Tim, Friday, October 1, 2010 - 5:58pm
Like many people, I have been deeply affected by the Tyler Clementi tragedy. I find I cannot stop thinking about that fateful series of events that led to a college freshman jumping to his death...
Elmo Painter, Friday, October 1, 2010 - 2:13pm
Hello Everyone,
I have an overwhelming need to spread extremely important information to you right now. My hands shake as I type this. More and more stories of gay teenagers being bullied into...
Kara Dax, Tuesday, September 28, 2010 - 3:11pm
September 26, 2010 – San Francisco – Folsom Street between 7th and 12th was packed with leather men and women, kinksters, fetishists, and tourists for the 27th annual Folsom Street Fair. The event...
Tim, Friday, September 17, 2010 - 12:13pm
Lady Gaga is militant about gays and lesbians being able to serve openly and honorably in the United States military. Last Sunday, the provocative performer attended the MTV Video Music Awards with...
Tim, Wednesday, September 8, 2010 - 1:05pm
Good Vibrations’ Indie Erotic Film Festival (IXFF) will present an evening of gay porn at the notorious Nob Hill Theatre on Sunday, September 19. It might seem ironic—if not downright contradictory...
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 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...
Asher Bauer, Friday, May 28, 2010 - 12:03pm
I have a confession to make: I have been a very bad gay boy.
It's not just that I have been, and still frequently am, attracted to women. It's not even that in the past I have actually acted on...
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...
Asher Bauer, Friday, March 5, 2010 - 2:56pm
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...
Asher Bauer, Friday, February 19, 2010 - 1:22pm
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...
Margaret Wade, Tuesday, January 5, 2010 - 4:09pm
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...
Simon Sheppard, Saturday, November 28, 2009 - 12:19pm
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 (...
Marty Klein, Sunday, November 22, 2009 - 12:34pm
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...
Angie Dell, Saturday, November 21, 2009 - 9:52am
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...
