TCM is playing a month’s worth of gay cinema this month, including the extraordinarily depressing and unnerving but pioneering 1970 film, The Boys in the Band. (It was also an off-Broadway play the year before, year of my birth.) This blog’s name riffs on it (and Geneva bands) a bit ironically. But every time I… Continue reading Half of this blog’s title is really gay
Category: Gay
GA 2007: Unionized hotels
According to Hotel Workers Rising, a campaign of UNITE HERE!, the following Portland, Oregon hotels have unionized workers (direct link): Portland Hilton 921 SW Southwest 6th ave Portland, OR 97204 The Benson Hotel 309 SW Broadway Portland, OR Phone: 503-228-2000 The Paramount Hotel 808 SW Taylor Portland, OR 97205 Phone: 503-223-9900 The Hilton is an… Continue reading GA 2007: Unionized hotels
Will the ex-gay crowd help one day?
I listened to an interesting 2005 half-hour documentary about gay history from Radio Netherlands entitled “Pride and Prejudice.” (I got this as a MP3 podcast feed but I’m not sure how I got it.) It reviewed the state of gay (male, mostly) self-worth and self-identity from the Victorian era to the pre-Liberation (post-1969) period in… Continue reading Will the ex-gay crowd help one day?
Christian gay marriage blog
Here’s a blog I intend to follow: Gay Marriage: Connect The Biblical Dots It describes itself as “a queer Christian blog that poses an alternative view on homosexuality and the Bible – based on scriptural and historical research.” 2008 May 5. No new posts since 2005.
For spying on gay bars, I suppose
I was one of those Washington residents that all the wire services (here’s a short article from the VOA) say were stunned when they (we) saw the blimp overhead this morning. Goody: first Iraq and Afghanistan, now us. I’m note sure what else to say about the spy security craft, except that it was almost… Continue reading For spying on gay bars, I suppose
Liturgical options when same sex marriage arrives
I’ve heard that a colleague in Massachusetts has wondered what kind of ceremony is proper (or indeed, necessary) for a couple married in that church, but outside the benefit of law, once marriage licences are issued same-sex couples. Golly: I wish I had that problem, but even though I don’t, might I offer an opinion?… Continue reading Liturgical options when same sex marriage arrives