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Hooray! "Project Runway" is back and boy am I excited. Who knew that a show about fashion designers could be so informative? Before the show, I had no idea that there were so many different fabrics, that it took so much work to make a garment, or that straight men designed clothes. Well, maybe Jeffrey Sebelia was a fluke. One thing you have to admit is that of all the so-called “queer” occupations, fashion designer takes the cake for being the most no-brainer. More
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Gay
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Social insecurities, we all have them. They run the gamut of anxieties from “Do I look fat?” to “Will he call me back?” But for all the time we spend worrying over the security of our romantic futures, no one ever really seems to worry about something that is much more fundamental to survival: our financial futures. More
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Gay
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When I was growing up, I always thought that the correct term for homosexuals was "gay". On television and in movies, it was always: “Oh, that’s the gay guy.” In contrast, the word “queer", which was used by the general public to describe our community as “strange” or “unusual", was not supposed to sit well with us. That was a dirty word, a derogatory term frequently used as a metaphorical spit in the face. More
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Gay
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If you’re anything like me (i.e. wary of organized religion and opposed to all-around cheer and merriment), then you’re probably wondering what’s with the annual hullaballoo that seems to infest people’s minds during this particular time of year. Endless lines at the register and throngs of people crowded into tiny, cramped little stores, everything leading to an even deeper hole in your wallet than was already there. Are any of these actually reasons to celebrate? More
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Usually around this time of year, people begin to compile their “Best of” lists. This week, I thought I’d jump on the bandwagon and compile a list of what I thought were some major gay events of the past year. These are the events that made our community; some were major and others not so much. All of them, however, were distinctly San Franciscan. More
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Gay
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Age ain’t nothing but a number, or so the saying goes. But how many people actually agree with that line of thinking? Ask anybody on the street what comes to their minds when they spot an intergenerational couple and you might find that their responses veer far from what you would expect. After all, how many of us can claim not to be cynics when we look at an older gentleman with a much younger lover? More
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Gay
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It’s human nature to make assumptions about things that you don’t really understand. We’re all guilty of that, so it’s hard to fault others for making guesses about you, so long as they are willing to change their views after meeting you. But what happens when people refuse to change their assumptions? What happens when ignorant, pre-conceived notions become misinformed, lasting impressions? More
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Gay
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Last week, I touched on the topic of masculinity vs. homosexuality, and how I believed that the one doesn’t necessarily negate the existence of the other. If you’ll remember, I went into this whole discourse about the way most people think that a gay man is less than a man just because he may not be overtly "manly". This week, I’d like to expand on that subject. More
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Gay
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We live in times of relative enlightenment, when “girl power” is less slogan and more mantra and when we might soon have a “Madame President". To a certain extent popular culture and politics have heightened our senses to the positivity of feminism and self empowerment. But in a community like ours, where gender assignments are shaky at best, there lurks a question in the shadows of this “girls can do it better” awareness: what does equalization between the sexes mean for gays? More
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Gay
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Paper or plastic? Boxers or briefs? Gay or straight? Since when has life ever been a one or the other deal? There are a lot of us who, although gay, don’t live the typically “gay” lifestyle. You know, that imagined life of hard partying, hard drugs and even harder sex. We are rather middle of the road when it comes to being neither fully in nor out, neither extrovert nor introvert. But does being MOTR mean we don’t have the same desires? And does it make those desires, or us, seem any less gay? More
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