As was expected from the beginning, this was a huge win for cretins everywhere.

A&E wimps out, reinstates Phil Robertson, provides lip service to diversity.

A little light reading: 1,000s of Newtown Massacre docs released.

Gay codebreaker Alan Turing's corpse gets a pardon.

I know why the caged popstar doesn't sing.

The ultimate dialect quiz. Hint: Merry, marry & Mary RHYME.

Iwan Rheon's beauty is a thing.

Just Iwan me, kid.

A peek at the animated features of 2014.

North West has more shoes than her parents have brain cells.

Celebrating the holidays with sexxxy underwear.

The (surprisingly busy) year in Madonna.

We totally won on gay marriage. Totally.

Are gay-for-pay guys really straight?

Remember, they're gay for the pay, not gay for the gays.

You need a little (Boy) Culture!

It blows my mind to realize that Boy Culture is now eight years old. I can still remember the joy I felt when I figured out how to post, how to upload an image and how to embed a video. I remember every time a post blew up, bringing in hits and new viewers. I remember the longtime commenters, the trolls, the spam and the never-ending (and validating!) pitches and free tickets and photographers' snaps of half- or all-naked male models. 

Shooting for my blog has never been a drag.

I've used Boy Culture to express myself, to help express others and to connect to people internationally.

I've also used it to show off my humor (both high and low), to flaunt my obsessions, to reality-test my sexual diversions and perversions, to laud the art I love, to lash out against the enemies of gay people and to broadcast my admiration for Madonna.

I want to thank you all for having read this blog over the years. It's a very hard thing to maintain, and it will not be maintained forever. But each time I get some positive (or even just meaningful) feedback, each time my posts are shared on social media, each time something I've written elicits a response, it keeps me going that much longer.

Madonna's stepmother was not impressed.

Thank you. Please enjoy my 100 favorite posts, please let me know if you're reading any old ones for the first time and are liking them and, most of all, please share this entire post far and wide to help get my work out there.

My first "Guydar" post from 2008.

As always, you can find me on Facebook (personal and blog), Twitter, Instagram and YouTube (plus, here are my YouTube greatest hits). 

ALL ORANGE TITLES ARE HOTLINKS.

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#100

TOTALLY RANDOM LISTS (2011—2013)

I've gotten way into lists. Way. You'll find more of my lists higher up on, uh, this particular list. But the ones that are just completely random go here because I worked my ass off on them, because I love them and because—judging from Quantcast data—you like 'em, too.

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My favorite Duran Duran member.

POP QUIZ: VIDEOS THAT KILLED (2011)

Totally awesome '80s! Take this visual quiz to see how many classic music videos you can ID.

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I wish sex tapes had existed in the '50s.

UNDER THE GAYDAR: 10 PEOPLE YOU MAY OR MAY NOT REALIZE WERE OR ARE QUEER (2012)

I got lots of feedback on this, mainly because nobody realized Nell Carter was with a woman at the time of her death.

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I would've chipped in to get this one made.

WOULDA COULDA SHOULDA: 5 INCREDIBLE MOVIES THAT NEVER HAPPENED (2013)

I'm shamless for including Leda & Swan, a movie that was a bomb without ever even being made.

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Great Scott!

IN & OUT: 25 STARS' FIRST & LAST PERFORMANCES IN FILM & ON TV (2013)

Being obsessed with nostalgia and with movies, this was fun—but so very taxing—to compile. I loved the randomness of it.

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I hate that music has been sleeveless for 20 years.

20 7" SINGLE SLEEVES FROM THE '80S THAT BELONG IN A GALLERY (2013)

Just 20 from my massive collection of 45s. I got rid of my 12" records, but I've kept these guys because they're just too much a part of my childhood.

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Amanda Blake's marriage was a mystery, with both spouses dying of AIDS.

GAY MARRIAGE: CELEBRITIES WHO MARRIED LGBT SPOUSES (2013)

It might've been more efficient to make a list of famous straight people who managed to marry other full-on heteros.

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The infamous Gary Coleman/Mark Messier two-shot seen 'round the world.

ODD COUPLES: 19 UNUSUAL CELEBRITY PAIRS (2013)

This post encapsulates my outlook on pop culture and my desire to twist it and play with it...except in this case, its participants are already doing the dirty work.

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Haunted House: The family home that haunted Jane and Bill's final years.

#99

A FIGHT AT THE MUSEUM (2007)

My late mentor's husband struggles to give away his family home.

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#98

POLITICS (2005—2013)

I'm a political person and I blog about it a lot. Some of the entries stand up over time, but many are so of the moment it was hard to pull the ones I like best.

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Where Kevin James goes, (unintentional!!!) homophobia follows.

TRUNZO IS DUNZO (2007)

Star Magazine implying gay people aren't quite right? Not normal! This took off on several blogs and GLAAD got an apology from Trunzo over it. Some people think it's being "oversensitive," but Jesus...how much clearer is "Man to man" with a huge "NOT" (NORMAL) stamped over it?

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If McCain calls, I'm not here. 

