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“There just hasn’t been the same volume of material created for queer women as there has been for men.”

Interviewer: Do you think you would have been so happy if you had not been a writer? Wodehouse: No. I think a writer’s life is the ideal life. I can never understand these fellows like Evelyn Waugh who did not always have the idea of being a writer. I always wanted to be a writer….Read More

Glad Day Bookshop, Canada’s oldest gay bookstore, now makes just eight sales a day. Owner John Scythes wants to make one more: he recently announced that the store is for sale.

“On Thursday, The Weekly Standard, a conservative news and opinion magazine, sent subscribers an email with the subject “Congress to mandate pro-homosexual education?” If the word “homosexual” doesn’t send off a red flag of right-wing homophobia, then every other word in the email will. Salon’s Justin Elliott, who first reported on the story, described it as…Read More

With better production values, a more fluid plot, and several more believable characters, the American adaptation of “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo” should be a definite improvement on the Swedish one. But it isn’t. With everything else aside, the main difference between the two is this: in the Swedish film, Lisbeth Salander is angry,…Read More

“It has been a fascinating phenomenon in the discussion around publishing how adversarial people get around other people’s choices. So if someone says “I like an ebook,” a person will respond “Ohhh, I can’t believe — how can you do that?” It’s like that obnoxious person who you don’t want to go out to dinner…Read More

“All of us who call ourselves feminists have made a willful step outside of the value system and behavioral rules of our society. We all do things that are “unladylike,” screwing or not-screwing or screwing in unconventional ways, growing out our body hair or ditching the makeup or heels or wearing unpretty clothes, swearing, getting…Read More