
||| The beautiful men of gay male pornography: Fascinating look from Psychology Today at how gay porn reflects the changing ideal of male beauty.


||| 30 dates in 30 days in 30 cities: one man's quest for the love of his life.

||| Jersey City Pride Festival 2010, in video.
||| Meet Lorenzo, a girly-boy we should all look up to.
||| Durand Robinson - an Atlanta Black Gay Pride organiser - was shot dead on 25th August. Durand's Facebook page is here. Additional coverage at The GA Voice.

||| More on the murder of DeFarra Gaymon - CEO of Credit Union of Atlanta - who was shot dead by police in New York in July. The New York Times has also published a detailed account of the incident.
||| Remembering Jorge Steven López Mercado, who would have been twenty last month.



||| A San Francisco bathhouse - closed for more than 20 years - is to reopen as a "doggy day care center". Imagine what must have gone on their in those heady pre-AIDS days... and everyone who was lost because of it.


||| The New York subway gets "seatless" subway cars... Or rather, it doesn't.
||| The threat of closure of Christopher Street bar Chi Chiz, "the only black gay bar in New York City", puts the spotlight on race and class. As one former resident comments at Towleroad: "If you aren't white, married and have 2.2 kids... [there's] the we don't want you here attitude. NY is nothing but a sterile playground of corporate bullshit, resting on its laurels of what it used to be."

||| Don't quit your gay job: Straight bartenders work in Boystown, too.
||| If you're going to drug and rape your frat brother, don't video the attacks and leave them around for him to find.

||| Orthodox attitudes to gay people shift. Mordechai Beck writes, "A statement on homosexuality that has garnered more than 100 rabbinic signatures is a watershed for Orthodox Judaism."
||| What Christians don't want to know about Jesus.
||| Young, gay dreams of matrimony: For 20-somethings, Proposition 8's demise is a barometer of equality, not a path to the altar.

||| What does Obama really think about gay marriage? A timeline.
||| No justice: "Watch this gay man's story about being denied his late partner's Social Security benefits, funds that are automatically transferred to any straight spouse that has been married for ten minutes." Via Joe. My. God.
||| Activist group Queer Rising commandeers US supermarket Target's tannoy system, provoking the ire of two Chipmunk-voiced managers with delusions of grandeur. Sorry, whose building is it, love?

||| ...But whilst the world of sport remains unmoved by progress, Hollywood is finally opening its arms to gay characters.
||| The NCIS is investigating a marine for allegedly appeating in gay porn. Sgt. Matthew W. Simmons is said to have appeared as Christian Jade (far right) for WayBig.com.
||| Now the Pentagon is asking military spouses to appeal a "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" repeal.

||| Repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Pat and Wally Kutteles, the parents of Pfc. Barry Winchell (left), murdered 11 years ago after suffering harassment over rumours he was gay, on why the rule must go.
||| The Navy is discharging Jarod McIntosh because it found photos of his boyfriend on his phone. This is his story:


||| The Kentucky Farm Bureau hates gays.
||| McNugget rage!
||| Canada: Residents of a leafy Toronto street have confronted evangelists preaching outside a gay couple's home, eventually driving them out...

||| Ever wondered what JonBenet Ramsey would look like? The tragic child beauty queen would have been 20 last month. Disturbing.
||| Everything you needed to know about American Islamaphobia, but were too afraid to ask:
||| Remember the hoo-ha over the user details of members of defunct XY magazine? There's been a happy ending.

||| Let's check in with Doug Quint and his Big Gay Ice Cream Truck!
||| Wanted: ebonics translators.

||| Empire State Building: I'm the only big swinging dick in this town!
||| The Big Picture: Remembering Katrina, five years ago (47 more photos). Above, prisoners are penned on a highway. Below, the ruined Metropolitan Hospice, pictured less than two weeks ago.

