Boy Culture Links: Get Drunk on Nostalgia at Gay Barchives, Trump's Messy Signature Will Deface Paper Money, 'The Comeback' Comes Back, Former Kid Star's Adult Nude Photo + MORE
MARCH 27, 2026
GAY BARCHIVES: Gay BArchives is a Facebook group that gay men seem to be flocking to. It reminds me of Gay New York 1970s and 80s.
JOE.MY.GOD.: Trump’s signature will appear on all new money — a first for a sitting president. He’s really good at making us mad, but it’s all just more fuel for November, just over seven months from now, when Republicans lose in a historic blue tsunami. Book it!
THE ADVOCATE: Pennsylvania House passes bill protecting same-sex marriage. Will the Republican Senate take a dump on it?
YAHOO!: Gay Survivor winner Richard Hatch ordered to pay $3 million+ in back taxes, is repping himself, hopes to win on appeal. Check out a very recent interview with him here.
HUFFINGTON POST: That miserable fuck thinks he won the gay vote.
INSTAGRAM: Yesterday’s birthdays included the birth anniversary of TV teen star Johnny Crawford, of The Rifleman fame. By his 70s, he was battling Alzheimer’s, and was done in by COVID and pneumonia. But post-teenybopper years, he did some very unique work, including bravely appearing completely nude in the bonkers 1973 film The Naked Ape, opposite Victoria Principal.
Heeere’s Johnny:
MATT ASHCROFT: We need a special kind of condolence card to send those in our community when they find out one of their conversion-therapists has died, because there is more than one simple feeling to unpack. Matt writes emotionally about how he felt when one of these scammers who defrauded him and his family died recently. It isn’t a long read, but it’s so raw and bracing. We need conversion therapy banned permanently everywhere.
UNFILTERED CLARITY: Meanwhile, a gay therapist writes a simple explanation for his online pursuits: “I Post Gay Content Because I’m Gay.”
VARIETY: Are you watching The Comeback? This show is just so perfect. I only wish I could binge Season 3; short, half-hour installments are going to kill me.
KENNETH IN THE (212): Late Blondie drummer Clem Burke gets a warm, teary send-off.
THE GUARDIAN: Out country singer Ty Herndon reveals that his career taught him drugs were forgivable, being gay was not.
BBC: Former Australian Football League player Leigh Ryswyk has become the first player — current or past — to come out as gay. (Seven months ago, a player came out as bi.)
HUFFINGTON POST: A crackdown on the prediction markets is long overdue. That people won big cash by “predicting” when Trump would strike Iran is super suspicious.
INSTAGRAM: If you’re a Liza fan, it feels almost mandatory to get the German-language version of her book. You’re willkommen for the tip!
AMAZON: Speaking of books, Illeana Douglas wrote one — about The Women!
PEOPLE: The International Olympic Committee has formally banned all trans women from participating in the Games.
As non-binary athlete Nikki Hiltz writes, this is really just political theater:
INSTAGRAM (FOLLOWS APPRECIATED): Billy Warlock is officially a senior citizen! GULP.
Another post that is so chock full, I have to come back to it...
Speaking of nostalgia....I think someone should do some research and a story on the famous ' 8709 Club Baths ' of Los Angeles. The most beautiful men in the world lined up nightly and this was pre AIDS, to have wild sex all night. A doorman monitoring who got in like Studio 54. Plus it was owned by a powerful attorney and politician, Sheldon Andelson ( Not Sheldon Adelson of Vegas fame )There might be a few older men still alive who could give more details.