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<<< Brian Jankic lenses Marcus Hill for Geil magazine. More manikin news later on.
>>> Remember that sexy gay priest ad so many of you downloaded a couple of issues back? The Advertising Standards Authority has banned it, claiming it makes a mockery of the Roman Catholic church (who I'd have thought were doing a pretty good job of it all by themselves).
<<< The National Secular Society has accused the ASA of reintroducing blasphemy by the back door. They say, "Anyone who has seen the Antonio Federici ads knows that they are mildly humorous, in no way threatening, abusive or insulting. It is entirely wrong that these advertisements have been banned by such an unaccountable body, which needs to be reined in."
>>> 19-year-old Corey Jackson, a student at Oakland University in Michigan, hung himself on 19th October. Corey told his Aunt, Kim Jones, "I don't know what's wrong. Ever since I came out people are treating me different. I don’t know what to do. I don't know where I belong." There's more about Corey here.
<<< 26-year-old Joseph Jefferson, a gay youth activist in New York, hung himself on the 23rd October. Jefferson wrote on his Facebook page, "Belonging is one of the basic human needs, when people feel isolated and excluded from a sense of communion with others, they suffer. I have been an advocate for my peers and most importantly youth because most have never had a deep emotional attachment to anyone. They don't know how to love and be loved in return. The need to be loved can sometimes translate to the need to belong to someone or something. Driven by that need... Most will do anything to belong." His Facebook page remains open, the photo albums therein offering a heartbreaking glimpse into the life of a young man gone too soon.
||| Dharun Ravi and Molly Wei, the students who broadcast New York college student Tyler Clementi having sex with another man - leading to his suicide - have withdrawn from the university. 
||| The gay man and the former skinhead - who bashed him until he was nearly dead - who have united to fight bias. |
| Marcus Patrick, go go boy! |
<<< San Antonio Archdiocese puts a stop to building a better relationship between the Church and the GBLT community.
>>> Gays, Mormons and Boy Scouts' discrimination, by LZ Granderson. "To be 'in' America means it - or any other private group - has the right to discriminate. But those of us who are truly 'of' America understand that there is no America if we do."
<<< American Apparel donates 500 "Legalize Gay" t-shirts to college where a student was attacked for wearing one.
||| "Sexual behavior is a choice, homosexual behavior will leave you diseased, lonely, and dead, you've got to learn to resist homosexual impulses, I'm here to help." That's Bryan Fischer, of the American Family Association.
<<< "Seriously they want me to wear purple because five queers killed themselves. The only way im wearin it for them is if they all commit suicide. I cant believe the people of this world have gotten this stupid. We are honoring the fact that they sinned and killed thereselves because of their sin. REALLY PEOPLE." Those are the words of Arkansas school board member Clint McCance. Terrifying.
>>> Protesters demanded his immediate resignation, and a Facebook page calling for the same thing has been set up.
||| A look at high school life for a gay or transgender teen. Bullying isn't the only form of abuse suffered by GBLT teens. The homophobia they deal with can be much more subtle - and many schools aren't putting a stop to this abuse.
||| "None of us should be asked or forced to live our lives invisibly. Schools, employers and governments that impose invisibility continue to feed the fear of the unknown - and the well-documented and often tragic consequences that follow." Hayley Gorenberg writes about Gay Rights as Human Rights.
<<< I hope everyone watched Texan councillor Joel Burns' It Gets Better speech last week - it choked me up - and now it has electrified America.
||| Former Lt. Dan Choi criticises Obama for allowing the courts to do "all of the heavy lifting" in repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell. Choi is re-enlisting in the army. |
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||| The number of anti-gay senators has doubled, the Human Rights Campaign finds.
||| Obama was never going to have the room to effect radical change. "The US electorate's mistake was to believe that transformation was something you could impart to a higher power," Gary Younge writes for The Guardian.
>>>Saudi prince Saud Abdulaziz bin Nasser al Saud is jailed for life following his conviction for the murder of servant Bandar Abdulaziz. "The murder of Mr Abdulaziz was the final act in a 'deeply abusive' master-servant relationship in which Al Saud carried out frequent attacks on his aide 'for his own personal gratification'". The Independent has a more detailed report. |
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>>> Now this is the way to do it. Stoke Newington secondary school, in London, claims to have almost eradicated homophobic bullying after it started teaching lessons on gay history. Learn more here.
<<< So you think gay men are promiscuous? "It's time for the media to stop peddling myths and realise most gay people's sex lives are every bit as dreary as heterosexuals'," Patrick Strudwick writes for The Guardian.
>>> It's time more gay men became dads. "There's never been a better, or easier, time to do it. So why do gay men remain reluctant to start families?" Gary Nunn writes for The Guardian.
<<< Stonewall is holding back transgender equality. "The gay rights group's exclusion and denigration of transgender people shows its promotion of diversity does not extend to us," Natacha Kennedy writes for The Guardian.
||| 7/7 Inquest: Week one at-a-glance.
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||| FINLAND: 30,000 leave church over gay rights. A lesson in homophobia.
||| Genital fingerprinting, anyone? It's all the rage in France...
||| SAUDI ARABIA: A Saudi man raped a 13-year-old boy and threatened to publish pictures of his naked body on the web - unless he handed over his dead father's inheritance.
||| LEBANON: Beirut challenges Tel Aviv for the 
emotional crimes" in Lebanon. 
||| Is the problem of bullying mushrooming in Brazil as well? Made in Brazil looks at the attack on a gay couple from the University of São Paulo.