||| This is Rev Colin Coward, 64, a priest at St John the Baptist church in Devizes, Wilts, and his boyfriend Bobby Egbele, 25, who's the fashion designer behind online clothing shop Bobafrique. The couple are planning a civil partnership in October, and the Coward refuses to promise he'll be celibate afterwards.
||| Sex in Soho is more likely to leave you with a dose of gonorrhoea. The borough of Westminster - in which the gay playground is located - is one of the top 10 STI hotspots in England. The rest of the list is filled out with other London boroughs, with gay satellite city Brighton the odd one out.
||| Homophobic Conservative Minister Crispin Blunt has announced that he is gay, and is separating from his wife of 20 years. He's the second Government minister to come out since the coalition came to power. Blunt is 50-years-old.

||| Blunt is, of course, a typical hyprocritcal Tory bigot. He once said, "It is... clear that there is a much greater strand of homosexuality than of heterosexuality which depends for its gratification on the exploitation of youth."
||| So, should MPs have the right to keep their sexuality secret?

||| The Conservative government has scrapped the Annual Report on Human Rights, signposting its abandonment of the fight against of human rights abuses in countries like Zimbabwe, Saudi Arabia and Russia.

||| Thousands took to the streets of Manchester for that city's 20th annual gay pride parade; Sir Ian McKellen was Grand Marshall. In pictures.

||| Women's Aid Leicestershire has set up the Adam Project (Action against Domestic Abuse for Men). Police believe Wmen were the victims in up to one fifth of the 15,000-plus reports of violence" last year.

||| London: Homeless Poles are living on barbecued rats and alcoholic handwash.
||| What does it mean to be gay and middle aged? Julian Clary investigates.

||| Ireland: Thousands march for civil marriage rights for same-sex couples in Dublin.
||| Ireland: "Homosexuality brought down the ancient civilisations of Rome, Greece, and Egypt. It will be our downfall too." That's Reverend Jonathan Campbell, condemning Derry Pride - the county's first - held on Saturday.
||| Netherlands: Same-sex couples to feature in school textbooks.

||| Poland: Gay rights group the Association for Diversity has hit out at a new textbook that portrays homosexuality as a curable illness.
||| Russia: Former billionaire German Sterligov (left) calls for all gays and lesbians to be put to death. Because the bible says so, of course.
||| This photo of a boy in Samarkand (present-day Uzbekistan) was taken around 1910. It's part of an extraordinary series of photos over at The Big Picture: Russia in color, a century ago. As they say, "The high quality of the images, combined with the bright colors, make it difficult for viewers to believe that they are looking 100 years back in time."
||| A Spanish Air Force pilot was forced out of his Sevilla base by "threats, abuse and propositioning". He married another airman from the base in 2006. ¡Viva España!

||| Mexico: The battle over gay rights - with the Catholic Church on one side, and the Mayor of Mexico City on the other - has swept into the Supreme Court.
||| Argentina: Nestor Berchot (left) died shortly after marrying longterm partner Gustavo Garcia. They were the first gay couple to wed in the city of Mar del Plata.
||| Argentina: What's a boy to do in Buenos Aires? Your questions answered!
||| Is Colombia next for gay marriage?
AFRICA
||| Uganda: A bile of prejudice is hindering progression.
||| Uganda: Gay Ugandan in exile calls on Anglican leaders to denounce Uganda's anti-homosexuality Bill at the All African Bishops Conference.

||| Uganda: First Lady Janet Museveni on homosexuality: "In God's word, homosexuality attracts a curse, but now people are engaging in it and saying they are created that way. It is for money The devil is stoking fires to destroy our nation and those taking advantage are doing so because our people are poor."
||| South Africa: OUT, the health services provider focusing on GBLT community, is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year.

