the week's
news
& pop
culture,
with a
gay
bias.
Left &
Found
Do Boy George’s tweets about bisexuals represent a serious problem in the gay community?
2016 deaths: The great, the good and the lesser known.
Queer culture in the age of transgender disruption.
Why feminism didn't lose in 2016.
News
America
America
Gay America’s harrowing, heartening year.
...Meanwhile, 41-year-old Mesha Campbell has become the first transgender person to be murdered in 2017.
The NYPD is investigating hate mail containing a “suspicious substance” sent to the gay man who confronted Ivanka Trump.
Students reach plea deal amid investigation into sexual assault with broom handle on "no gay Thursday".
Kim Burrell: Katonya Breaux tweets to son Frank Ocean, "Son, can we crop Kim Burrell's voice out of your song?"
Kim Burrell reminds us how the black church uses, abuses gay Christians. "As much as homophobic denominations like Burrell's Church of God in Christ don't want to admit it, righteous gay and bi men are part of their congregations."
Kim Burrell's homophobia betrays the message of Hidden Figures.
Coachella owner Philip Anschutz forced to deny homophobia following revelations about donations to right-wing groups and anti-LGBT organisations.
HIV: How some of the nation's poorest regions also have the highest HIV rates.
WATCH First Lady Michelle Obama makes emotional farewell speech.
Six things we must do to survive Trump’s America.
The marching band of a historically black college in Alabama is to take part in Donald Trump’s inaugural parade.
...But Facebook refuses to explain why it didn't take the video down sooner.
Why I'm proud to be a Hollywood "sissy". "A dangerously unknowledgeable, appallingly incurious, unapologetically untruthful, terrifyingly inexperienced, and wildly intemperate demagogue will take his oath of office and become the president of the United States... I've finally come to terms with the fact that deus ex machina isn't going to save us. I work in show business, so forgive my hope for a Hollywood ending."
Trump orders President Obama's envoys to abandon their posts by Inauguration Day, "disregarding established protocol and likely causing a logistical as well as a potential diplomatic nightmare."
Trump’s public disagreement with intelligence community is unprecedented and "adversarial".
Mike Pence: Trump will roll back Obama executive orders on day one. Here's what might survive.
Why I'm obligated to be as gay as possible in Trump's America.
Arnold Schwarzenegger claps back at Trump's The Apprentice ratings jab.
All of Trump’s known conflicts of interest in one place.
How “collective narcissism” helps explain the election of Trump.
Trump isn’t a fascist. "A leading expert on 1930s-era politics explains that Trump is a right-wing populist, not a fascist — and the distinction matters."
Is Hillary Clinton considering running for Mayor of New York City?
The trial of Dylann Roof for the Charleston church shooting, explained.
Want to be part of the next wave of activism? Move to rural America.
The Human Rights Campaign is calling on the State Department to apologise for all the gays and lesbians it fired in the 1950s.
The anatomy of a mass shooting at a house party. "How a teenage get-together turned into a scene of bloody chaos that left one neighbour dead."
News
UK
UK
People living with HIV in the UK are way more likely to die from AIDS complications than they are in the US.
Young gay couple viciously beaten in 'homophobic attack' on Christmas Day. "The pair needed hospital treatment after the alleged assault, after they had been out celebrating Christmas with friends."
Why hasn't the government banned caste discrimination?
Did British secret agents try to stop World War II by "turning Hitler into a woman"?
News
World
World
BRAZIL Men helped to become better fathers to reduce gender violence.
CAMBODIA Police to arrest people who photoshopped the King Norodom Sihamoni having gay sex.
CHINA The couple who saved China's ancient architectural treasures before they were lost forever. "As the nation teetered on the brink of war in the 1930s, two Western-educated thinkers struck out for the hinterlands to save their country's riches."
NIGERIA Two men arrested, bailed for homosexuality.
AUSTRALIA United Airlines flight forced to make emergency landing after homophobic passenger’s angry rant.
Arena
171 LGBT people in sports who came out publicly in 2016.
Art +
Design
Design
Tyrus Wong, the Bambi artist thwarted by racial bias, is dead. He was 106. "He left China at 10 and would never see his mother again. He lived in extreme poverty once he arrived in America. He found his calling in art, became the creative force behind one of Disney’s iconic films, but didn’t get recognition for his brilliance until late in his life, when in addition to painting and illustrating he began to make fantastical kites."
Word!
New LGBT poetry journal Impossible Archetype is accepting submissions.
Children’s magazine Highlights is featuring a family with same-sex parents for the first time just months after being accused of homophobia.
Add Lambda Literary to those angry with Simon & Schuster over "white supremacist" Milo Yiannopoulos book deal.
The latest best seller in Germany: Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf.
Shouting
At Night
At Night
WATCH The world's oldest drag queen.
