From FDL, a book salon on When Gay People Get Married: What Happens When Societies Legalize Same-Sex Marriage by Lee Badgett. Girl-girl kissing is not new — what is new is the openness with which girls are sampling from among their own. Guy Hocquenghem's frank, candid and provocative text "The Screwball Asses" was one that took stock of the desiring-politics of the gay liberation movement; queer cruising zine collective B.T.F.A discover that it still has a fresh take on sexual possibilities and the normalising power of phallocratic roles. Move over, metrosexuals: Meet the straight bears befriending the gays. The problem with urban gay meccas: A review of Another Country: Queer Anti-Urbanism by Scott Herring. Queer politics are influential in LGBT liberation movements — should this be embraced or is it an obstacle to taking the fight forward? Jesse Bering on polyamory chic, gay jealousy and the evolution of a broken heart. The great (gay) surname debate: Portia de Rossi wants to adopt wife Ellen DeGeneres' last name — is it retro, refreshing or something else entirely? A chronology of gay comic book characters: Mainstream comics have had more than their fair share of homosexual subtext almost since their inception. Stuart Biegel on his book The Right to Be Out: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in America's Public Schools. Forecasting adult sexual orientation: Is your child a "prehomosexual"? The Ivy League's big gay admission: Why kids are adopting a do ask, do tell policy to get into the ivory tower. Does "It Gets Better" make life better for gay teens? Understanding the suicide-prevention project and its critics (and more).
