Homosexuality postings
postings on homosexuality and anti-homosexuality; gay life; the gay voice; gay slang; labels for lgbt people; insults and slurs
for postings on gay sexual practices, sex toys, etc. and their names, see the Page on Language of Sex:
for postings on anti-gay slurs, see section 3 of the Slurs list:
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“The Other F Word”, in Out magazine, April 2003
2003 handout on the gay voice:
The handout for my presentation “Name that porn star” at the January 2005 meeting of the American Name Society
The handout for my presentation “Ideal types: peacocks, chameleons, and centaurs” at the March 2005 SemFest (on categorization in general, and categorization of gay men in particular)
The handout for my 2011 SemFest talk, “Categories and Labels: LGBPPTQQQEIOAAAF2/SGL …”, on labels in the domain of sexuality / sexual orientation, gender / sexual identity, and sexual practices, as used to construct an initialism for the entire domain
☛ AZ, 7/4/06: Avoiding the other F-word:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003319.html
baseball manager Ozzie Guillen on sportswriter Jay Mariotti: “What a piece of shit he is, fucking fag”
☛ AZ, 1/23/07: On the offensive language beat: Use vs. mention, avoidance:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004086.html
Isaiah Washington on Grey’s Anatomy co-star T.R. Knight and the word faggot
☛ AZ, 9/12/08: Lisping on the elevator:
on the gay voice
☛ AZ, 10/17/09: Rude word:
on twinks and other gay male “types”
☛ 11/8/09: Cheese or font? The sequel:
Gay or Eurotrash?
☛ 6/17/10: Late spring 2003:
among other things: Out magazine piece, XXX-rated collage show
☛ 6/27/10: That’s so gay:
Pansy Division
☛ 7/14/10: Dolls and action figures:
Billy gay dolls (and Carlos and Tyson); Japanese figma figures, including one of gay pornstar Billy Herrington
☛ 7/15/10: Ken ‘n’ Joe: an item?:
twink Ken (of Barbie’s circle), butch GI Joe
☛ 7/15/10: On the run in 1972-74:
Mick Jagger flirting with/taunting faggotry
☛ 7/19/10: The Truly Huge:
Act II: Dan Savage and the Truly Huge (on Brad the Bodybuilder)
☛ 7/27/10: Collage essays: from concealment to display:
in connection with 2005 exhibition of XXX-rated collages at the Stanford Humanities Center
☛ 8/24/10: Writing like a fag:
gay male writing style
☛ 8/28/10: Pansies:
slur ‘faggot’
☛ 11/12/10: Spear/Smear the Queer:
the kids’ game
☛ 11/20/10: Bullying and rage:
Jake Shears, bullied, told that being gay is a private matter
☛ 12/10/10: Beating masculinity into the boy:
to avert homosexuality
☛ 1/23/11: The alphabet soup of sexuality and gender:
☛ 2/11/11: SemFest 12!:
Categories and Labels: LGBPPTQQQEIOAAAF2/SGL …
☛ 2/23/11: Scapegoats:
gays as scapegoats
☛ 4/13/11: Were the World Mine:
gay musical movie
☛ 5/1/11: -sauruses:
fagasaurus, gayosaurus, homosaurus, queerosaurus, pansysaurus
☛ 5/25/11: Scent and masculinity:
masculine scents, feminine scents; Details magazine (for metrosexuals and gay men)
☛ 6/26/11: Cultural celebrations:
Gay Pride events
☛ 1/25/12: The geek voice?:
☛ 1/31/12: fag food:
Fagolosi breadsticks, fagottini pasta (and fagotto ‘bassoon’)
☛ 2/28/12: Trendsetting:
the gay voice and young women’s speech
☛ 4/16/12: Lexicon Valley:
podcast, including one on The development of faggot as a slur against male homosexuals, with commentary by Arnold Zwicky
☛ 5/3/12: flaming:
the adjective as applied to gay men
☛ 5/21/12: The queering of the metrosexual:
metrosexual as a slur on masculinity (via its association with homosexuality); retrosexual
☛ 5/22/12: Geek days:
on the geek voice and the gay voice
☛ 7/5/12: That’s so gay!:
☛ 8/10/12: Hate:
on homophobia
☛ 1/13/13: Putting the man in manicure:
manicures as for women and “feminized” men (gays, metrosexuals)
☛ 4/8/13: fag bag:
in a variety of senses
☛ 4/22/13: Gay greens: the Big Two:
arugula, radicchio
☛ 6/27/14: queens:
uses of queen
☛ 12/8/14: Inversion:
label invert etc.
☛ 5/16/15: Light in the loafers:
slang
☛ 6/11/15: Do I Sound Gay?:
on the Gay Voice
☛ 10/27/15: A quandary:
on being gay as a “private matter”; view that lgb people should be closeted
☛ 12/19/15: X queen:
on X queen snowclonelets
☛ 1/2/16: The news for urinals:
homophobia in the bathroom; straight men anxious about gay men in restrooms, locker rooms, showers
☛ 1/12/16: The wages of heteronormativity:
☛ 1/27/16: Bruce Bruce Bruce:
slang poofter; Bruce as a gay name
☛ 1/28/16: Lower bangs higher:
man-man sex involving lower and higher (in class, social status, race/ethnicity/nationality)
☛ 1/28/16: Dean Phoenix, Dirk Yates, and curvature:
attitudes of gay men towards straight men
☛ 1/29/16: Language and sexuality:
announcement of Levon and Mendes, Language, Sexuality, and Power
☛ 1/30/16: Queen for a King:
gayborhoods; gay slang: basket etc., gay uses of queen
☛ 2/2/16: The prissy voice:
in the Great Gazoo, Dr. Zachary Smith in Lost in Space, film sissies
☛ 2/4/16: be gay/queer for:
with sexual element bleached
☛ 2/4/16: downe:
young men for young men in certain Asian groups (especially in Northern California)
☛ 2/5/16: homophobia:
☛ 2/16/16: Loving coules:
same-sex couples confronting gender conventions: embracing them, abandoning them, fragmenting them
☛ 2/17/16: A passion for pickles:
pickle ‘penis’ in gay slang and gay slurs
☛ 2/21/16: Getting Go:
gay-themed dramatic (and romantic) movie, involving a couple who are both physically and temperamentally contrasting; gay heteronormativity
☛ 3/1/16: News of the sexuality front: the Jocktion Marketplace:
site offering used sports gear for sale to gay men; diverse codings of masculinity in the sellers
☛ 3/2/16: gaysex, mansex:
labels for sexual acts between men
☛ 3/4/16: Trent Atkins, a great bottom;
ordering/demanding a fuck vs. asking/begging for one; sexual personas, in porn and real life
☛ 3/5/16: xmosexual:
SRS on presentations of sexual personas, as bromosexual, promosexual, normosexual; recogmosexual, unrecogmosexual
☛ 3/12/16: Fruit loops:
class-related dress practices (the Ivy League shirt, etc.); reactions to these as gay
☛ 3/18/16: Late for St. Patrick’s:
various presentations of sexual personas, notably by gay pornstar Harley Everett
☛ 3/20/16: Rainbow Peeps:
presentations of gay people in celebrations
☛ 4/22/16: Morning name: ivermectin:
public knowledge but sexual secrecy
☛ 4/22/16: More on open secrecy:
☛ 4/24/16: Donelan:
gay male life of the 70s and 80s as depicted in Donelan’s cartoons
☛ 6/1/16: Nefarious morning name:
nefarious as applied to sodomy
☛ 6/2/16: Cartoony days:
“regular” vs. “flagrant” gays
☛ 6/11/16: Schmitts Gay Beer:
SNL skit with gay fantasy
☛ 6/21/16: Frank Viva:
New Yorker cover with men kissing
☛ 7/22/16: queer:
queer vs. gay, inter alia
☛ 8/7/16: Ianto Jones:
two types of male-male love: for men in general, for one particular man
☛ 8/25/16: November 25th, 2016:
#2 Haefeli cartoon with same-sex couple and their daughter
☛ 9/16/16: Going all the way gay with the X-Men:
gay porn video parodying X-Men movies; Iceman as gay; mutants as analogues of lgbt people
☛ 11/15/16: The agony of homophobia:
homophobia and vocabulary for it
☛ 12/3/16: Camping it up:
camp; camping it up; nelly men; to drop one’s beads, pearls, hatpins
☛ 12/24/16: This year’s most puzzling Christmas card:
the Clone; the cruise of death
