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Podcast SF Chronicle on Randy Shilts 2007-03-11 00:47:04 The San Franciso Chronicle, where Shilt’s reported, created this podcast, as part of their reflections on the AIDS Crisis twenty-five years later. AIDS at 25: Reflections on Reporter Randy Shilts is a short yet effective overview of Shilt’s life and career. Importantly, it rehearses a few of the central criticisms surrounding Shilts and his goundbreaking work: the controversy surrounding bathouses and Shilt’s own HIV status.
Although I wanted the podcast to last at least another fifteen minutes, I am pleased to have it on my Ipod. Check it out.
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Randy Shilts And the Band Played On 2007-03-09 01:13:07 Finally, as the doctorate appears in my rear view mirror, I am able to dive into the primordial ooze of my interests. I do not know how anyone could focus solely on literary doctoral work. It can be so stultifying, given that much of what passes through the academy these days has more to do with politics and the cult of personality than pedagogy or passion. As an antidote, I focused something of myself on my fiction and other interests whenever I could. Fortunately, by lining up a couple of publications, I was able to follow the threads of them during the last six months of my degree work.
This led, in part, to my writing a summary of AIDS literature, an article on writers impacted by the epidemic, and conducting research on one of the epidemic’s significant authors. Along the way, I found my interest in the nexus of gay writing and the AIDS epidemic reinvigorated. This has led to several new critical goals. In anticipation of them, I have decided to reread Rand
Fuknut Anne Coulter 2007-03-05 18:26:24 Recently Anne Coulter evidenced her sexually transgressive nature, which negates her ability to perform through the traditions of marriage, family, and domestic work. As these things go, Coulter’s comments are what they are–the evidence of a repressed sexuality through the appearance of homophobia.
But who can take Coulter earnestly, given the hypocrisy of her existence: a person who profits from posing as a “right winger.” Coulter is anything but conservative. In fact, according to the ideologies that underpin the position she purportedly occupies, Coulter is herself culturally transgressive. Hence, the fulcrum for her homophobia, which finds its basis in her sex and sexual transgressions. This constellation of hegemonic deviation suggests Coulter, who is afraid to come out as a lesbian, is also afraid to come out as transgender. Despite conforming with a look of the “fuckable blonde,” Coulter’s transgressions, nay&ndash
Blog Redux? 2007-03-02 19:47:50 While reviewing the search returns during recent research, I stumbled upon an interview with poet Robert Gibbons. I am not familiar with Gibbons work, but I found one of his responses very interesting. The interview, which is from The Slow Trains Ten, explored the topic of writers and the creative life:
Interviewer: Yeats said that the only things worth writing about are sex and death — what would your list include?
Gibbons: Here’s how I’d view that statement, which wouldn’t contradict Freud or Lacan at all. Freud single-handedly discovered the “Death Drive.” In his very technical tract Beyond the Pleasure Principle, he leads us along in a very long, biologically esoteric way, proving that the only thing “beyond” the drive toward “pleasure” is the drive toward the ultimate peace of inorganic matter. It’s fascinating! When I write best I’m riding these two drives at the same time, these two waves that language Read more:Blog
Got Paul Reed or Max Exander? 2007-03-01 03:09:34 Have Paul Reed or Max Exander books you would like to donate to Decker’s research?
Especially needful of:
Mansex and Other Stories
LoveSex: the Horny Relationship Chronicles of Max Exander
LeatherSex: Cruel Affections
Swollen: Writings on Sex
Copies of articles, review, interviews, pictures, & anecdotes also sought
There may be other erotica titles that I am–as of yet–unaware of. If these books are collecting dust on your bookshelf, consider putting them to good use. If this sounds good, let me know.
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Slip of Skin 2007-02-28 04:12:06 If the slip of skin between the glove and the sleeve made Victorian wood, then I have stumbled upon its modern referent–the slip of skin just over the sneaker between the ankle sock and the pant cuff.
