Queer Clicks: November 15, 2016 | You Won’t Guess How Many People Shot Off Their Penis Since 2010, Nick Denton, Peter Thiel, And The Plot To Murder Gawker, & Other News
You Won’t Guess How Many People Shot Off Their Penis Since 2010
“At least seven men in America have accidentally shot their penis with a handgun since 2010. The initial report from the website, deathandtaxes.com has suggested that five American men shot off their penis between 2010 to 2013 and we’ve managed to find another two reported cases where men accidentally put a bullet through their dicks. Usually from holstering their gun in their trousers.” The Gay UK
Nick Denton, Peter Thiel, And The Plot To Murder Gawker
“As if the sudden death of Gawker Media, felled by a Hulk Hogan invasion-of-privacy suit, wasn’t shocking enough when it happened earlier this year, word quickly got out that the whole thing had been bankrolled by one of Silicon Valley’s most successful investors. But Nick Denton, Gawker’s founding rogue, and Peter Thiel, his arch-nemesis, had a more complicated relationship than anyone imagined.” Vanity Fair
Vanilla Only: That’s Right, No Rice, No Spice, No Chocolate, No Curry
“I’d been introduced to Fifth Avenue Station by a married man in his forties who I met in the communal showers of the YMCA. He’d whispered that it was safer there. I followed his car in mine. Inside, the stalls lined the long wall in an orderly row. My guide told me what must have been immediately obvious to anyone with any experience at all, that the stalls furthest from the door offered the most privacy. That was where all the action could be found, and as we pulled our pants up, he let me know the busiest times were between 3 pm and 6 pm on weekdays, when most men were on their way home from work in the city. I figured out on my own that tapping my foot beneath the stall divider signaled interest.” Salon
‘Gay Guys Always Look Like Their Boyfriends,’ And Other Myths Worth Bursting
“One of the staples of LGBT folklore is that gay guys always seek mirror-image boyfriends (or husbands), coming off insecure and/or narcissistic enough to crave an exact reflection of themselves. That’s had truth in the past, but it’s less so as gays don’t need as much artificial support. For a while, it seemed as if some gays were even looking like their dogs and their furnishings, but now that even varies. It’s possible that gays no longer need their own image looking back at them in order to feel validated. This might seem like another form of reductionism, but it’s more productive to say what gays don’t have to be rather than what they supposedly always are.” Out
