Even if no NBA team picks Jason Collins up for next season, he has a golden career as a public homosexual ahead of him if he wants it, which shows just how different being gay in 2013 is from being black in 1947—back then, no one was talking about how much money Jackie Robinson was going to make post-baseball.
Ted Sterchi, a London-based web developer and the guy behind Grindr Illustrated, started painting some of the inanimate faces he saw on Grindr in an attempt to soften the otherwise hard, sexually aggressive profile pictures he was confronted with every time he logged into the app…
A homophobic, Christian group of TV producers got over half a million dollars from the Canadian government to help out in Uganda—a place where homosexuals may soon face the death penalty.
A family-friendly pride festival in Toulouse, France this past week started out upbeat, with a reggae band and UNICEF dance routine to MGMT, but quickly went south when a large group of counter-demonstrators—mostly older people in sweaters and slacks who’d come to defend the “traditional” institution of marriage—congregated on the other side of town to protest.
Three months ago, about a 100 bike-riding homosexuals pedaled through Hanoi in what would come to be seen as the Vietnamese capital’s first ever gay pride parade. Only one day after the parade, rumors began to circulate that the Vietnamese government was considering the legalization of same-sex marriage. Considering that Vietnam is still operating under a communist regime, this is sort of newsworthy, don’t you think? I thought so, which is why I got in touch with photographer Maika Elan, who spent last year photographing Vietnam’s gay couples in their most intimate moments for her photo series The Pink Choice. She sort of stood me up on the day of the interview, but that’s OK because she’s the sweetest Vietnamese with a mushroom haircut I’ve ever met.
For those who haven’t been paying attention, the EDL is a group that seems to sincerely believe Britain is under imminent threat of being taken over by fundamentalist Muslims. Ignoring the hundreds of years of evidence which suggests that Britain is run by a cabal of rich, white, Christian men, the EDL have taken it upon themselves to nip this imaginary problem in the bud by marching drunk into towns and cities and slurring their inarticulate rage at the local Islamic population. Last weekend the boys went to drizzly Bristol where they hung out with cops and a bunch of antifascists.
Gay was invented by two guys in the city of Sodom in 254 BC. Since then, tonnes and tonnes of men have been enjoying sex with other men. But, as fun and as normal as that is, LOADS of people have a problem with it. In fact, lots of people think that putting a dick anywhere near another man’s bum or mouth hole is basically the same as wiping it all over God’s toothbrush. Because of this, “gay shit” remains a controversial subject best avoided at smart religious events, or in the presence of idiots. Here’s our comprehensive guide to everything you ever wanted to know about gayness, but were too afraid to ass.
Northstar, who is apparently one of the X-Men, although you’ve never, ever heard of him, recently asked his boyfriend to marry him. This savvy PR move from Marvel marks the first time a mainstream comic book character has gotten gay-married, although Apollo and Midnighter (who are part of one of DC’s many, many alternate universes and are even more obscure than Northstar) got married back in 2002. While this marriage probably won’t affect our reality too much—other than briefly boosting Astonishing X-Men sales—it might inspire some closeted comics characters to finally reveal what they were hiding (barely) underneath their brightly-colored spandex bodysuits.
