a news compendium
with a gay bias
issue 81 | December 2010 | FREE
issue 81 | December 2010 | FREE

But first...
Gay language Polari is at risk of dying out. "Polari, the nineteenth-century code language used by gay men, is one of a number of languages at risk of dying out within a generation according to researchers at Cambridge University." There's a guide to Polari here.
||| The end of camp gay men? Kevin Troughton writes in The Guardian, "Effeminate gay men are an increasingly rare sight now the 'straight-acting' are in the ascendency."
||| On a similar note... "It seems like there is a stereotypical, standard effeminate-sounding gay accent, no matter where in the US you go." Discuss.



||| What does the Bible really say about homosexuality? "The Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson examines the Biblical texts traditionally used to address the issue of homosexuality from a religious (Jewish and Christian) perspective", over four separate articles. The first "is the philosophical basis for all that follows in examining the seven passages which are used to assert that God condemns homosexuality and homosexual practice. To borrow Phyllis Trible's phrase, used to describe the Biblical texts employed to keep women 'in their place', these are the "texts of terror" used against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people."

||| What does the Bible really say about homosexuality? Part 3: Homosexuality in Sodom and Gomorrah.
||| What does the Bible really say about homosexuality? Part 4: What did Jesus say about homosexuality?
US & CANADA

||| Dan Choi hospitalised: A discussion about our community's multi-faceted sacrifices. Being demonised by a bitter lesbian probably hasn't helped him either (reported in the last issue).

||| UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calls for the decriminalisation of homosexuality in the 70 countries where being gay is still considered a crime...

>>> Artist Lucinda Naylor's sculpture created from 2000 anti-gay marriage DVDs, mailed out by Minnesota's Catholic bishops.
||| Hide/Seek: Too shocking for America. America's first major exhibition of gay art has outraged the country's right – leading to one of them being banned. Check out the art here.

||| Artist AA Bronson has demanded the National Portrait Gallery remove his piece Felix, June 5, 1994 from the Hide/Seek exhibition in protest at the censorship.
||| The 'Fire' man, by Philip Kennicott. Fascinating essay on artist David Wojnarowicz, who died in 1992 aged 37.


||| Sports secret no more: Gay players are among us.
||| Another all-American high school football team male rape scandal.
||| Politicususa reviews Sarah Palin's America By Heart: "Never once... does Palin use the words homosexual, gay or lesbian. She does, however, hint at what she thinks of sexual minorities. 'When it comes to raising good citizens,' she writes, 'all 'lifestyle choices' are not equal.'"
||| America regresses to the days of the wild west: Detroit to end police, street lights, garbage pickup in 20% of city.
>>> If only all terrorists were as cute as Mohamed Osman Mohamud. He'll be popular in prison...
||| Adele Starr, a gay rights activist since 1974, is dead. She was 90.
UK

<<< ...Who threaten to close their hotel if a judge rules they were in the wrong. As you can see, one of the couple is Jabba the Hutt.
||| LONDON: Closeted man strangled gay victim and went back to strip club. James Foley convicted of manslaughter of Algerian Fethi Bouchareb, and gets away with less than four years in prison.

||| Is Stephen Fry heterophobic and misogynistic? Self-confessed "humourless politically correct feminist" Yasmin Alibhai-Brown thinks so.
||| A new expo for gay men will open in London next year. Manbag Live will showcase "the latest advice on fashion trends, grooming, well-being, gay travel, investments, civil partnerships, health and fitness, plus all the latest restaurants, bars and clubs".

||| The secret world of gang slang.
<<< London's new Routemaster bus is unveiled; in pictures.
EUROPE


||| European states will not be forced to allow gay marriage.
||| FIFA president Sepp Blatter apologises for saying gay football fans should "refrain from sexual activities" if they planned to go to the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. That's alright, then.

>>> NETHERLANDS: Homophobic attacks are on the rise - and Islam is the root cause.
||| Gays in the Dutch army? No problem.
||| TURKEY: Turkey's military doesn't just discriminate against gays - it humiliates them.

