Boy Culture Links: Mr. Man's Naked Manatomy Award Winners 2026, Coppola's Doc Misses the Marc, War Over Mike Disfarmer's Photography, Hugh Jackman Sings for a Supervillain + MORE
MARCH 12, 2026
MR. MAN: Click here to see every square inch of Mr. Man’s winners in the 12th Annual Manatomy Awards — the award show based on nothing but nudity!
Here are all the nasty winners:
Best Picture: Six Candies
Hairiest Crack: K.J. Apa in The Map That Leads to You
Best Gay Scene: Dylan O’Brien in Twinless
Best Taint: Hamish Linklater in Gen V
Best Nudecomer: Lautaro Bettoni in The Wailing
Best Shower Scene: Boots
Best Balls: Joaquin Phoenix in Eddington
Best Selfie: Peter Vack in The Code
Best Nude Debut: Noah Centineo in The Recruit
Best Butthole: François Arnaud in Heated Rivalry
JOE.MY.GOD.: NYC Mayor Mamdani’s push to tax the rich is backed by Dems — but how will Gov. Hochul respond, in an election year?
SPOTIFY: It took me a month or so to figure everything out, but I’ve got my full pilot episode of Boy Culture with Matthew Rettenmund up, reflecting my full chat with queer filmmaker and archivist Jenni Olson. Check it out — and there’s more to come.
A24: I’m sorry to report that Marc by Sofia — the new Marc Jacobs doc by his longtime friend Sofia Coppola — is a bust. I’d read it was light and stylish, but it’s actually banal, and a lost opportunity. Coppola films Jacobs speaking in platitudes about fashion (it’s like when athletes are asked to speak about the big game), but never offers an ounce of dramatic tension. We are told he is big on Fassbinder and wildly influenced by Diana Ross, Yves Saint Laurent and Bob Fosse. Yes, and? Unbelievably, Coppola decided to keep a moment when she asks him why gay men are so into Streisand — and his answer is as tired as the question.
BAD SOUND, BUT THEIR Q&A:
Though there are some fun moments when the two reminisce about their earliest collab in the grunge era, it’s mostly a head-scratching patchwork that Coppola seems to think passes for “impressionistic.”
At MoMA’s premiere, the two — both elegant — were genuinely proud of the film, which never touches on Jacobs’s substance-abuse history or draws him out to speak intimately of his mother, as just two examples.
I found myself pondering how these two can be so effortlessly cool if they’re also secretly this … bland. I think maybe the answer is Jacobs isn't, but in Coppola, he had a documentarian who was a pal first.
PEOPLE: People seem to willfully forget that Hugh Jackman is basically owned by Rupert Murdoch in some way — they’re very close and always have been. (As are Nicole Kidman and Murdoch, by the way.) He just sang for the supervillain at his 95th in NYC. Hugh is also besties with Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner. Even though all of those people are crazy right-wingers with obscene power — Kushner is said to have been the one to push Trump into the Iran War — Hugh’s response when asked has always been that he doesn’t talk politics with his pals. That’s not really acceptable, is it? People were made at Elton John — rightly so! — for singing for Rush Limbaugh and speaking kindly of him, but Jackman is actually TIGHT with Murdoch.
LAS CULTURISTAS: Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang are inwardly scared shitless, I assume, as they quiz Nicole Kidman on their podcast:
CHRISTOPHER KNIGHT BRANDS: The house used for shooting The Brady Bunch has been declared a historic-cultural monument, and Christopher “Peter Brady” Knight is all about it:
Knight lookin’ pretty good at 68, no?
Meanwhile, the cast never performed at the location. The set was the set and the exterior of that home was the only part connected to the show’s legacy.
But the same could be said for the exterior of that Golden Girls house.
UNCLOSETED WITH SPENCER MacNAUGHTON: A new LGBTQ+ podcast that flies in the face of all the anti- ones:
PEOPLE: Kathleen wants you to know it’s “Miss Turner,” if you’re nasty. (As she often is. Though I think in this case, she was being playful.)
INSTAGRAM: William Orbit will not be using DHL to ship his Grammys in the future.
