the week's
news
& pop
culture,
with a
gay
bias.
Left &
Found
VICE asked some gay men if they'd rather be straight. Here's what they said.
The smug style in American liberalism.
Five ways white millennials view race today.
Black atheists explain what it's like to be a "double minority" in America.
When you're a woman raped by a woman.
News
America
Does "damaged masculinity" help explain Columbine and other mass shootings?
Suicides are rising in the United States, and no one really knows why.
President Obama responds to the UK's travel warning: "I want everybody here in the United Kingdom to know that the people of North Carolina and Mississippi are wonderful people. They are hospitable people. They are beautiful states, and you are welcome."
Salt Lake City council votes unanimously to rename 900 South as Harvey Milk Boulevard.
Secrets of a gay Jehovah’s Witness: How I escaped the religion and rebuilt my life.
Secrets of a gay Jehovah’s Witness: How I escaped the religion and rebuilt my life.
Queen bigot Kim Davis' latest legal defeat.
Tony Spence, an editor at the Catholic News Service, has been forced to resign, reportedly because of pro-LGBT Tweets.
On the public's obsession with showers and toilets.
I was raped 2,000 times: One transgender woman’s prison hell.
Why boycotts are not the answer to the South's hatred.
"Evil, degrading, addictive, harmful": Utah officially deems porn a public health crisis.
Bad housing laws have turned San Francisco's tech boom into a crisis for Oakland.
How Amazon's same-day delivery service reflects decades of residential segregation.
Monica Lewinsky: "The shame sticks to you like tar". "Nearly 20 years ago, Monica Lewinsky found herself at the heart of a political storm. Now she’s turned that dark time into a force for good."
News
UK
The Foreign Office has issued a travel warning to LGBT tourists, not for the Middle East or Africa, but the US.
LGBT school program accredits sixty UK schools as LGBT friendly.
LGBT school program accredits sixty UK schools as LGBT friendly.
The BBC announces new diversity targets for LGBT people, ethnic minorities, women, and disabled people.
News
World
FRANCE Calais and the shantytown on its doorstep. "Once a centre of industry as well as a prosperous port, the city is now synonymous with the misery of migrants, and its residents are not enjoying their notoriety."
KUWAIT Forty-one men arrested in "gay raid" of massage parlour.
Czech Republic to be known as "Czechia".
The African Queer Youth Initiative launches an anonymous survey of young LGBTIQ Africans.
AUSTRALIA Telecom giant Telstra does another u-turn and publicly supports marriage equality again.
Picture
House
Twenty-six LGBT icons who need biopics.
INTERVIEW Talking to directors Ester Gould and Reijer Zwaan their new documentary, Strike A Pose.
REVIEW Strike A Pose. "Despite the pensive nature of a significant part of the film, the themes of resilience and spirit come through strongly in footage of the men striking a pose again now, assuming their semaphoric voguing stances in dance studios, in the great outdoors, on the street or alone in their living rooms." (Hollywood Reporter) "Once its flashback aspects are exhausted, 'Pose' doesn’t prove all that revealing or substantial, its last third feeling like a padded over-stretch of thin material." (Variety) "Gould and Zwann's film runs along perhaps too familiar formal lines to have many tricks up its sleeve: it establishes a rhythm of switching between the dancers individually in their post-fame lives, that we just know must end with a reunion." (The Playlist)
Blown up – how cinema captured the dark heart of the swinging 60s. "It’s 50 years since Time declared London ‘swinging’ and foreign film-makers flocked to the capital to tells its stories. From A Hard Day’s Night to Blow-Up, the era-defining movies rolled out. But beneath the glam, paranoia, madness and violence were never far away."
Being an Asian actor is hard even without Scarlett Johansson taking your roles...
...Because Hollywood’s best Asian roles still go to white people.
The making of a Hollywood princess. "Sixty years ago, Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier of Monaco in a wedding conceived, designed, and directed by MGM studios."
