Planet
MARBASIA
W h e r e y o u 'l l b a r e l y s c r a t c h t h e s u r f a c e .
Then tears come, and like the rain on the ropes, they brace us up, until perhaps the strain become too great, and we break
MASS
in
MOTION
IT'S A MAN'S WORLD AND YOU MEN CAN HAVE IT
IT'S A MAN'S WORLD AND YOU MEN CAN HAVE IT
It is whispered that death has his kingdom in the solitudes beyond the marshes, and lives in a castle so awful to look at that no one has ever seen it
MASS
in
MOTION
IT'S A MAN'S WORLD AND YOU MEN CAN HAVE IT
IT'S A MAN'S WORLD AND YOU MEN CAN HAVE IT
How can I, how could anyone, tell of that strange scene, its solemnity, its gloom, its sadness, its horror, and withal, its sweetness
MASS
in
MOTION
IT'S A MAN'S WORLD AND YOU MEN CAN HAVE IT
IT'S A MAN'S WORLD AND YOU MEN CAN HAVE IT
We should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of
MASS
in
MOTION
IT'S A MAN'S WORLD AND YOU MEN CAN HAVE IT
IT'S A MAN'S WORLD AND YOU MEN CAN HAVE IT
Issue 225: Micah Brandt, Victor Hodge, Remy Mars, Marlon James, Ovahness, Thor, Troye Sivan, Star Wars, and more...
the week's
news
& pop
culture,
with a
gay
bias.
left & found
Here's what LGBT university is and why we need it.
Nearly 40% of homeless youths are LGBT, and I'm currently one of them. "It’s hard to tell I’m homeless, because I manage to find a couch to sleep on nightly. But I am, and I’m hiding in plain sight."
How the words "I dare you" changed my life forever. On being gay and Christian.
Watch | Would you turn straight if you could? And Michael Sam and former partner Vito Cammisano join forces to support bullied youth...
Same-sex parents invest more into their children, study finds.
Bisexual people are tired of your shit: A beginner’s course in non-normative queer life.
"Liberal" isn't a dirty word anymore.
Christopher Columbus was a lost sadist. There shouldn't be a holiday in his name.
news - america
LGBT service members are turning to drugs and need help.
New York City to host WorldPride 2019.
Government report recommends ban on "gay cure" therapy.
LGBT inmates are more likely to be sexually abused and placed in solitary, new study finds.
Saudi Prince "forced staff to watch him having gay sex", lawsuit claims.
Alabama man finds "Gun Oil" lube mistakenly stocked at the gun counter of his local Walmart.
Racial profiling in retail hasn't gone away. It's just gone digital. "New apps make it easier than ever for stores to target and share information about often-innocent African American shoppers, even as real thieves get away."
Police killings since Ferguson, in one map.
A (very) rough guide to America from an Englishman in New York.
The future of LGBT America? Canada.
news - uk
Army General says gay soldiers make military "more effective".
NHS accused of failing patients by not prescribing HIV-preventing PrEP drugs.
This black woman’s anti-Muslim rant shows how deep British racism goes. "The latest in a shameful line of Islamophobic tirades filmed on public transport suggests incessant racist messages are having an effect on all ethnic groups."
news - europe
Spain | How the public reacts to homophobia...
Sweden just opened the first male rape clinic in the world.
Germany's rising far-right.
Italy | No "gay lobby" at the Vatican, says fired priest Krzysztof Charamsa.
news - latin america
Is LGBT equality coming to Trinidad and Tobago?
Puerto Rico | Education Minister Rafael Roman has announced changes to a school uniform code that lets boys wear skirts.
Venezuela’s currency is so worthless that even some thieves won’t steal it.
news - africa
Kenya | President Uhuru Kenyatta has warned against “witch-hunts” targeting homosexuals.
Uganda | Anti-LGBT attacks surge.
news - asia
Japan's hidden caste of untouchables.
On the problem with being gay in South Korea.
Indonesia | Caning re-introduced as a punishment for homosexuality in Aceh province - and the law applies to tourists, too.
Being Australian gave me street cred at a neo-Nazi rally in Germany. "When it comes to immigration policy, Australian mainstream opinion is equivalent to Germany’s far right. Even the tabloids put us to shame."
There's no decency in how Australia has treated Abyan. No matter what the truth is. "Peter Dutton claims a Somali refugee was whisked out of Australia to foil a game of legal trickery. But the story doesn’t stack up."
