Simon Sheppard, Monday, August 30, 2010 - 8:00am
No, I'm not Shirley Sherrod, not anything like her. I don't work for the Department of Agriculture; I write porn. I'm a queer secular Jew, not a religious black woman. My dad wasn't killed by...
Simon Sheppard, Monday, August 23, 2010 - 10:49am
Yes, as we ruefully all know, there's a hardy streak of anti-intellectualism in American life. Still, those anti-gay-marriage folks seem to be hell-bent on proving it past reasonable doubt.
After...
Simon Sheppard, Monday, August 16, 2010 - 11:16am
I've always been a tad suspicious of secretly queer homophobes who get outed, only to then morph, hey presto, into crusaders for gay rights.
Take Roy Ashburn, for instance. As we all no doubt...
Simon Sheppard, Monday, August 9, 2010 - 11:55am
Way back over a half-year ago, when I started writing for CarnalNation, my very first column, "Marriage, Shmarriage," bemoaned the queer movement's glorification of the bourgeois model of...
Simon Sheppard, Monday, August 2, 2010 - 11:58am
I was dyspeptically hanging around the Dore Alley Fair, the second-largest annual leather-oriented event in San Francisco with my pal Larry-bob, the genius behind the seminal 'zine Holy Titclamps...
Simon Sheppard, Monday, July 26, 2010 - 12:00pm
Yes, absolutely: Chubby people need—and deserve—love. Sure, an unhealthy obsession with weight and dieting has taken its toll on many a person's health. I'm aware of studies that show that...
Simon Sheppard, Monday, July 19, 2010 - 1:01pm
"A Defense Department survey sent this week to 400,000 service members asks such provocative questions as whether its troops have shared shower facilities with a gay person or if they would be...
Simon Sheppard, Monday, July 12, 2010 - 12:00pm
Y'know, it would probably be easier for me to love my enemies if they didn't so often turn out to be duplicitous assholes.
The euphoniously monickered Linda Lingle, governor of the small-but-...
Simon Sheppard, Monday, July 5, 2010 - 6:00am
Just when you figure Mike Huckabee couldn't be any more of a putz than we already know he is, he goes and surprises you. Most recently, the ex-governor of Arkansas caused a minor shitstorm by...
Simon Sheppard, Monday, June 28, 2010 - 11:33am
I was surprisingly—almost shockingly—polite when I was in Salt Lake City last month. Nonsense-spouting Morbots took me on tours of Temple Square and Brigham Young's house, and I didn't say one...
Simon Sheppard, Monday, June 21, 2010 - 11:55am
Stonewall Week is here again, gang, time to haul out those rainbow-colored tchotchkes. You know, the plastic shit manufactured in that bastion of queer rights, the People's Republic of China. And...
Simon Sheppard, Monday, June 14, 2010 - 11:32am
Ah, the things you learn from debates on online message boards….
The following post, a classic from somebody named Don, is worth quoting verbatim: "Homosexuality is a harbinger of a cultures...
Simon Sheppard, Monday, June 7, 2010 - 9:59am
As a seemingly endless string of secretly queer antigay demagogues are booted from their closets, the recent decline and fall of Indiana Representative Mark Souder serves as a valuable reminder:...
Simon Sheppard, Monday, May 31, 2010 - 6:00am
Familiar with the phrase "gay as a goose?" Well, how about "sodomitical as a swan?"
It's been weeks since I ran across an article on a same-sex pair of British swans, and yet an utterly...
Simon Sheppard, Monday, May 24, 2010 - 11:41am
So just how gay is too gay? The issue rages as, from the Supreme Court to Broadway, questions of queerness have taken center stage.
The shit hit the theater fan a few weeks back when a Newsweek...
Simon Sheppard, Monday, May 17, 2010 - 12:50pm
Holy shit! Here the headlines go again: Homo-hating closet case hires hustler!
Yes, folks, yet another—another—fag-basher has been discovered with his pants down…and his cock hard. The whole "the...
Simon Sheppard, Monday, May 10, 2010 - 4:39am
I finally caught up with the reincarnation of Pearls Over Shanghai, a Cockettes show I first saw at San Francisco's Palace Theater, way back in the psychedelicious days of just-post-Stonewall 1970...
Simon Sheppard, Monday, May 3, 2010 - 12:49pm
Old joke:
Guy #1: "My mother made me a homosexual."
Guy #2: "If I give her the yarn, will she make one for me, too?"
OK, maybe not a great joke. But it reminds me of an often-heard retort to...
Simon Sheppard, Monday, April 26, 2010 - 1:31pm
In the latest queer kerfuffle, a gay softball league has been accused of anti-bi bias because it stripped a San Francisco team of its tournament title for having too many not-gay-enough guys on the...
