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ASK GRINDR: What’s Your Least Favorite Aspect of Gay Culture?
ASK GRINDR: What’s Your Least Favorite Aspect of Gay Culture?
We have gay questions, and Grindr has gay answers. That’s why we’ve decided to save ourselves a fortune on therapy and turn instead to the world’s most popular gay hookup app for guidance.
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This week, we asked members to weigh in on their least favorite aspects of gay culture. Their choices will shock you to the core and leave you reeling, or something.
And now it’s over to you. So: What’s your least favorite aspects of gay culture? Weigh in in the comments below.
PHOTOS: Step Into The Colorfully Queer And Crazy World Of Photographer Angelo Nairod
PHOTOS: Step Into The Colorfully Queer And Crazy World Of Photographer Angelo Nairod
“For me, the artist’s role is to communicate the social problems, to provoke, to shock and to fascinate,” Italian photographer Angelo Nairod tells Queerty.
Angelo’s work has been displayed in galleries and art exhibitions around the world. Most recently, he did a solo exhibition at the Artifact Gallery in New York.
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His photographs look like they could be straight of of an Almodóvar film, bursting with bright colors, conflicting emotions, humor, and, of course, sex.
“My photos depict love in all forms,” Angelo says. “One part of my work focuses on queer/same-sex couples and on LGBT rights. I think it’s very important to talk about this because in my country there is still much to do.”
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“Often during an exhibition of my photos I watch the reactions of people,” he continues. “I really like when people laugh or smile. It’s very important to me that there is a ‘funny’ element. People look at the photos to have fun but then are forced to reflect and look deeper. I’m always very happy when someone looks at a picture and smiles but then keeps looking seriously and thinking about it.”
Scroll down for a taste of Angelo’s work, and see more on his Instagram and Flickr pages…
Oscar Season Preview: Moonlight, La La Land, Fences, Loving, The Arrival, and More!
Oscar Season Preview: Moonlight, La La Land, Fences, Loving, The Arrival, and More!
Will ARRIVAL, LA LA LAND, and FENCES compete for Best Picture?
If the idea of one more word about the current presidential campaigns fills you with terror, here’s a suggestion. Distract yourself by focusing on a political contest with less weight and more entertainment value: The Oscar Race!
While it’s true that those campaigns can also feature mudslinging, and pundits may also note “enthusiasm gaps” and obsess over voting demographics, the outcome is always less apocalyptic — unless you count that time that Brokeback Mountain lost.
The New York Film Festival
kicked off this weekend as the last leg of the flurry of important festivals (Telluride, Venice, Toronto before it) that always set the Oscar field for the months to come. The opening night film was Ava DuVernay’s documentary The 13th which is winning rave reviews and looking like a Best Documentary Contender.
Consider it another radiant sign that it’s going to be a great fall and winter at the movies. Many wonderful films are coming so I hope you didn’t blow all your movie budget on bad franchise pictures this past summer. Let’s take a look at the Best Picture contenders heading our way soon…
“Moonlight: is the LGBT Must See of the year!
BEST PICTURE HOPEFULS OPENING SOON
Oscar is supposed to reflect the whole movie year but distributors generally conspire to keep their Oscar hopefuls crammed into the final quarter. Of the films that have already opened in theaters there are a few that might reasonably hope for an Oscar nomination or three — Sully, Florence Foster Jenkins, Queen of Katwe, Zootopia, Hell or High Water, and Love and Friendship come to mind — but mostly the 89th Oscars will be a last minute Holiday party.
THE BIRTH OF A NATION October 7th
This is the violent true story about the preacher slave Nat Turner who led a bloody rebellion. The movie exploded at Sundance, where it was often compared to the Oscar-winning Braveheart, and sold for a record $17 million.
Back in January, during the heat of the #OscarsSoWhite fiasco, the path to gold looked crystal clear for this film. But the controversy surrounding director/star Nate Parker and his co-screenwriter (a 17 year old rape trail he’s been asked about repeatedly) combined with the pleasant revelation that 2016 was offering up a plethora of other ambitious films with black actors and/or black directors eager to push #OscarsSoWhite into the rearview mirror, have made the Oscar prophecies much foggier.
MOONLIGHT October 21st
This moody singular film from Barry Jenkins, inspired by “Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue” by playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney traces the life of a gay black man with a crack addict mom as he struggles to come to terms with his identity as a boy, teenager, and man.
You must see it.
It’s a total marvel – soulful, heartwrenching, artful and smart. Oscar can sometimes get fussy about great LGBT cinema but people are currently expressing nothing but love for it. Cross your fingers.
LOVING November 4th
The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple who were sentenced to prison in Virginia in 1958 due to anti-miscegenation laws has already been the subject of documentaries.
Rising director Jeff Nichols (Take Shelter, Midnight Special) gives it the feature treatment with Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga (Agents of SHIELD, Preacher) as the couple at the center of this historic civil rights battle which went all the way to the Supreme Court. Negga in particular is said to be outstanding and a real threat for a Best Actress nomination.
