EROTICCO: Brazil has been shipping Mau Mau and Felipe on Quem Ama Cuida, a massively popular telenovela available on Globo. Well, on October 30, they shared their first kiss.
Not the mirror, too!!!
TMZ: Morgan Fairchild is joining OnlyFans at 76. That’s the ticket!
VULTURE: My pal went to the Difficult People table read and says it was hilarious. Maybe Kevin Spacey should cameo?
MR. MAN: Yes, Jonathan Lipnicki really and truly did go full-frontal in the new film Primetime. (Link here, and if you sub to Mr. Man, Boy Culture gets a small bump.)
By the way, Jonathan, most famous for Jerry Maguire, is now THIRTY-SIX YEARS OF AGE, and this is not his first nudity rodeo.
MAN ABOUT TOWN: Mercy, this magazine cover has got it covered. Morgan Spector of The Gilded Age flashes a bit of cum-gutter, but otherwise demonstrates how you can be mostly covered and still red-hot in both of these images. In the piece, he continues to display his progressivism:
“I think there’s just a pervasive sense that no one is taking care of you. If you become ill in America, you could lose everything. When you look at the experience of the ordinary person and contrast it with the idea that a single individual can be worth a trillion dollars, it’s obviously obscene. As much as our show is escapism, I think what makes it juicy escapism is that it does bring us back to the reality we’re living in now in a certain way.”
Buy the mag here.
HULU: Insane that anyone would be swayed by a guy named Dr. Tony Huge who was pushing penis enlargement and extreme bodybuilding via drugs. But men are weak! We are! We have the same insecurities as women, but many men pretend it isn’t vanity but gender affirmation. Hulu’s Get Huge: Looksmaxxing to Death promises to explore that.
INSTAGRAM: Mood, post-election. Why can’t we move forward right over their faces?
DW.COM: The voting demographics for 2026 are illuminating. Black women and Black men voted overwhelmingly Democratic. The Latino and Latina votes swung much bluer (21% shift) than even 2024. Asian-Americans shifted by the identical percentage — 21%.
White Lady Susan Collins Still Doesn’t Get It
And notably, white women — for the first time I can remember offhand — voted (in a bare majority — 51/47) for Democrats. In 2024, those numbers were exactly reversed — 47/51). White women have only TWICE voted for the Democratic presidential nominee in 62 years: Johnson (1964) and Clinton (1996 — not 1992). So, white women, who make up a much large slice of the pie overall, shifting bluer as they did, made a huge difference.
The youth vote change was seismic — though a much smaller % of the overall vote, they swung 34% more Democratic this year than just two years ago. All that TikTok vibe noise evaporated in the face of rising prices, nastiness on the daily, trashing of norms and the Iran War, which the GOP swore to God was what Democrats wanted.
White men are still overwhelmingly Republican, but not as overwhelmingly. And men overall voted Democratic by 2%. That is incredible — the first time men have voted Democratic since 2008 (hello, Obama!) and only the third time Dems have won guys since 1992, when Clinton won men by 3% (only because Ross Perot existed).
WDAM: It’s looking more and more like Scott Colom is going to clinch victory in Mississippi. In fact, he flipped ruby-red Forrest County. That county’s namesake is Nathan Bedford Forres, who founded the KKK. No Democrat has won a Senate race in Mississippi since 1982.
POST AND COURIER: Nancy Lacore, the vice admiral who was unceremoniously fired by Pete Hegseth for being a woman, ambitiously mounted a campaign to win the South Carolina 1st Congressional District seat. It was a total longshot, but thanks to the blue supernova that also swept Dr. Annie Andrews into her state’s Senate seat, she won!
Asked about Hegseth being impeached, she had the right answer:
“I’ll certainly look at that if that’s what comes up. But my focus, again, is on delivering what I promised to the people who are putting me into this office.”
We need Democrats who strike this exact tone — emphasizing the affordability issues, but able to walk and chew gum at the same time. I don’t want to hear Dems brushing off the concept of justice willy-nilly.
NEWSWEEK: Rep. Ilhan Omar won reelection bigger than ever after that politically motivated raid of her home.
ADVOCATE: Allison Montgomery, a software engineer, will be the first-ever trans state lawmaker elected in Alabama. She defeated a sitting Republican congressman 53-47. She did so by emphasizing affordability, divesting from corporate interests and by pointing out that “what about the kids?” in relation to trans people makes no sense when an Alabama lawmaker who is a straight male was recently charged with (checks notes) human trafficking. (By the way, a fellow Republican sailed into the seat vacated by the accused human trafficker she was referencing.)
THEM: Elsewhere in Alabama, there’s a new out gay sheriff in town via former Navy SEAL Brett Jones, who triumphed (53-47) over a two-term Republican.
LGBTQ: Rep. Sarah McBride (D-Delaware) became the first trans person ever to be reelected to Congress. She won 64-36.
MICHIGAN ADVANCE: Jeremy Moss (D-Michigan) is going to be his state’s first out LGBTQ+ state senator. He won the seat (61-37) vacated by hapless Haley Stevens — wowsie, wowsie, woo-woo. (BTW, this was an improvement over Haley’s performance. She took the seat in 2024 by 58-40.)
