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> What is it like to be gay around the world?
||| The secret censorship stopping you seeing gay websites.
||| Now it's time for feminism to tackle class as well as culture. "New women's rights groups could present a popular and serious challenge to more entrenched inequalities."> No more evasion and prevarication – Britain's elite must be held to account. "How the powerful shield their activities from the public."
U.S. & CANADA NEWS
< Remembering the worst mass murder of gay people in U.S. history. "Forty years ago, dozens of people were trapped inside a New Orleans gay bar as it burned down. Now a new book, two films, an art installation, and a musical revisit the tragedy."||| Denver leather bar Wrangler is transphobic, misogynistic, protesters allege.
||| Fondly remembering President Obama's days as a gay, cocaine-using hustler.
||| Why gay veterans still need our help.
||| Far right Christian and former military chaplain "Dr Chaps" Gordon Klingenschmitt says gay parents look on their adopted children with "lust" and want to recruit them into the "homosexual lifestyle".> Joe Bell decided to walk from coast to coast in memory of his gay son Jadin, who hanged himself after a campaign of anti-gay bullying. But the grieving father was hit by a truck and killed one month ago, and individuals in his community decided to complete the walk and share his message.
||| Watch a news report from Dallas on the problem of gay youth homelessness.
< LGBT Centers in New York City and Los Angeles begin major expansions.
||| Gay couples face a brave new financial world of marriage – and taxes.
||| Americans are more accepting of the Confederate flag than the rainbow pride flag.
||| The awful details of the worst sexual harassment lawsuit ever.
||| I thought the U.S. was the land of gold. Now I see it as rude and disrespectful.
U.K. NEWS
||| Ofsted inspectors are finally cracking down on schools that fail to tackle anti-gay bullying.
||| What's the delay in the implementation of marriage equality? The government is waiting for Scotland to "catch up", apparently.
< What does Prime Minister Cameron believe in? His own ministers aren't sure.
EUROPE NEWS ||| The rise of far right parties across Europe is a chilling echo of the 1930s. "Having played down their fascist sympathies they're re-emerging now after a PR facelift. Time is running out to counter them."
> POLAND: Far right demonstrators torch gay equality rainbow in Warsaw public square.
< RUSSIA: Last week (THE KAOS THEORY Issue 164) we heard about a gay South African student who was kidnapped by a neo-Nazi gang and tortured. In fact, he was from Swaziland, and has returned home, understandably traumatised.
||| RUSSIA: Maxim Martsinkevich, the anti-gay neo-Nazi leader of the group Occupy Pedophilia, has fled Russia to escape extremism charges.> RUSSIA: Officials bugged a meeting convened by gay activists (and four major international human rights organisations, including Human Rights Watch).
< RUSSIA: Shots fired in gay Moscow nightclub Central Station.||| RUSSIA: Gays are to blame for falling meteorites, according to T.V. host Arkady Mamontov.
||| RUSSIA: Alexander Suturin, chief editor of a Khabarovsk newspaper, arrested for printing "being gay is normal".
||| ITALY: Why even atheists should be praying for Pope Francis. "Francis could replace Obama as the pin-up on every liberal and leftist wall. He is now the world's clearest voice for change."||| SPAIN: Madrid chosen to host World Pride International celebrations in 2017.
> LUXEMBOURG: Prime Minister Xavier Bettel names Socialist leader Etienne Schneider (right) as his Deputy Prime Minister, making the country the world's first with a gay leader and deputy leader.
LATIN AMERICA NEWS
||| COLOMBIA: Javier Suárez Pascagaza, the director of the Husband and Wife Foundation and a leading opponent of marriage equality, has been outed as a gay man.< ARGENTINA: 150,000 turn out for the 22nd Buenos Aires Gay Pride Parade. In pictures.
||| CUBA: "Welcoming locals" attracting the pink dollar to the once forbidden island.
||| JAMAICA: Police continue harassing homeless gay youths living in the sewers and gullies of New Kingston.