☛ 12/26/16: Chocolate Santa, and more:
drag; drag kings, drag queens
☛ 12/31/16: Surrealists, but especially Jess:
Jess and poet Robert Duncan and their openness and activism
☛ 1/2/17: Queens & Cowboys:
gay rodeos
☛ 1/5/17: Gay men on the new subway walls:
public displays of affection
☛ 1/8/17: The highly evolved fashion sense of faggots:
gay men as fashionable; Versace
☛ 1/18/17: From MeatMarket.com:
male prostitution
☛ 1/27/17: A kiss is just a kiss:
gay vs. straight, MSMs
☛ 2/2/17: QaF and its men:
the gay milieu of US Queer as Folk, gay male and lesbian cultures, gay clubs
☛ 2/10/17: Annals of adorable:
kissing; nelly men; pleasantly gay men; straight-acting men, regular guys, NMGs, normative masculinity, macho gays, better half
☛ 2/14/17: One more VDay posting:
line between gay and straight
☛ 2/16/17: Flagrant figures:
the Clone type
☛ 2/17/17: dying:
Liberace’s homosexuality
☛ 2/22/17: Playing for laughs:
“prissy” type of gay man; camping it up, campiness
☛ 2/25/17: The way we were:
on Rufus Gifford, former US ambassador to Denmark, openly gay and passionately activist
☛ 3/4/17: On the day:
Sydney Mardi Gras
☛ 3/24/17: The invention of the X job:
mansex between straight men; negotiating sex only non-verbally
☛ 3/26/17: On the boulevard of broken dreams with Kip Noll:
the gay twink as a type; gay villages; cruising; gay strip clubs
☛ 3/27/17: JoBroButts, Hills Bros. coffee, and gaybros:
stereotypes of masculinity vs. stereotypes of queerness
☛ 3/27/17: Members Only: two moments:
recognizably gay face
☛ 3/29/17: Another phenomenally bad idea:
cocksucking as a way of life, a mission
☛ 3/29/17: Three:
on-screen male-male kiss; three-ways
☛ 3/31/17: He bloomed in March:
bandanna code
☛ 4/4/17: Quick, Bruce, the blat!:
Bruce as a gay name; homosexuality and superheroes, homosexuality and vampires
☛ 4/16/17: Out gay male bands:
presentations of self, incl. genderqueer (vs. trans)
☛ 4/21/17: Seahorse on a stick, GBF, and the Describe-A-Muffin Task:
Gay Best Friend
☛ 4/26/17: Saint Phalle:
Genet’s worship of phallic masculinity
☛ 4/30/17: The Gay Sisters:
gay in several senses
☛ 5/2/17: To Be Young, Gay, and Chinese-American
homosexuality and family in the poetry of Chen Chen
☛ 5/2/17: Semiotics of dress: the Age of High Gay:
gay “types”; swish and macho gays
☛ 5/4/17: Closets:
in the closet: Dominick Dunne, James Beard; critique of the closet
☛ 5/5/17: Four Days in May:
race/ethnicity and class in gay porn; pushy bottoms
☛ 5/11/17: Homophilatelic days:
same-sex marriage in Canada
☛ 5/23/17: “Farley”, the dog said, “get me a slice”:
bisexuality (and Farley Granger), partner
☛ 5/30/17: Puzzles, castles, and cake:
the sexuality of King Ludwig of Bavaria
☛ 6/12/17: On the fierce fenininity of drag queens:
drag queens; gay voice; “feminine” personas
☛ 6/19/17: The thumbnail image, rainbows, and Pride:
Pride parades, Pride stickers
☛ 6/25/17: Animated cartoons, fan art, same-sex love:
same-sex couples in tv programs for kids
☛ 6/26/17: Put a sock on it in parade season:
pride parades; drag
☛ 6/30/17: In the dunes, in the dunes:
gay resorts: Fire Island
☛ 7/6/17: Coconuts and Trumpets:
gay bars and restaurants; motss.cons
☛ 7/6/17: Chast, Haefeli, Kaplan:
gay couples, adoption
☛ 7/15/17: Wonder Bears!:
bear culture, drag
☛ 7/27/17: Musical synchronicity:
bisexuality etc.
