Who knew that political conventions are a hotbed of gay activity?  I suspected, but it seems to be true – if the Grindr algorithm is even slightly correct.  On the first night of the DNC, television coverage caught a guy on the hookup app in the audience.  And he wasn’t alone.  Thousands of Grindr users reported the site crashed throughout the week.  This activity was not limited to Democrats – just as many people complained about outages during the RNC.  I guess we have more in common than we thought.  One person posted the following: “The DNC might crash Grindr, too, but they will do it joyfully and without shame.”  Another said, “The only difference between this behavior and the same behavior at the RNC is that the dudes at the RNC are hiding the screen from their wives.”

I dunno where I’ve been – Europe, I suppose.  But Billy Porter and Joe Biden met at an event celebrating Juneteenth.  Fine.  What took me aback (and affront) was that when they met, Billy kissed Biden’s hand!  And there’s photographic proof!  I took it in a kinda Papal way – ‘cause I was in Italy most of the summer.  However, many people took it in a racial way – of a black man bowing to and kissing a white man’s hand!  That the black man had on some kinda caftan/dress is a whole other issue which I will leave to the theologians.  So The Hollywood Reporter asked Porter about the criticism.  “What they don’t know and what they didn’t see in the photos that they didn’t run was that I kissed the vice president’s hand too.  I kissed the second gentleman’s hand as well.”  Well, that doesn’t make it any clearer to moi.