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||| The Frank Ocean effect, and some "bisexual" guys I've known. Left, Blue's Duncan James, who came out as bisexual in 2009.
||| Could you prove you are gay if your life depended on it?
||| Nearly 1 in 10 human beings now live under marriage equality.

||| The revolution is over: the rude mobile phone users have won. "The unashamed use of mobile phones in public places means there is little left to do but offer a resigned shrug."
US & CANADA NEWS
||| Proposition 8 supporters fail in last-ditch effort to get same-sex marriages halted in California...
...Meanwhile, Proposition 8 plaintiffs Paul Katami and Jeff Zarrillo (right) got married at Los Angeles City Hall.
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THE BIG PICTURE: Capt. Michael Potoczniak marries his partner Todd Saunders in San Francisco 29th June 2013. |

||| Can the ex-gay apology be trusted?
< Witness videotapes two men threatening gay youth after Pride on an MTA subway train.


> New York Pride: Heritage of Pride Parade, in pictures; in pictures at ANIMAL.
||| Chicago Pride, in pictures at The Advocate; in pictures at The Huffington Post; in pictures at the Chicagoist:

< Seattle Pride, in pictures. In pictures at The Advocate.

||| Fire Island's iconic pavilion nightclub is back in business.
||| The big gay Texas brain drain.

UK NEWS
||| Home Office: We don't deport gay asylum seekers and we never will.
||| Prime Minister David Cameron confirms tax breaks for those in marriages and civil partnerships.
< Thousands turn out for Pride in London. In pictures at the Londonist; in pictures at The Gay UK; in pictures at PinkNews.
||| But no Mayor Boris Johnson. Unlike his predecessor Ken Livingstone, the millionaire Conservative makes a point of not turning up at gay-related events.

||| The Socialist Worker: London Pride is a protest.
||| A heterosexual Hindu's first London Pride and UK Black Pride.
||| Straight Pride UK claims "it's not easy to be straight" because straight people are "persecuted".
> Anti-gay preacher arrested at Wimbledon.
EUROPE NEWS
< RUSSIA: Gay activist attacked, arrested by his own parents. Now 24-year-old Dmitry Isakov is missing.

||| RUSSIA: Actress Tilda Swinton unfurled the gay rainbow flag in front of the Kremlin in support of gay equality.
||| ITALY: Both Popes join forces to freeze out gay marriage...

< ITALY: Milan Pride, in pictures.
||| GREECE: Gay equality campaigners appalled as health minister sanctions forced HIV tests.

||| TURKEY: Father who murdered son for being gay pleads guilty.
LATIN AMERICA NEWS
> JAMAICA: Maurice Tomlinson asks, "Jamaica, why rejoice over eviction of homeless gay men?"
||| COSTA RICA: President Laura Chinchilla to sign "accidental" same-sex unions into law.
||| BRAZIL: "Gay cure" bill withdrawn - but it could come back in 2015.
AFRICA NEWS

< NIGERIA: Irish gay equality campaigner hacks government website, threatening to expose corruption within Nigeria's government if the country's anti-gay law is not stopped. But was his action counter-productive?
> UGANDA: Gay equality group Spectrum Uganda Initiatives forced to relocate for safety.

||| GHANA: Emmanuel Martey, the head of the Presbyterian Church, has alleged that "Satanic" gays are plotting to have the country "destroyed" by infiltrating the government.
< CAMEROON: Gay equality activists fire bombed, burgled.
ASIA-PACIFIC NEWS
||| INDIA: Could the US Supreme Court verdicts on DOMA, Proposition 8 influence Indian Supreme Court justices hearing a challenge to the repeal of the criminalisation of homosexuality?

> JAPAN: Hashima island and the lure of the apocalypse. "Google's Street View photos of Japan's deserted Hashima island show the appeal, in anxious times, of imagining the very worst."


||| AUSTRALIA: Anti-gay senator Jacinta Collins appointed new Mental Health Minister.

||| AUSTRALIA: Gay couple jailed for "extremely depraved" sex abuse of six-year-old son.
||| AUSTRALIA: BBC correspondent Nick Bryant on leaving his posting in Australia, "a confounding and complex country".
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THE BIG PICTURE: Historic lighthouse to be airlifted to safety. |
MIDDLE EAST NEWS
||| ISRAEL: Israel Prison Service announces gay prisoners will be allowed conjugal visits.
PLANET EARTH
||| WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE! In one billion years...
||| Where have all the wasps gone?
> The weirdest urban ecosystems on Earth. Right, Moscow's Metro dogs.

||| What caused Haiti's mysterious plague of 1770?
< The German Medical Association recommends that gay men be allowed to donate blood.
||| Gay men find prostate cancers earlier.

