Boy Culture Links: Bars Ending Use of Facial Scans, 'Barbara Forever' Hitting Big U.S. Cities, 1st Look at Andrew Haigh's 'A Long Winter' + MORE
AUGUST 11, 2026
GAYCITIES: Liam Campbell shoots “beautiful, ordinary gay guys” in Chicago.
NEWS12: A patient at a Chester, New York, physical therapy office recorded staff and a patient laughing it up over anti-gay slurs.
NBC NEWS: Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colorado) is a public-sex perv, is the ex-wife of a flasher perv and is the mom of a perv, too — her son has been charged with child sexual exploitation.
LGBTQ NATION: San Francisco gay bars will end the use of facial scans.
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: Mubi is sharing the first images from Andrew Haigh’s A Long Winter, starring Fred Hechinger, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Caitríona Balfe, Kit Connor and D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai hits theaters later this year.
THE COLORADO SUN: A review of How Queer Bookshops Changed the World.
STRAND: Barbara Forever by Brydie O’Connor is opening in NYC on September 4, L.A. on September 11 and San Francisco & Chicago on September 18. The pitch:
“Barbara Forever is an expansive, immersive exploration of the life, work, and ongoing cultural impact of filmmaker Barbara Hammer — a pioneering artist who lived boldly, created urgently, and transformed cinema through her singular vision. Her films were an extension of herself: sensual, experimental, and unapologetically lesbian, rooted in a profound desire for connection and an insistence on telling her own story. Driven by her canon of over eighty films, a vast collection of unreleased archival materials, and extensive audio interviews, Brydie O’Connor’s portrait allows for Hammer’s voice and images to shine through, becoming both a tribute and an extension of her legacy.”
THE ART HOUSE: Seth Sikes is coming to P-Town with his Me and My Gals show.
GLAAD: GLAAD and W.K. Kellogg Foundation hosted Reel Change: Black Film, Culture and the Stories That Shape Us during the Martha’s Vineyard African-American Film Festival. Laverne Cox, ViiV Healthcare Head of Enterprise Communications Bithiah Lafontant, podcast host Ryan Mitchell and filmmaker Nneka Onuorah were among those on hand. As GLAAD points out in a recent report, it wasn’t a banner year (in 2025) for queer Black characters — they were represented 36% less than the year before.
