Queer Clicks: August 20 | Town to Install Alarm and Hose-Equipped Public Toilets to Soak People Who Try to Have Sex, Canadian Mayor Says “I’m Gay” in Heartfelt Essay, & Other Clicks

Town to Install Alarm and Hose-Equipped Public Toilets to Soak People Who Try to Have Sex

The Guardian reports on what’s going down in the Welsh seaside town of Porthcawl: ‘Violent movement sensors would automatically open the doors and sound high-pitched alarms, with fine water jets soaking the interior. Towleroad

Having a Kiki With Mother Nature: A Queer Guide to Backcountry Camping

If you’re bored with glamping at clothing-optional campgrounds and are looking to get a taste of the backcountry experience, behold this queer guide to an excursion in mother nature. New Now Next

Virgin Active Issues Warnings over Shower Cruising

There’s a lot of reasons to go to the gym: to get that beach bod, keep yourself healthy, and getting hand-jobs in the showers. Well, that’s one way to give your wrists a good workout. Unfortunately, that’s not our gym, (we’d look like Arnold Schwarzenegger if it was), but rather the Virgin Active in Barbican. Cocktails and Cock Talk

Canadian Mayor Says “I’m Gay” in Heartfelt Essay

“I’m gay.”

That’s how Ottaway mayor Jim Watson started an essay for the Ottawa Citizen published today. “There — I said it; or rather wrote it. Those two words took me almost four decades to utter, but as they say, ‘Better late than never.’” Out