April 24, 2008
Vincent Gagliostro with Margaret Thatcher at Pulse
Vincent Gagliostro After Louie, an excerpt video [stills, and large details of stills, from installation] Margaret Thatcher showed a video by Vincent Gagliostro at Pulse. I'd like to describe it as an art trailer for a full-length film not...
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April 17, 2008
to hell and back with Ratzinger
Goya Inquisition Scene (1816) oil on panel 18" x 28.75" [three notes: beginning in the Middle Ages the Church had prescribed the conical hat, generally yellow, as a distinguishing mark for Jews; Jewish conversos were the principal concern of...
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March 10, 2008
play in your own yards, and leave Spitzer alone
William Hogarth Enthusiasm Delineated 1761 This is stupid, if not just evil. No, I'm not talking about Eliot Spitzer. Let him deal with his family; it's not our concern. People are screaming at the Governor about his marital infidelity...
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November 23, 2007
"Out of the Box" at Elga Wimmer
Heide Hatry Expectations 2007 [still from video] Sonia Khurana Bird 2000 [still from silent, b&w video] He Chengyao Broadcast Exercise 2004 [still from video] I'd always felt very much an outsider when it came to art by women which...
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October 13, 2007
Clayton Patterson at Kinz, Tillou + Feigen
[four stills from the video installation of the film, "Captured"] How do you write about a chronicler with a soul? How do you write about a bard with a camera? We can't begin to understand the importance of people...
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October 5, 2007
Dame Ethel Smyth's "The Wreckers"
John Singer Sargent Ethel Smyth 1901 pastel If this hundred-year-old opera had always enjoyed the success it deserves today I'd probably be whining about the endless parade of productions of La Boheme, Aida, La Traviata, Carmen and The Wreckers....
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the "war on terror" has reduced us to slaves
Roy Batty's epiphany Last night I spent far too much time worrying about how to express the depth of my broader frustration and despair before posting the latest version of my regular fulminations over Guantanamo. I should have waited...
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September 30, 2007
PWOP 2: last night's second "Parade Without A Permit"
drum corps section the vanguard past the Stonewall site the campaign theme not as bad as it looks the curious gather on the sidewalks We're saying the First Amendment isn't just for the homos. It was a fabulous party....
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September 28, 2007
apparently Sylvia Rivera still scares the cops
Sylvia at New York City Hall, with the community she helped create, in an undated photo "Hell hath no fury like a drag queen scorned" [Sylvia Rivera, 1995]. At the Sylvia Rivera Law Project's after-party following its fifth anniversary...
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September 27, 2007
RHA asks Speaker Quinn about 1st Amendment, police rules
the RHA visits Speaker Quinn at the Stonewall Democratic Club open meeting Yesterday the junta in Burma invoked a colonial-era section of the nation's criminal code under which the government can use police or military force against any group...
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September 23, 2007
RHA, allies "Parade Without a Permit" for right of assembly
The Radical Homosexual Agenda [RHA] logo incorporates the group's Regulation Pink Gasmask®, which has been donned by members since 2006 while they pursue their perilous mission fighting the American mainstream - an environment which they argue, and few would...
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September 1, 2007
why was Craig taken down and Vitter not?
(but right, even laudable, if I paid women for quickies) The Republicans have trashed and now unceremoniously sacked one of their very own worthy gentlemen for soliciting consensual, uncompensated sex with another person. Senator Craig was forced to resign...
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August 28, 2007
cop sitting in toilet stall enticed Senator Craig for sex
ruins of public toilet in ancient port of Ostia Okay, even if no one has asked, does anyone want to know my take on the Senator Craig homosex arrest story? Well, it was actually my second thought, the less-than-honorable...
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August 23, 2007
"Slava Mogutin & Justin Beal" in the back room at Bortolami
Slava Mogutin Joey San Francisco, 1999 archival C-print mounted on aluminum 30" x 20" Slava Mogutin Yellow Billboard Moscow, 2004 archival C-print mounted on aluminum 30" x 20" There's nothing about this installation on the gallery's site, so I'm...
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July 13, 2007
Sinbad was gay?
Kerwin Matthews, "flesh-and-blood Sinbad" Why didn't somebody tell us? Kerwin Matthews, the actor who played Sinbad in the 1958 film, "The 7th Voyage of Sinbad", died July 5 in his home in San Francisco. The NYTimes obituary says that...
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July 3, 2007
"Where do Homosexuals Get All Their Energy?"
Brandon Kelley I'm not much of an advertisement for an energetic homosexual at this moment so I was curious about "Where do Homosexuals Get All Their Energy?", this piece in last week's The Onion. I read it straight through...
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July 1, 2007
arrested in NY for reciting First Amendment to police officer
(too much free speech) An AP story in Newsday reports that Reverend Billy was arrested Friday night while loudly reciting the First Amendment to police. Could anything make it more clear what's going on in this city? It's time...
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June 29, 2007
Chris Quinn asks our civil rights to "take one for the team"
in this case an objective clearly worth a monstrous sacrifice Was the sacrifice of our right to assemble and speak just a matter of "taking one for the team"? And if it was, what will there be left to...
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June 25, 2007
RHA and Queer Justice League march for assembly rights
We were colorful, loud, beautiful and cute, joyful and fierce, and we never really stopped moving, even when the march did. One of the group described himself today, after eleven hours of sleep, as a survivor of "the anarcho-queer...
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NYPD secretly granted permits to Dyke Marches for years
Friday night's NYC Dyke March In the middle of everything else he was balancing this weekend Tim Doody of The Radical Homosexual Agenda [RHA] forwarded this I-Witness Video item to me on on Saturday, when I only read it...
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Queers slam Quinn during Stonewall anniversary march
scene early today at the support truck bike for an "unpermitted" march RHA/Queer Justice League contingent [more tomorrow]...
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June 23, 2007
NYC: yes to "street fairs", no to homo festival
the view from the parlor today It's not the pedestrian street we had in mind. We awakened this morning to the sweet refrain of amplified hawkers of corporately-manufactured goods, and the stench of greasy food. Yes it's another so-called...
