Queer Clicks: January 28, 2017 | François Sagat, Uncut: Catching Up With A Sex Symbol, Sexy Mr. Clean Gets Dirty In New Super Bowl Ad , & Other News
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François Sagat, Uncut: Catching Up With A Sex Symbol
“François Sagat says the past few years have been hazardous. When he decided to retire from the gay adult film industry in 2013, he was one of its most recognizable stars. The French actor had hopes his transition to arthouse cinema, with Christophe Honoré’s Homme au Bain, would lead to more traditional roles. Instead, nothing happened.” Advocate
Sexy Mr. Clean Gets Dirty In New Super Bowl Ad
“Girl, you know you’ve been having that fantasy again. Don’t deny it: You’re sitting there at home in your kitchen, looking at that messy stain from last night’s chicken cacciatore, and thinking to yourself, “God, using cleaning products really makes me want to get my fuck on. Isn’t there a company whose chemical burn also fires up my loins?” Baby, just relax and let Mr. Clean take over. Forget those old live-action versions of a human male you could conceivably have actual intercourse with, sweet thing, and set aside that weird spot from three months ago where Kellan Lutz ”auditioned” to be the new spokescleaner.” AV Club
Hot Or Not: Could Watching Yourself Having Sex In A Mirror Improve Your Love Life?
“When did you last look at your naked body? I mean, really look? Chances are, it’s a rare occurrence – and it’s the same for most of us. Maybe we get a glimpse in the mirror when we’re getting ready for bed.
A second later, we hop under the covers before we see too much and are reminded of all the things we disliked about ourselves. It’s pretty much ingrained in most people – women especially – to be unhappy with their body.” Metro
A Gay Activist’s Journey To Christian Fundamentalism: ‘I Am Michael’
“Michael Glatze was a hero to the gay community. And then he was a villain.
In the late ’90s and early 2000s, he was a leading advocate for LGBT rights, a devoted student of queer theory, and an editor at the influential XY magazine. Then, after a health scare at 29, he renounced his gay identity, embraced Christian fundamentalism, married a woman, became a pastor of his own church, and started calling his old friends “abnormal.” As Glatze pivoted from one sexual and religious identity to another, his own motivations remained inscrutable; he was, and remains, a true iconoclast in an era where the kind is practically extinct. How can one man embody such extremes within himself? ” NPR
Ellen Welcomes Gay Iraqi Soldiers Who Fell in Love, Escaped the Mideast, and Got Married
“Last June when the documentary Out of Iraq first aired, we reported on Nayyef and Btoo, Iraqi soldiers who fell in love during the Iraq war, were separated for several years, sought asylum in the west, and are now married. Btoo and Nayyef now live in Seattle, and work with LGBT youth from the middle east who are escaping oppression in their own countries.” Towleroad