<<< ISRAEL: Gay's facing a wave of intolerance.
||| A new EU report claims Lebanon's freedom of association is the "most liberal" in the southern Mediterranean - but activists say the report is flawed.
||| IRAQ: The targeting of gay men in Iraq. Excellent essay by Brian Whitaker on what's going on in Iraq.
||| IRAN: We are a Buried Generation: Discrimination and Violence Against Sexual Minorities in Iran, a report by Human Rights Watch.

||| BRAZIL: Gay couples entitled to pension benefits, government announces.
<<< BRAZIL: Rio's drug war (39 more pictures). A boy with "Peace" written on his forehead, at the Complexo do Alemão slum in Rio de Janeiro, last month.
||| ARGENTINA: Gay-friendly Buenos Aires experiences massive inflow of GBLT tourism.

||| Curaçao: Newly independent island welcomes gay travelers with Dutch-inspired diversity.
||| Another gay murder in Jamaica: 26-year-old stabbed to death in Kingston, on the morning of Friday, Dec 3.

AFRICA
||| Colonialism and homosexuality, part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4.
||| Gays in Africa face ever intensifying persecution, fuelled by "by fundamentalist preachers, intolerant governments and homophobic politicians".

||| KENYA: Why Kenya's new Constitution protects gays, by Professor Makau Mutua. "Homophobia – the irrational, unscientific, and primitive fear of gays and lesbians – is the vilest of hatreds. It's illogical and untenable. Homophobia lies in the same gutter with all the other hatreds, including racism, misogyny, religious bigotry, and tribalism."
||| KENYA: Homophobia only serves to spread homosexuality, by Dr Lukoye Atwoli.
||| CAMEROON: A report, "Criminalizing Identities: Rights Abuses in Cameroon Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity", flags up the suffering of the GBLT community in the east African country.

||| A day after the second list of "homosexual generals" is published, a Ugandan court bans the paper from an further exposés.
||| Kill gays architect David Bahati is denied entry to the International Consortium of Governmental Financial Management conference in Washington because of his anti-homosexuality bill.
||| American activists urge the US State Department to grant asylum to those fleeing persecution.
||| SENEGAL: Homophobic violence on the rise.
||| First website for Ethiopian GBLT launches.

||| CHINA: Gay Chinese kids seek acceptance. But for the Chinese government, gays are just another minority.
<<< CHINA: How's this for a picture? A paramilitary police recruit weeps silently before leaving his loved ones behind to start his service, earlier this month.


||| SINGAPORE: Gay rights group People Like Us submit report highlighting that country's poor gay rights record ahead of a UN review.

||| INDIA: Happy and gay in Delhi University.
<<< INDIA: Religion, religion, what crimes are committed in your name! Here, a Muslim boy flagellates himself during a Muharram procession, earlier this month.

||| Does our fascination with the tragedies of others reflect our culture of narcissism?
<<< Internalised homophobia: what it is and how to deal with it.
||| Once AIDS was a death sentence. Now it's become a way of life.
||| The stigmatising of HIV continues to be the biggest challenge.
||| The bigotry that keeps AIDS alive.

||| The man they cured of AIDS.
>>> A cure for baldness "could be available in 5 years".
||| Beauty sleep isn't a myth.

<<< The Big Picture: Great Migrations (27 more pictures).
||| Penguin dilemma! Taut with tension, bursting with hope, and packed with drama - this sh*t is deep:
WEB & GADGETS

||| Facebook to compensates GBLT staff for discriminatory government tax.
||| Could be one of the reasons why Facebook is one of the best places to work.
||| The world according to Facebook:

<<< Corey @ I'll Keep You Posted reviews Sissy Sammy in the land of WeHo 90069 - An Adult Fairytale by Dale Guy Madison.
||| One Minute With: Armistead Maupin, novelist.
FILM
>>> REDACTED.

||| What I see in the mirror: John Waters.
||| Winona Ryder on Mel Gibson: "I remember, like, fifteen years ago, I was at one of those big Hollywood parties. And he was really drunk. I was with my friend, who's gay. He made a really horrible gay joke. And somehow it came up that I was Jewish. He said something about 'oven dodgers,' but I didn't

TV

||| Australia's Nine Network is handed the strongest possible sanction over its broadcast of a sex scene in Dante's Cove.
<<< Coronation Street: "The outsider sees more, hears more, has to remember more to survive," he says. "All that is terrific training for a writer." Creator Tony Warren on how his show wouldn't have been the same had he been straight.

||| Coronation Street live episode – review.

