A bigot got booted, a million floated through Amsterdam, and Kristen's back.

Welcome back to the Watering Hole. This week: a rabidly anti-gay congressman got fired by his own voters, Amsterdam turned its canals into the biggest Pride on earth, Canada quietly did the right thing, and there's a genuinely stacked slate of gay TV incoming. It's not all good — the courts and the DOJ have been busy — but pour something (we have suggestions) and let's get into it.

The come-out club keeps growing. Kandi Burruss says she's landed on "bisexual" after her divorce, Vanderpump Rules' Dayna Kathan came out as a lesbian, and Mormon Wives' Layla Taylor came out as bi — "I'm gay and I'm bi and I date women and men," which is a whole mood on a Tuesday. Everybody's clock is their own, and it's always a good time to be right.

What to watch: Kristen Stewart stars in The Wrong Girls (in theaters Aug 14), a mistaken-identity spiral we'll be attending opening night. Then The Dynasty: UConn Huskies hits Apple TV+ Aug 21 — a doc on the winningest program in college hoops, Diana Taurasi and Paige Bueckers included (sapphic catnip, essentially). And bisexual comic Zach Zucker's Stamptown lands on Netflix Aug 25.

The DOJ strong-armed a children's hospital into dropping trans care. Connecticut Children's agreed to end gender-affirming care for minors in a settlement — now one of 20+ centers nationwide to stop under federal threats. Doctors shouldn't need a permission slip from a prosecutor to treat their own patients. (P.S. below: where to put this rage.)

And in the clown car: Rudy Giuliani melted down over a pre-K program, insisting toddler storytime will somehow teach four-year-olds surgical anatomy. Sir, they're learning shapes. Touch grass.

Amsterdam just threw the biggest party on the planet. The city's first-ever WorldPride wrapped with the Canal Parade — the only Pride staged on water, ~80 boats floating through the canals — and an estimated one million visitors, timed to the 25th anniversary of the Netherlands legalizing same-sex marriage. A million gays commandeered a canal system and the city was better for it.

Canada scrapped its sperm-donor ban on gay and bi men in a precedent-setting move — retiring a decades-old rule rooted in stigma, not science. Progress doesn't always parade; sometimes it quietly deletes a discriminatory policy and lets more families exist.

A rabidly anti-LGBTQ, Trump-endorsed congressman just lost his re-election bid. The "homosexuality has no place in America" type spent his whole run hating on his own constituents, and it turns out that isn't the durable platform he thought it was — the voters read the room and handed him a pink slip. Cunt behavior, correctly retired. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

P.S. — every rage-inducing story up top? We put our money where our mouth is. Gay Water partners with and donates to LGBTQ+ orgs year-round — not Pride-month cosplay. Reply and tell us who we should support next.