Welcome to authoritarian Australia, where more anti-terror laws won't keep us safe. "Politicians claim to pass more and more anti-terror laws in order to keep us safe. They don’t, but they do erode our democracy."
news - middle east
What it’s like to be an LGBT Syrian fleeing for your life. "LGBT refugees from across the Middle East flock to Turkey, escaping Islamist militias, sexual assault, and death threats. But what they find there leaves many in despair."
art + design
word!
Larry Kramer: Mainstream media continues to marginalise and discredit gay authors. "When we fall into the hands of book critics at The Times, we are amazed at their lack of understanding, empathy, of what we are trying to do and say. It is quite amazing how fervent and omnipresent is the homophobia that never-endingly remains the norm for gay writers in their book reviews."
Watch | Brontez Purnell: Alive, well and right where he wants to be...
Out gay author Marlon James has won the 2015 Man Booker Prize.
Watch | Marlon James on his life-saving move from Jamaica to America...
How a bullied "sissy" became a peacock among pigeons: Tyler Curry's new children's book, A Peacock Among Pigeons.
Review | QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology, edited by Raymond Luczak. "Effective... important... tough."
The spoof Ladybird books targeting the adult market.
RIP Harriet Klausner, the web's most prolific book reviewer.
shouting at night
Interview | Talking to Steven Fales about latest solo show, Cult Model.
picture house
On niche casting and Hollywood's lingering reluctance to feature gay black actors.
Why Sandra Bullock is the greatest white saviour of all time.
Porn star and actor Brent Corrigan on the chatter surrounding James Franco's King Cobra film.
...And this: How Netflix’s patronage could save challenging films like Beasts of No Nation.
Pan flops in theatres, is critically savaged.
Star Wars and 007 are coming – beware the fanboy clones. "I want to love a film on my own terms, but the way they are talked about makes it increasingly hard."
In defense of Return Of The Jedi.
Ten mistakes in the Star Wars movies that you might have missed.
Fifty brilliant science fiction movies that everyone should see at least once.
Why Back to the Future is a damn perfect movie.
Why we're all a bit nostalgic for the days before CGI.
The American Genre Film Archive on why exploitation movies are worth preserving.
The hotel that inspired The Shining to become the world’s first horror museum.
Thirteen movies that went disastrously over budget.
Eleven gay movie gems you shouldn’t miss.
ReelQ (formerly the Pittsburgh International LGBTQ Film Festival) celebrates thirty years.
Review | Match. "Despite its tendency towards going over the top, and the limitations of its setup, Match is worth a look, largely thanks to Patrick Stewart and a plot that measures its excesses with subtlety when it needs it most."
the box
On The Muppets' gay jokes: Not offensive, just unfunny.
Yahoo bows out of original TV after Community and other shows lose $42 million.
Manhattan could do for the '40s what Mad Men did for the '60s.
Gays of our lives: The latest news from your favourite LGBT characters in soap.
Hollyoaks: Watch the fast-paced video that recaps 20 years of storylines in just three minutes.
An inquest into the death of former Grange Hill child actor Terry Sue-Patt has heard the cause of death was "unascertainable".
CBS to bring Nancy Drew to life as an NYPD detective in Drew.
Now Cruel Intentions is getting a TV follow-up.
When is it time to let your main characters go?
It's the end of the catwalk: America’s Next Top Model has been cancelled.
Casual sex and freakouts: A producer's perspective on reality TV.
Watch | I Hate New York, episode 5 - A New York State of Mind; #NoHomo, episode 5 - The Real World; Where The Bears Are, season 4, episode 5 - Bathhouse Bears; and Kriegerisms, part 1, with Bianca Del Rio, Willam Belli, and Pablo Hernandez.
beats, rhymes & life
Frank Ocean has an "advantage" in the music industry - and won a Grammy - because he’s gay, according to Wale.
Anti-Apartheid anthem is actually about gay rights, singer Labi Siffre reveals.
Tom Jones puts his foot in it with "abnormal homosexuals" gaffe.
Gay iconography: On adoring Adele.
Are these the ten best queer duets?
Watch the uncomfortable Pharrell and Robin Thicke Blurred Lines depositions.
Why was multimillionaire Adele using a flip phone in the Hello video?
Justin Bieber "super violated" by naked holiday pics.
Justin Bieber: Why we should stop looking at his package.
Dear The Game: We know you’re not gangbanging anymore, so stop pretending.
An interview with Meek Mill about Wale, Drake, and Nigerian leprechauns.
Yoko Ono reckons John Lennon had a "desire" to sleep with men.
