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Drag Culture and How to Get Gay Famous, Ryan Field Books

 Drag Culture and How To Get Gay Famous

Ever since I was in my early 20s and started going to gay bars I realized there were some gay people who were, indeed, "gay famous." In New Hope, PA, where there used to be several gay clubs before the straights gentrified it, there was one drag performer, in particular, we all called "Mother." Of course, there were others. One was named Monica Ray and they did Marilyn Monroe in drag. But "Mother" was THE most gay famous in New Hope for many years. Here's a...

Gay Rugby Player Beaten To the Point Where He May Never Play Again, Ryan Field Books

 Gay Rugby Player Beaten to the Point Where He May Never Play Again

This is so sad to read. It's so hard to fathom that this sort of thing is still happening. But I see so much hate for LGBTQIA people all over social media these days I worry about the future. This hate is often fueled by the far right. 

In this particular hate crime, a gay rugby player in Ireland was beaten so badly that his ankle was shattered, and one of his eyes was dangerously damaged. Right after it happened, he posted about ...

Adam Manno Slams All Gay Film "Fire Island" for Having Gay Men With Good Bodies, Ryan Field Books

 Adam Manno Slams All Gay Film "Fire Island" for Having Gay Men With Good Bodies

I don't know who Adam Manno is, but he wrote a review about the new film out, Fire Island, without mentioning a few important facts. It's not a bad review and he does make a few important points. But his focus is on good bodies and how he wishes there were not so good bodies in the movie, instead of the fact that this film is all gay content. And I so wish he had focused more on this. We should all be focused on this...

Happy Pride to the Women Who Read Gay Romance, 50 Years For Philadelphia's "Gay" Pride March, Ryan Field Books

Happy Pride to the Women Who Read Gay Romance 

I sometimes post about cultural appropriation and the women who write gay romance novels. If you believe that gay men have their own culture, and if you believe that gay men deserve the same respect as any other marginalized group, then you can clearly see the cultural appropriation going on with gay romance. 

In fact, no other marginalized group of people has had to experience anything quite like the cultural appropriation gay male authors deal with ...

They Don't Celebrate "Gay Pride" Month In Women's Prison, Jerusalem Celebrates 20 Years of Pride Marches, Ryan Field Books

 They Don't Celebrate "Gay Pride" Month In Women's Prison. 

This is an interesting article. I'm not even sure if they celebrate Pride month in men's prisons. And to be honest when they refer to Pride Month as "Gay Pride" month they immediately lose credibility with me because it's really considered Pride for everyone that falls under the LGBTQIA umbrella. It's not just gay pride. 

But in the women’s lockups, it was completely different. In fact, women’s prison was the queerest place I’ve ever been...

A Book About Coming Out as Gay, Working in Hollywood, and Growing up in the Closet, "Miss Memory Lane" by Colton Haynes, With PrEP Condoms Aren't Even discussed Anymore

 A Book About Coming Out as Gay, Working in Hollywood, and Growing up in the Closet, "Miss Memory Lane" by Colton Haynes

I want to do justice to this post because I'm in the middle of reading Miss Memory Lane and I'm stunned at how wonderful it is. Well written, honest, and I think there's something in the book that almost every gay man can relate to. Try to do that, straight women writing gay fiction. I dare you. 

I remember when Haynes came out as gay. In fact, I posted about it here back in 201...

New Gay Film 'Fire Island' with All Gay Content and No Straight-Washing, Anti-Gay Commencement Speech At Ohio School, Ryan Field Books

 New Gay Film Fire Island with All Gay Content and No Straight-Washing

There's a new gay film out and I've checked it out to see if a straight woman wrote it and to see if the actors are playing gay for pay. It doesn't seem that way. From what I've been able to gather, everyone associated with this film is, indeed, gay. And that's a novelty.

 On Wednesday evening in New York City — about 60 miles and a ferry ride away from its subject— “Fire Island,” Joel Kim Booster’s romantic comedy about a week...

When Our Straight Allies Just Don't "Get" It, The Book of Queer Docuseries Has Openly Gay Cast While Hollywood Continues to Ignore Us, Ryan Field Books

When Our Straight Allies Just Don't Get It

I saw something interesting this week on Twitter and I thought I would share it. I'm not mentioning names, but the people I'm talking about work for a local news station in a large city. And they're nice people and this is not a rant. 

Apparently, this local news station was doing a special about Pride month. They have one openly gay employee weather person and the rest of them are all extremely straight. When one of the women reporters Tweeted something ...

President Biden Talks about Pride Month along with the Attacks, More Gay Cultural Appropriation from Amazon Movie "Red, White, and Royal Blue" Written by Non-Gay-man White Woman Casey McQuiston, Ryan Field

 President Biden Talks about Pride Month along with the Attacks

The president declared June as Pride Month and he mentioned the attacks on LGBTQIA people in recent months, by condemning the recent trend in "don't say gay" bills in certain states. 

"I often say that America can be defined by one word: possibilities," Biden wrote in a presidential proclamation released Tuesday, the eve of Pride Month. "This month, we celebrate generations of LGBTQI+ people who have fought to make the possibilities o...

Bradley Cooper Plays Gay for Pay Again in Leonard Bernstein Movie, The Fearless Straight Bradley Cooper Recalls Gay Sex Scene, Ryan Field Books

 Bradley Cooper Plays Gay For Pay Again in Leonard Bernstein Movie

Why shouldn't straight actor, Bradley Cooper, play gayface again in a film? It's only "acting," so they tell me. 

After all, he's done it before and he didn't think twice about it. He even spoke about how he considers himself "fearless" for doing a gay sex scene. Seriously, fearless. 

Cooper spoke with The Advocate about the scene in 2009. Asked whether he had any reservations about the role, Cooper replied, "Maybe for 10 minutes I ...