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Certified queer
The first of two postings about message-bearing t-shirts. This one is a riff on a tee that I posted about in 2022; its message is the playful 100% Certified Queer, and the label QUEER in it turns out...
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Loci of gay desire
(images that aren’t actually XXX-rated, but get as close to the line as possible while serving WordPress modesty — so some readers may choose to avert their eyes) Briefly noted. For charging up the...
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A hi-D collage
(men’s bodies and tons of man-on-man sex, in crude street talk, so thoroughly unsuitable for kids and the sexually modest) About a single collage of mine, call it DNMe (‘Dick And Me’). One of my...
View ArticlePresenting myself
In conversation with a local friend, whose identity I will conceal because I’m going to say some nice things about them that might embarrass them … I’m trying to think of ways to tell people that I aim...
View ArticleThe titanium in me
My right hip joint is now a metallic wonder, a titanium replacement in 2012 for the joint nature gave me, which had excruciatingly degenerated from osteoarthritis. I love the name titanium: it trips...
View ArticleStruggling Actor
Having just done two little postings on brief subjects this morning, I’m now going to wade into a few somewhat meatier subjects that have the potential to explode into larger matters of some weight....
View ArticleTwo favorite movies
In the last few days, I’ve returned to two movies from long ago that gave me great pleasure then and have just brought me fresh joy. From 1953 (when I was in high school, in Pennsylvania), Roman...
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Hot Pants Homo
(Crude, but not actually X-rated; but the title is HOT PANTS HOMO, so it won’t be to everyone’s taste) From Chris Ambidge on the Facebook group soc-motss on 8/10: [CA:] I must have done something...
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Cool nights
It’s mid-August, and still hot summer in Palo Alto, but the nights are now cool (quilt time is upon me) and it’s cool when I get up (around 3 am), moving me to put on a thick flannel shirt and gelling...
View ArticleThree prolegomena to a giant can of worms
(frank discussion of sex, of various kinds, some of it in street language — so not for kids or the sexually modest) 1 is about the Bloomsbury artists Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell; 2 is about...
View Articlele mot juste
(warning: raunchy vocabulary, but surmounting the raunch is the point; still, over the line for kids and the sexually modest) Well, a two-word phrase. Which I very carefully framed — in yesterday’s...
View ArticleGetting picked
The gay sex news from 60 years ago. It started with an e-mail exchange with my first male lover (Larry Schourup) about the course of our relationship back then. I’m pleased at having dredged up so...
View ArticleEverything happened at once in the 60s
(man-on-man sex, riffed on in street language, so not suitable for kids or the sexually modest) I have tons of news, much of it truly wonderful, some of it just eccentric bits of stuff I’ve come...
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Faces of fulfillment
(all about sex between men, described largely in street language, and utterly inappropriate for kids and the sexually modest) Two engaging images of faces, both conveying pleasure, during man-on-man...
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Two notes on gay moral purpose
One inspired by Aaron Broadwell, one by Steven Levine; I get a little help from my friends. Broadwell. First, a shameless exploitation of a friend’s life story to make a point. On Facebook yesterday...
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Aaron Broadwell, the sequel
rabbit rabbit rabbit to inaugurate August, with a leporine shout-out to remember 1291, the traditional date of the formation of the Swiss federation: Hail, Helvetia! Now to dive into today’s topic in...
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Tigers, rabbits, National Day
tiger tiger tiger taking out July; the rabbits of August will soon leap in, bringing us Swiss National Day For which I will briefly re-run bits of two earlier postings. The first — from 7/2/26,...
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The usual slogan
(Extensive reference to men’s private parts, occasionally in street speech, so not suitable for kids or the sexually modest) From my 7/23 posting “Small worlds”, in an anecdote (from 1990) about my man...
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In recent news: the publication (on 7/6) of John D’Emilio’s latest book, Making Gay History: Memoir of a Scholar-Activist (Duke University Press). From Jonathan Ned Katz’s blurb: a report from the...
View ArticleTwo celebrated gays
For reference in an upcoming posting about small worlds: brief accounts of Larry Kramer and John D’Emilio, two (justly) celebrated and very public gay men, of extraordinarily different natures, who I...
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