https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/israels-education-minister-sparks-outrage-advocating-for-gay-conversion-therapy/2019/07/14/fc2ffd24-a60c-11e9- ( Read more... )

Watched the Oscars last night, and thought the rolling references to last year's fuck-up (Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway -- the immortal "Bonnie & Clyde" -- announcing the wrong winner) were hilarious. Deliberately having the same vintage stars (W&F/"B&C") back this year, doing the same "best picture" gig, WAS tempting Fate. And then the terrific ( Read more... )

Today's Post carries a superb review by a top book-critic (a man, no less) of new work on American misogyny -- important in today's gender warfare context ( Read more... )

http://gduubz.tumblr.com/post/144263309044/wanna-hangout-forever(which, if you need SEPARATE access to it through Tumblr URLs, is http://ultradevi.tumblr.com/post/150301997567/gduubz-wanna-hangout-foreverRead more... )

Watched a video of Todd Haynes's 2003 movie, "Far from Heaven" last night with our visitor, John. The director, Haynes, is all the rage at the moment -- for his "Carol," a rather provocative lesbian romp, apparently. (See my recent post on the closeted-lezzie author of the book -- http:// ( Read more... )

Apropos of my recent post, saying I felt uncomfortable on FetLife and ExperienceProject (EP), a sweet friend (avenl2002) just commented that she had been referred to my blog by a male friend. It prompted me to comment back about how I've become more tolerant of men on LJ (albeit not so much on these other networking sites ( Read more... )