Category Archives: gay

June’s SMA Winner, Three Years In The Making

Posted on June 30, 2011 by queerlefty

Once intended to be a monthly feature, and fulfilled as such  for the first year or so, there has not been a new Sexiest Males Alive list since October 2010. As the longest running feature of this blog, and by … Continue reading →

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Judgment Day Pride

Posted on May 22, 2011 by queerlefty

Saturday was supposed to be the End Of The World, so I appreciated the irony in participating in my first-ever Gay Pride parade on the same day that eternal damnation had been predicted f0r people of my orientation. When I … Continue reading →

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So Beautiful It’s Boring?

Posted on May 9, 2011 by queerlefty

Back when this blog had a backbone – which is to say, when it was updated more regularly than once every two weeks – the Sexiest Males Alive list was it. Readers who have not yet stopped coming here (thanks!), … Continue reading →

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We Sing, We Dance, We Reveal Things

Posted on October 10, 2010 by queerlefty

Sometimes, watching a new episode of Glee reminds me of watching The O.C. It’s not because these two shows had anything else in common besides the high school setting, but because both shows, while sharp and well-written at their best, … Continue reading →

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How To Make A Great Book Into A Great Film

Posted on October 2, 2010 by queerlefty

The art of adapting a book into a film has always fascinated me. In most cases, it’s a lose-lose situation. Literature and film are different art forms with different strengths, and any attempt to simply film the text will inevitably … Continue reading →

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What It Means To Be A Movie Hustler

Posted on September 26, 2010 by queerlefty

NOTE: A slightly different version of this essay appears in Ganymede Unfinished, out now from Sibling Rivalry Press. *** Rewatching Gus van Sant’s magnificently playful and daring My Own Private Idaho (1991)  always is a striking experience. How great isn’t … Continue reading →

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On Boybands, Jay Brannan and Escaping Gay-By-Association

Posted on September 20, 2010 by queerlefty

NOTE: This essay first appeared in Ganymede Unfinished, available now from Sibling Rivalry Press. An earlier version appeared on this blog in May 2009. *** When I sat down to try to write about the music of singer/songwriter Jay Brannan, … Continue reading →

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Where Are The Soccer Homos?

Posted on July 15, 2010 by queerlefty

There 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 … Continue reading →

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Shout It From The Rooftops

Posted on May 30, 2010 by queerlefty

“If you don’t want people to see you in a totally different way, this has to be no bigger deal for you than you want it to be for them.” That was what I told myself in the days leading … Continue reading →

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Straight For Pay

Posted on May 27, 2010 by queerlefty

The issue of outing famous gay people is something we’ve discussed several times on this blog, so let’s give it another go. It’s not just because Out Magazine recently released their annual list of the most influential gay people, although … Continue reading →

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