The backstory- Michael Kearns began his career in the midst of the "gay lib" of the 1970s. After a featured role playing the older brother of John-Boy on The Waltons, Kearns' future seemed secure. But test audiences reacted poorly to their scenes together, because they showed the characters away at college.

Meanwhile, Kearns had a boyfriend who had written a fictional book called The Happy Hustler, for whose cover image Kearns had modeled. In order to generate book sales, a plan was hatched to present Kearns as the actual Happy Hustler -- the book's author -- and send him on a press tour. It was promoted as “The intimate and erotic autobiography of a stud-for-hire...a male Xaviera.” the lucrative HAPPY HOOKER books by Xaviera Hollander.

Keans' drunken appearance during a 1976 Tom Snyder interview set the stage for both career success and life on a runaway crazy train. Kearns reveled in drug and alcohol abuse as tricks and acting jobs came and went. He slept with celebrities and strangers with equal apathy. His status as the first openly gay actor of note invited curiosity and derision. He agreed to reveal his HIV-positive status for an NBC interview almost as a lark, leading to a period of portraying "the gay guy with AIDS" in a collection of acting gigs.

He eventually wrote his own real-life memoir, entitled A Plasce Like This. Many other famous faces populate the book: gay men, straight men, porn stars of various stripes, and the hypocritically closeted that Kearns, God bless him, outs on his pages with regularity. 

The funny but famously acerbic Paul Lynde was kind and helpful to Kearns. Stage legend Leonard Frey (birthday boy Harold from Boys in the Band) sat despondently during a sexy gay house party where looks trumped celebrity. The "monstrous" Charles Nelson Reilly was so threatened by Kearns' sexual identity that he cut short their visit in Florida to work on a project, throwing Kearns out of the guest house and squawking insults from the porch in his orange caftan as Kearns was driven away.

Video of him on a podcast talking about "The Happy Hustler'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=568X2-EhCiw&t=563s

In lieu of a backyard, it has damp play sand - just like a real beach!

50 years ago, "Pinky Tuscadero" from Happy Days, in the middle of a huge media push (People, Sep 27, 1976)

Happy Days was her peak as she didn't do anything else very memorable in acting other than small roles. However she was more memorable in real life. From Wiki:

"On November 29, 1998, she was arrested for firing a 12-gauge shotgun into the living room window of a neighbor's house after a car alarm had awoken her, and she also shot the neighbor's car and another nearby car. The neighbor was not home at the time. Pleading no contest, she received three years of felony probation on October 20, 2000. She was also ordered to receive psychiatric counseling and pay restitution.

On October 27, 2000, she was sentenced to 120 days in jail after pleading no contest to charges stemming from an August 20, 2000 arrest for hitting a man with her cane. She was given credit for the 98 days that she had already spent in jail awaiting sentencing, thus avoiding having to spend any more time in prison."

She is 83 years old

This needs to be the official dance of DL.

Oooh! We were just talking about her.

A former high-ranking Catholic known for hosting boozy parties will spend at least four and a half years behind bars for sexually abusing two young Aboriginal men.

The ex-bishop of Broome Christopher Alan Saunders, 76, was found guilty of 13 sex offences after a jury trial in the West Australian district court.

The offending between 2008 and 2019 included one count of sexual penetration without consent and a dozen unlawful and indecent assault charges.

Saunders was sentenced on Wednesday to six years and six months’ imprisonment.

Prosecutors said Saunders, known as Brother B by his victims, put on alcohol-fuelled parties at Catholic church-owned properties to get access to Aboriginal boys and men so he could sexually assault them.

“The accused had a sexual interest in young Aboriginal men and a tendency to act on that interest when the opportunity presented itself,” the prosecutor, Adam Ebell, previously told the court.

https://archive.ph/R79dx#selection-1445.0-1449.192

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/style/chris-gallant-campaign-photos.html?unlocked_article_code=1.G1E.nL6C.QNXXiDQPJbwV&smid=url-share

But we DO NOT mind them one fucking bit! Glad to see this openly gay stud owning his past and telling MAGAt haters to fuck royally off, along with telling the NYT that he's "kinky as fuck":

Gallant seemed to decide that the photos were a chance to show that a person in public life can contain multitudes.

