My second review is up at Speak Its Name: - the much-mentioned lesbian crusaders, which, despite the bizarreness of the premise (which the author totally made work), I liked a lot better than the first  book I reviewed, which I more or less ripped another one...

Now I need more medieval books containing Teh Gay!

In some places, things are still very much not okay.

This is utterly haunting -- even in gawky Google translation, the atmophere of casual hate this blogger from Berlin reports from Belgrade gives you the willies.

dawning_star wrote two brief drabbles to celebrate the end of 'Don't Ask Don't Tell'; I found them excellent in their immediacy. One is the oldest slash couple in the book of fanfic, thinking back; the other is a current fandom where a decision is driven home because the rules have just changed...

They are here!

( Massive spoilers as I am ONLY talking about the very end! )

I guess most of everybody on my flist that is in Britain is going to watch this on Sunday, so I don't need to bother and try threading in Milliways while it's on?

It sounds bloody brilliant from the description. My friend japanologist pointed me to it, and quoted dialogue from the trailer:

Modern!Watson is standing in this total dump with the housekeeper [[ ( Read more... )

Klaus Nomi.

Freddy Mercury.

Rudolph Nureyev.

All those ordinary people my other godchild's amazing grandma is working with in South Africa.

Alex, who was my best friend in the 1990s.

Oh please God, let it really be over!! No more of all this!

On the weekend of May 1st, I was in Ljubljana for a gay wedding. I had been looking forwards to that ever since they invited me because that gay wedding would probably be the coolest thing I have been to for years -- and it was. The whole trip was amazingly fascinating and fun. I had almost forgotten how great it is to travel alone and just look at ( Read more... )

      Marriage is love.

Ganked from vimeslady - feel free to go on ganking, anyone. The original entry by shared_boxers that provides this little clip has some totally astronomical number of comment pages already, much more than even the infamous 882 pieces of Aztec gold ever had, and rightly so - this is serious politics.

wiebke posted a link to a CNN article that said, ( Read more... )