Towleroad Guide to the Tube #1045

MARRIAGE NEWS WATCH: AFER's Matt Baume on same-sex marriage news from Washington, Colorado, New Jersey, and Canada.

GAY MEN NEED DIAPERS? North Carolina pastor Patrick Wooden, who appeared with right-wing activists Peter LaBarbera and Matt Barber at yesterday's protest against the Southern Poverty Law Center, claims that gay men “have to wear a diaper or a butt plug just to be able to contain their bowels”.

SAMAN'S STORY: Codified homophobia in Sri Lanka and it's oppressive side effects. "Saman" is a graduate student in Sri Lanka who was doing research on 'safer sex' for his thesis. He told me that while he was working in the southern city of Galle, the local police detained and tortured him assuming he was gay.

NASTY HABIT: Mister Chase (remember his ASL Katy Perry video?) has a new single.

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NOTE: I realize that many of you weren't happy with the YouTube player I was using the past couple of days, and wanted to let you know that I'll probably be testing some different ones in the coming days and weeks, but for now am back to the old format. The reason for testing new players is because their coding complies better with a mobile app we're testing behind-the-scenes. Thanks for your patience.

This is the First Horton Plains Slender Loris Ever Photographed

Thought to be extinct from 1939 to 2002, when someone reported a sighting, the Horton Plains slender loris had never been photographed, until now.

Wired reports: 

"The 2002 report inspired the Zoological Society of London and a team of Sri Lankan researchers to launch an effort to find the 8-inch-long primate. After 200 hours of searching, they captured the first ever pictures of the creature, which were released Monday. 'The discovery improves our knowledge of this species, but we need to focus our efforts on the conservation and restoration of the remaining montane forest where this species still exists,' conservation biologist Dr. Craig Turner of the Zoological Society of London said in a press release. 'Currently this accounts for less than 1 percent of the land area of Sri Lanka.' The Horton Plains slender loris is a subspecies of the red slender loris. It is classified as endangered on the IUCN Red List."

Long live the loris!