
While Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey’s steamy roleplay and the Heartstopper boys’ fierce fits and took over everyone’s social media feeds this week, the political power players were busy doing all sorts of things while you weren’t looking. Here’s just a few of the stories that you really need to know about it.
‘TIS THE SEASON: Melania finally broke her silence, but she’s still wants absolutely nothing to do with her husband’s presidential campaign. [Read all about it on Queerty]
OLDIE BUT GOODIE: All the reasons 80-year-old Joe is better for the country than that 77-year-old MAGA nutbag. [Read all about it on LGBTQ Nation]
DRAG HER: Failed, anti-LGBTQ+ GOP AZ senatorial candidate Kari Lake wants to be MAGA royalty, but her “scandalous” past of hanging with fierce queens may get her dethroned by the Cult of Trump™ .
RED TO FILTH: Ron “Don’t Say Gay” DeSantis is the last person that should be offering up style tips and got reamed hard for his unsolicited fashion advice.[Read all about it on Queerty]
ASK, TELL: To mark the 12th anniversary of the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” Congressional Democrats are proposing a commission to study the impacts that DADT had on queer and non-queer military members. [Real all about it on LGBTQ Nation]
FOR PETE’S SAKE: The House GOP tried to grill Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on climate change and instead got burnt to a crisp by his stone cold facts.
DARLING NIKKI: Former Trump crony Nikki Haley’s long-shot bid for the White House is circling the drain again. [Read all about it on Queerty]
WE’RE HERE: The US Census is one step closer to officially including LGBTQ+ identities in their largest annual survey. [Read all about it on LGBTQ Nation]
CAPITOL HILL CASUAL: While the GOP & some Democrats are blowing a gasket over the new relaxed Senate dress code rules which allows members to wear hoodies, sneakers and gym attire, Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman is taking it all in stride.

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FreddieW
That look isn’t working for Fetterman or anyone else in Congress. How much more respect can they afford to lose?
abfab
Give him a break. A chance. He’s catching up with things, with himself. You are a terrible person.
lather
Dear abfab, he was donning that look way before he had his major health issues. He was on the campaign trail wearing hoodies and cargo shorts. It’s his look, though not a particularly good one one him.
If high school kids have to adhere to a dress code, then so be it for the U.S. Senate.
abfab
Lather. If this is what’s doing you and ostensibly Congress harm, then please wake up.
dbmcvey
He’s fine. The reason they’re losing respect is wingnuts like Lobobes, Marge and Gaetz. Even in suits those people are howling idiots.
abfab
The GOP and Gay Old Trolls who reside here (thank god there’s only a few) continue to shift the focus to things that are easy for them. Attacking the underdog, the minority, a colleague who suffered a stroke along with severe depression, etc.
Fname Optional Lname
“…continue to shift the focus to things that are easy for them”
Thank you abfab! That sentence sums up every GOP reaction, response, retort, regurgitation we have seen for the past 7 years
FreddieW
Interesting that they skipped the jeans and button downs and went straight to shorts, athletic shoes, and untucked tents for shirts.
The cop behind him is better dressed.
inbama
There’s a very sad in-depth portrait of his wife dealing with Fetterman’s mental health problems in this weekends Washington Post titled “‘What does next look like?’ Inside the unfolding recovery of the Fetterman family,” if you want to google it.
Struggling with serious depression away from his family is not going to have a good outcome, but heck, let’s just change the dress code, let him pick some some pronouns, maybe add some new letters to 2SLGTBQIA+, and everything will work out fine, right?
dbmcvey
And yet, he’s still a better representative than the trash heaps who are trying to shut down the government or impeaching a President for no discernable reason.
dbmcvey
There is something deeply wrong with inbama. If he has any friends they should do a wellness check.
FreddieW
I have to ask. What is the 2S for? Obviously, I can’t keep up.
I had a WaPo subscription. Actually, I’ve had it several times and cancelled as many times. They delete my posts and make me mad. I am not liberal enough for the moderators, despite being vocally gay.
abfab
You don’t have to ask, Freddie. You want to ask because you are annoying and dumb.
dbmcvey
Freddie, you don’t really think inbama knows what he’s talking about do you?
Also, do you think anyone cares about your trouble with WAPO? If they’re deleting your comments it’s probably for the best.
FreddieW
@dbmcvey
Certainly I don’t think you care about anything I post. If you remember, you said you were done talking to me. So why are you doing so?
Isn’t this merry? Scut Farkus and Grover Dill on the same thread. Can you two let us get through Halloween first?
