the week's
news
& pop
culture,
with a
gay
bias.
Left & Found
Why some straight journalists need a reminder on the reality of LGBT life.
Have you sent someone a dick pic recently? Bad luck: that person probably showed it to their friends.
The insult and intimidation of black women is as American as apple pie.
Why asking black people about "black-on-black crime" misses the point.
News
America
Anti-gay Christian protester cruelly laughs as gay man grieves for husband.
Florida hospitals are absorbing the medical costs incurred by victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting.
Father posts heartbreaking message for the bullies who caused son to take his life.
Gay conservative Milo Yiannopoulos - who has been banned from Twitter for racist and sexist tweets - is facing scrutiny over his scholarship fund for white men.
California ballot initiative Prop. 60 would allow the public to sue adult film performers who don't use condoms.
Target is to install gender-neutral bathrooms in all of its stores.
Delta Airlines jettisons Chris Rock's 2008 HBO comedy special Kill the Messenger over homophobic slur.
The Republican Party is officially anti-LGBT. Actual Republicans? Not so much.
How most states allow discrimination against LGBT people.
CANADA The town where 100 young people have tried to kill themselves. "When Justin Trudeau came to power in Canada, he promised to repair the country's relationship with its aboriginal people, after centuries of discrimination. A disproportionate number of indigenous women have gone missing or been murdered in recent decades, and suicide attempts have risen dramatically in some communities."
ANTIGUA & BARBUDA Cabinet decides that “the buggery law will remain unchanged”.
BRAZIL The Olympics left Rio with a few improvements. And a frightening police violence problem. "The victims are mostly young and black. During the games alone, police killed eight people."
Can Brazil be saved? "Colossal corruption. Political chaos. The worst recession in its history. The Olympics won’t rescue the once-booming nation. But all is not lost."
News
UK
Does London's drag scene have a race problem?
Gay men defend Birmingham councillor who agreed LGBT people aren’t normal.
A blackmailer who threatened to expose closeted gay men using Grindr has been jailed, with Judge Richard Foster declaring his crimes amounted to "the attempted murder of the soul".
The Queen's Head, one of London’s oldest gay bars, is to close.
Secrecy and firing squads: Britain’s ruthless war on Nazi spies. "During the second world war, the government fought a secret campaign against German spies. Now, new letters from the MI5 archive reveal the true story of Jose Waldberg, one of the men who was executed."
News
World
GERMANY Why gay men are seeking reparations for a homophobic Nazi law repealed in 1994. "German persecution of gay men continued far after the Nazis' defeat in 1945... more gay men were convicted under Paragraph (§) 175, Germany's former anti-sodomy statute, in the first two and a half decades of the Cold War than ever were under Nazi rule."
IRAQ Four more "gay" men killed by ISIS, including two members.
IRAQ Tales of the tyrant (May 2002). "What does Saddam Hussein see in himself that no one else in the world seems to see? The answer is perhaps best revealed by the intimate details of the Iraqi leader's daily life."
EGYPT Police use Grindr to hunt gay men.
NIGERIA Feminine man provokes police raid.
INDIA The caste system is alive and kicking – and maiming and killing.
JAPAN "I have no choice but to keep looking." "Five years after the tsunami that killed tens of thousands, a husband still searches the sea for his wife, joined by a father who hoping to find his daughter."
PHILIPPINES Why secret gay language Swardspeak has gone mainstream.
AUSTRALIA Man been arrested at Sydney gay sex club for filling a lube dispenser with hydrochloric acid.
AUSTRALIA Pharmaceutical company Gilead accused of overcharging for PrEP.
AUSTRALIA Hundreds of gay couples are already getting married at British consulates, despite same sex marriage remaining illegal.
Médecins Sans
Frontières
Did HIV kill the dinosaurs? "HIV-related retroviruses may date back as far as 60 million years — which puts their emergence to around the time dinosaurs died off."
