Queer Clicks: May 30, 2017 | Is “Coming Out On Top” The Hottest Gay-Themed Video Game You’ll Ever Play?, Can Gay Men Still Say The Word ‘Faggot’?, & Other News
Is “Coming Out On Top” The Hottest Gay-Themed Video Game You’ll Ever Play?
“An immutable law of nature: Most gay erotica is alarmingly unsexy.
Perhaps the vast majority of erotica is just too poorly written to elicit anything but a chuckle. As a reader, you’re jerked out of the material at every mention of a “man-scabbard” or “throbbing flesh-sheath.” (Why deal with that when you can just watch adult clips all day?) ” Queerty
Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day by Peter Ackroyd – Review
Photograph: Alamy
“The idea of a book that excavates London’s queer history all the way from BC to yesterday in order to speculate on the secret patterns that lie buried in the city’s past is a deeply appealing one – and who better to undertake the digging than Peter Ackroyd, an author who already has several bestselling meditations on the hidden lives of the metropolis stacked in his back catalogue. Moreover, this is undoubtedly the year for such a volume. We’re in the midst of a plethora of exhibitions, events and broadcasts marking the 50th anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of sex between men in this country, and many of them are using this landmark anniversary not just to survey our queer past but actively to explore it.” The Guardian
Being In A Gay, Sexless Relationship For Two Years
“The first thing to go was the kissing.
We were on the bed when I went to go kiss him. “You know, we don’t have to make out EVERY night!” he spat, as if the mere thought of our lips touching was poison. We had been dating for less than three months.
Things only got worse from there.” Good Men Project
Can Gay Men Still Say The Word ‘Faggot’?
“Should gay men use language ― like “faggot” ― that’s historically been utilize in a derogatory way to describe them and other men who have sex with men?
Here at HuffPost Queer Voices, we think it’s important that marginalized communities are able to reclaim language that has been used against them. However, not everyone feels this way ― and we respect that perspective too.” Huffpost
