Celebration: An Anthology to Commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Silliman University National Writers Workshop Sands and Coral, 2011-2013
Silliman University, 2013
Putting up a series of coronavirus industry disruption articles for reference later. I've been studying how creatives are navigating the ruins and the losses to find out-of-the-box opportunity.
BBC: Is sexuality purely the result of our biology? Brandon Ambrosino argues that simplistic explanations have ignored the fluid, shape-shifting nature of our desires.
Atlas Obscura: The radical plan to turn one California town into a gay utopia.
Chicago Tribune: James Bond might be gay, Her Majesty's man in Chicago hints.
Australia Channel: Ellen Degeneres admits being openly gay brought challenges.
Rolling Stone: Why professional sports still has a gay problem.
Metro: Dutch TV presenters (and straight men) Jan Versteegh and Tim Hofman in a gay kiss because they want to challenge how we view sexuality and masculinity and want to start a discussion about what homosexuality is. Awwww. So here's the behind-the-scenes video for that...
The Washington Post: A quiet campaign is placing gay people and their rights struggle in U.S. history.
The Atlantic: Gay marriage in the United States, one year later.
Advocate: Gay clubs in Russia and the U.S. are worlds apart but similar.
Medscape: Lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults in the United States are more likely to report worse physical and mental health than their heterosexual counterparts. Yikes.
Towleroad: Alexander Skarsgard talks gay sex scenes, drag, and his LGBT fan base.
And finally, here's Chris Martinez's theatrical take on Joey Gosiengfiao's gay camp classic Temptation Island (1980), this time taking the roles of the stranded beauty queens and giving it to actors in drag -- just as the old film's subtext exactly read so. It's the full stage production from 2005.
Interaksyon gives us an update about today's Manila Pride Parade! In co-celebration of this year's Pride parade -- which centres around the theme of “Let Love In: Kahit Kanino Kailan,” and which organisers say is "a battlecry to end hate that promotes the culture of violence, and to just let love reign" -- here's a few pink links for you to enjoy...
Outrage: When singer/provocateur Sebastian Castro met broadcast journalist Ryan Chua and sparks flew...
Slant: Here's another attempt at a list. The 75 greatest LGBT films of all time...
Buzzfeed: Tom Hiddleston has some new half naked photos and they are very nice...
Vulture: RuPaul on the Orlando shooting: "Don’t f*ck with my family."