||| Israel: 19-year-old Angel - who performs as a drag queen - was twice kidnapped by family members to 'set him back on right path'. This is his story.
||| Gay, straight, or just Lebanese? An intriguing look at sexuality in Lebanon.
||| Being gay in Iran: Meeting in secret, living in fear. Members of Iran's GBLT community tell of arrests, beatings, rape – and escape to the West.
||| Meet Rami, a gay Palestinian boy who was convicted of being gay at 12-years-old. He fled to Israel after three years in jail and became a male prostitute. Video:
ASIA PACIFIC
||| Nepal: 2,000 people turn out for Kathmandu's first large-scale gay pride parade (pictured above left).
||| The Big Picture: Continuing Pakistani floods, above (35 more pictures).
||| The Big Picture: Landslides strike Zhouqu County, China, above and below (39 more pictures).

||| North Korea comes out as gay.
||| Australia: Prime Minister Julia Gillard cements her position as an anti-gay bigot, citing the country's "Christian heritage" as the reason for her opposition to gay marriage. Australian Marriage Equality National Secretary, Peter Furness, says, "How far... will [Gillard] go in the name of our 'Christian heritage' – will she outlaw divorce and interracial marriages, re-criminalise homosexuality and abortion, suppress atheism, and remove herself and all other women from leadership roles?"
||| Is the drive to out gay football players putting the lives of gay youth at risk?
BODY & MIND
||| WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!

||| Boffins have discovered a protein (with the catchy name TRIM5a) that destroys HIV in rhesus monkeys.
||| Stop, or my HIV will shoot... Ari Ezra Waldman looks at HIV as aggravated assault.

||| What kind of guy gets a genital piercing? Not the type you might think, apparently.
||| Why I got the male Brazilian wax.
||| A bit scary up close, aren't they? This is the human eye, one of a series of astonishing images by Suren Manvelyan.
||| The new kind of sex party sweeping the US: "Expectant couples are holding celebrations at which they reveal the sex of their baby. Yuk!"


||| Top 10 healthy breakfast options.

||| An alligator in Queens!

||| White jackdaw!
||| White whale!
||| This one is guaranteed to make you weep: A baby humpback whale has died after mistaking a marker buoy for its mother.
||| Penguins vs. butterfly:
PLANET

||| Oops, BP's spilt oil isn't all gone. In fact, more than three quarters of it is still down there.
||| Not to be outdone, the Atlantic now has an unimaginably huge floating rubbish patch to rival that of the Pacific.
||| It all looks so much better from far off. How about a distance of 114 million miles away? Yes: that is the Earth and the Moon, above left.
WEB & GADGETS

||| Highly self-promoting Facebook users, who are highly narcissistic with low-self esteem, tend to spend the most time on Facebook, boffins claim.


||| How the Google/Verizon proposal could kill the internet in 5 years.
||| Introducing Shuffler.fm, the service that lets you discover new music blogs while you listen.


||| Review: The Cross of Redemption, a new collection of previously uncollected writings by James Baldwin.
||| Top 10 Most Memorable GBLT Teen Fiction Characters... according to 15-year-old Brent.

||| Want a really good reason to buy a proper book, instead of an eBook? How about ads, specifically targeted to you personally.
FILM

||| DVD extras that don't suck.
||| Bow Wow forced to work in Foot Locker!
||| Watch: A never-before-screened scene cut from Return of the Jedi.
||| The film posters that lost the plot. A look at postwar Polish film posters, and how they differed from the West's originals.
||| Was Vivien Leigh bisexual?
||| Oh, daddy... Dwayne Johnson struts his stuff on the set of The Fast and the Furious 5 (I know, there's at least one thing seriously wrong with that sentence.

||| Gay.com web series The Queens of Drag: NYC is to make its debut on 8th September. The reality show focuses on "the lives of New York City's most fabulous and ferociously funny drag queen divas". Check out the trailer.


||| Let's catch up with The Wire alumni. Where are they now?
||| Nelsan Ellis - LaFayette to you and me - doesn't want his character to be tied down for too long.

||| 90210 producer Rebecca Sinclair talks about the forthcoming outing of Teddy, played by Tervor Donvan.




||| EastEnders: Behind the scenes on the Queen Vic inferno, in pictures. More.

