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Tom Ford on Becoming Post Human

2009-12-14T16:08:50-05:00

So, I just heard Teri Gross interview with Tom Ford about his new movie adaptation of Christopher Isherwood's story "A Single Man." Gross also asked for his opinion on the state of fashion. He made some comments about the current state of fashion and how we imagine the body these days. I went back to the audio to capture it. Fascinating comments:

"Right now everything is pumped up. Cars look like someone took an air pump and pumped them up. They look engorged. Lips, pumped up. Breasts, pumped up. Everything is pumped up. And it's also kind of offputting. It's sexual but in such a hard way that it's, for me, not sexual at all...

We are becoming post-human. Actually we are! We are actually starting to manipulate bodies, because we can, into a shape. We are becoming our own art. What happens for me is it desexualizes everything. You know you start to become more polished or more lacquered, like a beautiful car. Does anyone want to sleep with you? Does anyone want to touch you? Does anyone want to kiss you? Maybe not, because you're too scary! But, you're beautiful, you're glossy, you're shiny, but you're not human. Very interesting. It's fascinating culturally." Tom Ford in his interviewed by Teri Gross's Fresh Air

A Lovely Video - Nothing Taboo

2009-12-14T10:06:46-05:00

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Rachel Maddow Debunks/Slam Dunks Ex Gays

2009-12-09T11:08:31-05:00

A must see clip:

If there was ever an object lesson in South Park's "F-Word" episode, this dickwad fag is it.

Gays In Cuba

2009-12-07T09:29:51-05:00

The current issue of In These Times offers a rare look at life for "Gay in Cuba."

The piece (indeed all the issue's cover stories) were translated by the Cuban-American blogger and Lambda Literary Award winner Achy Obejas.

The assessment seems to be that nothing's changed since the days of Reinaldo Arenas.

But it's great to know that there's a Reinaldo Arenas Memorial Foundation in Cuba that's working for change there.

The article is definitely worth a read.

A Profile in Courage

2009-12-04T11:58:30-05:00

There just isn't much more to add to what this New York State Senator offered before the defeat of marriage equality in New York State, except that this is what leadership looks like.

Uganda's Gay Killings & the American Right Wing

2009-12-01T12:19:17-05:00

Rachel Maddow does a masterful job of connecting the dots between Uganda's reprehensible and barbaric proposed "KILL GAY PEOPLE" law and the American Right Wing and its members in the U.S. Congress. A must watch video clip:

World AIDS Day

2009-12-01T10:31:37-05:00

It's World AIDS Day.

That's nice.

...and I'm reminded of some Black comic's comment about February being "African American History Month"..."typical...we get the shortest month."

Which is to say, one day to remember is woefully shy of the task.

I remain angry at the homophobic, puritanical, punishing, sex-fearing, "christian" response to HIV-AIDS. And how long it took Ronald Reagan to even say the word "AIDS" (and that it took the death of a closeted movie star and a heroic Elizabeth Taylor to finally get him to utter it.) I remain angry at the idea of "innocent victims" of this disease.

I remain angry at how little memory there is for how Gay people responded to this, growing up, growing together, growing institutions. How little memory there is for how Gay people fed and sheltered and cared for one another...and angry that my friends are still sero-converting in 2009.

I remain angry at how brutally expensive AIDS meds are in the U.S. (and how cheap they are elsewhere) while the nimrods and the bloviators and the moralizing hypocrites in the Congress (yeah...I'm talking to you Joe Lieberman!...you ugly asswipe!) squash a public option...the only real way to provide competition to the profit-seeking, blood-sucking insurance companies...that would provide healthcare coverage for every American citizen, just like every other industrialized nation in the world!

Shame on the Senate. Shame on our elected officials.

Shame on the churches who came so late to the aid of the neediest and who still foment discrimination against gay people.

And every time I hear another fear-mongering "news" report on H1N1 and the vast over-reaction to it (several thousand people die from the flu annually, H1N1 or not) and how people with HIV were shunned by their communities, deserted by their families and died in fear, it makes me want to break something. And it makes me wonder ...it makes me sad... to think of how things might have been different if the reaction when "Gay cancer" first appeared had been anything approaching the H1N1 hysteria.

The New Harry Potter Star: Now THAT'S Magical!

2009-11-30T09:50:27-05:00

Hey...It's Monday...it's a gray cold day where I am ...and his smile is so sunny.

Two Spirits

2009-11-24T20:33:19-05:00

This documentary, reviewed in the most recent issue of White Crane is a MUST SEE.

2009-11-24T11:45:06-05:00

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