good faith" instead of using trans kids as a political football while everyday people struggle with the cost of living.

He placed 5th in the pageant. Doesn't matter.

He already won the only contest that counts 👀

15/09/2026

Big Ben meets Big Ben 👀

Busy week seeing Jinkx Monsoon in Oh, Mary!, Vanessa Williams in The Devil Wears Prada, Hillary Duff at the O2. London is being extra extra lately. Here's where to find the gayest corners of the city (besides the six-pack in this photo):

📍 Old Compton Street, Soho — the beating (thumping, really) heart of gay London since forever. Rainbow flags, day-drinking, and enough eye contact to fill a season of reality TV.

📍 The RVT (Royal Vauxhall Tavern) — a protected historic landmark because it's THAT important to q***r London. Secretly visited by Princess Di — look it up. Drag, cabaret, glorious chaos, since 1861.

📍 Heaven nightclub — tucked under the arches by Charing Cross, open since 1979, still one of the best nights out in Europe. Yes, it's exactly as fun as it sounds.

13/09/2026

We're all trying to find who's responsible for this!

Republicans tried to embarrass a socialist streamer at their own convention with one of his thirst traps — instead they just made him one of the fastest-rising searches on Google.

During the opening night of the RNC's midterm convention in Dallas, organizers played a video on the giant screens showing a 2024 Instagram selfie of Twitch streamer Hasan Piker. It was clearly meant as a dig.

It backfired instantly.

Google searches for "Hasan Piker shirtless" spiked 5,000% within hours of the moment hitting the screen. Zero searches the day before. Thousands the day after.

He watched the whole thing live on his own stream and couldn't stop laughing. They "posted the meat pic!" he said.

Then he clapped back, joking that Republicans were trying to "make blexas happen" — turning deep-red Texas blue, one thirst trap at a time.

The RNC had an entire convention full of material to push. Trump himself took the stage that same night. But the only thing everyone was interested in afterward was a gym selfie from 2024.

13/09/2026

Especially when they see Hasan Piker shirtless.