Watch | Troye Sivan - Talk Me Down; NEVR - Secret Places; and porn star/singer Mickey Taylor - Dirty...
arena
British Olympic track hopeful Tom Bosworth comes out as gay.
Michael Sam's NFL career ended a year ago but his impact lives on.
Mets star Daniel Murphy disagrees with the gay "lifestyle," I disagree with his Christian "lifestyle".
The man who never was. "Todd Marinovich was engineered from birth to be the greatest quarterback of all time. He ended up doing heroin in the locker room."
Watch | Meet the Manchester Spartans, one of the UK's gay rugby teams...
sex
Former porn star King B - Mehran Chestnut - died homeless, addicted to poppers, according to The Star Report.
Brent Corrigan "declined" to be involved in the new film King Cobra, about the murder of Cobra Video owner Bryan Kocis.
Ryan Rose threatens Sean Duran over Rentboy parody video.
Troy Ryan: Helix Studios doesn’t hire black models due to “supply and demand”.
Liam Riley makes shocking announcement: “it’s a whole new me!”
All the Ashton Summers you can eat!
Watch | Andrew Christian model Pablo Hernandez appears with porn star boyfriend Drae Axtell in Madonna parody Bitch, I’m A Bottom.
ghetto romance
Gay ghosting is an epidemic. "Ever met a guy online just to have him disappear without a trace?"
Three takeaways after forty days without Grindr.
rag trade
Perry Ellis International sued over claims the company’s president demanded that there are “no blacks in my ads” or “anyone who looked too gay”.
hell's kitchen
Why teenagers aren’t drinking alcopops anymore.
Britain should be ashamed of its taste in biscuits. "Rich Tea, malted milk, Belvita: we love boring biscuits because we don’t love ourselves enough."
What it’s like to hold a food festival in a Rio de Janeiro slum.
Hood and bodega snacks, ranked.
Food porn is making you fat.
médecins sans frontières
Eating disorders are rampant in gay men.
PrEP: How the tiny blue pill changed my life.
The dos and don'ts of discussing HIV.
Turing Pharmaceuticals, the company that raised the price of an AIDS drug by 5500% is being investigated by the New York Attorney General...
...Meanwhile, Imprimis Pharmaceuticals has released a $1 version of the tablet.
Douche-based rectal microbicide prevents HIV in gay men.
Bananas! Guess what's next in the fight against HIV?
Is Lyme disease the new AIDS? What you need to know.
On coffee's health benefits...
...And alcohol's. It's not just wine, either.
Coffee naps: How to supercharge caffeine by going to sleep.
Stop the madness. On America’s devastating treatment of schizophrenia.
Do stammerers like me a favour - don’t finish my sentences.
betta work!
Phone in sick: it's a small act of rebellion against wage slavery. "I didn’t want to write this column, I’ve got a hangover. It’s an excuse that wouldn’t wash in America, and now we’re being told to compete with China."
I own 51% of this company!
On the demise of Kmart. "A trip to Kmart in 2015 is a trip to an American purgatory. If your town still has one, it probably seems cramped, ragged, poorly lit, and maybe a little bit dirty. Best case scenario, you're walking into what feels, more than anything else, like a counterfeit Walmart."
planet earth
El Niño and global warming are making 2015 the hottest year on record.
We dump eight million tons of plastic into the ocean each year. Where does it all go?
1491. "Before it became the New World, the Western Hemisphere was vastly more populous and sophisticated than has been thought—an altogether more salubrious place to live at the time than, say, Europe. New evidence of both the extent of the population and its agricultural advancement leads to a remarkable conjecture: the Amazon rain forest may be largely a human artifact."
planes, trains & automobiles
Every time a train station is revamped, we lose a place to end a grim relationship. "Yes, yes, the Birmingham New Street refit is all very good, but its bleakness made it perfect for a break-up. Am I supposed to go to Euston next time? Or Crewe?"
tomorrow's world
Raiders of the lost web. "If a Pulitzer-finalist 34-part series of investigative journalism can vanish from the web, anything can."
Facebook wants to let you know if a government hacks into your account.
YouTube to launch subscription service; wants you to pay to avoid ads.
How to behave on the internet: Eleven social media faux pas to avoid, from over-liking to Farmville invites.
and whilst you're thinking about that, think about this...
Ten consumer things we can't be bothered to do.
Watch | And finally, Walter on his favourite topic; Andrew has sex; Todrick Hall talks to GLAAD about being a role model for LGBT youth; and Baddie Twinz bloopers...
See you kids next week - it's been emotional! Zee Jai
