ABOVE: I've posted him before, but JFC.

BELOW: Keep reading for sexy Tony Ward tells all (or most!), three sexy Spirit Tunnel dances of late and more  ...

Oh, baby blue! (Image by Alvaro Beamud Cortes for Vman)

ABOVE: Cooper shows how it's done for Vman.

BELOW: Keep reading for Trump tide turning, Delta steps up for queer employees, new books & music & more ...

Burning questions answered (Image is a graphic consisting of album covers, images via Charlie Grappone & video stills)

My Substack — most of the posts are free or you can volunteer a small fee — is my labor of love, and my latest has more love and labor than most!

I spoke at length with Charlie Grappone, who with his wife Debbie owned and operated NYC's HiNRG music store Vinylmania in Greenwich VIllage from the late '70s until 2007.

So many issues came up — think about how much music, NYC, the gay scene and business in general have changed in the past 40+ years.

Plus, there is a juicy Madonna element, with Charlie describing the unsuccessful (!) first-ever in-store that she did, way back in 1983.

Please check out the heavily illustrated (with music, too), nostalgic post.

ABOVE: Wild thing.

BELOW: Keep reading for the battle between Elon Musk and the soul of the United States, a fun story about Tina Louise, how much Adam Lambert cares and more ...

Pepe's last work was in Hotter Up Close. (Image via video still)

I am tremendously sad to see that an old pal of mine, Francisco “Pepe” San Martin, has taken his own life. He is being remembered on many sites thanks to a short stint on Days of Our Lives, but also because I think people are prone to be especially gripped by stories involving those who die young and beautiful.

To that end, I wrote about my impression of Pepe's relationship with beauty, and about what a truly beautiful person he really was here. Please subscribe (free) with your email to read.

A funny and sexy anti-Trump PSA from 2019:

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I recommend the Substack Fame Whores, with Frederick Woodruff and John Calendo. You won't be disappointed. Here!

@boyculturedotcom From the September 29, 1976, "Alice" episode entitled "Alice Gets a Pass," Linda Lavin's Alice finds out the reason the guy she's on a date with isn't making a mass is that he's gay. The episode is remarkably progressive for 50ish years ago, with a pitch-perfect performance by Denny Miller. I met Mr. Miller in 2011 at an autograph show, where he signed my photo "stay healthy." I didn't ask him about "Alice" (!) but he said of working with Tina Louise on "Gilligan's Island" that he sat down on an ornate chair in her dressing room and broke it. They'd been rehearsing a slapping scene, and he said, "The slaps got really hard after that!" Back to "Alice Gets a Pass" — it was written by Martin Donovan (who wrote and directed the gay drama "Apartment Zero" in 1988) and who wrote "Death Becomes Her" in 1992 and by the late Robert Getchell (who wrote "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" in 1974, "Mommie Dearest" in 1981 and "This Boy's Life" in 1993, among many others. RIP Linda Lavin, Robert Getchell, Denny Miller and the entire 1976 cast of "Alice," minus Polly Holliday, who is with us at 87 #alice #lindalavin #dennymiller #gay #tv #gr8erdays ♬ original sound - Matthew Rettenmund/BoyCulture

A reminder of a terrific Alice episode from 1976.

Check out my collection of queer moments from TV history here.

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An interesting, first-person account of what it was like to have been raided by the cops for making gay porn in the late 1950s from Walter Kundzicz — who died in 2016. Check it out here.