Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground

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Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure

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I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think

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Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself

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Here at kaos, we're big, big, BIG fans of vlogger Andrew Maisonette, whose videos feature weekly on THE KAOS THEORY.

We love it when he talks like a sorority girl. We love it when he talks about his boyfriend Kevin. We just, like, totally love him. The thirst is real. In fact I want to have his babies. ANDREW I FORGIVE YOU FOR PICKING KEVIN. IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO PICK ME. PICK ME! PICK ME GODDAMMIT! *sobs*

Be sure to visit Andrew at his awesome YouTube channel (subscribe!), where he stars prominently with his nipples (and occasionally Kevin), on Twitter, and his crazy kaleidoscope of a Tumblr, where we stole all these pictures from. 

Enjoy. 

Issue 201: Dionte Greene, Baldwin, Brontez Purnell, AIDS, Wagstaff, Ferguson, WeHo, Brent Corrigan, Tomas Lopez, and more...

the week's

news

& pop

culture,

with a

gay

bias.

| think, progress |

What sex really means to the queer person with a disability. Pictured: Paralympian Ade Adepitan visits homeless gay youth in Jamaica.

Veterans of an unpopular war. "The bittersweet life of the long-term AIDS survivor."

Generations of HIV. "Each generation of gay men has the distinct experience of being uniquely impacted by HIV. One of the best-understood and often explored generational experiences of HIV is the early years - a time when the disease violently and unexpectedly emerged in the community. For those of us who come of age after those events, HIV didn't arrive to alter the world, as we knew it. It was the world, as we knew it. For our entire experience, HIV has been incidental to our lives."

Nine gay icons who lost their lives to AIDS. Above, Sylvester.

The day I held my boyfriend's hand. Image.

The recent history and contemporary research of “gay voice.”

What does Judaism say about gay people?

Are paedophiles hijacking "coming out"?

I was banned from a gay dads' group for raising Michael Brown.

The black community is experiencing their own "Stonewall Moment." We must join them in this battle. Because it is our battle, too.

Wilbert L. Cooper: "There were times in my youth when I felt ashamed of my skin. I felt like God Himself had cursed me by placing a cloak of steaming hot shit around my white bones. I was marked; everyone could see it. Even on my best days, even when I was at my most jubilant, that weight of identity was always there. No matter how hard I tried, I could never escape my race and the burdens that came with it."

The police's story about the shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice doesn't match the video.

How racial discrimination in law enforcement actually works.

I'm black, British and just moved to New York. After the Eric Garner decision, I can't breathe. "Racism in the UK might be just as prevalent, but it doesn’t usually result in another dead black man at the hands of the police."

When is it legal for a cop to kill you?

Bill Cosby has made me confront my own do-gooder racism – but it's people like Eric Garner who pay the price. "The allegations against Cosby seemed more disturbing because he is black. Clearly I see black celebrities as under a greater obligation to be exemplars – and that’s wrong, because it suggests black failings are more serious than white ones."

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder

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Roland Caillaux

Art

Skool

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself

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Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along

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In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art

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