Was Jim Morrison bisexual?
I was pricing a couple of Jim Morrison books in my used bookshop this morning. Looking at the pictures as &
Read entire articleLiberation
Remember when you were more easily led Behind the cricket pavilion and the bicycle shed Trembling as your dreams &
Read entire articleHomo Problem?
Wish I could remember where I picked up this muddy scan. I remembered it as a gay liberation publication &
Read entire articleKeith Boykin: American Candidate
Black gay activist and author Keith Boykin has been selected to be on Showtime?s new television reality show American &
Read entire articleDavid Carter's Stonewall
Stonewall : The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution by David Carter First review?s of David Carter?s new book: &
Read entire articleForeskin Quarterly
I hope that you like myself have a deeper appreciation of the rich possibilities of queer culture in learning &
Read entire articleRupert Everett: no gay James Bond
Rupert Everett is forced to confirm the obvious. ?It?s not true,? says Everett. ?I?d like to play James Bond, but &
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Sometime back I wrote about Rob Byrne?s The Night We Met. His response to my comments was very kind so &
Read entire articleCartoon characters for gay pride
Frederic Wertham in his infamous Seduction of the Innocent told us that Wonder Woman was seriously Sapphic. He also &
Read entire articleVintage callboys
The rentboy on the cover of Lights Out, Little Hustler looks as if he should just tumble off into space. &
Read entire articleLGBTQ : queer alphabet soup
I?ve always favored fag myself but I can?t imagine Harvard publishing a journal called just fag. The announcement of Harvard?s &
Read entire articleCamp Records
Almost nothing is known about the mysterious 60?s record label Camp Records. They released an album and 10 45 &
Read entire articleFree gay short fiction
I get lots of requests to post links, mostly automated spam requests from bottom-tier ecommerce sites that scan domain registration &
Read entire articleFrom queer to quotidian
Goodbye queer sensibility? He [Paul Rudnick] sees much of the popularization of gay sensibility as ?winks to straight people. We &
Read entire articleAlan Hollinghurst: The Line of Beauty
Alan Hollinghurst is one of my two favorite living gay authors (the other, Joe Keenan has seen his wallet grow &
Read entire articleNew location, same weblog
A quick note about this weblog?s shift in blogspace. This weblog was originally called Diversions a name meant to capture &
Read entire articleMeatmen #26
I have a complicated relationship with and ambiguous feelings about Meatmen. The ambiguity originates in my sense of debt &
Read entire articleQueer Eye for the Straight Gal
Heterosexual women have always been Queer Eye for the Straight Guy?s biggest fans. After earning a pop-culture ovation for ?Queer &
Read entire articleThe Trip
The Trip In the early 70s boy (gay activist) meets boy (young Republican). The attraction is instantaneous but the &
Read entire articleGay movies, recommendations, reviews, TLA Video, All Movie Guide
There?’s no pretension that these entries are reviews. Mostly they help me remember what I?’ve seen and what I thought &
Read entire articleThose cute and cunning, young and beautiful boys
Who's a Pretty Boy Then?: One Hundred & Fifty Years of Gay Life in Pictures What do you go &
Read entire articleJoined Netflix (hope they have lots of queer films)
With no cable television connection and the car stolen we can?t even rent movies. My procrastination in signing up for &
Read entire articleQueer as folk the musical?
I can take or leave Queer as folk. Now that I don?t have cable TV I guess I?ll be leaving &
Read entire articleGay erotica before Stonewall
Out/Lines: Underground Gay Graphics from Before Stonewall I've never bought queer erotica, not even a cheap Bel Ami paperback. &
Read entire articleGay erotic film guide
The Complete Voyeur Video Guide I have watched maybe fifteen minutes of gay porn. I've often invited folks to &
Read entire articleRedheaded boys will still be boys
No good excuse for posting this Joe Phillips drawing except that I've always had a weakness for redheads. Really &
Read entire articleGetting Over Homer by Mark O'Donnell
Getting Over Homer Unfair to a book to write about if you read most of it while you weren?t &
Read entire articleWhat could be more lovely than another guys butt?
I thought I'd spend some time writing once again about my delight in the beauty of gay men's beautiful butts &
Read entire articleAesthetic cowardice
On and off I post a note here and there asking for suggestions of gay movies and gay books. Most &
Read entire articleThe Night We Met
Leafing through stacks of recently bought gay fiction (at my used bookshop) I can't say why I took The &
Read entire articleGraham Robb on Sherlock Holmes
Everyone already knows, instinctively, that Holmes is homosexual,? Graham Robb writes in a chapter on early fictional detectives in his &
Read entire articleQueer as folk ad art
Folks looking for Queer as folk stuff come here so often I thought I'd swipe this bit of QAF &
Read entire articleApollo & Hyacinth*
There's no really good reason for posting this image of Apollo and Hyacinthe* other than I was enchanted with the &
Read entire articleRedheaded pop star
I?m reluctant to confess that I ever had a crush on a pop-star. But the most famous seventies androgyne was &
Read entire articleQueer fiction: still looking for amusing & literate
I keep hoping to discover more queer fiction to enjoy. When a guy called my used bookshop to say he &
Read entire articleQueer as folk season 4 promos
While people wait for QAF Season 4 to arrive this spring (as I read but can't remember where) here are &
Read entire articleResponding to homoerotic poetry
A friend hoping to make me more aware of homoerotic poetry that I might enjoy sent me this bit of &
Read entire articleCavalcade of Boys (gay comic book)
Awhile back I wrote, er, bitched about gay comics and cartooning. Last week a couple of promotional samples of a &
Read entire articleUnder One Roof
I?d meant to mention Under One Roof earlier. I?ll just quote TLA Video?s summary: An erotic romance about an adorable, &
Read entire articleAndrogynous gay guys in prose or picture
On and off I've been on a search for early gay imagery and erotica of a special sort. Virility hasn't &
Read entire articleJeffrey (always looking for gay movies to watch)
Finally saw Jeffrey. I didn?t start watching gay movies until I met Charles and he didn?t want to see the &
Read entire articleDepressing gay fiction
Do you remember when gay fiction was depressing? Huh -- would be a fair reaction. In the days &
Read entire articleWomen lust after Neil Tennant
A special greetings to those of you coming from the Pet Shop Boys forum. -Richard (aka Pansexual Sodomite).10: Thou shalt &
Read entire articleGay comics & cartoonists
As the owner of used book, used CD and comic books shop I buy all the gay material that comes &
Read entire articleWill & Grace: Dylan McDermott
I ignored Will & Grace when it appeared. Gay sitcom - {shrug} - sitcoms are stupid: that sums up my &
Read entire articleWitty, literate gay novelists?
