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Good morning, class. Today’s column is a lesson in vocabulary. I’ll be talking about my favorite prefix in the world, a short, sweet, sexy little combination of three letters: “cis.” Pronounced like the “sis” in “sister,” it comes from Latin. And...
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I can’t remember quite how old I was when I first watched The Naked Civil Servant, a biopic about the extraordinary Quentin Crisp (played by the incomparable John Hurt). I do remember that it was a revelation. Here, for the first time, was a...
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So what is it with the Ugandans anyway? Why the hostility to gays? As you've read elsewhere on this site, a Ugandan legislator has proposed laws that would outlaw homosexual acts and homosexuality. Penalties range from two or three years...
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In an update on last week's story about controversial Michigan ex-gay ministry Corduroy Stone, Lez Get Real reports that the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) might sever ties with the group.
Though there's no scientific evidence that ex-...
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The Diary of Jim Queen #34: December 27, 2009
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The Diary of Jim Queen #31: December 6, 2009
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The Diary of Jim Queen #30: November 29, 2009
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Bigger Than Life: The History of Gay Porn Cinema From Beefcake to Hardcore
By Jeffrey Escoffier
Running Press
$24.95, 368 pp.
Though I'm not, I confess, much of a consumer of commercial porn videos (I much prefer to jack off to still photos and...
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Researchers at New York’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice have been researching the causes of the Catholic Church’s modern tradition of priests sexualizing boys. In releasing their initial findings, they said they can’t attribute it to gay...
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Saturday, November 21, 2009 - 9:52am By Angie Dell
The Low Road
By James Lear
Cleis Press
$14.95, 272 pp.
I was curious when James Lear's The Low Road arrived in my mail, because what little I knew about its plot can be summarized by this: erotic gay adventure novel based on Robert Louis Stevenson's...
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There's a thin line between love and hate. This is the theme explored by the Danish film Broderskab (Brotherhood), which took the top honors at the Rome Film Festival. The film, by first-time director Nicolo Donato, explores the contradictions of...
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A 21-year-old waitress lost her job at the Coq D'Argent restaurant in London. She had apparently not been pulling her weight and was taking too much time off. Embarrassed and afraid to tell her family the real reason behind her sudden unemployment,...
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What was supposed to be a friendly but competitive match between two teams in an amateur soccer league in Paris has turned into a national debate over religious beliefs and homophobia. Paris Foot Gay, a diverse soccer team comprising both straights...
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Jim Queen #21: September 27, 2009
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Mostly when you read stories about internet-filtering software on sex-positive and free-speech web sites, they are about errors in the filters, the evils of censorship, and the lack of sensitivity on the part of corporations. This story...