Ronny & I, a coming-of-age romantic film shot on an iPhone and brought to you by Jane Lynch and Bryan Singer...

Madonna, a genius, and Steven Tyler come out to support Stella McCartney.

WHY PEOPLE HATE COPS: NYPD violently abuses gay man in Bed-Stuy.

Obama will comply with judge's ruling on Plan B.

Gaga steps out with the hot BF in labral tear-inducing shoes.

Contender for gayest song & video ever.

Charice's mother says she herself is an ex-lesbian.

Tiesto's remix of Icona Pop's "I Love It."

Gay Egyptians coming out of the closet.

The perils of porn.

Jane Lynch is divorcing.

Crazy racist wants her donut receipt.

The psychology of the Internet troll explained:

Girlfriend's room was covered in Phantom of the Opera merch!

A slew of household-name LGBT people appear in a powerful new ad to re-elect President Obama, including Jane Lynch, Billie Jean King, Chaz Bono, Wanda Sykes, George Takei, Zachary Quinto and this budding queen above.

Watch the video to see who he is...

Entertainment Weekly (June 29, 2012) has an interesting feature on the "new art of coming out" in Hollywood. In a nutshell, the magazine points out that many of the celebrities who've made if official in the years since Ellen's "Yep, I'm gay" splash have done so in low-key ways or as an afterthought. This removes the defensive argument many people make about gay public figures not having to march in pride parades—that was never the point. The point was making it official, and more and more are doing so.

Sidenote: Above is the newsstand cover, but the subscription cover needs space for a mailing address so loses two faces. The two who were considered expendable: Jane Lynch and Jesse Tyler Ferguson.

Prove it!

As of midnight last night, it was exactly six years since my first post. It's been a tough thing to keep up with a dayjob and outside activities, and just when I think I might walk away, a valuable connection or interesting opportunity or a kind word comes my way. Thank you all for reading me.

Of whom are you more jealous?

Here are my favorite 100+ posts out of nearly 11,000. Please take some time to read (or re-read!) a couple and tweet or Facebook any you like.

xoxo Matt

The pocket pool championships were intense this year

BOY CULTURE

Boy-crazy

FROM BOY TO MAN: BC B.C. (2007): The entire history of my novell and novel Boy Culture as well as the movie version; might be my ultimate post.

Jonathon Trent & Derek Magyar make an Allan Brocka sandwich

BOY ON FILM (2006): An account of the NYC launch party for Boy Culture as it played the TriBeCa Film Fest.

I was left "Reeling" by the experience

FRIENDS AND "FAMILY" (2006): The movie version of Boy Culture hits Chicago.

No one would've mistaken me for Taylor Lautner

RAPT PUPIL (2006): The final night of Outfest with Boy Culture; I was fat but on the other hand got to meet Bryan Singer.

 

MY ART

 

Construction worker (shot this week) vs. James Dean

GUYDAR (since at least January 17, 2008) & ENDS OF THE WORLD (since at least January 13, 2008): Attractive men of the world—I got your backs. Your fronts, too.

i-i-i (phone)

Not totally built

Unaltered iPhone image that still blows me away

"Your pictures suck" (2008): An art critic attacks me, but not without sustaining some hits in return.

Let's call it a draw

DRAWN TOGETHER (2008): How my desire to draw related to my secret desire. One of my absolute favorite posts.

The shirtless one

LOST ANGELES (2009): My favorite photographic travelogue of L.A.

Even then, New Yorkers feared 9/11 was the beginning of the end

ART IMITATES LIFE (2006): My 9/11 and my distaste for grief tourism.

ME

Death of the party—Jeff in high school, already halfway through his life

BURNING MAN (2007): Tribute to my late high school friend and first romance.

Signed, sealed (eventually) delivered

LOST BOY FOUND (2011): There is a book in here somewhere.

Be Italian

CIAO HOUNDS: OUR TRIP TO ITALY (2011): Finally got José to Europe.

Death becomes here

ILLINOIS DEATH TRIP (2007): Ruminations on death while revisiting a past home, and the past.

Life is short...and meaningful

PASSING BY (2008): Mourning the loss of a person I only met once.

Lots more...

Gotta love the new feature The VIP Q Movie Pick by Jenni Olson for The Bilerico Project. For starters, Jane Lynch has the good taste to choose Desert Hearts, a 1985 flick hotter than the friction between the Brokeback Mountain boys' front and back entries. Jane says she watched it some 50 times one summer—and I don't doubt it.

In TV Guide (August 15—28, 2011), Jane Lynch comments on her character Sue Sylvester running for political office:

"She's going to run on the platform of 'Lets get rid of the arts and cut all the entitlements.' She's basically running as Michele Bachmann, without the crazy 'I hate homosexuals' bit."

The latest "Who's Gay & Who's Not" issue from National Enquirer (July 18, 2011) has only a few additions and just as much vagueness as the last few times (here, here, here):

Hyperion's for-women-by-women Voice imprint will publish a new book by Glee's Jane Lynch, a "funny and inspiring memoir" called Happy Accidents, in September of this year.

Lynch says:

"If I could go back in time and have a conversation with my 18-year-old self, the first thing I'd say it, 'Lose the perm.' Second, I would say, 'Relax. Really—just relax. Don't sweat it.' For a long time, I was anxious and fearful that the parade would pass me by, and that someone or something outside myself had all the answers. Having finally reached a happy place—a happy accidents place—I want to share my story with others, to let them know things aren't as bad as they fear."