> Maurice Tomlinson challenges anti-gay laws of Trinidad and Tobago, and Belize.
AFRICA NEWS
< UGANDA: Activists protest arrest of Samuel K Ganafa, director of Spectrum Uganda Initiatives, and Board Chairperson of Sexual Minorities Uganda.
> UGANDA: Gay Briton and Ugandan partner face jail over private sex images on stolen laptop.||| ZAMBIA: Judge refuses to grant bail to Phillip Mubiana and James Mwape, who have languished for six months without a conviction on charges of homosexual activity.
||| ZAMBIA: Treat gays like every other citizen, pleads human rights activist Juliet Mphande in new video.
ASIA NEWS
||| VIETNAM: Gay couples are now permitted to organise weddings and live together - although same sex marriages still won't be legally recognised.
> SRI LANKA: London protest against anti-gay hate in the Commonwealth as leaders meet in Colombo. Homosexuality is illegal in 41 out of 53 Commonwealth countries. In pictures.
< HONG KONG: Thousands cheer on the 2013 Hong Kong Pride Parade. In pictures.
||| NEW ZEALAND: Female teacher suggests threesome with students, a gay male couple.
||| AUSTRALIA: MP Alex Greenwich challenges private schools exemption from provisions that make it unlawful to discriminate against a student on the basis of homosexuality or transgender grounds.
MIDDLE EAST NEWS
> SYRIA: How jihadists are blackmailing, torturing, and killing gay Syrians.
||| EGYPT: Police arrest ten people on homosexuality-related charges in the western Cairo suburb known as 6th of October City.
||| UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: Dubai fireman faces trial for "gay" handshake described as "perverted" and "insulting".
PLANET EARTH < Typhoon Haiyan: there is worse to come. The first disaster to kill more than a million people could happen within our lifetimes. Left, a father carries the body of his daughter in Tacloban, 10th November 2013.
||| 3.5 billion-year-old fossil found in Australia is the "oldest ever complete example of life on Earth".
> New life found on plastic waste gives rise to the "plastisphere".
< If you've ever wondered what a mindfuck looks like, now you know.||| Meet Ming, the oldest known living animal in the world at 507-years-old - until boffins killed it.
||| The rare saola, one of the most threatened mammals on the planet, has been photographed in Vietnam for the first time in fifteen years.> Almost as rare as the saola is Argentina's pink fairy armadillo, and its flat butt plate.
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| THE BIG PICTURE: A bull elephant charges a hippo and her calf. |
< This loyal puppy stayed by his dead sister's side.
BODY, MIND & SOUL
||| Is AIDS funny?
||| A vapour known as mushroom alcohol found in damp buildings may trigger Parkinson's disease.
||| Researchers discover immune system's "alarm" for warning of recurring cancer. And a tumour, it turns out, can be made up of many separate cancers needing different treatments.> Cheer up - seriously, cheer up! Depression makes us biologically age "by several years".
||| Alcohol without the hangover? It's closer than you think.
||| Sociable people have "bigger" brains.
||| Despite what you've been told, you aren't 'left-brained' or 'right-brained'. "The brain is more complex than corporate team-building exercises suggest, but the myth is unlikely to die anytime soon."
< The science behind why break-ups suck (and what you can do about it).||| Why are babies scared of plants?
||| How many people born in the 1800s are still alive?
||| What will jail terms be like when humans can live for centuries?
INSIDE THE SPACESHIP
||| Why does Apple's dictionary say "gay" means "foolish" or "stupid"?
||| How "the internet of things" and connected life devices will change everything about the global consumer economy.||| How Facebook ranks your friends.
> Myspace lays off "entire departments" of staff.
||| Google patenting an electronic "throat tattoo".
||| Watch where you write. If you house your creative work on a platform you don't own, you could be in for disappointment.
< How QWERTY will save the PC.
||| How long your hard drive is likely to last.
