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Together
Pride Toronto and Google+ present « Together, » a series of films by award-winning director Jeff Feuerzeig, with music performed by Stephin Merritt of The Magnetic Fields. » http://bit.ly/PrideFilms. C’est beau.
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Carmen Carrera et visibilité trans*
Carmen Carrera, candidat de la saison 3 de Rupaul Drag Race, a fait son coming-out trans* au début de cette année. Cet extrait de What Would You Do de ABC finit heureusement mieux que ce que pouvait laisser craindre les premières minutes.
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La science du Gaydar
Should you trust your gaydar in everyday life? Probably not. In our experiments, average gaydar judgment accuracy was only in the 60 percent range. This demonstrates gaydar ability — which is far from judgment proficiency. But is gaydar real? Absolutely. » The Science of Gaydar’, SundayReview, The New York Times.
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« Smash » : The walk of shame
Since I wrote that passionate defense of the NBC series, I’ve tumbled out of bed, grabbed my purse, and taken a long walk of shame. Because—to switch metaphors mid-stream, the way Smash does with plots—since its delightful pilot, the show has taken a nosedive so deep I’m surprised my ears haven’t popped. All the caveats…
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Mec hétéro blanc : Le plus bas niveau de difficulté
So, the challenge: how to get across the ideas bound up in the word privilege, in a way that your average straight white man will get, without freaking out about it? (…) Okay: In the role playing game known as The Real World, Straight White Male is the lowest difficulty setting there is. » Straight…
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Donna Summer et le sida
Though known as a gay icon, Summer’s born-again-Christian status began alienating the diva from her gay fans, and in the mid-1980s, a false report that she’d called AIDS the wrath of God on gay people began circulating widely, an allegation she has flatly denied since. According to Jet Magazine, in 1989, she wrote to the…
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Les droits des gays aux USA, état par état
» Gay rights in the US, state by state. Une infographie intelligente du Guardian, qui se personnalise si vous vous connectez avec vos identifiants Facebook, pour vous montrer les lois de là où habitent vos amis (américains).
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Momies
De temps en temps, je ressors les cadavres de mes anciens amours. Pas littéralement, hein. Mais je pense à ces hommes. Je les ramène à la surface de ma mémoire, je les berce, je réécoute la musique qu’ils portent. Je danse un peu avec eux, je verse une larme. Mais ça ne colle plus, évidemment.…
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Keep them out of gay bars
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Ladies, we don’t mind going to your bachelorette parties, because we love and support you as friends even if we find it a little insulting (and genitally incorrect) that you keep calling us « one of the girls. » However, if we don’t know you, we have no interest in being at your party. That means keep…
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It Gets Betterish
» It Gets Betterish.