Imagine having Madonna as a potential mother-in-law?

Madonna's buena daughter Lola is dating adorable Timothee Chalamet.

Cindy McCain playing gay Prop 8 plaintiff in AZ production of 8.

BIG IN 'NAM: My Best Gay Friends charms the Hanoi hoi-polloi.

The Knife are back, as sharp as ever.

The accidental gay first date.

Roger Ebert's greatest accomplishment?

Magic Johnson supports gay son in interview.

Patti Davis claims her scummy dad would be pro-equality.

Can bad movie sequels diminish the originals?

Major lava flow = mass extinction.

Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Florida) comes out for marriage equality.

Madonna tours Malawi hospital.

Rep. Matt Salmon (R-Arizona) is anti-equality. His gay son: "Okay!"

91% of America supports background checks for guns.

Like me or friend me on Facebook, but don't send me messages like this:

Tits a living

SOMETHING OFF MY CHEST: Olly Murs vs. Niall Horan.

Madame President's Super PAC launches.

Uruguay beats the U.S. to marriage equality.

Sen Mark Kirk (R-Illinois) = 2nd Rep. senator for equality.

Nicola Formichetti is out at Mugler.

Surprise! Sean Hannity still a mean A-hole.

Next gets a new editor.

Voice of Elmo officially recasted.

Now Obama is coming for your BRAIN.

Stevie Nicks doc In Your Dreams is now playing.

Tegan & Sara & other under-40 sensations.

Bradley Cooper's short-and-curlies.

Jinkx Monsoon & Alaska Thunderfvck sing "Cabaret."

Terry Richardson tries grape-flavored POPwater.

Gay center can't sponsor Boy Scouts troop.

Remember when Courtney Love was smokin'?

Madonna continues to walk the walk in Malawi.

Madonna & Child(ren)

Koop with his Cabbage Patch mini-me. How much more '80s can it get?

Legendary Surgeon General C. Everett Koop dies @ 96.

Anderson Cooper's kitty-litter facial. Me-ow!

Ang Lee took his Oscar to In-n-Out Burger. So L.A.!

Oscar ratings slightly up. Was it Seth? Barbra? Boobs?

Kim Kardashian & Kanye screw on a magazine cover.

Cornholing...San Francisco-style!

Old Dogs & New Tricks deals with "Mood Swings":

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Lesbian moms confronted in TX sting.

Nigel Barker on his upcoming David Mixner flick.

Ellen's first underwear model.

"The Twit and Wisdom of Spencer Cox."

Oklahoma fights to force teachers to pass idiot pupils.

Mr. & Mr. Jesse Tyler Ferguson on why "husband" matters.

Knot together

The grooms made it legal in Canada after 58 years

Gustavo Archilla, marriage equality icon, dies at 96.

Patrick Henry College founder: Gay students don't exist.

Conservatives quitting party over marriage equality.

Hawking: Pardon Alan Turing.

Gay activists picket the Pope.

Pope blesses Rebecca "Kill the Gays" Kadaga.

Limbaugh's misogynist Hillary joke.

Via MadonnaTribe: Madonna does cry for Argentina.

Proving evolution, limb by limb.

Jarrod Scott is really, really hot:

I want muscles...all over his body...

Putting his best face forward

Meet the most heroic Lancome clerk ever.

Meet Injustice Scalia's ideological tormentor.

Sir Ian McKellen does not have prostate cancer.

California Gov. Jerry Brown does have prostate cancer.

Rob James-Collier not into gay Downton Abbey kisses.

South Americans losing it over Madonna.

VOTE: RuPaul for Best Reality Show Judge/Host.

If "gay" is a birth defect, will righties go pro-choice?

Plan to castrate and murder Justin Bieber thwarted.

Beekmans defend twins against anti-gay rap.

The do-it-yourself...drone???

The boy from Bora Bora.

Sarah Palin's son, Track, divorcing. Already.

10 stories that affected HIV/AIDS in black America.

Andrew Christian's too-hot Vimeo account deleted.

All of 2012 in one video:

The case's ex-gay avengers. Frankly, I'd trust a vagina with all three.

A federal judge has temporarily halted implementation of California's landmark law banning gay-conversion therapy, applying his decision to three people only—a psychiatrist, a therapist and a former patient studying to become a counselor. The exemption for those three will hold until the judge can hold a new trial on the merits of their case, which argues that banning gay-conversion therapy—is universally derided as a sham by all reputable medical authorities—is an assault on their First Amendment rights.

This should make you crack a smile

Via Sticky (Work Unfriendly): Aussie footballer busts himself in his "budgies."

"Brokeback Boathouse" vs. bullying.

Henrietta & Myrna vs. singing.

Sneak peek of HBO's In Vogue: The Editor's Eye.

Boehner and McConnell - reality = humor.

An '80s song you should play every day.

Brad Pitt's Killing Them Softly dies a miserable death.

DNA's double helix photographed for the first time.

Mindy Kaling & Reese Witherspoon new besties?

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Do the Math: 3 Gay Guys and 1 Girl with 2 Boobs:

Wet behind the light years

Water discovered on Mercury.

Director James Gunn apologizes for anti-gay, misogynist rant.

Michigan teacher suspended for playing pro-gay music video.

VOTE: Palestine state receives U.N. recognition.

Is Lindsay Lohan a Wanted woman?

Polish court okays gay inheritance.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn settles with maid.

Colin Farrell rides in on white horse.

Madonna's corset sells for over $50K.

Another DOMA case ruled unconstitutional.

Is Rep. Aaron "I'm not gay" Schock (R-Illinois) a gubernatorial maybe?

Call me "Governor," maybe?

Brandon K. Thorp over at Towleroad is covering the unbelievable blindness of Sen. Stacey Campfield (R-Tennessee), who in an interview with Michelangelo Signorile said he believes AIDS originated with homosexuals, specifically with a gay man (so-called Patient Zero Gaetan Dugas) having sex with a monkey. And other stupid shit, like believing that And the Band Played On's Randy Shilts was "appalled" by unsanitary gay-sex practices and thinking it's "virtually impossible" (!) to get HIV from heterosexual sex. Um, tell Africa that. Um, tell the huge number of heterosexuals who got it that way that. (Also, does a guy putting his dick in a woman's butt not count as heterosexual? Just curious.)

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...