[NEWS] Five LGBT links: Village killings of the 1970s, Grindr, Fire Island, Steve Rogers' Brooklyn

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• This long-form CBC article on a string of unsolved murders of gay men in the late 1970s is compelling, frightening reading.


• Daily Xtra recently shared a Body Politic article from the 1970s by the late great Robin Hardy on the mysterious killings of gay men at the time. (Visibility, as Hardy suggests, can save lives.)


• The suggestion that excessive dependency on Grindr and similar apps is not helping queer men form rewarding relationships does not sound inherently implausible to me. Vox has it.


• Hornet Stories shares a guide to Fire Island, here.


• Things With Wings looks at the history of New York City and Brooklyn and finds out that the neighbourhood where Steven Rogers lived in the 1930s and 1940s, Brooklyn Heights, was actually a mecca of out queer people and communities.