Boy Culture Links
JANUARY 12, 2026
EXTRATV: I was mostly happy with the Golden Globes winners, though I can not for the life of me figure out what people see in One Battle After Another. It was lovely to see Hamnet win, but I doubt it will repeat at the Oscars, where OBAA seems a shoo-in. (They were in separate categories at the Globes.)
EW: Wanda Sykes hilariously skewered Bill Maher at the Globes, and accepted an absentee Ricky Gervais’s award for stand-up by thanking the trans community on his behalf.
YOUTUBE: There is a reason why the official Golden Globes clip showing Heated Rivalry stars Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie as presenters leaves out the lame UFC intro.
THE WRAP: Golden Globes host Nikki Glaser (who knocked it out of the park) ended her gig with a sweet hat tip to the late Rob Reiner.
HUFFINGTON POST: Ian Kumamoto writes of the “unbridled gayness” of Heated Rivalry in the era of Trumpism. I can’t help but flash back to Tim Byrne’s bonkers assertion for The Guardian that shows like Heated Rivalry "desex gay men just enough to make them palatable, like pets for young women.” I mean, we practically see insertion.
JOE.MY.GOD.: Mackenzie Scott, who was clearly Jeff Bezos’s (much) better half during their marriage, just handed $45M to the Trevor Project.
PRIDE SOURCE: There is a passing of the baton going on at The Gay & Lesbian Review.
FACEBOOK: There is a similar passing of the baton that just happened at amfAR.
THE ADVOCATE: Five trans service members were given a send-off by Ret. Gen. Stanley McChrystal as they’re being forcibly removed from the military by Trump’s policies.
HUFFINGTON POST: Even GOPers are resisting Trump’s assault on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, who’s been threatened with criminal perjury charges in what Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) terms “nothing more than an attempt at coercion.”
JERUSALEM POST: You might wanna gauge whether you’re anti-Israeli policies or just plain anti-Semitic by how readily you believe that Israeli “settlers” deliberately tried to burn Argentina to the ground.
THE TAB: There is a new-ish set of gay twins making waves on OnlyFans for just how sexual they’re willing to get together. Why did they do it?:
“‘Everybody was only interested in a sexual way. At some point, we thought, ‘Okay, why not use it? Why not monetise it?’ and we would have a stream.”
You can follow them if you like. I can’t find their OF. Are they real?! These guys are.
THEM: Writer-producer Our Lady J of Pose fame came out forcefully for Zionism, connecting it to LGBTQ+ progress. Obviously a principled stand, because it will cost her a lot of followers, but I still think two things can be true — Jewish people have been tireless equal-rights supporters historically, and Israel’s assault on Gaza has been disastrous and is overkill.
AL.COM: Here’s hoping the “Don’t Say Gay” bill in Alabama will die a deservedly quick death.
HISTORY LINK: A crash course on the queer history of Spokane, Washington. One particularly compelling aspect is the story of Billy Tipton. This feels like recent history to me, but Billy was a jazz musician and family man who, upon his death in 1989, was discovered to have been female — a fact his wife and adopted kids had not even known. It was presented as a quirky story at the time, and of course today feels more resonant of an era before being openly trans was an option for most:
“In the late 1950s, a jazz performer named Billy Tipton moved to Spokane, frequenting Spokane’s Ridpath and Davenport hotels and the Green Monkey and Tin Pan Alley jazz rooms. He had a family, with five adopted children, and took five wives over the course of his life. He made headlines upon his death in 1989, when his family ‘discovered he was a woman,’ according to the Spokane Chronicle (‘Not Even Family Knew ...’). This coverage, as well as national sensational journalism, played into narratives of ‘betrayal’ and deception on the part of transgender and transsexual individuals who do not disclose their birth sex. The article called Tipton a ‘popular Spokane entertainer’ and ‘doting father who at one time was a Scoutmaster’ with an ‘incredible secret’ (‘Not Even Family Knew ...’). The story describes Tipton’s life as a ‘sexual masquerade’ and ‘role reversal,’ but features a quote from an ex-lover of his who said that ‘the real story of Billy Tipton doesn’t have anything to do with gender ... He was a fantastic, almost marvelous, and generous person’ (‘Not Even Family Knew ...).”