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June 22, 2007
trans march led by police wagon, loads of handcuffs ready
One of our sources tell us that tonight's Trans March was phenomenal! Donald Grove commented on Bloggy's post about the Audre Lord Project's experience trying to secure a permit for a transgender march tonight. This is the text of this...
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panel on radical history of Lower East Side
ACT UP demonstration for access to clean needles, seventeen years ago After yesterday's post, which was totally connected to current political activism, I'm going to turn back and examine what the territory looked like in the 80's and 90's....
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May 13, 2007
AVIS Preferred
nice beltline It took us at least 45 minutes to turn over the keys to our rental car here in Barcelona yesterday, but there was also this pleasant distraction at the counter immediately ahead of us. He and his...
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May 1, 2007
Gore Vidal in New York
Don Bachardy Gore Vidal 1963 pencil and ink wash "From George Washington to George Bush makes a monkey out of Darwin. [pause] I'm now a creationist." And so, punctuating himself with a mischievous smile and a composed chuckle, did...
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April 22, 2007
raw NYPD brutality, spawned by Kelly, Bloomberg and Quinn
stills captured from video on NYCindymedia site On Thursday I wrote about a demonstration in which I had participated (put together by The Radical Homosexual Agenda [RHA], Assemble for Rights NYC, and other groups and individuals), which was directed...
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April 19, 2007
police "control" un-permitted parade protesting Quinn
I survived this afternoon's "Parade Without a Permit" more or less unscathed, although I was pushed to the ground while photographing the police exercising their "control" of our right to free speech. At the start of the parade in...
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April 18, 2007
Radical Homosexual Agenda [RHA] "un-permitted parade"
"keeping control" (wire and flesh, inside a holding pen during the 2004 RNC) No, Chris, in America the police are not supposed to write the laws and "control" demonstrations. Yesterday morning on the Brian Lehrer show NY City Council...
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April 2, 2007
Hunter Reynolds at Artists Space
Hunter Reynolds Patina du Prey's Memorial Dress: 1993 to 2007 [detail of installation] Spinning, spinning, spinning. Hunter Reynolds's elegant installation, "Patina du Prey's Memorial Dress: 1993 to 2007", is currently installed in one of the galleries of Artists Space....
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March 31, 2007
ACT UP party tonight
This t-shirt was designed by the legendary activist artist collective Gran Fury 17 years ago. Today South Africa has national health care. A lot of people still think they can do something to help drag our own country into...
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March 30, 2007
ACT UP renewed, and transformed
across from the Stock Exchange yesterday If yesterday's ACT UP twentieth-anniversary action demonstrated anything, it was the coalition's own renewal, and its transformation from an AIDS activist group once largely made up of young middle-class queer white males into...
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March 28, 2007
ACT UP back to the Wall, this time for single-payer healthcare
going back for more, 20 years later Apparently as a nation we can accept throwing away something like half a trillion dollars (and counting), and very likely some 700,000 lives, on a remote elective war whose only accomplishment was...
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February 21, 2007
ADAA in the Park Avenue Armory
Jim Hodges what's left 1992 white brass chain with clothing, dimensions variable [large detail of installation] The Art Show of the Art Dealers's of America Association [ADAA] hosted a press reception early this afternoon in the Park Avenue Armory....
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February 2, 2007
Homeless Museum at home to guests this Sunday
Filip Noterdaeme THE NEWEST™ 2006 model (plexiglass, LED screens, figurines, remote-controlled robotic system) [installation view]* The Homeless Museum (affectionately referred to as HoMu by both adoring fans and its own creators) will be welcoming visitors once again this Sunday....
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January 23, 2007
Abbé Pierre, the excessive priest
"holy anger" Abbé Pierre died yesterday. If there is such a thing as a "saint", this man clearly deserved the title, but he will never be canonized by the Church. Too excessive.He wrote that as a young priest, he...
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December 30, 2006
Marsden Hartley's "Cleophas and His Own"
Marsden Hartely Sustained Comedy 1939 oil on academy board 28.5" x 22" Marsden Hartley's vigorous expressionist art is clearly a part of today's world more than it was while he lived, and the man himself is today less a...
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September 30, 2006
this is not a gay film not a a gay film a gay film
I was shocked I was I went to a presentation by the artists and book signing at Aperture on Thursday night, and this is one of many duplicate posters I found clipped up and down parking signs and light...
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September 26, 2006
the American Airlines homo scare: even worse than reported
UPDATE ON THE AMERICAN AIRLINES INCIDENT: the airline's straights-only security rules don't fly I have now heard from our friend David Leisner, who was quoted in the The New Yorker story I wrote about on Thursday evening. David was one...
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September 24, 2006
it flies differently in The Netherlands
Terence has two fathers, and that's good This amazing video excerpt from an ordinary Dutch children's TV show sings and speaks for itself, but following upon the story about the American flight diversion threat appearing just below this post...
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September 21, 2006
American airline threatens to divert flight over queer kiss
SEE AN UPDATE IN THIS SEPTEMBER 26 POST: "the American Airlines homo scare: even worse than reported" Shortly after takeoff, Varnier nodded off, leaning his head on Tsikhiseli. A stewardess came over to their row. “The purser wants you...
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June 28, 2006
Eric Rofes, pleasure even in the manner of his departure
Eric Rofes Eric Rofes died on Monday. This remarkable and very gentle activist was one of the most important voices to ever represent the "sexual outsider" - meaning effectively just about everyone who's ever done the thing, or even...
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June 21, 2006
"Gay Art Now" at Paul Kasmin
Daniel McDonald Jesus Christ, Vampire 2006 pencil drawing 14.25" x 11.25" framed [installation view] Andrea Fraser Um Monumonto As Fantasias Descartadas 2003 mixed media (Brazilian carnival costumes) dimensions variable [detail of installation] Dennis Balk Untitled digital print on canvas...
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June 6, 2006
Brooklyn College MFA works resurrected, with scars
I wrote a little while back that I would show some of the damage the school had done to work created by Brooklyn College Masters degree students. While this small post can't show the full extent of the physical and...