Could mouthwash kill gonorrhoea infections?
The cancer side effect we don’t talk about: losing masculinity. "As cancer continues to change and compromise my identity, understanding what it is to be a ‘real man’ has been added to all the other daily struggles."
UK tea company Tetley claims that by 2026, it will be be able to produce a range of “Remedy Teas” “enriched with medicines” to cure everything from sore heads to hair loss and erectile dysfunction.
On aphantasia, the rare condition that makes you instantly forget what friends and lovers look like.
WATCH What happens when flies land on your food.
Ghetto
Romance
Why I’ll never date a man whose skin looks like mine. "Growing up gay in India, I was bullied mercilessly by my peers, and fantasized about the out-and-proud white men I saw in movies. They’re still the only type I can love."
I celebrated my honeymoon at Berghain's notorious gay sex club. "When we found out about Lab.Oratory, a sex club in the basement of Berlin's internationally renowned Berghain nightclub, we knew we had to go — that taking part in a bacchanal 300-man orgy was the perfect way to celebrate our bond."
How do I stop bickering with my partner?
The
Box
Is television failing young people?
INTERVIEW Talking to RuPaul about Trump, the Emmys, Black Lives Matter, drag kings, and his belief in a higher power.
Lou Pearlman's life story to become limited TV series.
INTERVIEW Talking to Amy Schumer about racist jokes and what’s "gross" about being Hollywood’s "cool thing".
Andrea Tantaros calls Fox News a "sex-fueled Playboy Mansion-like cult" in lawsuit.
EastEnders loses its beloved long-serving extra Michael Leader.
Why Game of Thrones' sexual violence isn't "nonsense".
Robert Zemeckis is making Noah’s Ark in Space for NBC. (Doctor Who did it already, in 1974.)
Nine major TV characters who vanished.
WATCH Oxygen debuts Strut, a new reality series about trans modeling agency. Trailer:
Deal Or No Deal axed after eleven years.
Critic-proof TV: From Mrs Brown's Boys to The Big Bang Theory.
How Superstore, NBC's comedy about bored employees at a big-box store, became The Office's rightful heir.
WATCH The latest episodes of About Him; Street Behavior; and a new season of BoyDrama.
Picture
House
Gay people made Hollywood, but you wouldn't know it from the movies. "As 50s heartthrob Tab Hunter points out, Tinseltown’s phobia of gay men in leading roles isn’t a thing of the past. Who is the industry afraid of offending?"
Pedro Almodóvar says that if he had directed the film adaptation of Annie Proulx’s short story Brokeback Mountain his film would have had a lot more gay sex than Ang Lee’s.
As the wheels fall off Ben-Hur, where next for the Hollywood blockbuster? "The summer season has seen more than its share of box office flops, and nervous studios are already looking for the next big thing."
Ben-Hur "gay sub-plot" not necessary in 2016, claims the flop's star Toby Kebbell.
Ben-Hur couldn't have been worse. "The movie entitled Ben-Hur, which is opening this weekend, has so little in common with the sumptuous 1959 Charlton Heston epic of the same name, it barely qualifies as a remake. It barely qualifies as a film."
Actor Nate Parker's "sorrow" over rape accuser's suicide...
...But does his past raise questions of how courts handle rape? "A rape accusation against Birth of a Nation director Nate Parker has recently resurfaced as Fox Searchlight prepares to promote the film, which will be released in October."
Twenty-two LGBT documentaries you need to watch.
On El Canto del Colibrí, the new documentary exploring the relationship between Latino immigrant fathers and their LGBT children.
REVIEW Liebmann. "While it has some great moments and there’s a charm about Liebmann, it undermines itself by initially making the central character seem pretty dull and a tad annoying."
The new Star Wars documentary that invites you to unlearn what you have learned about the widely derided prequels.
WATCH Here's the trailers for Spa Night; El Canto del Colibrí and Hurricane Bianca;
Shouting
At Night
Robert Whirry — a writer of the upcoming play Anita Bryant's Playboy Interview — on why it's so important to know your enemies.
