the week's
news
& pop
culture,
with a
gay
bias.
Left &
Found
Found
These are the trans people killed in 2016.
Us v Them: The birth of populism. "It’s not about left or right: populism is a style of politics that pits ‘the people’ against ‘the establishment’. Its rise is a warning sign that the status quo is failing."
WATCH Roderick and McKee's coming out stories.
News
America
America
Ten years of Pat Robertson: Our very favourite Robertson moments of the decade, including such hits as "divorce your wife with Alzheimer’s", and "gays don't exist".
...And why Michelle Obama is the best thing about America.
And then there's this guy.
Dangerous idiots: How the liberal media elite failed working-class Americans. "Trump supporters are not the caricatures journalists depict – and native Kansan Sarah Smarsh sets out to correct what newsrooms get wrong."
Watch Asian Americans recount racist microaggressions they experience every day.
Have queer Muslims gained acceptance in their communities since the Pulse shooting?
One in three doctors don't know about PrEP.
Why are Latinos at higher risk of HIV?
Americans don’t know crime has plummeted. In fact, they think it’s gone up.
The weather inside. "The prison system seems intent on ensuring that a man convicted of stealing $264 in 1981 dies in jail."
Held back. "I’m not here to put the blame on anybody. I’m here just to reflect. Just imagine being at a school where you sit down, get your education, you get back up, go home, next thing you know you brought bedbugs from school to your home. Now you have an infestation at your house. Just imagine being at a school where your teachers are all sick and tired, and they’re acting like they’re not able to teach because they’re not getting paid for what they do. Just imagine when your teachers say, 'I don’t know what’s going to happen to me next year, I don’t know if I can afford my car loan. How can I afford to pay rent, how can I afford to even live with the wage I’m getting?'"
ATLieNation. "A dystopian meditation on Atlanta’s disappearing Afrofuture."
A report from occupied territory, by James Baldwin. "Negroes have always held, the lowest jobs, the most menial jobs, which are now being destroyed by automation. No remote provision has yet been made to absorb this labor surplus. Furthermore, the Negro's education, North and South, remains, almost totally, a segregated education. And, the police treat the Negro like a dog." (July 1966)
WATCH The incredible thank you video from the survivors of the Pulse nightclub massacre.
News
UK
UK
Stephen Port: Teenage victim recalls "waking up naked, face down" being raped after drinking spiked red wine.
Stephen Port: Another victim recalls waking up naked after drinking a spiked Coke. "The next thing I remember I was on the floor screaming and shouting. It was like I was going mad."
Stephen Port: Jurors watch home-made videos showing Port raping an unconscious man.
Islamic faith school that expelled gay pupils closed down.
Hospitals and GPs "failing to offer" HIV tests.
News
World
World
POLAND TV presenter Jakub Kwieciński and his boyfriend David made a coming out video. They got death threats in response.
TURKEY Syrian LGBT refugees organise meetings to provide a safe space for LGBT Arabic-speaking refugees.
CAMEROON Police arrest everyone at a Yaoundé gay bar.
ETHIOPIA The country is in a state of emergency. The tyrannical government must go. "The country’s deadly protests stem from ethnic division, endemic corruption and high youth unemployment. The world must support calls for a new government."
Arena
...But an athlete is suing his former high school for not protecting him from anti-gay bullying.
Olympic sprinter Tyson Gay’s daughter Trinity killed in Kentucky shooting.
Homophobic boxer Tyson Fury quits sport over cocaine controversy.
The first LGBT powerlifting championships are coming to London in July 2017.
The backlash over Kaepernick is just Americans’ refusal to acknowledge racism — again.
Art
+
Design
+
Design
Word!
Fifteen LGBT love stories from ancient Greece and Rome.
Shouting
At Night
At Night
WATCH Drag slang, explained.
Film
Forever
Forever
Christian Slater on his King Cobra role: “You gotta feel the fear and do it anyway. That’s how I got through it.”
REVIEW The Ways of Man. "The idea of a modern look at Judas Iscariot is an intriguing one, but ultimately The Ways Of Man doesn’t feel like an idea that’s been fully fleshed out."