NEW YORK TO McCAIN: DROP DEAD! (2008)

The time I saw John McCain and showed him exactly how I felt. 

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The Clintons practice some black magic 

WHITE MISCHIEF (2008)

When Bill and Hillary decided to use race in the race for the White House.

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Crist for the mill 

FLORIDA'S GOVERNOR ENGAYGED: DOES THIS COUNT AS "GAY MARRIAGE?" (2008)

Charlie Crist is gay. Really, really gay.

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There's always 2016... 

HOW DO I LOVE THEE? LET ME COUNT THE GAYS... (2008)

The gay affair with Hillary Clinton.

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Hail, Mary, full of disgrace

 SARAH PALIN = SPIRO AGNEW + HARRIET MIERS (2008)

Aw, she'll never last...

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Whoopi-tee-doo & Kate, too! 

THE MARRYING KIND (2008)

That fabulously spontaneous anti-Prop 8 march in NYC.

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"Fierce advocate" was once a taunt, and is now just true.

WITH US OR AGAINST US (2009)

A post from when the Obama Administration was considered almost openly hostile toward gay-rights advocates. I believe he's turned that impression around.

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A good sign

IT GOT BETTER (2010)

The one where President Obama happily signed DADT out of existence.

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As she lays her career down to sleep...

DAMN, I WISH SHE WOULDN'T DO THISI (2011)

Sopie B. Hawkins GOesProud. I wish she'd GOHome.

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I live for death!

#97

OBITUARIES (2009—2012)

I tend to write about almost every celebrity death I hear about, specializing in anyone from the Golden Era. These are two that really blew me away. You, too?

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Very hazardous duties

AND JILL CAME TUMBLING AFTER (2009)

The death of Farrah Fawcett, a woman whose nips decorated my walls before I realized I had no use for them.

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End credits

REFLECTIONS IN A VIOLET EYE: ELIZABETH TAYLOR DIES AT 79 (2011)

The biggest living star fades out. It's still hard to believe she isn't around anymore.

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She worked hard for the money.

LAST DANCE: DONNA SUMMER DIES AT 63 (2012)

I'd spent a long time hating Donna over her alleged anti-gay comments, but that rumor isn't the whole story on her life.

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Good egg

MAKES SAD FACE, MOVES LIPS, TYPE APPEARS ON PANEL: "THE END" (2012)

I was surprised when no major news services noted the death of the last person to have starred in a silent film as an adult, Barbara Kent.

Making a splash.

WAIT...isn't every issue DNA's "Swimsuit Issue?"

George Zimmerman can't own a gun anymore, is $2.5 million in debt.

Turns out missing gay officer didn't want to be found.

Sandra Bernhard Q&A at Without You I'm Nothing screening.

SPOILER ALERT: Mare Winningham clip from amazing Philomena.

Melba Moore + MORE at this year's NYC Sparkle benefit.

Jay Z spends $4.5 million on a Basquiat.

Sean Penn is still nuts.

Croota Swimwear makes its movie debut in Out to Kill.

Racist insults against teammate results in football season being canceled.

Hetrick-Martin Institute Awards video: Chelsea Clinton & more.

Prettyboy model Jefferson West.

Stevie Nicks on the set of American Horror Story: Coven.

A fresh take on Madonna's "Borderline."

GAYS: The Series is coming in January.

Do British youth see Tories as "aliens"?

Psychic Sylvia Browne passes to the other side.

Comparing Obama to Bush, and Obamacare to Katrina = pure stupidity.

Like comparing apples and Agent Oranges.

Ben is the, er, face of the new underwear brand CURB, which announces whether its wearer is a top, botom or versatile right on the waistband. Laugh if you will, but I wonder how you'd feel if some hot dude you were ogling bent over and his waistband told you in no uncertain terms what you'd just been wondering.

Ben had never even worn a jockstrap prior to his CURB gig, which also involved some underground modeling. Mind his gap, all.

I'm sure Rafael Alencar has heard "it doesn't fit" before.

Rafael Alencar shows off tiny swimsuit in tiny bathtub. Then brushes his teeth.

New adaptation of The Seagull sounds like it's anything but for the birds.

Cher never hated "amazing artist" Madonna, just thought "she was a bitch."

GOTTA BE PUTIN ME ON: Sochi gay scene thriving.

Cameron tweets support of gay marrieds.

Ohio gay marriage suit expands.

Republicans HATE our government. Period. Forever.

Suit seeks to have gay marriage done in MA recognized in PA.

Greg Louganis's wedding registry is completely altruistic.

Melissa Gorga not into rape-rape. Just, you know, forcible sex.

Jinkx Monsoon's The Vaudevillians is extended again. See this!

Gov. Rick Perry (R-Texas) has a wife who thinks abortion is a "woman's right."

SNL's hilarious Girls parody starring Tina Fey.

"Don't speak. If they know you are simple, they will drown you in river."

