That triangle looks so pretty in pink

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Monday June 13, 2005 · 3:47 PM PDT

2005/06/13 · 15:47

You gotta love it when the fundies truly speak their minds:

"We put warning labels on cigarette packs because we know that smoking takes one to two years off the average life span, yet we 'celebrate' a lifestyle that we know spreads every kind of sexually transmitted disease and takes at least 20 years off the average life span according to the 2005 issue of the revered scientific journal Psychological Reports," Rev. Bill Banuchi, executive director of the New York Christian Coalition told the Mid Hudson News.

(Fuck Godwin)

It feels like we've been here before. Early in the AIDS crisis, William Saffire proposed having HIV-positive gay men tattood on the ass. But we're all familiar with the actual practice of putting visible "warning labels" on homsexuals. Read More

Summer Reading--FICTION

MAJeff

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Sunday June 12, 2005 · 6:15 PM PDT

2005/06/12 · 18:15

OK, it's been miserably hot and humid in Boston this weekend...I went in to my office today just to have air conditioning. Other people went to the beach.

If you're anything like me, you don't read very much fiction. I love a good novel, but I don't have enough opportunity. Lunch hour during my summer job provides one.

I'm looking for good books. I'll toss out a few of my faves, please do the same. Doesn't have to be recent, just has to be a good read. Read More

HAPPY PRIDE!!!!

MAJeff

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Saturday June 11, 2005 · 8:12 AM PDT

2005/06/11 · 08:12

I'm sitting here with the cat, killing a little time before I head off to the Boston Gay Pride Parade. I also need to grab some sunscreen before I leave.

I have an ambivalent relationship to Pride. The first NY Gay Pride was an anniversary march for the Stonewall Riots. I miss the deep politics that caused Pride to begin. I love the way queer folks come together to celebrate during these times. I get a little tired of corporate sponsorship and constant advertising--we've become more of a market niche than a political community. Whatever, that's the context today. Read More

Gendered Knowledge About Sexed Bodies

MAJeff

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Thursday June 09, 2005 · 6:27 PM PDT

2005/06/09 · 18:27

In science, just as in art and in life, only that which is true to culture is true to nature (Ludwick Fleck, Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact, p. 35)

Today, I'm gonna talk a bit about gender, knowledge, and the body. The discussion will take a few detours along the way, but I think they'll all make sense in the end. At least, I hope so.
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There's no ButtLove in Baseball!

MAJeff

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Monday June 06, 2005 · 6:45 PM PDT

2005/06/06 · 18:45

[Ed: Cross-posted as Butt-Fucking at Fenway at CultureKitchen]

Yesterday at Fenway Park we learned that Carson Kressley is not a pitcher. The Queer Eye for the Straight Guy gang was in town doing promotional work for tomorrow's season premier, in which the Fab Five make over--excuse me, make better--members of the Boston Red Sox. Yesterday, Jai sang the national anthem while Thom, Carson and Kyann "threw" out the first pitch.

While his throwing style ensures he'll never have a career on the diamond, some of the reactions from yesterday's game make it seem as though we learned about Kressley's pitcher/catcher status in the adult sense of the word. You'd think that he was on his knees on the pitcher's mound, being hammered from in front and behind by the bats of the Sox he just made over. Local Homohater Brian Cammenker was very fussy in yesterday's Boston Herald (Cammenker's ideological kin, the Phelps clan of Topeka, Kansas, was also in town yesterday.):
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Idiot Homophobes on Parade

MAJeff

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Monday June 06, 2005 · 5:04 AM PDT

2005/06/06 · 05:04

So, the new season of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy starts, I think, tomorrow. The marketing blitz is in high gear, and the season premier will involve a makeover of several Boston Red Sox. Yesterday, a few of the "Fab Five" threw out the first pitch at Fenway. Some people didn't like it:

Carmen Carbone, 40, a copy machine technician, slumped in his seat and shook his head at the display. He said it exposed the team to unnecessary controversy -- and teasing. Last week, he said, Yankees fans razzed Red Sox fans relentlessly about the makeovers during a series in Yankee Stadium.

