Indian Woman Uses Spycam to Have Husband Arrested for Gay Sex
Indian Woman Uses Spycam to Have Husband Arrested for Gay Sex
A 32-year-old Indian man was arrested for homosexuality, despite judicial assurances that reinstatement of a Colonial-era antigay law wouldn’t cause arrests.
Thom Senzee
editorial.advocate.com/world/2014/10/31/indian-woman-uses-spycam-have-husband-arrested-gay-sex
Meet The Hulking Young Stars Of Senegal — Male Professional Wrestlers
Meet The Hulking Young Stars Of Senegal — Male Professional Wrestlers
In Senegal, professional wrestling reigns supreme. Seeing as it’s the national sport, those who successfully practice lutte sénégalaise, or laamb, are considered heroes in their home country, treated like movie stars or royalty. Though unlike the WWE stars in America who transformed wrestling into an entertainment spectacle throughout the ’90s, the burgeoning wrestling champions in Senegal are reaching new heights of popularity while attempting to maintain ties to their traditional folk roots.
Amsterdam-based photographer Ernst Coppejans recently spent several weeks shadowing the men and boys who are working to become the next big laamb champions. His portraits capture the hulking subjects on a beach in the small village of Yene where they train. Contorted and posed, mid-grapple or lounging by the sea, Coppejans’ images demonstrate a different kind of masculinity.
The series, titled “Lutteur,” began while Coppejans was traveling in West Africa, seeking to meet and photograph members of the gay community there. The resulting project, “Dans le Milieu,” explores West Africa’s laws that prohibit same sex relationships. While in Senegal, however, Coppejans became particularly fascinated with the wrestlers he saw on the beaches. After a bit of research, he decided to join the Senegalese hopefuls for a month, attending their tournaments and observing their practices.
“Champions are worshiped,” Coppejans explained to The Huffington Post. “Many Senegalese boys train fanatically to make their dream, becoming a famous lutteur come true.” The allure of fame and fortune from sport clearly crosses national borders. Talented lutteurs will wear talismans (gris-gris) and douse themselves in blessed liquid to better their chances of triumph, while connecting to the older folk rituals based on faith and luck. But while the majority of competitors make around $2,000 per season, the small percentage of elite winners can earn up to $100,000 per combat.
“There is a mirage, a sort of dream, that the youth of the country are living,” Malick Thiandoum, a sports broadcaster for Senegalese Radio and Television, stated to The New York Times. “But we are in the process of telling them, ‘Be careful, because there is a gap between what you believe and reality.'”
Cappejans captures portraits of the wrestlers, clad in loincloth and shorts, before they’ve been fully enveloped by this reality. “What I love about this series is that it is all about hopes and dreams,” he added. “Not many make it as a professional wrestler, but they sure are gonna try. It’s a way out of poverty and a way to a better life.”
For more on the multinational world of wrestling, check out Laurent Goldstein’s series on kushti here.
Sweet Caroline: Every Vote Counts
Sweet Caroline: Every Vote Counts
What at an amazing evening with HRC volunteers in Raleigh. HRC’s Get Out the Vote tour continues today after great events in Atlanta, Denver and Portland.
HRC.org
www.hrc.org/blog/entry/sweet-caroline-every-vote-counts?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss-feed
Scorned Ex-Boyfriend Emails Nude Photos Of Teacher To 250 Of His Students
Scorned Ex-Boyfriend Emails Nude Photos Of Teacher To 250 Of His Students
A word of caution to those of you who text X-rated pictures of yourselves to others: Be very careful who you send them to or your naughty bits may come back to haunt you.
One Pasadena school teacher has learned this lesson the hard way.
38-year-old David Galvan allegedly hacked into his ex-boyfriend’s, high school teacher Richard Rosa, work email and sent provocative pictures of the science instructor to 250 of his students, colleagues, and friends, the Los Angeles Times reports.
The email’s subject line simply read, “Enjoy!”
Attached to the body of the message, which was sent on July 10 while Rosa was out of the country, were four nude pics of the teacher showing off his bare chest and penis.
According to Pasadena police Lt. Terysa Rojas, Galvan was angry that his relationship with Rosa had ended and so he was seeking revenge. A warrant for his arrest was issued a week after the email was sent on five charges, including identity theft, sending obscene matter, and impersonating Rosa.