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June 2, 2006
Bush needs federal help to protect his marriage
Somebody must currently be leaning very hard on George, perhaps some homo brute has a gun at his back and is forcing him to walk out on Laura and pad down the aisle once again. Why else would our Commander-in-Chief...
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May 25, 2006
the penis art which threatens New York families
Augusto Marin's notorious provocation This is just one of five sculptures by Augusto Marin which is included in the Brooklyn College MFA thesis show shut down three weeks ago by the Brooklyn Parks Commissioner. This self-appointed guardian of New...
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May 23, 2006
Brooklyn College MFA "Plan B Prevails"
WHEN DOES A PHALLUS DESERVE RESPECT?* Robert Mapplethorpe Louise Bourgeois 1982 [image of Bourgeois holding her "Fillette"] Now it's official. Er, maybe I should write "anti-official": The Brooklyn College 2006 MFA thesis show is re-opening, mostly. It was shut down...
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May 19, 2006
postponed: Brooklyn College MFA students press conference
I've just gotten word that the Brooklyn College MFA Press Conference originally scheduled for 1 pm today has been POSTPONED. Details to follow. I'm not going to speculate here, but I find this last-minute change very interesting. On a related...
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May 18, 2006
Brooklyn College MFA students announce press conference
UPDATE: [noon, Friday, May 19] The Brooklyn College MFA Press Conference originally scheduled for 1 pm today has been POSTPONED. Details to follow. FIGHTING THE CENSOR'S (ST)INK Brooklyn College MFA students, members of the faculty and attorneys Norman Siegel and...
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May 13, 2006
MFA show shut down for reference to Cheney sex?
Lèse Majesté? Was sex the beard for political censorship? From a story in the Fine Arts section of the NYTimes on Friday:In addition to the hand-and-penis sculpture, works in the show included a video with sexual overtones in which...
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February 3, 2006
art in paraphilia
a boy and his fancy dog Ever so often something reminds us that we really don't know much about fetishes. I found this fascinating but uncredited image on a site I was directed to by an email from Slava...
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January 8, 2006
Antonello da Messina at the Metropolitan
Antonello da Messina Portrait of a Young Man ca. 1470 oil on panel 10.5" x 8.25" Yes I saw the Fra Angelico show at the Met, but I try to keep this blog focused on what Barry and I...
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November 24, 2005
Kubrick does cute
I just came across this picture of a very come-hither-ish Montgomery Clift while looking through an email from Phaidon Press. It's from a new photography book, "Stanley Kubrick: Drama and Shadows," a collection of images captured by the film...
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September 5, 2005
keeping New Orleans alive, and honoring the dead their way
A 'Gay Parade' gets under way in the French Quarter of New Orleans. as a determined handful of hurricane survivors vowed to keep the spirit of New Orleans alive. The official parade was postponed because of the arrival of...
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August 31, 2005
Marcos is gay
Subcommander Marcos Well, maybe not, but he sounds really good, and he still looks wonderful. His words, especially since they're from the mid-90's, won't be news to many out there, but I tripped over this powerful quote from Subcommander...
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August 20, 2005
papal Carnival in Cologne
demonstrators dressed as a priest and a nun kiss in front of a large model dinosaur during an anti-religion demonstration in Cologne August 19, 2005 [as der Ratzinger arrived in Cologne] Sometimes it's best to let the thing speak...
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August 15, 2005
finally, a VJ Day which liberates the queers too?
exactly 60 years later: the kiss watched 'round the world, its original models, and some contemporary enthusiasts Although there is at least one same-sex couple in the group* kissing in the image above, they didn't make it into the...
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August 3, 2005
our own temporary Homomuseum - extended to August 19
UPDATE: post now includes lots of links Alvin Baltrop Moment: NYC West Side Piers one of several images 1975-1986, printed 2005, gelatin silver prints 11" x 14" [detail of installation] "Homomuseum? I didn't know there was one!" answered a friend...
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July 5, 2005
first they came for the pornographers . . .
. . . but I wasn't a pornographer* safe enough for him? Patrick Moore has an OPINION piece in today's Newsday, "Bush team uses 'skin game' to attack porn," which sounds an alarm on behalf of principles much greater than...
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July 4, 2005
liberty and justice for all
reaction in the public gallery of the Cortes on June 30, as the Spanish parliament extended full rights of marriage to all citizens Some day a people crazy about waving its own flag at home and around the world...
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June 7, 2005
laundry room Speedo
special bulletin spotted this afternoon For me at least this was definitely the most provocative found item of clothing I've seen in our basement laundry room in the eighteen years I've been visiting its splendors. This midnight-blue Speedo even...
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May 2, 2005
"Pink Houses"
heroes at large We met these two extraordinary men for the first time this afternoon. Until then our knowledge and experience of the nobility and the courage of John Schenk and Robert Loyd had been limited to the incredible...
Posted by james at 11:29 PM | Full Post
April 20, 2005
Ratzinger's history in New York
how do you say "booga booga!" in ten languages? In an email with the subject line, "My encounter with Pope Benedict XVI," a friend and awesome activist colleague of mine reminds us today that our outrage over what Josef...
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April 19, 2005
don't forgive them; they know what they're doing
(just for starters) Relativism be now damned! Absolutism has now triumphed! "Dictator" would be nice, but "pope" will do just fine. Besides, it amounts to the same thing, and the costumes are great. The man who would be baby...
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April 9, 2005
meanwhile, with merry wives and husbands in Windsor today
a voice crying in the wilderness Peter Tatchell is fabulous, and absolutely irrepressible. We love him! The AP photo caption reads:Gay rights activist Peter Tatchell makes a protest as he stands in the crowd that were spectating the royal...
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March 24, 2005
but how would a vegetarian say it?
spotted tonight in the 23rd Street 1/9 subway station My first thought was, this is Chelsea, and some of our neighbors have interesting ways of showing affection, but then it occurred to me that the message could have been...
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March 23, 2005
getting one's priorities straight
This graffito was found inside the boy's room in one of the large Chelsea gallery/studio buildings today....
