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There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart
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Because I say so little you think I don't feel. I care a lot
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Issue 230: Brontez Purnell, Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, Arinze Kene, Kris Evans, Leon Lopez, Little Joe, Rayvon Owen, and more...
the week's
news
& pop
culture,
with a
gay
bias.
left & found
A ferocious backlash to LGBT equality is in full force.
Why the "born this way" approach to sexual orientation is failing.
How the Rentboy indictment threatens our community’s safety.
Nineteen reasons middle-age gay men need to get over their midlife crises.
The problem with the word "queer".
Why do so many LGBTs hate each other?
We could all use a refresher on LGBT 101. "Contrary to some, not all LGBT millennials are dismissive of the earlier generations' hard-won victories. But there's still a huge knowledge gap when it comes to history."
news - america
Michigan re-criminalises sodomy.
Georgia-based telecom company to relocate after lawmakers pass anti-gay "Religious Freedom" bill.
And in Mississippi, the discriminatory “Religious Liberty Accommodations Act” has passed the House.
How most states allow discrimination against LGBT people.
Why have Democratic debate moderators not asked a single question about LGBT equality?
Without anyone noticing, D.C. passed a remarkable LGBT bill. "The LGBTQ Cultural Competency Continuing Education Amendment Act mandates that certain health care providers learn how to treat gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender patients."
The rise of Donald Trump is a terrifying moment in American politics.
Marco Rubio's super awkward confrontation with a gay voter, explained.
The seventeen saddest moments of Jeb Bush’s very sad campaign.
Some colleges exclude LGBT students using religion, but students are fighting back.
Migrating to the US is already risky. Try being a transgender migrant.
Cleveland is suing Tamir Rice’s family for emergency response costs, and the officer who shot Quintonio LeGrier filed for emotional damages. Really, now?
The NYPD is kicking people out of their homes, even if they haven’t committed a crime. "And it’s happening almost exclusively in minority neighborhoods."
There wasn't a single day in January that police didn't kill anyone.
news - uk
Male rape charity Survivors UK gets £78,000 funding.
British LGBT awards criticised for including Zayn Malik and Zoella in shortlist.
Is Britain full? Home truths about the population panic.
How the Tories use the language of social justice to sell us social injustice.
news - world
CRIMEA Why the European Parliament is gravely concerned over situation LGBT people in Crimea.
What it's like to be a gay refugee in Germany.
SWEDEN A 16-year-old Moroccan immigrant, who beat and murdered a gay man - after wrapping a snake around his neck - has been jailed for four years.
PERU Police attack annual "Kisses Against Homophobia" event in Lima.
Pride & prejudice: How African LGBT activists are risking their lives to bring tolerance to their homes.
MALAWI Court instructs police to resume arresting anyone “engaging in homosexual activities.”
NIGERIA The story of Joseph, a depressed 16-year-old, who has been pestered and verbally tortured at home by his family, especially his father, ever since he disclosed his sexual orientation to his sister in confidence.
INDIA Gay arranged marriages are "on the rise".
CHINA A high-speed sexual revolution. "In the survey I made in 1989, 15.5% of people had sex before marriage," says [sexologist] Li Yinhe. "But in the survey I did two years ago, the figure went up to 71%."
ISRAEL Historic Jerusalem site renamed "Tolerance Square" in honour of 16-year-old Shira Banki, who was murdered by a Jewish extremist at last year's Gay Pride Parade.
INDONESIA LGBT people suffer under anti-gay crackdown.
arena
...And Magic Johnson says he won’t watch another Pacquiao fight. "I applaud Nike for terminating Manny Pacquiao's contract after his derogatory statements that gay people are worse than animals."
So does Mickey Rourke! "I’m a little bit gay myself."
The way we talk when we talk about athletes is dumb as fuck. Understandable, but dumb as fuck.
WATCH Gay high school football coach Shane Wickes comes out in TED talk.
picture house
How can Hollywood really fix its inclusion problem?
Chiwetel Ejiofor says being gay is harder than being black in Hollywood.
Tom of Finland, a new biopic about Finnish artist Touko Laaksonen, will enter production this spring. Dome Karukoski directs.
WATCH Outfest Fusion LGBT People of Color Film Festival announces lineup.
Shawn Balentine becomes Hollywood’s first out gay stuntman.
Fifty straight people who nabbed Oscar nominations for LGBT roles.
WATCH Take This Hammer, a rare James Baldwin documentary from 1963.
WATCH Brontez Purnell talks about his inspiration and vision for his new short film 100 Boyfriends Mixtape; Four Moons (trailer); Daddy (trailer).
the box
Gay men deserve three-dimensional role models, not TV’s stereotypes. "US shows such as Looking offer a more diverse portrayal of gay life, but we have a long way to go before LGBT characters stop being defined by their sexuality."
A guide to Broad City's weird and wonderful world of jokes.
Bizarro characters, the story trope writers can rarely resist, explained. "Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Seinfeld, and The Flash aren't as different as you think."
Vinyl is a corny, unrealistic, and kind of excellent show about 70s rock 'n' roll.
Vinyl brings the volume — and the drugs — but not much else.
