Boy Culture Links: Stanley Stellar’s Roving Eye, a Tennis Butt Masseur, Cyndi Lauper’s Unusual Auction, the Lives His Gay Uncles Never Got to Lead, Preserving Houston’s Queer History & More

OCTOBER 19, 2026

Pecs appeal (Image by Stanley Stellar via Loose Joints Publishing)

BOY CULTURE: Check out my experiences at NewFest38 seeing Uncle Roy and at Stanley Stellar’s book signing for Don’t Worry Boys at Mast in the East Village.

Therein lies the rub. (GIF via GIPHY)

KENNETH IN THE (212): Best job in the worldt.

JOE.MY.GOD.: Utterly disastrous polling for Trump has only gotten worse.

When I tell you I loved Cyndi Lauper, I mean that she was my first Madonna. My pre-Madonna. (Image via Bonhams)

BONHAMS: Cyndi Lauper, 73, is auctioning off her greatest outfits and baubles and mementos.

TWITTER: CBS correspondent Jan Crawford tweeted a blatantly anti-El-Sayed sentiment, racist and partisan, and has now removed it after admitting it violated the network’s policies. That will be the extent of it, since she’s a good li’l right-winger.

“When I imagine what might have become of my two uncles had they lived beyond their 20s, I always conjure up a happy ending.” (Images via family photos)

OUT IN STL: His two gay uncles both died young in car crashes. He’s honoring them for the lives they never had a shot at living.

CHRON: Robert Conn and Loyd Powell are preserving parts of Houston’s LGBTQ+ history all by their lonesome — meaning a huge chunk of the city’s queer past is sitting in storage units. Powell says:

“It needs a home of its own and a museum that belongs to the community. It’s not our stuff. It’s just a gift right now, and what we're doing is a gift to the community.”

EXTRATV: Amazing 120+ photos from the Academy Museum Gala.

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: Betty McGuire, the grandma on Growing Pains, has died at 100.

Leaving things to the imagination = overrated. (Image via GIGO)

GIGO: This company’s jockstraps are not your dad’s BIKE jockstraps. Though those can be fun, too.