Mark Bingham, Harry Styles, Ian McKellan, Simu Liu, Pete Buttigieg, Peter Staley, Rihanna, Neal Brennan, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Tiffany Haddish, Princess Diana the Musical, Hugs, Hugs, and More Hugs: #GAYNRD DAILY
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#GAYNRD DAILY the news, art, and ephemera round-up from the far flung corners of the interwebz and social media Friday September 10, 2021. Art: Hugs (above) and late summer naps (below) by Kay.
“Let’s roll.”
Mark Bingham to his fellow passengers on United Flight 93 moments before they revolted against al-Qaeda hijackers, twenty years ago. Bingham was gay.
September 11, 2001
“Whenever I try to understand how the past two decades happened, I return to that September – to that ground-zero day and its immediate aftermath. To return means coming up against a truth darker than the lies that tied the Taliban to al-Qaeda and conjured up Saddam Hussein’s illusory stockpile of WMDs. It means, ultimately, confronting the fact that the carnage and abuses that marked my young adulthood were born not only in the executive branch and the intelligence agencies, but also in the hearts and minds of all Americans, myself included.” Edward Snowden from his memoir Permanent Record.
Above: Edward Snowden
ON 9/11 “It definitely felt like it was not cool to be very committed or earnest about political things, in my pre-9/11 generation,” wrote future presidential candidate and Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg. “Afterwards, it was hard not to be.”
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FLASHBACK FRIDAY Jane Birkin and her daughter Charlotte Gainsbourg late 1960s London. The actress, model, and singer lent her name to the Hermès Birkin handbag.
MUST SEE That would be writer/comedian Neal Brennan’s stand-up show Unacceptable. David Letterman and Stephen Colbert concur.
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The show’s run has been extended through November 21, 2021. Buy tickets here.
HOW TO ARGUE with staunch conservatives.
NEW TUNES To celebrate today’s release of the impeccable Original Soundtrack for the much loved Everybody’s Talking About Jamie , the final installment has arrived with the release of ‘When The Time Comes’ (Chaka Khan). The much-anticipated film adaptation of the award-winning West End hit musical, arrives exclusively next week on Prime Video – September 17th.
‘When The Time Comes’ is available today, and features vocals from icon Chaka Khan – listen here. A groove-laden piece of rhythmic pop magic, the track sees Chaka pave the way for a chorus so memorable and inescapable, you’ll be left drenched in positivity and singing for days. Dan Gillespie Sells says of the track; “We decided that in order to complete the soundtrack for the movie, we needed an icon. We were already delighted with how multi-generational and varied the soundtrack was, including artists that chimed with the LGBTQ+ community and with Jamie’s story. But the only thing missing was a true legend that unites everyone in joy! When Chaka agreed to record this song for us we were over the moon and it ends our movie with real class!”
AOC on TikTok making right wingers mad.
TWEET OF THE DAY Tune in to Fox news tonight if you want to watch a bunch of vaccinated people who work at a place w vaccination requirements pretend they’re unvaccinated and don’t work at a place with vaccine requirements.
tune in to fox news tonight if you want to watch a bunch of vaccinated people who work at a place w vaccination requirements pretend they’re unvaccinated and dont work at a place with vaccine requirements
— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) September 9, 2021
UNLEARNING all the things you created about yourself when you were closeted.
FAN ART Wonder Woman by Dani-Kitsune.
GRINDR at a wedding.
NEW MUSIC from Twink-Supreme Troye Sivan: “I think I’m a romantic, and have definitely experienced all that comes w that over the last while. Sometimes i wonder if I’ve lost hope, and then I’ll write on a song like Angel Baby and let myself remember and daydream and fantasise for a sec. Someone who feels like a holiday ???? that’s what we all deserve. Thanks for so much love on the song and thanks to @spotify for putting this image of me tooching my booch on a billboard in times square.”
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TRANSMISSION It took just one time to get HIV.
BRAVE NEW WORLD What does The Matrix mean 20 years on?
SAMANTHA BEE salutes the TikTok activists taking the abortion fight to Texas.
FREE FALLING and free balling at Disneyland.
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FAN ART Dick takes his brothers to Disneyland.
And we love this take on Nightwing’s look.
COMING OUT in the military.
THE NATIONAL MOTTOS of the European Union.
GETTING SPUN Sir Ian McKellan on Wheel of Fortune.
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TRAVEL Camping under the stars in Kenilworth, Queensland Australia.
ON THE RACKS Peter Staley graces the cover of the September + October issue of Positively Aware. Staley, an early and pivotal member of ACT UP, has a memoir out now Never Silent: ACT UP and My Life in Activism.
COVER GIRL Rihanna on 30the Anniversary issue of Dazed. “When the music comes, whenever that is, the very notion that it ‘arrived late’ will evaporate into a lapsed, prefab calibre of impatience that simply doesn’t suit Rihanna. Because hers is a project of magnanimous proportions, dispensed on her own sweet time.