Gays of our lives: The latest news from your favourite LGBT characters in soap.
NBA baller Zero comes out with gay kiss in Hit The Floor.
Eight sudden soap deaths that really shocked us. "No notice, no warnings, no mercy..."
Bears rejoice: SuperTed might be coming back.
Ten TV title sequences that were better than the actual show.
WATCH New web series The You & the Me; and The Day Beyonce Turned Black.
shouting at night
I’m a black actor. Here’s how inequality works when you’re not famous.
On Eric Rosen’s stage adaptation of Jim Grimsley’s beloved novel, Dream Boy.
art + design
word!
REVIEW What Belongs to You, by Garth Greenwell. "A book about a gay love so utterly specific and self-aware that it might as well be viewed through an inverted microscope."
REVIEW The Narrow Door: A Memoir of Friendship, by Paul Lisicky. "The book is near seamlessly constructed: moments connect, reflect and super-impose on each other."
REVIEW Black Deutschland, by Darryl Pinckney. "Clever, arch, bitter, thoughtful, sophisticated, and delightfully jaded, Jeb-the-elder makes what could be a real downer of a downward trajectory into a mesmerizing performance. Bad things keep happening to difficult, petty, conflicted, vain, and contradictory people, and thanks to Jeb’s carefully modulated voice, the tangles are also human messes to savor."
REVIEW Cruising the Movies: A Sexual Guide to the Oldies on TV, by Boyd McDonald. "McDonald truly focuses one’s attention to aspects of films that one would otherwise not notice or maybe even think about. It is so easy to watch these movies and fall into the heteronormative wormhole. McDonald jolts us out of it by constantly talking about groins and thighs and penises and “keisters.” At times, that seems to be all McDonald talks about, but, in the end, they have a proper effect."
Archie Comic reveals Jughead is asexual.
The Independent print closure confirmed.
The Independent and the slow death of Fleet Street.
The digital dirt. "How TMZ gets the videos and photos that celebrities want to hide." A profile of TMZ founder Harvey Levin.
beats, rhymes & life
On the blurring of gender and the feminisation of electronic music. "It’s a musical tragedy that house music has, in the dance decade or so, been pigeonholed by casual listeners as “a European thing” or attributed entirely to artists like French duo Daft Punk, who (while influential and talented in their own rite) were neither its progenitors nor its true innovators. That title should rightfully be bequeathed to folks like the late DJ Frankie Knuckles, who was just one of many young, gay men of color hard at work in a late 70’s Chicago."
The man who danced next to me: A remembrance of Frankie Knuckles. (April 2014)
Alex Newell as he releases his first EP, Power.
WATCH Rayvon Owen - Can't Fight It; B Smyth - Love Killa; and Miss Fame & Violet Chachki kiss in their new video, I Run The Runway.
red light district
Little girl lost. "Savannah was a gorgeous porn starlet, among the first of the luminescent Vivid Girls, with a taste for handsome rock stars, fast cars, expensive designer gowns... and copious amounts of drugs to quiet her demons. When things fell apart, she could see only one way out." (November 1994)
What life is like as a male transgender sex worker.
College student Elliott Vance discusses his career as a gay porn actor and escort, to combat the stigma of sex work.
Gay porn actor transmitted HIV despite a negative test.
Why the AIDS Healthcare Foundation's push to ban condomless porn in California is another misuse of funds.
Trial date set in $500,000 “feces mansion” lawsuit against Michael Lucas.
Sketchy Sex's fake cum tube exposed.
Now bigoted gay-for-payer Vadim Black would like you to give him $30,000.
Sean Cody’s Brandon blames his boring scenes on Sean Cody's crew.
Eleven people react to Evan, who claims to have “the world’s prettiest penis”.
ghetto romance
Twenty-two same-sex couples who don't mind the age gap.
médecins sans frontières
A new strain of HIV discovered in Cuba is twice as aggressive as the average virus.
There is no safe way to suntan, health watchdog warns.
hell's kitchen
What the fast-food industry’s shift to cage-free eggs really means.
I own 51% of this company!
Why we need to raise the minimum wage to $15.
Target launches gender-neutral kids' collection.
planet earth
Do animals feel empathy? Inside the decades-long quest for an answer.
Greenhouse gases could eventually heat the Earth enough to boil its oceans away.
How rainforest regrowth boosts carbon capture.
Is there a serious problem with coffee capsules?
Is it time to rethink recycling?
planes, trains & automobiles
Uber is no better than an old-fashioned gangmaster – so London’s cabbies are striking. "I drive a black taxi, and I see Uber eroding one of the only paths London’s working-class kids still have to get a stable job at a time when social mobility has screeched to a halt."
London's ten best bus routes.
inside the spaceship
Scruff gay dating app creators defend race-based filtering.
WhatsApp is now reaching a billion monthly users.
Myspace still around, acquired by Time Inc.
The secret lives of Tumblr teens.
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And finally, Junior, Tochi, Kevin and Dammy on coming out; Walter on being black in America; Andrew on the white Oscars; and the Baddie Twinz survive drowning...
See you kids next week - it's been emotional! Zee Jai