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The Aromantic Asexual, Alice Oseman, Appropriates Gay Culture with Netflix's Gay Movie, "Heartstopper," Should Matt Bomer Have Played a Trans Character in "Anything"? Ryan Field Books

 The Aromantic Asexual, Alice Oseman, Appropriates Gay Culture with Netflix's Gay Movie

If Alice Oseman wrote about aromantic asexuals I would definitely read it. I would be curious, and that's because I wouldn't write about aromantic asexuals because I wouldn't want to appropriate their culture. 

HOWEVER, I will NOT be watching Alice Oseman's "Heartstopper," because it appropriates gay culture and gay men once again and I'm sick of it. I might even cancel my Netflix account. 

I don't even care abo...

Florida Teachers Comment on Don't Say Gay Bill, Ryan Field Books

Florida Teachers Comment on Don't Say Gay Bill

No matter who you ask, everyone has an opinion about the don't say gay bill in Florida. I've heard many on a personal level, including some from gay men who don't think it's that bad. Of course, I think it's a ridiculous, cruel, unnecessary bill that was designed to target LGBTQIA people. The bill is so ambiguous it lends itself to different interpretations. 

Here's what Florida teachers have to say. This excerpt sums it up for me well because I can't...

Another Op-Ed About Women Writing M/M Romance and Cultural Appropriation, Ryan Field Books

 Another Op-Ed  About Women Writing M/M Romance and Cultural Appropriation

Other than the fact that I don't support cultural appropriation of any kind, I have nothing to offer to this. I think it's a well-written piece and that's why I'm linking to it. 

Any form of cultural appropriation is wrong.  I would never write novels that focus on black culture or any other culture that's not mine to write about. Keep in mind that straight white women are, indeed, in a position of privilege. Gay men are no...

Liberal Ally Misha Collins Comes Out As Straight and Twitter Goes Berserk, After Great Progress on Gay Rights, the US is Still More Anti-LGBTQIA than Ever, Ryan Field Books

 Misha Collins Comes Out As Straight and Twitter Goes Berserk

I found this bit of news as amusing as it was irritating. A guy like Misha Collins, who claims to be an ally, should know better. But he didn't. And I've seen it before from other celebrities. They are so deeply rooted in their own straight privilege that their true feelings often come out in the most interesting ways. 

In this case, good old Misha came out as bisexual last weekend at one of those fandom conferences in New Jersey, and t...

LGBTQIA Kids Are Bullied Far More Than Straight Cisgender Kids, Ryan Field Books

 LGBTQIA Kids Are Bullied Far More Than Straight Cisgender Kids

I've been seeing a lot about bullying recently and most of the information I'm seeing is about straight cisgender kids. None of these initiatives focus mostly on LGBTQIA kids. And they should be more focused on LGBTQIA kids because they are the kids who experience most of the bullying. And it's always been that way. There's always been either one or more nasty little straight bullies going after a kid who's LGBTQIA.

And I like to rema...

Just Because You Have a Gay Son Doesn't Mean You Are Gay, Moms, and 'Fire Island' trailer: 'Pride and Prejudice' goes gay big time, Ryan Field Books

Just Because You Have a Gay Son Doesn't Mean You Are Gay, Moms, and 'Fire Island' trailer: 'Pride and Prejudice' goes gay big time

The other day some snarky, pushy straight woman who's writing m/m romance told me this, "My gay son says this is America people should write what the muse compels." 

Well!

Her gay son. She thinks because she has a gay son she knows more than me. I've only been published by all the gay presses in the US since the mid-90s. I've only been published by the gay European pres...

Televangelist Jim Bakker Alleges Preachers Are Being Killed Over Don't Say Gay Support, Ryan Field Books

Televangelist Jim Bakker Alleges Preachers Are Being Killed Over Don't Say Gay Support

I'm Catholic so I always find these American religious things interesting. Even the word Preacher is so foreign to me that I can't resist reading more about it. 

This article is about the once disgraced televangelist, Jim Bakker, who was married to Tammy Faye Bakker. They built an empire together called the PTL club and it all crashed and burned when Bakker was caught in a sex scandal. He served some time in pri...

Cooma Jail: A Prison Once Dedicated to ONLY Gay Men, Ryan Field Books

 Cooma Jail: A Prison Once Dedicated to ONLY Gay Men

This is scary. In Australia, there's an old prison that was dedicated to gay men for having gay sex. It was also used as a place to try to "eradicate homosexuality." Supposedly, it's the only homosexual prison in the entire world. One man claims the gay men were sent there to protect them from hetero prisons, but others disagree with that. They were trying to convert them. 

It doesn't sound as if they were very lucky. 

"We know they failed in the...

After Years of Tortuous Conversion Therapy, India's Openly Gay Prince is Fighting Back, Ryan Field Books

 After Years of Tortuous Conversion Therapy, India's Openly Gay Prince is Fighting Back

When I speak about the cultural appropriation of gay writers, actors, and other gay people in the arts deal with on a daily basis, it's not because I'm a mean person. It's because we...LGBTQIA...people have endured some of the worst treatment in the history of the world, and in some places, it's still happening. I find it highly offensive when someone straight and white, male or female, tells me they have it w...

Why Are So Many Straight White Women Writing Gay Romance? For Some Don't Say Gay Laws Aren't so New, Ryan Field Books

 Why Are So Many Straight White Women Writing Gay Romance?

This has always fascinated me. I totally understand straight white women reading gay romance novels. I love to read many things outside my own personal scope. I love novels written by black authors, with black content. However, I would NEVER take on writing a novel with black content myself. Never. That would be too many kinds of wrongs to list here. 

With that said, I'm linking to another article that discusses the concept of straight whi...