HELP! Teh Internetz Is Coming!

This video was made in response to a great article at Cyborgology blog, about the collision between our online and offline selves. The author, DA Banks, was himself responding to a rather snooty piece in the New York Times by Sherry Turkle (great name), harking back to a time before our lives were taken over [...]

Theorising The Web 2012 #ttw12

Theorising The Web 2012 is a conference run by young academics PJ Rey and Nathan Jurgenson in America, about internet technologies. They say: ‘The second annual Theorizing the Web conference aims to expand the range and depth of theory used to help us make sense of how the Internet, digitality, and technology have changed the [...]

QRG LIVES! A Links Round – Up

The last week or so has not been brilliant for QRG Towers. There is a chance you may have read some pretty nasty things about me online. At one point I considered the possibility that I might have to shut up shop altogether. So I am very relieved and delighted to announce that… QRG LIVES! [...]

MMA: Gay For Pay

Back in 2008 Mark Simpson asked a simple question: how gay is MMA? And the simple answer was: VERY! His steamy description of a live fight he attended sounded (deliberately of course) like a review of the latest homo porno: ‘Mac Danzig is still on his back; his sweaty, pumped, almost translu­cently white torso is flushed with [...]

Letter From An Alien: It’s Over, Roland

http://www.towleroad.com/2012/02/a-marine-comes-home.html This photo has gone viral recently. It was first posted on a ‘Gay Marines’ FB page and has since been sent round the internet, with the tagline ‘Gay Marine Comes Home’. You know me. I am an out and proud ‘homophile’. I am bordering on being a homo myself.  My blog archives are full [...]

The Death Of Childhood

http://lawandsexuality.blogspot.com/2012/02/sexy-boy-and-treasure-island-media.html Law and Sexuality Blog has an interesting article about a M/m porn company, TIM which has been marketing its wares with images of young boys. You can read the whole article here. In it Chris, an academic, writes: ‘there is the less radical, but perhaps no less controversial idea that children can be sexual beings. [...]

In Defence Of… Lindy West

I will explain in my next post why I feel the need to come to the defence of Lindy West. It involves debates around gay marriage, and the comments and attitudes of my favourite ‘bete noir’ and gayist activist, Dan Savage, of  Dan Savage Is Annoying fame. But for now,  I will simply repost Lindy’s [...]

Une-Iquely Individual

http://www.unebeauty.com/#/manifeste/camouflee/ UNIQUE – NATURAL-DISTINCTIVE- SPONTANEOUS-LIBRE-ME-INTUITIVA-MOI-NATURE- These are some of the words that feature in the background of the ‘Une’ cosmetics website. What this company is selling is more than a make-up range, made with ‘natural’ products that is kind to the environment. This company is selling a version of the self. THE version of the [...]

Carrie Bradshaw is Dead. Long Live Metro-Man.

I just found out about  Fuck Yeah Menswear via an article in Slate I don’t think this makes me ‘on point’, but it means I have at least some tiny comprehension of who, or what is. Go look. It is hilarious and terrifying at the same time. My conclusion is: women’s fashion has died, along [...]

Pathologise This.

“The intellectual was rejected and persecuted at the precise moment when the facts became incontrovertible, when it was forbidden to say that the emperor had no clothes. ” — Michel Foucault   ‘Gay people are not sexually interested in straights…The subtext to a lot of homophobic thinking is the idea that gays will try to [...]