ART & DESIGN
< More pictures from Bent-Con — the gay-focused convention for fans of comic-books, gaming, sci-fi, fantasy, and horror.
||| Check out the new design concept for the final section of New York's High Line park:
WORD! > Talking to Thomas Glave ("perhaps the most respected gay male Caribbean author") about his new collection of essays, Among the Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh.
< Gore Vidal on James Baldwin: "A black writer who then turns out to be a queen and also a preacher of the Lord; it was one of the reasons he was so often hysterical and very often made no sense at all, because he was living too many contradictions."
> Author John R. Gordon's writer's diary: because the spirit is in the flesh.||| If the rumours about Gore Vidal are true, what does this mean for his work? "Allegations of paedophilia threaten to destroy the late writer's reputation. If true, should his books be pulped, or does the Wagner defence apply?"
< Celebrate Bent-Con with seven gay graphic novels.
PERFORMANCE
> Protest planned for The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, the "story of Adam and Steve, who leave the Garden of Eden to encounter the Earth's first inhabitants, a pair of lesbians named Jane and Mabel".||| Is stage nudity becoming so frequent it might be needful in future to highlight programmes in which some performers may appear wearing clothes?
AT THE MOVIES > There's less than two weeks to go to fund Elegance Bratton's film Pier Kids: The Life, a documentary about the homeless gay and transgender youth who call the Christopher Street Pier home. Make a difference, pledge.
< Here's the UK poster for Kill Your Darlings.||| James Franco blasts Michael Fassbender character in Shame and movie's depiction of gay sex. "That scene where he's at his lowest point and wants to fuck and goes into a gay club, and it's depicted like the seventh level of hell. I mean, it goes back to the horrible representations of gays in the '70s, where the gay club is meant to signify everything dark and depraved. Then the guy gets a minor blowjob, from, Oh no, a man! The horror!"
||| How violence and a lack of diversity leaves gay families lacking for choices at the movies.
> Alec Baldwin trots out gay hairdresser to try and prove he's no homophobe.
||| Watch Knowing, a new film about HIV and dating.
< Film review: Snails in the Rain "...treads ground ever more familiar in LGBT cinema, it does so from an intriguing starting point, even as it avoids dealing with any religious or cultural issues that might seem integral to the setting."||| Ten bizarre movie tropes that were totally normal in the '80s.
> DVD review: Monster Pies. "A sweet, moving gay teen tale."
||| DVD review: A Magnificent Haunting. "An affable, warm Italian comedy, which is filled with a lot of ideas but not so much follow-through."
||| Trailers: Yves Saint Laurent, a "biopic about the late fashion designer which chronicles the rise of his career and his longtime love affair with partner Pierre Bergé"; and Snails in the Rain.
T.V.
||| Kenyan TV show Usoni flips the script on immigration stories, imagining European refugees fleeing to Africa in 2062.
> Talking to Jonathan Groff about HBO's new gay drama series Looking. "What we're trying to display is a reality of gay sex as opposed to the salaciousness of gay sex."
< The legacy of Rickie Vasquez, a "queer person of color on primetime network TV played by an out actor (Wilson Cruz) in 1994".
> Ten classic T.V. kids gay parents would love to call their own. Left, Ugly Betty's Justin Suarez (Mark Indelicato).
< 30 Rock actor Maulik Pancholy comes out.
> Taye Diggs gets naked in the latest episode of New Girl.||| Felix Dexter was the real McCoy, but our comedians have been blacked out of TV. "The BBC pays tribute to this great talent – but black comedy shows, in which he made his name, have been wiped off the schedules."
||| HBO developing Curb Your Enthusiasm-style comedy with Black Hollywood as the backdrop.