Art
+
Design
Russia-born performance artist Mischa Badasyan had sex with a different man every day for a year, for art.
What it was like to set up Andy Warhol's iconic factory studio in the 60s.
China opens world's highest and longest glass bridge.
Word!
Frank Ocean: What kind of writer is he? "Four authors unpack the singer’s literary aesthetic."
Literary fiction readers understand others' emotions better.
Beats, Rhymes
& Life
Frank Ocean: On Crystal LaBeija, the iconic drag queen behind Endless.
Frank Ocean: Why his vulnerability is so radical.
Frank Ocean's Blonde release was hardly covered in gay magazines — why?
Frank Ocean: Kanye West begs radio stations to play the new album for the good of music.
Frank Ocean: So, let’s talk about this Blonde/Blond album.
Frank Ocean: Blonde first-listen review. "[His] second release in three days isn’t the pop album some had predicted. But beneath the subtlety lie indelible hooks."
The best R&B of 2016 has nothing to do with Frank Ocean. "The release of Blond threatens to overshadow that this year has been a vintage year for R&B with artists from KING to Abra pushing the genre’s boundaries."
Bette Midler apologises for supposed transphobic Caitlyn Jenner tweet.
Country singer, The Voice judge and Gwen Stefani’s boyfriend Blake Shelton issues an apology of sorts for homophobic Tweets.
Kyle Falconer, front man for Scottish indie band The View, is facing allegations of homophobic abuse.
What Aaliyah taught me about life (and being queer).
Thirteen queer artists who deserve their own (honorary) VMAs.
Here's the dates for Zebra Katz European tour.
Thirteen queer artists who deserve their own (honorary) VMAs.
How grime gave a voice to a generation. "A new music evolved in east London in 2002 – the sound of an angry but optimistic black Britain."
When neighbourhoods spawn new forms of music (April 2014). "Be it east London's grime scene, the birth of trip-hop in Bristol or Mersey beat in 60s Liverpool, sometimes sound and place are inextricably intertwined. So what are the magic ingredients for a neighbourhood musical revolution?"
A history of grime, by the people who created it (December 2012). "In 2002, two schoolboys in east London helped change the face of electronic music using computers they were given for their homework. Ruff Sqwad's Rapid and Dirty Danger look back."
When neighbourhoods spawn new forms of music (April 2014). "Be it east London's grime scene, the birth of trip-hop in Bristol or Mersey beat in 60s Liverpool, sometimes sound and place are inextricably intertwined. So what are the magic ingredients for a neighbourhood musical revolution?"
Lou Pearlman: We live in the pop-culture world that Lou Pearlman created.
Lou Pearlman: The great and terrible boy band architect and ponzi schemer.
LISTEN Gryffin (featuring KAOS favourite Bipolar Sunshine) – Whole Heart.
Red Light
District
Provincetown Carnival, in pictures.
How gay porn completely changed my life – for the better. "I was treated better in porn than in the fashion industry."
Condom advocate Nick Capra has shared a bareback sex video.
Jed Athens reviews the models he has worked with.
Matt Null, the former Corbin Fisher model who appeared for the company as "Austin", is dead. He was 34.
Arena
Outsports founder apologises for branding closeted athletes cowards.
It's not easy being a gay athlete in Brazil. "A semi-closeted volleyball player has seen the struggles of LGBT athletes but finds hope with the Olympics in his country."
Rio 2016: Team LGBT's Olympic medal count beat every country that criminalises gay sex. "Not even the anti-gay country of Jamaica, with its 11 medals, could come close to the performance of publicly out gay, lesbian and bisexual athletes at the Rio Olympics."
Rio 2016: Team GB athlete slams Olympics intersex rules after Caster Semenya wins Gold.
Rio 2016: Caster Semenya's grace under pressure. "Journalists tried to focus the conversation on testosterone levels. The out South African runner pushed back."
