Boy Culture Links: Madonna on Grindr & at the Abbey, How Beau Bayh Wants to Make Indiana Blue, RIP Michael Tilson Thomas, Pope Leo Against Blessing Gay Unions + MORE
APRIL 24, 2026
POLITICO: How 30-year-old stud Beau Bayh (Evan’s kid) hopes to make Indiana blue again. I’m old enough to remember when Obama was running the first time, someone trolled us with a fake bumper sticker that purported to prove Sen. Evan Bayh would be his running mate:
NEWSWEEK: Pope Leo does not want gay couples blessed. Calm down, woman.
NEW YORK TIMES: RIP Michael Tilson Thomas, 81. The acclaimed conductor, who was out as a gay man decades before many others in his field, died after battling glioblastoma.
KENNETH IN THE (212): The week’s queer and -adjacent mags.
DAILY BEAST: To his family, I send my deepest indifference.
WARNER RECORDS: Madonna is meeting us where we are — on Grindr — and offering an Exxxclusive Picture Disc of her forthcoming Confessions II album.
Meanwhile, she will appear with Stuart Price at an invite-only party at WeHo’s the Abbey Saturday night. I’m expecting to hear maybe … another teaser from the album? And I’m sure we’ll get a slew of photos of her dancing with ecstatic locals.
Also worth noting: Madonna — who is still in the midst of shooting her arc on Apple TV+’s The Studio — is now on Grindr with a saucy message advertising her wares. The app allows users to choose tags from 21 of her albums (all 15 studio albums, three soundtracks, three compilations and GHV2 can suck a dick, I guess).
