Given the apparent rise of the female drag queen (and lesbian drag kings), can gay men perform our own gender badly ourselves?
According to post-nineties feminist cultural theory, gender is all performance, and some women perform ‘femininity’ quite badly. Think of AbFab’s Patsy Stone, our own beloved Camps Mother and Leader …and Ethel Chop.
Who? New Zealanders […]

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As intrepid green anti-whaling activists are currently endeavouring to save the lives of those majestic creatures of the deep, I thought I’d provide an LGBT perspective on the issue:
Save the lesbian and gay whales!
According to gay  zoologist Bruce Bagemihl and his guide to LGBT birds and animals, Biological Exuberance (1999), several whale and dolphin species exhibit lesbian and gay […]

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Addendum: Meth Labs. I think that I might live next door to a P lab. What should I do, and am I at any risk? 
Firstly, and most importantly, don’t set foot in a property if you think it might be a P lab. It is likely to be highly unsafe. Not only will its manufacturers probably […]

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The fundamentalist “Exodus Global Alliance” is talking about “dramatic growth” in its so-called ‘ex-gay’ ‘ministries.’ Oh, really?
I decided to explore whether this was indeed the case, and had a look at the Exodus Asia Pacific website, to see whether there was wildfire growth amongst the ‘gay conversion’ industry, and was amused to find that the […]

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After the House of Lords voted accordingly on March 5 2008, it will no longer be an offence to give “offence” to mythological Christian entities like “Yahweh” and “Jesus.”
 In the United Kingdom and New Zealand alike, there is such a thing as an “offence” of “blasphemous libel” which, however, only protects the sensibilities of  Christians. […]

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In the wake of Canadian Christian Right activist Charles McVety’s boast of influence over the Canadian federal government’s new film financing criteria, outrage continues to grow in the True North.
Canada’s federal Liberal Opposition can’t believe its luck, and has endeared itself to Canada’s writers, artists, film-makers and the creative industry by pledging an offensive against […]

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Yes, it’s another blog about the foibles of Kim Jong-Il and his glorious people’s paradise, which seems set to produce a never-ending stream of kitsch content.
In 2005, Pyongyang’s state-run Korean Central Television broadcast an item that claimed that long hair length can result in “reduced intelligence”, primarily because the reactionary capitalist-imperialist hair shaft dupes of […]

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It occurred to me recently that I let North Korea get off far too lightly when I penned my original “Notes on Kitsch” blog, so I decided to rectify that fault.
 Once upon a time, high atop North Korea’s Mount Paektu, Kim Il-Sung the Great Leader and Mrs Kim Il-Sung the Great Leader gave birth to […]

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How dare Australia’s DNA Magazine (Stephen Russell, “The Geek Closet”, No.97, Feb ‘08: 66-68) refer to LGBT SF fans as “geeks?!”
The SF fan subculture has its own term for those parochial enough to display such wilful ignorance of our genre and its chosen audiences. We refer to them as “mundanes,” and tend to regard them […]

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So, why am I writing about a censorious deceased ex-nun, and what’s all this about her eyes?
Having recently reread George Bataille’s Story of the Eye, I thought I’d contemplate a certain deceased censorious ex nun’s unique view of the world, from what could well have been her own perspective.
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There was a time when horn-rimmed eyes […]

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