< Just in time for Doctor Who's fiftieth anniversary, the son of the man who came up with the idea of the TARDIS police box disguise is challenging BBC over breach of copyright. Stef Coburn wants the BBC to stop using the police box, or pay for every appearance it makes.
||| David Tennant tops the poll for the nation's favourite Doctor, with incumbent Matt Smith managing a paltry fifteen percent of the vote.> Sixth Doctor Colin Baker says that former stars of Doctor Who were "deemed unworthy of inclusion" in the show's 50th special.
||| Review: An Adventure in Space and Time, the Doctor Who origins drama, a "love letter to the child in all of us".
||| Here's some new pictures from An Adventure in Space and Time, and the trailer, plus The Night of the Doctor, a new mini episode starring eighth Doctor Paul McGann.
||| Angela Lansbury is displeased with Murder, She Wrote reboot.
< Will Horton and Sonny Kiriakis - Days of Our Lives' gay couple - are getting married.
> Gays of our lives: All the latest gay soap developments from around the world, from Anthony D. Langford. Left, German soap Among Us.||| Watch a trailer of HBO's new gay drama series Looking; and one for Chozen, FX's new animated gay series.
BEATS, RHYMES AND LIFE
||| Ten things you didn't know about '90s hip-hop.
< Here's a sizzling new shot of gay rap duo Freaky Boiz.
> Listen to Heartbreaker, from Kele Okereke's new four-song EP Heartbreakers.< Tyler the Creator says you can chose not to be offended by the word "faggot".
||| X Factor winner James Arthur (I know - who?) brands rapper Mickey Worthless a "fucking queer".
||| Why must we accept the casual racism in pop videos? "Everyone's getting very moral about Miley Cyrus and misogyny in music videos but what about the race issue?"
||| After the demise of Choice FM, is it back to pirate radio for black Britons? "We set up the station to fill a cultural void. Rebranding it as Capital Xtra is a betrayal that takes us back to the 1980s."
||| Is there no end to the morbid business of pop memorabilia? "Once you've bought John Lennon's school detention records or Eminem's derelict house, where do you go from there?"||| Chris Brown is out of rehab.
> Album review: Tinie Tempah – Demonstration. "The album succeeds in combining facile lyrical nods to your (stereo)typical rap fare (women, money, bling) with more profound songwriting."
||| Videos: Blake McIver (former child star of '90s sitcom Full House turned gay go-go boy) Wish I Didn't Need You; and Nothing Compares 2 U, Rogue Marbie Scott style.
SEX < The hottest men of 2013 - in mugshots.
> Swimwear designer Matthew Zink launches the first Charlie 2014 Fan Calendar.
||| Talking to Race Cooper.
||| Talking to Jordano Santoro.
||| Talking to Sean Xavier.
||| Brazilian couple Diego Lauzen and Wagner Vittoria bed Rogan Richards. It's one of the best scenes I've seen in a long time. Some behind-the-scenes shots here.
||| Brazilian couple Diego Lauzen and Wagner Vittoria bed Rogan Richards. It's one of the best scenes I've seen in a long time. Some behind-the-scenes shots here.
> So this is what twenty-four Bel Ami boys warming up for an orgy looks like.
ARENA > Barcelona's gay swim team strips down for HIV.
< Out baller Jason Collins counts his blessings, despite not having an NBA team.
> LA Galaxy player Robbie Rogers is dating Arrow creator Greg Berlanti.
AND WHILST YOU'RE
THINKING ABOUT
THAT, THINK
ABOUT THIS
< Inside a nuclear fallout shelter sealed since 1961.
> Inside New York state's abandoned Kings Park Psychiatric Center.||| What would happen if oxygen disappeared for five seconds?
||| The top ten things you never have to pay full price for.
||| Would you let someone sleep on your shoulder on the subway? Charidy decided to find out:
||| And finally, Rogue "Marbie" Scott's coming out story; Walter wonders if Tyler Perry is a self-hating gay; Justin takes a home HIV test; and Andrew gets mail.
||| And finally, Rogue "Marbie" Scott's coming out story; Walter wonders if Tyler Perry is a self-hating gay; Justin takes a home HIV test; and Andrew gets mail.
Issue 165
09-17 November 2013
On the cover: The art of Ralph Chubb.
On the cover: The art of Ralph Chubb.
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"You know, we might just as well not have
bothered to come. The whole thing's been ridiculous."
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