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Why “How I Met Your Mother” sucks (but Neil Patrick Harris is awesome)
There are many reasons How I Met Your Mother has been so popular for so many years: Jason Segal and Alyson Hannigan have undeniable charm, and even if you don’t laugh during the rest of the show, you...
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The Search for a Hero
When I told my mother recently that Abraham Lincoln was gay, she reacted angrily. Granted the only documented evidence is that President Lincoln slept in the same room and bed as another man for about...
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Does this photo offend you?
Does this photograph offend you? Walt Whitman, 1891 How about now that I tell you it’s of Walt Whitman during the time he spent with his homosexual lover and Confederate deserter Peter Doyle? How about...
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Republican Aides
It is a running joke in Washington D.C. that most of the gay congressional aides work for Republican congressmen, and as with most jokes, people are laughing at reality. People argue, and accurately...
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Just Kids
Anyone who is anyone, which realistically is everyone, needs to read Just Kids by Patti Smith, which tells the story of her relationship with Robert Maplethorpe. It feels almost pornographic to get...
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Labels of Sexuality
People are obsessed with labels–gay, straight, bisexual, transgendered, transexual, transvestite–which often result in divisiveness between the categories. When I attended gay pride in Boston this past...
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A man to remember…and a future to fear and fight
My mother just sent me the following message: “David Kato is a man whom we should remember. He was killed with a hammer outside his home in Kampala on Thursday. He was an outspoken gay man who came out...
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Being an “issue”
Walking around the streets of Madrid, I’ve heard many queer twenty-year-olds decrying the gays that can’t stop talking about being gay and constantly present their sexuality as an issue. “You’re gay!...
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Let’s Outlaw Marriage (seriously)
President Obama has asked the State Department not to defend the Defence of Marriage Act (DOMA), deeming it unconstitutional to give a separate status to legally married same-sex couples, a change in...
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Curing gays with smartphone apps
I might be the only one, but the new iPhone app “Exodus International” kind of amuses me. Only in today’s world would people believe they could cure people’s homosexuality with an app. When Judy...
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