Troye Sivan released a new music video and it’s very gay!
Heaven
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Naked
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Skam
Skam: the real and risqué norwegian tv show causing teen hysteria. Skam is taking over teenagers’ lives – fans are adding their own subtitles, skipping school, and losing sleep over this Skins-like high school drama that subverts stereotypes
This past week, I received an email from a 24-year-old girl urging me to write about this Norwegian TV series, Skam. I was skeptical. Was this some grassroots PR at work? Was she somehow involved with the show? “No,” Hanne Selboe Karagülle assured me, “I am not involved in the series in any way, just a fan (like everyone else in Scandinavia it seems)!”
Later, I would discover that fans, people like Karagülle, were on a tireless crusade to make this racy teen drama more popular. They’re hard at work tweeting at celebrities and launching petitions for the network on which it aired, NRK, to add English subtitles for international fans. All fighting for a show that doesn’t really need the help. Despite being in Norwegian, it’s drawn viewers from countries around the world who have all pictured themselves locking lips with William, dishing spicy one-liners like Sana, or coming out to friends like Isak. (Warning: spoilers ahead.)
Karagülle told me it centred on high school students and their struggles, dreams, and rakish hookups in Oslo. Each season is told from the POV of one main character. It’s unique in that clips of the show are posted in real time online, as if its characters are real people. So, for example, if a party on the show is happening Saturday at 2am, that’s when the party clip is posted. On Fridays, all the clips published that week are assembled into one episode.
When the show isn’t on air, fans can interact with the characters via fake profiles on Instagram and Facebook. Text messages between characters are also posted online, prompting speculation throughout the week. It’s like you’re living with them, says 20-year-old Grazia Ames, a fan of the show. “I like some photos on Instagram because I like the fact that they make them seem just like another friend or real person out there.”
At the bottom of Karagülle’s email, there was a link to a teaser for season three. Harmless enough, I thought. Wrong. Shirtless teen boys in a locker room spray each other with water bottles. A milk carton narrowly misses one guy’s head, exploding into a milk shower, which soaks Isak’s face. It looked so much like gay porn. What the hell was this show? Some were calling it a less OTT, less pretentious version of UK drama Skins.
I decided to give Skam a shot. I was consumed, swallowed up in a vortex of startlingly normal teen drama. I binged two and a half seasons, containing 12 episodes each, in less than two days. I started telling friends about it, following the characters on social media and throwing favs at tweets from fan accounts. As I hooked up to the drip feed that was Skam,
I poked around online. I began to realise just what a phenomenon this show was becoming. The first season aired in September 2015, and at certain points during season two, Skam – which translates to “Shame” – was watched by some 1.3 million viewers. Norway’s population is 5 million people. Over one-fifth of the country was tuning in to watch. Skam came out of nowhere. Shielded from the press, the actors in the show did nothing to drum up publicity. Many of them still have day jobs. (The actress who plays Noora works as a telemarketer.) There were no advertisements for the show. The creators simply relied on social media to rocket launch this TV series to the masses.
Now, Skam is causing teen hysteria. Some kids are reportedly skipping school to watch the show. NRK has been bombarded by tweets from teens saying they can’t sleep because they’re aggressively refreshing the page, awaiting new clips or text messages.
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Tummy Tuesday *20
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Nathan Chen
17-year-old Nathan Chen performed in a record-setting short program with a near-flawless free skate featuring five quadruple jumps Sunday to become the youngest men’s U.S. figure skating champion in more than five decades.
Submitted by Bruce
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K. Kim Gun
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Boy Beauty on the Rise
Rimmel London has just joined the ranks of beauty brands extending their inclusivity to all genders. British YouTuber Lewys Ball is just 17, but he’s already one of the new stars of Rimmel’s latest campaign London Look.
Lewys appears alongside a slew of diverse models in a newly released video for the campaign, called #LiveTheLondonLook. Wearing a chartreuse bomber jacket and touching up his already fierce eyebrow game, Lewys declares in the vid, “Anybody can wear makeup, no matter who you are.”
Submitted by John | More at HuffPo
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Skyclad Saturday *20
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Yuri on Ice *1
Got curious about Yuri on Ice and feel like taking a peek? Here you go:
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Model Monday *13
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Transcending Self
About two years ago, I began photographing transgender and “gender-expansive” children and young adults in the United States and Europe. I wanted to ask this question: “Who are we beyond ideas tied to our gender?” The answer is critical not only to the transgender community, I believe, but to everyone.
In the younger participants, I have found self-assuredness and confidence; they are clear about who they are. In the older youths — especially the nonbinary ones who identify as both genders, or neither — I see a willingness to break free from boxes society puts us into. In all of them, there is creativity and compassion for peers and strangers alike. — Annie Tritt, photographer
Zak, 13 | Isle of Wight, England. Transgender boy.
“When I was 12, I realized that transgender was a thing. It made sense. I’m straight — I’m a straight guy in a girl’s body. I had very distorted expectations, though, and thought that I would be able to have hormones and operations straightaway. The process is too long. I hate looking like this, I hate the body that I have. I want it to transform, and it is wrong that I have to wait until I’m an adult.”
Max, 13 | Bay Area, California. Nonbinary.
“I asked my mom if I could text her something. I texted her that I am attracted to boys and that I feel more girl than boy. Later that year, I found the term nonbinary. It just felt right. I still am often scared of the reactions of people when I tell them. As a trans person who has experienced hate, I want people to understand that nobody deserves to be hated. Everyone deserves love, regardless of race, gender, sexuality.”
Azaj, 17 | Oakland, Calif. Transgender girl.
“It is really different living as myself. Before, I felt like I was always trying to squeeze into jeans that were six sizes too small, but now it feels like I am in jeans that were made just for me. I no longer wake up hating myself or this world that does not understand me. I want to make sure the world does not take as long as it did to be open to gay and bi people. I hope that I am able to help girls like me, so they don’t go through what I did. I want to slay the gods 100 times over doing things that trans girls have never done. I want to be the face of equality.”
More on the photographers website…
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Wonderwear Wednesday *27
Photo by August North
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The last milkboy?
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Tender Thursday *19
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Unboxing People
All That we Share is a heartwarming reminder that our perceived labels do not define us. If we look below the surface, we can find common ground with those we perceive as most different to ourselves.
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Femboy Friday *10
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You were beautiful
From the music, over the plot, to the fake guitar playing, there are many things in this videos that aren’t great. But some cute boys sure make up for a lot :p
Found by Hana in the milkboys chat
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Tummy Tuesday *21
Found by Scatterbrain
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Periodical Political Post *32
Queer News
- Billionaire DeVos, an anti-LGBTI & deeply religious supporter
of child labour, was confirmed as new US Education Secretary - Austria will not consider marriage equality until 2018
- Polish president strikes down idea of marriage equality
- Norway’s Lutheran Church embraces same-sex marriage
- US Boy Scouts got sued, will now allow trans kids to join
- Mother loses custody of teen son because he is ‘too effeminate’
Other News
- The CIA’s new deputy director ran a black site for torture
- How you’re being tricked into hating legitimate protesters
- Quebec shooter, who killed 6 in a mosque, is a white male
student who made right wing & anti-woman remarks on FB - Whistleblower Chelsea Manning will finally walk free
- Finland and Scotland pioneer Universal Basic Income
- Trump fears terrorists, but more people are shot by toddlers
Because some positivity can’t hurt these days, have (and click) this :)
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Cute Caturday *10
Photo by Dylan
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