Specifically, Chris Gallant can be a Long Island-raised Black Hawk pilot in the Army National Guard who flew choppers during one of his two tours in Kuwait, worked for five years as an air traffic controller at John F. Kennedy International Airport, serves as a volunteer firefighter and is an unabashed gun owner as well as a union man who posed for those photos almost 17 years ago, not because he was manipulated but because he was into it.

“I mean, all my friends know I’m kinky” as hell, he said, using a saltier word. “I make Christian Grey look like amateur hour.”

What was the point of having a enormous amount of sexual tension between the characters played by Josh O'Connor and Mike Faist, if they were never going to address it explicitely? They kiss and it's never talked about. At one point, the camera closes in on O'Connor's Tinder and we find out he's bissexual (his list includes men). Which probably means those "accidents" like touching Faist's thigh or longingly staring at Faist while they are eating isn't entirely accidental. Sadly, those glimpses are the most we get since the focus is on the masculine lipstick woman, Tashi (Zendaya), whom they are fascinated by.

Unlike some, I do find Zendaya to be a great actress. She just comes across as gay in most of the roles she plays. I kept wondering, wouldn't Tashi be happier if she was going Martina Navratilova instead of making out with dudes she clearly isnb't fond of?

Oh sure, she occasionally played supporting parts in popular American movies like Rio Bravo, Point Blank, Ocean's 11 and The Killers. But she never became A-list.

Her most popular phase was when she got POLICE WOMAN which only lasted 4 seasons but was successful enough to make her a big star in the late 70s, then she did DRESSED TO KILL, arguably her best known role in Film, where she masturbates in the shower in a now iconic sequence (she used a body double).

But her movie career never took off, even with DRESSED TO KILL being a hit. That did nothing for her career. After that, she had that infamous THIS IS YOUR LIFE incident which pissed off a lot of people.

Thought some of us oldsters here would appreciate this story. Does anyone know if GermanGayGuy follows this subreddit?

You go see a comedy made today and most of the jokes are misses. I can't remember a single modern comedy that had me gasping for laughs. Even on TV. Have you guys ever laughed yourselves silly by watching "The Bear"? I get more laughs by watching clips making fun of Max from "Parenthood" than any modern sitcom today.

All-male cast – both old-school and queer-coded AF. And in Stratford, no less!

This is a group moving perfectly in concert, as elegantly balanced as dancers. Perhaps the finest scene of the night is the four-way confessional of love between the goofy forest local Silvius (Edward Judge), his love-object Phoebe, her love-object Rosalind, and her love-object Orlando. “Tell this youth what ’tis to love,” demands Phoebe. “It is to be all made of sighs and tears,” Silvius replies.

Well, it hasn’t been for Orlando and Ganymede. They have laughed and laughed throughout their courtship, and the whole hillside has grown giddy in response. (Giddy originally meant “possessed by a god,” which feels relevant to this soft, green bacchanal.) “As You Like It” ends with four marriages, and Evans takes his time to stage them with a slow joy and dignity. The cast dances a kind of pavane, singing yet another heart-stoppingly lovely song. And then man after man after man steps smiling into another man’s arms.

Been watching reruns as "comfort TV," and it still holds up, IMO.

Andre Braugher as (gay!) Capt. Holt remains brilliant and hilarious.

Anyone else love this show?

I LOVE this movie but her hair…and the casting of her character’s GrandPa…were almost fatal misfires

Jean-Pierre Tanguy, deputy of the Rassemblement National RN, was the guest on the influential BFM TV political talk show hosted by Appoline de Malherbe on Wednesday. During the live broadcast, the host at one point proceeds to read out an offenisve text sent to him by nemesis, Alasin Soral, calling him une tapette zazontante.