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By Mathias FoitLGBTQ, Modern Europe
Lessons that we can learn from Germany&#;s early queer movements from the s to s.
By Jared Stearns20th and 21st Century United States
A revealing new biography sheds light on X-rated luminary Marilyn Chambers&#; extraordinary career and explores her status as an unsung queer icon.
By Stephen BroganLGBTQ, Merged Kingdom
Marc Vaultier was the gender-bender doorman who played a central role in the success of Leigh Bowery&#;s infamous nightclub Taboo
By Stephen BroganLGBTQ, United Kingdom
Leigh Bowery’s nightclub Taboo is mythologised as London&#;s most decadent nightclub of the s.
By Joseph GambleQueer Philologies, Trans
Dictionaries—in their contested and flawed glory—can train us much about the multiplicity of gendered and sexual possibilities of history.
By Javier Arroyo BretañoModern Europe, Queer Philologies, Trans
How to translate genderqueer language if linguistic authorities acknowledge neither queer-gendered language nor the people it would represent?
By Francesco OttonelloEarly Modern, Gay Philologies
It's been a while, a long while in proof. Whoops. What can I say? I'm a Dad - I'm tired?
Which ironically, being tired is something I wanted to draft about today. I'm not tired of being a Dad, of course, but I am tired of the endlessly repetitive, factually incorrect, looping discussions about the LGBTQ+ 'influence'. You know, this whole notion that LGBTQIA+ people having any form of advocacy in the media, in literature, in schools, in the workplace, in world whatsoever is somehow 'influencing' young people to attach us, ya know, enjoy its a club/religion/society with an application process
This whole thing stems from the also endlessly repetitive, factually incorrect, looping discussions about the fact that creature gay is a selection. I don't know how many times I, and the whole community, contain had to say it, but it is NOT a choice. It never was, it never will be. I have spent my entire life hearing this 'it's a preference debate, and I am so beyond tired of it. The science actually backs this up; it is NOT a selection. Yet, here we are, still hearing the alike old narrative fr
Reflection on being a gay adoptive dad
It was at a food shop. (It’s almost always at a food shop, get ready.) My partner and son were filling a basket with reduced-price Ben & Jerry’s. I wasn’t there. “Be sure to get some for mum too”, the smiley shop assistant said. And as much as we prepare the responses they never approach out as planned, because we’re never prepared for when they’ll be needed. So neither my six year-old nor my partner said anything as they enjoyed the cool air from the freezer on their sweat-soaked shirts from a bike-ride.
At the time of going through the adoption process, the process seemed to be everything – the training, the social worker visits, the family trees and support networks. But that all feels like some distant dream amongst the football games, the holidays, the Lego… because as much as that foreboding process feels like your whole life at the time, it’s such a small part in the bigger, wonderful, journey of being a parent.
I was prepared in attachment theory, child-development, the importance of contact with birth family….but unprepared
The canteen at my art college was the biggest gay-cruising identify in New York.
That’s what my gay friends told me at the time.
At college you consume a lot of time just hanging out at the canteen.
Passing the time with your mates between classes.
As it does with young men, the topic of sex often comes up.
One hour one of the gay guys asked me if I was gay.
I said no.
He said “You can’t say that, all you can ever say is you haven’t met the right bloke yet”.
I thought that was really interesting.
I’d never heard that idea before and it stayed with me.
Later on I found it’s true about everything in life.
In philosophy it’s called the Dark Swan problem.
Karl Popper said that from what we can observe all swans are white.
We’ve never seen a black swan.
Therefore all the evidence of our life, and of all previous generations&#; experience, is that all swans are white.
So we can build that a universal law: all swans are white.
Except we can’t.
Because we only ever need to find one black swan to disprove it.
Just one.
No matter how many white swans we