Thanks for keeping it up for Pride @BenMastersxxx !!🌈🌈😈🤤🤤#BenMasters pic.twitter.com/SZLdZLZBhD
— Larry Flock (@_type_40_) June 19, 2018
Above: Ben Masters keeps it Pride-tastic.
(Image by Matthew Rettenmund)
... as soon as I edit!
I first met Mark MacKillop when he was dolefully doing booty duty at a GLAAD charity event, parading around in a Speedo and collecting bids on said Speedo. The gimmick was you'd win the article of clothing the guy was actually wearing.
Above: He's a charity case — people donated, he disrobed. And it was all for a good cause.
Boy of my dreams
It's been another year of Boy Culture, and that makes 12.
I've spent a decade and change of my life posting think-pieces, don't-think pieces, sexy butts, sexy bulges, infuriated protests, news of the day, news of the gay, surreptitious photos, self-promotion, self-deprecation, humor, pathos, dead celebrities, celebrities you thought were dead and what evidence of what passes for my powers of observation. I've acquired fans and anti-fans and momentarily interested passers-by.
The first blogs I encountered (I was a late bloomer) were Perez Hilton and Pink Is the New Blog ... and I barely understood how to read them. The concept of scrolling down for information, which is now becoming passé, was so new to me, they just looked like a jumble of information.
As I became accustomed to the idea, I noticed Towleroad — a specifically gay blog. Color me inspired, and by the end of 2005, when I was living in misery in a temporary apartment across the street from the dream apartment into which I would soon move (and eventually lose), I spent my free time figuring out Typepad. I was off-the-charts thrilled when I became adept at uploading images and formatting captions. I had previously experimented with Blogger, but now I was in business. Posting some old Blogger pieces and plunging ahead with all my thoughts on Madonna's new album Confessions on a Dance Floor, Boy Culture was born.
Why did I start this blog? (Besides as an excuse to disseminate images of guys in their skivvies.)
So many nights at the Adonis ... (Image by Matthew Rettenmund)
Mainly, I thought I could promote the theatrical release of the movie of the same name, which Allan Brocka had co-adapted and directed from my debut novel (new edition coming). I was proud of the movie and wanted to help get the word out, so I posted about each screening in-between quirky, topical entries on music, movies, Madonna and me. Just this past year, I used my blog (and Kickstarter) to help get the word out about the sequel to that movie — to which you can still donate here. I would also eventually lean on Boy Culture to help create awareness of Encyclopedia Madonnica 20, which was a huge hit.
(Image by Matthew Rettenmund)
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Broadway Bares audience members, post-show. See below for more pics. (Image by Matthew Rettenmund)
OMG Blog: Charice, the Oprah-powered singer from the Philippines who also starred on Glee, now IDs as a male: Read his first tweets as Jake Zyrus!
Charice is now Jake Zyrus. (Image via Twitter)
DailyKos: In a disappointing but not shocking defeat, Democrat Jon Ossoff lost to Republican Karen Handel in Georgia's special election, 52.1-47.9.
Daniel Day-Lewis tongues Gordon Warnecke in My Beautiful Lauundrette (GIF via Orion Classics)
ExtraTV: Daniel Day-Lewis — who starred in the gay classic My Beautiful Laundrette (1986) and won three Oscars — is retiring!
Kenneth in the (212): Former NFL player Ryan O'Callaghan has come out as gay. His other option had been ... suicide.
ExtraTV: Madonna's rep denies she is dating her “Bitch I'm Madonna” music video co-star Kevin Sampaio.
Madonna mackin' on Kevin Sampaio (Image via Interscope)
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The event raised $1.5 million for charity. (Image by Matthew Rettenmund)