> 4th July marked 31 years since Terry Higgins died from AIDS. Higgins was the first person in the UK to be confirmed to have died with AIDS.

||| Intellectual property laws are blocking new generic HIV drugs.

||| Workouts are no antidote to death by desk job: the link between sitting down and premature death.
< How to get drunk after age 28.
||| What is it like to live without taste and smell?
> Can we make ourselves happier?
||| Human head transplants? Neurosurgeon claims "we have the technology".
INSIDE THE SPACESHIP
||| Terrifying: Live streaming of child sex abuse is an "emerging threat".

||| Microsoft to tackle anti-gay trolls online.
||| Twitter wants to start tracking you on the web. Here's how to opt-out.
||| Four tips and tricks for Pinterest addicts.
||| Narrative stress: it's not you, it's me. "The second-person narrative has become the red trousers of the blogging world – initially endearing, it's now just irritating."
< Doug Engelbart, the inventor of the computer mouse, is dead. He was 88.
ART & DESIGN

||| Six radical infrastructure schemes that almost changed NYC forever.
< Reliving "Portraits in the Times of AIDS, 1988". "Rosalind Solomon's 1988 show on AIDS caused an outrage. Do they still?"
||| Marginal Waters, Doug Ischar's 1980s photographs of gay male sunbathers on Chicago's Belmont Rocks beach:
FILM
< Whatever happened to Joan Crawford? How did Hollywood's leading lady go from living legend to laughing stock? Is Mommie Dearest to blame, or is there more to it? kaos investigates.

||| Hugh Jackman and his wife are annoyed by persistent "stupid" gay rumours.
||| Beijing Queer Film Festival goes off without ban for first time in 12 years.


||| Same-sex families hit the big screen in animated film The BoxTrolls.
||| Trailers: Out In The Dark; and The BoxTrolls.


||| US network CBS condemns anti-gay, racist language used by Big Brother house-mates.
||| Why The Simpsons is the most important cartoon in gay history.
||| Helen Mirren wants the next actor to play the lead role in Doctor Who to be a gay black woman.

...Meanwhile Doogie Howser, M.D.'s Neil Patrick Harris is to marry partner David Burtka, left.

||| So Michael Jackson
in a Doctor Who movie.
< Check out these photos of the recreated original TARDIS console, built for the forthcoming Mark Gatiss genesis of Doctor Who drama, An Adventure in Space & Time.
MUSIC
> Gay country singer Steve Grand has released his song All American Boy, a tale of unrequited love.
||| Macklemore's Same Love enters Billboard Top 20, predicted to go No. 1.


> Boyband Lawson get naked for Cancer Research UK.
||| Ten music services you may not know about — but should.
||| Album reviews: Pet Shop Boys - Electric. The Guardian; The Independent; and Digital Spy.
||| Concert review: Zebra Katz at HMV Ritz Manchester, 21st June 2013.

||| Hate porn, sure, but be wary of banning it.
||| Web porn: Just how much is there?
||| Could you date a porn star?
< HustlaBall London 2013 round-ups: Part 1, Part 2; Part 3 (make sure to check out the sizzling shots of JP Dubois and Tyson Tyler live on stage; and Part 4.

SPORT
||| Tyson Gay (and his massive booty) storms to 100m win in Lausanne, beating fellow big boy Asafa Powell...
||| kaos krush David Oliver was also in Lausanne, and he looked spectacular...
||| Mixed martial arts fighter Jonathan Koppenhaver says UFC boss would "have fighters sucking dick" if he were gay.

> Rihanna thinks Cristiano Ronaldo is gay. (Gee, I wonder why?)
||| The 30 sexiest tennis players.
PARTING SHOTS

||| The power and peril of the middle name.
||| The 14 greatest action figure playsets of all time!
> Are these the world's ten worst public transit systems? Right, Mumbai.
||| How to be the perfect house-guest.

< Wine-infused popcorn, anyone?
||| And finally, what's inside a cup of coffee? Rogue Marbie Scott reports from London Pride 2013; we catch up with the adorable Martin; and Walter Lee Hampton on sex, lies and videotape...
ISSUE 148
29 June - 05 July 2013
29 June - 05 July 2013
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