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March 17, 2005
just crazy about dancing and such things
Opal Petty 1918-2005 She was 16 when her family had her committed to a mental hospital. "Being fundamentalist Baptists her family didn't approve of her wanting to go out dancing and such things. A church exorcism didn't work, so...
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February 17, 2005
AIDS hysteria II: incitement to violence?
The witch hunt has begun in earnest, and we won't be the only ones hunting. The most insidious aspect of what is already taking on the appearance of a coordinated media campaign is the fact that it will be so...
Posted by james at 9:18 PM | Full Post
February 15, 2005
AIDS hysteria
AIDS and (recreational) drugs. It's a dangerous mix, but the danger is not just that described by the media lately; the danger lies also in our media's obsession with drugs and the impact that obsesssion has on all of our...
Posted by james at 2:06 PM | Full Post
January 19, 2005
Evan Schwartz and Michael Waugh
Evan Schwartz Birthday Party 2004 digital C-Print 30" x 24" Evan Schwartz Waiting by the Phone 2004 digital C-Print 30" x 24" Evan Schwartz has his first solo gallery show and it dazzles, with both the bold inventions of...
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January 8, 2005
one-stop shopping in Brooklyn
untitled (Metropolitan Avenue marketing) 2005...
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December 28, 2004
Susan Sontag
Peter Hujar Susan Sontag [1974-1975] Susan Sontag died on Tuesday. Beginning almost twenty years ago I had included her as a part of the homeland I had just adopted and which she had acquired at birth. Because of my...
Posted by james at 11:16 PM | Full Post
November 15, 2004
Colin Powell, may he not enjoy this retirement
He's gone. Colin Powell's finally gone, and under the most cowardly of circumstances, just slipping out the back door quietly to no good purpose, and not three years ago, not two years ago and ultimately not at any time before...
Posted by james at 12:26 PM | Full Post
November 12, 2004
David Wojnarowicz eventually got to China
David Wojnarowicz untitled (1988-89) collage on masonite 39" x 32" detail David could make the stones weep, but he could also make them scream. Last night we were welcomed by PPOW and Poets House to a tribute to the...
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November 11, 2004
Reno knows
We spotted this wonderful, much-used Toyota last night while walking to the E train Spring Street stop. I had already taken this shot before I walked around the side of the car and saw the door emblazoned with a...
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October 19, 2004
Marc Almond
Pierre et Gilles Le diable (1989) unique hand-painted photograph Needed here. Marc Almond was critically injured in a motorcycle accident today in London. See Bloggy for a link to a 2002 Guardian tribute to Soft Cell, and an mp3...
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October 18, 2004
the House and Peter Hort
Benjamin Henry Latrobe Design Proposed for the Hall of Representatives, U.S., Section from North to South (1815) ink and watercolor on paper For weeks now Barry and I have both been dismayed by the strange candidacy which Peter Hort...
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August 26, 2004
Bill Dobbs
"life could be beautiful" I really like him. Those who know William K. Dobbs know that's not so easy to say, but now that he's become the subject a modest but delightful profile in the NYTimes, written by Michael...
Posted by james at 1:23 PM | Full Post
August 13, 2004
now it's Goss's sexuality hitting the papers
HEADLINE OF THE DAY: Unfit for Bottom?Then Try the Top Of course it's Porter J. Goss the NYTimes is talking about, don't you know....
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August 12, 2004
McGreevey can't be governor if he's gay?
N.J. Gov. James E. McGreevey I dunno, the news just broke and we don't know the whole story, but you gotta wonder, as Barry asked just now, "He resigned? Is being gay more shameful than being corrupt?" [image from...
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August 1, 2004
keeping it from the boyfriend
Overheard outside the stall in the avant/cool men's room on the ground floor of the downtown L.A. Standard Hotel this evening: "Oh, he just left it there so his wife wouldn't find it," which was immediately followed by the addendum...
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July 3, 2004
a mice day, and penguins in the park
We went to the Central Park Zoo this afternoon. The animals were delightful, but the people (almost all of them escorted by baby people) were pretty wonderful too. Barry said that he thinks everyone should be required to go...
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June 5, 2004
Eyton Fox gets even better
German visitor and Israeli tour guide meet the Dead sea I'd say that Eyton Fox has now redeemed himself in the eyes of anyone who might have thought his last film, "Yossi and Jagger," operated in too much of...
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April 22, 2004
crush the Church before it crushes all reason
it's a slippery slope But it's 2004! Why do we still have to deal with this accursed thing? I've absolutely had it with the abominations of the Catholic Church, and don't get me started on all the other monstrously...
Posted by james at 1:15 PM | Full Post
March 31, 2004
"liberationists and assimilationsts"
On page 3 of today's Washington Post the paper's New York Bureau Chief, Michael Powell, does a great job covering those within the lesbian and gay community who are sceptical of or even seriously opposed to the campaign for same-sex...
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March 24, 2004
still not married
In a column which appears in the print edition of The Nation this week and also on his own website Alexander Coburn tries to introduce nuance into the discussion of same-sex marriage. Like me, he's against it.I'm for anything...
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March 11, 2004
not married
but a party is a different thing altogether I hope I have to say it only one more time. I have no interest in getting married. I'm uncomfortable with the idea of official marriage of any kind. A letter...
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queen honors faggot socialist republican
Peter Maxwell Davies The great British composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies has been appointed Master of the Queen's Music. The Guardian site begins its report thus:Buckingham Palace yesterday admitted that the Queen has chosen Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, a...
Posted by james at 2:49 PM | Full Post
March 3, 2004
Bloomberg challenged to come out (of hiding)
Phil Reed, Chris Quinn, their colleagues and all kinds of friends, in front of microphones and cameras this morning at City Hall A number of New York City Council Members today called on Mayor Bloomberg to state his position...
Posted by james at 2:20 PM | Full Post
March 2, 2004
Jay Blotcher
The media is keeping Jay Blotcher very busy these days. He calls the New Palz area his home, and he married his boyfriend in the Village last week. That same week saw the braking of the story of his being...
