Sunday, May 4, 2008

Luke and Noah auf Deutsch

Despite being a big Days of Our Lives fan throughout high school and college, I don't really follow the soaps anymore. I've got several friends who are simply mad for the Luke and Noah storyline on As the World Turns, but the tortoise-like pace with which those boys were permitted to proceed to their first big kiss was enormously frustrating.

For my money, a much better boy-on-boy storyline is the trials of Olli and Christian on the German soaper Verbotene Liebe ("Forbidden Love"). You can catch up on the backstory here; on Youtube, a fan has thoughtfully subtitled the clips in English.

I have a big crush on Jo Weil, who plays frisky, puppy-dog-eyed Oliver Sabel (Olli). Hubba hubba.

Friday, August 31, 2007

Born too soon and started too late

Back in the 1960s, long before a U.S. senator got busted for lewd behavior in an airport bathroom, it was called "the tearoom trade."

But social researchers knew almost nothing about it.

So a young graduate student at Washington University in St. Louis started digging. He spent months hanging out in the public restrooms of St. Louis' Forest Park. He wanted to observe the tearoom trade in action: men who met for brief, anonymous homosexual trysts in public. He wanted to discover what compelled them.

Laud Humphreys' research was pioneering. It shattered stereotypes. It also cost him his job.

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Made of awesome

I am skeptical of hyperbole, but when Joe posts about something titled "The Greatest Entrance In Drag History", I'm gonna have to look. And so are you, by gum. Don't blink around the 30 second mark.

Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Picturing the Games

I'm trying to sift through some of my photos from the Gay Games so far and have posted a few to Flickr. Other Flickr users are tagging their photos gaygames or chicago2006.

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Achoo!

Divine punishment for sodomy is...the sniffles:

Half a dozen protesters stood outside the South Lawn gates with large signs and a bullhorn. They yelled at all the families, telling heterosexual parents that their children would be punished with colds for coming to an event that included gays and lesbians.

Well, that would explain my frequent head colds.

Friday, May 6, 2005

Obviously, the gays aren’t big on consensus…

Today, after having heard a report on the radio wherein a conservative commentator railed on the evil inherent in the "gay agenda", a friend asked me point-blank: What is this gay agenda I keep hearing about, and who makes it up?

Well...

According to Mark Fiore, this is the gay agenda.

On the other hand, according to porn adult entertainment site Badpuppy, this is the gay agenda.

Meanwhile, McSweeney's Internet Tendency contends that this right here is the gay agenda.

An alledged homosexual named Doug Neff avers that this is the gay agenda.

And a site called Lusty Devil archives a popular fram message asserting that this is the gay agenda.

So which is it? Who knows? Trust me, as I've long maintained, there's enough shit flying around out there in political circles, there's a reason we call it a civil rights "movement".

Anyway, for my money, when it comes to defining the gay agenda, no one comes close to the elegance and elan of Lance Fucking Arthur who articulates—at length—the gay agenda. Like all good things in life, it's attractively presented, it's all-too-true, it's funny and it's very long: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5.

Wednesday, April 21, 2004

Gay for payday

Meet me for brunch? October 11, 2004.

Wednesday, July 2, 2003

You can see forever

You can see forever: Introducing Queerday, a daily roundup of news and features from around the web and the world.

Thursday, June 26, 2003

June 26, 2003

Tuesday, June 25, 2002

June 25, 2002

SIGNS OF THE TIMES: This website for a sperm bank catering to lesbian couples, Man Not Included Dot Com, puts me in mind of a t-shirt my funny friend Jill (the lip-schtick lesbian) used to wear for a fake summer camp for dykes: Camp Menowannawienie.

Speaking of spooge, the theory that semen can be a mood elevator (which I've found, anecdotally at least, to be true) could, if proven, change the anti-depressant medication industry into a service-based one, n'est pas?