Author archive

This week in type: Pixelated System font, rejecting a manuscript over type choices, and SOTA videos    (2015.11.05)

(2015.11.05; posted 2017.06.27)

Keph Senett’s “problem” with money    (2015.11.05)

What out lesbian hack Keph Senett calls “partnerships” are the unethical practice of taking sources’ money to write glowingly about them. And that’s OK with the Story Board

“They did a lot else other than die”    (2015.10.26)

Gore Vidal, about his nephew, who died of AIDS: “We should try to recall that the victims of this plague have often had splendid lives. And, certainly, they did a lot else other than die”

A surprising subject for the ‘New Yorker’    (2015.10.25)

Michael Nava, Mexican-American homosexualist author of Mexican-American-homosexualist mystery novels

Kile Ozier: Not forgotten    (2015.10.25)

Kile Ozier: Not forgotten by the Federation of Gay Games after all

Twitter, the natural cyberbullying medium    (2015.10.25)

Michael Wolff: “Twitter waits for the unschooled to misspeak, then it mugs them” (also Brent Simmons)

John August’s “straightjacket”    (2015.10.25)

John August: The screenplay format is just a set of assumptions, one of them being the only typeface you can use is Courier

An immediately recognizable gay boy (21st-century edition)    (2015.10.22)

In All Out, a dual autobiography with his dad Kevin, young 21st-century gay ginger Alex Newman shows his life story is exactly the same as most gay boys’ from time immemorial

Movies lying about reality    (2015.10.20)

Ask John August: When reality does not fit Syd Field’s three-act structure, reality doesn’t get made into a movie