Henry Cavill, Katy Perry, Neil Gaiman, Steve Grand, Joey Arias, David Corenswet, Seth MacFarlane, Stan Lee, Dewayne Perkins, GHB, James Bond, and More: GAYNRD DAILY

Savas Abadsidis December 5, 2019

MEXICO CITY. Opens its first senior center for LGBTQ folks. The center, called Vida Alegre, Spanish for “Happy Life,” was founded just over a year ago by Samantha Flores, an 87-year-old transgender woman. Nothing similar exists in the country.

OBAMA OFFICIALS ENDORSE BUTTIGIEG. According to CNN, “Three former Obama administration officials are endorsing Pete Buttigieg for president, as the South Bend, Indiana, mayor continues to stress comparisons between his presidential run and that of Barack Obama’s. Obama’s former special assistant and personal aide Reggie Love is endorsing Buttigieg, the campaign said. Love, who began his time with Obama as deputy political director in his Senate office, was a ubiquitous presence at Obama’s side during the 2008 presidential campaign and at the White House through most of his first term. The endorsement is a boost for Buttigieg from a high profile African American official from Obama’s orbit at a time when the South Bend mayor is working to build support with black voters.

Buttigieg is also being formally endorsed by Austan Goolsbee, who served as the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under Obama, and Linda Douglass, the former director of communications for the White House Office of Health Reform.

STEVE GRAND. His Back to the Future themed crèche is… inspired.

TREVOR NOAH EVISCERATES BIDEN. Biden unveiled his “No Malarky” bus. OK, Boomer.

GHB. The drug, still wildly popular, is more deadly and pervasive than ever among gay men who use it for chemsex, often accompanied by cocaine and crystal meth.

HENRY CAVILL. Rumors reported by Men’s Health magazine say that Cavill doppelgänger David Corenswet (Netflix’s The Politician) will replace him as the last son of Krypton. Corenswet is closer in age to the new Batman (Rob Pattinson) and the scuttlebutt is that Warner Bros. wants to distance its future as far as possible from the Zach Snyder directed DCU Films.

NEIL GAIMAN. Responding to reports that the Cavill recasting decisions were directly related to company insiders who think the character is no longer relevant to readers or viewers. “You don’t make it relevant,” The Sandman scribe tweeted on Monday. “You make it inspiring.”

DC Films still doesn’t know what to do with Superman, the studio reportedly is unsure how to make the character “relevant to modern audiences” https://t.co/ActQZp2O3t pic.twitter.com/EtxNICHvWT
— Forbes (@Forbes) November 29, 2019

STAN LEE. A year after the Marvel Comic’s impresario passed away, ABC will air Celebrating Marvel’s Stan Lee on Friday, Dec. 20. Celebrating takes viewers on an action-packed journey throughout the life of Lee and across the Marvel Universe, sharing never-before-seen interviews and archive footage with Lee himself from deep within the Marvel and ABC News archives.

DEWAYNE PERKINS. Watch the up and coming Black, gay comedian’s hilarious stand-up set.

SETH MACFARLANE. The Family Guy creator has given $1,000,000 to Rainforest Trust to further the international conservation organization’s work to protect rainforests and tropical habitat. “The science is clear on the connection between preventing deforestation and addressing the climate crisis. Rainforest Trust’s commitment to protecting habitat and its inherent biodiversity is fundamentally important. I wanted to support Rainforest Trust’s direct-action approach, and I hope others will join me in supporting this crucial work,” said MacFarlane.

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Seth MacFarlane attends the Fox Networks Group 2018 programming presentation after party at Wollman Rink in Central Park, in New York 2018 Fox Networks Group Upfront, New York, USA – 14 May 2018

FACEBOOK. May finally have a real threat to its global social media dominance. “In a bid to move away from the data-driven model favored by Facebook with monetized, targeted ads, Wikipedia cofounder Jimmy Wales is launching something of an anti-Facebook.”

The recently launched a new social network, WikiTribune Social — WT:Social, as it’s also called, will instead be supported by donations from a group of users.

Though the platform naturally has nowhere near as many users as Facebook, it told The Independent that it had managed to draw in over 200,000 members within days of its launch.

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales.Wikimedia Commons

JAMES BOND. Is back, but so is a new 007 in the first trailer for the next installment in the super spy franchise, No Time To Die.

TWEET OF THE DAY. The world is his oyster.

my boyfriend ejaculated a kidney stone into my hole. i’m keeping it there. little pussy pearl
— pussy pearl king ⚪️ (@vanillatrapsoul) December 4, 2019

BLACK WIDOW. Scarlett Johansson returns as the titular character and founding member of The Avengers, Natasha Romanoff. Although the character died in Avenger’s End Game, the movie takes place at some point before those events occurred in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and involves her returning to her homeland of Russia to settle some unfinished business. It looks dope.

DEEP BLUE. You’re moment of Zen.

Blue colour of water???????? pic.twitter.com/UaNN4I8qKX
— Ocean diversity (@Oceandiversity2) December 5, 2019

JOEY ARIAS. Is going to Harvard. “Drag queen, cabaret singer, performance artist, and legendary legend Joey Arias has donated a collection of his papers to the Harvard Theatre Collection at Houghton. According to curator Matt Wittmann, the Arias Archive includes nearly 70 boxes of photos, correspondence, artwork, posters from shows, and audio materials.”

Arias’ 40+ year career began as a window dancer and salesperson at ’70s-era it-store Fiorucci. Since then, he has racked up an impressive run of performances that include “R-rated puppet shows, a trippy rock band called Mermaids on Heroin, a gig at Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas and singing backup for David Bowie on Saturday Night Live.”

His most popular act is a cabaret show in the style of Billie Holiday.