the week's
news
& pop
culture,
with a
gay
bias.
think, progress
Sexting may make porn stars of us all, but you don’t have to be an Adonis.
Gay male sexual assault survivors speak out.
With sexual abuse, it's important to find truth amid the noise.
Homophobic, transphobic parents make abusive homes. Let's help LGBT kids get out.
Male gays and the male gaze. "Have you ever touched a female friend's boobs and claimed it was OK because you're a gay man? Then you might be sexist."
Inequality isn’t inevitable, it’s engineered. That’s how the 1% have taken over.
Where does the Black Lives Matter movement go from here?
White people see "black" Americans as less competent than "African Americans".
Is the gay community scaring away our straight allies?
Six lessons a straight couple learned from owning a gay bar.
Rob Smith: Race-based dating preferences aren't racism, and what it’s like to come out to immigrant parents...
news from america
The Mormon church says it will support gay equality, on one condition.
How bakeries got caught in the middle of the marriage equality war.
Selma is a majority black city where kids grow up poor and too many people don't care. "What films like Selma get right is that, by standing together and refusing to accept the status quo, we can force the powerful to do the right thing."
After shooting Tamir Rice, police detained his sister and didn't apply first aid.
How did Fox News' Birmingham blunder make it to air? Because everything else does. "For some hosts and producers at a network that traffics in outrage and over-the-top, factually questionable claims, Steven Emerson is an irresistible guest."
Mainline Street. "What does it take for heroin to grab hold in the small, remote towns of America? Consider the case of Laramie, Wyoming. Five years ago, it had no heroin problem whatsoever. Now there's a bustling trade. How does this happen? How does heroin become a business? Well, like any business, it starts with one man and an entrepreneurial dream."
news from asia
Japan | The Japanese still aren't having sex. Why?
Witch hunting is a growing problem in Papua New Guinea.
Australia | The horrific conditions facing detained asylum seekers keep getting worse.
news from europe
England | Trans woman launches campaign to stop UK's first "gay" school. The proposed LGBT Youth North West, in Manchester, would help support bullied and outcast LGBT kids and their allies.
England | Another Soho gay bar is fighting redevelopment. News of The Yard's uncertain future follows recent announcements about the closure of The Green Carnation on Frith Street and the closure of famed cabaret club, Madame Jo Jo’s on Brewer Street.
England | "It’s like a ghost town." Lights go out as foreign owners desert London homes.
England | Inside London's National Gallery, a portrait of modern inequality.
United Kingdom | The Labour party of my dreams would stand up for poorer people. Where is it?
Germany | We must stop Angela Merkel’s bullying – or let the forces of austerity win.
How do Germans and Greeks actually feel about each other?
Germany | Hamburg is burying the Autobahn and putting parks on top.
word!
Long live the ebook – it’s a champion of the printed word. "With the public promiscuously hopping from one format to another, reports of the e-reader’s death look distinctly premature."
at the movies
Benedict Cumberbatch forced to apologise after calling black actors "coloured."
Phil Lord, who co-directed The Lego Movie, just built his riposte when his movie didn't receive an expected nomination for the Oscar for Animated Feature.
American Sniper is a dishonest whitewash of the Iraq war.
If Congress hadn't extended copyright, The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind would be free today.
the box
What gay TV sex is Billy Crystal complaining about, exactly?
Looking "kicks off season 2 with sex, scandal, and issues that strike at the heart of what it means to be queer in America."
Talking to Looking creator Michael Lannan.
Review | Looking. "Richie's representation in Looking, and his fractious relationship with Augustin, is one of the most interesting, and important, aspects of the show. Rarely in gay media do we see any acknowledgement of class; race, yes, but rarely class. Looking tells us about a proud, blue collar Latino man, and the indulged Augustin, who only speaks español when he's trashed."
Watch the latest episode of Triangle.
beats, rhymes & life
Even iTunes don't understand how their new refund system works.
Simper while you sing. The ghastly Ed Sheeran effect. "Male pop stars are getting less and less sexy while the women are expected to practically fellate the microphone."
Madonna’s cultural appropriation confirms what a cliche she has become. "As they plunder minority cultures in their desperation to appear edgy, the only thing artists such as Iggy Azalea and Madonna succeed in doing is flaunting their unoriginality."
Hip hop is in a transition between materialism and idealism.
Suge Knight arrested after he allegedly ran over one man and injured another in the parking lot of a burger joint in Compton, California, following an argument with members of the film crew on the set of the NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton. He faces thirty years in jail if convicted.
Lifetime's biopic of Whitney Houston is actually a movie about Bobby Brown.
James Blunt doesn’t understand the politics of envy. "The posh crooner fails to realise that it is the privileged who are promoting envy of the powerless."
James Blunt defends making anti-gay, rape joke. Blunt was feeling sensitive about an article in The New Statesman on the "class ceiling": "The children of the middle and upper classes are beginning to reassert a much older order."
betta work!
Ghost jobs, half lives: how agency workers "get by" in Britain’s shadow economy. "Meet Martin, an unperson, one of the million agency workers facing a lifetime of insecure, low-paid work."
How to endure soul-crushing, mundane work.
st. elsewhere
The hygiene hypothesis: How being too clean might be making us sick.
What they don’t tell you about dementia.
Alcohol poisoning kills six Americans each day. But who are they?
Are you drinking because you're working long hours, or are you working long hours to justify drinking?
Our health and the sugar-peddling food industry.
Public swimming pools are even more disgusting than you thought.
hell's kitchen
This is just a horrifying paragraph about food safety in America.
zoo
Save the honeybee, sterilise the earth. "A decade ago, people started panicking about the collapse of the honeybee population and the crash of our food supply. But today there are more honeybees than there were then. We have engineered our way to a frenzied and precarious new normal."
Pollution is making polar bears’ dicks snap in half.
planet earth
2014 was the world's hottest year on record.
How climate change will be a disaster for Australia.
inside the spaceship
Can the Internet be archived? Enter the Wayback Machine.
and whilst you're thinking about that, think about this...
Online shopping really is killing shopping malls.
Here's what's sending SkyMall into bankruptcy — and what could save it.
The MSC Oscar just became the world's biggest container ship.
And finally, Andrew's working hard; Walter talks about Leelah Alcorn; how Martin got his man; and Rogue "Marbie" Scott's undercover lovers...
Issue 205: 01-31 January 2015
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