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Kerr Smith (Image via The WB)
Gay Fleshbot (Work Unfriendly): If you're young, which of these male stars sparked your gay awakening? (If you're old, which caused you to feel like a dirty perv?)
BuzzFeed: Trump's U.S. officials are denying visas to gay men attempting to flee gay concentration camps in Chechnya. Thanks, gay Trump voters!
Joe.My.God.: Horrid human being Joe Lieberman, 75, likely to be named FBI Director. A politician for the FBI at this juncture? Perfect.
Instinct: Aaron Hernandez's shady, weird fiancée says he denied he was gay to her, and, “He was very much a man to me.” Screw you, toad.
YouTube @ The CW Television Network: The new Dynasty looks utterly awful, and Stephen is a queen:
YouTube @FrankieJGrande: Ariana Grande's brother Frankie J. Grande breaks into music with a Hedwig-style rock anthem:
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!
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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.
Nov
06
2011
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
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.
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.
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.
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...
