Boy Culture Links: His Thighs Adored You, 'Forty Love' Serves Up Gay Romance, Gymnast Comes Out, A History of (Some) Pride Flags + MORE
JUNE 23, 2026
CARTER KALE: Um, the legs, though.
QUEERTY: Meet the stars of Forty Love, a gay tennis romance.
OUTSPORTS: Eddie Penev, a onetime Team USA gymnast now repping Bulgaria (his birth country) has come out as gay.
NEWS CHANNEL 9: Gay grad student sues Christian prep school, wins $10K.
AMAZON: Coming July 1 is War Boys: A Father and Son Memoir (Trio House Press). The pitch:
“It’s a beautifully written, powerful memoir. Jason’s father was a 10-year-old enjoying summer camp in the countryside of Belarus when the Nazis invaded in 1941. Planes flew overhead, shooting at the campers, and life as Volodya knew it ended. He spent two weeks walking back home to Minsk with other campers and counselors hoping to find family, only to discover a bombed-out city and apartment. He never saw his mother or sister again. Survival became his only goal. What follows is a sobering journey, fighting for each day. Eventually he is adopted by a Nazi family and immigrates to America where he meets Jason’s mother and has 13 children, desperately trying to replace the family he lost. He carried the trauma of his youth into adulthood and became an abusive, alcoholic father.”
OLDIES OFFICIAL: Sorry, but Cover Girls do still sound exactly like they used to — and this is a rare live vocal. Go, Angel!
RANDY REPORT: Dave Audé remix of Ty Herndon, Michael Passons and Melissa Green’s “Testify to Love.”
LGBTQ NATION: The “messy” history of various Pride flags.
