Issue 213: Tiger Mandingo, Doug Locke, Shamir, Amtrak, MOVE, Empire, Etan Patz, Chuka Umunna, Taye Diggs, and more...


the week's
news
& pop
culture,
with a
gay
bias.

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left & found

What was gay? "In an increasingly accepting world, homosexual men are all too eager to leave their campy, cruising past behind. But the price of equality shouldn’t be conformity."



Where the wild things aren't. "It has become harder than ever to find quick, recreational sex... Where are the men of stereotype, the randy fellows who are always ready for casual tumbles? Are the guys with insatiable libidos now hiding somewhere outside of West Hollywood and the West Village? These days, even finding an online hook-up takes too long.

Gay people today are boring, artist David Hockney says, because they are so conservative, and “want to be ordinary”.



Dustin Lance Black on why the LGBT and black civil rights movements are connected.

The anti-gay backlash has started...

...And four million gay men are beaten up every year...

...But the number of countries criminalising homosexuality has fallen from 92 to 76 since 2006.

Male-on-male sexual harassment is real.

Here's the annual OUT Hot List.

Coming out as an atheist, as queer, and as polyamorous.

Why polyamorous marriages are the next step to equality. (Image)


Now is the time to start talking about racism in the LGBT community.

I'm black and gay; America is white and straight... but I'm deeply in love with America.

How highly gendered toys present an exclusively heterosexual worldview to children.


Atheism terrifies people because it makes us think about death.

You have to be self-reliant and strong to survive in this town. Otherwise you will be destroyed

JOAN
CRAWFORD
MOVIE STAR

"I have a nasty
imagination, and
I'd like to be left
alone with it."

Lynn Markham,
Female On The Beach
 
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