July 18, 2022
He’s Toxic, They’re Slipping Under (30%)
Radical Desire
On Our Backs magazine launched in San Francisco in 1984 promising, per the tagline on the cover, “entertainment for the adventurous lesbian.”... This exhibition presents original photographs created for On Our Backs during its first decade.
This Is Not Gay Porn
Charles M. Holmes was a wealthy donor to many causes, including The Gay And Lesbian Victory Fund and Human Rights Campaign. He got his fortune by investing in the gay community by producing porn. Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes Story [1h6m] tells the full tale of Holmes and Falcon Video, and includes more (maybe) SFW gay porn scenes than you'd expect on YouTube. As ancillary material, please also have Making It Big, The History Of Gay Adult Film [1h26m], which overlaps with and is more general than the first film. [more inside]
Hundreds of Polish films and cartoons online for free
35mm Online is a website where you can stream over 150 classic Polish feature films, with English subtitles, as well as cartoons, documentaries and old news reels. And it's all funded by the European Union and the Polish government. There are films by well known directors, such as Krzysztof Kieślowski and Andrzej Wajda, but it also has work by pioneers like Wanda Jakubowska and Danuta Halladin. [Note: A few films seem to be geolocked, and you need to register to access age-restricted material]
"As its target audience shifted, the magazine got woke."
Hope is the thing with feathers
New York Antiquities Theft Task Force
The best photos to come out of the Met Gala every year are always the ones where you feel like a voyeur. It’s a weird combination of intimacy, celebrity, modernity, and antiquity that’s hard to replicate and harder, I think, to ignore. Hannah Barbosa Cesnik writes in Anne Helen Petersen's Culture Study Guest Interviews series: Inside the Mind-Boggling World of the Antiquities Theft Task Force.
Reading this on Phone? In the DB already.
It’s no secret that U.S. government agencies have been obtaining and using location data collected by Americans’ smartphones. However, new documents obtained by the ACLU through an ongoing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit now reveal the extent of this warrantless data collection. The 6,000-plus records reviewed by the civil rights organization contained approximately 336,000 location points across North America obtained from people’s phones.
(a small example to be sure)
Most players make less than $14,700 per year
AUTOEXEC.CAT
If it's Monday, this must be ...
I'm sorry, dear friends, I hate to put you in this spot, but you are a prisoner in a vast blue space with endless doors, but only one door leads to freedom ... [more inside]
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