Boy Culture Links: 20 Years of 'Boy Culture' the Movie, 'DNA' Showoff, Black Dahlia Murder Solved?, Trump Gets Defensive with '60 Minutes,' Erika Qwerk Serves at Turning Point U.S.-Gay + MORE
APRIL 27, 2026
SOCIALITE LIFE: Meet Sergei Adonis, who — with that name — had no choice but to become a sought-after personal trainer and Insta-stud.
DNA: The new DNA cover man, Vladimir La O Moran, wants you to know you can be “strong and confident, but also kind, respectful, and emotionally aware.” And stacked.
INSTAGRAM: Boy Culture — the original movie based on my novel — is now officially 20 years old.
60 MINUTES: I’m so skeptical of the intention of CBS with Bari Weiss anywhere near it, but Norah Roberts — while losing points for passively allowing Trump to berate her — scored points for asking him if he thought his latest would-be assassin’s manifesto was referring to him when it mentioned a pedophile rapist.
HUFFINGTON POST: I don’t think the WHCD shooting was staged, but Trump immediately pivoting to using it as a reason he needs his bazillion-dollar bunker, er, BALLROOM built is not helping dissuade people on the left and right from assuming it had to be.
LGBTQ NATION: Turning Point U.S.-Gay — a drag event mocking the Republican summit Turning Point USA — raised $25K for the ACLU. One of the most creative and spot-on drag queens based on a real person, Erika Qwerk, stole the show by giving it her very best … shot:
OUTSPORTS: I agree that in sports, reducing punishments for gay slurs is a bad look.
SLATE: A new book by William J. Mann (Black Dahlia: Murder, Monsters, and Madness in Midcentury Hollywood) and a new podcast (Killer in the Code) have both concluded that a disturbed veteran named Marvin Margolis murdered Beth Short, L.A.’s Black Dahlia. The ‘40s murder — infamous for Short’s dismemberment — has absorbed true crime buffs since before true crime was a thing, and now Evan McGarvey for Slate is writing about what compels this sort of undying interest in death and how it relates to who the victim was — and whether we can ever know the truth for sure.
GOTHAMIST: Here in NYC, we’re deciding if the seat of Stonewall necessarily needs a queer rep, or if an ally is good enough. It’s a great problem to have, even if it’s a minor tiff between Mayor Mamdani (who has endorsed Lindsey Boylan) and some in the queer community (Erik Bottcher has endorsed Carl Wilson):
“Mamdani’s endorsement of Boylan drew criticism from some older gay activists, who said the mayor was ignoring the seat's history. For them, the district, where the modern gay rights movement began, carries a special meaning. What's more, if Wilson doesn't win, Manhattan will lose its only openly gay representative on the City Council.”
DENNIS, ANYONE?: Mike Maimone talks with Dennis Hensley about his memoir and album, both entitled Guess What? I Love You. They cover his brief but life-changing relationship with firebrand gay publicist Howard Bragman, who he met on Scruff and who died a year later from leukemia.
JOE.MY.GOD.: Israeli political party leaders team up to oust Netanyahu.
EW.COM: Even one of the guys who wrote “Dick in a Box” was uncomfortable around Kevin Spacey.
FACEBOOK: Darrell Sheets, the Storage Wars figure who took his own life, named his cyberbullies a month before he died. Another co-star has come forward to underscore this, and to question if it was suicide after all. (It was, but when people hack your accounts and assume your identity, trust me, it can make a non-suicidal person suicidal fast.)
PLANET HUGILL: Ten years after the LGBTQ+ mass murder at Pulse, the Gay Men’s Chorus of South Florida will premiere a new choral work in honor of the victims. Amor Eterno: A Requiem for Pulse by composer Saunder Choi is part of Invincible: A Pride Concert of Remembrance, Resilience, and Song at the Au-Rene Theater at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on June 19.
WEHO TIMES: The gay dads targeted for online abuse by a MAGA influencer — one of whom wound up allegedly assaulting the provocateur — have raked in about $175K in supportive donations to help with the upcoming legal battle.
INSTAGRAM: Incroyable! Brigitte Auber turned 101 this weekend. She was the impish burglar in Hitchcock’s To Catch a Thief, released 71 years ago. At the time, she was playing a character meant to be younger than Grace Kelly, even though she was older. (Kinda bonkers to realize Princess Grace could feasibly be alive today — she’d be 96.)
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: RIP Nedra Talley Ross, 80, who’d been the last surviving member of the Ronettes.