||| The sexy BBC weatherman who stripped for Attitude, takes another mistep, below. And is this Coca Cola ad (from Egypt) homoerotic? You decide:

||| No Angels singer Nadja Benaissa (left) has been given a two-year suspended sentence, following her conviction for having unprotected sex with three male partners without revealing her HIV-positive status.

||| Gratuitious Marvin from JLS shot.




||| Terrence has two dads, and what better way to show his love and appreciation than to sing a song about it on national TV?
||| Bless. He means well, but Terrence's effort won't be soaring to the top of my playlist. On the other hand, this mesmerising cover (by UK synth-pop duo Hurts) of Kylie Minogue's one really good song, Confide In Me, most definitely will be...
||| ...No? How about this one then, from OMD. Three cute boys (and some intrusive females) writhe about in the video - works for me!

||| Ricky Martin autobiography, anyone? It's out 2nd November.

||| Steph Jones slams homophobia in a new video blog. Watch, plus his new song about beauty and body image.

||| Mike Verdugo - the Florida cop fired for not disclosing his background in gay porn - has been allowed to keep his police certification.

||| Channel 1 Releasing has announced an eight-episode soap opera, to air on the official C1R website.

||| Producer/performer Collin O'Neal has opened up about his battle with depression.

||| The confessions of a New York rent boy.
||| Inches, Mandate, Playguy magazines to be relaunched. The question, why? Why would anyone buy a porn magazine (at least in the form they used to take).
SPORT
||| Anybody catch the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games? Babacar Cisse and Brandon Arends looked good in the Judo, and China's Qiu Bo is spectacular at the 10m Platform preliminary. The boys also did a little basketball, volleyball, gymnastics, rowing, and athletics.


||| More Ochocinco? How about that time he wrapped a big dick around himself?
||| Gimme some Kerron Clements (below left, in a new Twitter profile picture) instead. Olympic athletes really are the Supermen.


||| The Johnny Weir Spectacular: "Dressed in silk and false eyelashes and heels, he wants to go beyond skating, beyond masculine and feminine, to a kind of stardom that's entirely his own."


||| And the news we've all been waiting for: Cristiano's peen is "RIDICULOUS... intimidatingly so".
||| Sadly, it was only her shirt that came off after his late free kick (huh?) saw Real Madrid win some match or another.

||| Brazilian beauty Arthur Sales in 3D for Armani.
||| Instinct's swimwear spread features Wendell Lissimore and Henry Watkins, lensed by Vincent Dilio. More.


||| Take a tour of Tokyo's 9h Pod Hotel.
||| And finally, The Majestic Plastic Bag - A Mockumentary...
||| COVER MODEL: MALE VISION PHOTOGRAPHY.
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The whole thing's been ridiculous."
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1 comments:
This is the best edition yet! =0) I am going to cancel Newsweek and just come to World Outside My Window from now on!
1.) OMG - Nelly, Lil Romeo, and The Rock all in the same feature. Are you trying to kill me?
*Fans himself*
2.) What's hilarious is that there was nothing sexual in that picture of that two guys on the train. It was just a sweet little moment...Of course homophobes make it the end of human civilization as we know it.
3.) I am in total agreement with the psychology today article. This would not even been possible had it been the 70's or 80's when Black, asians, and Latinos were just considered delightful little fetishes to be taken off the shelf and put back whenever. The gay community is going to evolve with the country.
4.) Okay, I once went on 25 dates in a year. I learned that is not the way to find true love. Now I am just going to be a ho.
5.) I wonder if all the gay athletes decided to stage a huge coming out across all sports (like the vampires did on True Blood...the great revelation)would it finally force the sports world to cease its homophobia. Doubtful but whatever...
6.) Bitch those mcnuggets are NOT that good. Somebody made a pit stop at the meth lab.
7.) Ebonics translators? Okay I'm fluent where do I apply?
8.) I cannot see myself right now (in my 20's)dating a 64 year old priest. Oh my goodness I'd be scared I would give him a heart attack...and I'm not trying to catch a case.
I'm just sayin...
Great stuff once again luv! =0)
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