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Veneno
Veneno is a bio-drama miniseries from Spain about La Veneno—a trans hooker who was “discovered” by a TV tabloid show in the mid 1990’s and who became a hypersexualized, circus figure on talk shows. For a younger generation of trans women, she was a representational icon at a time where there was no room for…
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Get Used to It
We’re Here [HBO]. Three drag queens not named RuPaul take a Priscilla/Too Wong Foo tour through small towns across America to stage drag shows and use their power to validate and heal local queer scenes. I loved gay culture, like so many of us did, before I loved my gay self. I loved the sense…
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Bookshelf: My Brother's Husband, Vol. 1
The loveliest reading experience that exists is the experience of coming across the right book at the right time, and feeling so completely understood by it, and feeling like you completely understand it. I picked up My Brother’s Husband, by Gengoroh Tagame, because I read that it was going to be adapted into a live action TV series,…
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On yesterday's gay marriage rulings
My mom called yesterday morning, greeting me with a Good morning. I groaned something back. Oh, are you asleep? she asked. No, I lied, I was up to read the Supreme Court decision. That wasn’t a lie. I had woken up to read the papers, so dulled by sleep that I just stared at my…
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tkuUlAQhbY] Frank Ocean – We All Try A couple of hours ago, I got completely blindsided by my emotional reaction to a piece of news, gossip really. The R&B and Hip Hop blogosphere has been buzzing over a Tumblr post by Frank Ocean in which he, in poetry and elipses, comes out as gay or…
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Music and Moral Character
I was not a particularly diligent or present student in my freshman year Greek culture/literature/philosophy class. I don’t want to defend my own ignorance, but the abstraction of the philosophical texts always bored me. I was never so bored as when the philosophers turned to music. Greek philosophers were big on creating taxonomies of music,…
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Louis CK on Tracy Morgan
Unless you live under a rock, or have something better to do with your time, you’ve been reading the fallout over Tracy Morgan’s standup rant in which he joked that if his son was gay he would stab him. Morgan has apologized, and while I think what he said on stage was despicable and irredeemable,…
