Should I go fishing or get a friend to hang around? Celebrated GAY Summer 2012

The New Dire Heteronormativity: GAY Winter 2012

Almost all of it is very OTM, but then ...

It’s a typically ageist, sophomoric attitude that suggests gays are only interested in sex with a simulacrum of themselves, that their gay elders couldn’t possibly have anything to offer in the way of experience, wisdom, or perspective, and that intergenerational sex is something akin to certain styles of torture. Hopefully my upcoming film Gerontophilia will help to dispel this tiresome partisanship.

Hopefully it does, BLaB, because pretty much every movie of yours I've seen up until this point (and regardless of level of quality otherwise) has pretty much reinforced the hotness as "not old, not fat, not particularly femme" archetype.

well, he's getting older.

(I hesitate to call it a movement anymore, considering how deeply entrenched it now seems to be in its assimilationist agenda)

Yeah, but it's been this way for 40 years, national politics and the passing of generations has just given it a political sheen, and the assimilation is now with the Boring Str8s rather than the Big Gay Ken Dolls. Or as Harvey Milk's friend said to him of mid '70s SF leathermen, "If they want to be liberate themselves, why do they all look alike?"

(Addressed in an earlier column: http://www.vice.com/read/wondering-gays-are-like-snowflakes)

I don't know what this Gerontophilia will be like, but it sounds like BLaB has a change of pace coming. Just in time for my dotage.

gold, btw:

“I’ve often thought about having sex with a dude, but then I meet someone like you”

Yeah, I LOL'd at that one.

I really don't think I'm a Kinsey 6. I wish it wasn't too late to start muching carpet, wimmins like me so much more than mens.

muNching, but u knew that.

no, I figured you meant mulching

Oh god there's an expiry date?

Sooner or later, everyone switches to hard wood.

I would only mulch if she asked for it.

This had BETTER be better than Harold and Maude:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bruce-labruces-gerontophilia-shoot-summer-canada-327671

Oh jeez, Eric, I forgot to nominate No Skin Off My Ass for best of the '90s.

Wow, he's only 48. Actually figured he was a little older.

Carpet munching overrated (by men)

no, that's me

xp

they’re boring, unadventurous, and parochial queens who think vaginas smell like fish.

wait, they DON'T? That's theoretically my favorite thing about them.

His columns (Blab for Exclaim!, Feelings for Eye) were always fantastic, too

I like sushi as much as the next guy, but ...

Now I'm thinking about seasoning a vagina

Oh, sorry to presumptively upgrade from 'lurker' to 'active' on this thread. I am computer-bound this month in a place that is not home

you're reminding us of the time you looked through the wrong end of a camera finder

New meaning to the word artichoke.

idgi @ alfred

hi owen

i liked that BLaB article but then i was mildly amused/mildly eye-rolly about the original piece

Oh, if it smells like sushi, forget it. I'm holding out for a nice piece of flounder.

I am surprised BLaB has never staged a sex scene to "Can Your Pussy Do the Dog?" Or has he?

or George Clinton's "Do Fries Go With That Shake?"

really craving sushi now

it's funny seeing a few gay "guides" in str8 publications emphasise that str8 men aren't seducible etc, it's like oh ok if u say so lol

the new generation of gay dudes is far less skilled at flirting than the new generation of straight ones.

Gentrification kills creativity.

Bruce's seminal article on injaculation, v influential

http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/cum-v8n5

*NSFW

but John Cheever was still getting blown and writing stories into his seventies

sorry to presumptively upgrade from 'lurker' to 'active' on this thread

You should only apologize for presumptively downgrading from "active" to "lurker."

when i see the thread title i start singing carly simon i think

you probably think this thread is about you!

how much research led you to that conclusion, Alfred?

Flirting is just not cost-effective for me. Gimme gimme gimme my man after midnight.*

*know this principally from the Leather Nun cover

ahahahahahaxp

surm, do u know where the thread title is from?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtCL1xq6hNU

how much research led you to that conclusion, Alfred

honey I've got years of post-doctoral research backing me up

injaculation! who knew?!

So many MN-based musical acts I'm so not into.

There'll always be:

Prince &
Jam &
Lewis &
Owl City

no i didn't know that morbzu!

hinjaculation! who knew?!

Who knew it would hurt like hell to piss later?!

btw the Leather Archives & Museum in Chicago has one section devoted to the growth of the Bear movement out of the S&M/Leather scene, and the title on the wall is "From Sir to Grrrr."

They also have a nice library I could've browsed for hours.

could you get an interlibrary loan

lol @ perineum is like Ontario: Yours to Discover.

http://farm1.staticflickr.com/89/220866771_08fa474e61.jpg

hi owen

loved that bruce article

def want to check out the leather archives when i'm in chicago

morbs i own (and love) that leather nun 12" in case i lost any cred in your eyes with the ABBA poll ;)

never! :D

I feel like such an awful queer for not having seen "No Skin" yet, esp after having had a New Queer Cinema phase