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• News updates will now appear on ka-os|theory throughout the week. But don't worry - everyone likes a full package, so you'll still find the full Week According To Garcon Stupide on the weekend!• Alexander McQueen's demons: it wasn't about his mother, it was about gay porn star Aiden Shaw (left)...
• The straights shackled by marriage - only to realise it's more fun playing for the other team.
• Justin Fashanu's niece backs homophobia campaign; Fashanu (right) remains the only professional football player to come out. He committed suicide in 1998.
• Here's one reason (left) why there's not likely to be a British version of the Dieux Du Stade calendar...• Still, say what you want about his mug, but the man's got balls. Christian Voice don't see it that way, however. They've attacked the former rugby star for "promoting sodomy to children" after his unveiling as the new patron of LGBT History Month - which includes the Schools Out, the programme designed to educate pupils about gay people.
• Christian 'homosexual cure' conference sparks protests: Being gay is not an illness, say demonstrators as they picket Belfast church.
• North London gay youth to march through Soho this coming Friday.• The plight of London's Gay's The Word, Britain's only gay bookstore.
• Why church and state shouldn't mix: the US government, the Catholic church, and how the LGBT community is tuck in the middle.• With its first season drawing to a close in the UK, The Guardian looks at why the brilliant Nurse Jackie is an antidote to the conventions of medical drama.
• Opposition is growing to India's recent decriminalisation of gay sex.
• India's 'third sex' win a measure of public acceptance.• Kenya: Clerics seek to eradicate gays, but human rights defenders are many.
• Uganda: The Independent looks at clergyman Martin Ssempa's outrageous campaign against the LGBT community: "The avid Michael Jackson fan, who has impersonated the late star on Ugandan television, flicked through the slides of men engaging in scatological fetishism, giving his horrified commentary. 'This one is eating another man's anus,' he said, while the crowd by turns gasped, sobbed and fell to the floor."• Did no one learn anything from that ill-judged World Wildlife Fund ad last year? Humo Magazine also seems to think that the 11 September atrocity is fair game (left)...
• Over the weekend we heard about Brazilian model Arthur Sales blacking up and donning an Afro wig. It must be in fashion. Now French actor Gerard Depardieu has raided the boot polish. Worse, he's responded to criticism by saying the issue's "not interesting" and "not a problem". That's alright then.
• How heterosexuals are sexualising their children at a young age.• Insomnia linked to lower grey matter density in brain.
• Tuck into a packet of crisps made of pulverised beef or turkey. Lovely...
• ChurchRater: the site that lets you review church services around the world.• Can MySpace really make a comeback? (Er... no.)
• Annie Lennox thinks Lady Gaga is "completely off the scale on just about every level". But is there anything beneath all that surface gloss?
• ka-os|theory favourite Lemar has a 7th UK Top 10 hit. Somehow I missed this new release - from his forthcoming Greatest Hits collection, which will also feature JLS - last month...
• Government ministers want to see safe sex in soaps.• A musuem. For vaccums.
• Or how about one for Apple Macs?
• Finally today, does this church look like a giant vagina? Philip thinks so...
Issue 50 of The News According To Garçon Stupide
covers the period 20-21th February 2010.
ka-os|theory is not responsible for the content of external websites.
POSTSCRIPT
"You know, we might just as well not have bothered to come.
The whole thing's been ridiculous."
© 2010
where do we go from here...
• Help make history with the first ever Brazilian gay series. caRIOcas needs your help. See a trailer - and a picture gallery - here.• Buffalo Bills wide receiver Terrell Owens at New York Fashion Week. As Ultimate Kaos once sang, Anything you want... Rod 2.0 has a few different shots from this.
• Drag queens, art fags and gay-listers: a guide to gay men.• Director Lee Daniels talks about being openly gay in Hollywood. "Daniels is raising two of his brother's children with his ex-partner. Daniels' brother, the biological father, abandoned the children and does not approve of Daniels' raising them. The director explains: 'My brother hates it that it is me who's raising his kids. He's mortified by the fact that I'm gay.'"
