the week's
news
& pop
culture,
with a
gay
bias.
left & found
Beyond sex, what is gay? "Now that we gays have made and won the case that we are people just like everyone else, it's time to start acknowledging that we are not."
Too many white, gay men running the show? Pride's race problem.
The origins of LGBT Pride Month.
Why alcohol companies at Pride leave a bitter taste.
Here's the Pride Power List 2015.
The little boy who twerked at Pride, and outraged thousands.
The kids really are all right. "The sexual orientation of parents 'makes no difference' in their children's development," study finds.
Does having children inhibit a creative life?
Anti-intellectualism is killing America. "Social dysfunction can be traced to the abandonment of reason."
Battleground America. On the insanity of America's gun laws.
Why are so many mass shootings committed by young white men?
All your Rachel Dolezal questions, answered — by Dave Chappelle and the internet’s smartest writers.
White people have been passing for black for centuries. A historian explains.
White people who tried really, really, really hard to be black, ranked.
How your brain turns racist when processing ethnicity and accents.
the news - america
Marriage equality | What the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling actually says.
Marriage equality | The world celebrates.
Marriage equality | Texas pastor now says he didn't mean he'd really set himself aflame.
Here’s how nine predictions about marriage equality turned out.
Marriage equality | Equality is far from a "lived reality".
...Meanwhile, marketing giant Ogilvy & Mather launches Ogilvy Pride, a division dedicated to targeting LGBT consumers.
...And in Chicago, Henry Gerber House has become the second gay-related National Historic Landmark.
Stonewall | What came of the Stonewall rebels. "A look at some of the people who participated in the riots and how Stonewall shaped their lives."
Infamous WeHo dance palace The Factory on National Trust's Endangered List. "A 1920s-era camera factory became a trendsetting disco in the early 1970s and later a locus of AIDS activism. It's now threatened by redevelopment."
Why calling the Charleston shooting terrorism is important to so many people.
LGBT groups join call to remove the hated Confederate flag from public spaces.
This is Anthony Fera, the 51-year-old president of Houston-based MidStar Energy. He has been arrested for attacking a married gay couple in Austin.
Groundbreaking shelter for LGBT homeless opening in the Mission.
California to launch first LGBT Studies class.
Milwaukee Pridefest, in pictures.
White people will soon be a minority in the US.
Smiling faces, terrible racists: the dangerous culture of white possession in the Carolinas.
Black churches taught us to forgive white people. We learned to shame ourselves. "After the shootings in Charleston, I talked to my Grandma about all the work we did to forgive white supremacy, hoping then to be chosen by them and by God."
The Charleston shooter killed mostly black women. This wasn't about "rape". "The motivation for killing six women and three men at church wasn’t that white women are inviolable. It must have been that black women are disposable."
A former baltimore cop Tweeted all the horrible shit he saw on the job.
Broken boys, thieves, killers, and now escapees. "The truncated, violent lives of Richard Matt and David Sweat before their prison escape."
The town that banned Wi-Fi. "‘Electrosensitive’ people are flocking to the West Virginian home of a deep-space telescope, attracted by the rules prohibiting phones, TVs and radios. But, as Ed Cumming reveals, their arrival means Green Bank is far from peaceful."
Canada | The campaigner who helped ban men's rights activists from Toronto Pride. "If you scratch the surface and look past the veneer of equality, they're scary people with scary ideas. I think an appropriate queer ally who digs a little deeper into these guys will realize they're not a group you want to align yourself with. The men's rights movement does nothing for queer people."
the news - uk
Hate crimes are routine in the United Kingdom, report claims.
London Pride | Members of the nationalist, anti-immigrant facists UKIP defy ban to march in London Pride - but were told to move away from African LGBT groups.
Another man has been found dead at Chariots gay sauna in South London.
The historic London Lesbian and Gay Switchboard - founded in 1974 - is changing its name to be "more inclusive".
So, which London neighbourhoods will next be obliterated by gentrification? "Banglatown? Caribbean Brixton? All of Soho? The only certainty is that rising property prices and new transport links will drastically change areas we once took for granted."
Syphilis cases rise by nearly half among gay men in England.
the news -
latin america
latin america
Jamaica | The Gleaner, the island's major newspaper, has come out in support of LGBT equality.
the news - europe
Italy | The Vatican wants its priests to "be polite to people with ‘homosexual tendencies’ while opposing their rights".
the news - middle east
What I learned about Pride as a gay jew in Palestine.
Israeli government votes down LGBT anti-discrimination law.
Israeli government releases cartoon depicting Hamas murdering gay people.
the news - africa
Inside the nightmares of Africa's LGBT refugees.
the news - asia
China asks whether light skin or dark skin is better.
South Korea | Seoul Pride parade ban overturned.
médecins sans frontières
Why are more gay men not taking PrEP?
Miami tops the list of twenty-five US cities with the highest rates of HIV infection.
Six life sentences that come with HIV.
Twenty-five easy ways to live with HIV to 100.
Five supplements to avoid if you are HIV positive.
The new condom that can tell you if someone’s got an STD.
