NOM can't even spell "marriage."

Mathew Wilkas is as groovy as it gets.

Deep Dish's grooviest guys of 2012.

Jobs attracting psychopaths: business, law, media, sales.

WEDDING MARCH: Supreme Court to hear marriage cases in 60 days.

Vietnam's LGBT community caught on film.

Al Roker pooped his pants @ the White House.

Bette Midler to Broadway as Sue Mengers.

Venfield 8's latest is a hairy Halston homage (Work Unfriendly):

Tanhunt

Gaultier's tribute to Madonna & other gender-benders.

LOSERS: Maggie Gallagher & now James Dobson admit defeat.

The Advocate returns to print in February.

The hunkiest dude in a foreign-language film this year.

Real men do wear pink (underwear).

Colby Melvin by Rick Day.

Busy Philipps's daughter, 4, boycotts Chick-Fil-A.

New Dorian Magazine is hot & cheap.

Chic mystique

Hello Kitty, good-bye mystique!

Can you handle drag realness on the high seas?

Ultra-Orthodox Jew ultra-convicted of ultra-molestation. His supporters = ultra-gross.

Graves found at 100-year-old school for wayward boys.

What the Fuck?: Taking "home schooling" to extremes.

What the Pluck?: 50 Shades of Chicken.

Honey Boo Boo meets Downton Abbey.

Immigration groups in gay-marriage of convenience.

NE woman guilty of faking anti-gay crime.

Harry Styles's accent sparks false coming out.

Gays against gay marriage apply within.

Should gays fear the Supremes on marriage?

Michiganders vs. anti-union bill.

New exhibit highlights Nazi persecution of gays.

Arrested for being gay, he undoubtedly perished in a concentration camp

Going All Out against a country going all in on the persecution of gays

Help tell Uganda its "Kill the Gays" bill is abhorrent.

Horrendous 100-car pile-up.

Translation: Madonna's got a new movie AND album in the works?

Cameron pushing for marriage-equality vote in the UK.

Can Dems retake the House in '14?

Abortion fanboy Rep. Scott DesJarlais (R-TN) won't quit.

You buyin' what Garrett Neff's sellin'?

United States out of Mexico?

Caddy/boy: Cadillac Ranch millionaire accused of bribing boys for sex.

Boeing is anti-marriage equality.

NOM fears college drag parties.

It's Black Friday. Be ashamed, be very ashamed:

Diaper trash

Honey Boo Boo's portrait in trash.

"Twink" is not the new N-word.

If Looks Could Kale: New model alert.

Barbara Bush to anti-Obama Republicans: "Move on."

CBS breaks up with gay sitcom Partners.

NOM raised 75% of its funds last year from two donors.

Bus driver refuses vehicle with pro-gay ad.

James Franco and Lindsay Lohan give R.E.M.'s "Blue" palpable ennui.

Golden throat

Fab "Stand By Your Man" rendition by Drake Jensen (feat. Willam Belli).

Simon Doonan thinks Gay Men Don't Get Fat. Uh...?

Male models revive the '90s.

Naked (Work Unfriendly) nutjob from American Horror Story.

Hillary will not be too old in '16 to win.

NOM spokesman: Obama a "Terrorist-in-Chief."

Romney "shellshocked" that he actually lost.

Who will you "Kill, Fuck, Marry"?

Ex-gay minister administered handsy blessings.

Rihanna: "Madonna's still the shit."

Ass-draggin' "Madonna" strips for Obama.

UnbeLIEVably stupid driver.

Ann Romney abandons Facebook—nary a post-election word.

Key & Peele cook up the best anti-bullying video EVER.

Peele-ing back the layers

GLAAD and HRC take advantage of the NOM gay vs. black scandal to release info showing that majorities in the black and Latino communities support marriage equality.

As of midnight tonight, it will be exactly five years since my first post. It's hard to imagine it's been that long, and a lot's changed—the tone and subject matter are different, how often I post, my limits (no nudity in a couple of years due to ad constraints). I've devoted a crazy amount of time and money and energy to this blog for a very small financial return (you couldn't guess low enough), but it's always rewarding to have this forum with which to express myself, keep my writing ability fluid, perhaps influence a couple of people here and there, share obsessions with strangers (in both senses of the word) and learn new things.

Take That's Howard...can you believe this happened onstage at a pop concert?

Here are some of the posts that were most important to Boy Culture's history. For the uninitiated, some of the oldest ones refer to Boy Culture, the movie made of my novel; I started the blog at the time Boy Culture was being filmed as a way to keep people informed of the progress...and it all snowballed from there.

Subtle

Some of these posts are milestones when it comes to the hits they provided but most are filled with original writing and/or photography and video and are just the posts of which I'm proudest. I hope you'll take some time to click on them and send their links around to others—and some time is what you'll need...

MY ART

Boy-crazy

FROM BOY TO MAN: BC B.C. (2007): The entire history of my novella, novel and movie Boy Culture; might be my ultimate post.

From '07, one of my faves. Old iPhones were better because they were worse.

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

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)

TriBeCa is for Boy lovers...

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.

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

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.

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.

I had the Fever for Jon-Erik Hexum

AN OBSESSION IS BORN (2009): One of my best posts about my obsession with...obsession.

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.

I was given the red-carpet treatment

HAVEN'T WE MET? (2010): Celebrating my time with someone I've only met once—Madonna.

Mexican telenovela slutbag-turned-Christian Karyme Lozano has been (key words: "has been") traveling with NOM on its anti-equality bus tour of the state of California, the goal of which is to recruit Latino support for Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman.

Just two years ago, this woman was the Queen of San Francisco Pride. She says, in the video below, that she had a big conversion once her father died. Now, she seems incapable of understanding or admitting that being in favor of abstinence until marriage while also being 100% against marriage equality simply condemns, unequally, gay people to a life without love and intimacy.