Boy Culture Links: Colman Domingo's Barter System, Hot Judge vs. Clavicular, High School Band Plays Banned Piece, Uncut 'Pillion' Is Here + MORE!
MAY 22, 2026
MEN’S HEALTH U.K.: Colman Domingo talks about looking that good by not counting calories — and instead “bartering.”
ESPN: Kyle Busch, a NASCAR icon, has died unexpectedly at 41.
INSTAGRAM: The famous girl in green doing the shoulder dance in the ‘80s has self-identified!
TICKETS: A new doc — The Dads — is about a group of father who banded to together to protect their trans and gender-nonconforming children.
BOY CULTURE: Raymond Burr would be 109 years old if he were alive today. And gay.
THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT: Stephen Colbert has signed off after 11 years, and he did it with a last-second unauthorized use of some Peanuts music, saying he sure hopes it doesn’t cost CBS a bundle in a lawsuit …
EXTRATV: #UnfreeBritney — too soon?
SOCIALITE LIFE: The judge in Clavicular’s Florida case could give him a few tips on looking good.
RANDY REPORT: They tried to ban a high school band from performing a “controversial” piece. They played it anyway:
ADVOCATE: What a fucking sell-out coward Vindman is. Shocking, actually.
A24: A spanking-new, uncut, unrated director’s version of Pillion is here.
VARIETY: Rami Malek talks about the “fear” he had in accepting the starring role in the new Ira Sachs film The Man I Love.
THE GUARDIAN: A review of the Spanish queer film The Black Ball at Cannes, which stars Penélope Cruz and Glenn Close and which is directed by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi.
More:
ACLU WISCONSIN: “Pride Is a Protest, but It Is Also a Party: The Birth of Gay Bars.”
MANHATTAN D.A.: A 27-year-old in NYC has been charged with a hate crime in an attack that happened in December 2023.
TICKETS: Seth Sikes returns to 54 Below.
NEW YORK TIMES: The Democratic “autopsy” on 2024 has some hard truths — and lots of errors.
HOT SPOTS!: The new issue of Hot Spots! is all about underwear and swimwear.
PEOPLE: Cute! Dolph Lundgren passed the bat— er, the sword! — at the premiere of Masters of the Universe, starring an already nicely deflating Nicholas Galitzine.
KENNETH IN THE (212): A bunch more LGBTQ+ and -adjacent mags of the week.