the week's
news
& pop
culture,
with a
gay
bias.
| ponder this |
Five times the UN resolved, then failed, to end homophobia worldwide.
Racism is so insidious, even black people underestimate it. "Another day, another senseless killing. These days, firsthand experiences with covert racism make defensiveness not just understandable, but warranted."
When did "human rights" become a source of shame?
Inequality really is rising, no matter how you fuss with the data.
Poverty isn't just about not having much; it's about never knowing how much you're going to have.
Nine fascinating facts about the four hundred richest Americans.
Why are lattes associated with liberals?
Privilege: That’s the only area where private schools excel.
Stephen Fry is wrong about being the only person harmed by his cocaine habit — just look at Colombia. "Cocaine-driven conflict in the country has cost 220,000 lives and displaced about 4.5m people from their homes."
Cyclists v the rest of the world – can we please call a truce?
| america |
Why the Republican Party and gay voters are better together.
Zimmerman family values. What it's like being related to the most hated free man in America.
Louisiana's wild plan to save itself from global warming.
White lesbian mother sues sperm bank after birth of biracial baby.
| europe |
Great Britain: Truvada is giving peace of mind to gay men in the US – it should be offered here on the NHS now.
Great Britain: Prime Minister David Cameron vows to scrap the Human Rights Act if he is re-elected next year.
England: Why do sixteen percent of Britons think gay sex should be illegal?
England: Gay couple turned away from London house share for not being a "regular" couple,
England: London is too rich, and too expensive, for its own good.
Great Britain: These brutal new Tories are happy playing Ukip’s game. "David Cameron has sacked the last of the decent old school: the push to the europhobic right is relentless."
Spain: Catalonia passes "world's most pioneering laws against homophobia".
Denmark marks twenty-five years since becoming the first country to legally recognise gay unions.
Germany: British man raped by two men in gay cruising area at Oktoberfest.
Russia scraps US student exchange after gay couple adopts teen.
| latin america |
| africa |
Uganda: President Museveni backtracks on anti-gay law over fears for the economy.
Uganda: Solomy Bossa Balungi - the judge who struck down the country's anti-gay law - received death threats for her ruling.
Cameroon: Seven arrested on homosexuality-related charges.
Burundi: Man fined, released, following charges that he engaged in illegal "homosexual practices."
South Africa: Gay-friendly mosque torched on eve of Muslim festival.
Zimbabwe: Temba Mliswa - a Zanu PF MP - claims "gay gangsters" have infiltrated the ruling party, as part of a plot by the CIA.
| asia |
China: The single biggest misconception Americans have about the red giant.
Hong Kong: Gay activists are on the front line of the protests. "The fight for democracy is a ladder to LGBT equality."
Hong Kong – betrayed by China. And abandoned by the British.
Hong Kong: Hey protesters, why are you in the streets?
Indonesia: Amnesty International has criticised Aceh province for passing a law that will punish same-sex relations with 100 lashes of the cane.
Australia: Same-sex marriage bill put on hold.
| middle east |
| inside the spaceship |
Facebook apologises for the "real name" policy debacle.
Sex and queer culture: Can Ello succeed where Facebook won't go?
What is Ello? It is the social network of your dreams, and that is a nightmare. "The social networks we already have are not giving us what we want. We’re turning to the new thing because it’s new, not because it’s good."
Four things you need to know about Windows 10.
| art & design |
The AIDS activist project photography book needs your support to become a reality.
| word! |
Twelve gay poets you should read.
Why nobody ever asks if irony has ruined science fiction.
| at the movies |
Watch the first trailer for the Aaliyah biopic.
Sex and the City 3? Oh please say it isn't true — it would be cinematic apocalypse.
Listen to a new interview with Bette Davis.
Talking to Pride director Matthew Warchus.
DVD review: Space Station 76. "Space Station 76... is a melting pot of fractured relationships, simmering resentment, and tortured sexuality."
| the box |
Ten TV events to look out for in October.
David and Jason Benham, who were fired by US network HGTV for anti-gay slurs, have compared themselves to ISIS beheading victims.
Access Hollywood wants to know if a gay romance will hurt Scandal's ratings.
Black-Ish has a gay problem.
What's wrong with The McCarthys. "Chock-full of clichés, the pilot for this new sitcom about a gay Boston man-child is too much of a family affair."
Fox’s multi-cam Mulaney is the normcore of sitcoms.
How Friends ruined TV.
Lost could return.
Dylan McDermott: The Nicolas Cage of television.
..."The Simpsons Guy is a lame Family Guy episode that would never be talked about by anyone outside of the series’ core fanbase if it wasn’t also for the appearance of America’s favorite animated family. Family Guy is never going to be as great as The Simpsons, and both shows are aware of that. But The Simpsons Guy is bad for both of them."
The top one hundred Star Trek episodes of all time.
| beats, rhymes & life |
Annie Lennox on her legacy, and why Beyonce is "feminist lite".
In defence of Iggy Azalea: on racism, naivety and a twisted cluster of exploitation. "Iggy Azalea is the inevitable product of neoliberal capitalism, and in some ways she is much a victim of it as a culprit."
| sex |
Woman want gay porn.
Diego Lauzen and his boyfriend Wagner Vittoria DP bodybuilder Flex, and it's spectacular.
Talking to Ashley Ryder.
| arena |
Comedian Aries Spears targets gay lisp joke at Michael Sam.
| betta work! |
Nearly two million Americans work multiple part-time jobs to make ends meet.
Listen to sex workers – you'll realise we have a lot to say about labour rights. "Sex workers work because we have needs and desires in life: food, shelter, the everyday costs associated with living. We are members of the communities in which we work and live."
| the human body |
The genesis of AIDS traced back to 1920s Kinsasha.
One in five men are unhappy with their penis size.
Ebola: The six biggest myths, debunked.
Ebola: Why it's unlikely to become airborne.
Ebola: How you can - and can't - catch it.
Ebola: Guess what? Measles is nine times as contagious.
| hell's kitchen |
Why are chicken, lamb, pork and beef the "normal" meats?
The death of the weekly supermarket shop.
| zoo |
Half of the world's wildlife has been wiped out since 1970.
A Japanese zoo has accidentally spent four years trying to breed with a pair of male hyenas.
| planet earth |
We've lost so much Antarctic ice it's causing a dip in Earth's gravity.
Why our environmental obsession with plastic bags makes no sense.
Where have all the flowers gone? "A new report makes for troubling reading: A fifth of all of Britain's plant species are under threat, with some facing alarming declines."
| and whilst you're thinking about that, think about this... |
And finally, Andrew talks about becoming a better person; Rogue "Marbie" Scott invites you into his underwear; Walter wonders why so many black pastors are gay; and 21-year-old twins Adam and Luke Monastero follow up on their coming out story.
29 September - 05 October 2014
On the cover: Complexo de Alemao favela Gay Pride.
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