Articles by Brian Moylan
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Tubesteak
How to Make Friends and Influence Homos (Into Sleeping with You)
Like any good homosexual with an iPhone and a propensity for indiscretion, I spend plenty of time on Grindr, the app that shows you other gay dudes in your immediate vicinity who are also looking for dick. That said, familiarity breeds contempt, and there are a whole host of things about the way people behave on Grindr that make me angrier than that meth head I asked to use a condom that one time. Full story
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Tubesteak
At the World’s Gayest Party: Life Ball 2013
Every year, the Life Ball packs a plane full of singers, drag queens, dancers, club promoters, press, DJs, and various hangers-on from New York nightlife's queerer corners and ships them over to the home of Mozart for the amusement of the Austrians and to raise money to eradicate… Full story
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This Is Probably Going to Be the First Woolly Mammoth That Gets Cloned
How are they going to do it, you ask? According to the smart science people, they "intend to carry out somatic cloning by implanting the genetic material of a mammoth that lived several thousand years ago into the egg of a modern female elephant. The egg will then be placed into Full story
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Australian Scientists Think We Can Grow Our Limbs Back Like Salamanders
I am a human, so if my limbs fall off, they stay off. This is unfortunate. Legs and arms are important, which is why Australian scientists are working to enable "salamander-like" limb repair in humans. A new study published in the 'Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences'… Full story
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Tubesteak
How to Hone Your Gaydar to Perfection
These days with more and more social circles becoming sexually diverse, how can you tell if the guy swinging a glow stick next to you at some Bushwick "rave" is looking to put his pole in a hole or looking for another pole to pole all over his face? Full story
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This Is Life in a 400-PPM World
Climate scientists found that for the first time in 3 million years, the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has reached 400 parts per million. That figure was splashed across the front page of the 'New York Times' and top White House advisors find it "truly frightening": t… Full story
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VICE Australia is 10
An Etiquette Guide for Straight People in Gay Bars
We love having straight people hang out with us, we really do, but I'm going to break down the rules for the breeders who forget how to behave when there is a rainbow flag on the wall. For our purposes we'll be talking about gay male bars, since lesbian bars, like pandas in the w… Full story
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When Internet Sex Was Still a Mystery
I never imagined we'd be using the internet to talk about ourselves, at least back when the World Wide Web was still being spun bit by bit from a million squeaking and grunting computer mating noises coming out of our modems. This was back before "blog" was nothing but a guttural… Full story
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Tubesteak
The Red Marriage Equality Sign on Your Facebook Profile Is Completely Useless
It's a big week in the fight for “marriage equality,” which is what most gay activists want us to call gay marriage. Right now gay activism needs all the help it can get. Know what’s not helping? Changing your Facebook profile picture to a silly red-and-pink equal sign. Full story
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Tubesteak
Guys, It's Time to Stop Shaving Your Junk
There is nothing more disappointing than taking a new guy home for the first time and ripping his clothes off, only to find that he has "manscaped" himself to look like some sort of dude-shaped topiary. Full story
The Mare
A New Story by Mary Gaitskill
Toppling a Delicate World
Being Gay and South Asian In America
There's No Sex in Prison Showers
We Usually Wore Our Underwear
Try Not to Destroy Your Life
The First Time I Took Molly
A Teacher and Her Student
Marilynne Robinson on Staying Out of Trouble
"Whitey" Isn't Very Popular in Boston
Interviews with Some of His Old Friends