Boy Culture Links: Kit Harington & Evan Peters Nude, Trump Wants to Send ICE to Winter Olympics, RIP Gabe Lopez & Roger Allers + More
JANUARY 27, 2026
GAYETY: Could a bonus episode of Heated Rivalry be coming before a proper Season 2? The hints are there.
PEOPLE: Gus Kenworthy, who just finished Heated Rivalry, feels seen by the series — and says Miley Cyrus was his Rose!
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: The complete BAFTA nominations are here, with snubbed Paul Mescal and Chase Infiniti making the cut, and Wicked: For Good at least nabbing a couple of technical nods.
YAHOO!: Amazon is actually spending about $75M on the Brett Ratner-directed doc Melania, all about Melania Trump. The doc will never, ever come close to recouping, so that feels like a $75M bribe to Trump to pump up his ego, with Ratner laughing all the way to the bank. (I really don’t care … do you?)
Also worth noting: Legendary fashion photographer Ellen von Unwerth shot Melania for the poster, and happily posed at the White House-hosted premiere. Kudos to Louis Pisano (follow him here!) for underscoring von Unwerth’s MAGA partnership.
THEM: Them reports on Outclose, a new app to help the friendless and gay.
MR. MAN: On Industry, Kit Harington is doing his level best to make up for 100 years of TV and film demanding more nudity from women than men. Via Mr. Man:
“Kit heard their cries, and exposed his gorgeous body in the much-hyped current fourth season of Industry. Harington portrays wealthy tech CEO Henry Muck, who buys into Pierpoint (the finance company at the center of Industry). Muck marries series regular Yas (Marisa Abela), and in [his] nekkid scene, she finds him in the tub and jerks him off a bit before he calls it off. Boo!”
We’re a long way from Barbara Eden not being allowed to expose her belly-button on I Dream of Jeannie.
INSTINCT: By the way, Ryan Murphy’s The Beauty is mind-numbingly stupid and self-aware, it’s hard to sit through it, even for this:
HUNK: My daily links are in their slut era, because on top of Kit and Evan, check out Aaron Owen and Jake Hoffman for Hunk’s new Lust line:
NYC MAYOR’S OFFICE: Remember the onslaught of warning tweets from Republicans and centrist Democrats who told us that Mayor Mamdani would be virulently anti-queer because he is a Muslim? I do. Also, worth noting — Mamdani took a moment out of his snowfall presser to urge New Yorkers to watch Heated Rivalry:
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FACEBOOK: The family of Spectra recording artist Gabe Lopez has announced his death following a “brief but intense” battle with lymphoma.
His collaborator Belinda Carlisle remembered him through grief, writing:
“I am so devastated and heartbroken to write this. I can’t remember being in so much pain. My beautiful friend, creative collaborator and producer of my last two albums, and an incredible artist in his own right, @gabelopez left his body last night. I can’t think of a nicer or more kind hearted person than he was, we had so much fun working together creating music for the past 12 years. I can’t imagine my life without him. Godspeed Gabe - you were always an angel, now it’s time to soar with all of those above 💔💔💔💔💔 I love you and will always hold you dear to me. AKAL May his music live forever.”
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: Roger Allers, who co-directed The Lion King (1994) (for which he was Oscar-nominated as Best Director) and co-wrote the book for its Broadway-musical adaptation (for which he was Tony-nominated), died January 17 at 76. He’s survived by his husband and his two children from his first marriage.
Roger was a major force at Disney, working on the animated Olympics parody film Animalympics (1980) and as a concept designer on the original Tron (1980). He was a part of the story team on such films as The Little Mermaid (1989), The Rescuers Down Under (1990) and Beauty and the Beast (1991).
As early as 1991, he was working on The Lion King (then called King of the Jungle), traveling to Kenya with his team, where he learned the phrase “hakuna matata.” That became one of the most iconic songs in the historically popular film.
Allers later contributed to an early version of what became The Emperor’s New Groove (2000).
HUFFINGTON POST: Border brute Greg Bovino is said to be on his way out, three shootings too late. One day, in the future, we’ll look back at pictures of this unapologetic Nazi and wonder how the fuck he ever attained a modicum of power. And by “one day, in the future,” I mean nine months and change from now, when the midterms end MAGA.
DAILY BEAST: Unable to read the room — or to read! — Trump is reportedly thinking of siccing ICE on … the Olympics. Yep, he wants ICE, of all “people,” to bolster security for American athletes in Italy. You can’t make this shit up! Well, you can, but you shouldn’t.
INSTAGRAM: The killing of Alex Pretti seems to have been the proverbial straw, with many more public figures speaking out against the Trump Administration and ICE, including this beautiful message from soap stud Cameron Mathison’s stunning wife, model Vanessa Mathison. Key takeaway: It addresses not just her beliefs but why her beliefs — and yours, and mine — matter:
“For those who will comment that I’m ‘just a model’ and should stay in my own lane: I am in the lane of humanity, because I am human. Silence in the face of injustice is not neutrality — it is complicity.
TOSOS: Our House, written by Barry Boehm and directed by Mark Finley, runs February 26-March 21 in NYC at A.R.T./New York’s Jeffrey & Paula Gural Theatre. The plot:
“Set in Iowa the year before marriage equality is recognized by the Supreme Court, Our House is about family. Andy, an ACT UP veteran, and his husband are set to host the wedding of their nephew Brendan to Eugene, who is African American. The happy occasion is threatened when the young couple venture out into the neighborhood and a confrontation with locals force this modern family to face some hard facts about what it takes to make everyone feel safe in ‘our house.’”
LGBTQ NATION: Michigan state Sen. Jeremy Moss (D) opens up to LGBTQ Nation about the traumas of 2025 — including a terrible car accident and enduring a (fake) bomb threat while refusing to take up a bathroom bill.
TLC: I will never recover from learning that at least one person out there is ramming her fingers painfully up into her vadge and then “vabbing” the musk all over herself to attract men via pheromones. Least surprising sentence from this piece:
“I’m in my 30s and I’ve never had a relationship.”
PALEY CENTER: All hell is breaking loose — Kate Jackson, Cheryl Ladd and Jaclyn Smith will reunite for the first time in FOREVER at Paley Fest in April!
Kate sez:
“Charlie’s Angels surprised everyone when Farrah, Jackie and I hit the ground running (thanks, in part, to Farrah’s iconic poster) and the pilot went through the glass ceiling. Overnight, we were hailed with something akin to 'rock star fame.' When Cheryl joined us in the second season, she added a special element uniquely hers and the crazy went on.”
"I will never recover from learning that at least one person out there is ramming her fingers painfully up into her vadge and then “vabbing” the musk all over herself to attract men via pheromones. Least surprising sentence from this piece:
Is that from the documentary "Melania"? Because she really is quite the cunt.