Gayskool
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🏳️🌈 Presentando a Mi Media Naranja
What’s the best way to describe my better half in Spanish? There are two words for “husband,” and here’s why I’ll only use one of them.
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🏳️🌈 Allies Go to Bat for Pride Games
Allies say Pride games are fabulous. Even the allies who don’t like sports.
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🏳️🌈 Naming a Plague
Before it was renamed AIDS, the disease went by several other names, including Gay Cancer.
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🏳️🌈 Do You Kiss Your Mother’s Guns With That Mouth?
To quote Inigo Montoya: “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
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🏳️🌈 The First Pride Was a Riot. And Don’t Forget It.
Denying the reality of Stonewall disavows our hurt, anger, and power.
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🏳️🌈 More Musical Numbers
Yesterday, I introduced my Song Gayness Rating System, which is probably bunk but was fun to create. Now let’s look at the scores for some well-known songs: Song Score Notes “Born This Way” by Lady Gaga 136.5 Well, duh. “I Will Survive” by Gloria Gaynor 123.5 If you’ve never seen…
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🏳️🌈 Summing Up Gay Music
It’s time to hoist the rainbow flags! Today is the beginning of Pride Month, the most fabulous 30 days of the year. I’m kicking off this year’s Gayskool series with two playlists to get you in the mood for Pride. First up: my Super Pride Mix, something I created a…
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🏳️🌈 The Big, Boring Impact of Obergefell
This polite tirade started as a really short LinkedIn post but just kept growing. Yesterday was the eighth anniversary of the Obergefell v. Hodges decision, which made marriage equality the law of the United States. Looking back at the joyous media coverage in 2015, you’d think the issue was about…