Has your work been translated into Finnish?

Why yes, it has. “Lepakkoelämää,” which supposedly means “Spawn of Dykes To Watch Out For,” but could mean “suck my llama” for all I know, was published in 2000 by the Helsinki publisher Kääntöpiiri. Finland, in fact, seems to be just one big sauna full of Dykes To Watch Out For fans, one of whom wrote a ( Read more... )

Colbert Report November 11, 2008: Proposition 8 Protests - Dan Savage

Colbert: Meanwhile, the California gay-stapo spent Sunday protesting Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment which bans same-sex marriage. One of the biggest protests took place at Pastor Rick Warren's Saddleback Church. Now, Warren has been one of the loudest proponents of gay ( Read more... )

Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson are totally adorable.

I didn't know about this romance until this evening when I read this article on Quench Zine but already I have a huge celebrity couple crush on them.

Also, she turned down Playboy and that endears her to me (or is it me to her?).

It seems I don't really care about celebrities' personal lives ( Read more... )

Since the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival has just passed there's been a flurry of blogging regarding the festival's most controversial aspect, its exclusion of transwomen (MtF) but inclusion of transmen (FtM).

Alix Olson, along with many other female artists and musicians perform at Michfest every year, which I assume is the reason she is the ( Read more... )

Strangers in Paradise by Terry Moore

I had read the first 7? trades last summer but never finished the series. Recently
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But You Were So Supportive About the Red Dress!

Twelve-year-old boy: How do you know they don't have kid's sizes?
Mom: I just know they don't.
Kid: But how do you know?!
Mom, impatient: I know!

--Christopher St., in front of Gay Leather Fetish Shop

Isn't it good for gay kids to have a role model like the Dark Knight? And the element of causality is worth keeping in mind: Batman didn't make readers gay; gayness made Batman attractive to readers.

The Caped Crusader: Frederic Wertham and the Campaign Against Comic Books

Japan bans child pornography, as long as it's not in manga or anime form.

Sexually explicit comics account for a sizeable chunk of Japan's 500bn yen manga market. Many feature schoolgirls or childlike adults being raped or engaging in sadomasochism.
Manga belonging to the popular "lolicon" - Japanese slang for Lolita complex - genre are likely to ( Read more... )

Dad, I'm Not Gay!

Daddy's Boy

Fairies

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Two more queer deaths occurred this month apparently, both transpeople. My only astonishment is that they're in the news.
I link to various blog entries, most of which link to news articles.

The only blog I've found that comments on the death of Simmie Williams is Feministe.

The murder of Sanesha Stewart is discussed at Feministe here and here, at ( Read more... )