Queer Clicks: December 4, 2016 | Inside The Dark, Dangerous World of Chemsex, Fake News on Gay Science? , & Other News
Inside The Dark, Dangerous World of Chemsex
“When Stephen Port was convicted last week of the rape, drugging, and murder of four young men, police began to look again at dozens more cases involving date-rape drugs. But an investigation by BuzzFeed News into the hidden world of “chemsex” reveals, through unprecedented first person testimony, that this is just the beginning.’ BuzzFeed
Fake News on Gay Science?
“A widely reported study on longevity of homosexuals appears to have been faked. When social justice displaces truth as the core value of academics, bad things happen to science.” National Review
Invisible Men
“Trans gay men visibility evokes a famous line from Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man: “I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.” Cole Hayes is here to correct that perception.” HIV Plus Magazine
World’s First Gay Country Musician Finds Hope While Touring The Heartland
“Iowa, Indiana, Missouri, North Carolina. Over the past year, Patrick Haggerty ― frontman of Lavender Country, the first band to perform openly gay country music ― has been gallivanting across Trump country.
The band’s most popular song, “Cryin’ These Cocksucking Tears,” might make those who voted for the new president-elect uncomfortable. It’s a bluntly sung story about the pain of living as a gay man in America in the early 1970s. The song was first written and recorded in Seattle, Washington, where Haggerty lived at the time. ” Huffington Post
Eli Lieb’s Los Angeles: Singing In The Shower, Adam Lambert And Tequila
“Singer-songwriter Eli Lieb began his career recording covers on YouTube from his Fairfield, Iowa, hometown. Soon he was holding his own at open mic nights in New York City, then recording his own albums in Los Angeles, where he now lives, and writing for the likes of Adam Lambert and Cheyenne Jackson. His 2013 cover of Miley Cyrus’s “Wrecking Ball” went viral and led him to recording contracts.” Queerty
