Culture

Labor Day seemed the perfect time to bring you suggestions for something that requires no labor!  Reading.  Though we haven’t decided if this will be a regular feature, we bring to you today three book reviews of GLBT books.  If you find them helpful, and would like us to continue this feature, be sure...
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About this time last year, my girlfriend and I were thinking of starting up a horseracing Web site and thought it’d be cute to call it The Hoofington Post. We were pretty excited to find the domain name available, and given the liberal, progressive and fair-minded image of HuffPo and the boss lady...
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Hide and Seek was a favorite of mine. I was much taller than the other kids, so I couldn’t hide well, but I could run like the wind and beat them all to the base before the Seeker shouted, “All ye, all ye outs in free!” I loved to hide and I loved to...
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It’s downright fraudulent of me to even have my name listed as writer of this piece, because I’m lifting it right out of James Villanueva’s email from earlier this week. Wednesday morning, before I’d even had my fifth cup of coffee, I sleepily dashed off a quick note to James, telling him I’d...
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Summer is coming to an end. That means it’s back to school time across the country. The upcoming school year is a very special one for students at Riverdale High. On September 1, Archie Andrews and company welcome their first openly gay student, Kevin Keller. When this news hit the ‘net last spring, I...
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Recently, there has been a lot of screaming about “health care”.  Actually, this is a misnomer.  What people are screaming about isn’t “care,” it’s insurance.  It seems that the majority of people these days have decided that the two terms are the same, but as far as this granny sees it, they couldn’t be...
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When I was 18, and just out of high school, I was still in the closet and I had landed the butchest of jobs – retail associate in the china department at Macy’s. I spent my days matching china and silver for eager brides to be, and I don’t know, I guess after all that...
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Lori wrote her final Cruisin’ the Hood profile last week, so that must be why she all of a sudden changed that one policy we had around here, the one where she was the only editor allowed to drive the GayMobile. Yep, last Saturday morning she just tossed me the keys and...
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I pulled the GayMobile into a parking spot somewhere on the south side of Oklahoma City near Capitol Hill thinking I’d just hit the Starbucks for a nice Vanilla Frappuccino and head out to meet Gayborhood writer Paula Sophia Schonauer.  I popped into Starbucks without popping a quarter into the meter and exited not...
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Okay, I admit it, I don’t much like the traditional western religions.  Mainly because they don’t much like me. (For lack of space, I do not comment on Eastern and pagan religions.) Now, I do distinguish between the proclamations of the respective original prophets (at least Moses, and Jesus) and later teachings and preachings. So,...
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