Rio 2016: Inside Rio's Pride House.
Rio 2016: An Olympic tale of gold medals and white privilege. "[Ryan Lochte] may not have turned the Rio pool green. But the US swimmer’s frat boy antics have left a nasty yellow streak all over the Games."
Rio 2016: How Ryan Lochte is the worst type of “white boy bro,” explained.
Tokyo 2020: No Phelps or Gatlin – but USA have a wealth of young talent for Tokyo 2020. "The pipeline looks solid in the pool, gymnastics should be strong as ever, and soccer and basketball will be fine. Expect USA to prosper in four years’ time."
Rio 2016: Thirteen lesser-spotted oddities of the Olympics.
And in other Premier League news, Richard Chaplow has received a two-game suspension for alleged gay slurs against out player Robbie Rogers.
Hell's
Kitchen
Why the science of nutrition is so messy.
The “natural” label on your food is nothing but a marketing ploy.
Rag
Trade
Urban Outfitters bares all. "We venture inside the secretive $3.4 billion empire as it reaches a crucial crossroad."
Betta
Work!
I Own 51% Of
This Company!
BHS closes its doors for the last time. "Scores of bargain hunters turned up at the last shops over the weekend, with queues forming outside some branches."
After BHS closes its doors, what will take its place? "After 88 years, the retailer is about to shut up shop, leaving thousands jobless, a £571m pension deficit and big holes on the high street that may never be filled..."
...Or could they? BHS could return to high street thanks to new Qatari owners. "Doha-based Al Mana group, which bought the historic retailer, is considering opening new branches in UK."
Planes, Trains
& Automobiles
What it's like to almost die in a car crash.
Car hacking is the future – and sooner or later you'll be hit. "Security is finally being taken seriously but the fact that we are increasingly entrusting our lives to self-driving cars creates unease."
Tomorrow's
World
Wikileaks outs rape victims, LGBT and HIV+ people in places where they could be killed.
Hookup app: Pay up or drop dead. "The parent company of Manhunt and Jack'd cockblocked the Los Angeles LGBT Center's efforts to combat a deadly meningitis outbreak."
WhatsApp users to receive adverts.
Torso junkie. "Unlike the bare-chested men they imitate, Grindr spambots have no 'preferences' and no problem liking you."
We were sometimes bullies at Gawker – but we held the powerful to account. "It was callow, it was unkind, and together we did some pretty ignoble things. So why am I sad to hear that after 14 long years, Gawkerdämmerung is nigh?"
The internet can harm your productivity by making you sad – here's what to do. "Following a few simple tips should protect you from the subtly depressing influence of social media, keeping you both happy and productive."
Why you should probably stop those political rants on Facebook.
Planet
Earth
July 2016 was world's hottest month since records began, says Nasa.
Are We Losing the Grand Canyon? "On a 650-mile trek, two adventurers faced danger and hardship—and saw how development could spoil an American icon."
Fear of the light: why we need darkness. "Light pollution conceals true darkness from 80% of Europe and North America. What do we lose when we can no longer see the stars?"
On the dangers of microbeads.
Zoology
How therapy dogs in court make the wait for a verdict "more human".
And Whilst You're
Thinking About
That, Think
About This...
What’s the “blackest” last name? Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, or Jenkins?
And finally, Jack & Ben ("your friendly interracial gay couple") debate sex on the first date; Rogue "Marbie" Scott expounds; Andrew struggles with friends trying to put it in his butt (we've all been there); and Walter talks aout Broadway killer Marcus Bellamy.
And finally, Jack & Ben ("your friendly interracial gay couple") debate sex on the first date; Rogue "Marbie" Scott expounds; Andrew struggles with friends trying to put it in his butt (we've all been there); and Walter talks aout Broadway killer Marcus Bellamy.
See you kids next week - it's been emotional! Zee Jai
Issue 240: 15-28 August 2016
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