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New York LGBT Pride Season 2011 6 Jun 2011 | 05:55 am
June is Pride Month, in honor of the Stonewall Uprising, a truly fabulous event back in 1969. You may have heard of it. I live in New York City, and Staten Island Pride was yesterday. It's the younge...
Queer Nerd Safari + Homeless Youth Rally Vids 12 May 2011 | 08:32 am
TOMORROW! The dudes over at FAQNP are presenting their third zine, "A Queer Nerd Travel Guide". As always, it will be at the 13th Street Center in Manhattan, corner of 7th Avenue. The event starts at...
Unpacking Blur 11 May 2011 | 03:05 am
Hey guys. Remember the '90s? Simpsons characters still had souls! Biggie and Tupac weren't pretending to be dead! Sonic the Hedgehog was so awesome he starred in two cartoon shows simultaneously! ...
Pants! 18 Apr 2011 | 07:15 am
I am currently reading a biography of Luisa Capetillo, a late 19th, early 20th century Puerto Rican feminist and anarcho-syndicalist. She organized strikes, wrote books, and traveled to Mexico, Cuba a...
"Transamerica": A Buddy Film for Lifetime Television 6 Apr 2011 | 07:00 am
"Transamerica" is a very strange film. It is, on the one hand, a completely ordinary road trip/buddy film, starring a television actress and a young actor who kind of reminds me of Shawn from "Boy Mee...
Skeletor Supports Homeless Queer Youth; Albany Does Not 4 Apr 2011 | 06:48 am
My first post for the month of April allows me to introduce a new tag that I will, without a doubt, be using often: he-man! Coming up this week is "Skeletor Saves", an auction of art based on "He-man...
Hollywood Crazy 30 Mar 2011 | 06:37 am
Out of the five movies I've reviewed so far, 3 have featured crazy ladies in starring roles (of course, in "Sucker Punch", the film is in fact playing with the tropes that I mock here by making the "c...
Game Company gives the "Straight Male Gamer" what-for 29 Mar 2011 | 01:29 pm
Bioware recently responded to a rather screwed up forum post regarding Dragon Age II allowing same-sex and (arguably) polyamorous romances between characters. Apparently...that's a bad thing. But re...
"Sucker Punch": Muppet Babies Hit Puberty! 28 Mar 2011 | 05:40 am
March 29th: Updated with some observations on the levels of reality in this movie You may have already heard the premise behind "Sucker Punch": a really smokin' hot femme is locked away in a 1950s me...
Updates! 17 Mar 2011 | 07:03 am
First: More info on the black sci-fi event coming up! The event will be hosted by M. Asli Dukan, director of a documentary called Invisible Universe, about the way blacks are portrayed in speculative...
