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Few openly gay artists have as tortured a relationship with their sexuality as film director Terence Davies. “It’s something I’ll never be able to accept until I die. It’s ruined my life,” says Davies, 70. “It’s so sexually predatory. If you base everything on how good-looking you are, how reductive is that? What happens when you’re no longer gorgeous? What do you do then?” So he’s not exactly a poster child for gay pride. But ever since he started making short films in the early ’80s, Davies has turned his ambivalence about being gay and his feelings of alienation into personal, poetic cinema. From his autobiographical features Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) and The Long Day Closes (1992), a poignant evocation of adolescent sexual longing, to his latest, the epic…

From ancient Egyptian lovers united in death to Greek warriors and a Ugandan king, same-sex love has existed throughout time and around the world. Payment Hong Kong billionaire offered to any man who $120 MILLION could successfully woo his lesbian daugher. It didn’t work. 72 Number of countries where same-sex love is illegal 150 Number of gay male lovers who made up the elite military force Sacred Band of Thebes, who defeated the Spartan army in the 4th Century BCE 25% Increase in attendance at the Outing, Ireland’s LGBT addition to the 156-year-old matchmaking festival, after successful marriage equality referendum: 4035 YEARS Age of the oldest known tomb to a gay couple, Niankhknumand Khnumhotep, who are depicted in ancient Egyptian carvings embracing and kissing, near the famous Pyramid of Djoser…

15. BERKELEY, CA [pop. 118,853] By day, shop at one of three gay-heavy Whole Foods markets or join activists at UC Berkeley, and at night unwind at the gay-men-only Steamworks Baths (SteamworksBaths.com), all while relaxing in a state that offers nondiscrimination protections for sexual orientation and gender identity in adoption. This collegiate, liberal bastion also benefits from gay-friendly bookstores such as Pegasus Fine Books (PegasusBookstore.com) and Mrs. Dalloway’s Literary and Garden Arts Bookstore (MrsDalloways.com) that hold special LGBT events to educate and engage the community. 14. MANCHESTER, NH [pop. 110,448 ] The largest city in New Hampshire attracted the likes of Janet Jackson and Ariana Grande, who filled the near-10,000-seat Verizon Wireless Arena with LGBT fans from all over New England. And you can bet fans held some unofficial after-parties…

By May that year, social tensions were escalating. The democracy movement swept through universities and surrounding neighborhoods like wildfire, not only in Beijing but in hundreds of cities across China. At the height of the protests, students and workers were erecting barricades to hold back People’s Liberation Army troops. The army circled the city to beat back demonstrators, who had come together to express their dissatisfaction with the slow pace of reform and quickly numbered in the hundreds of thousands. On April 27 Lan Yu abruptly announced that he and his classmates were planning a student walkout. On May 13 he informed me that there was going to be a hunger strike. He bubbled over with excitement as he spoke. “Are you guys out of your fucking minds?” I asked,…

As the director of a public-health consulting firm in Boston, Andrew Fullem is an expert on the longterm effects of HIV, and he understands how lipodystrophy, the disfiguring medical condition caused by the use of the earliest antiviral medications, can keep people with HIV depressed and ashamed. But Fullem’s understanding is also personal; he could see it every morning in his mirror. HIV-positive for over 17 years, Fullem suffered from facial wasting, one of the classic side effects of the first generation of antiviral drugs. While the cocktail was a game changer in terms of survival rates, one side effect was abnormal fat cell function, which hollowed out Fullem’s cheeks and gave him the signature look that he feels visibly marked him as living with HIV. “I’ve heard people gasp.…

“In Ecuador, people confuse gay rights for trans and intersex rights. And so when we ask to be legally recognized and supported, we’re accused of being greedy, because we already have ‘gay marriage.’ ” I’ve always thought of myself as a girl, but when I came out to my parents when I was 16, I told them I was gay. I didn’t know what transgender was. They took it really badly, and so I left home and started sex work. Whenever I tried to go back, I was forced to get rid of my female clothes and had to go to conversion therapy. It wasn’t until I was 23 that I became independent. I was working as a male banker during the day and socialized as a woman with my…

“I’d really like to see a pipeline develop for trans writers, directors, and producers so that we can create content that’s a little bit more authentic to our experiences.” The success of shows such as Orange Is the New Black, Sense8, and Transparent mark a new era for trans representation on television, while Eddie Redmayne’s performance as Einar Wegener in The Danish Girl is already being touted as Oscar-worthy. But while these have been praised for treating the story arcs of trans characters with accuracy and sensitivity, they remain infrequent successes. Across the media, the trans community remains hugely underrepresented. “We’re on the very forward edge of something, but I think we’ve overstated it,” says writer and actress Jen Richards, reflecting on the notion of a trans tipping point in…

On Friday morning, October 23, 2015, we woke up to a knocking just before 8 a.m. It was our sixth morning at Piñata, a new gay guesthouse in Puerto Vallarta. I scrambled to pull on some shorts and opened the door. Ronnie, one half of the couple who own Piñata, told us that a hurricane was on the way and that he was going to go to the shops and buy some food, enough to weather three days without services. And cash too—he was maxing out his ATM daily withdrawal, just in case. If we wanted, we could try to get a flight home now, but the airports would be closing. And the roads too. We’d need to decide now what we wanted to do. “Wait—what?” I asked. He started…

The new marriage equality—with all of its economic and romantic promise—is certainly a wonderful complication, they admit. But couples who marry without dissolving their adoption are committing “incest” in some states. After hearing Karen Thompson talk in the late ’80s about her long battle to care for her partner after a car accident, I became obsessed with protecting my rights in my relationship. So we signed up for a domestic partnership in West Hollywood, then with the state of California, then in San Francisco—each conferring more and more rights—culminating with two weddings (one annulled thanks to those Prop 8 nut-jobs). That’s 25 years of seeking recognition and protection, so we’re clearly committed, but we never took up one option that many, many LGBT couples did. We could have adopted. Not…

Karen Paglio arrived at the mass resignation early, clutching a sealed envelope addressed to the records department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. “This policy was the last straw for me,” she says, referring to a new provision in the LDS Handbook introduced on November 3, 2015, that bars children of same-sex couples from joining the church or being blessed or baptized until and unless they turn 18, move out of their parents’ home, and disavow all same-sex relationships. “I also included a personal letter to let the records department know how I felt about the policy and its effects on the community.” The slippery-slope argument against same-sex marriage, that it will inevitably lead to polygamy, bestiality, incest, etc., has long been cited by opponents. Polygamy-as-cautionary-tale is…

From the pages of Time magazine to the rules of the new “Fallout” game, polyamory seems suddenly to be everywhere—and very present in the public consciousness. When the Supreme Court extended marriage equality to same-sex couples in all 50 states, Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum mused that same-sex marriage might soon lead to marriages of three people or more. Polyamory. Also known as “consensual non-monogamy,” polyamory comes in a number of flavors, including swinging, polyfidelity, open relationships, and relationship anarchy. It is sometimes lumped in with polygamy—a tradition of husbands taking on multiple wives, practiced in many parts of the Muslim world and by some Mormon offshoots—especially by outsiders with only a glancing familiarity with the subject. But practitioners of both systems tend to see themselves as quite distinct, even…

Ireland So many Americans—nearly 40 million—claim Irish ancestry that it’s little wonder it’s an incredibly friendly place for stateside visitors. We’re practically nations of cousins. (In 2011, President Obama famously identified his great-great-great-grandfather, an Irishman named Falmouth Kearney who at age 19 fled famine-ravaged Ireland for America more than 160 years ago.) Add to that an unimpeachable reputation for friendliness, dramatic history, a way with whiskey and comfort food, and a very public show of support for LGBTs, and the Republic of Ireland makes for a warm and welcoming destination. 1 Dublin Castle The site was founded in 1204 on the orders of England’s King John to defend the city and protect the king’s treasure. It was the seat of English then British rule over Ireland until Irish independence in…

In lesbian romance novels, the hot butches never use product (or wear bras). They just step out of the shower and run their fingers through their hair, yet somehow they always seem to end up with a Superman-like curl falling sexily onto their foreheads. “Idon’t know if she’s a lesbian,” comedian Kate Clinton used to say of a prominent member of the Clinton administration whose name rhymes with Beano, “but her hair is.” Everyone knew what she meant. Lesbians are as diverse as humanity itself, but the world seems to think we all sport the same hairstyle. For many people, “lesbian hair” means short hair. Before it became acceptable to call a lesbian a lesbian, writers often indicated a character’s sexual orientation by dropping hints by way of her coiffure.…