Author archive

‘I was always sober enough to take in what was going on around me, unlike so many others in Montreal’    (2011.03.11)

Steve Galluccio remembers Montreal in the ’80s. I kind of do too

The amorality of anonymous comments    (2011.03.10)

At some point, you’re going to have to snap out of your denial. Comments are a proven failure on news sites and are a minefield of personal harm everywhere

What happens when you try to interview a former reality-show contestant    (2011.03.08)

Some network apparatchik stops the subject from answering questions

What’s Grindr really for? Joel Simkhai still won’t say    (2011.03.08)

Grindr manifestly is not used for “friends,” to “fall in love,” or to “have a sexual relationship,” despite the disingenuousness of Joel Simkhai

The notion that ‘the notion that black people are more homophobic is bullshit’ is bullshit    (2011.03.08)

Why? Because they’re “more vulgar” with their “bigotry”

Just how many ways are there to describe Rammstein?    (2011.03.06)

Claire Berlinski’s Times article on Rammstein was a warm-up act for her later book chapter on that topic. Also! She knows she’s a knockout

Ken Finkleman: Canada’s most contemptuous man    (2011.03.05)

Canada has a lot to answer for in its endemic tall-poppy syndrome. Still, nobody in Canada is less deserving of fame than Ken Finkleman

What keeps gay athletes in the closet? Journalists, for a start    (2011.03.04)

Straight reporters will do anything to keep us in the closet. They’re also the last to realize that, as a topic for journalists, “gays in sports” is over

This Week in Fagonomics (I)    (2011.03.02)

A recap of stories lazily reiterating the claim that gays are rich, which we aren’t.