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Porn Studies Is The New Discipline For Academics

“Porn Studies needs your contributions. The Routledge academic periodical will debut next spring, and a call for papers appeared this week soliciting submissions for “the first dedicated, international, peer-reviewed journal to critically explore those cultural products and services designated as pornographic. The timing suggests the EL James phenomenon may have provided the impetus for the launch by making erotica ubiquitous; but literary porn is only one of the interests of the top-shelf journal, which is open to offerings from sociologists, criminologists, technologists and experts in cultural, media and gender studies.”

Jason Collins Isn't The First Openly Gay Male in American Pro Sports

Major-league baseball player Glenn Burke was comfortably out to his teammates and friends in 1976—he even invented the hi-five, but back then, it was the press that wasn’t ready for a gay male athlete.

A Queer History of Computing: Part Three

Jacob Gaboury writes: “In this third segment of our genealogy we begin to form a connection, and to examine those lesser-known but foundational figures that radiate out from Turing’s early work. Perhaps appropriately, given the venue, this second figure leads us to one of the earliest examples of computational art ever produced, though he did not claim the title of artist for himself. This history also moves us forward to those pivotal years surrounding Turing’s arrest and death.”

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.”

A rather sunny photograph of Keith Haring by Louis Jammes

Un Chant d’Amour (Jean Genet, 1950) - French writer Jean Genet’s only film, which he directed in 1950. Because of its explicit (though artistically presented) homosexual content, the 26-minute movie was long banned and even disowned by Genet later in his life.The film’s highly sexualized atmosphere has been recognized as a formative factor for works such as the films of Andy Warhol.

Same-Sex Marriage Makes David Brooks Crazy

Matt Taibbi issues a proper response/smackdown to Brooks’ ‘darkly sarcastic’ and wholly condescending rant on same sex marriage that appeared in the New York Times: “This morning’s David Brooks column on same-sex marriage was one of the weirdest, most mean-spirited things I’ve ever seen in The New York Times. Entitled ‘Freedom Loses One,’ the article is a sarcastic broadside against … well, against something, though it’s not clear exactly which of the many post-Sixties permissive-society hobgoblins Brooks hates is the real target here”

A Gay Airman, Purple Heart Decorated Vietnam Veteran, Was The First To Take On The U.S. Military's Ban On Gays In 1975

“In 1975 an air force sergeant made history when he came out, to challenge the ban on homosexuals in the US military. Leonard Matlovich became a figurehead for gay rights, but he could not have foreseen that in 2013 the US Supreme Court would be considering whether to overturn a ban on same-sex marriages.”

What Queerocracy Looks Like

“To date, the group [Queerocracy] has participated in die-ins to dramatize the ongoing AIDS epidemic; supported comprehensive immigration reform; protested Uganda’s proposed ‘kill the gays’ bill; bused people to Washington, D.C. for the We Can End AIDS demonstration held during last summer’s international AIDS conference; and facilitated a three-day symposium and art exhibition at the New School to address the ways that HIV/AIDS impacts different constituencies…Members are currently developing strategies to engage a wider swath of the LGBTQ community”

Erotica Album of Photographs - Images include semi-clad figures in the guise of priests, soldiers, clowns, “exotics”, cross-dressers, and approximately 20 contact sheets, several captioned: “Entre Elles”, “Coin d’Afrique”, “Flagellation”. Most of these “tableaux vivant” include between 2 and three participants. 300 photographic images (various processes including albumens and gelatin silver), and approximately 70 postcards (17 photographic), images 152 x 110mm. or smaller, mounted up to 8 per page (9 oxidised), half morocco album, with lock (broken), oblong folio, [early twentieth century]

Derek Jarman’s Blue (1993) is the twelfth and final feature film by director Jarman, released four months before his death from AIDS-related complications. Such complications had already rendered him partially blind at the time of the film’s release. The film is narrated by Derek Jarman, Tilda Swinton, Nigel Terry, John Quentin. The film consists of a single shot of saturated blue colour filling the screen, as background to a soundtrack where Jarman’s and some of his favourite actors’ narration describes his life and vision. On its premiere, Channel 4 and BBC Radio 3 collaborated on a simultaneous broadcast so viewers could enjoy a stereo soundtrack. Parts 1-7 Here. Text of Jarman’s soundtrack for the film Blue Here.

A Queer History of Computing

“This is the first post in a series on the queer history of computing, as traced through the lives of five foundational figures. It is both an attempt to make visible those parts of a history that are often neglected, erased, or forgotten, and an effort to question the assumption that the technical and the sexual are so easily divided.”

The Rawhide Is Closing - Jeremiah from Vanishing New York writes “Opened in 1979, the Rawhide is one of the last of a handful of old-school, unpretentious gay bars left in New York City. It is a survivor. But it won’t be for long. The building that houses it on 8th and 21st in Chelsea was sold a couple of years ago and the new landlord has jacked up the rent, nearly doubling it from $15,000 to $27,000 a month. The Rawhide has officially been evicted. Their last day will be March 31.”

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.

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