<<< A gay guide to Peru.
||| UGANDA: The head of the Independent Media Council, Haruna Kanaah, is "shocked and dismayed by the newspaper's lack of journalistic ethics"...
||| Being gay in Africa: A continent's darkness. 
<<< Photoblog: Music to empower the youth. "Roberto Schmidt photographed kids involved in a project in Korogocho, Nairobi called "Ghetto Classics" that uses music to empower the youth there."
||| SINGAPORE: GBLT community most concerned about repeal of gay sex law. Section 377A of the Penal Code criminalises sexual relations between men.
||| CHINA: Live crabs from vending machines. Really. (And the kind you eat, kids, not the ones you pick up in a Vauxhall dark room.) Video here (you really have to see it to believe it)...
||| TAIWAN: Chen Wei-yih is getting married. To herself.
>>> VIETNAM: An exhibition of Pham Tuan Tu's paintings - featuring people of the "third world" - has been taking place in Hanoi.
||| Men brought up with women "less sexy".
||| Procrastination: Fuelled by weakness in the face of impulse and a failure to think about thinking.
<<< Straight men are comfortable kissing each other (on the lips!) than ever before, boffins at the University of Bath claim. But does that include tongue?
||| Probiotic drinks a waste of money.
<<< Animal pictures of the week, part II (29 more pictures). Right, a baby elephant is attacked by a crocodile in South Africa. The calf survived the attack.
||| One fifth of the world's mammals, fish, birds and reptiles in danger of dying out.
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||| For filesharers, it's just a temporary inconvenience.
||| Rewinding to the age of the Sony Walkman. "They were never handy enough to be as ubiquitous as MP3 players – yet cassette Walkmen reshaped how music was heard."
>>> NEW YORK: This is D’espresso, an espresso bar located near Grand Central Station. Nemaworkshop designed it.
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||| 6 of the scariest queer horror books ever!
||| Review: The Road Home, by Michael Thomas Ford.
||| BUTT magazine launches a new website.
<<< Review: Boys On Film 5 – Candy Boy. Get it here.
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>>> The United States of Movies.
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>>> Anyone else seen the new(ish) comedy Getting On? No? I'm not surprised - it's on BBC4, but it's the funniest thing on TV right now. Do not miss it. Here's an interview with director Peter Capaldi (The Thick of It) and the brilliant Jo Brand.
||| A gay icon on Sesame Street? Bert comes out of the closet after 31 years.
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<<< OUCH! Omarion owes $US110,000+ to the Internal Revenue Service. Last week, we heard more about former bandmate Raz-B's sex abuse claims during their days in B2K.
>>> And then Raz dropped the F-word during an "intense and very detailed" interview about the abuse. SGL Café's Taylor Siluwé says, "We still believe him though, but he needs to realize that dropping that word is never cool. But if you absolutely must, our rule of thumb for offensive words like faggot and the N-word is "you damn sure better be one to use it."
<<< More: Tyler Perry, Raz-B, sexual abuse... and the VIBE exposé that black America ignored. View the whole thing at Google books (it's from page 79).
||| 30 ill-advised album covers - this will appeal to those of you mentally ill enough to enjoy slasher horror.
<<< Madonna's gone and got herself a new boy toy - and as much as I dislike the tedious shrew, I don't agree with the hating on this one. If I was 52, had her money (and even if I didn't), and could get away with it, I'd wanna be pulling young 'uns too. Good luck to her - give him one from me, Madge.
>>> Remember Ukranian boyband Kazaky from last week? Here's some pictures of the sexy 
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<<< Some Good Men, the 2010 edition of J. Lindeberg's bi-annual book, features manikins shot by Jörgen Ringstrand.
<<< Photographer Joseph Bleu has lensed newcomer Monty Mariano in the buff.
<<< Michael Epps created twenty two black & white portraits for TO2W.
<<< Emil Dostovic, Jacob Furgerson and Michael Van Meurs get the Nicolas Wagner treatment in a story for Flaunt.
<<< Djimon Hounsou, lensed by Herb Ritts? Yes please! A new book, Herb Ritts: The Golden Hour: A Photographer's Life and His World
, has been released to coincide with an exhibition in LA of Ritts' work.
>>> Photographer Dirk Alexander collaborated with illustrator Achraf Amiri (and model Jaime!) to create this stunning set of shots. There's video too.
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||| The ten worst gay porn star names of all time.
depths of the Pacific Ocean. Possessing the ability to reanimate the dead through depraved acts of man-sex, our creature prowls the streets of Los Angeles looking for corpses to gorge his sexual thirst." ka-os|theory favourites Eddie Diaz, Erik Rhodes and Matthew Rush costar alongside everyone's favourite inkhead Francois Sagat. Trailer.
||| Things that are pissing off Diesel Washington: "Flamboyant faggots, porn stars who tweet too much, women in v-necks, and people who stand in the middle of the sidewalk while texting. How can you not relate to Diesel's rage?" Add to that Tré Xavier - ouch!
<<< Matthew Rush checks in with MenOver30...
