MONTH IN A MINUTE
is a metaphor for the apathy, political indifference and fatalism of contemporary Russian society.
With Charlie Hunnam bowing out, Irish model and actor Jamie Dornan (above) ties up the role of billionaire sexplorer Christian Grey in the film adaptation of mummy porn juggernaut, 50 Shades Of Grey.
Based on the viral YouTube clip, Bridegroom documents the love story of Shane Crone Bitney and Tom Bridegroom and the legal fallout of homophobia after a tragic accident. It wins the Tribeca Film Festival and premieres on the Oprah Winfrey Network.
Germany becomes the first country to allow babies to have no gender. Hailed as an important step for intersex rights, parents have the option to leave the gender box blank. Law professor Konstanze Plett says, “This will be the first time that the law acknowledges that there are human beings who are neither male nor female, or are both.”
Citing a violation of the “morality clause”, Principal Diane Wolfe of Mt St Marys Catholic School in Arkansas fires beloved teacher Tippi McCullough on the same day she marries her female partner of 14 years, Barb Mariani.
Seventeen victims are freed from torture and inhumane conditions at a clandestine “gay addiction” cure clinic in Pisuli, Ecuador. The youth at the Union And Hope clinic had been held against their will, “treated” with rape and electrocution, and made to sleep on the floor with no sewer system.
At her Artpop album release party, Lady Gaga debuts “Volantis”, the world’s very first flying dress. “I’m the Wright Brothers of fashion,” she quips.
Immanuel Chih-Ming Ke, a professor at Taiwan’s Providence University, says during a debate that being gay is natural, but… “A person may be born with a cleft lip or just one hand but you can’t say he is natural just because he is born this way.” Chih-Ming Ke claims to be a “biblical philosopher”.