• South Africa wins the Mr. Gay World competition. Less said about that the better... ka-os|theory favourite Bryan Adu (pictured to the right of the winner, left) was the runner-up.• There's a bit of a hoo-ha over a jerk-off video he made.
• John Amaechi: sporting world must help gay athletes to come out.• College lacrosse captain comes out as gay.
• Scott Herman, of Real World: Brooklyn, is lensed for NoH8.• There's a new gay TV series coming our way, based on Germany's Christian & Olli (left), and HBO is involved.
• A real-life Will & Grace reality show. Please Goddess, no...• Patrick Strudwick exposed the tricks of ex-gay therapy. Now he's really going after them.
• Catholic Charities end city adoption contract with Washington D.C.; refuse to place children with gay couples.
• Transgender teen Alex Roberson talks about life in school.
• Ewan McGregor shuts down casual homophobia on Good Morning America during an interview about the McGregor-Jim Carrey kiss.
• Is there a place for gay people in conservatism and conservative politics?• Oh dear - homophobic Jamaican reggae singer Cappleton won't be appearing at this weekend's Ragga Muffins Festival. Gay hate = lost $$$.
• Suspended conductor who pushed subway rider wins battle against NYC Transit to avoid firing.
• Americans the most attractive people in the world. Well, if cold, hard and artificial works for you...
• Tiger Woods says sorry to the world for sticking his thing in pootang that wasn't wifey's. Oh, and there's some poor people going through hell in Haiti. Huh? That was last week's news?
• Penis tree.
• Male figure skating + Australian media commentary. Gee - what do you think the outcome will be?• And elsewhere in the wonderful land of Oz... The Fire Brigade's bizarre initiation rituals including sexual abuse and humiliation.
• Actors paid to act gay on Sydney Mardi Gras float. Says it all about what gay pride parades are really about now.
• Paris kiss-in.
• Gay Russian couple, Yuri and Sasha, attempt to register their marriage in Siberia.• l’Université de Grenade cancels show by Spanish photographer Fernando Bayona following death threats over his re-imagining of the last supper.
• Latin America LGBT community demands equality and an end to homophobic violence on Valentine's Day. Blabbeando reports on events in Peru, Argentina, Chile and Mexico.
• Xiao Dai - the Chinese entrant in Mr Gay World 2010 - is worried what fate awaits him when he returns to China.• Uganda: Pastor Martin Ssempa showed gay porn in church. Arrest him, lock him up, and throw away the key. Simples.
• African gay rights group Behind the Mask labelled the screening - mentioned here last week - twisted.
• Uganda: "I would kill a gay son," says MP.
• Uganda: Kill-Everyone law, a video tour.
• Uganda: Kill gay scouts!
• Uganda: Police block a demonstration supporting the anti-gay bill.• Uganda: In a time of constant calamity and crisis fatigue, who will stand against Uganda's brutal anti-gay law?
• Uganda: More than 100 LGBT Ugandans gathered in Kampala on Valentine's Day to talk about the anti-gay legislation that threatens all of them. Left, activist Abdallah Wambere, right, an unnamed activist.
• Malawi: Prosecutors have concluded their case against gay couple Tiwonge Chimbalanga and Steven Monjeza• Malawi: More arrests as police intensify gay witch-hunt.
• Stephen Gately: The Press Complaints Commission has decided that whilst aspects of Jan Moir's Daily Mail piece were "extremely distasteful", it was "an essential point of principle that papers could print views which might offend readers".• And Peter Tatchell ain't happy about it: Toothless, unprincipled PCC should be disbanded, he says.
• Stonewall chip in too: It is hard to recommend anyone from a minority community to complain to the PCC.• Convicted of consensual sex with another man 50 years ago: why it still matters.
• Why homophobia affects how teenage boys treat girls.• "Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man." Elton John says something that provokes a reaction. Next week: Barack Obama is a communist lesbian with a bestialty fetish.
