the week's
news
& pop
culture,
with a
gay
bias.
Left &
Found
Found
The plan to combat global homophobia, from Peru to Nigeria.
Millennials are most likely to be LGBT or accepting, says new GLAAD study.
LGBT people are up to six times more likely to be victims of digital sex trafficking.
Who’s to blame for gay bars closing? (Spoiler: NOT US!)
Do LGBT people need straight allies to lend a helping hand?
The age of genderqueer and "they" has arrived.
Why the habit of making historical figures gay or trans is problematic.
The ungrateful refugee: We have no debt to repay. "Dina Nayeri was just a child when she fled Iran as an asylum seeker. But as she settled into life in the US and then Europe, she became suspicious of the idea that refugees should shed their old identities and be eternally thankful."
News
America
America
Ryan Nunez, a member of the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, dies during concert intermission.
Florida man's Grindr hookup abducts him at knifepoint, and steals his dog and valuables.
Florida teacher fired for asking children if they are "comfortable" around gays and Muslims.
North Carolina Democrats didn't compromise — they caved.
"Real men" wouldn't have repealed North Carolina's anti-LGBT HB2 law, apparently.
Federal Appeals Court issues landmark ruling: 1964 Civil Rights Act protects LGBT employees from discrimination.
Aging with HIV just got worse under Trump.
Ten ways LGBT people saved Obamacare and beat Trump.
Trump's latest executive order is pushing people back in the closet.
The US Supreme Court is "just one vote short" of re-banning marriage equality, warns the homophobic National Organisation for Marriage.
Rightwing loony Michele Bachmann: God intervened in the election so Trump could stop transgender rights.
Trump’s latest New York Times interview is a perfect example of his phony war with the press.
New numbers suggest Trump really might be driving away tourism.
The destruction of Hillary Clinton: Sexism, Sanders and the millennial feminists.
Gay politician in Alaska overcomes homophobic smears to get elected.
News
UK
UK
LGBT charity London Friend launches support services for refugees.
What you need to know about EU protections of LGBT people and Brexit.
Stonewall calls for gender-neutral X option for UK passports.
Hardly anyone turns up for far-right demonstration in London.
The river London forgot: how the Lea is being reborn. "For years, it has been the city’s back yard, a place of fridge mountains, distilleries and scrapyards, but now there’s a fresh plan to turn this ancient valley back into a green playground. We walk the newly opened Leaway riverside path."
News
World
World
RUSSIA
Russian LGBT Network seeks to rescue imperiled gay Chechens.
Russian LGBT Network seeks to rescue imperiled gay Chechens.
EGYPT
Jailed for using Grindr. "Police are using technology and ancient laws to imprison gay people. Now human rights campaigners are trying to shift attitudes in Egyptian society."
Jailed for using Grindr. "Police are using technology and ancient laws to imprison gay people. Now human rights campaigners are trying to shift attitudes in Egyptian society."
SOUTH SUDAN
South Sudan will "consider" no longer using child soldiers if it can still kill gay people.
South Sudan will "consider" no longer using child soldiers if it can still kill gay people.
SOUTH AFRICA
On #FemmeInPublic, the project that aims to disrupt Cape town’s heteronormative gaze - with a live fashion protest.
Arena
The NCAA has officially sold out the LGBT community.
The NCAA is a fraud on LGBT inclusion and always has been.
The NCAA is complicit with schools discriminating against LGBT athletes.
Here is the letter 166 college athletes sent to the NCAA asking them to pull events from North Carolina.
Art +
Design
Design
On Duncan Grant's Bathing (April 2010).
Word!
How James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time still lights the way towards equality. "A new edition of the classic treatise on civil rights, featuring photojournalist Steve Schapiro’s visual record of the struggle, provides a model for how to report in the Black Lives Matter era."
REVIEW
Equality: What Do You Think About When You Think of Equality?, edited by Paul Alan Fahey. "A refreshing political read for today’s modern reader."
REVIEW
Notes of a Crocodile, by Qiu Miaojin. "Miaojin’s novel osculates between diary entries in which Lazi exhaustively recounts her romantic woes, and an absurdist reality in which crocodiles don human suits in order to assimilate."
Can you judge a book by its odour? "Cocoa, wood, rusks – every book has a distinctive smell. And each smell says something about how and when it was made, and where it has been."
Is diversity to blame for Marvel's sales slump – or just a lack of imagination? "The comic giant’s new position acting as Disney’s R&D department means it needs to take risks in order to survive. The diversity debate isn’t the issue – it’s a lack of understanding how the industry has changed over the last decade."
Shouting
At Night
At Night
Dave Chappelle, Ricky Gervais and comedy's "ironic bigotry" problem. "The onstage returns of Ricky Gervais and Dave Chappelle have both brought criticism of their jokes about transgender people. Can their approach of tackling taboos with a sledgehammer ever work or is it just a case of wishful thinking?"
Film
Forever
Forever
Blockbusters assemble: can the mega movie survive the digital era? "From Star Wars sequels to superhero franchises, blockbusters still rule the film industry. But with Amazon and Netflix tearing up the release schedules, are they on shaky ground?"