☛ 7/30/17: The queer quilt:
LGBT organizations; Harry Hay
☛ 8/7/17: Young love:
young love
☛ 8/11/17: Billy the Berlin Barboy:
gay dolls
☛ 8/27/17: Revisiting 6: Fire Island Pines:
cruising and partying in Fire Island Pines, 1975-83
☛ 8/30/17: The Fountain of Angels in America:
the Ramble in Central Park; AIDS
☛ 9/5/17: Obsolescent technologies and middle verbs:
gay bars; Greek alluding to anal intercourse
☛ 9/6/17: Birthday notes:
motss.cons
☛ 9/23/17: Bear chairs:
gay bears; the bear pride flag, the leather pride flag
☛ 10/3/17: Doorman of the underworld:
locales for secret mansex
☛ 10/5.17: He opened his mouth:
gay voice and other evidences of fagginess
☛ 10/16/17: Revisiting 8: Rod Canyon
porn names, drag names; P&A (penis and anus) material; lesbian kiss
☛ 10/29/17: March of the rainbow mixers:
HRC (Human Rights Campaign)
☛ 12/6/17: 100 years of independence:
life in the closet: Tom of Finland
☛ 12/28/17: Bromance for Biffs:
straight-straight, gay-gay, and gay-straight bromances
☛ 2/23/18: Lexical adventures in the Sacred Harp:
vice and sin; homosexuality (and masturbation, fornication, pornography) as a grave sin
☛ 2/27/18: In service to Erebus:
the secret subterranean world of mansex
☛ 2/28/18: Ballet Down the Highway:
gayporntypes, the tropes of gay porn; masculinity indexes
☛ 3/5/18: Fingering:
https://arnold-x-zwicky.livejournal.com/144758.html
emotional configuration of fingerwork (and rimming), as aggressive dominance or as service providing pleasure
☛ 3/5/18: fingerwork:
regular blog discussion of this
☛ 3/16/18: Extended 69:
oragenital acts as characteristically same-sex; emotional pleasures of various sex acts; mutuality
☛ 3/20/18: Perfectionist in pink sequin:
circuit parties; the slur pansy
☛ 3/23/18: Gayupid’s Arrow: We are everywhere, and now you are too:
paranoid fantasies: that homosexuals target Christians for persecution, that gay men are predatorily attracted to straight men
☛ 3/30/18: Pride Time #5: On Barceloneta beach:
gay places and celebrations
☛ 3/30/18: Deviant Passover rites:
lgbt Haggadot; Sederlicious parties in NYC
☛ 4/1/18: Jewish gay men:
gay icons (Eliad Cohen); racial/ethnic preferences in partners
☛ 4/9/18: The gay world of Yvon Goulet:
gay villages
☛ 4/12/18: Green wieners:
poppers
☛ 4/17/18: Cuppy and his cub:
bandanna codes; drag names; bears and cubs
☛ 4/20/18: The rainbow beard:
drag shows, drag names
☛ 4/25/18: At the t-room urinals:
the social practices of t-rooms, especially at the urinals
☛ 4/26/18: Unsavory moments on AZBlogX:
the social practices of gay piss play
☛ 5/4/18: Stuff your furry friend:
bear culture
☛ 5/12/18: For Mothers Day:
daddy, muscle daddy
☛ 5/12/18: Beat Me, Daddy, Eight to the Bar:
daddies and bois: social roles, “types”, identities; subcultures; social relationships
☛ 5/13/18: Gay butterflies:
butterflies as symbols of fragility, femininity, effeminacy; flamboyance; fickleness; coming out