• Religious people more likely to be racist.
• Bad boy snowboarder Kazuhiro Kokubo in baggy pants controversy!
• Reader's Digest UK collapses into administration.
• The perils of inbreeding: remember this? PETA asks why people are breeding dogs when 3 to 4 million dogs and cats are put to death every year in the US.
• Aw bless! Video of Marvin from JLS as a young 'un, doing his best Michael Jackson.
• Shame... Homophobic jerk-off has-been Usher• MOC Blog spends 45 minutes with Bruce La Bruce.
• There's an amazing new Doctor Who trailer...
• "My exact words were: 'I'd like to overthrow the government.' I was a young firebrand and I wanted to answer honestly. I was very angry about the social injustice in Britain under Thatcher and I’m delighted that came into the show." Doctor Who's script editor during the latter part of the 1980s speaks out.• The BBC's Newsnight has a video report on this.
• EastEnders: Live!
• This week's Gays of Our Lives: the latest clips, news and spoilers in the world of soaps and dramas featuring your favorite (and not so favorite) gay characters. Right, Greek.
• What sitcom of yesteryear would you bring back?• The definitive collection of pictures featuring Bea Arthur, mountains and pizza.
• OMG! Francois Sagat in a film - WITH A WOMAN!
• OceanScope by Korean designers AnL Studio.• MD.net Clinic Akasaka by Japanese designers Nendo.
• Vivienne Westwood's new underwear and accessories campaign, "Leonard Peltier is Innocent".• Bobby Roache dives into Gucci swimwear. Wonder if he's got room for another in there...?
• Lastly, more of those new Calvin Klein underwear models...
Issue 49 of The Week According To Garçon Stupide
covers the period 13-19th February 2010.
ka-os|theory is not responsible for the content of external websites.
© 2010
POSTSCRIPT
"You know, we might just as well not have bothered to come.
The whole thing's been ridiculous."
Work is what we now require. Work by everybody and work especially by white hands
The latest issue of L'Officiel Hommes features boy beauty Arthur Sales, lensed by Milan Vukmirovic.In blackface...
"Will the racism and stupidity in fashion ever stop? Black models aren't good enough to grace the cover, and pages of L'Officiel, but they're good enough to be mocked and parodied? The struggle of black models in the industry is already difficult enough, without having to endure this latest slap in the face," Michael of loophole7 comments at Made in Brazil.
Davidikus says: "I would be very surprised if they were trying to deride black people. I think that to an extent one could argue that L'Officiel might be trying to show that being black is something to aspire to. As long as the rationale behind the shoot has not been stated, it is almost impossible to say whether this is a sinister or positive initative - or just a photoshoot."
Ryan James: "I am a black man, and I do NOT think in anyway they did that photo-shoot with any malice or any intention to ridicule black people. I think it is a genuine attempt to be creative. My problem is that Brazil & many fashion magazine worldwide have been put on blast for not using black people. Now even when they wanna have a black face on the cover, they go ahead and hire a white model to play a black man. That's just really annoying. If black men can't even pose for shoots requiring black skin, when will they EVER get a job in that industry?"
Whatever the intentions were (and I think we can count shock value and setting the cat amongst the pigeons amongst them), there's no getting away from the fact this is a very, very bad idea. It's not creative, it's cringe-inducing.Title quote: "Work is what we now require. Work by everybody and work especially by white hands." Robert E Lee, American general, 1807-1870.
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A 17-YEAR-OLD BOY injured in a street fight in Beckton, East London, has died.
Olukorede Fajinmi, also known as Korede, was killed by a single stab wound to the heart.
He is the second boy to die violently this year. Last year, 11 teenage boys were murdered in London, down from 28 in 2008.
Three boys - all aged 16 - have been arrested.
Olukorede Fajinmi, also known as Korede, was killed by a single stab wound to the heart.He is the second boy to die violently this year. Last year, 11 teenage boys were murdered in London, down from 28 in 2008.
Three boys - all aged 16 - have been arrested.
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