Boy Culture Links: Josh Hutcherson & Ryan Phillippe Steam Up New Shoots, Tim Cook Stepping Down as Apple CEO, RIP Patrick Muldoon + MORE
APRIL 21, 2026
GQ: Josh Hutcherson’s sexiest shoot ever.
APPLE.COM: Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple CEO (and becoming something called “Apple Executive Chairman”). John Ternus will take over. We’ll see how Trump-tastic he turns out to be. Cook, a historic gay CEO, really went over the top in his Trump ass-kissing, a total disappointment.
INSTAGRAM: Ryan Phillippe opens his legs in a new sauna selfie.
JOE.MY.GOD.: MAGA protester who was ever-so-offended by LGBTQ+ books … has pleaded guilty to kid-sex charges.
CNN: How brilliant is it that The Onion will take over Alex Jones’s odious Infowars … and run it as a parody of itself?
EXTRATV: RIP Patrick Muldoon. The Melrose Place hunk died at 57 following what was apparently a heart attack.
THE LGBTQ HISTORY PROJECT: This Sunday, April 26, at 3 p.m. ET is a webinar about the queer underground press — Come Out!, Gay Sunshine, New York Native, etc. — with Perry Brass and others. You can register here.
THE NEW YORK TIMES: The Supreme Court will hear a case involving Catholic pre-schools that reject the children of same-sex or transgender parents.
EXTRATV: Lots of bitches have stolen Madonna’s look, but some bitch just stole her actual outfit at Coachella. Brass balls.
GOTHAMIST: Mayor Mamdani is facing his first LGBTQ+ pushback after endorsing Lindsey Boylan in a race for a seat that is typically held by a queer person. The seat opened when Rep. Erik Bottcher stepped down to run for state Senate (he won). Bottcher has endorsed his out former chief of staff, Carl Wilson.
Boylan is great, but many queer power players point out the importance of holding a “gay seat”:
“That's the only gay seat we have in Manhattan,” said Allen Roskoff, a veteran gay rights activist who was involved in the push to create the district in the 1990s. “So in the borough where Stonewall happened and all the historic foundings of the movement, we risk losing the seat and we risk having nobody at the table as part of the Manhattan delegation.”
INSTAGRAM: Fab video from the premiere of The Devil Wears Prada 2: