the week's
news
& pop
culture,
with a
gay
bias.
Left & Found
The handkerchief code explained, once and for all.
Trump, Brexit... Is New Zealand your escape route too? "Billy Crystal has threatened to move to New Zealand if Trump wins power and post-Brexit, ‘move to New Zealand’ became a top Google search term. Please consider moving here, but do so with your eyes wide open."
Are we living through another 1930s? "As daunting events come thick and fast amid increasing public racism and xenophobia, the similarities with the buildup to the second world war are real, but we can take hope from a few key differences."
Why we should relegate terrorists to the obscurity of their own infamy. "Limiting publicity would deny jihadis the glory they crave and reduce the risk of us banalising evil."
News
America
Pulse Orlando: Did a slow police response cost lives?
Pulse Orlando: The medical examiner's office has released autopsy reports on thirty-one of the victims - and shooter Omar Mateen.
WATCH Pulse: Ellen Page and Gaycation head to Orlando.
The Mayor of Fairfax, Virginia, Richard "Scott" Silverthorne, has been arrested for exchanging meth for sex with men.
How the sex offender registry destroys LGBT rights.
A Republican intellectual explains why the Republican Party is going to die...
...And why a Trump trainwreck is the only thing that will save the Republican party.
Wikileaks working on hacking Trump's tax returns.
Hillary Clinton vs. Herself. "There’s nothing simple about this candidacy—or candidate."
Why the religious freedom argument is a sham.
The new movement calling for an end to "the war on black LGBTs".
On New York's "queer health warrior" Demetre Daskalakis.
Facing my fear: driving while black can be fatal. But I've got places to go.
O.J. Simpson's private goodbye, a buried knife and more secrets spilled from the ghost of 360 North Rockingham.
Unearthing the secrets of New York’s mass graves. "Over a million people are buried in the city’s potter’s field on Hart Island. A New York Times investigation uncovers some of their stories and the failings of the system that put them there."
The manhunt for Christopher Dorner. "A disgraced ex-LAPD officer swore revenge on those he blamed for his firing. He vowed to kill them all... and their families."
Blindsided: A dream engagement turned nightmare. "Don Huckstep thought he’d found true love in his small hometown of Fowler, Indiana. But when Teri Deneka mysteriously vanished from his life, the disappearance foreshadowed a bizarre—and grisly—series of discoveries that left Huckstep, police, and another man’s family with more questions than answers."
A thousand pounds of dynamite. "In 1980, a bankrupt gambler came up with a plan to get his money back. He built an incredibly complex bomb, one that was impossible to defuse and that only he knew how to move, and snuck it into a Lake Tahoe casino with an extortion note demanding $3 million. Part of the plan worked. Part of it did not."
San Francisco's Millennium Tower is tilting, sinking.
WATCH ABC’s What Would You Do? depicts man cheating on wife with gay lover.
News
UK
One in fourteen adults have suffered sexual abuse as children, according to the Office of National Statistics.
Local authorities told to distribute free condoms, lube to gay men to curb HIV transmissions.
Train company educates customer who complained about a "man in dress".
Colourful, carnivalesque, transgressive: The club that’s saving queer nightlife. "As gay clubs close across the country, Sink The Pink is revitalising the scene with its gender-screwing, club-meets-cabaret vibe."
Meet Bradley Charvet, the London entrepreneur who wants to erect a café that specialises blowjobs.
London's Olympic legacy: a suburb on steroids, a cacophony of luxury stumps. "Beyond Stratford’s investment units, cultural mega-hub and ‘innovation centres’, affordable housing is in scant supply on the former London 2012 site. [Mayor] Sadiq Khan and the legacy team have their work cut out to salvage the original vision."
NORTHERN IRELAND Thousands call for an end to the ban on gay marriage at Belfast Pride.
NORTHERN IRELAND Gay men under 45 are to be offered the HPV vaccine.
Brexit: A disaster decades in the making. “On the day after the referendum, many Britons woke up with the feeling – some for better, some for worse – that they were suddenly living in a different country. But it is not a different country: what brought us here has been brewing for a very long time.”
News
World
IRELAND Gay sex-scandal engulfs Catholic seminary amid allegations of Grindr use.
NETHERLANDS Amsterdam boosts security for Gay Pride canal parade.
