Sullivan posts an e-mail from an evangelical reader who recently had a friend “come out” to him. The writer straddles the line, or tries to, in saying that he believes homosexuality is wrong, a sin, but that this won’t make him abandon his friend; and indeed, when the writer’s “Christianist” sister demanded to know if […]

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This is interesting. Since the Larry Craig incident there’s been an uptick in interest in one Laud Humphreys, whose 1970 work “The Tearoom Trade” was one of the first attempts to study, and explain, what happens anonymously in those men’s room stalls.
Humphreys noted that a great many of the men who got their jollies in […]

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Pericles thinks I’m milking this. Which I am. Because it’s hilarious. Which brings us to Dennis Perrin’s “Savior of the Men’s Room,” a rather inspiring - or something - tale of “Straight Man” Tucker Carlson’s bathroom heroics:
STRAIGHT MAN: Say there, fellas! Why the waterworks?
BOY 1: There’s a weird guy in there, Straight Man! He looked at me […]

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You might have seen that the wingers are baying for Larry Craig’s blood - or at least his Senate seat - while remaining curiously quiet about Sen. David Vitter’s little indiscretions. Aside from the fact that if Vitter resigned a Democratic governor would get to appoint his replacement - and Craig can safely be thrown to […]

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Following the Larry Craig story, it occurs to me that what he’s accused of doing - cruising for gay sex is a public toilet - is the very thing I wrote about a couple months back at Long’s Park.

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Not saying this couldn’t happen to a Democratic Senator/Rep, but it does seem rather odd that the party of “Hate teh Gay” seems so replete with, you know, gays.
How much self-loathing has to be involved for a closeted gay man to stump publicly, and vote for, anti-gay legislation?

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This is hilarious, and can’t possibly be true. Except it seems to be.
Back in 1994 - Blame the Clenis! - military leaders actually appear to have investigated the possibility of building a bomb that turned enemy soldiers queer:
As part of a military effort to develop non-lethal weapons, the proposal suggested, “One distasteful but completely non-lethal […]

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As per yesterday’s discussion on our new Surgeon General nominee, Mr. Harriet Miers (h/t citydweller), the question comes up, how legitimate is it to think that teh gay can be cured?
And it seems to all hinge upon how you define “gay.”
Are we defining gay in terms of specific homosexual acts? In other words, if you […]

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