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Rich Juzwiak · 08/13/13 10:58AM
"Like anyone I'm afraid of being arrested but also I'm not afraid of being arrested... If it takes me getting arrested for people to pay attention and for people to lobby against this law then I'm willing to take it." — Bad-ass figure skater Johnny Weir on competing in the Sochi Olympics in anti-gay Russia
Should You Boycott Vodka Over Russia's Horrible Treatment of Gays?
Rich Juzwiak · 08/02/13 04:30PMRich Juzwiak · 07/31/13 03:20PM
What the Hell Is Going On With Russia and Gays?: An Explainer
Rich Juzwiak · 07/26/13 04:27PMThe following video, widely circulated on social media, shows a Russian teen being tortured by a Neo-Nazi gang that suspects him of being gay. It seems likely that the clip—like the photo above, taken at a St. Petersburg gay-rights rally in June—will become iconic for the same reasons the famous photographs of Emmett Till's corpse did when they were published in Jet in 1955: It's excruciating to endure and potentially galvanizing because of it. Says Spectrum Human Rights Alliance:
Watch the President of Exodus International Face Recovering Ex-Gays
Rich Juzwiak · 06/21/13 11:30AMLast night's episode of Our America with Lisa Ling explored the damage the just-shuttered gay "reparative therapy" organization Exodus International caused during its decades in business. It was cathartic to watch the grief-stricken face of Exodus president Alan Chambers (an ex-gay himself — his wife sat next to him the entire time) as people shared their stories of how close his organization came to ruining their lives. He deserves all the chiding he gets and then some, and he seems to realize it. Though the apology he read to these recovering ex-gays was basically an early draft of the one he shared with the world earlier this week (at the time of filming, he intended to keep Exodus running with a different agenda) he also welcomed their criticism.
No, Gay Pride Is Not an Outdated, Adolescent Mess
Rich Juzwiak · 06/07/13 02:51PMThe Barbershop Closet
Rich Juzwiak · 05/13/13 03:37PMI was at the barbershop around the corner from my apartment a few Fridays ago, getting my weekly skin fade. When my barber cuts my hair, he generally turns my chair away from the mirror, which is frustrating for someone like me who likes to check the progress of the person who is altering my appearance (I have a feeling that thwarting feedback as he works is precisely why he does this). The shop is a narrow room with four stations arranged in an L; my chair was the short arm of the L.
Bret Easton Ellis Rages Against Magical Gay Elves and the PC Police
Rich Juzwiak · 05/13/13 12:16PMWriter/incendiary tweeter Bret Easton Ellis has written almost 3,500 words for Out on the media's treatment of gay men and his banning* from last month's GLAAD Awards because of his controversial tweets. These words are angry, self-serving, contradictory, justified, and human beyond gay. Out has agreed to let us to excerpt his essay, which is titled, "In the Reign of the Gay Magical Elves." See below.
Oprah Probes Jason Collins' Sexuality, Asks If He Played With Dolls
Rich Juzwiak · 05/06/13 11:40AMOprah Winfrey's 90-minute interview with newly out NBA center Jason Collins on last night's Oprah's Next Chapter reminded me of a cross between and alien autopsy and the 2011 movie Weekend. Winfrey combed through the minutiae of Collins' gay life like she was studying a different species and/or like they had just hooked up and were swapping coming-out stories.
G.B.F.: Yes, Another Gay Movie
Rich Juzwiak · 04/22/13 02:35PM"You don't sound like the ones on Bravo," says the blondest, hottest girl in the school, Fawcett (Sasha Pieterse), to the guy she is tying to woo, Tanner (Michael J. Willett). Tanner is freshly out of the closet and the coveted accessory of his school's three most popular girls, to whom he compares "warlords in a Third World country." Tanner is the titular G.B.F. – gay best friend — of Jawbreaker director Darren Stein's latest movie of high-school clique absurdity. Tanner is one of the most specific gay teens I've ever seen portrayed on screen.
This Pro-Gay Boy Scouts Alternative Just Doubled its Membership
Adam Weinstein · 04/16/13 09:45AM
Camping, crafts, and uniforms have always held a special allure for some kids; too bad the main sponsor of those activities, the Boy Scouts of America, excludes gays, atheists, and girls.
Reform-Minded Pope Francis Vows He'll Crack Down... on Feminist Nuns
Adam Weinstein · 04/15/13 01:02PMNFL's Kerry Rhodes Isn't Gay, He Just Carries Around Dudes While Shirtless
Rich Juzwiak · 04/11/13 01:45PMYesterday, the incoherent jumble of insinuations, flat-out lies and chiiiiiiiiiiiiiillllleeeees that is MediaTakeOut posted a MTO SUPER DUPER WORLD EXCLUSIVE featuring pictures of NFL free agent Kerry Rhodes "ON VACATION ... With One Of His 'MALE FRIENDS!!'" In its homophobic way that villainizes but stops short of exhibiting direct malice, MTO branded the shots of Rhodes and a much wispier dude seemingly canoodling in a tropical setting as "suspect."
Rich Juzwiak · 04/10/13 09:10AM
Gay Restaurant Owners Forced to Shut Down After Homophobic Slurs from Customers Get To Be Too Much
Neetzan Zimmerman · 04/05/13 11:48AMThe Most Important Word in Tyler, the Creator’s Vocabulary Is Exactly What You Think It Is
Rich Juzwiak · 04/02/13 04:50PMIt's hard to imagine a purportedly heterosexual artist who has a more intimate relationship with the word "faggot" than the rapper Tyler, the Creator. His frequent use of word has defined his career to many (especially those who haven't taken the time to listen to his music or are generally hip-hop avoidant), its legend reaching exaggerated proportions – an oft-quoted, erroneous post on NME says he uttered the word and variations of it like "fag" 213 times on his 2011 sophomore album Goblin. Fader, in a more measured post of various Goblin stats, counted only nine.
Michelle Shocked on Supposedly Anti-Gay Rant: ‘I Didn’t Know What I Was Talking About’
Rich Juzwiak · 04/02/13 11:25AMCardinal Dolan: Gays Are 'Entitled to Friendship'
Rich Juzwiak · 04/01/13 10:25AMSupporting an institution (such as marriage) over actual human lives isn't a very Christian thing to do, but it is a very Catholic thing to do, and so Cardinal Timothy Michael Dolan upheld the Church's interest in protecting marriage from homosexual demons in an interview with George Stephanopoulos that aired Sunday on This Week. This is what a losing battle with a twist of internal conflict sounds like: