Boy Culture Links: 'I Don't Do Politics,' Nicki Minaj Smears Dems, Here Comes the 'Heated Rivalry' of Tennis, Candace Owens vs. Common Words + More
FEBRUARY 3, 2026
NEW YORK TIMES: Trump’s shakedown of Harvard has flopped.
PEOPLE: Imagine how Jill Biden feels — her first husband (from 50 years ago) has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of his wife.
GLAAD: Good luck in the Red, White & Royal Wedding sweepstakes!
RACQUET MAGAZINE: Lucky Edward Schmit! The writer’s debut novel, The Open Era, is all about a hot gay tennis player — and it arrives in the wake of the sporty craze created by Heated Rivalry. Buy it in advance now here.
KENNETH IN THE (212): Speaking of tennis … ! And speaking of it again!
POLITICO: Trump says the Kennedy Center renovation won’t be “a full tear-down.” Therefore, it will be “a full tear-down.”
ABC NEWS: Though there are people who have argued for and against being worried that Obergefell is endangered, it’s perhaps most worrying to hear the man most responsible for that decision — retired Justice Kennedy — offering uncertainty. The best he can say is, “We’ll see.” I think we should tear shit up if they uprooted our lives by going back on this ruling, don’t you?
PALM SPRINGS POST: For gay men 50+, a place to think about what comes next.
ERIN IN THE MORNING: From a great Substack, “Black Trans Trailblazers That You May Not Learn About in History Class.” (I met one, so I feel smart.
TWITTER: It’s truly insane, but Nicki Minaj is now a full-on church lady, shaming all non-Christians and all Democrats.
ROLLING STONE: It’s so weird that people are overlooking countless real scoops in the Epstein Files in order to fabricate things like the absolutely fake Mamdani image.
TIKTOK: What Tate Hoskins said!
EXTRATV: Kelly Clarkson will end her immensely popular show.
Q NEWS: Grindr is beefing up security on behalf of jocks ahead of the Olympics.
WOWT: Alex Pretti’s death is ruled a homicide.
DAZED: Luca Magliano’s new collection counts gay porn among its inspirations.
YOUTUBE: Candace Owens must be surrounded by staff that hates her if they’ll let her mispronounce words this obviously over and over. What a deeply dumb human being to have so much sway over others:
Solid roundup as always. The tennis romance surge is intresting timing considering how sports romance has quietly become one of the biggest sub-genres in publishing. Heated Rivalry basically created a blueprint that now everyones trying to replicate. I've been seeing more and more gay sports romances getting actual shelf space at bookstores which felt imposible even 5 years ago.