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Acting gay, acting straight

Luke A. Boso (USF): Acting Gay, Acting Straight: Sexual Orientation Stereotyping. Yvette Taylor, Emily Falconer and Ria Snowdon (London South Bank): Queer Youth, Facebook and Faith: Facebook Methodologies and Online Identities. Dear straight people: Stop calling my boyfriend and me “cute”. A look at the metro areas with the largest, and smallest, gay populations. Most history is written by straight people, and they don’t have gaydar. President Obama thinks ex-gay conversion therapy should be banned. Cyd Zeigler on five gay college basketball coaches speak from the closet. Rich Juzwiak interviews Michaelangelo Signorile, author of It’s Not Over: Getting Beyond Tolerance, Defeating Homophobia, and Winning True Equality. What was gay? In an increasingly accepting world, homosexual men are all too eager to leave their campy, cruising past behind — but the price of equality shouldn’t be conformity. Don Milligan on capitalism, high camp and the straightening out of homosexuals. Florian Voros (EHESS): Raw Fantasies: An Interpretative Sociology of What Bareback Porn Does and Means to French Gay Male Audiences. Erik Voeten on where acceptance of homosexuality has and has not changed around the world. Gambian dictator Yahya Jammeh on LGBT people: “If you do it here, I will slit your throat”. Swedish activists launch gay-themed sonar system to deter Russian subs.