After no club dancefloors for almost a year, last night was cathartic, joyous and sweaty

The Capital Pride Alliance, the group that organizes D.C.’s annual LGBTQ Pride events, announced this week the lineup of performers for the Sunday, June 9, Capital Pride Concert to be held during the Capital Pride Festival on Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. near the U.S. Capitol.

The Center for Black Equity, the D.C.-based national organization that advocates for the Black LGBTQ community, announced this week that its founder and Chief Executive Officer/President Earl Fowlkes will retire in August and the organization’s deputy director, Kenya Hutton, has been named interim CEO/president.

Donald Trump!Just as we were starting to recover from his salivating over the 77-year-old criminal defendant’s mugshot, the obsequious Fox News anchor is once again extolling Trump’s convict lewks. Watters mused Monday about the shredded bod that Trump could develop while incarcerated. Stay woke with our briefing while staying informed on all things LGBTQ+ entertainment, life, and more!“Trump is going to come out with a prison body,” he said.

The Mike Douglas Show for a week. During his stint with Douglas, rock’n’roller Little Richard was a guest.Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.The clip is fascinating now to see how gay men in the entertainment industry often hid in plain sight.Watch below.A post shared by Peter Morley (@petermorley_sle)In the clip, Little Richard says he’d looked up to Liberace since he was a little kid.

After Forever, an indie “micro series” about love, grief, and new beginnings.Co-created by Days Of Our Lives writer Michael Slade and star Kevin Spirtas, After Forever builds off their shared soaps experience to create a drama more grounded and human—and distinctly gay.Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.The first season, which premiered back in 2018, introduced us to successful, fifty-something gay man Brian (Spirtas) whose seemingly picture-perfect New York City life crumbles after the sudden loss of his husband Jason (Party Of Five‘s Mitchell Anderson) to cancer.As the narrative jumped back and forth between time, we watched two parallel narratives unfold: both the couple’s final days together and Brian’s attempt to pick up the pieces, surrounding himself with friends and family and throwing himself into his work.Is there life after true love? In the second season, set six months later, we saw Brian make attempts to start fresh, both with a new job and opening himself up to a new chance at love—even as his grief continued to manifest itself in unexpected ways.And now we arrive at After Forever‘s final chapter where Brian comes to the difficult revelation that getting closure means accepting the truth. As he finds himself carrying on conversations with Jason in his head and lashing out at those closest to him, Brian finally decides to seek professional help in the form of therapist Dr.