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...
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...
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...
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...
The Films Every Gay Man Should See: A BoysDo Guide to Queer Cinema
There is a cinema of the body. Not pornography — something more considered than that, and more honest. A cinema that understands desire as a subject w...
The Crying Game (1992): What Desire Actually Is
There is a reveal in The Crying Game that, in 1992, the entire cultural apparatus of film promotion worked to protect. Critics agreed not to mention...
Beautiful Thing (1996): A South London Summer
Beautiful Thing is the kindest film on this list. That is not a small thing. Queer cinema has often felt compelled to earn its right to exist throug...
Paris Is Burning (1990): The Document and the Argument About It
In the late 1980s, in Harlem and the South Bronx, Black and Latino gay and trans people built a culture of extraordinary invention and beauty in the m...
The Best Gay Dating Apps in 2025 — And Why the Best Relationships Start With Shared Taste
Midnight Cowboy (1969): The Love Story Hollywood Didn't Know It Was Making
Midnight Cowboy won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1970. It was rated X at the time of its release — the only X-rated film ever to win the Os...
Brokeback Mountain (2005): The One That Broke Through
Brokeback Mountain won three Academy Awards, including Best Director for Ang Lee, and was widely expected to win Best Picture before the Academy vot...
Weekend (2011): Friday Night to Sunday Morning
Weekend takes place over forty-eight hours in Nottingham. Two men meet at a bar on Friday night, go home together, and spend the weekend in the spec...