Farce and social comedy are my biases in fiction: P.G. Wodehouse, Anthony Powell, Evelyn Waugh, Tom Sharpe, Kingsley Amis. Working &
Read entire articleBig Eden
I wish I'd thought to write about Big Eden shortly after Charles and I watched it. I'd been waiting for &
Read entire articleDare to love: Jimmy Somerville
Quotes of song lyrics bore me. But I love Jimmy Somverville for his homoerotic lyrics as his falsetto and gifts &
Read entire articleSamantha vs. Bryan
A straight friend of mine said that Samantha on Sex & the City was a cartoon. If the happily libidinous &
Read entire articleFucking Marc Almond (virtually)
I?’ve often hoped I could write something about the gay pop musicians that I enjoy. (Live Journal entry is entitled &
Read entire articleQueer as folk: season 3
I was glad to see Michael get punched in the face in the first episode. When I first saw the &
Read entire articleWhen Boys Fly: White Party, Miami (2000)
I?’d hoped that When Boys Flys* would be sexier, livelier, more amusing. A group of gay guys head off for &
Read entire articleThe Journey of Jared Price
The Journey of Jared Price starts when the blonde twink moves from Georgia to Los Angeles. Having moved from Savannah &
Read entire article24 Nights (A gay Christmas movie)
Sometimes it is a tossup record my impressions while they?’re fresh or when I?’m less tired. 24 Nights is a &
Read entire articleBroadway Damage
Broadway Damage is a competently acted, scripted gay romantic comedy. If an unambitious gay romantic comedy is what you are &
Read entire articleWest Hollywood Stories Vol. 2
West Hollywood Stories appears to be a collection of a TV show called WeHo Stories. Only in a city as &
Read entire articleDefying Gravity & reason
Defying Gravity is the story of a closeted frat boy. He?’s contentedly hiding his sexuality from everybody, including himself until &
Read entire articleBruce LaBruce's Super 8 ?
I forgot how little I like arthouse movies until I watched Super 8tonight. The trash-punk aesthetic was wearying. &
Read entire articleForgive and Forget
Forgive and Forget for the most part doesn?’t have much gay content. David is wholly in the closet. We do &
Read entire articleSpin the Bottle
I rented Spin the Bottle hoping for a cruel revenge movie. For a long stretch it seemed like the group &
Read entire articleMerchant Ivory's Maurice
E.M. Forster's Maurice was one of the first gay novels that I read. I think the book was published just &
Read entire articleThe Fluffer
The Fluffer's box was every where gay movies are advertised on the web. So I grabbed the box the first &
Read entire articleShooting Porn and Beefcake
A few days ago I rented Beefcake. Or thought I did. At home I found I?’d been given Shooting Porn. &
Read entire articleGrease in Dorian Gray
greasy gateway to heterosexuality Sometimes I accidentally buy books with underlining, highlighting, marginalia. If it is scholarly book I lowball &
Read entire articleMy Morning with Joe Dallesandro
Give or take a half an hour my bladder impels me out of bed at 4:00 a.m. almost every morning. &
Read entire articleIn Heat, Watching Trash, Naked Flesh
Give or take a half an hour my bladder impels me out of bed at 4:00 a.m. almost every morning. &
Read entire articleFrisk & Paul Morrissey
Frisk I didn?’t put Frisk on the VCR until Charles had headed for Raleigh. The reviews I?’d read made it &
Read entire articleLions, Tigers & ?
When Charles and I were watching Raising Heroes (partnered gay couple trying to adopt a kid and in trouble with &
Read entire articleHow I spent 9/11
Remembering Andy Warhol?’s Bad being the most entertaining of the movies released with Warhol?’s name stuck in the title it &
Read entire articleJeffrey Dahmer Movie
Charles wanted to see Dahmer which proved surprisingly good. The lack of anything about his meatier latter days disappointed Charles. &
Read entire articleEdge of Seventeen
Just watched Edge of Seventeen. I think it was the first coming out movie I?’ve seen since I started watching &
Read entire articleGreen Plaid Shirt
Green Plaid Shirt was an enjoyable gay movie. That it was thriftily made wasn?’t a drawback at all. The plot &
Read entire articleFun Down There?
I guess the worst movie is one that doesn?’t even piss you off; one where your attention is on the &
Read entire articleMadonna, Rupert Everett & Stephen Fry (sort of)
Charles and I rented Next Best Thing. I?’d never seen Madonna in a movie before. Now I know why she?’s &
Read entire articleVisions of Sugarplums
I don't think I'll ever forget Visions of Sugarplums. The naked guy in the Santa camp was fair warning that &
Read entire articleSo, You Want To Be A Lesbian?
The silliest title we sold last week was So You Want To Be A Lesbian? : A Guide for Amateurs &
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