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Thursday, March 11, 2010 - 4:27pm By Sinclair Sexsmith“Have you seen the Dockers ads?” someone asked me recently at a conference, after I told them I write about masculinity. "A friend told me he liked those ads, because he is so unsure of what it means to 'be a man' right now. Everything has changed...
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Friday, December 4, 2009 - 12:12pm By Chris HallHow do you make science seem hip and interesting, instead of being the province of nerds with pocket-protector fetishes who would rather analyze the tensile strength of a condom than actually use it? Canadian nonprofit Science World, an educational...
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Friday, November 20, 2009 - 2:35pm By Monica ShoresBlogger Belle De Jour's coming-out press parade has been an ugly glimpse into how the public responds to well-educated sex workers who act with apparent awareness and agency. When Brooke Magnanti, a young neurotoxicologist working at a university,...
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Monday, November 16, 2009 - 2:46pm By Chris HallThe much talked-about "death of newspapers" hit LGBT communities in a big way this weekend when Window Media shut its doors, taking with it six major LGBT publications: Southern Voice, Washington Blade, South Florida Blade, 411 Magazine,...
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Monday, November 2, 2009 - 1:22pm By Chris HallABC television affiliate WJLA in Washington, DC ran a four-part series about breast cancer last week that went where no one—except perhaps Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake—has gone before. As part of the series, the station showed two...
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009 - 10:49am By Liz FarsaciThe fuss over Meghan McCain's recent booby photo on Twitter (and I seriously wonder how much of it was manufactured) pissed me off to no end on a number of levels. However, I don't want to give her the satisfaction of writing about it. That being...
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009 - 12:39pm By Chris HallThe idea that "print is dying" has become the conventional wisdom nowadays. If you want to play with the cool kids in the media pundit lounge, you have to chant that at least eight times a day. And who can blame them? In America, at least...
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - 11:55am By Chris HallEvery culture has its own notions of Paradise. If you're a Christian, you hope one day to find yourself allowed to float on a cloud and play a harp all day. Mormons eschew the whole cloud thing in favor of actually becoming gods after death and...
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Monday, September 7, 2009 - 1:28pm By Lauren WissotSummer in NYC is always the sexiest time of year, so to me it made hot and sweaty sense that following on the high heels of Shakespeare in the Park's Anne Hathaway Bard vehicle Twelfth Night, arrived The Bacchae, the Euripides tragedy directed by...
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Saturday, September 5, 2009 - 1:10pm By Chris HallHave you gotten bored of the way gay men are shown on television yet? Sure, nowadays gay men are less likely to be shown slaughtering random strangers or feeling up sixth-graders as in days of yore, but as Bryan Safi points out in the episode of...
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Thursday, August 13, 2009 - 2:09pm By Chris HallIn an interview to be published in the September issue of Playboy, Family Guy creator Seth McFarlane finally reveals the source of evil baby Stewie Griffin's hostility toward the world: he's gay. Or at least, probably gay. McFarlane admits to still...
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009 - 2:45pm By Liz Langley"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts." No shit, Sherlock. And this is the only time I'll ever get to use that snotty phrase in a...
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009 - 4:32pm By Liz FarsaciSome of you may have read my article on nude modeling, and how it has affected the way I view myself, sexuality, art and society. However, being naked is a very different experience for individual men, and our culture looks much more favorably upon...
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Monday, August 10, 2009 - 3:24pm By Chris HallThe Saudi Arabian goverment has shut down the local offices of the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation in Jeddah and Riyadh after they broadcast an interview with a 32-year-old Saudi man about his sexual escapades. Mazen Abdul Jawad caused a sensation...
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Monday, August 10, 2009 - 10:43am By Chris HallHow many gays and lesbians do you see in television advertisements? The video segment below, from CurrentTV, sums up the bad, the worse, and the downright schizophrenic portrayals of gayness in modern commercials. Maybe the most enlightening part is...
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