the week's
news
& pop
culture,
with a
gay
bias.
Left & Found
The trouble with straight people coopting queer culture.
Dear white people: Here’s ten ways to tell if a black person actually likes you.
Why Steve Grand says haters target "young, good-looking, white" gay men.
Half of all black gay men will get HIV in their lifetime.
Is the LGBT movement in chaos? "Lack of a singular vision for LGBT rights isn’t a cause for despair, especially when competing visions drive innovation."
How discrimination-related stress effects LGBT lives.
Why we must stop religion from being used as a weapon against us.
LGBT microaggressions that make our blood boil.
Can we compare the civil rights and LGBT movements?
News
America
Transgender woman allegedly raped in Stonewall Inn bathroom.
San Francisco Pride names Black Lives Matter as Grand Marshal.
Why are more and more LGBTs moving to red states?
On dealing with LGBT Republicans.
What do LGBT voters owe Hillary?
Virgina Governor Terry McAuliffe vetoes anti-gay "religious liberty" bill.
Oklahoma’s twenty-seven pieces of anti-LGBT legislation have all been quashed.
North Carolina lawmakers introduce, pass through two houses and get signed by the governor a bill striking down all existing LGBT-inclusive nondiscrimination ordinances across the state. The whole process took a single day.
...And entertainment behemoth Lionsgate has canceled a TV shoot there over the new law. But Governor Pat McCrory thinks it's all "political correctness gone amok".
Disney, Marvel threaten to boycott Georgia over anti-gay bill.
How corporate boycotts have become a key weapon in the fight for LGBT equality.
Mississippi adoption ban struck down - but the state is also one vote and one signature away from enacting what may be the strictest anti-LGBT law yet.
"Religious freedom" laws are just hate, plain and simple.
Is the Deep South growing in its acceptance of LGBT equality?
CANADA Justin Trudeau posthumously pardons Everett George Klippert, who was jailed in the 1960s for being gay...
News
UK
NHS England shelves plans for PrEP.
So, why is the NHS abandoning it?
...While Stonewall hits back, criticising the NUS for their loopy resolution to do away with gay men’s reps.
Nang, dekko and dupa: How is immigration changing language in the uk?
NORTHERN IRELAND 15-year-old teenager (and son of a same sex couple) demands his local Member of the National Assembly, Gordan Dunn, explain why he voted against the Freedom To Marry Measure.
News
World
JAMAICA The challenges of running a queer homeless shelter.
JAMAICA On Kingston, a city born of "wickedness" and disaster. "When the devastating earthquake of 1692 ripped through Port Royal, aka the ‘richest and wickedest city in the world’, a very different Caribbean capital rose up in its place. But could Kingston’s rigid grid plan impose order after the chaos?"
SEYCHELLES Island nation preparing to drop anti-gay laws.
COLOMBIA The Constitutional Court votes in favour of legal marriage equality.
NIGERIA How I almost got killed for being gay in Abuja.
NIGERIA On the murder of Akinnifesi Olumide Olubunmi, who was killed by youths over his perceived sexual orientation, and relationship with a local government councilor.
Ten struggles queer people in the East know all too well.
INDIA On homophobia.
CHINA LGBT content banned from television.
JAPAN My sensual journey into the $90 million fake anime boyfriend market.
JAPAN Tsunami debris: Five remarkable stories.
NORTH SENTINEL ISLAND The last island of the savages. "A voyage to North Sentinel island, home to one of the last entirely isolated populations on Earth."
Ghetto
Romance
WATCH Master Seaman Francis Legare kisses his partner Corey Vautour after returning from a tour on the Royal Canadian Navy’s HMCS Winnipeg.
Why am I attracted to younger men?
Thirty-nine sex toys for curious boys...
Arena
Michael Sam: "People have told me I’m not gay enough, people have told me I’m not black enough."
