Tag Archives: LGBT culture

Nice piece from the author of Born This Way Blog, which posts childhood photos that seem to predict the subject’s future gayness.

Organizers of International Bear Rendezvous, the annual party weekend that for 17 years has drawn thousands to San Francisco, are calling it quits after this week’s events. “It was a big decision but we are going to do it,” said Chuck Rudd, one of the organizers of the annual event aimed at hairy gay and bisexual men – and their …

A coalition of African-American gay groups marched in yesterday’s Martin Luther King Day Parade in Los Angeles. Among those attending: The Barbara Jordan/ Bayard Rustin Coalition, The Here to Stay Coalition, Black Lesbians United, In the Meantime Men’s Group, At the Beach Los Angeles Black Pride. Hit the link for more on the event.

Out Magazine has issued its first-ever sex survey of its readers. The sample size is small, 1000 people, and the results are only indicative of folks who read Out, not the LGBT population as a whole. Still, there’s some interesting factoids such as the above.

“[T]he majority of gay men and lesbians want nothing more than to raise families behind picket fences. There are other signs of increasing conformity in the gay world. Leather is seen by most younger men as more silly than hot. While they may exercise, younger men mostly don’t strive for Adonis physiques. It goes on. (Lesbians are way ahead of …

Conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg says that the repeal of DADT is yet another example of the rise of the homosexual bourgeoisie, a gay culture that rejects its uniqueness for an integrated heteronormative lifestyle. Two decades ago, the gay left wanted to smash the bourgeois prisons of monogamy, capitalistic enterprise and patriotic values and bask in the warm sun of bohemian …

Polari, the inventive and colorful slang language once used by some British homosexuals, has been listed among thousands of languages headed for extinction. The slang, used as a code among some gay people when homosexuality was illegal, is on an online database created by University of Cambridge researchers. The free website has been developed by researchers at the World Oral …

“For many gay men ‘straight-acting’ is highly attractive, but ‘straight’ is even more so. So if you’re looking for a description of yourself that will have the maximum appeal on your dating profile and can’t use ‘straight’, for obvious reasons, maybe ‘straight-acting’ isn’t so bad. It’s clear and descriptive, and it’s fit for purpose, providing that you can overlook the …

I posted the first episode of No More Down Low TV several weeks ago. This latest installment covers public displays of affection in the black gay community, the rise of YouTube star Antoine Dobson, and more. Part Two of this episode is here.

Courtesy of the publisher, today’s Swag Tuesday prize is Mary Ann In Autumn, the latest in legendary gay author Armistead Maupin’s Tales Of The City series. Mary Ann In Autumn is now available online and at booksellers nationwide. More than twenty years have passed since Mary Ann left her husband and child in San Francisco for the allure of a …

Out Magazine sends us the cover for the 16th annual Out 100 issue. Entertainer of the Year — Ricky Martin: “I am Hispanic, and I am a gay man, and they both struggle. Is it a big responsibility? It can be as big as I want it to be,” Martin tells Out. Embracing both fatherhood and new status as a …

“Halloween is overwhelmingly an adult holiday. This year, for example, Americans spent an estimated $800 million on costumes for children, $1 billion on costumes for adults. Where did that adult dress-up party begin? As best we can tell: in San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood. In the 1970s, that neighborhood emerged as the heart of a new home-owning, bourgeois, coupled gay community. …

“Why do so many effeminate gay men prefer in their partners the very masculinity they’ve bleached out of themselves? The obvious answer is that they’re attracted to their opposites. But that answer only goes so far. Effeminate men may lust for their masculine counterparts but most masculine men don’t return the favor. “Effeminate men get hoisted on their own chiffon …

NOM is already happily tweeting the link to another story about gay men and open relationships. You may recall the brouhaha that erupted in January when the New York Times published a story about a study which reported that 50% of gay male couples are non-monogamous. While the truth of that study seemed self-evident to me, many questioned its methodologies …

Here’s a special and very different mix from San Francisco’s DJ Jeb Edwards in which he mashes up gay-specific songs and spoken bits from more than 70 artists from the last 30 years or so. Definitely very super NSFW. Setlist. Podcasts. Website. Facebook. UPCOMING GIGSSF Pride Parade @ Virgin America Float, SF, June 27thBearracuda @ Deco, SF, July 3rdBearracuda @ …

Get the poster here.

Gentle readers, I’m rerunning my annual Pride rant for the sixth year. I wrote this post in 2005 a couple of days after attending Pride here in NYC. In the following years I’ve reposted it in advance of the day in the hope of encouraging you to attend. My apologies to those that have read it before. Have a wonderful …

Pride Toronto, already in a pitched battle with the city over the inclusion of an anti-Israel group, has lost its federal funding for this year’s event. The announcement came Friday when Industry Minister Tony Clement released the government’s list of events that will receive federal funding under the Marquee Tourism Events Program, a temporary two-year stimulus measure to support tourism …