Welcome to Gay Pride Month.  While we cautiously emerge from the pandemic, many Pride events have been cancelled out of an abundance of caution.  But there are still festivities taking place.  For instance, the police and paramedics were called to the home of JoJo Siwa during an out-of-control Pride party.  My first question – who the fuck is JoJo Siwa?  Wikipedia tells me that she is “an American dancer, singer, actress, and YouTube personality known for appearing for two seasons on Dance Moms.”  So my instinct that she was someone I didn’t care about was accurate.  The press referred to the soirée as a “star-studded Pride party”.  So I was curious which stars studded this event.  Details are sketchy – like, I suspect, many of the attendees.  But one report claims that it was “attended by several fellow influencers”.  BTW, the party took place at her home in Tarzana.  And, I’m done.

At least I know who Dove Cameron is.  I don’t care, but I do remember her from Hairspray: LIVE.  And I’m always happy to welcome anyone coming out.  During an Instagram Live, she said she didn’t say anything sooner because she didn’t think anyone would believe her.  “I was never confused about who I was.  I felt like I wouldn’t be accepted and I had this strange narrative that people wouldn’t believe me.”  Really?  I’d have guessed right off.

Then there is Frankie Grande – a veritable senior by comparison.  The 38-year-old claims that it was his “celebrity” that got the producers to cast him on Big Brother.  “They were so obsessed with the fact that they were going to get a YouTuber and a personality on their show for the very first time.  I was the first influencer to ever be on Big Brother.”  Allegedly people all over the world credit Frankie for showing “such a different concept of what a gay man was.”  A bleached blond, sexually insatiable schemer?  Honey, I was that person while you were practicing on a pacifier.