Kangol2
Perhaps 2S stands for “two spirit.” If you’ve never heard this term, do Google it since it’s been around for decades.
dbmcvey
Freddie, sometimes you’re just so stupid I forget that you’re not worth dealing with.
inbama
@dbmcvey
You want to see “stupid?”
Buy yourself a mirror and take a good look at the delusional name-calling mediocrity that comes here to insult its betters every single day.
abfab
Again with the mirrors! You’re a sicko.
Richpontone
Amazing in how those three pictures you have at the top of your story, Pete sure looks the happiest and healthiest.
Must be having the habits of Speaking the Truth and Doing the Right Things does that to you.
abfab
Go Pete! The amount of fools that he must suffer each week. ”He’s got style, he’s got grace, Rita Hayworth gave good face”.
Karlis
Everyone who’s getting all pissy about Senator Fetterman and his attire, please calm down, take a deep breath and prove that your attention span lasts more than three seconds by remembering who he ran against in 2022. It was Dr. Oz — the guy who got all confused about the concept of crudite and didn’t even live in Pennsylvania. There is nothing wrong with Senator Fetterman wearing a hoodie, because he’s on the side of the angels on issues at a time when the other party has completely lost its mind.
FreddieW
Politics and fashion are separate issues. He could be Harvey Milk, and I would still say it’s inappropriate work attire.
abfab
You’re a separate issue. Shouldn’t you be in your conservative right wing church now?
Bringing up Harvey Milk like that here is about as low as one could go.
FreddieW
I haven’t been in the door of a conservative right wing church since 2005, unless you count early voting in county elections at the Baptist megachurch.
FreddieW
Harvey is smiling from every letter I mail, abfab. How about you?
Let me guess. You use Judy Garland or Madonna stamps, if such exist. Aunt Esmeralda stamps?
abfab
Freddie. You’re a passive-agressive provincial punk. Your judgements of Fetterman tells us all we need to know. Wow, you have stamps.
FreddieW
Not sure how you gauge passive aggression in a comment field, but your naked and impotent aggression has been on display since I first posted here. My theory is that you’re territorial.
“provincial” — That’s a laugh. I tried to be your friend because they raise us that way here in the South. I’m sorry it wasn’t possible because you’re such a snotty snob from some unidentified coastal hellhole. Bless your heart!
abfab
zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
inbama
@Freddie W
Abfab and dbmcvey – advanced mental illness on display every day.
And these sickos want to call the shots for gays and lesbians.
ShaverC
Really? What Pete said was really burning it “down”?
abfab
Why even bother to understand Queerty’s preferred style of healine and content, Shaver. Face it. You’re too dumb for that so save it.
inbama
@abfab
Did it make your wounded inner child feel better to call Shaver “dumb?”
I don’t like his politics either, but you do realize getting therapy would be much better for you than coming here and throwing insults. It makes you look pathetic.
abfab
INBAMA.
Don’t share you’re therapist’s number. It’s clear. She didn’t work for you.
inbama
@abfab
She’ wouldn’t be appropriate.
For you, we’d have to google “veterinary psychiatry.”
abfab
The queen of the GOPTROLLS must be bored. Go and work for George Santos. Actually, you sound just like her. Dumb as shit and a republican failure. Get lost George. Get a life.
inbama
@abfab
The only thing boring is YOU and your sick friend and possible sock puppet dbmcvey.
The two of you have decided there must be no independent thinking among gays or Democrats, and instead of ever discussing or debating an issue respectfully, you childishly slander anyone as a GOP troll.
I don’t know whether you’re a bitter old queen or a lonely transwoman having trouble dilating her neo-vagina, but I’ve had it with your idiotic name-calling. If you keep spewing your crap at people on this blog, I will see that you choke on it.
abfab
You’re toxic and deranged. Put all that anger and rage and bigotry into something useful. At least try.
inbama
@abfab
You are a stalker, a liar and a bully.
Standing up to you is not bigotry.
Everyone sees you for what you are. It’s time for you to stop.
abfab
So says the Queen of the Bullies, the Stalker In Chief, the republican asshole. Sashay away loser.
decrans
Interesting how Queerty omits Gavin Newsom’s failure to capitulate to the far-left agenda thereby siding with parental rights groups. This illustrates the ultimately losing message of this political demographic. It’s not electable in flyover country for presidential elections. Similarly to the Buttigieg burned-to-a-crisp narrative, Newsom’s moderation represents a dismantling of ideological propaganda in real-time.