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Jul '00
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Bait and Switch
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In an experiment aimed at exposing the biases and inconsistencies of In- ternet filtering software, the cyber-activist organization Peacefire recently lifted anti-gay texts from websites and reported them to manufacturers of censorware, pointing out that they met the companies' published criteria for classification as censorable "hate speech." |
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Jun '00
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Safe?
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His first gay relationship started off "intense and fulfilling," recalls Bostonian Curt Rogers, 38. But his three-and-a-half-year relationship with Gary was also punctuated by increasingly violent outbursts, followed by
apologies and reconciliation. |
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May '00
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Hungarian Porn Director Slain
By: Jim D'Entremont
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On March 21, the meteoric career of Hungarian gay erotic video director Steve Cadro ended abruptly with his violent death. |
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May '00
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Still in Jail
By: Jim D'Entremont
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Early in 1985, after a kangaroo-court trial rife with violations of due process, Bernard Baran, a gay 19-year-old teacher's aide at a Pittsfield, Massachusetts, daycare center, was convicted of molesting five small children
and sentenced to three concurrent life terms. |
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Apr '00
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Praise Be Our Leaders
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The 20th century saw totalitarian regimes perfect the mass rally as a staged spectacle. It also saw mass demonstrations, sometimes
spontaneous, in which "people power" steered dramatic social change and peacefully toppled dictators. Which will be more the model for the Millennium March on Washington (MMOW), set for April 30th in the US capital?
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Mar '00
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Crappy Copper
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Toronto gets an unwelcome police chief
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Mar '00
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Grappling Jism
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The next time you savor a mouthful of semen (which, if it's not your own, isn't necessarily a great idea), pause to consider that you are tasting what could be the most highly evolved human tissue. |
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Feb '00
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Double Wrapped
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Many feel Vermont's Supreme Court handed gay people a Christmas present December 20, with a ruling that opens the door to marriage for same-sex couples. |
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Feb '00
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Death Squad Nightmare
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On New Year's Eve, some 120 people gathered in San Salvador for a party thrown by Entre Amigos, the shorthand for the Salvadoran Association for Integral Develo pment of Sexual Minorities. The celebrants were brave as well as festive-- and that was the point. |
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Feb '00
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Censorship Reprieve
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Imagine a law that makes it a crime punishable by 30 years in prison to doodle a drawing and keep it in your drawer, showing it to nobody. Could such a law be consistent with US's First Amendment guarantee of free expression? |
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Jan '00
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Special Attention
By: Michael Petrelis
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Sexually transmitted diseases supposedly can't tell if they are infecting a person of the homosexual, heterosexual, or any other orientation on the sexual
spectrum. |
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Dec '99
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Garden of Evergreen
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In a world where 10-year-boys sometimes reduce their little sisters to bawling with scary stories, pummel them into walking the dog when it's not their turn, and make like to stuff their hands down the kitchen garbage disposal, Raoul Wüthrich may be guilty of minor naughtiness-- or nothing at all. |
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Dec '99
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Rainbow Noose
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Did the politics of hate-crime and a thirst for vengeance short-shrift justice in the trial of Aaron McKinney? |
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Nov '99
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Banned in Boston
By: Jim D'Entremont
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Eclipsed by Cincinnati as the anti-sex capital of North America, Boston began backing away from its traditional commitment to prurient prudery in the 1960s. Recently, however, city authorities have taken steps to reaffirm Beantown's New England Puritan heritage. |
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Oct '99
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Never Again?
