Boy Culture Links: Zack Hilton on Stuffing, Michael Patrick King Honored by HRC, Rob Schneider Thinks Everyone's Kids Should Be Drafted + MORE
MARCH 30, 2026
DNA: Zack Hilton, a Venezuelan-English fitness influencer, covers this month’s DNA. His highly quotable self-introduction:
“I’m not AI and I don’t need to put socks down my underwear.”
You can catch up with him here.
HRC: Michael Patrick King was honored with theHuman Rights Campaign’s Visibility Award at a ceremony held Saturday in L.A. It brought out his many A-list friends and collaborators, who looked on as he said:
“So we have to push back those lies about us, about people who are different and push forward empowering stories about people who dare to be themselves, stories about characters who risk being individual in the face of society…
“In living rooms across this country, people who don’t know a queer person or think they don’t, are watching TV, and occasionally watching an LGBTQ+ character, and sometimes something that happens on a television, a certain story, a wonderful character, a joke, a heart revealed can knock down the scaffold society has forced us to build up around ourselves and reveal the soul underneath. And when this happens, people in their homes, sitting on their couches, can see us and come to know us. And little by little, we are no longer ‘them.’”
HUFFINGTON POST: Russia, the expert on ill-conceived ground invasions, has issued a dire warning to Trump about his into Iran.
ID: I’m not sure if you know this about me, but I ran a teen magazine that I founded — GULP — 28 years ago, and that ended 14 years ago. So this ID series, Boy Band Confidential, is right up my alley:
JOE.MY.GOD.: Rob Schneider, who has never served a day in his life, is advocating for Trump to draft our country’s young people to fight in Iran.
THE TIMES: Trump confirms report that Iran’s new leader may be a closet case. As much as Trump can “confirm” anything. Feels fake. Zeteo reports: Fake.
YAHOO!: I can’t get into criticizing Newsom for mocking conservatives using gay terms; it feels more like mocking their homophobia.
ATLANTIC: “The Surprising Reason for the New Homophobia.”
GOMAG: “Most of My Moms Are Gay.”
GR8ERDAYS: Five great movies that do not exist. But should!
NEW YORK TIMES: “Goodbye, Queer Eye. Goodbye, Queer Acceptance.”
EXTRATV: Mary Beth Hurt, who acted in The World According to Garp, dies at 79 after 11 years of an Alzheimer’s battle.
LGBTQ NATION: Dallas Wings basketball star Arike Ogunbowale secretly got hitched in Miami last month, exchanging vows with her influencer GF Lala Ronay.
