Emil Wilbekin, Big Bird, Grace Jones, Tom Holland, Damon Young, Bernie Sanders, Zendaya, Neil Gaiman, Jodie Turner-Smith, Joshua Jackson, William Shatner, Ilana Glazer, The DILFS of Disneyland, and More: #GAYNRD DAILY #TGIF ????????
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IT’S FRIDAY Welcome to #GayNrd’s daily round-up of cool things on the web for May 21, 2021. Art above by @mieillee. More below.
AT 73 Grace Jones Is Still The Most Fabulous Beauty Icon We Have. Vogue: “It’s hard not to feel delighted while perusing photographs of Grace Jones, who turns 73 today. Born in Jamaica, she quickly rose to prominence in the ’70s as a singer, model and actress, working with everyone from Helmut Newton and Guy Bourdin to Yves Saint Laurent – and famously frequenting Studio 54. With a powerful, disco-led aesthetic – from those wonderfully striking Philip Treacy headpieces to her lurex, sharp-shouldered suits and all manner of shine – she also pioneered a beauty look as fantastical, directional and uniquely her as her ensembles. She is, to put it simply, the epitome of fabulous.”
The cheekbones! The eyeshadow! The brows! The hair! Every element of her look is as distinctive as the last, and has paved the way for a number of enduring trends, in both the beauty and fashion worlds. In fact, of her iconic shaved hair, she once said: “It made me look more abstract, less tied to a specific race or sex or tribe. I was Black but not Black; woman, but not woman; American, but Jamaican; African, but science-fiction.” We are truly not worthy.
Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield, and Tom Holland taking a selfie on the set of No Way Home.
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TIG NOTARO “ARMY OF THE DEAD is now streaming on Netflix!” #ArmyOfTheDead #zombies#ZackSnyder
BERNIE to block bombs to Israel.
ARE YOU TRYING TO GET LUCKY “Is it working?”
THE THURBER PRIZE goes to Damon Young’s Whatever Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker. The Columbus Dispatch: Young, author of the memoir “What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker,” has won the 2020 Thurber Prize for American Humor. Young was awarded the honor Friday night in a virtual ceremony presented by Thurber House, which is headquartered in the boyhood home of writer and humorist James Thurber for whom the prize is named. Young bested fellow finalists Dave Barry and Kira Jane Buxton.
Young, 42, of Pittsburgh co-founded and was editor-in-chief of “Very Smart Brothas;” he announced his departure from the website earlier this month. He is a columnist for GQ and has been published in numerous publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, New York Magazine, Time Magazine, Ebony and Jezebel magazines. Young describes himself as a “writer, critic, humorist, satirist and professional Black person.”
The Thurber Prize, honoring outstanding contributions in humor writing, originated in 1997. This year’s finalists and winner were selected by judges and fellow humorists Julie Schumacher Aaron Their and Stephen Winer.
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DEAD Ben Platt in the Dear Evan Hansen trailer.
BIG BIRD as Dr. Manhattan
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THE QUEER REVIEW SAYS OF Special on Netflix: “I knew that with season 2 of @specialnetflix the natural progression was for Ryan to find his own tribe of disabled friends. It was just really exciting because there’s so much cool disabled talent out there that doesn’t get its due.”
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TODAY’S MOOD
Ila Glazer in Broad City.
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FRIDAY CUTIE “Make a wish and it might come true.” ????????swipeee????
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MUST READ Midnighter #7 is a perfect comic & an ingenious puzzle box! So, OF COURSE, it’s written by Brian K. Vaughan. Darick Robertson & Karl Story provide gorgeous art that helps pull off the trick of the 1st ever comic to run BACKWARDS. WHAT?! Yes! It starts at the end. Just read it!
MIDNIGHTER #7 is a perfect comic & an ingenious puzzle box!
So, OF COURSE, it’s written by Brian K. Vaughan.
Darick Robertson & Karl Story provide gorgeous art that helps pull off the trick of the 1st ever comic to run BACKWARDS.WHAT?!
Yes! It starts at the end.
Just read it! pic.twitter.com/DJCDs2JOBI— Dan Slott (@DanSlott) May 22, 2021
WORLD’S FINEST Superman and Batman.
DO YOU KNOW WHAT’S GOING ON IN ISRAEL? “Of course! I read.”
FLASHBACK FRIDAY The Beastie Boys and Billy Idol, “No Sleep ’til Vulcan.” ????????
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DC UNIVERSE in May. Want!
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MEET CUTE Jodie Turner-Smith Reveals How Sorry To Bother You Helped Her Meet Her Husband, Joshua Jackson. Shadow & Act: In a recent interview on Late Night with Seth Meyers, Without Remorse and Anne Boleyn star Jodie Turner-Smith talked about how she met her husband, Dawson’s Creek star Joshua Jackson. Part of their meet-up included an unlikely assist from the Boots Riley film Sorry to Bother You. “I did not show my hand at all. I saw him before he saw me, and when I saw him, I was like, ‘I want that.’ And then when he saw me, I just pretended like I didn’t see him,” she said, as reported by xoNecole.
