The poster – which features the two of the region’s most prominent 19th century cultural figures – is designed to promote a gay club in Almaty, one of the most liberal cities in Central Asia. The club, Studio 69, sits at the corner of streets named after Pushkin and Kurmangazy...
Mauricio Ruiz, 24, said he made the disclosure to dispel myths that gay people can't be effective members of Chile's armed forces...
The Independent.
August is the height of The Silly Season - that summer time when the amount of real news hits an annual low.
Though you might have noticed there's rather a lot of really awful and important things going on in the world right now (Private Eye have called it The Killy Season).
So how do newspapers pad out their pages? With trivia (Pregnant panda not pregnant), tittle-tattle (Non-entity in CBB meltdown), endless lists (11 Things You Already Knew About Kate Bush), pretending a nothing is 'a thing' (Legroom Rage!), nicking stuff off the internet (6 funniest tweets about #GBBO) etc etc etc...
August is the height of The Silly Season - that summer time when the amount of real news hits an annual low.
Though you might have noticed there's rather a lot of really awful and important things going on in the world right now (Private Eye have called it The Killy Season).
So how do newspapers pad out their pages? With trivia (Pregnant panda not pregnant), tittle-tattle (Non-entity in CBB meltdown), endless lists (11 Things You Already Knew About Kate Bush), pretending a nothing is 'a thing' (Legroom Rage!), nicking stuff off the internet (6 funniest tweets about #GBBO) etc etc etc...
Alternatively they just run gay-related wire stories, seemingly picked at random, that are of no real interest to their readers.
Poster for gay club in Kazakstahn is controversial!
Gay man in Chile comes out!
One is clearly a bad thing, the other is clearly a good thing.
But whilst I'd love to think this was a sign of how much The Guardian and The Independent want to tell people what's going down in the international LGBT community, it's not.
It's so lazy and patronising it suggests the exact opposite; they don't really care about us.
Poster for gay club in Kazakstahn is controversial!
Gay man in Chile comes out!
One is clearly a bad thing, the other is clearly a good thing.
But whilst I'd love to think this was a sign of how much The Guardian and The Independent want to tell people what's going down in the international LGBT community, it's not.
It's so lazy and patronising it suggests the exact opposite; they don't really care about us.
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Anyone would think that these newspapers were subject to commercial pressures, when we all know they possess money trees that provide endless funds to employ people to roam around uncovering stories to show the gheys that they care. I'm getting the Mail in future. That's full of quality stories all year round.
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