@boyculturedotcom Today, August 23, was the 97th anniversary of the birth of Peter Wyngarde (1927-2018), a British actor best remembered as the campily adventurous Jason King on 2 British shows. More interestingly, he played a Polish soldier named Jan Wicziewsky on a November 24, 1959, ITV play of the week in the UK called "South." Set in the U.S. as the Civil War is about to break out, it features him as a clearly gay and tortured character. His scenes — in which his character pines for handsome soldier Eric MacClure (Graydon Gould, who died at 82 in 2020) — are remarkably obvious for the time period. Note: The teen to whom he semi-confessed was played by Karl Lanchbury, who is alive at 80. A critic at the time wrote, "I do NOT see anything attractive in the agonies and ecstasies of a pervert, especially in close-up in my living room. This is not prudishness. There are some indecencies in life that are best left covered up." One of the first queer representations on TV anywhere, there are no dramatic U.S. precedents for it. #peterwyngarde #gay #queer #lgbtq #boyculture ♬ original sound - Matthew Rettenmund/BoyCulture

ABOVE: Check out these snippets of South, a truly trail-blazing drama aired on British TV in 1959. (Kenton Coe wrote an opera on the same story called Sud that was reviewed by the NYT.)

BELOW: Keep reading for an Olympic OnlyFans collab, Israel pushing it, Marsha P. Johnson's b'day and more ...

They're going on a rainbow tour ... (Image via Instagram)

INSTINCT: Olympians Matthew Mitcham and Robbie Manson teamed up ... on OnlyFans.

TMZ: Some fucking asshole trademarked “very demure, very mindful” before ITS CREATOR Jools LeBron did, and now she's shit out of luck?! That seems absolutely wrong. There has to be a lawyer who can put this guy on blast if he did it (as would be the assumption) AFTER she made it famous.

INSTAGRAM: A loving remembrance of icon Marsha P. Johnson, who would have turned 79 this weekend.

NBC NEWS: Transgender issues — perhaps like climate issues — were not front-and-center at the DNC. It feels like advocates are playing the long game. How could anyone question where she stands on those things? Therefore, lay low and reap the rewards when she wins.

HUFF POST: Israel, not satisfied with the war it's got, attacks Hezbollah (no tears for Hezbollah, of course) inside Lebanon.

CHELSEA STATION: New novel by longtime queer writer Jameson Currier, We Are Made of Stars:

After a decade of mistakes, a struggling writer leaves Manhattan to start over in a small college town. Populated with egotists and narcissists, Jameson Currier’s resilient and unflinching We Are Made of Stars, a “memoir in the form of a novel pretending to be a memoir,” reveals a gay man’s journey through grief during the early years of the AIDS epidemic.

Comes out October 16!

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