Boffins discover vaccine for herpes.
How blowing into a straw can save your voice.
I drink because I like the way it feels. That doesn't mean I have a problem. "There have been times that I’ve drunk too much, and times when I haven’t drunk anything at all. But I finally figured out why I drink, and why I won’t stop."
inside the spaceship
Think it's cool Facebook can auto-tag you in pics? So does the government.
Google joins the fight against "revenge porn".
How to save Twitter.
art + design
Lego Group announces plans to find "sustainable" materials to replace the plastic used in its bricks by 2030. Since 1963, Lego has been made from a strong, resilient plastic known as acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS).
word!
"Cisgender", "hot mess" have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary.
Excerpt | Life is complicated when you're a homeless black lesbian teen. "In an excerpt from his new book No House to Call My Home, former LGBT youth worker Ryan Berg gets real about the struggles for one youth rejected by her family for being gay."
Excerpt | Porn Again. "Former Hollywood executive Josh Sabarra takes readers on a thrill ride through growing up, coming out, coming of age, and finally finding himself at 40 in his new memoir. Read an exclusive excerpt here that details a night with actor Alan Cumming."
Review | Wuvable Oaf, by Ed Luce. "The tale of a big, hairy, gay ex-wrestler’s search for love in San Francisco."
Review | Dangerous When Wet, by Jamie Brickhouse. "A fabulous new memoir about a man who has it all–a great job in publishing, a longtime boyfriend, fun friends and a caring family. But Brickhouse has some serious life challenges too, including addictions, HIV and a mother who has 'the split personality of Auntie Mame and Mama Rose'.”
Coming soon | The Wolves that Live in Skin and Space, by Christopher Zeischegg. "Set in Los Angeles amidst a dying adult film industry, real-life porn star and cam model Danny Wylde recounts the end of his career. He bears his last months with the death of a friend, a client's dangerous fantasy, a secret boyfriend, and a family bent on destroying him. Wylde's second novel moves the literature of pornography's narrative past its decadent history and into the world of disposable, tube-site celebrity, month-to-month living, and dissolving barriers between consumer and consumed."
Coming soon | Paris Demands, by Mike Miksche. "Roger, a young man, finds himself more-than-a-tourist but less than a Parisian in the City of Lights. Escaping a relationship with a friend that was never as platonic as his own parents believed, Roger discovers the nights and men of Paris to be affairs complicated by drugs, ex-patriots, and trysts. His awkward relationship with Marcel, a laconic native as addicting as the coke he sells, threatens to smother Roger. Life could be a trap of simply rolling out of bed, seeing a face as tangled as the linens, wiping the blow from your upper lip, readying yourself for another night in the bars and clubs of Paris. Does a city that prides itself on fostering love ever truly inspire it?"
shouting in the night
OMG! These Broadway Bares 2015 GIFs.
picture house
Where Hollywood fails, LGBT film fests shine. "While major motion picture studios routinely fail to portray diverse LGBT stories on the big screen, film festivals around the country continue to pick up the slack."
Looking back at A Portrait of Jason.
The Adventures of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert – five things you didn’t know.
Welcome to the orgy! How the sex movie got its groove back. "After the success of Fifty Shades of Grey – and with audiences having reached peak-porn – old-fashioned erotica is re-entering the movie mainstream. We find out why stars such as Jason Schwartzman, Keanu Reeves and Jack Black are chucking their keys into the bowl."
How and why Jurassic World managed — surprisingly — to break box office records.
What Jurassic World gets right that so many other blockbusters get wrong. For a start, the stakes are small.
Why is 2015 such a blockbuster year for film?
Mark Kermode reads the Entourage film for filth: "It's no surprise - I do hate it, I hate it. I loathe it, I despise it, I detest it, I feel contempt for it. Everything about it rattles every one of my cages. This is absolutely the most loathsome consumerist male dream. I absolutely detest everything about the mindset that this film occupies. It's just this pornographic, consumerist, hate-filled piece of propaganda which says this is what you should aspire to... this level of utter vacuity, this foul, soul-sucking, horrible vacuum of vile emptiness is what you should aspire to. And you wait for the bubble to burst - and it doesn't."
Every Steven Spielberg movie, ranked.
Ten of the best nightclub scenes in cinema.
Review | Folsom Forever. "Even if it doesn’t make you want to visit the event itself, Folsom Forever is worth a watch, especially if you’re one of those people who thinks LGBT culture is now completely homogenous."
Review | Boys In Brazil. "Its mix of cliché and stereotype needed to be absolutely hilarious to work, but unfortunately Boys In Brazil isn’t particularly funny, and as a result it feels a little old-fashioned and rather staid."
Review | Those People. "I have to admit that I underestimated it. What I’d initially thought was going to be a rather smug look at the rich turned out to be something far smarter and more heartfelt than I’d expected. It’s an excellent look at unrequited love that many of us will be able to relate to."
Watch | New HBO documentary Larry Kramer In Love & Anger trailer; Boulevard trailer - Robin Williams' last film; Still A Rose trailer; Hidden Away trailer; Seashore trailer; Stand trailer; and director Joseph Graham's Beautiful Something trailer; Boys On Film 13: Trick & Treat trailer.
the box
Television is dying. Slowly.
