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Welcome to your weekend streaming recommendations, a.k.a. the Weekend Watch, a handy guide to the queerest film and TV content that’s just a click away!Father’s Day is this Sunday, and while it’s not an easy day for everyone, especially queer folks—some don’t have dads, some don’t like their dads, some dads don’t deserve Father’s Day—it can also be a day to celebrate the father figures that help teach us hard lessons in life.

Jeremy Pope, fashion stylist and TV personality Law Roach, choreographer Bill T. Jones, public relations mogul Chris Chambers, best-selling author Keith Boykin, and HIV activist Gabriel Maldonado.

*CAUTION: Spoilers ahead for The Boys Season 4, Episodes 1-3*Amazon Prime Video’s bloody and bawdy superhero drama The Boys has never been one for subtlety. This is a show, after all, where an Aquaman-like hero has sex with an octopus, and another with Ant-Man style shrinking powers sneezes while literally inside a hookup’s urethra with explosive results.So, if the latest season—which concerns itself with the trial of an egotistical, coiffed-blond criminal who uses money and media influence to bend the rules of democracy to his will—feels a little on the nose, we shouldn’t be too surprised.Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.But while Trump Homelander (Anthony Starr) continues to push his nefarious agenda, The Boys just keeps getting gayer and gayer.

U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) called for passage of the Equality Act during a press conference on Wednesday alongside Advocates for Trans Equality, who were convened on Capitol Hill for the Trans Day of Empowerment lobby day.

The Washington Blade joined Assistant Secretary for Health Adm. Rachel Levine of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Administrator Isabel Guzman of the U.S. Small Business Administration as they toured two LGBTQ-owned small businesses on Tuesday in Washington, D.C. — Big Gay Smiles and Price Medical.