Boy Culture Links: The Lesbian Author Deported to Her Eventual Death for Being Gay, Doing Drag on MTV in 1999, 'Heated Rivalry' Heats Up Dorian TV Awards + MORE
JUNE 17, 2026
KENNETH IN THE (212): And he plays tennis, too!
HUFFINGTON POST: When it comes to Trump and Iran, he lost on all fronts. We lost on all fronts.
ACLU WISCONSIN: “How Queer Nightlife Helped Build the LGBTQ+ Rights Movement.”
FORWARD: Here’s a story I never heard about involving a lesbian who was arrested in NYC on trumped-up charges over being queer — leading to her deportation to Poland, where she was murdered at Auschwitz 16 years later. Eve Adams ran a dyke bar, which put her in the NYPD’s crosshairs. Her arrest — for disorderly conduct and obscenity (for authoring the book Lesbian Love) — is now a historical wrong Mayor Mamdani is considering righting.
Note: Only 150 copies were printed of Lesbian Love. As reported by The New York Times in 2021, the only surviving copy was left in the lobby of an NYC building, where a student picked it up, saving it from oblivion and allowing for it to be reprinted.
PEOPLE: People Magazine is introducing us to Fraser Olender, the boyfriend of Matt Rogers.
INSTAGRAM: Hedda Lettuce walks us through doing drag on MTV in 1999. The full performance:
GLAAD.ORG: GLAAD has issued its inaugural report on LGBTQ+ responsibility in the field of AI.
GOTHAMIST: Luigi Mangione will pursue a defense rooted in the state of his mental health.
DORIAN AWARDS: And finally, the full list of Dorian TV Award nominees for 2026 has arrived — with winners announced Saturday, August 15:
BEST TV DRAMA
Heated Rivalry (HBO Max)
Industry (HBO Max)
The Gilded Age (HBO Max)
Pluribus (Apple TV)
The Pitt (HBO Max)
BEST TV COMEDY
Abbott Elementary (ABC)
The Comeback (HBO Max)
Hacks (HBO Max)
Shrinking (Apple TV)
Widow’s Bay (Apple TV)
BEST LGBTQ TV SHOW
The Comeback (HBO Max)
Hacks (HBO Max)
Half Man (HBO Max)
Heated Rivalry (HBO Max)
Pluribus (Apple TV)
BEST TV MOVIE OR LIMITED SERIES
All Her Fault (Peacock)
Beef (Netflix)
DTF St. Louis (HBO Max)
Half Man (HBO Max)
Love Story (FX/Hulu)
BEST NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE TV SHOW
Blossoms of Shanghai (Criterion Channel)
Dan Da Dan (Netflix)
Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End (Crunchyroll)
Mussolini: Son of the Century (Mubi)
Squid Game (Netflix)
The Summer Hikaru Died (Netflix)
BEST LGBTQ NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE TV SHOW
The Boyfriend (Netflix)
Chosen Home (Netflix)
Go for It, Nakamura-kun! (Crunchyroll)
The Summer Hikaru Died (Netflix)
Tremembé (Amazon MGM)
BEST WRITTEN TV SHOW
The Comeback (HBO Max)
Hacks (HBO Max)
Heated Rivalry (HBO Max)
Pluribus (Apple TV)
The Pitt (HBO Max)
BEST TV PERFORMANCE — DRAMA
Marisa Abela, Industry (HBO Max)
Jamie Bell, Half Man (HBO Max)
Carrie Coon, The Gilded Age (HBO Max)
Myha’la Herrold, Industry (HBO Max)
Mark Ruffalo, Task (HBO Max)
Rhea Seehorn, Pluribus (Apple TV)
Connor Storrie, Heated Rivalry (HBO Max)
Hudson Williams, Heated Rivalry (HBO Max)
Noah Wyle, The Pitt (HBO Max)
Zendaya, Euphoria (HBO Max)
BEST SUPPORTING TV PERFORMANCE — DRAMA
François Arnaud, Heated Rivalry (HBO Max)
Patrick Ball, The Pitt (HBO Max)
