A Girl's Guide to Attending a Gay Bar "If you take away one thing from this article, let it be this: keep your fucking bachelorette party out of our bars. If you treat my safe space like your zoo, I will seduce your fiance while you're out selecting stationary." See also:
Queers Read This (1990), "Rules of Conduct for Straight People".
posted by sevenyearlurk
on Nov 22, 2011 -
266 comments
Adshel is an Australian company that provides advertising on street furniture, such as shelters at bus stops or bins. In the last 48 hours they have been at the centre of a public fight between the Australian queer community and the
Australian Christian Lobby. [more inside]
posted by MT
on Jun 1, 2011 -
70 comments
This week, Rockstar Games released
L. A. Noire, a video game that's--perhaps not unusual for a Rockstar game--getting
stellar reviews. One review, and one reviewer in particular, though stands out. Carolyn Petit, a new member of the staff at
GameSpot, made her video game review
debut yesterday. Carolyn is
transgender.
Note: if you're not a GameSpot member, you'll have to do an age check on the video [more inside]
posted by PapaLobo
on May 17, 2011 -
117 comments
Choice of Broadsides is a choose-your-own-adventure game set in an alternate 19th Century world that is much like our own, where Albion and Gaul fight for naval supremacy. You can choose to be a gentleman in a standard patriarchal society, or a gentlewoman in a matriarchal one. Later on in the game you can choose your sexual orientation. Originally there were no options for a same-sex relationship, but after demands from players,
it was added in. Spoilers below the cut.
[more inside]
posted by Kattullus
on Jul 14, 2010 -
42 comments
"Living under capitalism, I like learning to feel comfortable with activity that does not result in success — since non-success is the norm. Trying your best and making it is not the norm — it’s propaganda. Of course I play with notions of hype, too... The entire
Comatonse website is a sarcastic hype-engine, sprawling forever, overwhelming the viewer with nothingness." -
Terre Thaemlitz, AKA
DJ Sprinkles [more inside]
posted by koeselitz
on Jul 5, 2010 -
27 comments
Queens of Poland Long review/essay at the
DRB on
Michał Witkowski's
Lubiewo (forthcoming in English translation as
Lovetown; extract
here), a book about gay life in Poland both in the days of communism and the subsequent Third Republic.
posted by Abiezer
on Jan 17, 2010 -
7 comments
1969: The Year of Gay Liberation is an online exhibit of the New York Public Library focusing on the radical gay rights movements of the late sixties and early seventies, focusing on the organizations The Mattachine Society of New York, Daughters of Bilitis, Gay News, Gay Liberation Front, Radicalesbians, Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries and the Gay Activists Alliance, and the events of the Stonewall Riot and Christopher Street Liberation Day. This is but one part of the NYPL's fine
LGBT collection, which includes, among other things,
resources for teens,
AIDS/HIV collections, and digital collections on
ACT UP,
Barbara Gittings and Kay Tobin Lahusen,
Bessie Bonehill,
Gertrude Stein,
Gran Fury,
Julian Eltinge,
Richard Wandel and
Walt Whitman.
posted by Kattullus
on Oct 1, 2009 -
14 comments
Jackie Shane could rock the Sapphire Club. He was part of the
Toronto Sound of the sixties, and made his mark not only for his soulful voice, but also for his flamboyent, gender ambiguous appearance
(video). His song
Any Other Way went to Number Two on the Canadian Billboard chart in 1963, and was his biggest hit. While his
discography was short and he has faded into obscurity, he has been recognized by the
queer community and
music bloggers as a trail-blazing performer.
In My Tenement,
Comin Down,
You Are My Sunshine,
Stand Up Strait and Tall,
Don't Play That Song.
posted by kimdog
on Jul 27, 2009 -
8 comments
What with all the changes lately, sometimes I'm not sure where my right to marry whomever I want to has been ensured.
Can I Marry Gay? is a handy reference with state by state information, and keeps me up to date. Worried about recent state Supreme Court decisions forcing you to join teh gay?
Must I Marry Gay? is for you. [via
mefi projects]
posted by ocherdraco
on May 20, 2009 -
48 comments
Part short story forum, part attempt to reach out to isolated teens struggling with their sexuality.
