GLR January-February 2026

All in a Day’s Work We’ve covered our share of homophobic clergymen and politicians who got caught engaging in the very acts that they condemn, but there’s always a new wrinkle in the dirty laundry. Take the case of R.J. May, a South Carolina state rep. and firebrand who railed against child porn and what he called “trans-plus sex,” with a special passion for censoring books with LGBT characters. But that was until R.J. was busted for sending over 1,000 images of underage sexual abuse during a six-day period last year. The charges against him included dis tributing images of children as young as toddlers and infants. As of this writing, he was in an Edgefield (SC) County jail facing a federal indictment on ten counts of distributing porn. What’s striking about R.J. is the rapidity with which he toggled between the two pursuits. Just minutes before emailing some of those 1,000 images, he was sending a holy message to constituents that ended with “Amen. Happy Easter.” In such cases, we’ve always assumed that the anti-gay stuff was a cover, or perhaps atonement, for those wicked thoughts and deeds. But this guy was just plain nihilistic, not to mention reckless. BTW

Bes ti es Even if you’re avoiding the news, you probably saw this statue of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, which showed up on the National Mall last Sept. 23rd. Now known as “Best Friends Forever,” it was erected under a per

mit issued for “The Secret Handshake.” Twelve feet tall and fashioned out of foam, resin, wood, and wire and painted to look like bronze, the statue was removed by the Park Police the next day, but somehow it was rescued by the anonymous own ers, after which it spent time in a number of locales, winding up in front of Busboys and Poets Café on 14th and V Streets in DC. Clearly the main point is to highlight the close ties between the two men, but it is of more than passing interest (at least for us) that they’re holding hands and dancing. And those back ward kicks they’re both doing—can we tawk? Bedroom Material Let us pause to remark on the fact that an openly gay man has been named People magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive.” His name is Jonathan Bailey, and he’s the star of the Netflix series Bridgerton , but also starred in the gay series Fellow Travelers , among other mouthwatering roles. Perhaps

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