Joshua Jackson and Pregnant girlfriend Jodie Turner Smith ignore social distancing during Corona virus Pandemic as they head for breakfast with Joshua’s mother Fiona and Jodie’s brother Brandon Antonio Giovanni Smith. The quartet braved the rainy weather to enjoy a family meal in Los Angeles. 14 Mar 2020 Pictured: Joshua Jackson,Jodie Turner Smith, Fiona Jackson, Brandon Antonio Giovanni Smith. Photo credit: Dean/Rachpoot/MEGA TheMegaAgency.com +1 888 505 6342
She said she was wearing the shirt Tessa Thompson wore in Sorry to Bother You, which helped him notice her.”…[H]e shouts across the room, ‘DETROIT!’ And I was like, ‘Uhhhhhh.’ And then he came over,” she said.
#FBF Animal Man #17 Cover by Brian Bolland.
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GIRL DICK or boyclit?
Nightwing and Bitewing by by Sarah Leuver.
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WHAT SAID THAT she did.
FLASH BACK FRIDAY video. This is our jam. The Magician – Sunlight feat. Years & Years (Official Video).
THEY’RE PROLLY just rommates.
COVER BOY Damn he fine.
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THE DILFS of Disneyworld are an Instagram thing. #sigh
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THE NATIVE SON AWARDS happened last night and founder Emil Wilbekin: “I want to start an organization to save my life.” #EssexHemphill This opening line from Essex Hemphill’s poem “For My Own Protection” is exactly how I feel about creating and building the Native Son movement, community, and platform five years ago. Last night we celebrated the #NativeSonAwards honoring @lilnasx @alphonsodavid @darrencwalker @capehartj @stevencanals and @carsonwm all mavericks, innovators, leaders, and visionaries.
I like to call it #BlackGayExcellence We also honored three hitters with the Native Son Next Awards @codyrenard @kameron_depaul and @shawnfinniebeflourishing — they are the present and the future.
It’s a privilege to do this work of community building to inspire, empower, and celebrate Black gay and queer men. I am grateful to the ancestors and Brother’s like Mr. Hemphill who used their art as activism to remind us that we deserve to be loved, seen, and respected because we matter, our lives matter, and our profound impact on this world matters.
Thank you to @proctergamble and @damondjones for your partnership, thank you @morgan.stanley and @sandralrichards for your support, and thank @rayformayor and @crystalmccrary for Co-Chairing this magical evening. Thank you @prada and @reallymollylaub for making me look and feel so good.
There are so many more folx to thank so please watch the Native Son Awards on the Native Son Now Facebook or YouTube Channels (link in bio) and see the incredible presenters, performers, creatives, and allies who help make our community safer, stronger, and centered. I couldn’t do any of this without my team @yvonnemcnair_cmg ????
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BEHIND THE SCENES OF Spider-Man: No Way Home. HypeBeast: While Spider-Man: No Way Home‘s release is still some time away, Ned’s actor Jacob Batalon has now offered fans a glimpse of what’s to come via a new Instagram post of some on-set images of himself and Tom Holland‘s Peter Parker.
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Spider-Man: No Way Home is currently scheduled to hit theaters stateside December 17.
WANDERLUST Pilgrims, Prayers, and Pizza on Pacaya Volcano. The Atlantic: “Guatemala’s Pacaya volcano has been in a fairly active period since about 1961. Earlier this year, a new fissure vent opened, and rivers of lava began flowing out, threatening several nearby communities. The lava has been advancing slowly, and locals and tourists have been making visits to the lava flows. Some have come to take in the spectacle and make a few photos, but others have come on pilgrimages, offering prayers, hoping to slow Pacaya’s activity—and at least one person turned the red-hot rocks into his own pizza oven, cooking up a meal for other visitors.”
#FBF to Neil Gaiman Day. Book Riot: Few things create a bigger buzz across the bookternet than the release of a new Neil Gaiman book. Here at the Riot, Gaiman is one of our favorite writers, so we’ve decided that today, in honor of the release of his new novel The Ocean at the End of the Lane, it’s all Neil Gaiman all the time. Enjoy.
A COMPLIMENT can make someone’s day y’all.
BERNIE SANDERS is concerned.
The New Yorker cartoon of the day.
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CAPTAIN KIRK AT 90 ‘Take it easy, nothing matters in the end’: William Shatner at 90, on love, loss and Leonard Nimoy. The Guardian: Shatner has said that one person who really helped him through what he describes as the “searing pain” of [wife] Nerine’s death was his co-star and close friend, Leonard Nimoy, who played Spock in Star Trek, and who himself had struggled with alcoholism. Nimoy and Shatner were the same age and both Jewish, and I ask if their shared Judaism played a part in their friendship. I am Jewish, too, I add, in case the question sounds weird. “You don’t look Jewish,” says Shatner, but not even he can maintain a straight face when saying that obvious lie, and he collapses into giggles. “But yes – of course! Leonard was only four days younger than me, and Boston [where Nimoy was born] is a lot like Montreal [Shatner’s home town], these old cities with big buildings where the snow drifts through the streets. I think he had a much more Jewish upbringing than me; he learned to speak Yiddish and I did not. But the similarities between us were incredible.”
Shatner revealed in his 2016 book about Nimoy, Leonard: My Fifty-Year Friendship With a Remarkable Man, that the two men grew apart towards the end of Nimoy’s life, and he never understood why.
Flashback Friday to “Nepenthe” on season one of Picard.
From left to right: Patrick Stewart, Marina Sirtis, and Jonathan Frakes.
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A REAL MAN doing real man things. ????
PARTING SHOT sickos.
This is their love language.
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