I'm from Driftwood; true stories by gay people all over.
posted by piratebowling
on Apr 1, 2009 -
19 comments
"You take the gatekeeper and you confuse his mind. You threaten him and you throw him in the middle of nowhere. Then nobody knows where the gate is. As soon as you lose the whereabouts of the gate, then you have a culture going downhill. What keeps a village together is a handful of "gays and lesbians," as they call them in the modern world. In my village, lesbians are called witches, and gay men are known as the gatekeepers." The
Dagara people of Burkina Faso.
[more inside]
posted by pinothefrog
on Feb 10, 2009 -
49 comments
Take my arm, my love. Don't write a check from a joint bank account. Hide all the photographs in your home and office which would identify you as a couple. Take off your wedding rings. Touch each other, and talk to each other, in public, in ways that could only be interpreted as you being "friends." A thoughtful post on "self-editing," homophobia, and the day-to-day experience of many LGBT folks, at
Shakesville (aka Shakespeare's Sister), by
Teh Portly Dyke.
posted by fiercecupcake
on May 6, 2008 -
177 comments
People with a History is "an online guide to lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans history." Ranging from
the first stirrings of civilization to the modern day, People with a History gathers together original sources and academic articles dealing with queerness throughout history. To give you a feel for the wealth of material on the site, here are a few pages that caught my interest:
The Vikings and Homosexuality,
Coptic Spell: Spell for a Man to Obtain a Male Lover,
an acount of a gay marriage ceremony described by Michel de Montaigne,
But Among Our Own Selves (an 18th Century gay ballad),
a chapter from The Life of St. Theodore of Sykeon, a 7th Century Byzantine monk and bishop, which mentions
adelphopoiesis, or the
rite of brothermaking,
Wu Tsao, 19th Century Chinese lesbian poet, and finally
Polari: The Lost Language of Gay Men.
posted by Kattullus
on Feb 2, 2008 -
15 comments
Gay? Looking for a place to Live?
The Advocate has just published their first-ever list of "
Best Places to Live for Gays and Lesbians.”
Columbus, OH;
Dallas, TX;
Ferndale, MI;
Ithaca, NY;
Lexington, KY;
Missoula, MT;
Portland, OR;
San Diego, CA;
Santa Fe, NM; and
Tuscon, AZ. Pack your bags!
posted by ikahime
on Mar 26, 2007 -
35 comments
Billy Tipton (1914-1989) was a moderately popular jazz musician who happened to have been born a girl and lived as a man. In retrospect, some see Billy as a woman pragmatically trying to make it in a male dominated field, others see Billy as clearly transexual. If you like jazz of the 30's and 40's, forget Billy's gender for a moment and take a
listen to Billy's playing! For more backstory,
biographer Diane Middlebrook has posted a
timeline of Tipton's life. More recently, Tipton has inspired jazz ensemble
The Tiptons launches sound, a
novel,
a few plays and butch/punk/queer director Silas Howard is
working on a film.
Oh, and here's
WP.
posted by serazin
on Mar 19, 2007 -
22 comments
Newsfilter: More than 100 arrests at Moscow gay protest. Upon others, German MP Volker Beck, Oscar Wilde's grandson and Paris mayor's representatives were injured by a mob of fashist thugs and christian-orthodox fundamentalists at Moscow's first gay pride march, and then arrested by the police.
In fraternal unity the violence was called upon by the orthodox church, Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov, the grand mufti of Russia’s Muslims, and Russia’s chief rabbi. Read this article by Peter Thatchell on UK Gay News for a
first hand account of the events, and for background information
Doug Irland's blog and
Scott Long's Moscow diary, published by the Washington Blade.
posted by kolophon
on May 27, 2006 -
54 comments
Rusty's family tried to accept his kinkier interests. "Father, will you buy me that leash for my birthday?"
"But Patches already has a leash," said Father.
"I didn't want it for Patches," said Rusty.
Father chuckled uncomfortably.
posted by jonson
on Oct 28, 2005 -
36 comments
