Boy Culture Links: Queer Flick 'Departures' Arriving, Maya Rudolph to Debut on Broadway, Elon Musk's DOGE Bros Struggle to Sound Like Human Beings in Testimony + MORE
MARCH 13, 2026
ATTITUDE: The trailer for the new queer film Departures is up — and the film hits cinemas in the U.K. in April.
The pitch:
“The Manchester-set comedy-drama follows Benji (Lloyd Eyre-Morgan), who becomes infatuated with the charismatic but elusive Jake (David Tag) after meeting him at an airport gate. The pair begin taking secret monthly trips to Amsterdam, where their relationship unfolds through sex, humour and emotional vulnerability — but the need to keep their connection hidden begins to expose an increasingly complicated and toxic dynamic between them.”
VARIETY: Variety’s resident douchebag Daniel D’Addario has turned in a trolling article about how Stephen Colbert’s long farewell is an “ego trip.” Variety is owned by Penske — and the Penskes are up Trump’s ass.
POLITICO: Dems continue to “trounce” Republicans on the state level ever since Trump took office a second time.
THEATER MANIA: Maya Rudolph’s Broadway debut is upon us — she’ll take over the title role in Oh, Mary! from April 28-June 20.
INSTAGRAM: Hello, Jason Beghe! (Follow here.)
BBC: Senegal has approved even tougher LGBTQ+ laws.
JOE.MY.GOD.: AI tech bro Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir, is proud his company’s work will disenfranchise highly educated female voters (more Democrats) and uplift blue-collar voters (more Republicans). Brags about it.
DAILY KOS: Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) is so desperate to have Trump’s endorsement in the Senate runoff he’s announced he’s all in on nuking the filibuster.
TWITTER: Little Nazi (R) who worked under Elon Musk trimming the U.S. budget really exposes his utter lack of knowledge and empathy, smirking while talking about stripping away valuable investments for a government that months later would involve us in a billion-bucks-a-day war.
Then there’s the bro on the left, who blithely said teaching about anti-Black violence is “not for the betterment of humankind.”
YOUTUBE: A ranking of gay origin theories:
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.
INSTAGRAM: Liza Minnelli is celebrating turning 80 with an AI-created reading of her memoir. It sounds incredibly real. (Which is why it’s bad.) But one hint is when she reads “Liza with a Z goes sss not zzz,” the AI renders it as “snozz.”
ABC7 NY: Longtime NYC news anchor Ernie Anastos has died at 82 after battling pneumonia.