☛ 5/17/18: Deshagged and pedicured:
roles in anal intercourse
☛ 5/18/18: Whathave you done with your life? The LGBT department.:
my contributions to the lgbt world, via institutions and organizations, via speaking out publicly
☛ 5/24/18: Today’s misreading: piano bars behind bars:
piano bars, gay bars
☛ 5/27/18: A-lists and B-lists:
A-gays (as a “type”)
☛ 5/30/18: Punks
on the DL, MSM
☛ 5/31/18: Dramatic exits:
drama queens making dramatic exits
☛ 6/2/18: Annals of gangbanging: Anonymous in Brooklyn:
the mansexual marketplace, sex clubs
☛ 6/6/18: Now We Are Nine, a Journey to the East:
gay men and race, ethnicity, nationality, religion
☛ 6/11/18: Purple Pride:
purple flowers for Pride
☛ 6/13/18: The Calvin Klein pentachromatic neon rainbow:
various Pride flags
☛ 6/23/18: Four things for Pride”
lgbt+ and Pride symbols and slogans
☛ 6/25/18: Midsummer cartoons:
Pride events
☛ 6/27/18: More Pride events:
Pride events
☛ 7/19/18: Get your cruise faqce on:
cruising for sex in public
☛ 7/27/18: Are You My Bottom?:
top or bottom
☛ 8/1/18: Men for me, and perilous translation:
on the construction and display of male heterosexuality
☛ 8/3/18: The rainbow pillars of Montréal:
gay life: gay villages (the Gay Village of Montréal); gay establishments (resorts, bars, dance clubs, strip clubs, bathhouses); soc.motss and motss.cons
☛ 8/4/18: Creams:
gay bars and their names
☛ 8/5/18: Toga, togae, togae!:
gay bars
☛ 8/8/18: The Gay Vilage, Swiss Chalet, poutine:
Montreal’s Gay Village
☛ 8/9/18: Dix-huit nuances de gai:
Montreal’s Gay Village and public art there
☛ 8/10/11: Les poutineurs de Montréal:
motss.cons
☛ 8/16/18: Rainbow. Sharks. Rainbow sharks.:
#7 same-sex sexual relations in dolphins
☛ 8/27/18: The Three Marcos, the Three Marcusites:
doing drag
☛ 11/3/18: News for penises: the Halloween gay porn report
associations between homosexuality and Halloween, between vampires and homosexuality
☛ 11/17/18: Teddy Bears’ Picnic Day:
bears
☛ 12/8/18: News for bears: cities of bears:
bears; movie BearCity and its sequels
☛ 12/14/18: Appearances:
physique magazines; Like With Like in the gay male world
☛ 12/22/18: Festoonists:
gay holidays; the slur fairy
☛ 1/28/19: Phil comes out:
coming out
☛ 1/30/19: Hugo Simberg:
homosexual artists; the homosexual gaze; focus on boys and young men
☛ 2/14/19: Revisiting 26: LGBT etc. etc.:
The Gay & Lesbian Review on naming the broad domain of sexuality, identity, and practices
☛ 2/15/19: Be more Michael B. Jordan:
clothing conveying masculinity and homosexuality
☛ 3/8/19: Vasodilation:
poppers in the gay social milieu
☛ 3/23/19:Consumer advocacy in Florida:
openly gay holders of positions and statuses; presentations of self; queer melanin magic
☛ 4/2/19: Moon shorts 1a: Cosmé McMoon:
top/bottom, preppy gay man, lipstick lesbian, dyke, daddy
☛ 4/4/19: Ed (the) Ped:
catchphrase we are everywhere
☛ 4/6/19: The trail mixer:
gay mixers; gay circuit parties
☛ 4/16/19: She got pinched in the As… tor Bar:
gay bars, esp. the Astor Bar in NYC
☛ 4/18/19: Le Pingouin aux Parapluies Roses:
pink as a gay color
☛ 4/24/19: A Ceci disavowal:
lgbt literary festivals
☛ 4/28/19: All ˈlaundry ˈis a ˈblur of ˈstatic ˈcling:
gay frivolity
☛ 5/11/19: The dragons of Homoland:
gay symbols; gay porn fiction
☛ 5/20/19: Annals of fruity goodness: the strawberry file:
gay as presentation of self vs. gay as sexual desire
☛ 5/25/19: High 5 from a bison:
collectors / numbers men in mansex, both insertive and receptive
☛ 5/26/19: Follow-up: John Rechy:
identities and terms for them
☛ 6/5/19: Pride month in Antarctica:
SHARKS cartoon with a same-sex wedding
☛ 6/11/19: Come frolic and cavort in the water:
artist Keith Vaughan’s edgy relationship to his homosexuality
☛ 6/16/19: On this day in 2019:
gay for Fathers Day: father-son sex, daddy-boy relationships, muscle daddies
☛ 6/18/19: Portraits of Frank O’Hara:
complex romantic relationship between Frank O’Hara and Larry Rivers
☛ 6/21/19: Mickey gets stuffed for Pride:
attitudes towards homosexuality
☛ 6/24/19: On your knees for St, George:
mansex in public places; its regulation
☛ 6/28/19: Some of us are gay:
three gay slogans: Some people are gay / Get over it; We are everywhere / We’re here / We’re queer / Get used it it
☛ 7/11/19: Three Pride moments:
passing as straight; term for gay man who passes as straight (passer not used; avocado suggested on UD)
☛ 7/16/19: Singout at the CA chorale:
the newsgroup soc.motss and its Facebook successor
☛ 8/21/19: motss.con XXXII in Palo Alto:
the 2019 gathering of the net community soc.motss / soc-motss
☛ 8/24/19: GG on an August morning:
a motss.con event: a visit to Gamble Garden
☛ 8/25/19: Exception-triggered alternation:
the gay baths, specifically in NYC in the 1970s: Club Baths, Continental Baths
☛ 8/28/19: Annals of category labels: food from a hole in the ground:
the gay baths: Eros in San Francisco
☛ 9/7/19: Big sexy prime birthday gay ice cream:
Big Gay Al as stereotypical homosexual man
☛ 9/11/19: Giovanni in Ferragamo:
femmes / sissies / etc.: Hilton Als
☛ 9/12/19: BOY Party!:
boy in the gay context; gay boy parties of several sorts
☛ 9/14/19: Clavicular knobs:
Scruff, a hookup site for men
☛ 9/17/19: The amazing talking pirate:
sodomy and the pirate tradition; three-ways
☛ 9/24/19: In the cowboys’ locker room:
fetish-wear
☛ 9/28/19: Gender notes: transgender fashion models:
homosexual, transgender, masculine, effeminate
☛ 9/29/19: Musclemen from Mars:
physique magazines
☛ 10/1/19: Up to the line, and sometimes over:
cruising for sex
☛ 10/3/19: Pat-SU fuck: new visions:
language in gay porn; dirty sex talk
☛ 10/5/19: A man, his hands, his pants:
cruising for sex
☛ 10/12/19: Butch fagginess, take3:
high-macho + high-gay displays
☛ 10/14/19: Space Candy:
high-macho + high-gay displays; jockstrap parties
☛ 10/16/19: Adventures in homomasculinity: the pink jock:
