the week's
news
& pop
culture,
with a
gay
bias.
left & found
Why some on the "radical queer left" still think marriage equality is bad for the LGBT community.
Black LGBT people reveal what happened when they came out.
On African-American gay men and domestic violence.
Age, weight, PrEP status: Hookup apps' next filtering option.
HIV rates for gay Latino Americans are soaring.
Why I claim bisexuality.
The world economic order is collapsing and this time there seems no way out.
We’re all racist. But racism by white people matters more. "We don’t live in a racially neutral society: from police officers to headteachers, all the gatekeepers in my life have been white. Yet we do have to acknowledge those who feel they lose out to ethnic minorities."
Black History Month needs a rethink: it’s time to ditch the heroes. "The fixation on two-dimensional cardboard cutout characters distorts the true story of the relationship between Britain and people of African descent."
White people explain why they feel oppressed.
Why you should probably stop referring to “women” as “females,” explained.
Politesse has always masked middle-class misbehaviour. "Like bourgeois kryptonite, a genteel smile or a smug ‘Thank you!’ paralyses our ability to object to disgraceful rudeness."
Life, offline. "I went offline for three weeks. This is not meant to romanticize a complex situation in which Cubans have been systematically kept offline by an authoritarian dictator. Instead, I had the unique opportunity — without chucking my phone in the river and becoming a wood-dwelling hermit — to more or less travel back in time to an era where the internet wasn’t a constant in our lives."
news - america
Ngun on why he decided to quit the project.
Rupert Murdoch has hitched his wagon to Republican Ben Carson, who thinks marriage equality is a "Marxist plot".
Colorado man accused of hunting sex slaves on Grindr.
Martin Shkreli said he would lower the price of HIV meds Daraprim, after earlier hiking the price 5000%. Two weeks later, it's the same price...
...And what happened when "the most hated man in America" was matched with one Eve Peyser on Tinder.
Mom punishes homophobic son by making him walk around Walmart in a tutu.
Baltimore’s most famous gay club, Club Hippo, closes its doors after forty-three years.The site will become a CVS pharmacy.
America's gun massacre blues seem to play on an endless loop. "Only a revolution in thinking can stop the media, politicians and firearms lobby from having to trot out their well-rehearsed lines after every mass shooting."
American democracy is doomed.
LA to declare homelessness emergency as big cities struggle with affordable housing crisis.
Eleven myths about homelessness in America.
news - uk
The Conservative government wants to send gay asylum seekers back home if homosexuality is decriminalised there.
One in three gay men in the UK did not use a condom the last time they had sex.
Why GLAAD is going global and why it’s starting in the UK.
Why the in campaign should sell Europe as the Star Trek state.
So you hate those Tories – but what comes next? "While Conservatives plan for lasting dominance, the left seems wedded to the pointless protest of the 80s."
news - europe
France | President François Hollande has backed down over plans to appoint a gay ambassador to the Vatican.
How Sweden tries to assimilate its influx of refugees.
Ukraine | On rising intolerance and violence against LGBT people.
news - latin america
news - africa
Cameroon | Gay prisoner’s attorney defies death threats.
news - asia
China | Hospital are still trying to "cure" gay people.
India | Mother Teresa’s charity "blames gay people" after stopping all adoptions.
Australia | Madhvi Pankhania: "I lived and worked in Sydney for two years, and I got to know its people and its outsider’s view of the rest of the world. Here’s my take on Australiana."
news - middle east
art + design
word!
How to write a young adult novel about a gay kid without it being a "gay book".
Ten of the best science fiction and fantasy short stories ever.
On The Mommie Dearest Diary: Carol Ann Tells All, Rutanya Alda's new book about the making of Mommie Dearest.
Review | Worlds Apart, by David Plante. "However much Plante may want to inspire us to contemplate what he calls 'the undivided spirit,' that ultimate state of wholeness to which all our lonely souls aspire, Worlds Apart may actually do the opposite."
