Rainbow-Coloured Obama?

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/tearful-andrew-sullivan-praises-obama-father-figure-saying-im-fully-a-part-of-this-family/ You can’t have failed to have heard the news. Obama, who originally took a firm stance against gay marriage, preferring the traditional view that marriage is between a man and a woman, has done a U-turn. His recent statement in favour of equal marriage has sent teh gayz into spasms of emotion similar to [...]

Bad Science: A Review of The Sex Myth By Brooke Magnanti

The Sex Myth begins with an anecdote. Dr Brooke Magnanti (aka Belle de Jour) describes a phase in her childhood when she and her friends were in competition to discover the ‘truth’ about the naked body of the opposite sex. The girls were particularly inventive, and would look under cubicle doors in the boys’ toilets, [...]

Dragapella! Introducing The Kinsey Sicks

* I first heard of this brilliant acapella group, The Kinsey Sicks, via Dan. His great blog Overuse Of The Exclamation, now features a post about this wonderful quartet.  Dan calls them wittily,  The Chicks With Schticks! Of course, ‘Kinsey Sicks’ refers to the Kinsey scale, devised by Alfred Kinsey, aka  Dr Sex. ‘Kinsey 6′ indicates someone [...]

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Space

The Marvellous Slope Show is back! Season Two of the story of superficial, homophobic lesbians Desiree and Ingrid kicks off with a poignant (but hilarious) episode called ‘Taking Space’ http://theslopeshow.com/2012/02/14/season-2-episode-1-taking-space/ This reminds me of the song: Space, by Pulp. The lyrics of the album version begin: You said you wanted some space … Well is [...]

Oh, Cynthia!

http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2012/01/30/Cynthia_Nixon_Being_Bisexual_Is_Not_a_Choice/ Cynthia Nixon, who I last week defended for stating her sexuality is her ‘choice’, has gone back on her word. After a huge amount of hostility and pressure from gay activists and gay media outlets I might add. Her revised statement reads as follows:   “My recent comments in The New York Times were about me and my [...]

Unnatural Selection?

A recent New York Times interview with Sex In The City star Cynthia Nixon, has caused a bit of a furore amongst mainly American gays. I first read about the story in Queerty, which is itself a VERY gay website. But I appreciated them running  it, and quoting Nixon at length and opening up the discussion to the [...]

Man As Object – ORLY?

http://www.somarts.org/manasobject/ I have written before about my frustration with The Myth of the Female Gaze.  And it seems to be rearing its ugly head again. According to the organisers of this forthcoming exhibition – Man As OBject, the female gaze is alive and well and – shock! – turning the tables on men and looking [...]

Bottoms Up!

The Slope is my new favourite programme. Hell, it’s my new favourite thing, ever. I LOVE IT! This internet-based ‘sitcom’ tells the story of a lesbian couple called Ingrid and Desiree. They describe themselves as ‘superficial homophobic lesbians’ which, quite frankly, are probably the only kind of lesbians I could entertain getting along with. Based [...]

Blood Brothers?

Talking of bisexual men, and their erasure in our culture, which we were, here we go again. http://lawandsexuality.blogspot.com/2011/09/gay-blood-ban-to-be-further-repealed.html Law and Sexuality is a brilliant blog by Chris, who writes on a wide range of subjects around sexuality, society and the law. I have an enormous amount of respect for him. But sometimes I pull him [...]