Boy Culture Links: 'Kylie' Docuseries Trailer Drops, Tony Award Snubs Eclipse Nominations, Met Gala Shenanigans + MORE
MAY 5, 2026
NETFLIX: Coming May 20 to Netflix is the docuseries Kylie: Closer Than Ever Before, devoted to pop princess Kylie Minogue. It will be interesting to see how this fares in the U.S., where she had somewhat of a resurgence thanks to “Padam Padam.”
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Insanely, that omnipresent song never even hit the U.S. Hot 100, which should tell you something about how these things are calculated.
TUMMY ACHE NATION: Barney Frank has entered hospice care, which is sad, but it’s also sad that — with his dying breaths — he is excoriating people on the left for trying too hard to help transgender people. He’s making sure he goes out with one final message: Do not overstep, stay in your lane and justice will come for you eventually, if you’re well-behaved. Such a defeatist message in a day and age when NYC has a Mayor Mamdani, and when progressives have shown tremendous strength in so many other local elections.
So, I think that’s why Bil Browning’s rest-in-piss column about Frank strikes me as so deserved. Bil adds that Frank once groped him (not at all surprising), but the core of his complaint is about Frank’s vindictiveness in the past, which ties in exactly to his choice to grant anti-progressive interviews in his final days.
To be fair, Frank does suggest to CNN he agrees with trans rights (not in so many words), and claims his advice is just about tackling broader issues, like income inequality, before focusing on trans and other issues, but it’s still a dispiriting swan song. He has so much fight to be granting an interview now, yet the interview is saying not to fight.
TMZ: RIP to Jonathan Tiersten, 60. He played cousin Ricky in the 1983 slasher classic Sleepaway Camp.
GR8ERDAYS: The full story on the restoration of the 1969 film Last Summer, which has some interesting gay angles.
PEOPLE: Giuliani was (is?) so sick he was given last rites before recovering somewhat.
EW.COM: The full list of Tony nominations reveals a raft of snubs, among them Lea Michele for Chess. June Squibb, at 96, sets a new record as oldest-ever acting nominee for her work in Marjorie Prime. Cats: The Jellicle Ball received many nods, but not for Chasity Moore as Grizabella. I personally disliked this show (though it is a step in the right direction from Cats!), and was underwhelmed by her “Memory,” so this does not shock me. I would’ve been more shocked had André De Shields been overlooked. (He was not.)
EXTRATV: Excellent gallery of Met Gala looks — including hits, misses and WTF.
VARIETY: Taraji P. Henson calls out celebs who attended the Bezos-funded Met Gala to begin with. She isn’t wrong, though I feel like these problematic billionaires are everywhere — what aspect of social media, or of life, can we boycott to effectively ice any of them out?
In spite of the involvement of the Bezoses, who bought their way in with $10M, the event attracted A-listers galore, including Madonna, Beyoncé, Rihanna, Stevie Nicks, Cher, Sabrina Carpenter, Katy Perry, the Heated Rivalry stars and many more.
INSTAGRAM: Madonna’s witchy Met Gala look was actually inspired by a figure of the Queen of Sheba in a painting by Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington:
“Rest in piss” is the latest phrase I’m stealing, thank you very much.