Issue 296: Harvey Milk, The Vixen, Jonestown, Peter Berlin, Roma, Michael B. Jordan, Liam Cyber, Timarrie Baker, and more...


Left &
Found

Milk at 40
"He was our leader and he is gone" – Harvey Milk's legacy after forty years. "On the anniversary of Harvey Milk’s assassination, his friend and protege Cleve Jones recalls a day that devastated San Francisco – but kickstarted a gay rights revolution."

On the meaning of Milk. "Forty years after his assassination, Harvey Milk's political children discuss the slain supervisor's legacy."

Harvey Milk: original Advocate obituary from 1979.


Mind the gap
The queer generation gap. "How the sexual fluidity of the next generation reflects the limitations of the one that came before it."

Toxic masculinity
Stop speculating on men’s sexuality – it only makes toxic masculinity stronger.

 Watch
What does it mean to be a man?

Space invaders
How straight people should behave in gay bars.

Vixen
Controversial RuPaul's Drag Race queen The Vixen shares an important message about consent and white privilege. (Image)

Blackface
Blackface in drag is just as bad as any other blackface – and unacceptable.

Trans massacre
Beheaded, gunned down and stoned to death: 369 trans people killed this year.

Accidental killer


Daddy issues

GHB
It melts plastic and can kill – so why is club drug GHB on the rise? "It was known as a date rape drug, then linked to chemsex parties. How did a spray or two of the liquid high become so popular among young clubbers?" (Image)

Swamp things
Populism and the internet – a toxic mix shaping the age of conspiracy theories. "When we embarked on research into conspiracism five years ago, it seemed a fringe concern. Now, with Trump in office, it’s mainstream."

Don't panic
The strange, centuries-long history of satanic pedophile panics.


US
News

Killer
Sex predator Joseph Mlyniec thought his friend Robert Irvine III would expose his abuse of young men, so he shot him.

The children
Trans youth are twice as likely to be sexually assaulted or raped.

Uber defeats
New York City Uber driver dragged a gay man down a busy street after he kissed boyfriend inside car.

Miami vice
Miami Lyft driver brandished gun, told passenger he wanted to kill all gay people.

Florida
Man abducted, beaten, robbed, and stripped in homophobic attack after arranging sexual encounter on Instagram.

Mousey Baby
Rapper convicted in assaults near gay club. “James Thomas, also known as Mousey Baby, walked into the Fulton Street restaurant at around 4:30 a.m., screamed at its patrons, many of whom had just left the club, and slashed one man in the face. He then left the establishment, but it didn’t end there: as two others were trying to enter, he threatened one man with a knife and stabbed another twice before fleeing the scene.”

Slut-shaming
Gay, 20-year-old city councilman Cross Coburn, ousted after Grindr pics were sent to the media is suing, alleging blackmail.

Mural-geddon
Texas rainbow mural vandalised with "stop your gay agenda" graffiti.

Boston
16-year-old arrested for making threatening phone calls to Boston gay bars.

Blackmail
Artist Ross Bleckner says Cody Gilman, his 25-year-old former lover, is trying to blackmail him for $2 million.

Deplorables
Gay husbands Bill White and Bryan Eure attempt to justify why they left Democrats to become Trump fundraisers.

Odious Eure, one half of the Trump-supporting gay couple who attracted hatred for their profile in The New York Times, has allegedly posted anti-gay and anti-trans comments.

Mid-terms
How election results just got worse for Trump.

Watch
California fires: camp fire death toll rises to 71 with more than 1,000 missing.

Watergate
The second half of Watergate was bigger, worse, and forgotten by the public. "Watergate revealed that multinational corporations, including some of the most prestigious American brands, had been making bribes to politicians not only at home but in foreign countries."

Jonestown
An apocalyptic cult, 900 dead: remembering the Jonestown massacre, 40 years on. "More than 900 people, many of them children, died in a mass murder-suicide in 1978 by drinking cyanide-laced punch at the order of cult leader Jim Jones."

Rebuilding my life after surviving the massacre. "Laura Johnston Kohl on how she narrowly escaped death, and how she and others have rebuilt their lives in the decades since."

Drinking the Kool-Aid: a survivor remembers Jim Jones.

Journalist who survived infamous cult warns it could happen again.

Surviving Jonestown. "In 1978, Jackie Speier went to Guyana on a fact-finding mission. By the time she returned, more than 900 people died. She was almost one of them."

The story of a cameraman who lost his life. "When the bullets started spitting his way on that day in 1978 on the jungle airstrip in Guyana, Bob Brown did what he had always done as a news cameraman. He kept filming."

The survivors' story. (November 1979)

Mass shooting
Long read
Chardon, Ohio. "The people of this tiny town have had six years to reflect on what a seventeen-year-old boy with a gun did, and how his terrible act has affected them."

Police shooting
Long read
“I don’t want to shoot you, brother.” "A shocking story of police and lethal force. Just not the one you might expect."

Law and order
Long read
The rising tide of wrongful convictions. "Wrongful convictions are not isolated events. They happen in every state. They happen multiple times a week. Here’s a breakdown of how and why the innocent are locked up in America."

Omaha
Omaha's vibrant queer community taught me what unconditional love looks like.

 Watch
Skip Day, a short film about high school friendship and everyday racism in Florida.

Canada
Students arrested for "gang sex assault" at all-boys school.


UK
News

Grindr killer
Mitesh Patel used Grindr on the day he murdered his wife, a court has heard.

Tragic
Gay man dies of cancer after being stranded on dream Madagascar holiday.

Pervert
This is 45-year-old Nigel Wilkinson, a photographer a with "depraved yearnings" for heterosexual men. He lured dozens of male models to his home, then drugged and raped them.

Depraved
Dad forces 11-year-old son to have sex with stepmum to "cure" homosexuality.

Wetherspoons
Gay couple kicked out of Wetherspoons pub for kissing.

Bigot
"Christian" parent threatens legal action over school's gay pride parade. "Izoduwa Adhedo accuses south London primary of trying to ‘indoctrinate’ her son against her beliefs."

Immigration
Gay rugby player Kenneth Macharia wins temporary reprieve from deportation to Kenya.

Watch
MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle comes out - in the House of Commons - as HIV-positive.

HIV
UK achieves HIV prevention targets as new infections plummet.

Media
The vile, horrific and inhumane way the media reported the AIDS crisis.

Knife crime
Surge in young knife deaths amid police cuts and a climate of fear. "England and Wales record 37 deaths so far in 2018 as charity stresses deprivation underlies violence." (Image)


Homelessness
Life in England's homelessness hotspot. "Newham in London has topped homelessness table but problem doesn’t stop at rough sleeping."


Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson's unused water cannon sold for scrap at £300,000 loss. "London mayor Sadiq Khan fails to find buyer for crowd-control vehicles after lengthy search."

Tulip
London’s new "Tulip" skyscraper looks like "a giant sperm".

Animals
Shopping centre "sorry" for bumming polar bears.

Woolworths
What has happened to Woolworths' stores ten years after closure?

Death map
New interactive death map breathes life into medieval London. "Brutal range of revenge killings and fatal scuffles recorded by coroners in early 1300s."


World
News

Australia
Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes denied visa: "Right-wing provocateur and founder of the Proud Boys group Gavin McInnes has had his visa application blocked by the Home Affairs Department, failing the character test to enter Australia. Critics of Mr McInnes were urging the department and Immigration Minister David Coleman to ban him from travelling to Australia for a speaking tour next year, concerned about his extreme views and promotion of violence."

Bridal magazine shuts after refusing to feature LGBT couples.

Decision to ban poppers postponed.

HIV posters vandalised ahead of World AIDS Day in Sydney.

Perth Pride, in pictures.

Bermuda
Government loses its battle against marriage equality. Bermuda first recognised marriage equality in 2017, after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of gay couple Winston Godwin and his Canadian fiancé Greg DeRoche (who appeared on the cover of THE KAOS THEORY Issue 263).

Cameroon
Gay man allegedly attacked after his private photos were posted online.

Chechnya
Gay man refused justice after torture in concentration camp.

France
Riots, low ratings... where did it all go wrong for Emmanuel Macron? "The French president hasn’t just lost his touch, he is enabling the populism he was supposed to defeat."

El Salvador
A boundless battlefield. "What happens when a Barrio 18 soldier wants to leave the gang."

Hong Kong
Gay teacher loses case for unfair dismissal.

Hong Kong Pride, in pictures.

India
First Pride march since gay sex was decriminalised.

Gay couple allegedly assaulted and evicted by landlords.

Indonesia
The city of Pariaman bans gay sex to "eradicate" LGBT people.

Italy
Catholic school teaches homosexuality is a “psychological deformity” which can be cured.

Legislation passed to stop sanctuary being offered to LGBT people fleeing persecution in their home countries.

Kenya
Staff arrested in LGBT centre for "recruiting" gay youth.

Liberia
Gays who get married in another country could be jailed for life under proposed new law.

Myanmar
Activist explains what life is really like for LGBT people in the Southeast Asian nation.

Spain
Watch
Inside Spain’s first LGBT retirement home.

Taiwan

...but voters say "no" to marriage equality civil code change in public referendum.

Calls to LGBT helpline jump 40% after the vote.

Buddhist monk Master Kai Hung filmed having meth-fuelled gay sex in temple.

Thailand
Buddhist monk slammed for "tranishing" the religion's image with his sizzling body.


Art
Skool

The photography of Alan Burles, in pictures.

The photography of Bryan Campbell, in pictures.

The photography of Alex Yocu, in pictures.

The photography of Paul Rea, in pictures.


Word!

James Baldwin

Liu
Chinese erotic novelist jailed for ten years for gay sex scenes.

Kid's stuff
Why are Australian children's books suddenly so political? "From My Muslim Mate to Love Makes a Family, what’s behind the recent rise in socially conscious children’s literature?"

Nifty
Nifty gay stories: the best gay erotic fiction.

Review
Wilde Stories 2018: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction, edited by Steve Berman. "Multifaceted and inclusive... memorable from cover to cover."

Under his eye
Margaret Atwood is right to have the last word on The Handmaid’s Tale. "News of a sequel has divided fans, but better this than letting the TV adaptation decide Offred’s fate."

She's with her
When Chimamanda met Hillary: a tale of how liberals cosy up to power. "How many times must famous writers not only fail to confront the violence inflicted by the west, but actually celebrate it?"

Konichiwa

On the rag

Shouting
At Night

Anthony Ekundayo Lennon
His story is not black and white. "Actors including Michaela Ewuraba Coel voice their support for the theatre director and say he has never misled anyone."

Anthony Ekundayo Lennon, and other perspectives on race and identity. "A black actor queries an outpouring of support for Lennon, who was accused of taking a theatre role meant for ethnic minorities."

Magic Mike
Can you stomach Magic Mike Live? "Channing Tatum brings his strip show and self-help rally to London, offering consumerist feminism of the purest form."


Film
Skool

Gay Bond
More than half of people completely oppose the idea of a gay James Bond.

Interview
Talking to Raul Grazier about The Cakemaker.

Interview
Talking to Yalitza Aparicio. "The 24-year-old primary schoolteacher lives in one room with her family in rural Mexico. Now, as the star of Alfonso Cuarón’s new film, she’s being tipped for an Oscar."

Oz
Queer film festival reveals the asexuality allegory in The Wizard of Oz.

Boys on film
What we can learn about masculinity from Hollywood. "In a range of new films from First Man to Beautiful Boy, male characters are representing two different types of masculinity: unblemished and toxic."

Review
Postcards from London. A flight of fancy to Soho's gay past. "A beautiful teenager’s strange artistic affliction is revealed after he is drawn into a coterie of Caravaggio connoisseurs."

 Watch
Static Motion, a short film from FX Goby.

 Watch
Here's trailers for Daddy, Free Fall, Naz & Maalik, and Trophy Boy.

Review
Creed II is no Creed. But it’s a pretty good Rocky sequel. "The new film is three parts Rocky II, two parts Rocky IV, and one part Creed — with some Dynasty drizzled on top."

 Watch

Roma
Why Alfonso Cuaron's Oscar frontrunner is a triumph. "The Oscar-winning director’s dazzling Netflix-backed drama tells the story of a live-in nanny and domestic worker with nuance and depth."

Review
Three Identical Strangers. "Tim Wardle’s compelling documentary spotlights the notorious case of three men who grew up not knowing their siblings existed."

Review
Hunchback of Notre Dame. "Quasimodo is always repellant and his disguise too good for us to make his character ours." (November 1923)

Rape legacy
The disturbing story behind the rape scene in Bernardo Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris, explained. "The scene made actress Maria Schneider feel 'humiliated.' It has to be part of Bertolucci’s legacy."

The Wiz
On its 40th anniversary, a look at how The Wiz forever changed black culture.

Pretty fly
Back to the Future – the reboot everybody wants but no one thinks is a good idea. "Director Robert Zemeckis has tried to put an end to another outing for Marty McFly but 71% of Americans are clamouring for a remake. And what the people want, the people will get."

Disaster movie
On The Towering Inferno’s disaster-movie supremacy.

 Toons
When Hollywood went to Toontown. "It’s been 30 years since Who Framed Roger Rabbit? let cartoons loose in a live-action film—or is it the other way around? A visual history of the best (and weirdest) moments in cartoon-human relations."

Dominique Swain
The lasting effects of the Lolita complex. "Lacy Warner examines the downward turn of actress Dominique Swain’s career, and how the trouble began the moment she grew up."


The
Box

Hollywood
The death of Hollywood’s middle class. "How Netflix and the streaming wars are creating massive income inequality in the entertainment industry."

 Central Park West
John Barrowman claims he was sacked from short-lived '90s soap Central Park West for being gay.

Watch
After Forever, a Looking, Queer as Folk for fifty-something golden gays. "An acclaimed new web series depicts a gay man of a certain age who loses the love of his life and has to start over."

Watch
The web series by married couple Michael Feldman and Michael Rachlis, Michael and Michael Are Gay, is back with new episodes.

Poz
Real World’s Danny Roberts comes out as HIV-positive.

Sashay away
RuPaul's Drag Race judge Ross Mathews announces split from partner of ten years.

Interview
Talking to Nik Dodani, Murphy Brown's gay Indian-American unicorn.

Watch
Why your Netflix thumbnails don’t look like mine.

 EastEnders
BBC's new EastEnders set over budget by £27m, watchdog finds.
The teamwork that built EastEnders’ first set for a fraction of rebuild cost. "Eric Finlayson, the engineer who worked on construction of the soap’s ‘temporary’ set in 1984, and other readers respond to criticism of the £86m plan to rebuild it."


Beats, Rhymes
& Life

Interview
Talking to Gerrick D. Kennedy about "navigating journalism and writing about hip-hop as a black queer man, how his book came together, and what needs to happen to make hip-hop become more inclusive."

Faggot
Why straight people shouldn’t sing Fairytale of New York.

Cassper Nyovest
South African rapper tells fan who asked for a photo "no homo", but denies he’s homophobic.

RIP
Remembering Lil Peep, a meteoric talent gone too soon. "The openly bisexual rapper's music touched millions, and his untimely death was a massive tragedy."

Goals
Troye Sivan introduces sexy boyfriend Jacob Bixenman.

Own goal
Why claiming Shawn Mendes is queer is an own goal for gay men.

Interview
Talking to Miss Benny opens up about YouTube and making glitter pop music about kissing boys.

Zayn Malik
I’m no longer a practicing Muslim. “I don’t believe you need to eat a certain meat that’s been prayed over a certain way, I don’t believe you need to read a prayer in a certain language five times a day. I don’t believe any of it. I just believe if you’re a good person everything is going to go right for you.”

Cleopatra

Fandom
Why are you so obsessed with me? How pop fans became all-powerful. "Little Mix named their album after the title their followers suggested, while the 1975 roped devotees in for their video. Pop’s power reversal puts fans closer to the stars."


Arena

Gareth Thomas
Gay rugby icon Gareth Thomas victim of homophobic hate crime; the perpetrator, a 16-year-old boy, later apologised.

Watch

Meat
Market

Cancer

Wrestle with lust
Gay wrestler Dave Marshall makes homemade porn to fight LGBT suicides.

Mug shot
Bryce Evans takes twentieth mug shot after being jailed for drug possession.

Interview
Talking to Jonathan Agassi: "'I'd be dead if they hadn't made a documentary about me.' An unnerving and acclaimed new film about an Israeli actor’s meteoric career in adult movies and horrifying descent into drug addiction saved his life."

Sad
Liam Cyber opens up about depression.

Camming
The African cammers. "Webcamming is relatively new in Africa. Most of the continent remains unconnected to the internet, or even to electricity. Also, laws relating to ‘moral’ issues and the conservative nature of society in most of the continent’s 54 countries act as impediments. Despite that, some Africans do now seize on the opportunity to earn a living via online sex-work."

Peter Berlin
The original thirst trap king revisits his erotic visual diary.

Sean Cody
Deacon, Daniel, Sean and Jackson do it.

Corbin Fisher
Jack, Elian and Casey do it.

Cyber sex
Timarrie Baker and Liam Cyber do it.

Thebes
JJ Knight and William Seed do it - and Ryan Bones and François Sagat do it too!

Corporate exploitation
Andre Donovan and Braxton Boyd do it.

Man-on-man merger
Jeffrey Lloyd, Sean Xavier and Lucas Leon do it.

BelAmi
Keith Atkins and Henri Theroux do it.

Kris Evans and Jeroen Mondrian do it.

Paul Cassidy and Rhys Jagger do it.

Mick Lovell returns.

 Next level
Dominic and Saint do it.

 About him
Rico Pruitt and Blake Bishop do it.

Helix
Ashton Summers, Andy Taylor, Aiden Garcia and Hayden Lee do it.

Jared Scott and Marcell Tykes do it.

Blake Mitchell and Marcell Tykes do it.

Blake Mitchell, Corbin Colby and Clay Turner do it.

Here’s Helix’s new trailer for the upcoming Vegas Nights.

Watch
Introducing Alex Riley.


Ghetto
Romance

BDSM
When does BDSM become abuse? "After a recent death in the online kinkster community, many people began to question the limits of submissive relationships."

Before today
Why I cherish the romantic relationships I had prior to coming out.

Lovebombing
Here’s why narcissists tend to come on too strong early in relationships.

Love story
Can gay couples repair their relationships faster than heterosexuals?

Happy ending
Gay couple from LGBT migrant caravan marry in Tijuana.

Happy ending II
Gay porn star Ruggero Freddi turned math teacher gets his happy ending on dream honeymoon.


Medicine
Ball

Life savers
Porn actors are working to destigmatise HIV. "With services under threat and effective sex ed still a myth, HIV+ performers like Hans Berlin and industry activists like Jason Domino are using their platforms to educate and advocate."

HIV

Surge
New HIV cases reach "alarming levels" in Eastern Europe.

Gilead
Pharma giant Gilead sued for "withholding" safer HIV drug.

Dick face

Hangxiety
If you get crushing hangxiety when you drink, this could be why.

Why don’t we have a cure for hangovers yet?

Snow balls
Why winter is good for your penis, balls and sex life.

Body confidence

Planet
Earth

California wildfires

What the wildfires look like on the ground, in pictures.

Apocalypse now
How extreme weather is shrinking the planet. "With wildfires, heat waves, and rising sea levels, large tracts of the earth are at risk of becoming uninhabitable. But the fossil-fuel industry continues its assault on the facts."


Zoo

Animal magic
Five animals that can regenerate.

 Arachnophobia
The human-spider struggle. "Arachnids have long fascinated—and repelled—people. Scientists are only now starting to understand why."

Holy cow
Australia's biggest cow is literally too fat to be killed.

Deep blue
Marine life around the world, in pictures.

Gallery
The week in wildlife, in pictures.


The White
Heat of This Revolution

Scott Chen
Firestorm erupts over remarks about marriage equality by Grindr president Scott Chen.

Deadnaming
On Twitter’s ban on deadnaming.

Please like
The problematic relationships between some YouTubers and their fans. "When fan-performer relationships routinely become inappropriate, how do we dredge through the filth to find a solution?"

Amazon storefronts
A business with no end. "Where does this strange empire start or stop?"


Planes, Trains
& Automobiles

Grindr pilot
Delta Airlines passenger creeped out by pilot’s Grindr message on plane.

Thirsty
A budget airline passenger asked for water. He was given a cup of ice and told to wait.

Magnetic levitation
The return of transport's great "what if?"


Betta
Work!

"I wouldn’t mind
playing with you"
Gay barber reveals most shocking encounters with straight guys.


I Own
51% Of This Company!

Played out
The last days of Toys 'R' Us, in pictures.

Mallrats
The department store of the future just opened in Texas.

 Watch

Ace's Adventures visits Eden Mall, in Eden; Retail Archaeology heads to into Rio West Mall, in Gallup; in Middletown, New York, and Sal examines Phillipsburg Mall, in New Jersey.


Hell's
Kitchen

Serving
Meet the queer chefs helping Puerto Rico's culinary community shine. “I’ve never cooked in a kitchen with only queer people, mostly women, and centering Puerto Rican food and ingredients. There’s a lot to say here."

Food wars
What belongs on a pizza? And seven more all-time epic food wars. "Do beans belong in chili? What goes on a scone first: the jam or cream? And what country can lay claim to hummus or the pavlova?"

Stanichs

Rag
Trade

Racism
Dolce and Gabbana apologise after destroying their Chinese market with racist video.

Threadbare
Why ultracheap clothes are costly to society. MPs are right to ask how a dress can be bought for £2.50 when it’s made in the UK, where the minimum wage is £7.83.

Watch
Behind the scenes on an underwear shoot.


Vloglife

Walter on the emasculation of black men; Darius' rapist died; Anthony and Michael go on a date; and Bradley discusses ageism.

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