Queer Clicks: January 24, 2017 | The Year’s Hottest Inventions In Porn Are Already Here, Imagine An Alternate Gay Universe Where AIDS Never Happened, & Other News
The Year’s Hottest Inventions In Porn Are Already Here
“This year’s Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas was filled with porn stars, and the people who love them. And by people who love them, I mean men with big cameras who want to take pictures as close to the porn star’s butthole as possible. Ah, young love! If you were able to tear yourself away from the adult entertainers for even a minute, as I so bravely did, you would find an entire banquet room brimming with new sexventions.
4. Magical beast dildos. If JK Rowling did a bunch of acid and opened a sex shop, it would be Bad Dragon. This mythical creature dildo emporium has something for every wizard or muggle on your naughty list. We’re talking grizzled werewolf dongs, gigantic, shiny demon dick, and something called, “Terra the Amazon Wyvern.” Not into penis? There’s also tentacles, tongues, and other huge, pointy, and very bumpy things that are fit to travel to the land where the sun don’t shine. Enjoy the ride, Khaleesi! ” Cosmopolitan
Peter Hujar’s Gay Lower East Side: Out of the Shadows
“Every enclave seems to produce one successful photographer. On the Lower East Side’s gay arts scene of the 1970s, Robert Mapplethorpe broke out to achieve fame and notoriety. But, there was also Peter Hujar, Mapplethorpe’s prolific contemporary. He, like Mapplethorpe, depicted aspects of gay life, was an insider among a circle of famous artists and writers, and even preferred the square format. Yet his photographs, overshadowed by Mapplethorpe’s, tell different stories. ” New York Times
Imagine An Alternate Gay Universe Where AIDS Never Happened
“What if Vito Russo ran for President? What if Mapplethorpe got into a Twitter feud with a Kardashian? What would David Wojnarowicz do about the gay executions in the Middle East? “
“These are the questions artist and filmmaker Leo Herrera hopes to tackle “with integrity, humor and history” in his new project Fathers, a “faux” documentary produced with a team of collaborators that will include historians from the GLBT Historical Society, survivors, friends, lovers and family of the men featured.” Towleroad
Why A Bollywood Memoir Has Kicked Up A Storm About Being Gay in India
“Bollywood director and talk show host Karan Johar’s autobiography has kicked off a loud debate on being gay in India, writes Sudha G Tilak.
“Everybody knows what my sexual orientation is. I don’t need to scream it out. If I need to spell it out, I won’t only because I live in a country where I could possibly be jailed for saying this. Which is why I Karan Johar will not say the three words that possibly everybody knows about me,” Johar says in the book.” BBC
