Gay Studies
July 7, 2008
- THE COCKETTE INVASION “The rumble of the subway train...the rattle of the taxis...”“Fleet Week for Fags,” heralded the May23rd-June 3rd edition of The Village Voice. Along with a few well-chosen paragraphs, the weekly periodical ran an early '70s photo underscored by the caption: “Twisted Sisters: The Cockettes”. Yes, the glittered troupe of gender misfits who had bluffed their ...
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February 28, 2008
- On Wednesday, March 12th at the Gay Community Center here in Richmond, Virginia, people of all walks of life will gather for a memorial to remember and honor Lawrence King. King was the eighth grader gunned down in front of his classmates in Oxnard, California on February 12th, but the tragedy has been overshadowed by other media events that took center stage. Many GLBT organizations ...
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February 18, 2008
- Oh, the predictability.Just weeks after I wrote an editorial criticizing Matt Barber, of Concerned Women for America -- one of the first homophobic organizations to latch onto the UCSF press release relating to staph infections (MRSA) as evidence of the danger of homosexuality -- he has retaliated by quoting from a satirical article I wrote back in 2005 titled "The Gay Agenda"In my ...
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February 6, 2008
- It began with a sensational front page story in the San Francisco Chronicle about a new staph infection at which men who have sex with men in San Francisco were at the epicenter. The study, which appeared in the Annals of Internal Medicine, was authored by UCSF, and its findings were touted in a press release which had the unfortunate effect of turning legitimate scientific data into an exercise ...
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January 7, 2008
- While thumbing through Forensics for Dummies in search of a suitable demise for an arrogant psychiatrist in my new novel, I compiled a list of distinctly unpleasant experiences that might befall my victim should he ingest a lethal dose of say, strychnine: pain, lockjaw, twitching of the muscles, cyanosis (bluish skin), agitation and a fixed death grin known as risus ...
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