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The rise of the gay killer: Why pop culture is suddenly thirsty for queer blood
As the world becomes more and more of a nightmare, with an impending climate catastrophe and negative news arriving via push notification every other hour, people have turned to an unorthodox escape method: true-crime stories.
But in a noticeable shift from normal proceedings, true crime shows are now reintroducing us to a particularly deadly protagonist: the gay serial killer. Ryan Murphy’s The Assassination of Gianni Versace followed gay serial killer Andrew Cunanan as he pursued fame, love and money, killing anyone who crossed his path. Netflix docu-series Don’t F**k With Cats gave viewers an insight into the twisted mind of Canadian murderer Luka Magnotta. Later this year, The Barking Murders, a three-part drama starring Sheridan Smith and Stephen Merchant, will explore the crimes of the so-called "Grindr killer" Stephen Port, who murdered at least four men.
Tentative queer readings of murderous protagonists in films from decades gone by, such as We Need to Talk About Kevin, Kill Bill and several Bond villains who have flirted with homoeroticism (the most brazen example being Javier Bardem in Skyfall), have opened the door to the killers of today who are explicitly and unavoidably gay. The renewed interest in gay killers can be seen as a continuation of pop culture’s preoccupation with “gay death” – it’s just now we’re doing the killing as well as being killed.
“Gay people secretly wish for their own destruction. Whereas straight people secretly envy the unhinged libidinal urge of queer life.”
The rise of the gay killer
‘No evidence to suggest’ TikTok star accused of murdering therapist was victim’s patient
Heir to $292M pie fortune made chilling online search before alleged ‘frenzied’ stabbing of roommate
California man, 27, stabbed gay teen to death to hide sexual encounter
Colorado victims sue over attack at LGBTQ+ nightclub that killed five
Man shot inside Pittsburgh club, suspect taken into custody
Campus cameras showed a student leaving...
Boyfriend convicted of gruesome murder of LGBTQ+ rights activist
Tampa Bay Rays players refused to wear a Pride rainbow
Can you imagine the club that would allow a player to opt out of wearing a 42 on his jersey for Jackie Robinson Day? Or refuse to wear some camo for a Military Appreciation Day? Complete disaster.
Unfortunately, the Rays management approached this differently, allowing homophobia amongst a handful of 20-somethings to drive the uniforms that some of the players wore.
Tampa Bay Rays players refused to wear a Pride rainbow
Most Americans oppose biological men competing in women's sports
Twitter debates banning Libs of TikTok
Gay pride jersey sparks player boycott
MLB more pro-gay than Target
A gay manager was fired by the Chicago Blackhawks
NFL again allows a player to fund the most anti-gay organization in sports
Girl dramatically confronts her gay best friend for having sex with her boyfriend in the middle of a TikTok
In the TikTok by user allyvlogs1, a group of five university friends are playing the “Put a Finger Down Challenge”, which is similar to the game “Never Have I Ever“.
The questions start innocently enough, and members of the group say “put a finger down if you’ve ever been drunk”, “put a finger down if you’ve ever worn a crusty sock” and “put a finger down if you’ve ever been outside of Europe”.
But for the fourth question, one girl seizes the moment and says: “Put a finger down if one of your best friends slept with your boyfriend and the rest of your friends didn’t tell you about it for over six months.”
There is a moment of awkward silence...
Girl dramatically confronts her gay best friend
Gay man has the perfect comeback to a woman who won't stop hitting on him at a bar
This small rural city just elected its first out gay mayor AND voted to send Trump back to the WH
A small city in rural Minnesota made history in last week’s election, but it also has many people scratching their heads.
This small rural city
CBS is accused of editing out Donald Trump dance celebration as craze sweeps the NFL
11 brutally honest reasons millenials don't want kids
When it comes to embarking on the journey of parenthood, lots of millennials are saying, "Meh. No, thanks."
According to data from the Urban Institute, birth rates among 20-something women declined 15% between 2007 and 2012. Additional research from the Pew Research Center reflects a longer-term trend of women eschewing parenthood as the number of U.S. women who choose to forego motherhood altogether has doubled since 1970.
This trend is fascinating, in part because there's long been a taboo associated with people (particularly, women) choosing to opt out of parenthood. Women who choose not to have kids have been referred to as "shallow" and "self-absorbed," and even the pope has said the decision not to procreate is fundamentally "selfish."
In an effort to find out why so many young people are really deciding against parenthood, we solicited dozens of responses from our audience via Tumblr and Google Forms. The responses we received from people of all sexes and identities reveal that there are myriad reasons why people are opting out of parenthood — and all of them are equally valid.
11 brutally honest reasons...
'Kids were crying'
Autistic traits, behavioral problems in 7-year-olds linked with gender nonconforming play
‘Absolutely dumb’ argument over ‘parenting skills’ leaves one dead
Mom Accused Of Taping Her Mother To Chair For 24 Hours
Coach accused of offering $5,000 to buy children from parents
Italy makes it illegal to seek surrogacy abroad
Who's To Blame For The Current State Of The U.S.
“We’re more interested in a Beyoncé or a Taylor Swift concert or Reesa Teesa on TikTok than to be worrying about if women have rights, if Blacks are going to keep their rights, if women are going to be able to continue to vote,” she continued.
Who's To Blame For The Current State Of The U.S.
‘It’s despicable’ schools would allow another country’s flag to fly in America
...migrant thieves shoplifting up to 6 times a week
Democratic stronghold fuming as migrant mega shelter causes explosion of gang-related crime
...seven children were held hostage in a St. George hotel room
Boy, 11, gets handcuffed, thrown in jail
Trio fights with cops after basketball legend shows up
Ohio town struggling after influx of illegal immigrants
Fan who created Wicked poster responds
More children are being tortured in recent years
Ukraine Zoo To Euthanize All Animals
Zookeepers have made the heartbreaking decision to put down all the large animals—including lions and tigers—at a zoo in Ukraine after its enclosures were destroyed by Russian shelling.
Ukraine Zoo To Euthanize All Animals
Private taxidermy collection with more than 1,000 animals
'She deserves to rot in jail'
Toddler, two, sinks her teeth into 20-inch snake
Snake Researcher Dies From Rattlesnake Bite
Beloved Walrus Was Killed Because People Wouldn't Stay Away
Protected wild stallion found shot dead
Anthony Mackie Explained Why He Has A Problem With People Shipping Sam And Bucky In "Falcon And The Winter Soldier"
Although viewers loved watching Sam and Bucky's relationship transform and friendship blossom throughout the film, Anthony says that's all there is to it.
He continued, "So many things are twisted and convoluted. There’s so many things that people latch on to with their own devices to make themselves relevant and rational."
"The idea of two guys being friends and loving each other in 2021 is a problem because of the exploitation of homosexuality. It used to be guys can be friends, we can hang out, and it was cool...you can’t do that anymore...
Anthony Mackie Explained Why He Has A Problem With People
The Internet’s Trying To Cancel Anthony Mackie For Bucky And Sam Comments
Michael B. Jordan Is Sadly On The Internet's Bad Side For Cultural Appropriation
Billie Eilish Apologizes For Use Of Racial Slur
Megan Rapinoe Faces Calls for Cancellation Over Unearthed Tweet
Joy Behar is slammed as 'homophobic'
Chris Brown accused of hitting woman
Michael B. Jordan Announces Plans to Rename His Rum Brand Amid Accusations of Appropriation
NFL legend's inappropriate gesture to Molly Qerim goes viral
Millennials Aren’t That Into God, Patriotism, or Having Kids
Voting Republican has become an activity analogous to reminiscing about air-raid drills or complaining incessantly about back pain: ordinary for boomers, but a marker of eccentricity among the young.
In 2016, Donald Trump commanded the support of only 28 percent of voters under 30, according to Pew Research. His disapproval rating among Americans under 35 currently hovers around 70 percent. And millennials’ antipathy for our Republican president isn’t personal; the Fox News grandpa-in-chief might be especially unappealing to the rising generation, but the kids don’t have much use for the GOP’s kinder, gentler reactionaries, either. Less than 30 percent of millennials wanted Republicans to retain control of Congress last year. And in broader measures of generational opinion, both millennials and Gen-Zers evince higher levels of support for liberal ideological premises and policy proposals than any older cohorts.
No God, Patriotism, or Having Kids
14-Year-Old Reported Missing From Ex-NFL Player...
Scientists baffled as Earth spins faster than usual
Scientists have warned that, if the rotation rate continues to speed up, we may need to remove a second from our atomic clocks.
“If Earth’s fast rotation continues, it could lead to the introduction of the first-ever negative leap second.”
Scientists baffled as Earth spins faster than usual
A disastrous megaflood is coming to California
Map Shows States Asking People to Avoid Being Outdoors
My son can’t be gay, he’s obsessed with women
A couple of days ago, @CircleCityGay posted a tweet saying: “My son can’t be gay. He’s obsessed with women”. It then showed a photo of ‘The women’. It was an image of the leading ladies from the show Desperate Housewives, which ran on ABC from 2004 to 2012.
My son can’t be gay
Fitness star says he’s no longer gay
Americans Just Want Immigrants for the Food
In 2016, Donald Trump posed in front of a taco bowl, fresh from Trump Tower Grill, and declared “I love Hispanics!” It fooled only the very gullible. Taco bowls, while delicious, are to Mexico what unlimited salad and breadsticks are to Tuscany, and his love for one didn’t stop him from trapping hundreds of Latin migrants at border camps. Trump can eat as many taco bowls as he wants, but he’s still racist.
Unfortunately, a new survey confirms that Americans, and people all over the world, tend to have Trump’s mindset when it comes to immigrants (or just non-white people), their contributions to culture, and their food. A YouGov survey of seven European countries and the U.S. found that the “most commonly agreed benefit of immigration has been better food.” The only country that responded differently was France, where everyone was more focused on how immigrants could make their soccer team better. And while the food may be a boon, Americans at least are still worried about providing welfare to migrants, and the (unfounded) crime risk of letting immigrants into the country. Though Americans were the most accepting of any of the countries surveyed, just “one in four Americans (30%) believe [immigration] only brings benefits.” We want your food...we just don’t want you.
Americans Just Want Immigrants for the Food
Big Apple is 'near a breaking point'
500 migrants sneak across Texas border in just two hours
Indiana judge rules tacos, burritos are sandwiches
Beloved Mexican restaurant becomes the latest to shut its doors in California
‘Do you speak English or Spanish?’
Popular haircut sparks outrage across Texas
The N-B-Gay
It is mathematically possible that there are no LGBT players in the league. Although recent estimates are higher, let’s say that 5% of the population identifies as LGBT. That means that the odds that all NBA players are straight is 95% to the power of 450 - the chance that Player 1 is straight multiplied by the chance the Player 2 is straight and so on. That leaves a whopping nine billionths of a percent chance that every player in the NBA is straight: .000000009%, for our decimally inclined folks. In sum, there are probably at least a handful of current LGBT players.
The N-B-Gay
‘Infinite number’ in football are gay
NBA player 'incredibly sorry'
Univ. of Oregon apologizes for 'disgraceful chant'
His First Experience With Homosexuality
Football player comes out as gay
World Cup ambassador says being gay is ‘damage in the mind’
6 gay men competing in pro basketball
Nets’ Cam Thomas fined $40,000 for saying gay slur
NBA players have sex with ‘dudes’ and trans women
‘Barbie’ Is Bad. There, I Said It.
Few dared rain on Barbie’s hot pink parade.
Those who openly hated it mostly did so for reasons having to do with what it “stood for.” They abhorred its (oddly anachronistic) third-wave feminist politics. They despised its commercialism and dreaded the prospect of future films about Mattel properties like Barney and American Girl dolls. They hated the idea of a movie about a sexualized pinup-shaped doll whose toy laptop or Working Woman (“I really talk!”) packaging couldn’t hide the stereotypes under the outfit.
Barbie’ Is Bad
Shakira Said Her Young Sons Thought 'Barbie' Was 'Emasculating'
I’m a mum to boys and agree with Shakira
Are women aware that they raised the toxic little bastards and have only themselves to blame? 14-Apr-2024
Red Chains vs. Blue Chains: Restaurant Political Contributions
When it comes to overall contributions, most companies donate almost exclusively to Republicans, with a couple exceptions. Neither Chipotle Mexican Grill nor Starbucks, the sole Democrat-leaning organizations on our list, have company PACs. Meanwhile, Dunkin' Brands (the company behind Dunkin' Donuts) is the most balanced company, only favoring Republicans slightly more than Democrats.
Red Chains vs. Blue Chains
Chick-fil-A eyes Palm Springs location