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...Sweets on Church St. Here you can find “Daddy’s Little War Criminal” and “Recall Bush” buttons. Conveniently, you can also get your “All Gay all the Time,” “Queer as Fuck” and “What Part of Lesbian Didn’t You Understand?” buttons in the same place. For those seeking t-shirts more angry and less quirky, Million Year Picnic on Mt. Auburn Street sells a t-shirt that reads...
...However, his conclusion that Harvard should allow ROTC to recruit on campus, despite its explicitly discriminatory “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, displays callous disregard for the civil liberties of American bisexual, gay, lesbian, transgender, and queer (BGLTQ) individuals...
Groundbreaking, perhaps. But in recent years, the small screen has increasingly depicted gay characters in a number of cable and network shows including Will & Grace, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Queer as Folk and The L Word, the first two of which are certifiable hits. Do the nation's gay viewers want to watch a channel entirely devoted to their issues? Graden thinks so. "The gay characters on TV are not authentic representations," he insists. "We deserve to have a place of our own." --By Jeanne McDowell
...problem is that Hollywood can’t escape the ages-old right-wing dictum that homosexuality is a perversion. It’s not that the predominantly liberal denizens of the world’s dominating film industry are homophobic. The problem is that by hiding representations of queers, be them human or shark, under a (pathetically transparent) veil of allegory reinforces queer-dom in culture as something that is adult, pornographic and too controversial to address directly. The question is, why can’t Lenny just be gay? Shark Tale’s makers already have...
...character in a television show or a mainstream film, the only thing you’re allowed to discuss on screen in direct relation to your identity is the fact that you have a penchant for naughtiness with those of your own gender. In other words, Hollywood saps queers of any notion of a fluidity of identity—they must be gay every single second. Every motivation or action by a queer character must be rooted in easily discernible, usually stereotypical ‘gayness...