You won't believe how Nike lost Steph to Under Armour. “The pitch meeting kicked off with one Nike official accidentally addressing Stephen as 'Steph-on.' ... It got worse from there. A PowerPoint slide featured Kevin Durant's name, presumably left on by accident, presumably residue from repurposed materials.”
Picture
House
James Franco explains his "gay obsession". “When I was studying at NYU, I took classes in critical studies, and one of my favourites was on queer cinema. We’ve told the straight, heteronormative stories ad nauseam by now, in our movies, our shows, our commercials – everywhere. I think it’s healthy to make work that disrupts and questions that, and shows alternative narratives. That’s what an artist should do.”
In Hollywood, straight white dudes are kinda the worst.
Violent gay protests at the Oscars: Could it happen again?
Weekend achieves belated success in Italy, despite condemnation from the Roman Catholic Church.
INTERVIEW Talking to filmmaker Kevin Rios about being queer, Cuban, and his biographical film Made Of Sugar.
We’ve hit peak lens flare. Here’s how it started.
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice: Nineteen things that don't make sense in this nonsensical movie.
WATCH Take Me to the River (trailer); Seek McCartney, the trailer for China’s first gay-themed commercial film;
How Meryl Streep battled Dustin Hoffman, retooled her role, and won her first Oscar. "At 29, Meryl Streep was grieving for a dead lover, falling for her future husband, and starting work on Kramer vs. Kramer, the movie that would make her a star and sweep the 1980 Oscars."
The
Box
INTERVIEW Talking to RuPaul's Drag Race's Dax ExclamationPoint and Laila McQueen after they sashayed away.
WATCH The scrumptious Kingsley reflects on the departures of Dax ExclamationPoint and Laila McQueen.
RuPaul's Drag Race: Ten unforgettable moments of herstory.
The haunted twilight of Richard Simmons. "Two years ago, the flamboyant fitness guru abruptly disappeared from public life. Now, his closest friends, banished from his inner circle, have grown increasingly concerned. They worry that the pop-culture icon is being held against his will inside his Hollywood Hills mansion — with one suggesting more sinister notions are at play."
WATCH The latest episode of About Him.
Shouting
At Night
On Shuffle Along and the lost history of black performance in America.
Why don't they make shoes for black ballet dancers?
Art
+
Design
The godmother of manga sex in Japan. "A recent UN report weighed into a debate that provokes intense controversy in Japan, by including manga in a list of content with violent pornography. The BBC's Yuko Kato went to meet one of Japan's leading female manga artists, Keiko Takemiya, seen as the woman who opened the floodgates to sexually explicit manga."
Word!
These journalists dedicated their lives to telling other people’s stories. what happens when no one wants to print their words anymore? "As newsrooms disappear, veteran reporters are being forced from the profession. That’s bad for journalism—and democracy."
The weight of James Arthur Baldwin. "Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah travels to James Baldwin's home in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, and examines the impact of a writer whose legacy cannot be erased."
Thirty-seven inspirational quotes from LGBT writers.
Lambda Literary Foundation snuffs out anti-trans scandal.
Ten amazing LGBT bookstores worthy of a road trip.
INTERVIEW Talking to Garth Greenwell. "Cruising parks need to be written about with much more richness and nuance."
The People v O.J. Simpson: Why his lawyers "played the race card".
The killing of Gus Hasford. "He came home from Vietnam, wrote the novel that became Full Metal Jacket, was nominated for an Oscar and riding high. Then he got thrown in jail for stockpiling stolen library books, started drinking, cut off his friends and fled to a remote Greek island. He never made it back." (June 1993)
Hollywood ending. "How a high-powered lawyer and a rough-edged private detective ended up at the center of the biggest, dirtiest scandal in Hollywood history." (July 2006)
Beats, Rhymes
& Life
American Idol finalist La'Porsha Ranae doesn't think gay people are "animals," but she still doesn't agree with their "lifestyle" or "life choices.".
