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.

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...)

Frankly, if my name were Benjamin...

Rugby dudes + Speedos is like p.b. and chocolate. Mmm-mmm.

Hasselbeck's last day on The View is today! (Off to Fox & Friends.)

How does "Sen. Palin (R-Alaska)" sound?

The new anti-marriage law in Indiana that wasn't.

Next marriage targets: HI, OR, NJ & IL.

2 mos. in, gay divorces already happening in CO.

PA marriage ban challenged.

!@#$!: VA guv's son arrested for booze and...swearing?

Michelle Duggar refers to abortion as "baby Holocaust."

"Is Madonna still selling sex? I sort of think she is."—Neil Tennant

Working out with Madonna:

Barbara Walters will retire in one year's time. In my opinion, it's the end of an era and a great loss. Barbara Walters is one of those people who spans most of the history of television. She's been amazingly resilient, has made a name for herself doing multiple things from morning shows to the nightly news to nightime investigative journalism to, of course, her inimitable interviews.

When I saw her one time and mentioned how much I enjoyed The View (I did, at the time), she coolly ignored me. But she's not a friend, she's a living legend.

And for the record, when it comes to what kind of tree I'd be, I will be a weeping willow when she leaves.

But I had the immunity idol!

Elisabeth Hasselbeck has been voted off the island after 10 years.

Ann, starring Holland Taylor, charms The New York Times.

Surprisingly, a complete asshole blogs for Field & Stream.

Bee venom kills HIV.

Telling Canadian Bieber to "go back to America" rankles.

Shemar Moore-Moore-Moore...how do you like it, how do you like it?

Juan Williams blames plagiarism on researcher.

Sweden's the best place to be gay, Iran's the worst. Your guide.

Is Keith Urban homophobic on American Idol?

Matthew Fox hypocritically critical of Harry Styles.

Wait, why are small knives okay on planes suddenly???

Gay dads who found son in subway on Anderson Live.

Just because you've always wanted to see the Teen Wolf cast nose-free:

You'll howl with laughter

The first episode of The View happened before I owned a cellphone

Joy Behar quits The View after 16 years.

FBI "monitoring" Marco McMillian murder.

Ten-year-old eco-blogger interviews Amy Ray of The Indigo Girls.

THE DEVIL YOU KNOW:  Justin Bieber: "Only God can judge me."

Synergy does not pay the fucking rent.

Lindsay Lohan saying "no, no, no" to rehab.

"[Madonna] never had to...tell me that it was OK that I was 'born this way.'"

Desperately seeking Denise Van Outen. 

Win a trip to the GLAAD Awards.

Anal sex scene in Beyond the Candelabra done in one...take.

"Every Sunday night, this girl wo uld come to my house and I would stand in my garage and I would hike my boxer briefs up into the crack of my ass and she would give me a spray tan."—Matt Damon, on playing Scott Thorson

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:

Ain't nothin' but a g-string

Matt Bomer bares his butt in unreleased Magic Mike scene.

In Virginia, Obama coins neologism: "Romnesia."

Lawrence O'Donnell to Tagg Romney: "Take your best shot."

Ann Romney on if her hubby loses: "He will not run again."

Gallup's the only national poll with Romney (way!) ahead.

Romney bailing on NC—confidence or desperation?

Where at least one Wild Thing is.

News outlets try to revive Madonna & guns controversy.

Abercrombie CEO is "douche of the week."

Tom f*@!*in' Hanks.

Dennis Quaid soon back on the market.

Zac Efron goes for edgy, overreaches:

Clean-up on aisle take the fifth

Paul Ryan's fake photo op angers charity prez.

If Jude Law is fat, am I morbidly obese?

Morgan Freeman narrates new Obama ad.

Robin Thicke hangs out, his trunks hang low.

"I have too many vaginas around me at this point."—Rihanna

Lindsay Lohan voting for Romney because of "jobs." Barbara Walters to fire questions at her.

Team Romney says Latino voters crave "macho bravado." Pendejos.

New book argues that barebacking is "not simply crazy or irresponsible."

Mitt Romney too scared of the "sharp-tongued" View ladies, but debates himself. Twice:

In engaging remarks on The View, President Obama talks about his former support of civil unions, his now fully evolved marriage-equality views, his belief that DOMA is not Constitutional and his ignorance of 50 Shades of Grey.