Boy Culture Links: RIP Eric Dane, 'Another Gay Sequel' Returns, 'Fuck Trump!' Ad Goes Viral as He Prepares to Lead U.S. into War vs. Iran + Gay Porn Past Okay by Heritage Foundation + MORE
FEBRUARY 20, 2026
YOUTUBE: Arriving on major streaming platforms via Breaking Glass Pictures March 3 is the bonkers gay sex comedy Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild!, the 2008 film written and directed by Todd Stephens, director of Edge of Seventeen and Swan Song (the one with the late Udo Kier).
Watch the trailer above to get a taste of what you’re in for.
DAILY BEAST: Corey A. DeAngelis, a prominent “school choice advocate” who is against including anything LGBTQ+ in school curricula, has been hired by the ultra far-right Heritage Foundation … even though he did gay porn.
EXTRATV: Sadly, Grey’s Anatomy and Euphoria actor Eric Dane has died of ALS, less than a year after announcing his diagnosis. Last year, meeting with U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-California), he spoke about the importance of the law ACT for ALS in a way that was intensely personal — and is heartbreaking now that he is gone:
“I have two daughters at home. I want to see them, you know, graduate college, and get married and maybe have grandkids. You know, I want to be there for all that. So, I'm going to fight to the last breath on this one.”
Dane’s first-ever on-screen acting gig (albeit uncredited) was as douchey Tad Pogue on a 1991 episode of Saved by the Bell:
SUPREME COURT: Even the stacked Supreme Court knows Trump’s tariff powers are limited, smacking him down in a 6-3 decision. Here’s what it means.
POPULAR INFORMATION: In spite of having Trump as a 24/7 spokesman for it, Truth Social’s Trump Media and Technology Group is failing. Why?
HUFFINGTON POST: Less than eight months after claiming Iran’s weapons program was “obliterated,” Trump is leading the U.S. into a potentially messy war with Iran … and just Thursday he posted on Twitter that “peace” was the most important thing.
TWITTER: “Fuck Trump!” Juliana Stratton, who is running to replace retiring Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) in the Senate, is not mincing words — er, the words of others! — in her awesome new ad.
YOUTUBE: Epstein pal Les Wexner’s own lawyer whispered to him that he would “fucking kill him” if he didn’t stick to five-word answers at this week’s Epstein inquiry in Congress. Unfortunately for the lawyer, his words were picked up by the mics:
THE CUT: “Conversations About Style with Parisian Men.” I’m so damn unfashionable yet found this a great read.
AMAZON: For some reason, audiences connect with the A Star Is Born story over and over again — generations (especially of gay men) love the story of the girl who makes good while her man falters. Out now is film historian Robert Hofler’s book A Star Is Reborn: The Most Filmed Hollywood Story of Love Found and Lost. It goes back to the 1932 version, What Price Hollywood?, based on the marriage of Colleen Moore and producer John McCormick and goes all the way through you-know-who’s installment.
WHAT’S ON STAGE: National Theatre will stream Max Webster’s 2024 production of The Importance of Being Earnest in March — free. The cast: Sharon D. Clarke, Ncuti Gatwa, Ronkẹ Adékọluẹ́jọ́, Eliza Scanlen and Hugh Skinner.
JUST IN TIME: Matthew Morrison should be perfect for Just in Time, which he joins for just 23 perfs in April.
VIAPLAY: Coming March 12 on European-specialty streamer Viaplay is the Polish series The Stroke. In a rarity for Polish TV, it’s about a gay man, an aging tastemaker who is dramatically affected by a stroke. Jacek Poniedziałek has drawn raves for his work on the series, described as “thick black humor with emotional precision.”
Watch:
THEATER MANIA: Sean Hayes pulls an amazing review for his work in the Broadway show The Unknown.
I always remember that in 2010, Ramin Setoodeh published an outrageous criticism of Hayes’s stage work, arguing he couldn’t play straight. Somehow, he has failed upward to become co-EIC of Variety. (And is besties with Meghan McCain.) Not to digress!
BOOKS THAT CHANGED MY LIFE: David Archuleta dropped by Books That Changed My Life the week his memoir Devout was published. On the podcast, he spoke about leaving Mormonism when he came to terms with being gay.
He said:
“I was told to abhor what was in me, which became a self-hatred. I thought I was doing the right thing by hating what I was. So I had to learn that even if this is bad, how can I still see the good things that I have to offer? I was looking at it through a lens of my religion, the Mormon religion.
“If I can’t cleanse myself from this, how can I make up for it?
“I finally came to the conclusion of, you know what, maybe God keeps designing people like you because he doesn’t think it’s a bad creation … maybe if he creates queer people, there’s a beauty in that, and I just had to learn how to find the beauty even though the environment I was in, didn’t see that beauty.”
Watch and listen: