Issue 295: Robert La Tourneaux, Jack Chapman, Daryll Rowe, John Waters, Billy Porter, Kris Evans, and more...


Left &
Found

Why coming out as working class was harder than coming out as gay. "I’ve left the closet twice – as a gay man, and as an academic from a working-class background. The second was at least as hard."

Scally lads. "Looking at the British gay scene's fetishisation of working-class sportswear." (March 2014)


Why identity is a lie we can’t live without. "Kwame Anthony Appiah on how identity defines and distorts our politics."


When newsrooms are dominated by white people, they miss crucial facts. "In a time where race has emerged as a central theme in politics, the media has a problem with representation."

Long read


Michael K and the disappearing celebrity blogger. "You know when you really like someone, a lot, to the point where it becomes your life’s work to make them notice you, so, for some reason, without fail, you take on their mannerisms—a tweaked-out accelerated version, usually—as though your only chance of getting them to see you is to be their reflection? And the longer this goes on, the more you start shedding the act and reverting to a stripped-down version of yourself, which is, in fact, worse than the self you should have started with? That’s kind of what I did with Michael K."


US
News

Watch
43-year-old gay fitness instructor Brendon Michaels found fatally beaten to death in his apartment.

Samuel Woodward (above, left) charged in murder of gay UPenn student Blaze Bernstein (above, right) pleads not guilty. Bernstein was found with more than twenty stab wounds in California's Borrego Park in January.

Chicago police department accused of protecting officer fingered in brutal beating of gay couple.

Jack Chapman and his dom boyfriend, Dylan Hafertepen, ran a popular blog about their relationship, but after Tank’s death from testicular silicone injections, their fans said Dylan was responsible. "Jack Chapman made a lot of big changes during his relationship with his romantically dominant boyfriend. He changed his name, his country, his friends. He also changed his body, bulking up his chubby frame to Marvel-superhero breadth. Then he dramatically changed the size of his genitals. It killed him."

Death of a kinkster. "Why did a young man named Jack Chapman (aka Pup Tank, above left), aka Pup Tank, die suddenly? Is his master, Dylan Hafertepen, to blame?"

Watch
Mother whose son Jack Chapman, died of silicone injections to his genitals confronts his boyfriend Dylan Hafertepen - Chapman’s “master” - over his death.

Unknown victim of deadly 1973 arson in gay bar finally identified."Forty-five years after the UpStairs Lounge fire, the largest gay mass murder prior to the Pulse shooting, one of the 'unclaimed' victims has finally been ID'd."

Florida man says Uber driver asked for sex in exchange for free ride.

Notorious gay conversion "therapist" Norman Goldwasser outed as "HotnHairy72" on Manhunt and Bear Nation.

Former rabbi Aryeh Leiv Cohen pleads guilty to sexting 15-year-old underage boy via Grindr.

Queer man arrested in NYC following a string of anti-Semitic vandalisms.

NYPD, Gay Officers Action League of New York (GOAL) describe being discriminated against in powerful documentary.

Boston gay bars are receiving threatening phone calls.


The American civil war didn't end. And Trump is a Confederate president. "His supporters hark back to an 1860s fantasy of white male dominance. But the Confederacy won’t win in the long run."

Gay billionaire Peter Thiel says he’ll support Trump in 2020, calls his lies "exaggerations of the truth".

Pennsylvania doubles LGBT lawmakers, and elects first out gay black man Malcolm Kenyatta.

Jared Polis wins in Colorado, is nation’s first openly gay man elected Governor.

Gay marine veteran Neil Rafferty wins Alabama seat.

J.D. Ford makes history as first LGBT candidate elected to Indiana General Assembly.

Chris Pappas makes history as New Hampshire’s first openly gay member of Congress.

LGBT ally Zach Wahls - famous for his emotional 2011 speech about his lesbian mothers - victorious in race for Iowa senate seat.

Massachusetts votes to keep transgender protections.

Kim Davis, who refused to issue marriage licenses to gay couples, loses her county clerk seat...

...but the hateful heffer has found her true calling: she's going to become an evangelical preacher.

California official who called for "straight pride month" in hateful homophobic column voted out in landslide.

What did the midterms reveal? A divided America. "The US is split into two separate nations, with two different election verdicts – and positive news for Trump supporters."

Gays for Trump founder wants you to vote to "make America great always".

Conservative newspaper Tweets "Trump is going to hell".




Trump responds to worst fires in California’s history by threatening to withhold federal aid.

Michelle Obama on Trump winning the presidency: “I said what I continue to say: Being the commander-in-chief is a hard job. And you need to have discipline and you need to read and you need to be knowledgeable. You need to know history. You need to be careful with your words. But voters make those decisions. And once the voters have spoken, you know, we live with what we live with.”

Michelle Obama offered Melania Trump any FLOTUS help, Melania turned her down.

Orlando approves $10million funding towards Pulse museum and memorial.

Eleven facts about gun violence in the United States.

Palm Springs Pride, in pictures.

The ATL Is Burning Ball was a night of joy and extravagance for Atlanta's QTPOC community. "The dance party/concert/ball brought ballroom legends and first-timers together for a night to remember."

Long read
"You descend into hell by coming here": how Texas shut the door on refugees. "At the US-Mexico border, asylum seekers are trapped in a hostile environment."

Long read

Canada
Video of alleged group sex assault at all-boys Catholic school in Toronto emerges.

The hidden gay history of the Yukon, home to one of the most remote prides.


UK
News

This is Mitesh Patel. He allegedly murdered his wife Jessica after having sex with men he met on Grindr.

Man jailed for twenty years for murdering trans woman Naomi Hersi in London.

What happened to Michael? "In November 2017, 16-year-old Jhemar Jonas's brother Michael was stabbed to death in Betts Park, Penge, in south London. Nobody has been convicted of the 17-year-old's murder."

Knife crime: how teenagers cope with daily life on the front line.

Daryll Rowe loses appeal over deliberately infecting five men with HIV.

One in eight LGBT UK youth have attempted to take their own life in the last year.

Undercover reporter exposes gay conversion "therapy" in a Dartford Pentecostal church.

Woman found beaten to death in gay cruising area.

Chemsex drug dealer leading Breaking Bad lifestyle jailed for 45 months.

Sexual uses of poppers should weigh against ban, LGBT health advocates warn. "Therapeutic Goods Administration is warned ban on amyl nitrate would criminalise the practice of 90,000 gay and bisexual men."

London gay bar Royal Vauxhall Tavern saved: lease signed for 20 more years.

Philip Green reportedly raged at male models ad calling it "gay shit".

Theresa May hosts Ugandan MP Jovah Kamateeka, who wants gay people jailed for life.

Tory housing tsar Roger Scruton: being gay is more dangerous than smoking.

Twenty years on, the Human Rights Act has proved its worth. "For soldiers’ families, Hillsborough relatives and victims of John Worboys, the act has been vital in their quest for justice."

The long and winding road to Brexit: how did we get here?

A record number of people are now sleeping rough in London.

More than two hundred UK shopping centres are in crisis.

Scotland
This is Scott McIntosh. The 28-year-old killed himself after suffering months of homophobic abuse by a former schoolmate.

World's first LGBT curriculum to be introduced in schools.


World
News

Australia
Man impaled on table leg in Grindr date gone wrong.

Protesters storm Greek consulate in Melbourne over lynching death of LGBT activist Zak Kostopoulos.

Ex-PM Malcolm Turnbull tries to claim marriage equality win, social media hits back.

Brazil
As a gay man, I'm devastated we weren't able to stop Bolsonaro becoming president. "My husband and I made a six-hour bus journey for both rounds of the election so that he could go back to his small rural home town to vote and help change Bolsonaro supporters’ minds."

France
LGBT rights groups warn of a spike in homophobic attacks.


India
Three-way gay relationship ends in violent death of young man in Mumbai.

New Delhi is once again the most polluted city on Earth.

Watch
Police use fire hose to publicly "cleanse" three trans women after beach raid.

Japan
Suicides among Japanese young people hit 30-year high.

Watch
On gay culture in Japan.


The changing face of Japan: labour shortage opens doors to immigrant workers. "Japan – once one of the world’s most homogenous societies – is starting to unwind its traditional opposition to large-scale immigration."

Netherlands
Black Pete: the scandal we Dutch can’t stay silent about any more. "Is November’s Sinterklaas festival a vestige of slavery or benign? It’s part of a debate about our culture we simply can’t escape."

New Zealand
Auckland Pride board member resigns following ban on police uniforms.

Watch
Gay vlogger Riyadh visits Swaziland: “In the face of persistent homophobia, anti-gay laws and threats of violence, this film documents the journey of Swazi activists as they attempt to put on their historic first-ever Pride march.”

Taiwan
Actor and singer Aaron Yan outed as gay after being accused by ex-lover of dating three men at the same time.

Tanzania
Thousands "living in fear" after public called on to report gay people. "Dar es Salaam regional commissioner Paul Makonda says special team will swiftly ‘get their hands on’ those named."

Second biggest donor to Tanzania withdraws aid over homophobic witch-hunt...

...and now the European Union has recalled its envoy.

Police arrest ten men for being "gay" on the island of Zanzibar.

A tainted imperial legacy that fuels the oppression of gay people in Africa. "Last week, Tanzanian officials launched an appeal for people to identify homosexuals."

Thailand
Soldier charged with raping underage boys he met on a gay dating app.

Tunisia
Men suspected of being gay forced to undergo anal examinations.

Turkey
Pop singer Bulut Duman accused of "gay blackmail" by dozens of complainants.

Uganda
Student tortured to confess gay sex - then expelled.

Vietnam
LGBT Vietnamese pedal for equality at Hanoi Pride.


Art
Skool

Penises of the ancient world: phallus found in Roman toilet was far from the first. "A mosaic of a young man holding his erect penis has been found in a Roman toilet in Turkey. But portraying the male member is a tradition that stretches much further back in human history."

Cyrus Kabiru, the artist putting rubbish to visionary use, in pictures.

Trafalgar pyramid? A look at an alternative London. "These rejected architecture and transport plans give a glimpse of how different the city might have been."


Word!

Russian publishers are deleting queer characters from books.

As American Psycho showed me, banning "immoral" books makes them more compelling. "My underage reading of Bret Easton Ellis’s novel seemed exciting at the time, but only because it was forbidden."

On the rag, your guide to the gay weeklies.


Shouting
At Night

Death of a cowboy. Remembering Robert La Tourneaux. (June 2018)

The Boys In The Band: for many, the party's over. (November 1993)

 Theatre job aimed at black directors given to man who said he was white. "Anthony Ekundayo Lennon applied as ‘mixed-heritage’ to Talawa Theatre Company."

Is this "black" theatre director actually using white privilege? "I am mixed race but was brought up by white parents. I fear that by identifying as black, Anthony Lennon is elevating whiteness."

The Fall: what the hit South African play can teach us about the US. "In retelling the story of students dismantling a colonialist statue in Cape Town, a vibrant dance-filled production carries prescience for contemporary America."

Queer Eye’s Antoni Porowski to make Broadway debut in comedy show Celebrity Autobiography.

Interview
Talking to Broadway's Leroy Church.

Review
Torch Song. "Michael Urie and Mercedes Ruehl lead transcendent Broadway revival."

Review
The Funeral Director. "Iman Qureshi’s award-winning play examines Islamic attitudes to same-sex relationships with grace and dignity."

Review
American Son. "The most vacuous kind of race play."

Review
ear for eye. "Generational friction, slavery laws and police protocol all come under scrutiny in a stirring three-part study of oppression."

Review
King Kong. "Despite the spectacle of a 2,400lb puppet, a shambolic production doesn’t know what to do with him and any magic quickly evaporates."


Film
Skool


Ezra Miller doesn’t identify as male or female, claims director and producer of "gay revolution" movie harassed him.

Love, Simon director Greg Berlanti to direct Rock Hudson biopic.

The cast and crew of Boy Erased talk the nature of conversion therapy. “I don’t care where you are on the political spectrum, I just want us to agree that [conversion therapy] is torture.”

How Boy Erased fails its central gay character in an appeal to straight audiences.

Watch
Todd Lien's short film Straight A, based on the true story of coming out to his father.

Watch
The Power and Beauty of Artistic Queer Relationships, a short film from Stephen Issac-Wilson.

Interview
Talking to John Waters: why the auteur of outrage won't joke about the Manson murders.

Tyler Perry: creator of a racial stereotype or the greatest indie film-maker ever? "The writer-director has announced the retirement of divisive alter ego ‘Madea’. It marks the end of a surprisingly revolutionary era of cinema."

Straight people are being "tricked" to see gay movies because of the posters.

Our failure to see black romantic comedies. "Despite the growing popularity of black romcoms, they remain segregated in public perception due to cultural white-washing."

Let's talk about sex scenes. "Countless women have been mistreated ever since sex became common on our screens. Hollywood’s newfound awareness of intimacy choreography can help change things."

How to capture the feeling of a movie in a single font.

 Review
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead. "Imitating the chaos that blighted the making of Welles’ ‘lost’ masterpiece, this misconceived Netflix oddity can’t compare to the anarchic real thing."

A poet's guide to film noir. "Claustrophobic and nihilistic, a disturbing universe with dramatic lighting. An award-winning poet explains why he immersed himself in film noir for his Booker-prize shortlisted debut novel."

Watch
Why the Victorian mansion is a horror icon.


The
Box


Why we should all be watching more LGBT TV.

Criminal profiling doesn’t work. TV shows should maybe stop celebrating it.

Cult it out! How TV's sect obsession went from healthy to diabolical. "There has been a sudden deluge of cult-based television. While Wild Wild Country sheds light on both the appeal and the dangers, others are taking lazy liberties."

Trump didn’t want a "black fag" winning The Apprentice, says Michael Cohen.

The last ever winner of Big Brother UK is LGBT.

I’m proud of Big Brother, the show that changed the face of television. "We were accused of dragging TV into the gutter but the programme did a lot for inclusivity and tolerance."

Being a Big Brother contestant was life-changing. But so was watching it. "In exposing audiences to people who didn’t look, sound or behave like them, the show had a positive effect on society."

Ten Big Brother spin-offs you probably forgot existed.

India’s version of the UK's Celebrity Big Brother, Bigg Boss, engulfed in homophobia row.

We assessed the strengths and weaknesses of each queen on RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars 4.

Review

Grey’s Anatomy actor Jake Borelli comes out as gay.

Jussie Smollett explains why he said "f**k no" to a white boyfriend on Empire.

Doctor Who pregnant man branded transgender propaganda.

Derrick Sherwin, the Doctor Who producer, is dead. He was 82.

Derrick Sherwin: obituary.

Eight times EastEnders and other soaps got too dark.

Finally some good news: TV dramas are getting shorter.


Beats, Rhymes
& Life


City Girls rapper Yung Miami says she’d "beat" her son if he came out as gay.

Jaden Smith announces "Tyler the Creator is my boyfriend."

Interview
Talking to out, gay UK singer Aaron Porter.

Review
Pet Shop Boys - Introspective. "The odd album out from Pet Shop Boys’ fabled 'imperial phase'. It’s also, says David Bennun, the best thing they ever did."

Abandoned pop's digital revival. "Some of the biggest 90s and 00s pop hits are now available to stream, thanks to one dogged fan’s Twitter campaign, Pop Music Activism."

Long read
Inside the booming business of background music. "Once derided, the successors to muzak have grown more sophisticated – and influential – than any of us realise."


Arena

Aaron Hernandez’s brother speaks out: "He was struggling with... his sexuality."

Latest old gay-slur tweet from pro athlete shows need for youth sports culture change.

NBA fines Nuggets center Nikola Jokic $25,000 for using gay slur.

High school football coach fired for alleged homophobic comments.

Lacrosse coach comes out by introducing his boyfriend on Facebook. "Aron Lipkin decided to come out as gay in honor of his late friend and assistant coach."

Gay former Dallas Cowboy Jeff Rohrer is marrying his boyfriend.


Meat
Market

Palm Springs Leather Pride, in pictures.

Interview
Talking to William Higgins. "As he celebrates forty years in the business, the icon reflects on how he got started, the Golden Age of gay porn... and why he suddenly left the United States."

Porn with plots. "In this fast-phased world where the internet can be super fast and everyone is busy with career growth, only a few can actually get themselves a good vacation or even a day’s off for relaxation. Same goes with getting extra critical with pornography. Sometimes, we ditch a meal course and go directly to dessert. And by that I mean, we skip to the cumshot and rarely watch the build-up of a porn scene."

Ben Masters announces break-up with Levi Karter.

Meet the next new batch of BelAmi boys as the studio's 25th anniversary celebration continues.

Meet Zac Haynes.

The owners of Family Dick have launched a new studio: Brother Crush.

NakedSword says goodbye to Ryan Rose with the release of his final gay porn scene in The Last Rose.

Kris Evans and Jeroen Mondrian do it.

Jack Harrer, Dylan Maguire and Marcel Gassion do it.

Paul Cassidy and Jeroen Mondrian do it.

Ryan Kutcher flaunts it.

Jon Kael and Angel Cruz do it.

Mateo Fernandez and Aston Springs do it.

Landon and Angelo do it.

Callum Huntsman (née Kellan Hartmann) and Collin Simpson do it.

Max Richie and Collin Simpson do it.

Timarrie Baker and Colby Tucker do it.

Skyy Knox and Steven Lee do it.

Sean Xavier, Andre Donovan and Jeffrey Lloyd do it.

Sean Xavier, Adonis Couverture and Jackson Radiz do it.

Klein Kerr and Dann Grey do it.

Santi Sexy and Franklin Acevedo do it.

Andy Taylor and Dylan Hayes do it.

Domonic Michaels and Cazden Hunter do it.


Ghetto
Romance

Frankie Grande announces he's in a throuple with a married couple.


Seventeen dos and don'ts of open relationships.


Watch
Gay porn stars Brysen and Skyy Knox take “Kama Sutra Challenge” with Andrew Christian Models Nick Masc and Walker.

 Watch
Ask the Aunties: Racism on Grindr is stressing me out!


Medicine
Ball

The making of an opioid epidemic. "When high doses of painkillers led to widespread addiction, it was called one of the biggest mistakes in modern medicine. But this was no accident."

The scientific reason exercise gives you a small penis. "There's only so much blood in a guy’s body, and working out redistributes it away from the little general."

Gay man on life with a 10-inch penis: "Anything under 8 inches seems small".

How to actually stop slouching all the time.

Being bionic: how technology transformed my life. "Prosthetics have made amazing advances in recent years – and are slowly changing people’s attitudes to disability."

This is what happens to your body when you eat fast food a lot.

Does stress eating actually make you less stressed?

Seven ways to manage a panic attack.


Super recognisers: the people who never forget a face. "We all have an innate ability to pick a face out of a crowd. But some can memorise thousands of people – often seen only fleetingly on CCTV."

Super-empaths are real, boffins claim. "New research has suggested that 1 to 2 percent of the population struggle to differentiate between their own bodily feelings and other people's."

Inside New York City's oldest mortuary school. "Every year, hundreds of students come to the American Academy McAllister Institute to learn the art of taking care of the dead and their families."

Why doctors hate their computers. "Digitization promises to make medical care easier and more efficient. But are screens coming between doctors and patients?"


Planet
Earth

What Earth looks like from space, in pictures.

The Earth is in a death spiral. It will take radical action to save us. "Climate breakdown could be rapid and unpredictable. We can no longer tinker around the edges and hope minor changes will avert collapse."

I collected my plastic waste for a year, and learned the truth about recycling. "We have been indoctrinated by a system that actually achieves little. It’s our throwaway culture that needs to change."

The plastic backlash: what's behind our sudden rage – and will it make a difference? "Decades after it became part of the fabric of our lives, a worldwide revolt against plastic is under way."

Five products you may not know were harming the environment.


Zoo

New study further undermines the myth of the “savage” Neanderthal.

Long read
Herschel, the very hungry sea lion. "It’s dangerous to blame the decline of one species on a single predator. We humans like to do it anyway."

Why are attitudes to meat so complex and personal? I draw the line at cephalopods. "I eat all sorts of creatures, but I won’t touch octopus – which only exposes my hypocrisy and our complicated relationship with food."

London train station recruits hawk to stop pigeons stealing people’s food.

Watch
Leaf-cutter ants; and the Ecuador jumping spider.

The bygone British dog show, in pictures.

The week in wildlife, in pictures.


The White
Heat of This Revolution

You thought fake news was bad? Deep fakes are where truth goes to die. "Technology can make it look as if anyone has said or done anything. Is it the next wave of (mis)information warfare?"

Far-right video game encourages homophobic mass shootings.

Spotify airs anti-trans ad and then pulls it after angry uproar.

Islamic extremists are obsessed with gay porn, expert claims.

Instagram's Aids memorial. "The Instagram feed where friends and family post tributes to loved ones who died of Aids-related illnesses has become an extraordinary compendium of lost lives."

"Nobody could make me laugh like you": Instagram memories of those lost to AIDS.

A simple plan to dissolve Facebook, Google, and Amazon.


YouTube is full of cringey, clickbait DIY channels. They’re even weirder than you think.

Boffins devise blowjob machine after studying 108 hours of oral sex.


Planes, Trains
& Automobiles

Why there are so many viral confrontations on airplanes. "The many, many factors that stress people out while flying."

Why airlines are allowed to overbook their flights.

The bus gets a lot of hate. American cities are trying to change that.


Betta
Work!

Into the dark: what’s it like working through the night? "Increasingly, we live in a 24-hour world. Florists, midwives, bakers and others throw some light on the challenges of going nocturnal."


I Own
51% Of This Company!

The war inside 7-Eleven. "The company has been battling its store owners for years. It seems to have found a new tool: US immigration authorities."

Stores use these tricks to get you to spend money. Don’t fall for it.

 Watch
Ace's Adventures visits Virginia Center Commons Mall in Glen Allen; Retail Archaeology descends into First Plaza Galeria, in Albuquerque; in Middletown, New York, Faded Commerce looks in on The Galleria at Crystal Run; and Sal examines a mostly abandoned Forest Fair Mall.


Hell's
Kitchen

Burger King roasts Kanye West on social media.

Everything you do is wrong, including the way you eat a burger.

why even vegans crave burgers that "bleed".

Fish fingers are surprisingly sustainable, say conservationists.

A brief history of how curry ended up in Japan.

How we fell out of love with milk. "Soya, almond, oat... Whether for health issues, animal welfare or the future of the planet, ‘alt-milks’ have never been more popular. Are we approaching dairy’s final days?"


Rag
Trade

"He reached over and grabbed my crotch": a male model on the dark side of fashion.

Watch

Diesel is selling a £350 jacket with "faggot" written all over it.

Lasers and metallic blazers at Dior menswear debut in Tokyo.


And
This:

Why straight men hate astrology so much.


Life's A
Goddamn
Laugh Riot

Lie witness news; Granny goes to college; Daniel is accosted by the Gay Bottom Mafia; and Troye Sivan reads thirst Tweets.

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Issue 295: 1-15 November 2018
On the cover: Robert La Tourneaux.

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