the week's
news
& pop
culture,
with a
gay
bias.
left & found
We saw the backlash coming, but have you really noticed all of it?
A lot of rants about femmephobia should actually be about sexism.
The gender-fluid generation: Young people on being male, female or non-binary.
news - america
North Carolina’s anti-LGBT law: When a cultural “transgender tipping point” doesn’t match reality.
Now North Carolina faces losing federal funding for highways, housing, and schools over its anti-gay legislation.
A round-up of the pounding North Carolina is taking over the anti-LGBT bill.
The Metropolitan Museum should cancel its event at the Beverly Hills Hotel, which is owned by the anti-LGBT Sultan of Brunei, argues James Duke Mason.
The racist and homophobic texts between officers is part of a deeper "systemic" culture at the San Francisco Police Department.
Is Buffalo really the most homophobic city in America?
Julius, the oldest gay bar in New York City, recommended for addition to the State and National Registers of Historic Places. The Bayard Rustin Residence in New York was listed on 8th March.
Death by gentrification: the killing that shamed San Francisco. "Alejandro Nieto was killed by police in the neighbourhood where he spent his whole life. Did he die because a few white newcomers saw him as a menacing outsider?"
America's urban renaissance is only for the rich.
The Republicans' gay freakout. "Our infrastructure is inexcusable, much of our public education is miserable and one of our leading presidential candidates is a know-nothing, say-anything egomaniac who yanks harder every day at the tattered fabric of civil discourse and fundamental decency in this country. But let’s by all means worry about the gays! Let’s make sure they know their place. Keep them in check and all else falls into line, or at least America notches one victory amid so many defeats.”
Donald Trump’s domination is teaching us one thing: We’ll miss Obama.
A dark turn for the Sanders campaign.
Is it time to #DivestFromHRC?
Whatever happened to NAMBLA, America's paedophilia advocates?
news - uk
Soldiers "forced to rape each other" as part of initiation ceremony in the Queen's Guards.
Two bouncers stabbed outside London gay club Fire.
London gay pub the Richmond Arms to close after thirty years.
news - world
FINLAND Nokia: Life after the fall of a mobile phone giant.
RUSSIA Calvin Klein ad investigated as "gay propaganda".
UKRAINE LGBT festival in Lviv abandoned after far-right protest - police ignore pleas to intervene.
POLAND Warsaw LGBT shelter avoids imminent closure thanks to a bail out from All Out.
Is LGBT equality gaining acceptance slowly gaining ground in Africa?
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC French peacekeepers allegedly tied up girls, forced them into bestiality.
INDIA To live and die in Mumbai. "A murder involving one of the India’s celebrity couples has mesmerized the country and exposed some of its darkest fears."
AUSTRALIA History repeats: Twenty years of political homophobia from the religious right."
arena
Mexico national soccer players team up against homophobic "puto" chant.
Hate crime, HIV and stereotypes: Inside the world of LGBT boxing.
Manny Pacquiao banned from Los Angeles shopping mall over homophobic slurs.
picture house
Batman v Superman is 153 minutes of a grown man whacking two dolls together. "Unlike most of the movie, this latest superhero instalment is not a dream. It is really happening to you."
Batman v Superman is tedious, witless, interminable. "A film so incompetent, so jaw-dropping and lead-footed in its badness, it almost (almost) has to be seen to be believed."
Batman v Superman was trashed by critics. Fans think it’s because Marvel paid them.
Fifteen troubled male musical genius biopics, ranked.
WATCH Waiting In The Wings: The Musical (trailer); Like Cattle Towards Glow (trailer); What We Have (trailer); Kill Your Friends (trailer).
Ken Adam, the Oscar-winning production designer, is dead. He was 95.
the box
Guy Pearce to star in Dustin Lance Black and Gus Van Sant’s forthcoming gay equality minseries When We Rise.
Is Friends still the most popular show on TV? "Why so many 20-somethings want to stream a 20-year-old sitcom about a bunch of 20-somethings sitting around in a coffee shop."
Friends is still a hit after 22 years. And I think I know why.
INTERVIEW Talking to London Spy star Ben Whishaw about sexuality, privacy and playing troubled heroes. "I'm not damaged. Not more than anybody else.”
WATCH BOXX, a fictional web series following two black, London-based trans artists "while they create a documentary about their lives and experiences"; new web series Dark Justice, an "absurdist satire" that "deals with issues around and relating to racism, activism, and of course police brutality and the justice system"; and the latest episode of About Him.
shouting at night
art + design
word!
Rolodicks, Pringled and slayground: New gay slang.
On Polari, the secret language of the gays. There's a more in depth article here.
beats, rhymes
& life
& life
The music industry men who got away with exploiting female pop stars.
Inside Atlanta’s booming hip-hop dance scene. "Kids with the right moves are racking up huge YouTube views, but where's their future?"
red light district
Is prostitution just another job?
WATCH Leo Forte on racism in the gay porn industry; and Bryan Hawn and Brad Jan flaunt their wares. Watch with the sound off.
ghetto romance
Can you tell he’s a bottom just by looking?
médecins sans frontières
The curious case of the phantom penis.
hell's kitchen
No amount of "free from" labelling will make processed food good for you.
betta work!
Middle-class feminism has a blind spot over female cleaners. "One in three families outsources its domestic work, mostly to women. But these isolated and low-paid workers often get a raw deal."
I own 51% of
this company!
this company!
planet earth
The invisible catastrophe. "Over four months, a methane well in southern California’s Aliso Canyon leaked Lebanon’s equivalent of yearly emissions into the atmosphere. No one knows what the long-term effects will be."
Will no one stop Poland destroying Europe’s most precious forest?
The unprecedented coral bleaching disaster at the Great Barrier Reef, explained.
Scientists nearly double sea level rise projections for 2100, because of Antarctica.
inside the spaceship
and whilst you're thinking about that, think
about this...
about this...
Brutal, cruel and awkward stories of people breaking up with their best friends.
Fifty signs of hope for culture in 2016.
And finally, Junior, Tochi, Kevin and Dammy on dating in London; Walter on HIV; Andrew on gender roles; and meet Jacob's friend Pedro.
And finally, Junior, Tochi, Kevin and Dammy on dating in London; Walter on HIV; Andrew on gender roles; and meet Jacob's friend Pedro.
See you kids next week - it's been emotional! Zee Jai
Issue 232: 22 February - 03 April 2016
On the cover: Flavaworks model King B, who has died.
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1 comments:
Wow, what a killer post! :)
Love the guys with abs, they're my fave part, of course. Haha! :D
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