Sunday, February 8, 2009

The Six-Million Dollar Blowjob, Part II

Kenneth Star Goes After the Gays

Found this at Grace the Spot.

So, Kenneth Star was this guy who spent six million dollars of taxpayer money to prosecute Bill Clinton for that one blowjob. Well, just to spread around the hate, he's going after the gays now. As despicable as this man is, the video some of the Californians have put together to combat him is one of the sweetest things I've seen in a while.




Book Review: The Realm of Possibility
Written by David Levithan (who, among other things, co-edited The Full Spectrum, a book of GLBTQ short stories that I'll get around to reviewing sooner or later), Realm of Possibility isn't a "gay book"--it's a book with a little bit of gayness in it. It's got twelve (if I remember right) chapters, each in different forms of poetry or crazy prose or even song lyrics, written by a different character. It's incredibly well done; each of the characters has their own distinct voice, personality, and story, from even the shortest of chapters, and the way the characters intertwine is gorgeously done. I'm reviewing this on here because a friend recommended it to me when I was looking for "gay books"--like I said, it's not really gay-with-a-capital-G, but it has quite a few queer characters, and they're treated as just part of the storyline. It makes me really happy--I can still get my dose of gay lit, but without the gayness bashing me over the head, without the gayness being the selling point of the book. Even without the slight degree of queerty, this is a really well written book, and y'all should check it out.

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1 comment:

  1. haha, that video was so adorable. and what a great song too! its so nice to see actual faces put to the movement

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