Boy Culture Links: Should Gay-Porn Actors STFU and F?, 'Coward' Explores Forbidden Queer Love in WWI, Patti LaBelle Misidentified, Glenn Burke Remembered + MORE
MAY 25, 2026
INSTINCT: Should gay-porn performers shut up when it comes to politics?
INDIEWIRE: Coward, the new Lukas Dhont film, is about the love between WWI solders, and IndieWire is here for it.
QUEERTY: Marcia Gay Harden says moms who reject their LGBTQ+ children are making a “great, big mistake.”
GAY BUZZER: So many of these social media-driven queer sites are either using AI too much or youngsters too much or youngsters prompting AI too much, because identifying this person as Patti LaBelle is far worse than when that lady told Patti not to eat the paper. (The original photo is misidentified by a photo agency, so not only did the Gay Buzzerites take it for granted it was correct, but there are commenters pointing to the original mistake as proof it isn’t a mistake. Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE: A look back at the life of trailblazer Glenn Burke, the first Major Leaguer to come out as gay.
KENNETH IN THE (212): A review of Ivy at Sony Hall.
DAILY BEAST: MAGA has lost Megyn Kelly.
JOE.MY.GOD.: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has misgivings about the ongoing Iran deal. Sounds like Trump folded like a cheap suit and all we’re getting out of the whole debacle is debt. And all those Iranians who were suddenly MAGA are discovering what all those Venezuelans who were suddenly MAGA discovered about Trump’s inability to finish anything he starts.
NEW YORK TIMES: Sixty-plus years after her death, as we approach her 100th birth anniversary, Marilyn Monroe is the subject of two new books that document the aspirations she had to cultivate a more literary air.