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Images Remembered from The Normal Heart
IF MOVIES are all about images, images that operate on the subconscious, I guess it comes as no surprise that weeks after watching The Normal Heart, the one that keeps…More
Vote for Mona!
A Republican candidate for the state senate named Steve Wiles who’s running as an opponent of marriage equality was revealed to be none other than “Mona Sinclair,” a drag entertainer…More
Finlandization
When news broke that the Finnish government would be commemorating Tom of Finland on a postage stamp, reaction in the Blogosphere was skeptical. Was it a hoax? True, Tom was…More
Uganda’s Anti-Gay Hysteria: An Eyewitness Account
AS A GAY VIDEO HISTORIAN, I hate being late, because documenting the “before” is just as important as the actual event and the aftermath. So I was pissed when Haji,…More
What Andrew Sullivan Missed in the Mozilla Case
The recent brouhaha over the appointment and rapid resignation of Brendan Eich as CEO of Mozilla prompted an unusual amount of soul-searching in the gay community. The spotlight has been…More
Corporate Rights
“License to discriminate” laws, which would allow a company to refuse service to GLBT customers on religious grounds, are being debated in many state capitals, and a few states, notably Arizona,…More
Is Your Hubby a Homo?
This sign appeared outside the Atlah World Missionary Church in Harlem, and it provoked as much confusion as it did anger: “Obama has released the homo demons on the black…More
Slipping in Sochi
We can’t resist a nod to the men of the doubles luge, who take such a ribbing for the physical positioning their sport requires, what with one man lying on…More
The End Is Near
It takes a lot for the Family Research Council to get our attention these days, and they must know this, because their president, Tony Perkins, keeps escalating the level of…More
Matthew McConaughey’s Glaring Omission
THE 2014 OSCARS have now been thoroughly dissected, and again this year they represent a cataclysmic shift in society, or so the critics and bloggers high and low have declared.…More