WATCH The Founder (trailer).
The
Box
American Idol loser runner-up La’Porsha Renae backtracks on anti-gay hate rhetoric.
A casting report of every LGBT character on TV right now.
Fourteen of the worst TV cop shows ever: HolbyBlue, Rosemary and Thyme, Mrs Columbo and more.
Are big game shows dying?
Shouting
At Night
On Cincinnati's gay opera, Fellow Travellers.
Art + Design
Was the Mona Lisa’s iconic smile based on that of Leonardo da Vinci’s gay lover, Gian Giacomo Caprotti?
Word!
The Publishing Triangle, the association of LGBT publishing, has announced the winners for its 28th Annual Triangle Awards in LGBT Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Debut Fiction, and, for the first time, Trans and Gender-Variant Literature.
Why I came out as a gay children’s book author.
REVIEW The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal, by E.K. Weaver. "Everyday adventures that regular people find themselves in. Weaver is reminding us of the simple yet complex pleasures of meeting someone new, visiting new places, and eating Waffle House."
REVIEW Guapa, by Saleem Haddad. "A fascinating story with elements of a life richly lived, and if Guapa finds its way into the canon of queer literature, we will all be stronger for it."
READ An excerpt from Edmund White’s new novel Our Young Man.
Ten visually stunning LGBT coffee table books that will start a conversation.
Beats, Rhymes
& Life
Don’t believe the hype — the “music industry” is doing just fine. Musicians? Not so much. Same as it ever was.
Why we grieve artists we've never met, in one tweet.
Prince gave black kids permission to be weirdos.
Why you can’t find Prince’s music online.
Prince, in fourteen songs that show why he's a musical legend.
WATCH Elijah Blake - Whatever Happened; and Holy Faya & KillASon Present: The Black Crook.
Red Light
District
Colby Jansen admits to being fake fucked in MEN.com scene.
WATCH Boomer Banks talks to Davey Wavey about his penis being too big.
Ghetto
Romance
Médecins Sans
Frontières
How antidepressants help repair the brains of HIV-positive people.
Why people sleep badly in an unfamiliar place.
The fifty most dangerous drugs.
Hell's
Kitchen
Ten legendary lesbian bars where we wish we could hang out.
A naked restaurant? The very idea has me shrinking in horror.
The sugar conspiracy. "In 1972, a British scientist sounded the alarm that sugar – and not fat – was the greatest danger to our health. But his findings were ridiculed and his reputation ruined. How did the world’s top nutrition scientists get it so wrong for so long?"
Why McDonald's fries taste so good. "Mysterious, man-made 'natural flavor' explains why most fast food—indeed, most of the food Americans eat—tastes the way it does."
Rag
Trade
Betta
Work!
Uber has paid $100 million to keep its drivers from becoming employees.
In which we don't do coke in the bathroom of the restaurant. On waiting tables.
I Own 51% Of
This Company!
Why "Uber for X" companies are struggling even as Uber thrives. "It's not just an app, it's a loophole in some bad regulations."
The battle over the Sea-Monkey fortune. "It involves a former 1960s bondage film actress, a Jewish neo-Nazi, the husband of the speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives, and a whole lot of creative marketing."
Planes, Trains
& Automobiles
US FAA says shooting down drones is a federal crime.
Arena
NBA: No All-Star game for North Carolina if anti-LGBT law isn't changed.
Madison expresses interest to be host of 2022 Gay Games.
Planet
Earth
Limbs, fins evolved from fish gills, new evidence suggests.
Why climate change is so important, in one chart.
WATCH This 4K view of our planet from the ISS. (Make sure to change the resolution to “2160p 4k” on settings!)
And Whilst You're
Thinking About That,
Think About This...
And finally, Andrew on being gay for comedy; Kenneth discusses sex abuse; Walter on disclosing your HIV status; and James looks into Tinder...
See you kids next week - it's been emotional! Zee Jai
Issue 235: 18-24 April 2016
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