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Sunday with Milo & Toasty
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YouTuber Eugene Lee Yang of The Try Guys came out as gay
Eugene Lee Yang who is part of the internet comedy team The Try Guys has posted a video online entitled, I’m Gay. Accompanying the video on YouTube is a fundraiser for the Trevor Project. At the time of writing, it had already raised over $50,000 for the charity that offers advice to queer kids.
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Fresh off the bus
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Mirror Monday *49
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Drag can give queer kids a way to express themselves
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The king who could (four times)
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Tummy Tuesday *55
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Make A Wish
Every 7 seconds, a gay man in his 20s dyes his hair blond… and it’s time we put a stop to it. That’s why I’m THRILLED to announce my new non-profit. Please watch, share widely, and help us in our fight!!
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— Paul McCallion (@OrangePaulp) June 16, 2019
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Wet Wednesday *78
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Thanks Taylor but, can you not?
Taylor Swift gave a gift to her queer fan base in the form of a summertime gay anthem called “You Need To Calm Down,” and on behalf of a grateful community, I must say: thank you, Taylor!
Also: is there any chance you kept a receipt?
Please understand: I appreciate the effort. Like God Herself, I love a trier. It is a thrilling and still somewhat new experience to be part of the textual narrative in pop music, and I am delighted for the young queer kid who’s hearing the song and feeling seen, supported and nourished for the first time. It’s important! And the song has already lodged itself in my frontal lobe and kicked both of those new Bon Iver songs out of their seats. Between “Calm Down,” Katy Perry’s “Never Really Over,” and the whole new Carly Rae Jepsen album, the 2019 pop sound palette seems to be “the Fletch soundtrack,” and I am all the way here for it. I will hear “Calm Down” at pool parties this summer, and I will sing along. It is nice.
But attempting to write a gay anthem in 2019 reeks of sweat and substandard self-awareness. The classics of the past— your “I Will Survive,” your “It’s Raining Men,” your “Pull Up To The Bumper”— they gave us our gayness indirectly. They were anthems of strength, of perseverance, of plain, joyous horniness, served up vicariously, the way it had to be done back then. The singers, always women, almost always black, were our stand-ins. We found these songs and made them ours. These days, LGBTQ wokeness is a box to check off in a marketing plan, and when there are perfectly capable queer artists out there, sitting down as a straight person and setting out to write a gay anthem is very much like trying to give yourself a nickname.
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Summer Sparkles
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Tender Thursday *59
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UK’s Porn Block delayed (yup, again) thanks to EU rules
The UK government’s attempt to create a national database of people that access pornographic content under the guise of protecting children from accessing explicit material online has hit another delay.
The new regulations were due to come into effect on July 15, but this could now be delayed indefinitely, due to the UK government failing to inform the European Commission about details of the scheme, which it is legally obliged to do.
This is the third major delay – at least – to the plan to require UK users to prove their age before accessing adult content online, and little has been done to allay fears that the law could lead to the leaking of sensitive personal information. Indeed, it remains to be seen how the UK could even hope to enforce its rules on non-UK based businesses.
Even if you’re worried about kids watching porn, there’s little reason to believe that a crudely implemented age verification system will make much difference. Users with a VPN will simply need to select a non-UK IP address to bypass the blocks. Hell, even browsers are considering implementing DNS encryption, which a government official has already admitted would make the rules unenforceable.
Whether or not the law will actually come into effect remains to be seen, but its negative effects are already being felt around the world, as several other countries look to follow the UK’s privacy-impinging example.
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Face Friday *36
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Flower Friday *18
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Jack Vidgen
Remember Jack Vidgen? He’s back and still got a voice. And unlike Ronan Parke he did wait till he was of age before he started posting risky pics online ;)
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Oh, he knows…
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Summer
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73 questions for Troye
…and why he’d rather not take on the role of a gay icon.
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Silver Bracelet
Carson Lueders
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