Film
Forever
Forever
Does Moonlight show gay cinema has to be sexless to succeed? "Barry Jenkins’s coming-of-age drama is a major Oscar contender and proof that queer cinema is escaping its arthouse niche. But it’s hard to imagine an equally accomplished yet more explicit film receiving the same acclaim."
Star Wars has always been political. Here's why the alt-right is claiming otherwise.
Cher to star in Flint water crisis Lifetime movie from Craig Zadan and Neil Meron.
Why a film celebrating McDonald's is the perfect start for Trump cinema. "The Founder, about the man who built McDonald’s, is a fitting start to the new era. But Hollywood’s love affair with Trump’s kind of anarcho-capitalism began long ago."
Will Hollywood ever end its love affair with guns?
WATCH Here's the trailer for I Am Not Your Negro, a film that uses James Baldwin’s own words to explore contemporary American race relations; and trailers for Staying Vertical; and Lovesong.
The
Box
Box
Gay TV stars are the highest paid in the world...
...Here's the salaries of TV’s top talent revealed.
Fifty years after CBS Reports: The Homosexuals, one man tells his story.
Ouch! Emerald City "is so shallow that it almost appears deep".
Hulu and the BBC are making a cop show set five years before the apocalypse.
How box-set binge culture forces TV channels to put out half-baked programmes.
Gays of our lives: All the latest news from gay soapland!
EastEnders: Ronnie survives and Roxy dies in alternative ending.
Case closed: It's beyond reasonable doubt – we've reached peak cop drama. "With Death in Paradise guilty of crimes against TV, it’s lucky No Offence and Unforgotten make for arresting viewing. How far can we push this creaking genre?"
The alternative top twenty-five funniest TV sitcom moments of all time.
WATCH Drew Droege’s Chloë Sevigny discovers she has grandparents.
WATCH Here's out news anchor Don Lemon drunk on New Year's Eve.
WATCH The latest episode of Steel River; and the trailer for Love Is Blind.
Beats, Rhymes
& Life
& Life
Global grime, political struggle and a Chinese pop explosion – what will be 2017’s music trends?
Boy George mocks bisexuals, implies George Michael "suicide" Tweets were real...
...and then posts series of Tweets in response to the criticism of his alleged biphobia.
Red Light
District
District
The most homophobic countries in the world are watching gay porn...
...So are one in five straight men.
Micah Brandt opens up about his health problems, launches a GoFundMe page to raise money for his medical bills.
De we already have the worst porn name of 2017?
Ghetto
Romance
Romance
Did he just call me Daddy? "I ever really got the ‘Daddy’ thing. I generally dated guys who were of a similar age to me while looking to older black gay men as potential mentors; gathering hints as to how to navigate growing up in a racist, hetero-sexist, unequal city."
The seven things I did to get over a big breakup — and why research says they work...
...And why it’s so hard to get over your ex, according to a relationship psychologist.
WATCH Gay kissing lessons with Davey Wavey, Sean Ford and Blake Mitchell.
Médecins Sans Frontières
HPV: The health crisis we’re not talking about. "The top cause of penile, cervical, and anal cancer can’t be prevented with condoms, and the LGBT community is particularly at risk."
Should I be worried about the HIV in rectal secretions?
If you have HIV, you are more likely to suffer a heart attack.
On the Gates Foundation's revolutionary new anti-HIV drug device.
...And the government: It'll cost $350 billion.
Micro-dosing: The drug habit your boss is gonna love. "What started as a body-tinkering, mind-hacking, supplement-taking productivity craze in Silicon Valley is now spreading to more respectable workplaces, maybe even to your office, where the guy down the hall might already be popping a new breed of brain-boosting pills or micro-dosing LSD — all in the name of self-improvement. Can you afford not to keep up?"
The case for eliminating sugar. All of it.
Hell's
Kitchen
Kitchen
Rag
Trade
Trade
Stefano Gabbana, one half of the designers Dolce & Gabbana, has praised Melania Trump for wearing one of his dresses...
...And says this: "Dont call me gay please!! Im a man!!!"
Betta
Work!
Work!
Kebab shop workers talk about the worst dickheads they've ever met.
Planes, Trains & Automobiles
Tomorrow's
World
World
Facebook Live is changing the world - but not in the way it hoped. "Facebook’s betting big on everyone streaming their lives in real time, but has it unleashed a monster it can’t control?"
Planet
Earth
Earth
And Whilst You're Thinking About That, Think About This...
And finally, Walter takes on the Kim Burrell mess; the Baddie Twinz; Kenneth confesses: I went home with a stranger! And previously in 2016, with Andrew (get ready to hit the pause button. He's totally naked).
Issue 247: 1-6 January 2017
On the cover: NextDoor model Leo Brooks.
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"You know, we might just as well not have
bothered to come. The whole thing's been ridiculous."
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