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: Pondering which films (only back to 2010) might have won the new Oscar category of Best Casting.
EMERSON: I’ve been saying Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-California) will be California’s next governor … and the polling is beginning to reflect that.
NEWFEST: Rare chance to see Dakan (1997) on the big screen:
“Touted as the first queer love story from West Africa, this poignant and unapologetic drama endures beyond the controversy and celebration it received upon its premiere at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival. Sory and Manga feel an irrepressible romantic connection they cannot deny. But after the young men share their authentic feelings with their parents they are separated and sent in different directions. Sory begins to work in his father’s business while Manga must spend a year with a traditional healer in the backcountry — and they are both firmly encouraged to settle down with women. As Sory and Manga attempt to meet social conventions, it gradually becomes clear that their personal journeys are more paralleling than divergent.”
DEADLINE: Uncle Roy, the doc about gay photographer and ice-skating archivist Roy Blakey by his lesbian niece Keri Pickett, got a lovely write-up in Deadline:
“Pickett continues, ‘The urgency of the preserving Roy’s legacy deepened as hallucinatory dementia entered our lives and I became his 24/7 caregiver. Focusing on elder care and the end of life are subjects I’ve explored throughout my career, but with Uncle Roy I reveal my heart in a way I have never done. This film intimately documents the beautiful last years of our life together.’”
It’s currently making the film-fest rounds. I’ll report back to you fully once I see it.
OUTSPORTS: Gay Paralympian Jake Adicoff can’t lose!
THE GUARDIAN: In Kenya, two men who attacked two gay men have received prison sentences — which is what passes for LGBTQ+ progress there.
NEW YORK TIMES: RIP Stephen Koch, 84. He was an invaluable cheerleader for his close pal Peter Hujar, whose work has risen in the estimation of the art world steadily for years:
“His death, from a heart attack, was announced by the Peter Hujar Archive, a group dedicated to promoting the photographer’s work. Mr. Koch was its longtime director. Such an organization would have been unthinkable at the time of Mr. Hujar’s death from AIDS, at 53, in 1987. During his lifetime, Mr. Hujar could barely afford to do his laundry, and his work was shown infrequently.”
NEW YORK TIMES: RIP to Angelika Saleh — if you’re from NYC, you may find it interesting that she was the Angelika of Angelika Film Center.
NEW YORK TIMES: Hoo-boy, this is a frustrating story. Are you familiar with the majestic work of Disfarmer? He took plaintive portraits of his neighbors for years in the early part of the last century, dying in 1959. By then, he’d changed his name in order to distance himself from his family — but he had no will. His work was rediscovered in the ‘70s, and thanks to the hard work of a museum has been meticulously preserved and judiciously shared.
Several years ago, a collector and his wife wondered why the copyright was held by the institution, did a simple genealogical search and located a slew of distant relatives. Informed a long-lost, forgotten relative had created art worth millions, they sued for control — and, incredibly (IMO), after decades won.
Now a group of the artist’s distant relatives get to hold his hard-to-keep-preserved work and decide how it’s shared (and sold). And the people who spent money to keep the work safe are shit outta luck. One idea the family has is some dopey scheme for locals to pose in scenes reminiscent of “Uncle Mike’s” work.
I don’t know about this. I think it should be descendants, but distant relatives. But I’m not sure who should get the copyright when there is no will and no kids.
YAHOO!: I can’t understand how people say things like “let’s abolish gay because it harms trans people” and think (1) it’s true, (2) the reverse wouldn’t then also be true, (3) that Fox News won’t run with it and make hay of it. Let’s be serious, people. As much as I hate the “LGB without the T” crowd, yes, I would also hate the “T without the LGB” crowd.
NPR: “Sibling Order May Affect Sexuality and Identity.”
NASHVILLE SCENE: The Gay Ole Opry sounds fun. Sh’nuff!
WEHO ONLINE: A review of the book You’ve Been Blocked: The Search for Gay Male Perfection. (I like appreciating it, but I don’t think I’m blocking myself by searching for it — but many are.)
