Boy Culture Links: Camboys Forever, RIP David Hockney & Duane Michals, Absolut Madonna, TV's Mount Rushmore Is Carved Out + MORE

JUNE 12, 2026

Daniel Dale should be a camboy as a side hustle. (Images via video still)

APPLETV+: Are you watching Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed? You’ve gotta love Daniel Dale as a feckless-twink camboy in the “Scamboy” episode. That same episode offers a memorably gruesome killing. Great dramatic series with a dark sense of humor.

Hockney’s art was, and is, omnipresent. (Images via The New Yorker, The Sunday Times Culture & Vogue)

NEW YORK TIMES: David Hockey, the gay man who became one of the most important artists of the 20th century, has died at 88. A tremendous loss of a man who defined his era artistically.

He also created the cover of Synchronicity by the Police in 1983. (Image via Christopher Street)

NEW YORK TIMES: Another all-time great gay male artist died this week — Duane Michals. He was 94. Michals created image poems with witty and offbeat captions. He was a one-of-a-kind, even visionary creator.

POLITICO: Trump seems to view HIV as a good thing in his second term.

Well, hi! (Image via official campaign photo)

KTIV: Meet Dave Muhlbauer, the Democratic lieutenant governor nominee from Iowa.

It’s gonna be a Madonna summer. (Images by Ricardo Gomes for Absolut)

ABSOLUT: Absolut is reviving its iconic ad campaign in honor of Madonna’s Confessions II release on July 3. You better bet they will release a Madonna-branded bottle soon.

THE ANKLER: Industry pros chime in on TV’s Mount Rushmore.

Lucy’s presence on the TV Mount Rushmore was a given. (Image via The Ankler)