So according to DC, it's the "original Green Lantern" who's been rebooted as gay. Not the one in the main DC Green Lantern series (oh horrors no!) but the "Earth 2" version, whatever that means. He's also been turned into a big blond hunk who's a pure, wholesome guardian of the earth (hmmm... remind you of a Marvel character in the public vogue ( Read more... )

...includes ALL women, not just moneyed straight white cis women ( Read more... )

Flipping through Arisia 2011 program booklet. Saturday 3:30 pm Fast Track (Teen Track): "Make-Up for Girls". SHAME ON YOU, ARISIA! At a con where there is official programming for alternative genders and sexuality -- not to mention an abundance COSPLAY and COSTUMING -- you limit your how-to on cosmetic application to GIRLS ONLY? Someone SLAP the ( Read more... )

Thank you for your input about my coiffure yesterday, and your best wishes for my interview.

Here are photos of the total outfit, behind a cut to spare your bandwidth from many images, and your mind from feminism.

( In which Spider attempts to comply with current gender standards. )

Hell. To. The. No.

(Ellipses mine) "Three bisexual softball players are suing the North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance after it deemed them not gay enough to play in the Gay World Series and stripped their team of its second place finish...Each of the three plaintiffs was ... asked 'personal and intrusive questions' about his sexual ( Read more... )

rm's latest post has a paragraph about the body-shaping quality of clothing that links back to a previous post entitled "The Public and Private Flesh." It's about how in earlier times when women's clothing was more structured, it followed naturally that the clothes (especially foundation garments) provided the shape of a woman's body, while these ( Read more... )

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Today marks the 11th annual Transgender Day of Remembrance, when we pay homage to those who were killed for daring to be who they are.  This kind of thing should not happen in the 21st century, dammit.

Oh, Lord and Lady, I've been PINKED ( Read more... )

I just watched "The Making of Me" with John Barrowman.   His episode was about discovering the "cause" or "source" of male homosexuality.  It was pretty interesting, if not scientifically rigorous.  It certainly had an agenda, but since it was pretty upfront about it, I'm not going to bitch ( Read more... )