This is not meant as a post about me being late to the Justin Bieber party. Seriously, it’s not. But with this Canadian teenager’s place in pop culture, I feel like I have to make one thing clear from the outset: I don’t hate the Bieber. It’s not a gut-check contrarian position as much as it about decency. There’s so much hate out there for the fellow already that I wouldn’t add my voice to the chorus even if I agreed with the hatred. Let his fans have their day. At least they’re not out doing drugs, etc. (more…)
Archive | July, 2010
Where Are The Soccer Homos?
15 JulThere were some things that were missing from the soccer World Cup that just wrapped: Stars like Rio Ferdinand and Michael Ballack were injured, Ronaldinho wasn’t even capped, and Wayne Rooney, Cristiano Ronaldo and Fernando Torres underperformed. There were things we’ll miss: the mercilessly counter-attacking Germans, Diego Maradona at the Argentinian bench, a shirtless Lukas Podolski. But more conspicuously absent that any of those, and likely to remain so even at the next World Cup, were the gay players. There weren’t any. None. At all. (more…)
“It’s kind of an art, but it’s also a fantasy”: Notes on ‘Sex/Life in L.A.’
6 JulReviewing Jeffrey Escoffier’s gay porn history Bigger Than Life recently, I also talked about the first time I saw Jochen Hick’s documentary double feature on the business, Sex/Life in L.A (1998) and Cycles of Porn: Sex/Life in L.A. Part 2 (2005). It was an exhausting, unnerving, but also secretly exciting experience. I watched it as a special screening at my local film festival in 2005. (more…)
For SMA’s June Anniversary, Zac Hanson Gets His Revenge
1 JulThere’s no limit to how wrong I can be sometimes. Now the time has come to give a particularly tough spin on my apology to Zac Hanson, of whom I said – in an adoring Early Gay Crushes piece, no less! – that he would “never be hot”. To my defense, I did add “at least not in the classic sense”, which may still be correct, and I could of course not foresee exactly how great the drummer would look in 2010. But I was wrong, bigtime. (more…)
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