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< Three men have been arrested for the gay-bashing of 20-year-old Brandon White. Christopher Cain, Dorian Moragne and Dareal Damare Williams are all charged with robbery and aggravated assault. 
< Openly gay senator Rashad Taylor to introduce hate crimes legislation in response to the attack on White.
||||| Federal Court rules DOMA unconstitutional: Analysis of the ruling.
> This is Colin Ireland, a serial killer who murdered five gay men in London in the early nineties. Ireland has died in prison.
> RUSSIA: Stay away if St Petersburg censors gay!
||||| UGANDA: Do ordinary Ugandans care less about the behaviour of gay people than about the behaviour of government?
||||| GEORGIA: Meet the world's deepest land animal.
PRINT & VISUAL
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||||| Out, former NBA basketball star John Amaechi brands the leadership in sport as "stupid". Amaechi was appearing on a panel at Student Pride in Brighton.
||||| Coming soon: The test-tube burger.
> DTLA - a new "gay" drama series - is coming, with a multiracial cast of boys, girls, gays and straights. And it looks amazing. What's even more amazing is that this human confetti isn't British: it's American. Years after the racial segregation of Queer As Folk and Noah's Arc - and the failure of the similarly monocultural The DL Chronicles to secure funding - it seems like real change is coming to our
screens. Now watch for the blogosphere meltdown as haters' minds implode at the thought of Darryl Stephens having a white boyfriend. DTLA on Facebook. DTLA at Kickstarter. Watch the trailer.
< This is 14-year-old Rafael Morelos, who hanged himself on 29th January after a sustained campaign of homophobic bullying.
||||| Four black pastors at the forefront of GBLT equality.
< "Infinite Forest" was chosen as the winning design for the AIDS Memorial Park in New York...![]() |
| (C) Pride London / One Sunny Day |
< This is 30-year-old Irishman Kenneth John Gemmell, who went overboard on a gay cruise in Mexico, on 3rd February. The vessel was the Allure of the Seas, the world's biggest cruise ship. His family want answers.
||||| European Parliament denounces Russia's anti-gay laws.
> COLOMBIA: Two gay priests (and lovers) hired hitmen to kill them after they learned one of them was HIV-positive. Rafael Reatiga and Richard Piffano were both 30-years-old.
< BRAZIL: In Sao Paulo, hundreds of families have been left homeless following forced evictions.
...And the supergiant crustacean.
||||| Is gay literature over? "In an era of same-sex marriage and Modern Family, the role of gay writers is changing. An expert explains how."
masculinity, objectification without appreciation, and a relentless drive to police the borders.'"
< Review: Gay In America, by Scott Pasfield. "This book may be an inspiration. It's a paper version of the entire It Gets Better YouTube campaign."
< Review: 98 Wounds, by Justin Chin. "Visceral,
unsettling, overwhelming, disturbing, poetic, beautiful, loving, and real. Be prepared to be emotionally and psychologically jarred; to be wounded and healed."
< Review: A Waste of Time, by Rick Worley. "It's odd seeing realistic-looking guys conversing with
cartoon animals, even more unnerving seeing them inter-porking. It's not sexy, but it's hella funny."
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||||| "The biggest misconception people have about my mother is that she was so unhappy. I think people enjoy thinking that - some of them, anyway. They see the tragedy as opposed to the fact that she understood how to play tragedy." Liza Minnelli talks about her mother, Judy Garland.
||||| Nazi sci-fi film Iron Sky blitzes Berlin Film Festival.
> Review: Sasha. "A beautifully shot, beautifully acted, beautifully told story that stays with you long after the credits roll."
< Review: August. "A beautiful film to look at that proves the less-than-beautiful axiom that us human beings have an endless capacity to not only hurt other people but also ourselves."
||||| Ryan Phillippe to star in new CBS cop series.
||||| Whitney Houston: Squandered talent of a record-breaking singer who had it all. "Born into something approaching soul music royalty, Whitney Houston had a dazzling voice and a troubled personal life."
||||| Whitney Houston: In death, her years of struggle resonate with the public. "The public outpouring of emotion over Whitney Houston's passing is filled with mourning for her loss, but also sympathy for her inability to overcome her personal problems."
> D'Angelo: back from the brink? "The past decade has not been kind to neo-soul hero D'Angelo, but does his new European tour mean he has finally beaten his demons?"
||||| MOC Blog has a batch of shots from his PapiThugz return.
||||| Mason Wyler on his first time.
< More Micah? Here he is with Valentin Petrov for Falcon. Sigh.
< Cute artwork of porn star Jay Roberts by artist Kai.
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< Tom Daley. Tom Daley. Tom Daley. Sigh...