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Walk past the slightly dilapidated, century-old mansion in Haarlem's poshest neighborhood and things seem as they have for the past 20 years, since the building became home to the Brongersma Foundation, one of Europe's largest homosexual archives. But the image of only slow-motion demise misleads, for on the morning of August 20th, Amsterdam morals police, on orders from the Dutch Justice Ministry, raided the archive and sealed off the collection in preparation to seize it. |
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Sep '99
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Bears Against Hate
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If all goes well, Matthew Shepard will be hiking in Colorado next month to fight hate crimes. Matthew Shepard the teddy bear, that is. |
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Sep '99
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Please Arrest Our Readers
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You can't go the Bijou tonight in Toronto the bar is closed. But when it was open, you had to first turn down a dark alley, go through a side door, head down a set of stairs, and then get past the cashier, to whom you'd fork over a cover charge. As you stepped inside, you would see a AIDS awareness posters, images of gay sex flickering on the bar's video screens, and a clientele that would be hard to mistake for K-mart shoppers. |
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Aug '99
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Pennsylvania Sex Cops Nail Kids
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Did the children think of them selves as victims? Newberry Township police chief Bill Myers chuckles and then pauses. "I would say that they did, once it started it coming to light-- in other words, after the police became involved in it." |
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Aug '99
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Gay Priss Parade
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"More Booty, Less Rudy," was the slogan emblazoned on the front of a float belonging to the group Sexpanic in New York's gay pride march June 27th. |
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Aug '99
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Case Dismissed
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In a just America, the surprise wouldn't be that a judge dismissed charges against journalist Bruce Mirken, but that it took almost a year to stop a groundless prosecution. |
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Jul '99
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Scotched
By: Jim D'Entremont
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The business pages of the Edinburgh Scotsman quietly reported on March 3 that the venerable Bank of Scotland, the oldest surviving clearing bank in the United Kingdom, had entered into a multi-million-pound agreement with Robertson Financial Services, a key component of American televangelist and media mogul Marion "Pat" Robertson's money-generating apparatus. |
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Jun '99
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Into the Wilderness
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Asking whether the boys responsible for the Columbine massacre were "really" gay misses the point. Like a wick in gasoline, their relationship was soaked with homoeroticism. Whether they had girlfriends or not, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris shared a pact-unto-death that, if twisted horribly, also was romantic. |
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May '99
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Science Abuse
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The National Association for the Rehabilitation and Treatment of Homosexuality (NARTH) hasn't exactly won hearts and minds promoting its idea that homosexuality is a "disease" that doctors can "cure." |
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May '99
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Bombs Away!
By: Armour B. Swift
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Lesbian and gays have a new arrow in our quivers in our fight for human rights. Will our leaders be man and dyke enough to shoot it? |
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Apr '99
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States' Rights
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Are "States' Rights" making a comeback, this time as a plank in a progressive platform? |
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Apr '99
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Hug a Whale
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The quadruped, feathered, and furry are breathing easier this month. No more cruel traps are being set to hunt animals for their pelts, no more rabbits are blinded testing eyeliner, and gone are the factory farms that forced pigs, chickens, and calves to live short and brutish lives. So it seems, anyway, judging by the decision of the Humane Society of the US to turn its attention to toughening America's sex laws. |
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Apr '99
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Another Murder
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Matthew Shepard has become a household name. By contrast, almost no ink anywhere will be spilt about the killing of Jeffrey R. Ford, a 36-year-old burglar described as "effeminate," who was found strangled in his cell last June 29th in the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, which, despite its name, is not a hospital but a prison. |
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Mar '99
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Fire Exit?
By: John Earl
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Has "Don't ask, don't tell," the policy reviled by gay rights groups of barring openly gay people from the US military, actually served as a welcome escape hatch for queers-- and others-- caught unhappily in the armed forces? That, ironically, is the spin put by the US military on the record number of homosexual discharges in 1998. Are they trying to cover something up? |
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Mar '99
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New Labour or Neo Nazi?
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If Oscar Wilde were starting his two-year prison term at Reading Gaol to day instead of in the last century for sex with teenage boys, by the time he was set to go free, he would have to contend with the "Third Service." Which is to say, he might never go free at all. |
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Mar '99
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Bloody Revenge?
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For months after his murder, America's largest gay groups proclaimed, lobbied, and fund-raised with the corpse of Matthew Shepard as their mascot, without ever acknowledging where their pressure was likely to lead-- to two more deaths. |
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