No wonder my gaydar's off
It's not metrosexuals. No, they're last year's "trend." This year, it's because non-metrosexual straights are adopting gay styles, and some of us homos are giving up on clubwear clothing and gym...
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More tales of the Felinist conspiracy
In a previous installment, The Dictatorship of the Purrletariat, I tried to warn you of the impending Felinist assault on our American way of life. Apparently, some of you haven't taken my warnings...
View ArticleCanada's House of Commons Passes Marriage Equality
[Crossposted at CultureKitchen] As I write this, I'm watching the Canadian House of Commons' final debate on bill C-38: The Civil Marriage Act, a law to extend marriage equality to all Canadians...
View ArticleDating and the Class Divide
I have a date tonight, first one in about eight months. I'm a little nervous, for both the regular reasons (Will I like him? Will he like me? Will we both sit there suffering in silence?) and another...
View ArticleWhat's it like to be straight?
I just finished reading Foucault's History of Sexuality (yes, all three volumes). Aside from feeling a little like stabbing myself in the forehead, I also find myself wondering how sexual desire was...
View ArticleMy Aunts Got Married Today
[Note: I'm posting this upon my arrival home in Somerville, but I wrote it last night in the Vancouver airport. I'm not changing the tense of the piece because I want to retain the immediacy of what I...
View ArticleHelp Save Marriage Equality in MA
Well, we finally have a date for the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention to vote again on whether or not to do away with marriage equality in Massachusetts. It's September 14. Here's some...
View ArticleMarriage Equality in Massachusetts: Safe FOR NOW but Looking Ahead
As it's simple IF you ignore the complexity noted, the Massachusetts General Court, convened in Constitutional Convention, yesterday defeated a proposed constitutional amendment to bar same-sex...
View ArticleProp 8 isn't about restricting marriage, but destroying gay life.
There is a great line in the recent film Milk. The original quote-"this isn't an issue, it's our lives"--comes at a moment when Dan White is confronting Harvey Milk, giving him a backhanded compliment...
View ArticleThe United States is an anti-gay nation
Today, on the 60th Anniversary of the passage of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the General Assembly will vote on aresolution calling on member states to remove laws that criminalize...
View ArticleQueer Anger
Yesterday morning, I gave my last final of the semester. It was my Sex and Gender class, and walking into the final, one of my students stopped to chat with me. A week earlier, we had been discussing...
View ArticleRace and Sexuality as systems of domination
I'm tired. I'm tired of the "gay is the new black" nonsense. I'm tired of "you can hide your sexuality." I'm just fucking tired.I'm a gay man. I'm a sociologist one of whose teaching specializations...
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