For all of the complaints from critics and even some fans that Madonna is less invested in her art than she used to be, the long, annoying tease leading up to her #secretproject seems to be paying off with an interesting film that will be sprung upon the world in interesting ways. The latest is that it will be projected in various locations in New York, London, L.A., Berlin and other cities tonight, including NYC's Museum of Modern Art.

If you are so in-Kleined...

The imagery from this project so far is striking, and strikingly nnn-commercial. She seems fully invested in whatever this is exactly about.

Blackface as Whitney or Janet? Sideburns as Elvis? Little round glasses as Lennon?

Are Gaga's V covers a tribute to Madonna, Michael Jackson & Britney Spears?

Speaking of Madonna idolaters...

How I wish Lady Gaga's ex-assistant Jennifer O'Neill were the Jennifer O'Neill.

MUST-READ: "8 Horrific and Uplifting Stories About Being Gay in the New Russia."

James Marsden not comfy playing the smoldering guy.

I am equality. Are you?

Lisa Vanderpump's gay-bar lawsuit.

Bachelor star commits suicide.

Fake Seinfeld movie posters.

Gay-marriage states drawing gays from other states.

Is marriage equality really just "the fashion of the moment?"

Levonia Jenkins takes "Pee Town."

Gay mayor vs. gay mayoral candidate in...Ferndale, Michigan???

The best Madonna gifs on the Internet.

It makes no difference if you're, black or white...if you're a Lady or a girl.

I've just survived a rather hilarious exchange with a London-based person not-very-famous for doing just about nothing.

Anyway, a year ago, I wished him a happy birthday, as I do with all my Facebook friends. His auto-reply was that he can't always reply personally to message due to "clutter" in his in-boxes.

This year, he wrote me on Facebook twice to ask that I interview and feature him here on Boy Culture. His pitch was, "I need more gay press. The UK gay press hasn't been helpful at all."

I ignore entitled garbage, so overlooked both that and his follow-up.

Yesterday, he writes:

"I TAKE THE TIME TO SEND YOU 2 MESSAGES AND YOU CAN'T BE BOTHERED TO RESPOND TO EVEN ONE OF THEM? Why are you gay writers and journalists so unprofessional and lack in basic courtesy? What a waste of time!"

I, of course, don't let assholes have the last word, so pointed out I didn't like his approach, wasn't interested and found him to be entitled. I also said, "I do this for no money so I only work on stuff I'm interested in."

He misread as my saying I do this for money (I guess he thought I was asking for cash) and went off, claiming I don't even know what he has done (true!) and ranting that the gay press "is the same here! Keep drooling over straight guys who'll never fuck you, or salinating [sic] over make celebs who you'll never event [sic] get close to. That is what you gay journalists are good for."

He feels that he is the only person in his ethnic group who stands up for gay rights in all of Britain, so I should care, hard, about him. When I pointed out his hypocrisy in not being able to reply to me due to "clutter" but bitching about my not replying to him, he said, "TRY WINNING AWARDS AND SEE HOW YOUR INBOX AND FACEBOOK GET CLUTTERED!"

I wouldn't normally even give this lowlife the minimal attention this post allows, but I found his views on how the gay media owes him newsworthy and of interest. Not to mention that his way of insulting me next was to accuse me of being a "cock sucking" (guilty!) "low life whore of a swine." Oh, and to ask me to go back "INTO THE SORE RIDDEN PUSSY OF YOUR FILTHY CUM DRENCHED SLUT OF A MUM WHO SPAT YOU OUT INTO THE GUTTER YOU CRAWLED OUT OF!"

The best? He felt the need to call me a "PATHETIC WANNABE FAME WHORE!"

I don't know what happened to this guy in his distant youth that made him into such an unpleasant, delusional non-talent, but I'll say this much...he's not as uninteresting as I first surmised!

Oh, Daddy!

Even Gilles Marini's Splash Mountain photo is hot and muscly.

Is this Republican Congress the most radical in history?

Julia Louis-Dreyfus has more Emmy love than Lucille Ball.

Posthumous pardon for Alan Turing.

Partying with Henry Cavill; Superman & Batman teaming up.

Director Darren Stein on his hilarious movie G.B.F.

The activism archive.

Zimmerman juorors were about as sequestered as they were diverse.

Geraldo Rivera's 70-year-old nude selfie will make you throw a chair.

Bette Midler hit this.

I can move, move, move any mountain.

Lorenzo Triburgo's "Transportraits" series is a can't-miss.

Marriage equality a done deal for England.

Cory Monteith ODed on heroin and alcohol.

Tsarnaev Rolling Stone cover sparks concern. (Not from me.)

GIMME SHELTER: Miami considers jailing the homeless.

Is there a vaccine for Jenny McCarthy yet, or is she drug-resistant?

Yes, Oprah, because giving Lindsay Lohan $2 million will really help.

PROOF: Rich people are assholes.

Zendaya's lyric video for her dreamy single "Replay."

Liz Cheney running for Senate in Wyoming. Senate should run faster.

Two males "mating" doesn't advance the species. Nor does two idiots mating.

Gazing upon this Mapplethorpe masterpiece of two men "mating"...what's the point? (Oh, wait...)