BTW – Ghosts of Broadcasts Past
Dickens was intrigued by the ways in which the past is never past but continues to haunt our dreams and waking hours. Scrooge’s penalty late in life was the apparition…More
Author: RICHARD SCHNEIDER
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GLR Editor Discusses Magazine’s History as a Boston Institution
The following talk was delivered at the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association conference, which is in Boston this year, August 22 to 25. As editor and founder of The…More
Is the Anti-Equality Crowd Resorting to Dirty Tricks?
WHAT are we to make of an erstwhile Republican strategist and vocal opponent of marriage equality who does a complete 180 and decides that not only is he now pro-gay…More
Searching in Urdu
“Why is gay porn so popular in Pakistan?” asked a recent headline in Mother Jones magazine (June 2013). After adjusting to this somewhat surprising revelation, the mind reeled with hypotheses.…More
Ding Dong, The Witch Is Dead!
No pulling of punches on this one: Exodus International has just announced that the group is closing its doors forever, and we rejoice. For years E.I.’s mission has been to…More
The Confession of Francis I
It’s official: the “gay lobby” in the Vatican that we’ve always heard about, speculated about, suspected to exist, really does exist! The newly seated pope, Francis I, actually used this…More
Bradley Manning, Pride Parade Grand Marshal—Not!
The new issue of the GLR, which should reach subscribers soon, includes a “Guest Opinion” piece by James Patterson concerning the ongoing debate in San Francisco about the status of…More
Those Annual Superlatives
It all started as a quirky story coming out of sleepy-hollow upstate New York, but before we knew it, Dylan Meehan and Brad Taylor—who had been voted the “cutest couple”…More
Ecce Hommen
A headline in GayStarNews read: “France: Is this the most homoerotic anti-gay protest ever?” and sure enough, there were the photos of muscular, shirtless dudes in the street protesting France’s same-sex…More
Find the Gay Swimmer
Which is more improbable, that a tiny island nation of 100,000 is able to field an Olympic swim team, or that one its members is openly gay, fully accepted by…More