''To me it doesn't matter, but keep it to yourselves," Carbone, of Melrose, said after three ''Queer Eye" members lobbed the pitches to start the game. ''If I owned the Red Sox, I wouldn't have done it."

His girlfriend, Karen Garofalo, nodded. ''I think all the other teams are laughing in our faces," said Garofalo, 41, a secretary from Revere.

MAJeff

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Sunday June 05, 2005 · 3:44 PM PDT

2005/06/05 · 15:44

I just returned from the annual potluck for a group I'm involved with. I took bratwurst from Schmidt's Meat Market in Nicollet, Minnesota. My parents ship a few dozen brats to me a couple times a year, and the Department Administrator at Tufts, who's also from Minnesota, goes in with me on these orders. The effort is worth it. You simply cannot find a good bratwurst in Boston, and no matter what anyone else says, Johnsonville is not a good bratwurst. These were, as usual, a huge hit. I'm still feeling bloated after two of them, and damn it feels good.

I'm thinking about this because these cookouts make me a little homesick. In some ways, they remind me I am not of this place I'm currently living. Home is where the bratwurst are. And my parents' garden. Read More

This story makes me want a shower

MAJeff

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Thursday June 02, 2005 · 7:48 PM PDT

2005/06/02 · 19:48

Yesterday, five former hockey players from the Milton Academy prep school were sentenced to probation for statutory rape. Here's some background:

A school investigation concluded that two of the varsity ice hockey players charged and a 15-year-old boy received oral sex from the girl in a dorm room on Jan. 22 and in the boys' locker room Jan. 23. Charges were brought in only the third incident, on Jan. 24, when the two hockey players, joined by three teammates, allegedly requested and received oral sex from the girl in the locker room between dining and study halls.

MAJeff

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Wednesday June 01, 2005 · 7:03 PM PDT

2005/06/01 · 19:03

So, the other night, I asked for suggestions for updating my classical music collection, while offering a few of my own. Tonight, it's jazz.

My jazz collection is far less extensive than my classical collection. It's a genre I've finally started to "get." For a very long time, it escaped me. No longer. So, below I'll toss out a few of my favorite discs...I'd ask you to do the same. Read More

Republican priorities in action

MAJeff

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Tuesday May 31, 2005 · 5:44 PM PDT

2005/05/31 · 17:44

The Minnesota Legislature ended its most recent session without passing a budget, prompting Governor Pawlenty to make a boneheaded move and call the body immediatley into special session. The entire legislative process has now reopened for an indefinite time. Sure, they've still got to pass a budget, but several Republican House members have shown what they think the important business of the special session should be. From an OutFront Minnesota action alert (go send 'em some love):

On Thursday, May 26th, the Minnesota House of Representatives reintroduced the constitutional amendment to bar all legal recognition of same-sex couples. Bills from the regular session that do not pass in both the House and Senate do not carry over into special session. Any bill to be considered during the special session must be reintroduced. The supporters reintroduced the anti-marriage amendment to ensure that the constitutional amendment is included in the debate as the House, Senate, and Governor attempt to reach conclusion on a number of pressing issues.

MAJeff

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Monday May 30, 2005 · 8:42 PM PDT

2005/05/30 · 20:42

OK, so teacherken posted the text from Benjamin Britten's War Requiem today, and a few of us started talking music. I have the recording of that piece with Vishnevskaya, Pears, Fischer-Dieskau under Britten, and it's wonderful.

Well, I've been wanting to buy some new music. The Pederewsi Piano Concerto is on the list, but I'd like to solicit recommendations from everyone else. See some of mine below the fold Read More

Challenge to MA SSM shot down hard

MAJeff

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Friday May 27, 2005 · 2:24 PM PDT

2005/05/27 · 14:24

A couple of weeks ago, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court heard arguments in a suit filed by C.J. Doyle of the Catholic Action Leage. Mr. Doyle asked the court to reimpose its stay on enactment of Goodridge v. Department of Public Health until he has the chance to vote on an amendment that might pass the legislature. It was clear in oral arguments that the Court was not impressed. Their decision in the case demonstrates this.. Read More

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This story makes me want a shower

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Republican priorities in action

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Challenge to MA SSM shot down hard