20220613 Newsletter
Gay art magazine, looking for opportunities to bypass the Alphabet Soup, Trans reporters quite Guardian, Chapter 3 of Gay Book done, Bechdel Test, Lil Nas X fights back.
INTERESTING GAY ART MAGAZINE
https://www.juturna-magazine.com/
There is a video about the magazine at the end of this news post.
I did a post of online Gay magazines, not a lot of them exist. I was surprised. Do let me know about magazines that I have over looked.
FIND SOMETHING THAT THE LOCAL LGBTQXYZ WON’T DO AND DO IT.
I have started a campaign for the city of Dallas to have a Human Rights Commission. This is something most large cities in the United States have. Dallas doesn’t have one and most people who move here are surprised to find this out.
The local LGBTQXYZ establishment won’t push for this or support it because they are coopted by the conservative establishment. So, I started a Facebook page to start a campaign for a Dallas Human Rights Commission.
Now in most cities in America they do have a human rights commission so this not likely to be an activity for you to adopt.
My point is that the local LGBTQXYZ establishment is probably neglecting the needs or wants of the Gay community in some way, and organizing to fulfill that need or want is a way of getting a base of support in the Gay community and bypassing the LGBTQXYZ establishment.
Additionally, when you start fulfilling a need or want, it raises questions as to why the LGBTQXYZ establishment wasn’t addressing that need or want.
TWO TRANS JOURNALISTS QUIT THE GUARDIAN
https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5vx8j/guardian-trans-journalists
This is the last-ditch effort to intimidate The Guardian. If The Guardian starts to critically report on trans, the idea of trans being the liberal/left future and opponents being the evil reactionaries will collapse.
PEW RESEARCH ON PERCENTAGE OF YOUTH WHO THINK THEY ARE TRANSGENDER.
Not that I have any evidence at all, but I think the percentages reported is rather high.
CHAPTER 3 OF THE GAY BOOK DONE
I finally got it written and edited and released. I put a link at the bottom of the newsletter.
It is about Gay emergence which includes coming out, defining a Gay identity and agenda, and countering straight imprinting that occurs when Gays start out in all straight environments including the family.
What surprised me was that I really didn’t know what the next chapter would be. I have a lot of ideas about specific topics, but I want this book not to be just a collection of essays. I want it to be a theory or philosophy of Gay life and where all my essays about specific topics fit into a coherent theoretical frame work as possible.
I am thinking on how the next chapter might be about the counter identities of LGBTQXYZ initialism and “queer” preclude having a significant Gay identity or realization that Gay life is different.
Initialism and “queer” reduce being Gay to just a private thing you carry around in a bag, Gays aren’t different and make the Gay agenda just about avoiding discrimination and assimilation. Stupid sayings like “Love is love is love,” and “Love knows no gender,” are enabled by initialism
What I think Gays who complain about transmen demanding sex from Gays and other Alphabet Soup excesses need to realize is that these excesses have as one cause the failure to develop a theory about being Gay so there is a void which others can fill and define what Gay is against our wishes.
GAY MOVIES THAT FAILED THE BECHDEL TEST
I did a post on this, but I thought I would have the list in this newsletter also. Basically, the whole Bechdel Test is about a feminism which complains everything is supposed to be about me. The “Fire Island” movie controversy was the inevitable results of self-entitlement by a certain type of feminist. When I mention “Alphabet Soup scolds,” it is based on stuff that actually happens.
1. “Boys in the Band.” Failed.
https://bechdeltest.com/view/3681/the_boys_in_the_band/
2. “Moonlight” https://bechdeltest.com/view/7421/moonlight/
3. “Happy Together” https://bechdeltest.com/view/3232/chun_gwong_cha_sit_(happy_together)/
4. “Maurice” https://bechdeltest.com/view/2644/maurice/
5. “My Beautiful Laundrettte” https://bechdeltest.com/view/4949/my_beautiful_laundrette/
6. “A Single Man” https://bechdeltest.com/view/697/a_single_man/
7. “Brokeback Mountain” https://bechdeltest.com/view/2037/brokeback_mountain/
8. “The Birdcage” https://bechdeltest.com/view/4977/the_birdcage/
9. “Philadelphia” https://bechdeltest.com/view/5919/philadelphia/
10. “Milk” A biographical movie about Harvey Milk. https://bechdeltest.com/view/5919/philadelphia/
11. “My Own Private Idaho” https://bechdeltest.com/view/7650/my_own_private_idaho/
12. “Weekend” https://bechdeltest.com/view/4601/weekend/
13. “Boy Erased” https://bechdeltest.com/view/8832/boy_erased/
14. “Handsome Devil” https://bechdeltest.com/view/9369/handsome_devil/
15. “Love is Strange” https://bechdeltest.com/view/6195/love_is_strange/
16. “Kiss of the Spiderwoman” https://bechdeltest.com/view/6792/kiss_of_the_spider_woman/
17. “Mysterious Skin” https://bechdeltest.com/view/2817/mysterious_skin/
18. “Behind the Candelabra” https://bechdeltest.com/view/4168/behind_the_candelabra/
19. “The Crying Game,” https://bechdeltest.com/view/3141/the_crying_game/
20. “God’s Own Country” https://bechdeltest.com/view/8394/god's_own_country/
21. “Love, Simon,” https://bechdeltest.com/view/8142/love,_simon/
22. “The Normal Heart,” https://bechdeltest.com/view/6124/the_normal_heart/
23. “Nighthawks” https://bechdeltest.com/view/9729/nighthawks/
24. “Tropical Malady” https://bechdeltest.com/view/1498/tropical_malady/
25. “Torch Song Trilogy” https://bechdeltest.com/view/3075/torch_song_trilogy/
26. “Another Country” https://bechdeltest.com/view/5761/another_country/
27. “Get Real” https://bechdeltest.com/view/2440/get_real/
28. “Velvet Goldmine” https://bechdeltest.com/view/516/velvet_goldmine/
29. “Howl” https://bechdeltest.com/view/2778/howl/
I did a post on this.
GAY MEN ARE HAVING FUN, HANNA ROSIN CONDEMNS “FIRE ISLAND.”
Updated post about Rosin with links to more articles that appeared, such as the LA Times, NBC news, more Alphabet media.
Also, Alison Bechdel disavowed Hanna Rosin’s tweet about the Bechdel Test.
However, there hasn’t been a discussion whether the Bechdel Test is something that is going to be abused.
After all it was a test developed to complain about movies that weren’t about women and was applied to movies which weren’t reasonably expected to be about women. Was it really surprising that it was used to attack the movie “Fire Island”?
LIL NAS X FIGHTS BACK
Chapter Three