Queer Clicks: October 31 | Kevin Spacey Faces Backlash From LGBT Community After Coming Out, Spook’t – Ghost Hunting at The Shanley Hotel, & Other News

Kevin Spacey Faces Backlash From LGBT Community After Coming Out

“If Kevin Spacey had come out as gay a year ago, the reactions would’ve been very different to those seen on Monday.

For starters, he almost certainly would have been congratulated – a Hollywood A-lister publicly coming out in a world where being gay is considered by many to damage ticket sales.

But the House of Cards actor only came out in the wake of accusations that he made a sexual advance towards a male child actor in 1986.” BBC

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Gay Rodeo Draws Cowboys, Drag Queens To Las Vegas

“Individuals can participate regardless of their sexual orientation, but the International Gay Rodeo Association circuit allows cowboys and cowgirls in the LBTQ community in particular to feel comfortable doing something they love.” St. Louis Dispatch

INTERNATIONAL MR LEATHER 2017: THE NAKED INTERVIEW! A Conversation With Ralph Bruneau

“Many Americans choose to take it easy and unwind (or “chillax”, as the kiddies say…) during Memorial Day weekend. However, in Chicago, the last weekend in May is less about “rest and relaxation” than about “fraternity and faire la fête“ for the GLBTQ’s international Leather/BSDM/Kink community. That’s because thousands of Leathermen, Leatherwomen, kinksters of all varieties, and their admirers from all over the globe convene to the so-called Windy City for International Mr. Leather (IML). IML, one of the biggest Leather events in the world, is all about Leather awareness and education, unity in the Kink and in the GLBTQ community at large, and… celebration, of course!” Huffington Post

Popular Gay Instagrammers Venture Into Haunted Hotel….Will THey Make It Out Alive?

“Spook’t wrote: Spook’t is a series created by Keith Edwards and Daniel Seung Lee where they and a special guest investigate some of the most haunted places in the world. For our first episode, special guest Alex Rolecek joins us to investigate The Shanley Hotel, a notoriously haunted hotel in Upstate New York.” Queerty