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A Queer History of Computing: Part Two
Jacob Gaboury writes, “In this second part of our genealogy, we move not forward in time, but look back to an encounter that took place between two foundational figures in logic and mathematics, in an attempt to identify the conflicting role of contradiction, misunderstanding, failure, and disagreement in the queer history of computation. While again these figures are well known, the encounter between them is often dismissed as a missed connection and a failed opportunity. As such, it is often relegated to an uninteresting footnote in the history of mathematics. By reengaging this encounter I hope to blur the lines between computing, philosophy, and mathematics, and to disrupt the narrative trajectory that would see Turing as the single foundational figure within this history.”
Friends With Benefits, But Without The Sex: Straight Women And Gay Men Exchange Trustworthy Mating Advice
Experiment 1 revealed that straight women perceive mating-relevant advice from a gay man to be more trustworthy than similar advice offered by a straight man or woman. Experiment 2 demonstrated that gay men perceive mating advice offered by a straight woman to be more trustworthy than advice offered by a lesbian woman or another gay man. Overall, the results provide initial experimental evidence that relationships between gay men and straight women may be characterized by a mutual exchange of mating-relevant benefits in the absence of sexual interest or competition.
NoHomophobes.Com
An astonishing real time display of Tweets that include the words: Faggot, Dyke, NoHomo, So Gay is designed as a social mirror to show the prevalence of casual homophobia in society. Words and phrases like “faggot,” “dyke,” “no homo,” and “so gay” are used casually in everyday language, despite promoting the continued alienation, isolation and — in some tragic cases — suicide of sexual and gender minority (LGBTQ) youth. Tweets are streamed without review or verification. Re-posting of a Tweet is not intended to imply that the Tweeter or anyone else is homophobic. Reposting is solely for journalistic, research and public education purposes.
Subliminal Gay Stimuli In Menu Descriptions at Quaker State and Lube Restaurants - Extra points for the writer who managed to squeeze in, RIMMED, CRACK, THICK CUT O-RING and LICKERS in the description of the GTO-RING BURGER. To say nothing of the “Hot Mess” Queso Burger. Wait, there’s a Jackie-O Burger too?!!!
The VICE Guide to Being Gay
“Being So Bored in Gay Clubs That You Just Watch the Video Wall All Night…The gay scene fucking sucks. But if you want to have sex even a little bit, you’re going to have to take part in it eventually. You’d think that there’d be a gay bar out there that would cater to you, what with all the bear bars, the daddy bars, the punk gay bars, the sissy-bounce gay bars, the Mexican cowboy gay bars, the square-dancing gay bars, and the gay bars for people with ginger hair fetishes (these are all real gay bars I’ve been to, BTW). But nope. No matter where you go, you’re gonna be hearing the same remix of “We Found Love” four times in an hour. And holy shit are you gonna get bored.”
Stuck in a Hotel Room with the Grandaddy of Gay Porn
“During the late 1960s and 70s, Peter de Rome made over 100 films, mostly just for a laugh. They featured men—including himself—masturbating, making love, sucking, fucking, and generally having a great time. People started paying attention to Peter’s films in 1973, when his production Hot Pants scored big at the Wet Dream Film Festival in Amsterdam, and since then his films have been celebrated for their cinematic beauty by those who are able to appreciate how artfully lit and composed porn scenes are, even while they’re jacking off.”
Homophobic? Maybe You’re Gay
“Why are political and religious figures who campaign against gay rights so often implicated in sexual encounters with same-sex partners? One theory is that homosexual urges, when repressed out of shame or fear, can be expressed as homophobia. Freud famously called this process a ‘reaction formation’… In this month’s issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, we and our fellow researchers provide empirical evidence that homophobia can result, at least in part, from the suppression of same-sex desire”
For the Brooklyn Museum’s Keith Haring show, (now open), the late artist’s foundation has been scanning pages from his journal 1978–1982 and will post a page a day for the duration of the show. The exhibition, on view at the Brooklyn Museum from March 16 through July 8, 2012, is the first large-scale presentation to explore the early works. See also Keith Haring Bathroom Mural @ The Center from the fantastic Social Diarist.
Gayborhoods: Intersections of Land Use Regulation, Sexual Minorities, and the Creative Class
“Article advocates the municipal encouragement and maintenance of diversity, specifically the inclusion of sexual minorities, through changes in the traditional application of the forms of land use regulation. Bringing together previously distinct conversations about the societal goals of land use planning and the social value placed on diversity by increasing numbers of consumer voters, the Article draws on New Urbanism and Richard Florida’s concept of the creative class to argue that the presence in a municipality of a visible, accepted, and integrated LGBTQ community signifies and stimulates not only the social but the fiscal health of that municipality. Building on and distinguishing the historical development of naturally occurring gayborhoods, this Article suggests a rationale and mechanisms for encouraging the growth of such communities. Land use regulation is one means by which a diversity-sensitive municipality can establish marginal advantages over otherwise similarly situated municipalities; in a society offering a wide variety of choices to members of the creative class, this competitive advantage is significant.” Charles J. Ten Brink (Michigan State University - College of Law)
Art Has Yet To Face Up To Homosexuality
Philip Kennicott’s superb article in the Washington Post talking about the important new Oxford University Press publication, “Art and Homosexuality: A History of Ideas,” by Christopher Reed: “There may be a reckoning in the winds. Attitudes about gays and lesbians, and about same-sex marriage in particular, are now changing so fast that American culture is suffering from cognitive dissonance: still prone to habits of homophobia while simultaneously aware that overt bigotry is no longer acceptable in much of the public square…It may prove painful, and chastening, as such institutions come to accept that reality and reflect it in their presentation of art. Whole movements and eras, from the aestheticists of the late 19th century to the abstract expressionists of the mid-20th century, simply don’t have coherence without reference to same-sex desire. As this history is made obvious, even established standards of how we judge art may be shaken. As Reed documents, ideas about abstraction, formalism and individualism in art have dominated criticism, but often at the cost of enforcing heterosexual values and power. Artists who hid their “gay” work (Charles Demuth), or stood to the side of the mainstream art world (Marsden Hartley), or are simply forgotten (a circle of artists in Italy that included Emma Stebbins, Edmonia Lewis and Harriet Hosmer) may deserve new attention and status.”
Queering Sex
Quick Art Forum review of the event: “On the evening of June 24, as lawmakers legalized same-sex marriage in New York, a group of artists and activists on the opposite coast were instigating a less normative (though perhaps no less traditional) celebration of sexuality: the opening night of ‘Queering Sex,’ a weeklong performance and video series at the downtown Los Angeles nonprofit Human Resources. While the event-cum-exhibition didn’t start any fires with the boilerplate press-release ‘positing’ that ‘queer exists on multiple planes of non-linearity and is beyond hetero and homo-normative distinctions,’ the lineup itself comprised a group of folk whose varying practices demonstrate a happily nuanced take on sex (as a critical and aesthetic tool), with special emphasis on historical constructions of queerness, the hyperbolic performance of ‘outness,’ and our (hopefully) evolving relationships to genders and identities.”
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