The order of things is of zero concern, and the notion of an overdue album fails to understand something very simple. Has there ever been a feeling more turned-on and simultaneously unbodied than anticipation? Has there ever been an artist whose everyday performance plays, to perfection, on this type of pleasure? If desire subsists on some measure of disquiet, along with the sport (and business) of a good tease, then being disobliged by Rihanna is, perhaps, the most luxurious value of affection out there. It is she who should be running up the bill. As critic Doreen St. Félix wrote in 2015, “…as a Black woman whose artistic inventiveness outpaces her peers and music executives by what feels like whole years, (Rihanna) will also perpetually be owed”.
To anticipate Rihanna is to experience a lucky break: the unorthodoxy of a pop star who decelerates, observes, and sizes up while still outdistancing everyone in her orbit. The Fenty universe is vast, even speculative (and worth over a billion, it’s been recently reported). The manner in which Rihanna recuses herself from forced cycles of production without withdrawing totally is strategic, sure, but also part of her appeal. The sense of ease that, like a halo, diadems all of her movements, announcements, awards, covers, deals – it brings joy. She’ll design a perfume with notes of rose and tangerine and house it in a rich, amber bottle, but nobody will bother to talk about rose and tangerine. Her smell. Her tang. That’s the premise.
“There are those who cite heaven when characterising Rihanna’s smell. Others, well, they are left speechless, blushing. Proximity to her has become an industry in and of itself. She is the ecstatic – the one who gets us all started. The artist and entrepreneur with a swerving, shimmering vision that flies high and swoops down, landing with the studied, soft power of a Yankees cap dipped low and, among other things, a deeply approachable grin. The cameras might chase, but Rihanna is never in a hurry. Her step is paced, leisurely and cool. We are the beneficiaries of what she makes known; these are the terms. Some of us, myself included, find this fun.”
Read the full story at Dazed Digital.
JUST DUCKY 48 years ago, on September 11th 1973, Howard the Duck debuted in Adventure into Fear #19.
LATE NIGHT Tiffany loves visiting Jimmy Kimmel.
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And she looks fabulous in couture.
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THE WEEK IN COMICS Our picks? The Last Annihilation: Wiccan and Hulkling #1, Dark Ages #1, Midnighter 2021 Annual, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow #3, and Superman, Son of Kal-El #2.
WORLD TOUR Harry Styles is doing it right.
WHAT MAKES DC DIFFERENT? Jim Lee explains the multiverse.
#STOPASIANHATE Shang Chi‘s Simu Liu shares his shame.
FAN ART Emiko Queen by @leendraws.
DAWN Joshua Tree National Park.
NETFLIX shared the first trailer for Princess Diana the Musical ahead of the musical’s premiere on the streaming platform on October 1 (the show will resume Broadway previews on November 2). People: Jeanna de Waal portrays the late Princess of Wales in the production, which spans from before Diana married into the royal family to finding her confidence in her 30s. The trailer replicates many memorable moments from Princess Diana’s life, from her July 1981 wedding to Prince Charles (Roe Hartrampf) to her “revenge dress,” the buzzed-about outfit worn the day Charles confessed on national television that he had been unfaithful in his marriage to Diana.
MEMETIC Wookiee love looks like this.
NEW MOON A scientist proves the existence of the bussy.
FAN ART Spider-Man: No Way Home.
VARIANTS Scott and Ororo discuss their hot girl summer selves.
PARTING SHOT Thrillist: On the series finale of Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations, which first aired in 2012, Bourdain and Williams walked around Williams’ home neighborhood of East Flatbush. They eventually make their way over to Crown Heights where they eat at the famed Caribbean restaurant Gloria’s and coincidentally run into Jamie Hector, who co-starred with Williams on The Wire.
Michael K. Williams visiting Gloria’s with Anthony Bourdain on No Reservations is an iconic Brooklyn moment. h/t @rachelholliday @timdonnelly pic.twitter.com/2WEoS1Uon3
— James Crugnale (@jamescrugnale) September 7, 2021
A sense of immense loss runs through it. Neither Bourdain nor Williams is with us anymore. Gloria’s shut down last year. But at the same time, it’s so full of joy. They chow down on oxtail and goat, sticking their forks in each other’s trays. But even before they get to the eating part of the episode, their stroll down Williams’ old block, his little barking dog in tow, is exuberant. They can’t make it two steps without being stopped by someone who knows Williams. Bourdain mentions that he introduces everyone by the contents of their fridge. “Everybody knows I was always hungry, I was always in the fridge,” Williams says.
Williams was known for playing characters—like Omar, like Chalky White on Boardwalk Empire—who often maintained tough exteriors that masked their inner lives. Here, on No Reservations, it’s all Williams, no filter, a glimpse at the person he was. You can watch the full episode on the Travel Channel’s website with a cable login, and you owe it to yourself to do so.
