Today's Fresh Blogs...

• Ladies and Gentlemen... here is SABINA ENGLAND! (CHEERS AND JEERS)

  Published: June 15, 2007, 1:37 pm

  Tags: Art, Beer, Bizarre, Broadway, Conversations, Deaf, Disabilities, Feminism, Glared At, Hated, Horror, Misfits, Muslims, Outcasts, Playwriting, Psychos, Punk Rock, Queer, Riot Grrrrrrls, Scary, Sexy, Strange, Taqwacores, Theatre, Unpopular, Violence, Wackos, Weirdos

  (WARNING!!!!  If you get easily offended by profane usage or foul abuse of the lovely fragile English language, then do NOT proceed!!!!) My name  is Sabina England. I'm a very rude playwright, I come from an Indian Muslim family, born in Great Britain, raised in the UK, USA and India. I have been Deaf as a baby. This means, my dear

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• You learn something new every day.

  Published: August 2, 2007, 1:32 pm

  Tags: Queer Issues

  This really pisses me off. A BBC News piece talks to transsexual woman Julie Bindel about her regrets of and opposition to having a sex change operation, but made it pretty clear that it was her identity as a feminist that was largely due to this opinion: Radical feminists have ideological reasons for opposing sex change surgery. To them, the

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• Sob Stories: Do You Feel Sorry For Laura "JT Leroy" Albert Yet?

  Published: August 8, 2007, 10:00 am

  Tags: Cindy Adams, Jt Leroy, Laura Albert, Queer Sultry Summer, Sob Stories

  So Laura Albert, who spent years pretending that her books were written by an abused AIDsy teen, feels that it is unfair that she's been successfully sued for fraud. Today, she tells Cindy Adams that...

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• Women's Day in South Africa

  Published: August 9, 2007, 5:16 pm

  Tags: Queer Issues

  Today is Women's Day in South Africa. On August 9, 1956, more than 20,000 women marched to government buildings in Pretoria and presented this petition protesting laws that made African women carry special passes. Since then, the holiday has become a day to reflect on whether the country's laws are truly serving women and advancing equality. So

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• Is your index finger longer than your ring finger?

  Published: August 10, 2007, 10:24 am

  Tags: Queer Issues

  Do you remember in High School, when your friends would compare the length of their index fingers and their ring fingers to see who was gay? Well now scientists are researching these traits as well. A New York Magazine article, written by a self-identified gay male author, delves into the research behind supposedly "gay" traits--hair whorls,

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• Girly guys make better baby daddies.

  Published: August 13, 2007, 3:40 pm

  Tags: Queer Issues

  For the most part, evolutionary psychology scares me. And studies that try and test what people find more attractive are usually full of variables that can't always be accounted for (cultural preferences, personal preferences, oh I don't know racism). Putting all that to the side, this study found that women are more attracted to "feminine" men.

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• Can everybody just relax on all this gay stuff?

  Published: August 22, 2007, 9:21 am

  Tags: Queer Issues

  In response to the uncomfortable and controversial clip of Bill Richardson claiming that being gay is choice, O' Reilly demands, "I think everybody should relax on the gay stuff." When Papa Bear (as Colbert lovingly calls him) has consistently failed to relax on any of this "gay stuff." Media Matters has more.

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• Ditto attmepts to clarify which gay men she dislikes

  Published: August 22, 2007, 4:58 pm

  Tags: Beth Ditto, The Gossip, The Advocate, Queer, Fashion, Nme, Gay

  Beth. You're a radical queer. And Jim Davidson is the head of the Equal Opportunities Commission.She then twists some more:The problem is that you're supposed to feel this kinship because we're all queers and we're all in this together, and then you go to this styling shoot or something and it's gay men treating women like shit. I think

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• The Politics of Outing

  Published: September 4, 2007, 4:06 pm

  Tags: Queer Issues

  counterproductive. It turns queer identity into a "gotcha!" and has few positive political outcomes.

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• Hatred in the City of Peace

  Published: September 17, 2007, 2:31 pm

  Tags: Right Wing Fatheads, Activism, Terrorism, Queer Culture, Social Action, Israel

  in different cities, with queer teachers of different genders, and at least twice had students in my class whose gender to this day remains unknown. All of this was fully accepted, encouraged, and supported. It wasn't a big deal when I came out; the first pride parade I marched in was captured on film by my math teacher and her

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• San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders' emotional change of heart

  Published: September 21, 2007, 2:01 pm

  Tags: Queer Issues

  In an emotional statement yesterday, San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders came out in support of same sex marriage. Sanders, a republican, had been expected (and expecting) to veto a resolution in support of same sex marriage but could not go through with it at the last minute: "I just could not bring myself to tell an entire group of our community

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• Trans/intersex advocacy org attacked by NYPD

  Published: September 27, 2007, 2:17 pm

  Tags: Queer Issues

  consisting largely of queer and transgender people of color, witnessed two officers attempting to detain a young Black man outside of the bar. Several of our community members asked the officers why they were making the arrest and using excessive force. Despite the fact that our community was on the sidewalk, gathered peacefully and not

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• Captain Sound Bite Breaks the Fart Barrier, All Hell Breaks Loose

  Published: October 1, 2007, 2:56 pm

  Tags: Harvey, Dale Levitski, Captain Sound Bite, Queer As Folk

  Sharon Gless character from Queer As Folk was just fiction. Mother Dale, who also gave him the plane ticket to audition for Top Chef in L.A., sounds like just the sort of mother any gay boy would be proud to have.The interview does end with an intriguing tidbit: "Dale says he wishes it was his job to be on Top Chef every season...." Given the

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• Queer Eye is Ba-ack!

  Published: October 2, 2007, 11:19 am

  Tags: Queer Eye

  My boyfriends from "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" are back in town for their newest and final season of the show that revolutionized the reality makeover show as we know it. Here are some outtakes of the boys goofing off with hot-ass Tyson Beckford. The Emmy Award-winning Bravo original reality series will be kicking off the season with a

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• La Looch

  Published: October 2, 2007, 11:43 am

  Tags: Queer Eye

  the final season of the QUEER EYE begins with a show so camp that I would venture to say it's the gayest show Bravo has ever done, which is ironic since it's a Pageant of the most popular straight guys in QUEER EYE history. It's also ironic since Bravo has aired a cavalcade of camp. Who better to host this Pageant to end all Pageants than

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