Are gay newspapers necessary when gay news is everywhere?
picture house
What it’s like binge-watching over sixty hours of movies at a film festival.
What Matt Damon told me about gay actors started a vital debate. "The actor’s comments in an interview with me angered some gay people, but his comments, however unwittingly, have triggered an important discussion."
Matt Damon isn’t a terrible person, he’s just ignorant.
Jack Black opens up about losing his brother to AIDS related illness.
Reboots, remakes, and reimaginings: A guide to confusing Hollywood terminology.
Ten movies where the gay was taken out.
Review | Drown. "Drown is challenging and surprisingly effecting, taking a harsh look at the potential brutality of homophobia and quite how dangerous it can be if a life is built on denial and a house of cards about what masculinity is."
Review | Wasp. "While you can appreciate the ideas, ambition and intrigue of Wasp, the characters don’t really pull you in (indeed for much of the running time they’re pretty obnoxious), leaving something that feels a little too affected and cold."
Review | 52 Tuesdays. "Perhaps my real issue is that 52 Tuesdays is almost brilliant and I therefore couldn’t help but be frustrated that it only fulfils 90% of its potential. That still means it’s far better than most movies featuring transsexual characters – it’s just that with a tiny bit more strength and direction it could have been transcendent."
Review | Fulboy. "Most documentaries are as much about how they’re filmed and what they decide to show you as they are about its subject, but they try to hide that. Fulboy faces it head on, taking a look at the lives of a football team, while questioning how we’re seeing it due to its voyeuristic edge."
Watch | Chasing Pavement (trailer); Soft Lad (trailer); Like You Mean It (trailer); Water Boys (trailer); Drown (trailer); Tattoo (trailer); Black (trailer); and Dressed As A Girl (trailer)...
the box
There will be more than four hundred scripted TV series this year. That bubble’s bound to burst.
Fall TV shows 2015: Thirty-four new series, reviewed and cataloged.
Gay web series Derek & Cameron moves to Here TV.
Logo airs Gays in Prison, featuring RuPaul’s Drag Race star Latrice Royale (aka Timothy Wilcots). The documentary features the stories of incarcerated LGBT people.
50 Cent blames Empire ratings drop on "gay stuff".
The lightskinned revolution is here, and it has been televised. It’s called Empire.
The problematic case of Danny Pintauro.
Cat trees and rat queens: Ten things that actually happened on the bonkers series Zoo.
Nickelodeon's best and worst '90s shows, ranked.
On Trevor Noah's first week helming The Daily Show.
Watch | I Hate New York, episode 4 - A New York Love; #NoHomo, episode 4: The Ghost of Liberace; Coffee House Chronicles, episode 4: Perfect Present; Where The Bears Are, season 4, episode 4 - Bears In The Kitchen...
beats, rhymes & life
Andre Johnson, AKA Christ Bearer: I was relentlessly harassed by the media after cutting my own penis off.
The rise and fall of hip-hop's greatest record labels since 1989, in one incredible GIF.
Gay Clean Bandit singer Neil Amin-Smith hits out at fans who say they want to "rape" him...
Lance Bass claims he and other members of 'N SYNC were inappropriately touched by someone the band worked with.
The public shaming of Chrissie Hynde. "In an NPR interview, the Pretenders singer compared comments about her book—and its description of her sexual assault—to a 'lynch mob.'"
The world finally gets to see Justin's Bieber. And reacts.
Justin Bieber wants his dick off of the internet, but he’s glad you saw it.
Rhianna thinks Rachel Dolezal is a hero...
...And what Rihanna really meant when she called Rachel Dolezal a “hero”.
Ambient music isn’t boring, it changed my life.
