Boy Culture Links: 'Spider-Man's' Gay Jokes, Shirtless-palooza, Remembering Todd Jennings, Andrew Scott as Ian Charleson + MORE
AUGUST 4, 2026
FACEBOOK: This is a compelling video if you’re into linguistics.
CINEMABLEND: “Spider-Man: Brand New Day’s Gay Jokes Caught Me Off Guard. Why I Love That They Were Included.”
YOUTUBE: This is a very slutty post today, but regardless, I think the highlight is this video — it’s a tribute to the late Todd Jennings by his pal Alan Light. Todd died in 2004, but is memorialized as an amazingly connected and yet sweet man who was a raconteur:
HUFFINGTON POST: One problem with surrounding yourself with incompetent blind loyalists is the incompetent part. Gotta love seeing Trump turn on Jeanine Pirro, that turd.
OFFICIAL SITE: Elsinore, starring Andrew Scott, tells the story of queer stage-and-screen star Ian Charleson of Chariots of Fire fame. Watch for it November 20.
PEOPLE: Scott Pelley and Sharyn Alfonsi, canned by Bari Weiss at the new, bad CBS, have new roles as visiting journalists.
KENNETH IN THE (212): An incredible tennis wrap-up.
POLITICO: Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-North Carolina) may get censured for sexually harassing two staffers.
MADONNA.COM: Madonna wasn’t just performing with Kylie Minogue for kicks at WorldPride — she’s put her on her song “Love Sensation” and it’s being released Friday to streaming along with being offered as a CD single or three.
AMAZON: Coming in November is a memoir by Jane Wiedlin of the Go-Go’s fame.
BAY AREA REPORTER: The San Francisco Police Department is taking on a 16-year-old case of a gay man who was murdered. Philip DiMartino, 36, was stabbed 48 times in the back in his apartment on August 2, 2010.
CULTURE SAUCE: A new off-Broadway play shows that even a gay jock can be a toxic male.
Love ya, but gonna humbly suggest linking books to Bookshop rather than the evil Amazon, owned by the evil Jeff Bezos.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/tmi-memoirs-of-a-go-go-jane-wiedlin/6f123cf89ac5d766?ean=9781538775165&bkshp-astro=t
Elsinore is going straight on the list, Ian Charleson deserves a wider audience than Chariots of Fire gets him. 48 stab wounds after 16 years finally getting looked at says more about how these cases get shelved than anything else on this list.