Oh look, I haven't posted here in nine months. I've been having trouble logging on at home, then wifi died on the Mac and I've not really had time to follow through ( Read more... )

Saturday I got up at daft o'clock to celebrate the 25th anniversary of my driving test - I caught the 6.00am train to Victoria, breakfasted in the Regency Cafe and was the first person through the doors of the Lowry exhibition. Imagine! Having the whole exhibition to yourself! After doing something similar for Lichtenstein and Hirst, I'd imagine ( Read more... )

The Grauniad Open Door on use of pronouns for the transgendered in reportage: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/nov/08/pronouns-transgendered-peopleRead more... )

Stonewall have just released a survey of British universities [http://www.gaybydegree.org.uk/index.html], measuring how well these institutions cover LGBT issues as follows ( Read more... )

Local and national press - see, say, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/8049841.stm - has announced that Canterbury Pride fears that the council is insufficiently gay-friendly - the council responds with the declaration that they've spent a whopping four grand ( Read more... )

An obituary, a tad belated, of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. Her Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (1985) and Epistemology of the Closet (1990) introduced me to the concepts of the homosocial, homosexual panic, although probably not, quite, to queer theory. Her work has been an incalculable influence on the queer studies area of ( Read more... )

A forwarded email ( Read more... )

Peter Mullen, who satirically suggested gays be tattooed:

"Let us make it obligatory for homosexuals to have their backsides tattooed with the slogan sodomy can seriously damage your health and their chins with fellatio kills."

now writes:

"I voted for the Homosexual Reform Act of 1967; and I would vote for it again today. This act specified ( Read more... )

There's something I can't put my finger on here... I have no idea why completed papers are necessary two months before the conference ( Read more... )

Can anyone direct me to the literature which notes that the children of lesbians are more likely to be criminals than a) children of straight people, b) children of divorced straight people and c) children of straight people where the man is a drunken clot too easy with his hands ( Read more... )