Queer Clicks: October 16, 2016 | , This Gay Police Officer’s ‘Formation’ Performance Won The Internet And Our Hearts , & Other News
Daniel James
This Bathhouse-Loving Disabled Adult Film Star Hopes To Break Into The Gay-For-Pay Genre
“James is not your average adult film performer. Sure, the 22-year-old Canadian enjoys sex and has been filmed having it–lots of it. But there’s one thing that sets him apart from all the others: He has Cerebral Palsy.” Queerty
Loss haunts Rabih Alameddine’s new novel, ‘Angel of History’
“A man awaits his fate at a San Francisco psychiatric hospital. His partner is dead. Nearly an entire generation is gone. But not all is lost for our hero, Jacob, born Ya’qub; he is the product of a brief tryst between a powerful man in Beirut and a woman from Yemen who later takes her gifted son to live in a Cairo whorehouse to thrive under the care of a voluptuous auntie named Badeea. Back in Lebanon, more or less ignored by his father, he’s so savagely beaten by bigger boys at a Catholic orphanage that his battered body must be sent to Sweden. In San Francisco, years later, he’s an Arab male and a homosexual and one of the last of his kind — everyone else felled either by the great calamity of AIDS or the furious meat grinder that is life as an Arab. Oh, and he talks regularly with Satan. And the Devil. ” LA Times
This Gay Police Officer’s ‘Formation’ Performance Won the Internet and Our Hearts
“Sometimes the right kind of content goes viral. At a pep rally in North Stafford, V.A. last week, 2nd Lieutenant Deuntay Diggs of the Stafford County Sheriff’s Office stole the show with a no-holds-barred performance of Beyoncé’s “Formation.” The crowd couldn’t have been more responsive, and we can’t stop watching the video that took Twitter by storm.” Pride.com
Our Favorite Queer Web Series For Kids Explores ‘Steven Universe’
“If you haven’t seen “Steven Universe,” you’re missing out.
Arguably the queerest show specifically for kids on television today, the animated series is both revolutionary and completely original. And now our favorite web series for kids, “Queer Kid Stuff,” explores the show in order to help break down just why it’s so great.” Huffington Post