homomasculine identities; sissyhood
☛ 10/23/19: OUTiL: a historical note:
organizations: OUTiL, soc.motss, Lavender Languages/Linguistics, Queer Linguist(ic)s Network, LSA’s COZIL
☛ 11/2/19: Gaysper:
LGBT symbols, including Gaysper the gay ghost
☛ 11/7/19: Butch cooks with a little butch truck:
language of sexuality; butch/femme
☛ 11/14/19: Chart pie:
Pew LGBT survey: chart of trans, lesbian, gay male, female bisexual, male bisexual categories
☛ 11/17/19: A hell of a queen:
drag queens; Adore Delano
☛ 11/20/19: A regular festival of ambiguity:
homomasculine types; fag and its uses and alternatives
☛ 11/28/19: All thanks to HomoEros:
homoeroticism
☛ 11/30/19: Kind Hearts and Coronets:
artifice as characteristic of gay and bisexual men
☛ 12/19/19: Zeitgeisty:
gay life
☛ 1/28/20: Humongous tops Adonis:
M4M; strip clubs
☛ 2/7/20: The BSDR files:
coming out and being out in academia
☛ 2/10/20: Basil Ratburn:
gay gym rats
☛ 2/18/20: Saluting the presidents:
gay porn personas
☛ 2/20/20: love nest:
gay love nests, gay love hotels and motels, sexually democratic gay porn
☛ 2/25/20: Timothy and Agrimony:
gay types: twink, bitter old queen; resonances of different positions for mansex 69
☛ 2/28/20: A clean t-room is a *happy* t-room:
t-rooms as social worlds governed by (sub)cultural norms
☛ 3/7/20: Tragedies of the pandemic:
gay types: the bitchy queen
☛ 3/11/20: Schwinger outet sich als schwul:
coming out; German vocabulary
☛ 3/22/20: coronteaus:
circuit parties
☛ 5/5/20: Play me, Sam:
butch fagginess
☛ 5/17/20: Division of labor:
division of roles
☛ 5/20/20: Balloon quotes:
Michael James Schneider’s writing (and photography) about being gay/queer
☛ 5/22/20: The Age of Anxiety:
gay couples; fag-bashing
☛ 5/27/20: Happy Memorial Day:
the lure of military men
☛ 6/1/20: Aradesque?:
roles in mansex
☛ 6/7/20: Pride faces:
body types and roles in mansex
☛ 6/23/20: For Alan Turing:
Turing’s sufferings for his homosexuality
☛ 6/29/20: Spilled his seed on the ground:
attitudes towards masturbation; masturbation in gay social life
☛ 7/10/20: Hiding homosexuality: JCL;
J.C. Leyendecker’s illustrations dripping with scarcely concealed homoeroticism
☛ 7/17/20: Buttocks display
the male buttocks as objects of sexual desire
☛ 7/18/20: Buttocks IV: cake(s) and ale:
life in the closet; open secrecy
☛ 8/1/20: Switzerland at your service:
sexual massage for gay men
☛ 8/16/20: The three Ds: debased, degraded, and decaden:
dildos, casual sex
☛ 9/1/20: The brokini:
casual sex
☛ 9/7/20: Le Male, the men’s fragrance:
homoeroticism; drag and camp; sailors and sodomy
☛ 9/19/20: Marrow among the courgettes:
gay playfulness; Kenneth Williams and gay shame
☛ 9/23/20: Great progress, grave threat:
acceptance of lgbt people, threats of demonization
☛ 9/23/20: Feeling more one-headed:
effeminacy, fagginess, gay presentations of self, masculinity
☛ 10/22/20: humongous:
cruising and its customers