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DearPresidentPutin,
You've set the stage for a new event at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics -- a brawl over LGBT rights. The world will tune in to see how it plays out. Will it be a win for your cynical scapegoating of minority sexualities? Or will human rights make a comeback, busting open your Olympic-sized closet?
I hate to break it to you, Vlad. You've made a poor choice of venue for this one, because the Olympics are really, really gay.
I'm not talking figure skating, or the two-man luge. I'm talking about the great Olympics of the ancient Greeks, that flashpoint of the civilized world that burned for a thousand years. It was gayer than you could possibly imagine.
Take a seat in the stands, Vlad. You'll notice first off that the Great Olympic tradition would look to your new eyes... how should I put this?... like a '70s porno. The spectators -- all male. The athletes -- all male, oiled up and totally in the buff. (Fun fact: We get our word "gym" from gymnos, which means naked.)
Nothing queer about that, you say? Yes, former comrade, we know you're not ashamed to show us your bared torso on horseback. (And btw, not bad for a middle-aged straight guy.) But th
Professional Gay Wrestling
While searching Amazon Prime recently, I was pleasantly surprised to locate, of all things, episodes of Memphis wrestling in the video library. But there was even more content available for any connoisseur of both excellent wrestling and bad wrestling: a collection of death matches between Cactus Jack and Terry Funk, some truly awful-looking wrestling movies I’d never heard of, and something called, Professional Gay Wrestling.
My first scrutinize was, “Is this Reliable for Work?”
But my second question was “Why lgbtq+ professional wrestling?” (Or “professional gay wrestling”, as it’s called, which led me back to my first question).
I mean, if homosexual men want to observe guys with great bodies and revealing outfits grapple with each other, there are a number of other wrestling promotions out there – specifically, all of them.
Let’s face it – wrestling is a very gay sport, and has been since the days of the ancient Greeks. Those guys used to wrestle naked, which is just about the gayest thing two men can do short of having sex with each other.
Which they also did.
Actually watching PGW raised even more questions.
First of all, announcer Bruce R
Deep in the heart of Slack, our dear contributor Siobhan asked: “What’s the difference between baseball and softball?” Her curiosity led us to a fruitful discussion about the gendering of sports, which made me realize: Hey! I think basketball made me gay! And I couldn’t help but wonder… undertake all sports make you gay? Because I value the scientific process, I’ve compiled a ranked list of the 28 sports most likely to be played in one’s youth that will make you grow up to be a big ol’ queer.
According to our most recent Lesbian Stereotypes survey, about 40% of you own played one of these sports at one show in your life, and I’m not a scientist, but that data feels convincing! Are you one of the 40%? Which sport did you play? Are you queer now? See? Proof! I’d also like to shout out the team managers of these sports, because according to staff members Carrie and Jenna, managing a team is even gayer than being on a team. (Also, honorable talk about goes out to curling, which according to Kayla is a gay sport.)
28. Archery
Amanda from A-Camp X led an archery workshop, and just knowing it existed definitely made me feel mo
Panuska, Sarah M.. "5. “Super-Gay” Lgbtq+ Comix: Tracing the Underground Origins and Cultural Resonances of LGBTQ Superheroes". Supersex: Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero, edited by Anna Peppard, New York, USA: University of Texas Press, 2020, pp. 129-150. https://doi.org/10.7560/321607-006
Panuska, S. (2020). 5. “Super-Gay” Gay Comix: Tracing the Underground Origins and Cultural Resonances of LGBTQ Superheroes. In A. Peppard (Ed.), Supersex: Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero (pp. 129-150). New York, USA: University of Texas Press. https://doi.org/10.7560/321607-006
Panuska, S. 2020. 5. “Super-Gay” Same-sex attracted Comix: Tracing the Underground Origins and Cultural Resonances of LGBTQ Superheroes. In: Peppard, A. ed. Supersex: Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero. New York, USA: University of Texas Press, pp. 129-150. https://doi.org/10.7560/321607-006
Panuska, Sarah M.. "5. “Super-Gay” Gay Comix: Tracing the Underground Origins and Cultural Resonances of LGBTQ Superheroes" In Supersex: Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero edited by Anna Peppard, 129-150. New York, USA: University of Texas Press, 2020. https://doi.org/10.7560/321607-006
Panuska S. 5. “Super-Gay” Gay
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I am an odd person… and a male lover person. Therefore I naturally have odd tastes in “gay films.”
Most mainstream or well known movies found in the niche of queerity I do not enjoy (Case in point, I immensely dislike Brokeback Mountain. I didn’t despise it mind you, just found it dull, cliched and un-inspired on most levels… it had some nice shots of clouds and fields in it though.) The truth of the matter is, most widely heralded gay films are almost always the exact equal thing, a married man coming to terms with his sexuality, a teenage boy or lady coming to terms with their sexuality or some horribly tragic tale about a gay male child, girl, man or woman being savagely chastised, beaten or worse… for coming to terms with their sexuality.
All of these films are usually painfully PC to the signal of nausea, entire of saccharin preachiness and maudlin sentimentality so thick even Steven Spielberg would say “God damn!”
I’ve known all my life that I was a fag-o-sexual. I’ve also acknowledged that I don’t like dull as dishwater, Lifetime-esque, weepy, soap box melodramas. I grew up on James Bond, Star Trek, Celestial body Wars, 8