Dan Clarendon

freelance journalist, storyteller, aspiring television writer, pilot penner, editor, blogger, Photoshopper, IB diploma recipient, City Year alumnus, Hampshire frog, cat lover, dog whisperer, television buff, mixtaper, colossus, klutz, southpaw, culinary wanna-be, cookie monster, cathedral-builder, punster, unabashed hedonist, frequent couch potato, queer husband


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How Trump’s FCC Has Changed the Media and What It Means for the Future

If it feels like the Federal Communications Commission has gotten more press in the past 18 months than it got in the previous nine decades, you can thank Brendan Carr. President Donald Trump named Carr, a longtime FCC commissioner and a Project 2025 contributor, as FCC chairman in November 2024. And since then, Carr has been using enforcement actions, official letters and statements, and even a podcast interview to reshape the media landscape.
Queerty •

Murray Bartlett is in the middle of his career renaissance and has two more big roles coming

Not long ago, Murray Bartlett was considering a new job. He had moved from NYC to Provincetown in early 2020, and showbiz had slowed to a standstill. Amid the upheaval, Bartlett wasn’t sure what to do with his life and was considering teaching drama. Luckily for us, he stuck with acting. Shortly thereafter, he starred in the first season of The White Lotus. That breakout role—both scene-stealing and scatological—earned Bartlett a Primetime Emmy Award and career renaissance.
TV Insider •

The Best Late-Night Hosts of All Time, Ranked

The curtain is closing on The Late Show, both Stephen Colbert’s show and the CBS franchise as a whole. And with the current state of late-night TV, other post-primetime chat-fests might go off the air, too. The decline of late night is a shame, because for some 70 years now, comedians have been tickling our funny bones, bringing A-listers into our living rooms, and even inspiring social change. Here are our picks for the best to have ever done it.
TV Insider •

Remember the Kennedys Miniseries Even History Wouldn’t Touch?

With a preposterous docuseries called Ancient Aliens and discredited documentaries about Bigfoot and Amelia Earhart, History doesn’t have a sterling reputation among actual historians. But in 2011, the cable channel found the miniseries The Kennedys subpar and decided against airing the $30 million production. Fifteen years after the miniseries ended its run on Reelz on April 10, 2011, we’re taking a look at how the controversy unfolded…
Remind •

Why 'Pretty in Pink's Original Ending Got Booed

Forty years ago, moviegoers watched a teenage love triangle play out in the comedy-drama film Pretty in Pink, as the working-class Andie (Molly Ringwald) weighed her romantic prospects with fellow outsider Duckie (Jon Cryer) or upper-class love interest Blane (Andrew McCarthy). In the end — four-decade-old spoiler alert! — Andie chooses Blane, and Duckie sacrifices his own happy ending to support the new relationship. But John Hughes’ screenplay for the film didn’t originally end that way.
Remind •

Why Fred Rogers Took On His Only Acting Role Outside 'Mr. Rogers'

Fred Rogers logged hundreds of TV appearances in his persona as Mister Rogers — and not just on his long-running series Mister Rogers Neighborhood. But he only played another character on screen one time — and that rare acting role came 30 years ago, in an episode of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. In the CBS drama’s fourth season episode “Deal with the Devil” — which aired on February 17, 1996 — Rogers played Reverend Thomas. And the role was familiar territory for the children’s TV star...
Queerty •

It’s Transgender Awareness Week, and trans folk are sharing their stories

Every November 13 to November 19 is Transgender Awareness Week, a time to educate the public about trans identities and the fight for trans equality and safety, all of which leads up to Transgender Day of Remembrance on November 20. As GLAAD explains, trans advocate Gwendolyn Ann Smith created Transgender Day of Remembrance in 1999 in memory of Rita Hester, a trans woman murdered the previous year.
Queerty •

Pro tennis player João Lucas Reis served a groundbreaking coming out

Reis’ success on the court has coincided with his coming out. Late last year, he went Instagram official with his boyfriend, Brazilian actor Guilherme Ricardo. Reis posted a brief birthday message and declaration of love. “Feliz aniversário,” he wrote. “Feliz vida. Te amo muito.” (Translation: “Happy birthday. Happy life. I love you very much.”) Those seven words made Reis the first player to ever publicly come out on the men’s ATP Tour.
Queerty •

As a queer reggaetón star, RaiNao is challenging norms & leading with authenticity

If you caught Bad Bunny performing “PERFuMITO NUEVO” in the Saturday Night Live Season 50 finale, you also witnessed him trading verses with RaiNao, three years after the King of Latin Trap jumpstarted her career with a social-media endorsement of her track “LUV” and an invitation to his Un Verano Sin Ti tour stage weeks later. And now, the San Juan-raised RaiNao seems destined to follow her countryman to reggaetón superstardom, and she’s repping queer femmes all the while.
Distractify •

Albert Einstein’s Brain Traveled the Country for Decades After His Death

Theoretical physicist Albert Einstein died in 1955, but the story of his brain has continued for years now, all because of one man who took the gray matter into his own hands and kept it for decades, even crossing state lines with the brain. What happened to Einstein’s brain? Believe it or not, it was the pathologist who conducted Einstein’s autopsy who just took the brain without permission, as detailed in last year’s documentary film The Man Who Stole Einstein’s Brain.
Queerty •

Gay men sound off on the need to confront transphobia among other gay men

Hang out on Reddit long enough, and you’ll eventually see transphobic attitudes show up—explicitly and implicitly—in queer communities on the platform. And social media is, of course, a microcosm of a society which some think LGB equality is an acceptable substitute for LGBT equality. One Reddit user recently shed light on transphobia in the gay male population, saying that although he loves being gay and trans, his interactions with cis gay men “[have], by and large, been less than ideal.”
LGBTQ Nation •

Young people are coming out in huge numbers. These families found beautiful ways to support their kids.

Paria Hassouri and her husband were thousands of miles from home, on vacation in Thailand, when they got a call from their daughter’s school. A teacher told them that Ava, then 13, was questioning her gender identity. During Ava’s coming-out experience, Hassouri educated herself about how best to support her daughter. Other parents are trying to do the same, as children and teens are opening up — sometimes even earlier in their lives — about their placement in a galaxy of queer existence.
Teen Vogue •

Gender Affirming Surgeries Are Being Delayed or Canceled Because of the Coronavirus Pandemic

On March 13, the American College of Surgeons recommended hospitals across the country minimize, postpone, or cancel all scheduled elective surgeries because of the COVID-19 pandemic. As many hospitals took that advice and shed certain procedures from the books, many transgender people were left with devastating setbacks as gender-affirming surgeries were canceled or indefinitely postponed as the question of which procedures are “elective” looms.

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