Malawi Police Hunt For Prominent Gays After Pornographic Films Found, Austin Anti-Gay Bashing Rally Attracts Hundreds, Germany Indexes And Bans Reggae Albums Promoting Anti-Gay Anthems, Scott Pasfield Documents Gay America, Nicholas Hoult Is The Movie Star, About A Boy Named Chris, Prince Harry

Once again, police in Malawi believe they are on the trail of gays, after discovering “pornographic films” at the offices of a gay rights advocacy group in Blantyre. Police spokesperson Davie Chingwalu said that police were called after thieves broke into the office of rights organization – which Chingwalu refused to identify – and “at this hide-out, we discovered pornographic films, files and information about gay meetings. Our initial findings are that this office was patronised by a lot of prominent people and immediately launched the probe to track down the gays.” He added that the police “are targeting some prominent personalities and our suspects include legislators, priest, academics and other professionals.” Once captured, Chingwalu said, the suspects would be charged with “having carnal knowledge of any person against the order of nature” as well as “indecent practices between males.”

On Saturday, hundreds took the streets of Austin, Texas in a show of support for two men – Emmanuel Winston and Matthew Morgan – who were gay bashed on February 20th while walking to a parking garage in City Hall. The two had left a bar and had been playing softball earlier that day. They were wearing jerseys for the Shady Ladies, a gay softball league, and they say their attackers used a number of anti-gay slurs during the attack. Austin police, who released a surveillance video that captures, albeit poorly, the four men, have yet to decide whether the charges will carry an additional hate crime qualification.

The German Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons has indexed a number of reggae albums it considers not only harmful to young people, but, containing violent lyrics, are capable of inciting hatred towards gays. The albums by the usual suspects - Buju Banton, Capleton - are banned for sale to minors and are illegal to advertise. The move is seen as underlining a contention that artists are free to express but must assume some responsibility for those expressions, especially when harbouring an unwarranted attack on a group who’s right to exist is innate.

Photographer Scott Pasfield, in 2008, started a project titled Gay America, an attempt to document “out and proud gay men throughout the country who live happily in the state they call home.” The results of the Pasfield project are simply spectacular – articulating the obvious: that gay men live lives well beyond clichés and tired stereotypes.

From the current issue of VMAN, the impossibly beautiful Nicholas Hoult instructs on how to be a movie star.

From the March issue of Tank issue, an editorial titled About a Boy, featuring the curiously cute Chris Rayner.

Prince Harry spotted at a rugby match between England and Ireland. Oh, not that it matters, but England won 20-16.