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The Redpill and Queer Theory Are Arguing About the Same Thing
Cultural Guides

The Redpill and Queer Theory Are Arguing About the Same Thing

Put a redpill forum thread on "the true nature of masculinity" next to a queer theory reading group's notes on "gender as performance," and the resemb...

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Looksmaxxing Is Colonizing Gay Dating Apps — Here's How It Happened
Cultural Guides

Looksmaxxing Is Colonizing Gay Dating Apps — Here's How It Happened

A few years ago, "mewing" was a fringe term confined to incel forums and a handful of orthodontics message boards. Now it shows up, unironically, in G...

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The Manosphere Is Obsessed With Men's Bodies. It Just Won't Say Why.
Cultural Guides

The Manosphere Is Obsessed With Men's Bodies. It Just Won't Say Why.

Scroll through a "sigma male" edit, the genre of TikTok and Instagram clip built from slow-motion gym footage, suit fittings, and stoic stares, usuall...

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The Blackpill and the Closet: Two Grammars of "No One Will Want Me"
Cultural Guides

The Blackpill and the Closet: Two Grammars of "No One Will Want Me"

Two forum posts, years and worlds apart. One reads: "It's over. Nothing I do will change my bone structure. I was never in the game to begin with." Th...

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BoysDo vs Grindr for Relationships: Why the Grid Doesn't Get You Past the First Six Weeks
Gay Dating Apps

BoysDo vs Grindr for Relationships: Why the Grid Doesn't Get You Past the First Six Weeks

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Rotimi Fani-Kayode: The Body as Sacred Ground
Photographic Legacy

Rotimi Fani-Kayode: The Body as Sacred Ground

Rotimi Fani-Kayode photographed the Black gay male body at a moment — London in the 1980s — when no one else was doing it with anything approaching hi...

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Where to Find Artistic Gay Erotic Content Online: The Complete Guide (2025)
Cultural Guides

Where to Find Artistic Gay Erotic Content Online: The Complete Guide (2025)

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BoysDo vs xHamster: The Aggregator and the Magazine
LGBTQ+ Landscape

BoysDo vs xHamster: The Aggregator and the Magazine

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BoysDo vs Reddit: The Subreddit Archipelago vs. an Actual Feed
LGBTQ+ Landscape

BoysDo vs Reddit: The Subreddit Archipelago vs. an Actual Feed

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The Photographers Who Made the Male Body Art
Cultural Guides

The Photographers Who Made the Male Body Art

There is a lineage. It doesn't announce itself, but it's there — running from a Harlem studio in the 1970s through a California beach, a Berlin apartm...

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BoysDo vs Twitter / X: The Default That Stopped Working
LGBTQ+ Landscape

BoysDo vs Twitter / X: The Default That Stopped Working

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BoysDo vs Instagram: The Funnel and the Destination
LGBTQ+ Landscape

BoysDo vs Instagram: The Funnel and the Destination

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