Tag Archives: gay writers

HomoQuotable – Dr. Tom Roach

“One of my biggest fears as a gay kid was that I wouldn’t find that ‘special someone,’ that one person who was supposed to complete me, fulfill me. We’re all in one way or another trained to believe this is the apex of human relationships. After learning more about gay history and politics, after reading brilliant feminist and queer critiques …

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Armistead Maupin Speaks In P-Town

Today I attended Tea With Armistead Maupin, where the famed author entertained a standing-room only crowd with anecdotes from the history of his legendary Tales Of The City series. One highlight was his reading of a chapter from the upcoming The Days Of Anna Madrigal, which traces the history of one of his most beloved characters. The following Q&A from …

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Afternoon View – PTown To-Do List

I’m attending the Armistead Maupin talk later today and will take in one of Matt Alber’s shows later this week. I’m still cracking up over Bearilyn Monroe.

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Armistead Maupin To Leave San Francisco

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the city’s most famed author is retiring to Sante Fe, New Mexico. The re-location has “been percolating for a while,” he said by phone Monday. Santa Fe “has a different magic from San Francisco, but it has magic, and I need an autumnal adventure.” Turner, in the background, wisecracked that the move reflects Maupin’s …

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ESPN Writer LZ Granderson’s TED Talk:
The Myth Of The Gay Agenda

Via Truth Wins Out. (Tipped by JMG reader Straight Grandmother)

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Book Duel

Maggie Gallagher’s new book with John Corvino is battling the new release by Good As You’s Jeremy Hooper for the top spot on Amazon’s gay nonfiction chart. Check out Jeremy’s release.

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Tomorrow In New York City

There’s just a few seats left for tomorrow night’s reading of Father Tony Adams’ new play, A Letter From The Bishop. Email for reservations: [email protected].

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Mrs. Madrigal Reunites With Armistead

At last night’s Lambda Literary Awards: Academy Award-winning actress Olympia Dukakis presented the Foundation’s Pioneer Award to Maupin, calling Anna Madigral, the Tales of the City character she portrayed in the television adaptation, the most meaningful role of her career. “What happened for me when I did Anna Madrigal was that I understood the most important thing was to survive …

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Stonewall Live Radio With Father Tony

Tune in tonight at 9pm eastern.

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A Letter From The Bishop: Father Tony Adams’ Play Gets First NYC Reading

Father Tony Adams’ timely new play, A Letter From The Bishop, had its first public reading in Fort Lauderdale earlier this year, which some of you watched here via a live video hookup. If you’re in NYC next month, please consider attending the play’s first Gotham reading at Times Square’s St. Clement’s Theater. Free admission, but reservations are recommended!

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Gay Author Maurice Sendak Dies At Age 83

Where The Wild Things Are author Maurice Sendak has died at the age of 85. Roundly praised, intermittently censored and occasionally eaten, Mr. Sendak’s books were essential ingredients of childhood for the generation born after 1960 or thereabouts, and in turn for their children. He was known in particular for more than a dozen picture books he wrote and illustrated …

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One Gay Man’s Battle Against Oral Cancer

Michael Triplett is a vice president of the National Gay & Lesbian Journalists Association and their most prolific blogger. He’s also just reached the first anniversary in his battle against HPV-related oral cancer, about which he’s just written for the Good Men Project. An excerpt: In the past year, I’ve had: three surgeries, 42 days of traditional radiation treatment, five …

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Gay Journalist Eli Sanders Wins Pulitzer Prize For Story Of Lesbian’s Murder

Seattle Stranger reporter Eli Sanders has won the Pulitzer Prize for his story about the woman who survived an attacker who raped and killed her partner. (In 2009 the killer told the court: “God told me to rape and kill those lesbians.”) Here’s an excerpt from Sanders’ article: The reason for her sitting on the witness stand of a packed …

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Daniel Radcliffe As Allen Ginsberg

Photos are leaking from the Manhattan set of Kill Your Darlings, a film that “draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.”

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Folks On The Other Side Of Your Screen

Here’s a shot of this weekend’s 2012 Haas Convening, where LGBT journalists gathered in Houston for training and updates on the movement’s latest issues. Attending were such well-known bloggers as Jeremy Hooper (Good As You), Bil Browning (Bilerico Project), David Badash (New Civil Rights Movement), Rod McCollum (Rod 2.0), Zack Ford (Think Progress), Noah Michelson (HuffPo Gay Voices) and Scott …

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Tony Adams: A Letter From The Bishop

Tonight: A special JMG event as Father Tony Adams presents the first public reading of his new play, A Letter From The Bishop. In November of 2011, Father Tony wrote “A Letter From The Bishop”, a play about three gay priests and their Catholic bishop who is against marriage equality. It is also about promises, obedience and conscience. Most of …

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Still A Douchebag

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HomoQuotable – Larry Kramer

“At the height of the Holocaust, when Jews were being shoveled into the ovens by the trainload, a great woman by the name of Hannah Arendt, who was a political philosopher – Jewish, obviously, and German – said, in essence, to all of the Jews in the world, ‘Why are you allowing this to happen? Where is your army?’ She …

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Perry Quotes Gay Poet Langston Hughes

Just as Rick Santorum did several weeks ago, during last night’s GOP debate Rick Perry quoted legendary gay poet Langston Hughes. Santorum never used the quote again when told of its source.

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Afternoon View – Langston Hughes Place

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