Watch | Adam Lambert - Another Lonely Night; Tyga - $timulated (which samples Robert Miles’ 90s classic Children); Daye Jack - Save My Soul; Bluey Robinson & Raheem Bakare - Open Road; Troye Sivan - Fools; and the EXP boys sing Love Me Harder by Ariana Grande, and Thinkin Bout You by Frank Ocean...
arena
Seventy-three LGBT athletes who came out since the last National Coming Out Day.
US figure skater Adam Rippon comes out as gay.
Kordell Stewart: "I'm a heterosexual man."
One of the guys. "Mason Darrow has been embraced by the Princeton football team since he told them he’s gay. now he comes out publicly days before kickoff."
sex
Dieux du Stade calendar hunk Sylvain Potard once appeared in gay porn.
Are most gay porn stars just plain racist?
Five Rentboy defendants seek plea deals, other two may or may not go to trial.
...And porn star Max Cameron has something to say too.
Sebastian Kross talks about being homeless, getting kicked out of the military, and going to jail.
Sean Zevran looking spectacular as always in Raging Stallion's Total Exposure 2.
Watch | Armando De Armas and two bottoms in Toronto: A sex tape.
Watch | Topher DiMaggio and Pablo Hernandez take The DICK-tionary Challenge; Mickey Taylor on loving who you are; Sean Zevran on sexual fetish, objectification, and racism; Armond Rizzo and Kayden Winters chat size; Drae Axtell does yoga; and San Francisco go-go boy and noted ass model Bryan Hawn shows us what he's working with.
ghetto romance
Watch | Tom Daley's biggest fan reacts to engagement.
At what age does a gay man give up looking for love and resign to being single forever?
What dating is like when you’re LGBT and disabled.
How sexting is changing our sex lives.
Sex might be easier to find these days. That doesn’t mean love is too.
What breaking up with my best friend taught me about male friendship.
Watch | French slang for Grindr...
rag trade
"I feel like I got discriminated in fashion for not being gay," Kanye West whines.
Why wearing a tie is a sign of respect.
hell's kitchen
Real-life gay family feature in ad for Star Wars soup.
Why you’re probably wasting your money on probiotics.
Can Domino’s grab a pizza the Italian market? "As the US pizza company launches in Italy, maybe it should take heed from brands that failed after not paying enough attention to cultural differences."
The horrifying food of Reddit's bro-cooking community.
British people love drinking cheap, crappy wine.
médecins sans frontières
Gay men are twice as likely to get skin cancer - because of their addiction to tanning beds.
Aspirin is a mediocre painkiller — that also happens to prevent heart attacks and colorectal cancer.
The disturbing relationship between sleep, depression, and suicide.
Boredom is not a problem to be solved. It's the last privilege of a free mind. "Lean in to boredom, not your smart phone screen. You’ll learn more about yourself and the world around you than you think."
betta work!
How to break the "pink ceiling".
No PR campaign will save Walmart from being 'exhibit A' of bad worker policies. "For nearly two generations, no company has been worse than Walmart when it comes to suppressing the rights of workers to stand together on the job."
I own 51% of this company!
Krispy Kreme krashes.
Look at who Coca-Cola funded over the past five years.
planet earth
We're flushing all these antidepressants into our water. How big is the problem?
planes, trains & automobiles
tomorrow's world
The porn app takes secret photos, then demands ransom.
Community bid for .gay web domains rejected again by internet watchdog ICANN.
Facebook is getting something better than a "dislike" button.
The ad blocking controversy, explained.
Colour film was built for white people. Here's what it did to dark skin.
and whilst you're thinking about that, think about this...
Why weed is "infinitely worse" than cigarettes.
The ten blackest moments of 2015 (…so far, at least).
The intense, insular world of AOL disc collecting.
And finally, Walter addresses the popular myth that being molested as a child makes you gay; Jack's sexy Halloween; coming out advice with the Rhodes twins; and Davey Wavey busts some gay sex myths with porn star Mickey Taylor...
See you kids next week - it's been emotional! Zee Jai
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