Andy Towle

Saturday Night Live took shots (badum bum) at the COVID vaccine rollout on Saturday night, opening its show with a game show hosted by “America’s voice of reason and celebrity hall pass” Dr. Anthony Fauci (Kate McKinnon). “The vaccine roll out is going strong,” explained McKinnon’s Fauci, “but it’s also very confusing. Who can get it? How? When? Where is it? Do both doses go in the same arm or different arms or what?

Conservative Political Action Conference Chair Matt Schlapp attacked critics for pointing out that the 2021 CPAC stage is shaped exactly like a Nazi symbol. The HuffPost reports: “A square whose corner juts out from the CPAC stage from connected back-to-back “check marks” bears a striking resemblance to the ancient Norse Odal Rune adopted by the SS unit, which would be particularly apparent from the stage side.

Longtime readers and friends, we’ve come a great distance together. But after nearly 18 years scouring the web for LGBTQ news and bringing it to you on a daily basis, this has been my last week at Towleroad. It’s been a thrilling experience, and a lot of hard, rewarding work. Towleroad is one of the few independently published LGBTQ news sites left.