Posted by james at 2:00 PM | Full Post
March 1, 2004
but I don't even want to be married!
[we've only been together for 12 or 13 years] But definitely not a requirement. Marriage. Not for every couple, but it must be their choice only. The two quickly-improvised signs pictured above were those we held while we were standing...
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February 28, 2004
'bias' - does that mean there's both good AIDS and bad AIDS?
So, would the NYTimes fire a reporter they discovered had once demonstrated on behalf of a cure for breast cancer? Would they fire a John Kerry when they found out he had once worked to end a disastrous and outrageously...
Posted by james at 9:03 PM | Full Post
February 24, 2004
another Republican war, this one on faggots everywhere,
even Log Cabin Republicans. And the Democrats are not blameless either. Bush has just now officially come out in support of a Constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. [but I no longer think so] First of all, the media has it...
Posted by james at 2:14 PM | Full Post
October 10, 2003
DITCHs
DITCHs on Astor Place September 8th We spotted the elusive DITCH outside of Harvey Milk High School early in September. The acronym represents the "Dykes' International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell." the precise name still not settled just one month...
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September 8, 2003
Harvey Milk HS II: Milkies, you go!
For more images, from this morning, go here. We returned to Astor Place just before 3 this afternoon, to help the kids as they left school – should they need it. They didn’t, and it was both because the...
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Harvey Milk HS I: to cheer the baby queers
the crowd on Astor Place, entertained by Phelps christianists For more images, go here. Barry and I joined hundreds of others outside Harvey Milk High School this morning to cheer students entering the building for the first day of...
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September 6, 2003
protect our kids!
local color, now in New York I've never been drawn to demonstrations with a "battle of the bands" scenario, but sometimes the people who need help need help on the scene, because the really bad guys will be there...
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August 29, 2003
the six beer theory, and more
In a short post about the fluidity of male sexuality, where he references the legendary six beer theory, Welshcake evokes the media's latest tizzy over the supposed ascendancy of the gay aesthetic, commenting: Metrosexual? Heteroflexible? Whatever. As my late friend,...
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August 28, 2003
all this makes me dizzy
Ole von Beust Rex Wochner reported two days ago:The mayor of Hamburg, Germany, Ole von Beust, came out Aug. 19 after firing the city-state's interior minister, Ronald Schill, for allegedly trying to blackmail him. . . . . Von...
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August 12, 2003
Harvey M would love Harvey F!
Follow-up on my August 2 Harvey Milk High School post The big guns are still turned on the modest little New York high school which operates as a shelter for kids who really, really need it, and some on the...
Posted by james at 8:08 PM | Full Post
August 11, 2003
John Weir, sloppy style pundit - and "dad"
Storied John Weir ( "The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket" author, CBS terrorist, elusive man about town, beloved professor) has been watching Television. Well, maybe it's less like pay-per-view than view-per-pay, since his account of what he has been...
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August 4, 2003
undoing Justinian's cruel Code
Is that a basball bat in his right hand? I admire a minds that can think in terms of millennia! Well, those who run the Catholic Church may be an exception, but perhaps it's because they only think in...
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August 2, 2003
still, you have to demonstrate a "history" to be saved
Hetrick-Martin youth An email arrived Thursday at 8:30 in the morning, asking me to attend a press conference at City Hall to show "support for the Hetrick-Martin Institute." Sure, I had heard the recent news that the city had...
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July 25, 2003
a gay Askew
Othniel "Niel" Boaz Askew [Photo by Victor Carnuccio] The story about Askew most people won't hear is in the Gay City News.Emanuel Xavier is a gay poet and author who frequented many of the same nightclubs as Askew did...
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how will it be read?
Is the story going to be "Wacko AIDS homo slays saintly populist in hallowed hall?" Or will it be, Homophobia helped to destroy two lives - again?" Interesting developments available from the media today: Askew's police record, supposedly sealed,...
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July 24, 2003
"cherchez la femme"
[updated information added to the bottom of this post] Only this time "cherchez l'homme" might be a more useful suggestion. Neither James E. Davis (41) nor Othiel Boaz Askew (31) had ever married. Both were described as bright, attractive, smart...
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July 1, 2003
QUEERS READ THIS!
[undocumented photo from the 2002 exhibition at the London club Queer Nation] "QUEERS READ THIS!" was anonymously distributed during New York's "Pride" weekend in 1990 as a tabloid piece with wonderful bold graphics. It became a manifesto. It reads...
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home repairs
John Rechy suggests in a Commentary piece in Sunday's LATimes that gratitude may not be the appropriate response to the decision in Lawrence and Garner vs. the State of Texas.Without in any way belittling the decency of the justices in...
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June 29, 2003
pride
Fifth Avenue today, the handsome "Metrosource" Float. Barry said they must all be writers....
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swinging Diego Garcia
[photo does not illustrate incidents in this story, but it is from Diego Garcia] Although the following events seem to have occurred some time ago, I suspect things are still interesting on this not-so-tight little island. A story to...
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June 27, 2003
Stonewall Place, June 26th, 2003
At the Stonewall Place rally yesterday evening, called by Queers for Peace and Justice: New York City Councilmember Chris Quinn LAMBDA Executive Director Kevin Cathcart...
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June 26, 2003
vintage Stonewall
Virtually 34 years to the day after the Stonewall rebellion, the U.S. Supreme Court has decided we have rights. Today's ruling invalidates sodomy laws in the 13 states which have retained them until this moment. Until 1962, when Illinois...
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will we even notice?
Today, Thursday, on what is essentially the beginning of "Gay Pride" weekend, the Supremes will announce their pontifical decision about whether us queers may have sex. Either they're going to be delivering good news, or they're really asking for...
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June 23, 2003
"There Is No Scene"
It read like a documentary, and I assumed that's what it was. Yea! But then I began to have my doubts. So, was it just the wishful thinking of this perverse activist queer which so easily cooperated with Scott Treleaven's...