Digital love: Why cinema can't get enough of cyberpunk.
From Spider-Man to Alien: Why does Hollywood keep spoiling its movies? "Blockbusters keep getting spoiled before anyone has a chance to watch them thanks to plot-filled trailers and loose-lipped directors."
REVIEW
Bwoy. "Certainly an intriguing movie and an unusual one, and while it won’t be to everyone tastes, many will enjoy its ideas about online performances and the depth it brings to its characters."
REVIEW
I Am Michael. "There are plenty of intriguing moments in I Am Michael, and there’s no doubt that the true story is interesting, but by being so keen not to condemn Michael and try to see things from his point of view, it ultimately fails to make the viewer truly understand his journey or the issues involved."
WATCH
Something Like Summer (trailer); All Male, All Nude (trailer); Counting For Thunder (trailer); The Ornithologist (trailer);
Something Like Summer (trailer); All Male, All Nude (trailer); Counting For Thunder (trailer); The Ornithologist (trailer);
The
Box
Box
Ricky Martin to play Gianni Versace’s lover in Ryan Murphy’s next American Crime Story.
Netflix’s The Get Down is a head-spinning, exhausting, deeply fun TV show.
RuPaul's Drag Race finalist Adore Delano sues Producer Entertainment Group (PEG) for $3.5 million.
Rupaul’s Drag Race star Gia Gunn comes out as transgender.
WATCH
Talking to Rocc from About Him: Freshman Year.
WATCH
Talking to Rocc from About Him: Freshman Year.
When good TV goes bad: how The Walking Dead started to stink. "Ironically for a zombie show, if someone died in The Walking Dead that used to be it. Then came the Glenn death fakeout, and everything started to rot."
Sixteen TV shows that totally outstayed their welcome: The Simpsons, Glee, CSI and more.
Mockumentary hasn't killed comedy – it perfectly skewers how we live now. "Lazy, stifling, awkward … all allegations made against TV’s new favourite form. But mockumentary’s jumpy camerawork and paparazzi voyeurism are just right for our social media age."
WATCH
Here's the latest episodes of Skin Deep the Series; Shadows; Steam Room Stories; and About Justin and Steel River.
Beats, Rhymes
& Life
& Life
Brooklyn rapper Mousey Baby (real name James Thomas) charged with homophobic hate crime; he verbally abused and slashed two men he thought were gay.
Barry Manilow has come out as gay.
Red Light
District
District
Bel Ami model blinded by cum.
INTERVIEW
Talking to Markie More about shooting gay porn, being bullied, coming out, and his decision to stay in adult industry.
Ghetto
Romance
Romance
When does close friendship turn into emotional infidelity?
Why it hurts so much when a friendship ends.
A gay "catfish" speaks out.
What it's really like for women to date bisexual men.
Hell's
Kitchen
Kitchen
Listeria, batteries and botulism: Why food products get recalled.
I Own 51% Of This Company!
Tomorrow's
World
World
Can any good come from engaging with internet trolls? "Online abuse has been around for years, but the idiom of the troll has changed the landscape. Can they be reasoned with?"
Médecins Sans Frontières
Mothers who get sex hormone progesterone are "five times more likely" to have gay or bi offspring.
Is there a link between cancer and poppers in gay men?
Why we must embrace Undetectable Means Untransmittable.
Ten surprising things you may not know about HIV testing.
Men with HIV are twice as likely to die by suicide.
On San Francisco’s Positive Force, who offer hope, healing, and happiness for men living with HIV.
Hepatitis C rates are "rampant" in urban communities (and states like New Jersey). And while cures are available, treatment costs are too much to handle.
What are the repercussions of one lost night’s sleep? Rudeness is just the start.
Boffins discover the brain "doubles up" by simultaneously making two memories of events.
Planet
Earth
Earth
Here’s a new climate change reality that Trump’s new policies ignore.
Zoo
Planes, Trains
& Automobiles
& Automobiles
What happened to Atlanta's Carmageddon? "When a major freeway closes, the expected gridlock almost never happens. This should teach us something about traffic."
The science of fleeing a mass-transit emergency. "In a terrorist attack, passengers don’t always react how you might expect—and it’s important to plan for that."
How did a Korean cargo ship just vanish in the Atlantic ocean?
The ridiculous story of airline food and why so much ends up in landfill. "Airlines generated 5.2m tonnes of waste in 2016, most of which went to landfill or incineration."
And
This...
This...
Appearing in stock photos was the biggest mistake of my life.
Finally, Rogue "Marbie" Scott opens up; catching up with Andrew and the Baddie Twinz; and real boyfriends Jontavian and Brandon test each other.
Finally, Rogue "Marbie" Scott opens up; catching up with Andrew and the Baddie Twinz; and real boyfriends Jontavian and Brandon test each other.
Issue 259: 01-07 April 2017
On the cover: Bathing, by Duncan Grant, part of Tate Britain's Queer British Art 1861-1967 exhibition.
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Postcript
"You know, we might just as well not have
bothered to come. The whole thing's been ridiculous."
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