Queer Clicks: July 18 | In Circus of Books, a Filmmaker Explores How Gay Porn Became Her Family’s Business, Using FaceApp’s Aging Filter Gives a Russian Company Permission to Take More Than Your Youthful Looks, & Other Clicks

In Circus of Books, a Filmmaker Explores How Gay Porn Became Her Family’s Business

“The Ryan Murphy-produced doc is more than a eulogy for a gay L.A. landmark, it’s a family portrait” LA Mag

This is What It’s Like to Be Internet Sensation Davey Wavey Now

“If you’re gay and online, avoiding Davey Wavey is like avoiding the weather: Sooner or later, you’re going to get wet.” Metro Source

Using FaceApp’s Aging Filter Gives a Russian Company Permission to Take More Than Your Youthful Looks

In its terms of service, users grant FaceApp “a perpetual, irrevocable, nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, fully-paid, transferable, sub-licensable license to use, reproduce … create derivative works from … and display your User Content and any name, username or likeness provided in connection with your User Content in all media formats and channels now known or later developed, without compensation to you.” Towleroad

I Miss Disney’s Queer-Coded Villains—But the Next Generation Won’t

“Queer-coding may have been wrong, but the result was a roster full of scene-stealing characters that young viewers could interpret as LGBTQ.” New Now Next