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Entries Tagged as 'LGBT'

Capes and Crumpets with Roz Kaveney

Posted by Ocelopotamus on May 4th, 2008 at 1:18 am

Speaking of people on my blogroll: Pop culture critic, blogger, and transgendered activist extroardinaire Roz Kaveney of Silence Exile and Crumpets was just in town, promoting her new book Superheroes!: Capes and Crusaders in Comics and Films — which I’m hoping to crack the covers of eventually.
Roz is brilliant at analyzing the various mechanics and […]

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Roundup: Pansies vs. Chair Sniffers Edition

Posted by Ocelopotamus on May 1st, 2008 at 2:40 am

A little sampler platter for you, my pretties …
First up, a brilliant post by Hunter on Daily Kos:
Things I have learned during this campaign season:
In a race that includes a former First Lady of the United States and a multimillionaire Republican senator rumored to share up to eight residences with his wife, the black guy […]

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Larry King on the Other Larry King: Day of Silence PSA

Posted by Ocelopotamus on April 25th, 2008 at 1:37 pm

Very cool — CNN’s Larry King records a PSA in honor of his murdered namesake, in support of the 12th annual Day of Silence organized by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network.

 
Previously on Ocelopotamus:
• Death by Flirting
 

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B-52’s Funplex Roundup

Posted by Ocelopotamus on April 9th, 2008 at 6:16 am

So the new B-52’s album Funplex has been out for a couple of weeks now and is getting hot-pink rave reviews everywhere. Of course all during the recent period when I was busy not blogging I was wanting to post all sorts of breathless updates and links about it. But the truth is Astralwerks seems […]

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Torch

Posted by Ocelopotamus on April 8th, 2008 at 4:05 am

I’ve said this many times in the past, and I’m sure I’ll say it again in the future:
God bless Peter Tatchell.
Towleroad:
Gay activist Peter Tatchell was one of dozens detained in various protests over the weekend surrounding the transit of the Olympic flame through London, including one dramatic moment in which the torch was nearly snatched […]

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Blue Angel, Red Hot

Posted by Ocelopotamus on April 8th, 2008 at 3:40 am

The folks over at Popdose have a nice feature up about Cyndi Lauper’s early rockabilly band, Blue Angel, including a few songs from the sole Blue Angel album in Mavis Pickles the Third format.
I love almost everything Ms. Lauper has done, but I have to say: the Blue Angel album is just transcendent and […]

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Death by Flirting

Posted by Ocelopotamus on March 29th, 2008 at 5:11 pm

From Friday’s AP story on Lawrence King:
OXNARD, Calif. (AP) — Larry King was a gay eighth-grader who used to come to school in makeup, high heels and earrings. And when the other boys made fun of him, he would boldly tease them right back by flirting with them.
That may have been what got him killed.
No, […]

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The ABC’s of Early 80’s Mo-Romance

Posted by Ocelopotamus on February 15th, 2008 at 9:04 am

And now for something a little on the lighter side — and a nice follow-up to Valentine’s Day.
ABC’s “All of My Heart” + Brideshead Revisited = high school drama club heaven, circa 1982. Possibly the best combination since peanut butter and chocolate … the British horror of peanut butter notwithstanding.
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Mid-January Frosted Mini-Roundup

Posted by Ocelopotamus on January 17th, 2008 at 10:58 am

I’m starting to worry that Ocelopotamus has become like that stock old-man character from sitcoms and things, who falls asleep for a while and then wakes up sputtering and tries to pick the conversation up wherever it was five minutes ago, as if no time has passed.
On the other hand, it’s heartening that I […]

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La Vie en Rose

Posted by Ocelopotamus on December 19th, 2007 at 12:10 pm

In Florida a 7-year-old was covered in bruises after a man (seemingly his father, but the story isn’t clear on the relationship) beat him up and whipped him with a belt.
His crime? Giving himself a manicure. A pink manicure.
A man was arrested on child abuse charges after he beat a 7-year-old boy with a […]

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Being a List of Things That Will End Our Civilization

Posted by Ocelopotamus on December 6th, 2007 at 4:50 pm

Just riffing off this most excellent post by Devilstower — as you probably know, Mike Huckabee has attempted to justify his opposition to gay marriage and civil unions by saying:
There’s never been a civilization that has rewritten what marriage and family means and survived.
For some reason, this is a very common “deep thought” among the […]

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OMG STFU!

Posted by Ocelopotamus on December 6th, 2007 at 12:10 pm

Andy at Towleroad thinks Jodie Foster just came out. Surely a sign of the end times.
And here I haven’t even gotten over finding out that David Hyde Pierce is a mo.
I mean, he just seemed so butch in Wet Hot American Summer.

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Roundup: Flight of the Humpback Edition

Posted by Ocelopotamus on November 19th, 2007 at 2:46 pm

Markos from Daily Kos has a new gig writing opinion pieces for Newsweek, and he’s been in rare form with his first couple of efforts. From this week’s column: “In his first Inaugural Address, Ronald Reagan remarked that ‘government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.’ While the quip has provided […]

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Norman Mailer Yap Attack

Posted by Ocelopotamus on November 12th, 2007 at 3:31 pm

The most entertaining Norman Mailer story I’ve read since the wake began:
“The stories of his macho posturing are legion, from the time he dismissed America’s leading women writers as ‘fey, old hat, quaintsy and dykily psychotic’, to the day he encountered a passing punk while walking his poodles in Brooklyn. According to Peter Manso’s biography […]

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