BOYCULTURE

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Remembering my website BoyCulture.com, which — along with scores of other venerable blogs — has vanished along with Typepad

Oct 1 • 

Matthew Rettenmund

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September 2025

The Boy in the Band: Catching Up with Nathaniel Flatt

In 2008, he was a rarity — an out gay member of a bona fide boy band. In our Q&A, Flatt talks highlights, unique pressures and being guided by the late…

Sep 17 • 

Matthew Rettenmund

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Remembering Mark Bingham

A humanizing anecdote about the gay man whose heroic actions on 9/11 changed some hearts & minds

Sep 12 • 

Matthew Rettenmund

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Art Imitates Life

Why "never forget" feels so inadequate when thinking about 9/11

Sep 11 • 

Matthew Rettenmund

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I Caught Her In: Yolande Bavan Remembers 'Parting Glances'

The legendary jazz singer played enigmatic Betty in the 1986 AIDS-themed queer classic, and wound up uttering some of the film's most indelible lines

Sep 8 • 

Matthew Rettenmund

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August 2025

Mining the Physique Mystique with Homobilia's Barry Harrison

Whether nostalgic, a turn-on, or vessels for queer stories of the past, these images are priceless — and their future is anything but guaranteed

Aug 27 • 

Matthew Rettenmund

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Incel Mineo: A Review of Exploitation Classic 'Who Killed Teddy Bear?'

Sal Mineo's psychopath is once again here, is arguably queer — get used to it, ladies

Aug 9 • 

Matthew Rettenmund

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Whatever Became of ... Richard Lamparski?

A vintage interview with the man who invented nostalgia

Aug 4 • 

Matthew Rettenmund

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July 2025

Remembering Carleton Carpenter on his 99th

The late actor opened up to me in 2017 about his unfulfilled WWII gay love story, losing Debbie Reynolds and Cary Grant's dressing-room visit

Jul 11 • 

Matthew Rettenmund

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Johnny, Remember Me

A brief tribute to free-spirited Stephen Stucker, one of the first celebrities to speak openly of living with AIDS

Jul 3 • 

Matthew Rettenmund

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The Family You Choose: Darryl Stephens Returns with 'Noah's Arc: The Movie'

Stephens on revisiting Noah, the power in playing a feminine man, and living up to expectations

Jul 1 • 

Matthew Rettenmund

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June 2025

We Are (Still) Everywhere: 2025 NYC Pride March

Impressions and images from the march that started it all ... as we teeter on the edge of losing some of it

Jun 30 • 

Matthew Rettenmund

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