ARRIVAL November 11th
This thoughtful sci-fi drama about a mysterious alien invasion and the linguist who attempts to speak to them is gripping. It’s a major “Wow!” movie and one of two Amy Adams star vehicles opening back to back. I couldn’t stop thinking about it for days afterwards.
BILLY LYNN’S LONG HALFTIME WALK November 11th
Two time Best Director winner Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain, Life of Pi) is back with another ambitious undertaking on both the technical and emotional levels. This is the first full-length narrative film “shot in 4K, native 3D at the ultra high rate of 120 frames-per-second” whatever that might mean to you.
It’s also a satirical drama about America’s political divides centered around a young Iraq War hero who comes home for a victory tour and a halftime show at a Thanksgiving Day football game. Newcomer Joe Alwyn plays Billy Lynn and the supporting cast includes Steve Martin, Vin Diesel, and Kristen Stewart.
MANCHESTER BY THE SEA November 18th
The other Best Picture contender to debut at Sundance. It’s about men coping with grief as an uncle (Casey Affleck, reportedly Oscar-worthy) and his teenage nephew (Lucas Hedges, also winning raves) are suddenly living together after a death in the family. The film is written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan (of You Can Count On Me fame).
LION November 25th
An Indian man (Slumdog Millionaire‘s Dev Patel) who was raised in Australia by loving adoptive parents (David Wenham and Nicole Kidman) decides to search for his birth mother. Lion had people happily sobbing at its festival screenings. Oscar likes a heartwarming tearjerker, especially when it’s based on a true story.
JACKIE December 2nd
The biggest surprise of the fall festivals was this laser cut gem about Jacqueline Kennedy’s high pressure decisions immediately after JFK’s assassination. Natalie Portman gives her best and angriest performance in the title role. The film comes from celebrated Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín who also directed this year’s fantastic Chilean Oscar submission Neruda starring Gael García Bernal.
LA LA LAND December 9th
This musical from the young writer/director Damien Chazelle (Whiplash) won the coveted “Audience Award” at Toronto. That prize nearly always aligns with a Best Picture nomination in January. But the nomination will be the least of it – it has “potential winner” written all over it.
La La Land is a total bliss-out, a colorful two hour romance with song and dance numbers about an aspiring actress and her jazz musician boyfriend. This is the third movie to co-star Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling and though their onscreen chemistry was already marvelous (Crazy Stupid Love) it’s even better now.
Here’s a shocking statistic for trivia buffs: If La La Land is nominated for Best Picture it will be the first original live-action musical to do so since Bob Fosse’s All That Jazz (1979). The musical nominees in between them were either animated (Beauty & The Beast), adaptations of pre-existing shows (Chicago) or used pre-existing music for their songs (Moulin Rouge!). If La La Land wins it will be the first original movie musical to win the Oscar since Gigi (1958).
Liam Neeson prays for Oscar nomination #2 in Martin Scorsese’s SILENCE
SILENCE December 23rd
Paramount surprised many when they revealed this week that Martin Scorsese’s long gestating project about Jesuit missionaries in Japan was going to open in 2016 after all. The film is reportedly well over three hours in length and stars Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver as the young missionaries in search of their mentor played by Liam Neeson.
Oscar used to run hot and cold with Martin Scorsese but they’ve nominated every film he’s made in this new century for Best Picture with the sole exception of Shutter Island (2010).
FENCES December 25th
The internet went wild for the first trailer this week with the potent screen presence of Denzel Washington and Viola Davis on full display. But can the movie version of this play about a garbage man and his family (directed by Denzel himself) live up to the dramatic success of the Broadway revival that won both stars Tonys in 2010?
Everyone is hopeful but stage to screen transitions are unpredictable and sometimes the greatest of plays can become totally mediocre movies (hello, August: Osage County).
Which of these films are you most looking forward to?
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Oscar Season Preview: Moonlight, La La Land, Fences, Loving, The Arrival, and More!
Alec Baldwin and Kate McKinnon Tear Up the Trump-Clinton Debate on SNL: WATCH
Alec Baldwin and Kate McKinnon Tear Up the Trump-Clinton Debate on SNL: WATCH
Last night’s season premiere of Saturday Night Live kicked off by taking on last week’s presidential debate, with Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump facing off against Kate McKinnon’s Hillary Clinton.
The sketch hilariously condensed the debate’s most notable moments — calling Sean Hannity, Alicia Machado, the Hillary shimmy, and the “extremely rough” statement Trump held back from saying:
“I was going to say something very rough to Hillary tonight but I said to myself ‘I can’t do it I just can’t do it.’ But if I had said it it would have been a nuclear bomb. Because in the ’90s our president was a man named Bill Clinton…And in 1998 – get this – he had an affair. It’s true. My investigators are looking into it right now. It was a woman, named Monica. Very heavy. I don’t have her last name yet but when I get it I’m going to set my alarm for 3:20 am and go sit on my golden toilet bowl and tweet about it to completion.”
