Queer Clicks: October 04 | Germany Celebrates First Gay Wedding After Historic Vote, New Film Sheds Light On A Less-Heralded Aspect Of The Queer Experience & Other News

Germany Celebrates First Gay Wedding After Historic Vote

“Germany celebrated its first same-sex weddings Sunday, after a new law came into force putting gay and lesbian couples on an equal legal footing with heterosexual couples.

Town halls in Berlin, Hamburg and elsewhere opened their doors to mark the event, made possible by a surprise vote in Parliament three months earlier.

“We’re making a single exception to fire a symbolic starter pistol because same-sex marriages are possible from today,” said Gordon Holland, a registrar in Berlin’s Schoeneberg district.” New York Post

New Film Sheds Light On A Less-Heralded Aspect Of The Queer Experience

“ainstream films like “Philadelphia” and “The Dallas Buyers Club” have undoubtedly raised awareness of HIV/AIDS issues ― to varying degrees of success ― in Hollywood. Still, Matthew Puccini felt he’d never seen the routine, yet often stressful, act of being tested for the virus accurately portrayed in film. ” Huffington Post

In Brief: 7 Photos From ‘Calvin Klein’ By Calvin Klein

““I’ve always loved taking risks and pushing boundaries, whether the world was ready or not,” writes Calvin Klein in the introduction to Calvin Klein, a handsome new collection of the designer’s erotically charged images dating back to the mid-1970s, when Helmut Newton photographed Lisa Taylor staring down a shirtless guy—sexually provocative for its time, but also resonant of an era defined by the hedonism of disco and Studio 54.” Out