BAY AREA REPORTER: Gay California State Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) won his bruising battle (55-45) to succeed Nancy Pelosi, who is exiting the House for the first time since a lot of folks have been alive come January. Embarrassingly, at least politically, she’d endorsed the more progressive Connie Chan, the loser, on her way out. Wiener has taken lots of hits for not despising Israel enough. I think too many hits. It feels like there should be space for people in public life whose views lie between “Israel comes to me in my dreams” and “Israel should cease to exist.”
At any rate, he weirdly makes history as the first out LGBTQ+ rep from the Bay Area. How has that never happened?!
HRC’s Kelley Robinson says of Wiener’s win:
“Almost 50 years after Harvey Milk’s election made history in San Francisco, the city is sending its first LGBTQ+ representative to Congress. Scott Wiener has spent his career proving that when LGBTQ+ people have a seat at the table, we can deliver meaningful change for everyone. At a moment when our rights are under relentless attack, Congress needs more leaders like Scott Wiener. The Human Rights Campaign is proud to have stood with Scott from the start, and we couldn't be prouder to celebrate this historic victory.”
TIME: Sadly, Democratic centrist Chris Gallant lost on Long Island. You’ll recall he was the hottie whose extremely explicit nudes and porn pics were leaked at the height of his campaign to unseat Nick LaLota. He handled it well, and he only lost 51-49, hardly a smackdown, and a good reason to look ahead to 2028.
ADVOCATE: An exhaustive list of other LGBTQ+ winners in 2026.
JOE.MY.GOD.: One of the hottest dudes to win office on the Democratic side has gotta be Sam Forstag, a firejumper (! already hot !) who flipped Montana’s 1st Congressional District, unseating GOPer Aaron Flint. You can check out Forstag in a sauna here.
FACEBOOK: I remember Sebastian Bach for the “AIDS KILLS FAGS DEAD” T-shirt controversy. I am pleasantly surprised to see he is now a progressive.
TMZ: The writing was already on the wall, but Nithya Raman, a Democratic Socialist, has officially unseated Democratic Mayor Karen Bass in L.A. (52-48) after just one term, a term plagued by the wildfires and often unfair criticisms of how Bass handled them. I’m hoping for L.A. Raman is up to the task, and while I think Bass was better than she was given credit for, I do think she stank at pushing back on attacks. Sometimes a reset works wonders. Congrats to her and let’s hope Dustin Lance Black never needs a zoning permit.
NBC NEWS: Speaking of Democratic Socialists, Janeese Lewis George cruised (84-10-3.5, no Republicans running) into a D.C. mayoral win. So now L.A., D.C. and NYC will be governed by Democratic Socialists.
TWITTER: Bruce Harrison, newly reelected (54-46) congressman from Texas, thinks Gina Hinojosa winning the governorship is a four-alarm fire for the state. After all, she will have the powers of a dictator. Oh, wait, she will “inherit” the powers of a dictator; so, he was cool with Greg Abbott having them for a dozen years.
HUFFINGTON POST: “Trump’s MAGA Makeover of the Courts Is Over.”
KENNETH IN THE (212): LGBTQ+ (and -adjacent) mags of the moment.
TICKETS: Coming soon to NYC is Divine: Beyond the Flamingos!, written and directed by Donnie … and starring Eureka O’Hara. Pretty spot-on casting.
INSTINCT: Bi actor Dahveed notes that his full-frontal in The Bay was alllll natty, baby.
NPR: Club Kid’s Jordan Firstman explains that the gist of his buzzy film is that it’s a “delayed coming-of-age” movie, one that he can relate to as a recovering club kid himself.
PEOPLE: The Met Gala really shit the Egyptian cotton sheets with this one! After the epic blunder of deciding it was okay to honor John Galliano, out of all deserving people, they’re now announcing the theme is extraORDINARY: Fashion and the Poetics of the Everyday. So, they want to hype up T-shirts, jeans, raincoats, sweatshirts and puffer jackets. I can’t wait to see Rihanna in a parka. Oh. The. Glamour.
CLAMP: Opening tomorrow, November 6, at CLAMP in NYC (through December 23) is Studio Nudes, a show featuring works by Amos Badertscher, Bruce of Los Angeles, Christopher Makos, Curtice Taylor, Daniel Handal, Francisco De la Barra, George Platt Lynes, Jack Balas, James Bidgood, Jim French, John Button, Lissa Rivera, Mark Beard, Paul Cadmus, Paul Solberg, Peter Berlin, Robert Calafiore, Roberto Bocci and Victor Carnuccio.
VARIETY: It’s official — right-wing firebrand and loud-mouthed Trumper Russell Brand is a rapist.
ERIN IN THE MORNING: How the barely-passing anti-trans measures might be de-fanged.
NBC: I’m not big on remakes (I am in the minority in thinking the new Carrie is pig entrails warmed over) but promoting the rebrand of The Rockford Files with an awkward fake TV ad by Jim (David Boreanaz) is pretty cute.
