The Sound of Tease
Mirror Monday *3
Muslim Drag Queens: Bhangra, Bollywood & Bravery in Britain
The Guardian has teamed up with writer Kieran Yates and director Marcus Plowright to produce a short documentary on the small but tight-knit community of London’s Muslim drag queens.
At 12-minutes long, the film takes us behind-the-scenes as Ali, a gay Pakistani asylum-seeker, prepares to perform for the first time. “Ali fled Pakistan, where he was persecuted for being gay, but now faces abuse from his neighbours in London,” reads the blurb. “Mentored by Asifa Lahore, the UK’s first Muslim drag queen, Ali is determined to overcome his fears and express himself in a dance performance at the UK’s biggest ‘gaysian’ club night.”
You can watch the video below and read more about it here.
Teasing Tuesday *1
I never got around to watching any of Caspar Lee’s videos so hopefully someone in the comments can link to the source video. In the meantime, he has an interview with Troye Sivan, I’ll check that out… some day!
Art of Boys: Felix d’Eon
Felix d’Eon’s work is influenced by various art-historical styles, such as Edwardian fashion and children’s book illustration, golden-era American comics, and Japanese Edo printmaking. You can see more on his website.
Wet Wednesday *3
Photo by Sinal
If Life would be a Gay App
Tender Thursday *3
Hunger
The neglected siblings Roland and Paul watch the deportation of their immigrant neighbours. Once the police has left, they decide to enter the abandoned apartment. Inside they discover another world; exotic food, music, clothes and make-up, belonging to the deported family. For a moment they have the chance to immerse themselves in a world of games and play – however when their father discovers them, they are quickly brought back to reality.
Freckle Friday *2
The Board is Back
You can no sign up and log into our forums, the milkboard:
It still needs a lot of work; we’ll add the gallery and the chat as soon as we can and will try to get it to look like more like the blog, less like a web app from 1999 ;) But we didn’t want to let you wait even longer so if you feel like it you can start hanging out & discussing whatever with other milkies. Have fun!
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Random picture of a cake becase… cake!
Skyclad Saturday *3
Sporty Sunday *2
Periodical Political Post *5
Queer News
- Portugal’s parliament votes down gay adoption
- Russian founder of queer teen support group fined
- Israel to allow sex changes on ID without surgery
- Lawmakers in Chile set to approve gay civil unions
- US government spent nearly $500k to study Grindr
Other News
- UK debates bill allowing online spying without warrant
- UK web filters block websites of sex abuse charities
- FBI wants to hack everyone using TOR & VPNs
- US president sides with UK PM against encryption
- Guard: CIA killed prisoners, made it look like suicide
Model Monday *2
If you want it, put a Sock on it!
Imagine you’re a lawmaker in the US state that is ranked #2 in number of teen pregnancies. You’re a Conservative who doesn’t quite like the idea of teens getting it on with each other before they’re married. So what do you do?
Easy! You just pretend sex doesn’t exist! Which, of course, means proper sex education at school is a big no-no and condoms can’t be mentioned because they’d just encourage those horny teens to fuck their brains out!
Luckily some people in said state aren’t complete nutbags stuck in the time of witch hunts and chastity belts. So if we can’t talk about condoms going over teenage dicks we’ll just talk about socks going over teen shoes. No matter if you’re into athletic or dress shoes… there we go: sox-ed.