RUSSIA The bears who came to town and would not go away. "This is the story of a place at the edge of the world, where a black bear ventured into a Russian hamlet and attacked a human. One bear became two, two became dozens, and before long no one would leave their home, and no one had any idea what to do."
BRAZIL What does billions in security measures get you in Rio? Not much.
BRAZIL Criticising the Games has become an Olympic sport. But they’re a win for Rio. "After a spate of national crises, we Brazilians should be proud to be hosting an event that will provide unity and opportunities for future generations."
BRAZIL What will Olympic tourism mean for Rio’s favelas?
ZIMBABWE National Assembly Speaker Jacob Mudenda thinks Zimbabweans are “too shy” to talk about the "high rate of homosexuality" in the country’s prisons.
ISRAEL The extremist who stabbed several people at last year’s Jerusalem gay pride is suspected of trying to organise another attack from his prison cell.
IRAN Gay teenager Hassan Afshar hanged in Arak’s Prison; another teenager - Alireza Tajiki - is next in line for execution.
IRAN Men in hijabs.
JAPAN The ghosts of Fukushima. "It’s been five years since the meltdown forced them to abandon their village. Now they’re going home. Can a town devastated by nuclear disaster be brought back to life?"
Picture
House
From Ghostbusters to Star Trek Beyond: Gay characters are there, but only just.
Delta Airlines removes gay kissing from presentation of Carol.
The eight biggest wins for LGBT people in 2016’s blockbusters so far.
Jared Leto: Hollywood's homophobic discrimination must end.
On Women He's Undressed, the new film about the heretofore untold story of the great Hollywood costume designer Orry-Kelly, and Cary Grant - the man he loved.
Kubrick (April 2000). "The world outside the gates of Stanley Kubrick’s English manor house may have seen the legendary director as cold, arrogant, even a bit crazy. But to those who entered the citadel of Kubrick’s obsessive, often brutal devotion to filmmaking, his life made pure and perfect sense. At the premature end of a career that spanned Dr. Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Barry Lyndon, Lolita, The Shining, and this summer’s Eyes Wide Shut,the author, who co-wrote the screenplay for Full Metal Jacket, pays unsentimental homage to his longtime friend, remembering the humor, the cleanly burning intelligence, the outrageous sanity of a 20th-century master."
REVIEW Thank You. "It’s rare to find a film that simultaneously feels like an art film and like pornography, but Thank You fits that bill, thanks to a sensitive and thoughtful look at sex beyond the mechanical, instead focusing on the sensitive and genuinely erotic."
WATCH Closet Monster (trailer).
The
Box
The UK's Celebrity Big Brother could be facing fines from the communications watchdog Ofcom after actor Christopher Biggins referred to AIDS as a "bisexual disease"; Biggins opposed the introduction of gay marriage, despite being gay himself.
Tyler Posey apologises for misleading "coming out" Snapchat.
Cary Fukunaga is developing a limited series about the ’80s AIDS epidemic and New York gentrification.
NBC is the internet's TV network punching bag. But its fall schedule is its best in years.
Sixteen TV shows that totally outstayed their welcome.
Sex, lies, jellyfish, and evil sloths: Zoo is TV's most ridiculous show, and I love it so much.
Stranger Things doesn't just reference '80s movies. It captures how it feels to watch them. And this: The benefits of nostalgia casting.
Social justice, shipping, and ideology: When fandom becomes a crusade, things get ugly. "Gatiss’s 'RIP' response caused a serious fandom meltdown among Johnlock supporters. Over the next few days, hundreds of them responded in dismay, with many accusing Gatiss — an openly gay man — of being insensitive to queer fans on the day of a major tragedy within the LGBTQ community."
The multitudes of Roseanne Barr (August 2001). "She’s TV’s loudmouth Domestic Goddess, desecrater of our national anthem and most of our notions of good taste. And she has a secret. Meet Baby, Cindy, Susan, Nobody, Joey, Heather and the rest: An adventure in Multiple Personality Disorder."
WATCH The latest episode of About Him; the first episodes of new series Red Skin and Fallacies; the return of The DL Chronicles; and the trailer for the fifth season of Where The Bears Are.
Shouting
At Night
Angels in America: The complete oral history. "How Tony Kushner’s play became the defining work of American art of the past 25 years."
Art
+
Design
Same old, same old. How the hipster aesthetic is taking over the world. "Industrial furniture, stripped floors and Edison bulbs: why must we aspire to such bland monotony?"