Isa Briones, The Pitt (HBO Max)
Richard Gadd, Half Man (HBO Max)
Katherine LaNasa, The Pitt (HBO Max)
Ken Leung, Industry (HBO Max)
Charles Melton, Beef (Netflix)
Sepideh Moafi, The Pitt (HBO Max)
Colman Domingo, Euphoria (HBO Max)
Karolina Wydra, Pluribus (Apple TV)
BEST TV PERFORMANCE — COMEDY
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Wonder Man (Disney+)
Quinta Brunson, Abbott Elementary (ABC)
Ayo Edebiri, The Bear (FX/Hulu)
Elle Fanning, Margo’s Got Money Troubles (Apple TV)
Ethan Hawke, The Lowdown (FX/Hulu)
Lisa Kudrow, The Comeback (HBO Max)
Dan Levy, Big Mistakes (Netflix)
Matthew Rhys, Widow’s Bay (Apple TV)
Tim Robinson, The Chair Company (HBO Max)
Jean Smart, Hacks (HBO Max)
BEST SUPPORTING TV PERFORMANCE — COMEDY
Leslie Bibb, Hacks (HBO Max)
Colman Domingo, The Four Seasons (Netflix)
Paul W. Downs, Hacks (HBO Max)
Hannah Einbinder, Hacks (HBO Max)
Harrison Ford, Shrinking (Apple TV)
Janelle James, Abbott Elementary (ABC)
Kate O’Flynn, Widow’s Bay (Apple TV)
Ashley Padilla, Saturday Night Live (NBC)
Michelle Pfeiffer, Margo’s Got Money Troubles (Apple TV)
Meg Stalter, Hacks (HBO Max)
BEST TV MUSICAL PERFORMANCE
Audra McDonald, “Rose’s Turn,” The 78th Tony Awards
Bad Bunny, The Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show
Miles Caton, Raphael Saadiq, Misty Copeland, Eric Gales, Buddy Guy, Brittany Howard, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Jayme Lawson, Li Jun Li, Bobby Rush, Shaboozey and Alice Smith, “I Lied to You,” The 98th Academy Awards
Sabrina Carpenter and The Muppets, “Manchild,” The Muppet Show
Sabrina Carpenter, Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy, “Islands in the Stream,” The Muppet Show
BEST UNSUNG TV SHOW
Boots (Netflix)
English Teacher (FX/Hulu)
The Four Seasons (Netflix)
From (MGM+)
Murderbot (Apple TV)
BEST CURRENT AFFAIRS SHOW
The Daily Show (Comedy Central)
Hot Ones (YouTube)
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO Max)
Late Night with Seth Meyers (NBC)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (CBS)
BEST TV DOCUMENTARY OR DOCUMENTARY SERIES
Kylie (Netflix)
Mr. Scorsese (Apple TV)
Seen & Heard: The History of Black Television (HBO Max)
Selena y Los Dinos (Netflix)
The Yogurt Shop Murders (HBO Max)
BEST LGBTQ TV DOCUMENTARY OR DOCUMENTARY SERIES
Club Cumming (WOW Presents Plus)
Enigma (HBO Max)
It’s Dorothy! (Peacock)
Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery (Hulu)
Murder in Glitterball City (HBO Max)
BEST GENRE TV SHOW
Alien: Earth (FX/Hulu)
The Boys (Amazon Prime Video)
IT: Welcome to Derry (Max)
Pluribus (Apple TV)
Widow’s Bay (Apple TV)
BEST REALITY SHOW
The Boyfriend (Netflix)
Love on the Spectrum (Netflix)
RuPaul’s Drag Race (MTV/Paramount+)
Top Chef (Bravo)
The Traitors (Peacock)
BEST ANIMATED SHOW
Bob’s Burgers (Fox)
Invincible (Amazon Prime Video)
Hazbin Hotel (Amazon Prime Video)
Long Story Short (Netflix)
South Park (Paramount+)
MOST VISUALLY STRIKING TV SHOW
Alien: Earth (FX/Hulu)
Euphoria (HBO Max)
The Gilded Age (HBO Max)
Heated Rivalry (HBO Max)
Pluribus (Apple TV)
CAMPIEST TV SHOW
All’s Fair (Hulu)
The Comeback (HBO Max)
The Hunting Wives (Netflix)
Palm Royale (Apple TV)
The Traitors (Peacock)