Watch:
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Alec Baldwin and Kate McKinnon Tear Up the Trump-Clinton Debate on SNL: WATCH
Gay Orthodox Priests Bare All, Rocky Horror Reboot, New Michael Alig Doc
Gay Orthodox Priests Bare All, Rocky Horror Reboot, New Michael Alig Doc
You’ll probably want your 2017 calendar to be rife with photos of “orthodox priests” in various states of undress and in highly compromising positions, correct? Well, consider your prayers answered.
Grab your clown shoes and ketamine bumper: Netflix is picking up “Glory Daze,” a documentary about sociopathic club promoter/murderer Michael Alig and the insanely kooky denizens of New York’s notorious Disco 2000 party:
What happens when you inadvertently discover all your straight friend’s darkest secrets? Unstoppered hilarity ensues, as this new video by Michael Henry attests:
Fans of Stranger Things can get intense, and not just about the fate of Barb. Directed by Travis Greisler, Aggressive Things stars Book of Mormon‘s Michael Snow (Book of Mormon), Jeffrey Omura (The Blacklist), and Maulik Pancholy (30 Rock) as definitely spirited and quite possibly psychotic superfans:
Fans of Transylvanian transexuals and silver underwear will find much to fawn over in this new teaser for the upcoming television remake of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, starring Adam Lambert, Laverne Cox, and Staz Nair.
How Do You Feel About Beard Jewelry? We Feel Totally Not Great About It.
How Do You Feel About Beard Jewelry? We Feel Totally Not Great About It.
For whatever reason, beard jewelry is trying very hard to become a thing right now. But should we let it become a thing? It probably shouldn’t get to be a thing, we don’t think.
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Milan-based company KRATO just released a promo vid featuring baleful, Walt Whitmanesque models traipsing through the city streets with something sticking out of their facial hair that, from afar, might as well be stray pieces of El Pollo Loco chicken.
According to the “About” page, the collection is “dedicated to beardsmen” — beardsmen? — “who express their individuality in eccentric, yet sophisticated ways. Beard [sic] is a visual display of dignity, style, and uniqueness which makes for a perfect canvas of self-expression.”
Does it though?
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The page also states in no uncertain terms that by supporting Krato’s beard jewelry Kickstarter campaign, you are effectively “helping beard community grow.”
Take a look at the ad below, and ask yourself whether you’re really willing to let life go this way:
These Guys Are Gay And Voting For Donald Trump
These Guys Are Gay And Voting For Donald Trump
It goes without saying that a person’s sexuality does not fully define them as person, and doesn’t lock their political leanings in any one certain way.
However, to most rational people it’s tough to fathom why any gay person would support Donald Trump, and the antigay Republican party he represents, in the race to the White House.
But there are plenty of gay Trump supporters out there, and whatever you want to call it — ill-informed, xenophobic, isolationist — they actually want to see a man like Donald Trump lead our country.
Below, we hear from guys on Whisper who are unafraid to make their beliefs be known:
HRC Observes LGBTQ History Month
HRC Observes LGBTQ History Month
Each October, HRC is proud to mark LGBTQ history month.
There have been a lot of landmark moments for the LGBTQ community in the past several years – nationwide marriage equality, an exponential increase in transgender visibility, the election of more pro-LGBTQ public officials than ever before, progress in the fight for global LGBTQ equality, and much more – and while we celebrate these victories, this month also allows us to recognize individuals who knocked down barriers.
People such as Frank Kameny, Bayard Rustin, Sylvia Rivera, Audre Lorde, Bishop Gene Robinson, Jim Obergefell, among others, had such a huge impact on the fight for LGBTQ equality and beyond. We derive strength from these brave individuals who laid the foundation of our movement.
And with only 37 days until Election Day, we also recognize those politicians and elected officials who made history, including:
Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man elected to public office in California
Tammy Baldwin, the first openly LGBTQ person elected to the U.S. Senate
Victoria Kolakowski – first openly transgender judge (elected 2010, Alameda County Superior Court).
Mark Takano – first LGBTQ person of color elected to Congress (elected 2012, California’s 41st district)
We, the LGBTQ and allied community, have our own chance to make history this year by electing the most pro-equality ticket in LGBTQ history.
Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine platform covers a wide array of LGBTQ issues – from their commitment to pass the Equality Act and their endorsement of marriage equality, to their advocacy for LGBTQ youth and their pledge to help end violence against transgender people.
We must support these and other pro-equality candidates so they can build on the progress of the Obama administration. Think of all the progress we’ve made under President Obama’s leadership and what could be rolled back, including: nationwide marriage equality; the end of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell;” non-discrimination protections for LGBTQ employees of federal contractors, landmark hate crimes legislation; greater visibility for transgender people; support for HIV prevention and affordable treatment; and more.
The stakes could not be higher for the LGBTQ community this election. Take action today. Register to vote by visiting www.hrc.org/vote. Learn more about the candidates and what’s at stake at www. hrc.org/VoteEquality
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