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June 1, 2003
"my sexuality is my own sexuality"
"My sexuality is my own sexuality. It doesn’t belong to anybody. Not to my government, not to my brother, my sister, my family. No one."Ahraf Zanati is now safe in Vancouver, but two years ago he was one of 52...
Posted by james at 8:23 PM | Full Post
May 22, 2003
F.B.I.-run gay bordello in New York
In his obituary today in the NYTimes, we are reminded that C.A.Tripp's ground-breaking 1975 book, "The Homosexual Matrix," reported that during World War II the F.B.I. ran an all-male bordello in New York "staffed with homosexual agents charged with extracting...
Posted by james at 1:38 PM | Full Post
May 8, 2003
tell Egypt we care
If Amnesty International can make it an important part of its agenda, New York queers and those who love or respect them, but of course anyone with a love of liberty and humanity, can make it over to the Egyptian...
Posted by james at 1:28 PM | Full Post
May 6, 2003
'I can put little baseball players all over it?'
Tony Kushner and Mark Harris met five years ago. Last month they affirmed their partnership before friends in Manhattan. The occasion made the "VOWS" feature in the NYTimes Styles section this past Sunday.They started planning their commitment ceremony soon after...
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May 4, 2003
not on our side
I think both the country and the state of New York would be better off having at least one empty senatorial seat than have it continue to be occupied by Hillary Rodham Clinton, and I could easily add the chair...
Posted by james at 1:29 PM | Full Post
April 22, 2003
"Jews for Hitler"
Bloggy says gays for Bush are like Jews for Hitler. What ignited this righteous ire? It started with just one dumb Republican.Rick Santorum, Republican Senator from Pennsylvania, and No. 3 in the GOP leadership.If the Supreme Court says that you...
Posted by james at 1:17 AM | Full Post
April 19, 2003
where's the queer soldier's yellow ribbon?
He and she are not supposed to even be there, but they are. Moreover, like their comrades, most queers on duty in the Persian Gulf have lovers and partners at home anxious about their welfare, yet neither these soldiers and...
Posted by james at 8:20 PM | Full Post
April 3, 2003
"Gay is good"
Our good friend Bill Dobbs writes us that there may be something in the old slogan, "Gay is Good," coined by Dr. Frank Kameny in the summer of 1968. A 20-year-old marine corps reservist in California is seeking conscientious objector...
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who d'ya hav'ta fuck around here to get discharged?
Michelangelo Signorile reports that, in the midst of the real business of the military, its peak period, actual war, once again the Pentagon has decided that gays are too useful to be thrown out.Rather than speedily drumming out gays based...
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March 19, 2003
BYOQS [bring your own queer sign]
I'm mad as hell! And it's not just because my country is about to blow up millions of people on the other side of the world who wish us no harm. I'm a bit upset that my country has been...
Posted by james at 1:37 AM | Full Post
March 14, 2003
silence equals death
Don't be quiet.JACKSONVILLE, AR -- The American Civil Liberties Union is challenging officials at Jacksonville Junior High School over repeated punishment of a 14-year-old student for being openly gay. In a letter to school officials sent today, the ACLU demanded...
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March 2, 2003
Bloomberg says it's all about decor
Some would say it's about decorum. His. I say it's plain political hypocrisy and homophobia. The man who claims to be a mayor for all New Yorkers says he will march in the St. Patrick's Day parade again this year.Parade...
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February 28, 2003
"I am just like everyone else."
But he isn't, and for that we are very happy. This story about Detective Francis Coppola and his firefighter partner Eddy appeared in The Hartford Courant this week. Maybe it's a little hokey, but that's part of its strength.Divorced, Coppola...
Posted by james at 6:39 PM | Full Post
February 10, 2003
GAY SHAME
It's almost certainly not what you think. GAY SHAME is actually the provocative name of a beautiful group of radical queers in San Francisco which opposes the mainstreaming of the gay community, or what they call "the gay shame." The...
Posted by james at 11:29 PM | Full Post
January 19, 2003
carrying on regardless
Since the nineteenth century, the Mount Morris bathhouse has survived punctured realty bubbles, white flight, home plumbing, moral crusades, wars, racism, depression, fashion, homelessness and AIDS. A beautiful article in the NYTimes today helps us to understand how.The Mount Morris...
Posted by james at 1:51 PM | Full Post
January 15, 2003
a threat to us all
In a great essay in this week's Village Voice, "Persecuting Pee-wee A Child-Porn Case That Threatens Us All," Richard Goldstein manages to sort out a lot of scary stuff, and he warns us that Paul Reubens is the canary in...
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January 7, 2003
Willem Arondius, "not less courageous"
I like to think of myself as a proud activist queer with an enormous interest in history, but the awesome story of Willem Arondius [alternatively, "Arondeus"] and his friends was completely unknown to me until this week. It played itself...
Posted by james at 7:01 PM | Full Post
January 5, 2003
decades of concentration camps
The United States Holocaust Museum in Washington currently includes an exhibit on the Nazi persecution of homosexuals, the first in a series on specific groups other than Jews who were victimized by the regime. The numbers of victims identified with...
Posted by james at 3:20 PM | Full Post
December 20, 2002
But where do we go from here?
In the current (December 30) issue of The Nation there is a brilliant piece of writing about a brilliant man writing about a brilliant generation of queers, and you'll feel brilliant if you read it. Richard Kim writes about Douglas...
Posted by james at 12:58 AM | Full Post
December 18, 2002
lifestyle protections
Yuck. So the Catholic Church was "fiercely lobbying" up to the last minute to defeat the modest, and decades-overdue, extension of the New York State Nondiscrimination Act (to include homosexuals and bisexuals). It managed to pass yesterday, although minus any...
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December 16, 2002
protecting also those who need it most
The Daily News this morning printed my letter responding to a piece by their own editor, Jonathan Capehart, published last week. Capehart had suggested that Tom Duane was destroying the chances for enacting a state act protecting homosexuals because Duane...
Posted by james at 11:34 AM | Full Post
November 28, 2002
"neither the church nor society should be surprised"
It seems appropriate, in the circumstances of the tragic story of a murder in Chicago and the uproar it has caused among certain Catholic zealots, to be reminded of a ten-year-old proclamation which originated with the Vatican Sacred Congregation for...
Posted by james at 3:07 AM | Full Post
November 26, 2002
"pagan babies"
A Message, on behalf of all queers, to all strict Roman Catholics, oh, and also to all readers of The National Review: WE ARE NOT PAGAN BABIES We will not be baptized and become straight, any more than blacks will...
Posted by james at 5:26 PM | Full Post
November 23, 2002
cover art
The current issue of The Advocate includes a story about Hispanic Chicago teenagers running a Spanish-language radio show for their GLBTZ peers and a story about the courage of a Kentucky high school gay-staight alliance in fighting the homophobia of...
Posted by james at 3:09 PM | Full Post
November 20, 2002
the pink triangle then, and now
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington has just inaugurated an exhibit that focuses on the Nazi persecution of homosexuals, the first of a series highlighting non-Jewish groups killed during the twelve years of the National Socialist regime.The Nazi...
Posted by james at 3:53 PM | Full Post
she reminded him of his mother
A gay man in the Chicago area, Nicholas Gutierrez, killed a religious woman he worked with, Mary Stachowicz, when he became enraged as she tried to talk him out of his homosexuality. Her harangues had reportedly evoked the painful memory...
Posted by james at 11:14 AM | Full Post
November 15, 2002
sent to the showers
Like, we can afford to throw away linguists, arabic or otherwise, at a time like this, or any time!Nine Army linguists, including six trained in Arabic, have been dismissed from the military because they are gay, even as the military...
Posted by james at 1:02 PM | Full Post
November 12, 2002
"Hey! You! Get off of my cloud"
Barry found this wonderful photo and story. A proposed law would essentially restrict French prostitutes from looking like they are marketing themselves, supposedly making everybody else feel so much better. The Interior Minister of the new center-right government argues that...
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November 11, 2002
Royals now roiled routinely?
But this is England! Every bloke there plays with his mates and now and again, and besides, everybody was gay in the eighties, weren't they?Today's batch of headlines included claims that Charles, the Prince of Wales, hushed up the rape...
Posted by james at 1:17 PM | Full Post
November 4, 2002
wow! wow! wow!
["Queer" and "Culture!"] Beautiful. Wonderful art, theatre and activism and love. We should all be so fortunate as to be as creative and bold as Patricia Cronin and Deb Kass! For more, see the three links in the highlighted names...
Posted by james at 12:22 AM | Full Post
November 1, 2002
for the love of one's countrymen!
Headline of the day: British navy 'bursting with gay seamen in 1960'[London, October 31] - A strict enforcement of the Royal Navy's policy of banning homosexuality would have rendered the fleet ineffective in the 1960s, according to Britain's Public Records...
Posted by james at 10:29 AM | Full Post
October 31, 2002
Harry Hay and all the other queer outsiders
Michael Bronski has written a sharp essay on the real Harry Hay and his "uneasy relationship with the gay movement." Hay believed that "queer sexuality had an essential outsider quality that made the outcast homosexual the perfect prophet for a...
Posted by james at 10:53 AM | Full Post
October 30, 2002
"Gay History is Still in the Closet"
Richard Goldstein made it onto the NYTimes Op-Ed page again today, this time using Harry Hay's death to remind us all of the American blackout of queer history.Why are the gay movement's roots so obscured? The reason is the invisibility...
Posted by james at 11:57 PM | Full Post
October 24, 2002
the death of a prince, or a princess
Harry Hay died today. HARRY HAY, PAVED THE WAY FOR MODERN GAY ACTIVISM, DIES AT 90 Henry "Harry" Hay, known as the founder of the modern American gay movement, has died at age 90. The pioneering gay activist devoted his...
Posted by james at 10:04 PM | Full Post
October 23, 2002
they still ain't got no religion
Geesh, these people must think we're all really stupid! New York Republican neanderthals have finally decided to let the New York Senate vote on gay rights, but only in order to secure more votes for Republican candidates in November. The...
Posted by james at 6:35 PM | Full Post
October 7, 2002
pinko faggot treehugger towelhead
What an amazing world! And what an amazing city! (Paris, this time) In an earlier post I described Bertrand Delanoe, the Mayor of Paris, as queer, green and a socialist, and nothing much was yet know about the man who...
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October 6, 2002
just don't stop dancing!
The queer green socialist Mayor of Paris [just try using those adjectives anywhere in this country to describe a town executive!] was stabbed, apparently by a deranged man, in the midst of the all-night party he had given to the...
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September 3, 2002
"announcement"
Yup. It appears on the "Styles and Fashion" page of the paper's site. It's the first for the NYTimes and it's a nice story, so here it is.The couple met in October 1992 in Washington, where Mr. Goldstein was working...
Posted by james at 11:27 AM | Full Post
August 18, 2002
the New York Times finally comes out
I'm not a fan of marriage in any form, but queers have a right to be as conventionally careless and silly as anyone else. Still, let's not make it a requirement. The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune and San Francisco Chronicle,...
Posted by james at 1:11 PM | Full Post
August 11, 2002
Liberty kisses
Besides biting the hand that feeds you, it's just plain wrong! Madison Square Garden and the New York W.N.B.A. team, Liberty, continues to ignore, if not just plain snub, lesbian fans of women's basketball.[One lesbian fan, Robyn Overstreet,] says Liberty...
Posted by james at 4:12 PM | Full Post
August 6, 2002
Chelsea is an adjective
--and a derogation. Yes, it's nice to know I'm no longer the only homo in Chelsea (as it so seemed to me when I first moved here fifteen years ago), but can't we attract at least some people who look...
Posted by james at 2:51 PM | Full Post
July 25, 2002
. . .and must be regularly and lovingly nourished
"The male ego is not a hardy perennial; it's a very delicate flower." --David Rudgers, a 22-year veteran of the CIA, and author of Creating the Secret State, speaking about the U.S. military's pricklish attitude toward gays and lesbians in...