How the internet is destroying our favourite TV talk shows.
Netflix will overtake traditional TV next year. That doesn't mean anything.
Is TV putting its money where its mouth is on diversity?
Three new summer TV shows you should be watching.
Nine great foreign-language TV shows you should be watching.
Talking to the cast and crew of the new webseries Paper Boys.
Gays of our lives: What sort of a week have our favourite gay characters in soap had?
Why the police procedural is more popular than ever. "As True Detective returns and CSI gets ready to bow out, there’s a changing of the guard in TV’s police procedurals. But is the new wave really all that different?"
True Detective's second season: As grim as it gets.
True Detective's second season: The thirty-one most ridiculous moments of the premiere.
True Detective's opening credits: A thing of beauty (that goes on a bit too long). "A strong title sequence can make a TV show – but are long and elaborate credits really better?"
Watch | BAIT season 1, episode 5 - All is Fair in Love; T.R.A.D.E IT ALL season 1, episode 2 Aftermath; The Boyz Next Door LA, episode 1 - Welcome to the Neighborhood (look out for appearances by the Freaky Boiz); and Social Theory season 2, episode 2 - Deal & Destiny.
Patrick Macnee, the actor best known for his role in the gay-beloved 1960s TV series The Avengers, is dead. He was 93.
beats, rhymes & life
What happens when an artist gets dropped by a major label?
Talking to Doug Locke about interracial love, and his new EP, Blue Heart.
Why are rappers suddenly OK with shilling for big brands? "Rappers were slammed for getting into bed with companies in the 90s, but now figures such as Nas, Drake and OG Maco are helping brands tap into rap-loving demographics."
Apple is finally accepting that buying music is obsolete.
Watch | Melli B - IG; Greg Holden - Boys In The Street; Tove Lo - Timebomb; Jason Derulo performs Want To Want Me live at Summertime Ball 2015; Alaska Thunderfuck - This Is My Hair; and Miss Fame - InstaFame; and watch the latest episode of The GrooveOUT, a weekly coundown of gay music.
arena
Michael Sam returns to the Montreal Alouettes.
How the Gay Games went wrong. "The daughter of the Gay Games' founder says the international sporting event is being diluted because of a merger with the OutGames."
Robbie Rogers scores his first goal since coming out - and during Pride Night!
Former Premier League footballer banned after "sticking finger up opponent’s bum".
NFL player Josh Robinson compares same-sex marriage to incest and paedophilia.
sex
Pornucopia. "Critics say that porn degrades women, dulls sexual pleasure, and ruins authentic relationships – are they right?"
This is a thing in the world: Ryan Cummings to take record loads at BiohazardMen HIV+ only sex party.
Watch | Sean Zevran talks about racism in gay porn.
MEN model Paul Canon declares: “I am not sexually attracted to colored people”. And as Str8UpGayPorn's Zachary Sire says, "Oh, and for any of you worried that this racist meltdown will hurt idiotic racist Paul Canon’s career: Don’t be. He’ll be hired again and again, over and over again by all the same studios who could give two shits about what these dumb, racist gay porn stars say on Twitter."
Porn couple JP Dubois and Sam Barclay have split.
Talking to legendary director Joe Gage.
Talking to Dawg Dixon.
Porn veterans Brent Corrigan and Pierre Fitch take each other on in Magnitude.
Here's a video of Dominic Santos and Austin Wilde helicoptering.
Former model Gabriel Shams in critical condition after suffering a serious health decline.
ghetto romance
Call me Daddy: Playing son to my fatherless boyfriend.
How I finally left my abusive boyfriend.
Watch | Denis O'Hare met his husband Hugo Redwood fifteen years ago. This is their story.
rag trade
Doctors issue health warning over squatting in skinny jeans.
hell's kitchen
Proud Whopper lands Burger King top marketing award.
The McDonald's of the future lets you customise your burgers.
Imagine if the media covered alcohol like other drugs.
Why it took the FDA nearly 40 years to ban trans fats.
Big food is going green, but will consumers buy in?
betta work!
The gay wage: Why we earn less than straight men.
A world without work. "For centuries, experts have predicted that machines would make workers obsolete. That moment may finally be arriving. Could that be a good thing?"
I’m your flight attendant and I think you’re all a bunch of drunks.
planet earth
zoo
Why zoos should be banned.
planes, trains & automobiles
Virgin America celebrates Pride by asking Twitter users if they top or bottom, and the results are gold.
and whilst you're thinking about that, think about this...
I'm gay, liberal, open-minded – and a convert to Christianity.
The LGBT historic world, mapped.
And finally, Rogue "Marbie" Scott talks Pride; Qaadir talks about the horror of working in retail; Andrew gets religion; and Walter on "down low culture".
See you kids next week - it's been emotional! Zee Jai
Issue 216: 15-28 June 2015
On the cover: The Man In A Polyester Suit,
by Robert Mapplethorpe.
by Robert Mapplethorpe.
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