<<< Cybermen - from Doctor Who - appear in character around London, including on the Tube.

||| JLS - good only for how they look, not how they sound - cover Bliss. And ain't that the truth... The walking slabs of meat also did some singing and dancing at London superclub G-A-Y at Heaven. I imagine the sort of trash that frequents such establishments probably liked the singing'n'dancing better than the flesh, which says a lot.
||| Hispanic homophobic bigots want Univision fined for interviewing Ricky Martin.
||| Trey Songz is "furious" over persistent rumours that he's gay...

<<< Milli Vanilli comeback? And a Milli Vanilli movie too.
||| The Dlisted take on Willow Smith: "There's no time for school shit when she's trying to focus all her energy on snatching RiRi's wig off in a bid to become the next big thing."


<<< Brandon Lee starred in gay porn while serving in the Navy - and his commanding officer only made a joke about it.
||| Porn performer Derrick Burts - who tested HIV positive - speaks for the first time.
||| Has America's war on bareback begun? California's Division of Occupational Safety and Health has fined gay porn studio Treasure Island Media for exposing employees (i.e. the models) to "semen and other potentially infectious materials".


<<< Rob Evans in the 30th anniversary special issue of i-D magazine, in a Dolce & Gabbana editorial lensed by Bruno Staub, and cast exclusively with black male models.
>>> Cuban twins. Cuban twins. Cuban twins. Mull those words over. When you've calmed down, add ace shutterbug Kevin Slack to the mix.


>>> Bret Grafton shot this editorial, the purpose of which was to sell obsenely overpriced underwear to people dumb enough to pay for it, for Mint Male Magazine.


>>> Meanwhile, Jack Mackenroth gets naked for ace shutterbug Rick Day.
<<< "Chaleurs Hivernales", an editorial for Blake Magazine by David Arnot.


SPORT


>>> ...But that's not half as exciting as Chad Ochocinco getting naked for PETA.
||| Nooooooooooooo!!! Big-bootied Rafael Nadal (he plays tennis, or something, I'm told) is ripping the Emporio Armani Underwear clean off fellow Latin lovely Cristiano Ronaldo, burying his face in them, then prancing around in


...AND FINALLY
||| One invention you probably won't see being pitched on Dragon's Den.
||| Phallus challenge in Paris.
||| And finally...
||| Remember what was going on this time last year?
No? How about a reminder? Read Issue 40.
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2 comments:
yeah, the news is back!! now i have something to do (read) while visiting my family for the holidays. And that Somali terrorist. Hot! Every time I see that pic. Embiggen.
1.) The one about Aaron Scheerborn freaked me out because I just heard he died a two weeks ago. I used to see him in club Blur a lot. Didn't know him personally...But that is just really sad (and scary). Rest In Peace.
2.) Since when are highly fem gay men a decreasing sight? Not where I live! Anyway, I think "metro" guys are far more frequent than anything.
3.) My question is who cares about how the Bible is supposed to be interpreted. I don't care. Just keep Jesus off my penis...Unless he's hot.
4.) That painting is really beautiful. I honestly don't see why it is controversial...even if you don't agree with the subject matter. Aesthetically it is pleasing to the eye.
5.)Sarah Palin is a dumb bitch.
6.) Basically, the feds are telling the citizens of Detroit that they don't matter...Well, I would just stop paying my damn bills and taxes too. Just load up on ammo and get ready.
7.) The Netherlands? Oh my goodness I actually wanted to go there one day. Now I have to worry about crazy ass Muslims? Lawd.
8.) haha I love Penguins...lol
9.) I think I'll be the first to admit it...I really don't find Trey Songz to be all of that and a bag of pork rhinds. For some reason he looks a bit..."slow."
10.)Even though Milli Vanilli did not sing their songs the music is still pretty hot. lol
11.) Gawd Nelly is sooooooooooooo FINE!!! UHM YUM?!!!!!! I could bite a chunk out of him.
12.) Please don't take bareback porn away! Yes, I admit that by viewing it I am contributing to the industry...But sometimes it is really hot. I feel as long as all of the actors test negative and have no other known diseases that it should be okay.
13.) Speaking of edible...Jack Mackenroth uhm YUM two?!!!
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