Why millennials don't go clubbing.
Pet Shop Boys: Worthy of academic consideration.
Are house and techno thriving or stagnating?
Madonna has now become "toxic" figure for millennials. "Survey reveals the 57-year-old's latest on-stage antics have been deemed 'desparate' and 'embarrassing'."
The changing face of the male pop star heartthrob.
The horrifying details of what allegedly happened the night Chris Brown assaulted Rihanna.
The ballad of Fred and Yoko. "How one of the world's foremost Beatles collectors died homeless on the streets of Little Rock."
WATCH Michael Kiwanuka - Black Man In A White World; Jordan Bratton - Frank; Troye Sivan - YOUTH; Eli Lieb, Steve Grand - Look Away; out Australian singer-songwriter Brendan Maclean's Hugs Not Drugs (Or Both); Alex Newell - Basically Over You (B.O.Y).
Red Light
District
Why is offline porn still a thing?
What did porn do to millennials?
The devil and John Holmes. "John Holmes was a porn star. Eddie Nash was a drug lord. Their association ended in one of the most brutal mass murders in the history of Los Angeles." (May 1989)
WATCH Go BALLS DEEP into Bear Week in Provincetown.
Médecins Sans
Frontières
Five reasons why TasP is the best HIV prevention method.
Thirty things you should know about HIV but were afraid to ask.
Why we shouldn't stop talking about being "undetectable".
LGBT people have more alcohol problems, but are more likely to get treatment.
Is porn addiction a real thing?
If you’re just not a morning person, science says you may never be. "Morning people and night owls are born that way. It's time we accepted that."
Hell's
Kitchen
The improbable rise of the banana, America’s most popular fruit
Food companies pledge to move away from toxic BPA chemicals in cans.
Rag
Trade
Twenty-one artists reimagine the black leather jacket to benefit The LGBT Center.
WATCH Boxers or briefs? Gay dodgeball players expose themselves!
I Own 51% Of
This Company!
Why is hypocritical Apple happy to rake in a profit from countries where being gay can get you killed?
Planet
Earth
Whales are starving – their stomachs full of our plastic waste.
I trained killer whales at SeaWorld for twelve years. Here’s why I quit.
Planes, Trains
& Automobiles
The US once had more than 130 hijackings in four years. Here’s why they finally stopped.
The longest night. "One Easter Sunday, the Alaska Ranger — a fishing boat out of Dutch Harbor — went down in the Bering Sea, 6,000 feet deep and thirty-two degrees cold. Forty-seven people were on board, and nearly half of them would spend hours floating alone in the darkness, in water so frigid it can kill a man in minutes. Forty-two of them would be rescued. Here’s how."
The "Boaty McBoatface" vote makes me ashamed to be British.
Inside The
Spaceship
Four reasons why the internet is the worst thing to happen to humanity.
Apple rejects "Gay New York: 101 Can't-Miss Places" app for a second time.
Life and death in the app store. "As last year began, the app developer Pixite held its company retreat at a converted Old West movie set outside of Palm Springs. They spent a few days dreaming about the future while eating barbecue and sipping whisky in the sun. But 2015 was not a good year, and by last month the company’s dreams had narrowed to survival."
Deceased Facebook users will outnumber living ones within this century.
Why the Wingdings font exists.
And Whilst You're
Thinking About
That, Think
About This...
Why stealing Lego may be the perfect crime.
And finally, Junior, Tochi, Kevin and Dammy on homophobia in London; Walter finds himself engulfed in a controversy; Andrew on religion; and story time with the Baddie Twinz!
And finally, Junior, Tochi, Kevin and Dammy on homophobia in London; Walter finds himself engulfed in a controversy; Andrew on religion; and story time with the Baddie Twinz!
See you kids next week - it's been emotional! Zee Jai
Issue 233: 22 February - 10 April 2016
On the cover: The photography of Robert Mapplethorpe.
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