Upon learning he was a wanted man, Galvan allegedly fled the state. Three months later, officials tracked him down in Hillsboro, Oregon. Last week, he was transported to Pasadena city jail, where he was released shortly thereafter upon posting bail.
As for Rosa, school district officials say he’s not at risk of losing his job. Just to be on the safe side, however, students have begun rallying around their beloved science teacher. An online petition titled “Save Mr. Rosa” began circulating over the summer, insisting he not be punished for what his awful ex-boyfriend allegedly did to him. It currently has over 500 signatures.
A court hearing on the matter is scheduled for November 21.
h/t: Gawker
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Graham Gremore
Ellen DeGeneres Sends Staffers Andy and Jacqueline Through a Haunted House: VIDEO
Ellen DeGeneres Sends Staffers Andy and Jacqueline Through a Haunted House: VIDEO
Ellen’s Halloween ritual of sending faint-hearted staffers through haunted houses is back – with Executive Producer Andy Lassner and his assistant Jacqueline being the lucky two chosen to brave a vampire-themed maze this year.
Watch, AFTER THE JUMP…
And if you missed (or care to re-watch) Ellen’s hilarious videos from last year, check ’em out HERE and HERE.
Kyler Geoffroy
GIRLS LOVE THE WAY I FLOSS!!! (FUNNY)LGBT
GIRLS LOVE THE WAY I FLOSS!!! (FUNNY)LGBT
Had to do it! Much love guys!
Wendy Davis Rally at University of North Texas
Op-ed: Why We're Still Waiting for Gay Hollywood to Talk About PrEP
Op-ed: Why We're Still Waiting for Gay Hollywood to Talk About PrEP
When will PrEP have its Magic Johnson moment?
Diane Anderson-Minshall
www.advocate.com/31-days-prep/2014/10/31/op-ed-why-were-still-waiting-gay-hollywood-talk-about-prep
No, Being Black and Gay Does Not Suck
No, Being Black and Gay Does Not Suck
Apparently it sucks to be a black gay guy. At least that is what “Stevie” over at gayguys.com claims in his post “20 Reasons It Sucks To Be A Gay Black Man.” I hate this article. I am over articles like this one, which measures our worth as gay men by white men’s standards. Life as a gay black man sucks for Stevie (and all the Stevies of the world) because he is chasing after whiteness.
Stevie’s article mainly consists of reasons such as:
- “Every day I’m consumed with the fear of rejection in a community where muscular white men are looked at in the highest regard.”
- “At least 80% of the guys I meet are ‘not into black guys’. Seriously? You don’t even know me jackass.”
- “Constantly being heart broken because that hot guy I met at Mickey’s doesn’t date black guys…”
- “While LGBT acceptance is making great progress, gay black men still have to hide our sexual orientation from our parents and family.”
Why, Stevie, do so many of your reasons have to do with non-black men validating your desirability? Why, in general, is so much of your worth tied to your body? These are choices you are making. You are choosing to surround yourself, intimately, with people who don’t value blackness. I have always been told, “Birds of a feather flock together.” Perhaps if you truly valued and desired blackness more, it wouldn’t suck so much to be gay and black for you. You would seek out black-affirming spaces and people. Don’t get me wrong: I am not saying you only have to date black guys or have only black friends. What I am saying is that the moment you stop treating whiteness and white boys as the prize, your life changes.
While I know, as a friend of mine says, “love is where you find it,” the unasked questions is: Where the hell have you been looking? Which bodies do you value? I value black bodies that delight in and appreciate blackness. That is, I value folk E. Patrick Johnson would call “quare.” I believe that black men loving black men is a revolutionary act, and I include romantic love and sexual desire in this revolution.
The moment we black folk start valuing ourselves in every way, the moment we stop judging our beauty and our worth by how close we can approximate some white ideal, the moment we see each other as the prize, the moment we chase after blackness as hard as so many of us chase after whiteness, the moment we define for ourselves what it means to be black and gay is the moment life won’t “suck.”
And this is not to be naïve and suggest that there isn’t critical work that needs to be done in the gay community at large, nor am I suggesting that our black heterosexual brothers and sisters don’t have work they need to do, but I am saying that if you continue to live your life based upon the definitions handed to you by whiteness, the rules put into place by whiteness, and the logic that white is right and the only good, then, yeah, life for you will suck. And I’ll have little sympathy for you. Pity, yes, but sympathy? No.
