Boy Culture Links: 'Playing Around' Is Pushin' 30, RIP Jason Collins & Rex Reed, Trump to American Families: Drop Dead + MORE!
MAY 13, 2026
CINEPHOBIA: Season 1 of Playing Around is streaming now ahead of a June 25 DVD release. The pitch:
“Fun, heartfelt, and steamy, Playing Around follows Germán Andrés (played by James Camargo de Alba in a breakout performance), who is 29, gay, works at a call center, lives with his mother, and has never had a stable partner. As he approaches 30, the pressure to ‘settle down’ pushes him to look for love before his birthday—preferably before turning 30 becomes a full-blown crisis. But in an age of polyamory, ghosting, and commitment phobia, finding the perfect match feels almost impossible.”
Check it out:
YOUTUBE: Trump doesn’t think about Americans’ financial situation AT ALL. So says he:
NEW YORK TIMES: Jason Collins, the first active NBA player to come out, has died of brain cancer at just 47.
NEW YORK TIMES: Jason Collins, the first active NBA player to come out, has died of brain cancer at just 47.
GR8ERDAYS: RIP Rex Reed, 87. What a bitch! What a writer!
LOS ANGELES TIMES: L.A. is not the U.S., and 2026 is not 2016. That said, reading that Mayor Bass seems to hope she can run against Spencer Pratt head to head because he would be so beatable gives me queasy Trump-Hillary flashbacks.
HUFFINGTON POST: Even Republicans realize funding a billion-dollar ballroom is a political loser.
INSTAGRAM: Not all boyfriends are created equal, but maybe he has bad breath.
ATTITUDE: A closeted Alec Guinness urged then-newbie Ian McKellen to avoid gay politics.
JOE.MY.GOD.: South Carolina Republicans have shied away from ditching the only Dem-held seat in the state — because they’re probably scared of the power of Rep. James Clyburn (D-South Carolina). Optics.
HUFFINGTON POST: Sally Field joked that her son, Sam Greisman, is gay because he spent so much time on the set of Steel Magnolias.
QUEERTY: Rami Malek stars in Ira Sachs’ new AIDS drama The Man I Love.
TWITTER: Lady Gaga embraces AI to plug new project.
VARIETY: Madonna is returning to the Tribeca Film Festival with a surprise short film called Confessions II, directed by TORSO. She’ll present it June 5 to a sold-out, fan-only audience in a chat moderated by Jimmy Fallon.
BROADWAY WORLD: Liza Minnelli belongs in prison. (Not really, but I doubt she signed a single, solitary book.)
AMERICAN IDOL: Clay Aiken’s comeback single “Rewind” — it’s a no for me, dawg: