Boy Culture Links: RIP Prolific Writer Jameson Currier, AI Recommends Conversion Therapy, Robert Irwin's Dancing as Fast as He Can + MORE
JULY 14, 2026
KENNETH IN THE (212): Now that’s a magazine cover.
BAY AREA REPORTER: Turns out some AI programs are actually recommending conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ people.
HUFFINGTON POST: E. Jean Carroll has received her $5.6-million payout from Trump three years after he was found guilty of sexually assaulting her.
FACEBOOK: Jameson Currier, the highly regarded writer, died July 12 of what appears to be a heart attack. He was 70. His 2015 work Until My Heart Stops was about his condition hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
Jameson published short stories and eight novels, wrote the doc Living Proof: HIV and the Pursuit of Happiness and founded Chelsea Station Editions to publish queer lit.
My last communication with him was when I interviewed him for a piece I wrote on Mavety Media. He told me, barely able to suppress his glee, “I’m so happy to be retired!”
Lovely guy who also conducted one of the first professional interviews I ever gave for Boy Culture 30+ years ago.
Some of Jameson’s works include Dancing on the Moon: Short Stories About AIDS (1993), which was championed by David B. Feinberg, Where the Rainbow Ends (1998), The Third Buddha (2011), The Forever Marathon (2013) and We Are Made of Stars (2024), among many others.
NEW YORK TIMES: Jayson Conner and Jeffrey Newman, whose deaths I reported a couple of days ago, received a full NYT obit.
PEOPLE: Capt. Sully Sullenberger, now 75, reveals Alzheimer’s diagnosis.
NEW YORK TIMES: Witnesses confirm man killed during ICE action in Houston was shot to death by an ICE agent.
ADVOCATE: “Lindsey Graham May Have Lived Deep in the Closet.”
EW.COM: RIP Josh Grisetti, Broadway star. He took his own life this week at 44.
EXTRATV: Some video of Robert Irwin’s behind. Sorry, some behind-the-scenes video of Robert Irwin: