October 27, 2005 – 10:54 pm
George Takei (Mr. Sulu) talks about performing in Equus, growing up in a WWII internment camp, and coming out. [ Thanks, Elizabeth ]
August 12, 2004 – 12:00 am
I cannot begin to tell you how angry I am that my State’s court has ruled that my friend’s marriages have no value.
Update
Well, BBum says that Cory and, by simple algebra, myself have foot-in-mouth, and we should realize that the court had no choice to rule the way it did. And that it creates the [...]
“Wisconsin Assembly Pulls All-Nighter, Passes Anti-Gay Marriage Amendment.”
It still has to be voted on by the State Senate and approved in a statewide vote, so there’s some hope that it’ll be stopped.
Note: I lived in Wisconsin from 1987 to 1996.
October 31, 2003 – 12:00 am
Kera Bolonik says Will and Grace is subversive, but not because of Will or Jack.
August 7, 2003 – 12:00 am
[ via Jed Hartman ] In the light of “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy,” and the rise of the Lipstick Lesbian, a Romanovsky and Phillips tune may be appropriate
Meanwhile, while the Fab Five might glower at my closet full of hawaiian and denim shirts, I’m holding out for Trinny and Susanna to rescue my [...]
[ via Bellona Times ] Justine Larbalestier of the WisCon brain trust, talks about ‘Buffy‘. Defending the oft-slamed Season Four:
Most of the criticism boiled down to unhappiness with the Scoobies leaving high school. The show, many said, just doesn’t work once the central literalised metaphor–high school is hell–is lost. When the Scoobies are in college [...]
February 18, 2002 – 12:00 am
I’ve often thought that the last barrier to gender discrimination will fall when technology renders gender irelevant. Sherryl Vint examines what Science Fiction, where you can create such worlds, has to say about gender when technology makes it mutable.
She examines two novels, Chip Delany’s Trouble on Triton where a man becomes a woman out of [...]
February 13, 2002 – 12:00 am
Just when you’re ready to give up on the state as a swamp of badly designed ballots, scary cops, politicians with way too much makeup, and a source of plots for Elmore Leonard, you run across a cool blog.
Okay, so there’s intelligent life in Florida. Her name is Nancy.
Mazel Tov to you and The Blonde, [...]
January 26, 2002 – 12:00 am
So this is one is via our referer logs. Somone was searching Google for “Queer as Folk” slash fiction. The top result was an article by fan fiction writer Debra Fran Baker who says that by it’s very nature, the show isn’t slashable:
On screen, it’s when they transgress the norms of male behavior in a [...]
August 26, 2001 – 12:00 am
I’ll make a sidelines comment in the Dave/Meg/Robert exchange over the deficit in women in IT.
Dave, you mench, I know you mean well, but even if there are significant biological differences between mens’ and womens’ brains, those differences arose many, many generations ago when selection was working on our ancestors and satisficing the problem [...]
[ via Anil Dash ] Cool article in the Chronicle on how straight men are claiming space in Queer culture. People are divided on the topic as you’d expect. And the article reminded me of my hesitance to saying I’m a Feminist. Even though I support the goals of Feminist and Queer cultures, I’m [...]
December 1, 2000 – 12:00 am
Today is World AIDS Day. I’m not participating in the Day Without WebLogs, but I want a cure found.
September 15, 2000 – 12:00 am
[ everyone's carrying this ] The NBC sitcom “Will and Grace” does an episode parodying the ‘recovering’ Gay ministries of which the Right is so enamoured. Focus on the Family, the G_D, Guilt, and Bigotry lobby, snaps off a letter to the writers wondering why the show’s writers treated recovery ministries with the contempt they [...]
Trey Parker and company provide a short clip poking fun of the US Military’s Don’t-Ask-Don’t-Tell policy. [ Real Video, Window Media ]
Clean Sheets editor Mary Anne Mohanraj now has a personal site with her journal, her writing, and several bibilographies on fiction about gender and sexuality.
