gay culture

  • LOS ANGELES—The passage of Prop 8 in California has given rise to an anti-marriage backlash among gays and lesbians in the state and across the country. On Saturday, prominent gay activist group ACTOUT! held a press conference outside that city’s courthouse to declare war on the institution of “traditional” marriage. “If tradition is what they

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  • The Katy Perry Problem

    Having loved myself a little Jill Sobule back in the 90s, after homosexuality was titillating but before it was decriminalized in several states, I was a little miffed when Katy Perry (née Katy Hudson, former-next-superstar-of-Contemporary-Christian-Rock) appeared on the scene with her thumping, Benataresque tribute to lesbian tourism “I Kissed a Girl.” I found the video

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  • The Gay Blade

    My likeness appears alongside a weekly interview called “Queery” in this week’s Washington Blade: Washington is known as a city of transplants, and CHARLES JENSEN is one of the capital’s newbies. Moving from the greater Phoenix area about two weeks ago, Jensen is now the director of the Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Md., which conducts

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  • In other words, a picture post from the birthday party: Arden wore her purple Mizrahi party dress to suit the party’s theme. Here’s my Republican friend doing her best Britney Spears. There was a little man-near-man action. Good times. Here is my other Republican friend, the gay one. We used to call them “unicorns” until

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