Even before I realised he or I was gay, John Waters was a massive, massive influence on my overall queerish sensibilities.
Category: ultragay
Younglings
Despite all my other beefs with the company, I’’m really proud of Marvel for keeping these two together.
Young Avengers via Comic Book Queers
FAQNP #3: A Queer Nerd Travel Guide
I contributed an article to the zine FAQNP for its third issue, “A Queer Nerd Travel Guide”. My photo feature, “A Type Nerd’s Time in India”, is a look at how well (or for the most part, how badly) a variety of western brands like Citibank and McDonald’s carry through their typographic branding when they use the local scripts in different Indian cities.
Opulence! You own everything!
For a while now, I’ve been joining some pals for a monthly movie night and last night we had a selection of mine, the 1990 documentary Paris Is Burning. Every time I come back to this film, I love it just as much as the first time, and it strikes me as more and more poignant as time goes on. It captures a moment, but the further we get from that moment it’s easy to see how much of an impact the whole ball culture has had as it leaked out into pop culture at large. As well-received as this was at the time, its success was a bit of a bitter pill for the subjects of the story, who weren’t able to share in as much of that success as they thought they would. Time has secured a legend for them outside the world of the balls, but the outcome only reinforces what many of them say in the film about their lot in life.
Damned if I do, etc.
I’ve been doing a lot of housekeeping in the archives lately — republishing old stuff, cleaning up code, integrating stuff from my Tumblr blogs — and I keep seeing old things that remind me how little certain things have improved. Here’s one that I could have written at almost any point during the decade since I first wrote it. Sigh. So little progress.
Noted.
Discreet
Apropos of nothing
Sigh. Yes.
dyfl:
You know the scene in all the children’s movies when the lonely little wolf cub watches all the other wolf cubs playing down in the valley and doesn’t understand why he doesn’t have a pack of his own?
My relationship with other gay guys.
Candy you can eat
I need to just embrace my inner Etta Candy and accept my prospects.
I love wonder woman so fucking much.
“my constitution has lots of room for amendments”
Teen fags rule this hood