Posted by james at 12:32 AM | Full Post
July 23, 2002
"Metrosexuals"
Are we dizzy yet? Some people were just beginning to sort out the old categories, but new species seem to be popping out all over, contributing to a delightful confusion for those who welcome life, and a nightmare for the...
Posted by james at 12:16 PM | Full Post
July 10, 2002
We should want out, not in!
One of the founders of the modern British gay movement reminds us that in the first years after Stonewall we wanted to change society, not conform to it.There would be sexual freedom and human rights for all – gay and...
Posted by james at 2:56 PM | Full Post
July 6, 2002
not quite free at last
Yes, Arkansas's Supreme Court has overturned the state's sodomy law, but too many people have had no real problem living for 25 years with its appalling assault on queers, and in fact on human rights everywhere. Neither Arkansas nor the...
Posted by james at 3:00 PM | Full Post
July 1, 2002
not gay, just domestic partners, thank you please
Straights who really want to look like they're gay! Sounds like a great opportunity for our next recruiting drive!Jeff's a 32-year-old "starving artist" who likes to travel. So last fall, he pretended to be gay to get cheap airline tickets....
Posted by james at 7:32 PM | Full Post
June 30, 2002
another sinner against gay rights?
Nope! Rather a brave activist and friend who stood near Saint Patrick's Cathedral during today's New York Pride march....
Posted by james at 7:49 PM | Full Post
breaking the habit
A moment of silence for the brothers and sisters who remain lost. A Spanish Catholic priest who came out earlier this year tells a sad story which will not surprise most of us, even today.The Spanish nun who walked into...
Posted by james at 5:39 PM | Full Post
Pink Pistols
On this very special day of ours, the oh-so-queer-positive NYPost gives us this present: a story about pistol-packing homos."Pick on someone your own caliber," declares its excellent Web site (www.pinkpistols.org). "We are dedicated to the legal, safe and responsible use...
Posted by james at 3:05 PM | Full Post
We wish us all very well!
This day is especially for those around the world who haven't yet made it out, or at least not all the way, more than for those who are able to actually parade. It remains a Very Big Thing for that...
Posted by james at 2:57 PM | Full Post
June 28, 2002
gay macho mythology
Though too late for some, the myth of the homo macho man is, maybe, dying, and good riddance!The world that queer radicals would create is one where no man needs to butch up to fly right. Masculinity would be something...
Posted by james at 3:23 PM | Full Post
June 19, 2002
"You must be a fag"
*">This one is really just for those of you are not fags or dykes, or otherwise queer; the rest of us know about this already. We live it. There is still nothing in the universe worse than a queer. But...
Posted by james at 6:49 PM | Full Post
June 16, 2002
no, still not safe to go back to Coors
Boycott Coors, still. The National Lawyers Guild's Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Committee is disappointed at Out Front Colorado's refusal to run its advertisement educating the queer community on the Coors family's funding of bigoted activities, and released a statement June...
Posted by james at 2:32 PM | Full Post
June 9, 2002
follow-up on sodom in Jerusalem
Ok, now from the paper-of-record, its report on Gay Pride in Jerusalem. Certainly too much is being made of "god" by all parties, but perhaps the venue has something to do with that (must be awfully hard to sell secularism...
Posted by james at 12:45 AM | Full Post
outing and blackmailing the Archbishop
From a party who would appear to be about as disinterested, in the better sense, as a party could be, a very good account of the Archbishop Weakland affair. Only in this case, no child had been molested. Instead, a...
Posted by james at 12:36 AM | Full Post
June 7, 2002
"Love without Borders"
Jerusalem survived its very first lesbian and gay pride parade today. A colorful band of a few hundred "crazy fools" marched through the center of Jerusalem, a city revered as holy by three monotheistic faiths which all oppose homosexuality (except,...
Posted by james at 1:04 PM | Full Post
May 31, 2002
but too late for Mike Lyons
Things are looking up a bit for the gay or lesbian partners of those lost in New York and Washington September 11, but not everyone is here to see it. The emergency funds made available after Sept. 11 came too...
Posted by james at 12:43 AM | Full Post
May 27, 2002
even hero gays must remain invisible
It's official! Only those legally part of the heterosexual system can be heroes. Wednesday the House Republican majority killed a bill, passed unanimously in the Senate, which would have extended death benefits to the survivors of gay chaplain Mychal Judge...
Posted by james at 9:35 PM | Full Post
May 26, 2002
Gay and liberal? You're out!
Two men, two stories. The Boston Achbishop conceals felonies and exposes (real) children to the predations of child molesters, but that's ok with the Pope in Rome. The Milwaukee Achbishop* has an ongoing consensual relationship with an adult, and he's...
Posted by james at 12:12 PM | Full Post
May 18, 2002
Silence=concentration camp
"Finally victims will be rehabilitated -- even if many are already dead," said a campaigner friday, aparently with no irony, after Germany's parliament passed legislation allowing around 50,000 gay men prosecuted by the Nazis because of their sexuality to be...
Posted by james at 7:47 PM | Full Post
May 17, 2002
Pim Fortuyn
It's not easy for Americans to grasp complex political concepts, especially in this wonderful age of concensus, but Richard Goldstein offers to help us to understand a man who definitely did not fit into our simple categories. The anxiety that...
Posted by james at 2:06 PM | Full Post
May 8, 2002
Progress! But weird.
Certainly Taiwan has one up on us at least in this issue, but the argument and the teminology used in this latest development is as idiosyncratic as it is weird. Defence Minister Tang Yiau-ming told government lawyers that the ban...
Posted by james at 1:18 PM | Full Post
May 4, 2002
Cardinal Miss Franny
Before moving to New York in 1985 I spent twenty years in the distant, yet not-so-provincial, province of Rhode Island, and even in 1965 every faggot with a pulse knew about the notorious promiscuous sexual adventures of the leading American...
Posted by james at 1:33 AM | Full Post
April 27, 2002
Post-straight
Remodeling the heterosexual male. It's not like every Joe is turning mo. But in the trendier zones of New York, L.A., Miami, and Montreal, the gay sensibility is rubbing off on receptive straights. It should be noted that this is...
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