Queer Clicks: August 01 | The Gay Games Start This Weekend. Here’s What You Need To Know, Not Just Another Glory Hole: Reconsidering the Bathhouse as a Community Space, & Other News

The Gay Games Start This Weekend. Here’s What You Need To Know

“The Gay Games are a quadrennial (every four years) event, just like the Olympics. They occur every year the Winter Olympics are held. It is a multi-sport event featuring thousands of athletes from dozens of countries. ” OutSports

Grindr Says It’s About to Get ‘Kindr’, Teasing Effort to Fight ‘Sexual Racism’

“Grindr is teasing a new project called “Kindr” with a web animation and social media posts suggesting an upcoming effort to fight racial discrimination on its platform. The teaser features vocal snippets of voices discussing things one might hear on Grindr. A web address features a rippling pink cloth.” Towleroad

Guy Branum On “Getting Drunk & Trying To F***” And Gay Culture’s Magnificent Tools

“A former writer for Chelsea Lately and The Mindy Project, Branum is the host and executive producer of TruTV’s Talk Show The Game Show and of his roundtable pop culture podcast Pop Rocket, where he brings his razor-sharp wit and fierce intelligence to bear on film, TV, music and everything else he and his co-hosts “love to love.” ” Queerty

Not Just Another Glory Hole: Reconsidering the Bathhouse as a Community Space

” On the Boystown stretch of Northalsted Street in Chicago is a large brick building. It’s Steamworks, perhaps the last bathhouse left in Chicago. While these institutions once flourished in many cities — in NYC, we had the Continental Baths, the Everard Baths, the St. Marks Baths, the Mineshaft and more — many fell victim to moral panic during the HIV crisis. ” Hornet