Boy Culture Links: Half-Naked Connor Storrie Aces 'SNL,' Queer Media Layoffs, Lindsey Graham: Trump Not Responsible for Iran Now, Shia LaBeouf, Proud Homophobe + Beefcake of the Day + MORE
MARCH 1, 2026
SNL: Connor Storrie’s SNL monologue brought out MAGA brothers Jack & Quinn Hughes from the gold medal-winning men’s hockey team as well as Hilary Knight and Megan Keller from the gold medal-winning women’s team. As disappointed as I was to see the men’s team yukking it up with Trump and later visiting him in the Oval Office (Jack & Quinn wore Trump’s USA caps, although not MAGA caps), it was a sweet moment, allowing the women to dunk on them publicly (good-naturedly). It was a well-crafted kiss-and-makeup session:
SNL: Connor was excellent as a host — it’s insane that, as he said in his monologue, he’s only been a professional actor for six months. He was far superior to the material, which was still pretty okay.
A lot of absurdist stuff that sometimes hits and sometimes misses. One that hit was, of course, “Stripper”:
JUST JARED: Connor received support from rumored BF François Arnaud at the SNL after-party. “Please Hammer, don’t hurt ‘em” was the apparent dress code.
INSTAGRAM: Madonna wowed in “Like a Virgin”-al white for a D&G appearance during Milan Fashion Week, where she attended the right-wing fashion duo’s show to promote their collab on the D&G campaign for The One.
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: Equalpride, with owns Out, The Advocate, Pride.com and now Them, is on a layoffs spree. Will there be any corporate queer media left in a few years?
NEW YORK TIMES: First American deaths in Iran War as the embattled country strikes back against targets in the Middle East. People there are, predictably, both mourning and celebrating the assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader killed early Saturday. Now, the U.S. has to hope going rogue pays off and Iran’s regime is either changed or weakened for decades.
JOE.MY.GOD.: The GOP, via mouthpiece Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), is already abdicating any responsibility for what happens in the power vacuum in Iran now that Trump has killed its leader:
“It’s not his job.”
EXTRATV: Fucking asshole Shia LaBeouf was rearrested the same day he admitted in a YouTube interview:
“I’ll be honest with you, big gay people are scary to me.”
OUT: Gus Kenworthy is swooshing into acting — he’ll star in the one-man show Sugar Daddy, written by Sam Morrison. It’s about a kept boy’s journey when his titular keeper dies of COVID, and is based on Sam’s experiences. I interviewed Sam in 2024 — check that out here.
PEOPLE: In general, I think it’s wrong to mock people randomly for their appearance (Trumpers excluded, always), but also know that it is human nature to notice when a famous person’s looks change. There has to be a balance. But for Kelly Osbourne to describe widespread shock at her ghastly-thin look these days as “trolling,” something is going on. This isn’t just grief. I don’t even like her and I am still worried for her.
TMZ: Speaking of, Jim Carrey had an eyejob (or upper face-lift) and fillers and aged and suddenly half the people on the Internet think he was cloned. I want to be perfectly clear — if you think it’s reasonable to theorize that “that’s not Jim Carrey,” you’re fucking stupid.
JUST FABULOUS PALM SPRINGS: I’m linking to the pre-order for this book at a fantastic Palm Springs small bookstore — Storyteller: Tales from a Fashion Insider is the visual memoir of Jeffrey Banks, who went from being a Ralph Lauren intern to an award-winning menswear creator who was featured in the Met’s Superfine: Tailoring Black Style. He’s appearing at Just Fabulous March 7 — RSVP now.
QUEER LOVE PROJECT: “Lynette D’Amico on Navigating Lesbian Labels and Keeping Her Queer Marriage Alive.” It’s a fun interview to watch with a woman whose new memoir is entitled Men I Hate.
INSTAGRAM: Happy 52 to Mark-Paul Gosselaar! Many more scandalous photos here.
BONUS BEEFCAKE OF THE DAY: The honor goes to legendary physique model Brian Idol, below, as shot by Bruce Bellas aka Bruce of L.A. (1909-1974). One of the most accomplished and prolific beefcake photogs of all time, Bellas was a chemistry teacher who began photographing bodybuilders publicly and who traveled the country shooting small-town nudes, as immortalized in the now-hard-to-get book The Naked Heartland: The Itinerant Photography of Bruce of Los Angeles. That book captured his earliest, least stylized images. He later shot expertly crafted physique and nude imagery that clearly inspired Bruce Weber and countless others who came after (and who didn’t have to worry about being arrested for it, as Bruce did.)
Brian Idol posed for Bruce and quite a few other studios, from the cleancut early ‘60s into his hippiedom. And yes, “Ryan Idol” reheated his nachos in the same way that Jeff Stryker was named after ‘60s physique star Jim Stryker.
One of your best and most fun to read dispatches from Boy Land. I got real big belly laughs from Connor's plumber stripper man. Oh Yeah!!!
Great Sunday piece - filled to the brim as it were.