Gay·F·fect Newsletter
July 31
- Provincetown COVID cluster tops 900, forces re-masking
- Transgender weightlifter “stokes debate” at Olympics, according to Times
- Chicago youth theater said to fire teacher for being gay, then lie about it
July 30
- Hungarian election panel clears questions for LGBTQ referendum
- Roberto Calasso, who wrote The Marriage of Cadmus & Harmony, dies at 80
- Rapper’s homophobic comments spark backlash from Elton John and others
- New Zealand set to ban so-called “conversion therapy”
July 29
- Male rowers wear loose pants after 2012 bulge pix went viral
- New study finds “hate crime laws vary widely across the country”
- Rapper DaBaby releases new song with AIDS insults
- Olympic Committee says trans women are women
- Virginia anti-trans agitators target schools for obeying law
July 28
- 986 elected LGBTQ officials nationwide; only MS has none
- Lawmakers in Ghana seek to outlaw advocacy for gay rights
- Opinion: Chicago Pride should require masks—or cancel
- Family leaves Texas because of anti-trans bills
- How an anti-trans Instagram post led to violence in the streets
- Long-acting HIV-prevention drugs may be key to beating the epidemic
- MD sodomy law still on books, 18 years after SCOTUS decision
- DaBaby apologizes for anti-gay comments after Dua Lipa steps in
July 27
- Ed Buck convicted after hotly watched LA trial
- Tom Daley sends a powerful message after his Olympic gold
- Catholic church funding opposition to LGBTQ rights expansion in MI
- Meet 7 activists fighting for LGBTQ rights in Africa
- Pritzer signs bill making IL second state to repeal HIV criminalization
- Another pie in face for Anita Bryant: Her granddaughter is gay
- Designer who won’t make same-sex wedding web sites loses case
- “Team LGBTQ” currently in 11th place at Tokyo Olympics
- 100 Casper, WY, businesses pledge support for LGBTQ community
- Japan swimming against the tide on same-sex marriage
July 26
- Pride patches on CA police uniforms: Progress or performance?
- Atlanta mayor hosts job fair for LGBTQ applicants
- Montenegro makes history with first same-sex union
- Gay Nigerian priest makes religion serve LGBTQ people
Gay Resources
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Fiction
- Alex retells Maurice from the gamekeeper’s point of view
- Maurice by E.M. Forster is one of the all-time great gay novels
- Ocean Vuong’s acclaimed novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous to be a movie
- The Prophets is a love story about two enslaved gay men in the antebellum South
- Garth Greenwell’s Cleanness is “incandescent”
- Bryan Washington’s Memorial hits the shelves
- P.J. Vernon’s Bath Haus thrills on at least two levels
- Wish Proust a happy 150th by catching up on Lost Time
- Remember Will Self’s gender-bending Cock & Bull?
Art & Photography
- Loving showcases vintage photographs of men in love
- Henry Scott Tuke painted luminous male nudes
- Photographer Tom Bianchi revisits the Fire Island Pines
- David Hockney: Drawing From Life on view at the Morgan
- David Leddick samples 150 years of photography in The Male Nude
- Eclectic collection of New Queer Photography edited by Wolbergs & Klos
- Beefcake! Need we say more?
- Stagy colorful queer portraits by Magnus Hastings
- Eric Rhein’s Lifelines documents AIDS in photos & sculpture
- Andy Warhol drew male beauty like none other
Biography & Memoir
- John Waters shares his wisdom in Mr. Know-It-All
- New Cary Grant bio rehashes Randolph Scott “friendship”
- James Beard’s life retold in The Man Who Ate Too Much
- William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock’n’Roll
- Was artist Dennis Cooper a Genet or more of a Rimbaud?
History
- The fight for gay marriage is chronicled anew in The Engagement
- Not Straight, Not White is a timely reminder of Black gay history from the 1960s to AIDS
- Let the Record Show the critical story of ACT UP New York in the fight against AIDS
- The Pink Line offers a global take on LGBTQ issues
- John D’Emilio chronicles Chicago’s Queer Legacies
- New Orleans’ Up Stairs Lounge fire remembered
- Canadian queer life documented in Out North
- Brush up on the past with the classic A Queer History of the United States