Why Ava DuVernay’s documentary 13th is the only recent release you must see.
Sin, cinema, and Nate Parker: The complicated case of The Birth of a Nation.
Fifteen Rita Hayworth moments that slay.
WATCH Trailers for Fire Song; and Coming Out. And Antino Crowley-Kamenwati talks about working on black gay short Once A Star.
The
Box
Box
WATCH A short film about Nur Warsame, Australia's first openly gay imam.
The good, the bad and the cyborgs: Westworld's robot forebears. "As Westworld’s rogue robots begin to revolt, we take a look at some of their artificial forebears who gave new meaning to the phrase ‘technical glitch’."
On Chicago Hope and The Practice creator David E. Kelley's first streaming series, Goliath.
Divorce: Sarah Jessica Parker's comedy is a messy breakup you pray never ends. "Sharon Horgan delivers a kick to the nuptials with her caustic HBO sitcom, which sees the Sex and the City star struggle through marital disharmony..."
...But ABC’s latest half-hour comedy American Housewife is "a weird Frankenstein’s monster of liberal and conservative values... It’s shiny, boring plastic. It’s the reason people hate sitcoms."
INTERVIEW Talking to RuPaul.
The Simpsons is 20 years past its creative high point. It’s still the best show ever made.
Jean Alexander, the actress best known as Coronation Street's Hilda Ogden, is dead. She was 90.
Jean Alexander: Obituary.
REVIEW Feral, season one. "Across its eight episodes, Feral has plenty of interesting ideas, good (if a little pretentious) characters and a nice way of observing life for a section for the young, gay population. It may be a little uneven to start with, but it’s worth sticking with."
WATCH The latest episodes of Fallacies and Steam Room Stories; the trailers for Steel River and Brandon Jones; the first episodes of new webseries Feral and GayTerns...
Beats, Rhymes & Life
Meet the 72-year-old preacher behind one of the greatest gay club anthems of all time.
If Mos Def’s Black On Both Sides came out today, it might be considered the blackest album of all time.
WATCH Out gay artist Tyler Glenn's Shameless.
Red Light
District
District
How has the male escort industry changed since Rentboy was shut down?
How porn consumers gorged themselves on creampies.
Lots of straight men are watching gay porn.
Falcon's Ryan Rose speaks out against Donald Trump.
Ghetto
Romance
Romance
Médecins Sans Frontières
60% of gay men don’t actually know what PrEP is.
Nearly half of all men with eating disorders are gay.
Trying to be creative when you're on antidepressants isn't easy.
Are you drinking too much water?
Hell's
Kitchen
Kitchen
The meat industry doesn’t want you to think of meat as animals.
Betta
Work!
Work!
Planes, Trains
& Automobiles
& Automobiles
Crash: How computers are setting us up for disaster. "We increasingly let computers fly planes and carry out security checks. Driverless cars are next. But is our reliance on automation dangerously diminishing our skills?"
Tomorrow's
World
World
Is our world a simulation? Why some scientists say it's more likely than not. "A swath of technologists and physicists believe that ‘simulation theory’ will be proved, just as it was proved that the Earth was not the center of the universe."
Planet
Earth
Earth
How climate change triggers earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanoes.
On Yasuni Man, an intimate portrait of a beautiful land under siege for its oil. "US biologist Ryan Killackey spent seven years filming a polemical account of a remote forest community under pressure from US and Chinese oil companies."
1491. "Before it became the New World, the Western Hemisphere was vastly more populous and sophisticated than has been thought — an altogether more salubrious place to live at the time than, say, Europe. New evidence of both the extent of the population and its agricultural advancement leads to a remarkable conjecture: the Amazon rain forest may be largely a human artifact."
And Whilst You're Thinking About That, Think
About This...
About This...
And finally, Jack and Ben on dating a friend's ex; the Baddie Twinz are back with storytime; Rogue "Marbie" Scott introduces his new channel; and Andrew isn't happy...
See you kids next week - it's been emotional! Zee Jai
Issue 244: 10-16 October 2016
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