The man with his head in the clouds. "Chicago architect Adrian Smith designed the world’s tallest building. Now he has created one that will reach even farther — a full kilometer into the sky. How high can he go?"
Word!
READ An excerpt from A Gift of Love, the new memoir from Tony Cointreau, in which he describes leaving a singing career to work with Mother Teresa and her New York City AIDS Hospice.
REVIEW Christodora, by Tim Murphy. "What emerges is imagination and experience refracting onto the page. It is a beautiful — and often painful — sight to behold."
REVIEW Tom House: Tom of Finland in Los Angeles, edited by Michael Reynolds. "With this new presentation of Tom of Finland’s practice, Reynolds has truly brought to the surface the intimate nature of this community, and it’s remarkable."
Beats, Rhymes
& Life
Heavy metal band Slipknot has partnered with North Carolina’s leading LGBT charity, and condemned the state’s anti-LGBT law.
Former Union J singer George Shelley claims he is attracted to both men and women and would "never come out as gay".
Justin Bieber’s naked body is on the internet again.
Red Light
District
Ghetto
Romance
Sixteen signs your gay relationship is over.
Seventeen tips for being a better top.
WATCH When you know for a fact he's a bottom.
Médecins Sans Frontières
You've been wasting your time flossing every day.
Rag Trade
Betta
Work!
Byron betrayed its workers. The system betrays us all. "The true scandal of undocumented burger staff is a rigged labour market that allows firms to exploit employees at their discretion."
I was a warehouse wage slave. "My brief, backbreaking, rage-inducing, low-paying, dildo-packing time inside the online-shipping machine."
My four months as a private prison guard. "Private prisons are shrouded in secrecy. I took a job as a guard to get inside—then things got crazy.”
1.8 million American truck drivers could lose their jobs to robots. What then?
The secret life of a DJ: a joyous job in a grimly misogynistic industry. "Nothing compares to the buzz of mixing tracks and the oneness I feel with the crowd but as a woman I’ve had to invent a male manager to be treated fairly."
I Own 51% Of
This Company!
Tomorrow's
World
How screen addiction is damaging children's brains.
Arena
Karma's a bitch: Tyson Fury, who said gays will bring the apocalypse, faces UK Anti-Doping charge.
Out athlete Gus Kenworthy caught on camera partying with the son of the Sultan of Brunei; being gay is punishable by death in Brunei under the Sultan's dictatorship.
Rio 2016: Six winners and five losers from a scrappy but impressive opening ceremony.
Rio 2016: No out LGBT athletes chosen to be flag bearer for Olympic Parade of Nations...
...But if Team LGBT were a country, it would be the 61st largest at Rio Olympics.
Rio 2016: Fans taunt lesbian soccer players with homophobic chant.
Rio 2016: Each Olympic athlete has been allotted forty-two condoms.
Rio 2016: The trouble with the Olympic Games. "In light of the Russian doping scandal, London’s debatable legacy and the craven prostrations of prospective future hosts, the Olympic ideal looks shabby indeed as we draw closer to Rio. What is the point of the Games today?"
Olympic Outlist: 257 LGBT Olympians throughout history.
Life after the Olympics. "Eight Olympians, all of whom struggled when they came home from the games. Some wrestled with health problems and financial woes. Some faced public anger or disdain for their politics. Some confronted anxiety, depression, and self-doubt. But these are not stories of defeat — they are ultimately about renewal and reinvention."
Planet
Earth
How Barcelona is taking city streets back from cars.
The climate crisis is already here – but no one’s telling us. "The media largely relegate the greatest challenge facing humanity to footnotes as industry and politicians hurtle us towards systemic collapse of the planet."
The really big one. "An earthquake will destroy a sizable portion of the coastal Northwest. The question is when."
Do animals feel empathy? Inside the decades-long quest for an answer.
Deep intellect. "I had always longed to meet an octopus. Now was my chance: senior aquarist Scott Dowd arranged an introduction. In a back room, he would open the top of Athena’s tank. If she consented, I could touch her. The heavy lid covering her tank separated our two worlds."
And Whilst You're
Thinking About
That, Think
About This...
And finally, Walter talks about bottom shaming; Andrew's sex life; Stahr Milan: My boyfriend gave me an STD! And Kenneth confesses: I slept with his best friend!
See you kids next week - it's been emotional! Zee Jai
Issue 238: 31 July - 07 August 2016
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