Yesterday, routinely walking through an MIT library, I was struck by this realization as I made my way back to my seat. I turned the corner, and as I walked along, my eye glimpsed a slip of skin showing from a pair of legs extended across my path. That was all I saw–that thin crescent of skin, but it was all it took to thicken my cock.
My eyes linger on that slip of skin, enamoured with its shy promise, which reveals enough of what it conceals to hint at the golden flanks of manbeef beyond, the hirsute highlands upon which my fingers dally before tarrying on.
Not all skin slips prompt such responses, and one knows the ones that do–viscerally, but I suspect this is common knowledge. Looking for a pic to accompany this post, I found myself trolling through www.F Read more:Slip
Joey Stefano (1968 - 1994) 2007-02-24 19:23:28 This is one of several videos that have surfaced on the web recently featuring Joey Stefano. This interview of unknown origins fascinates me, and I would like to review the remaining footage. If anyone knows anything about this interview or knows how I could obtain a copy, I would appreciate hearing from you.
Although I have begun reflecting on Stefano in my fiction, I plan to expand on this writing and hope to explore other writing about Stefano. Suffice it to say, he is one of Decker’s most durable and prolific muses:
Some of my observations while watching the interview:
Damn, Stefano was a fine looking man
Stefano offers a firsthand recounting of his start in the porn industry
At the time of the interview, Stefano was twenty-four years old, which dates the footage to 1993
Stefano offers an explanation of what makes a good versus a bad porn film
Stefano refers to his latest film, which was titled “Joey”
Stefano claims to have made 38 films
Stef
Podcast Pick: In Our Time 2007-02-23 03:42:49 Mired in a culture that too often chooses style–or what sells for it–over substance, In Our Time turns the white noise pink. A show which actually discusses ideas in all their shapes and sizes: history, art, literature, philosophy, science, and more. Moreover, these topics are discussed with actual scholars and experts as opposed to photogenic tongue chewers.
In Our Time is what The Connection used to be and what PRI’s Open Source can be at times (Ah, remember when NPR actually had substance and Christopher Lydon used to host The Connection? Lydon, I will give you the hummer to end all hummers, if you can calibrate Open Source to the finer register of The Connection. Please drop the pop and keep the culture).
My recent favorites from the In Our Time archive include “Heart of Darkness,” “The History of Hell,” “Pastoral Literature,” and “The History of Utopia.” Check out the very cool subject cloud to find
Yayoi Neko’s Incubus 2007-02-21 20:36:13 Few manga artists prompt me to actually buy their book, but from the moment I saw Yayoi Neko’s Incubus, I knew I would buy a copy. As a gay male, Yaoi can easily become tedious, when its pornographic function is allowed to eclipse the foundational elements of narrative. When this happens, I fail to see much of a distinction between manga and studio produced porn—despite manga’s modish status as an import from across international and gender borders. In its aesthetic and material consumption, much Yaoi is a cock sucking cousin of studio porn. However, Incubus offers something different.
From the title, with its hints of creative and intelligent forethought, to the striking art, I was an instant fan. But, the decision maker was the art itself. The angularity of the thin line work and the minimalism of the page and panel designs are visually arresting and provide a rich atmospheric tableau for the story. For a striking example, see the sixth page from the end of chapter one.
In th
Add Deckerotica to Your Web Space 2007-02-21 01:20:43 Greetings, in preparation for upcoming announcements to support projects like the Young Bottoms in Love print compilation and other exciting upcoming projects, Decker is interested in growing Deckerotica’s reading community.
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Young Bottoms in Love 2007-02-20 03:32:22 Today, I met with Tim Fish for coffee in Harvard Square. Tim surprised me by bringing a copy of the Young Bottoms in Love book. The YBIL compilation collects the best of the eponymously titled gay comics series that ran for four years at PopImage.com. I am thrilled that several of my scripts have been included:
Higher Education
Into the Woods
Master Bates Castle
Grinding Curiosity
Falling
“Higher Education” is the first comic script I ever wrote, and “Falling,” which incidentally was the first story I wrote for Deckerotica, receives its debut in this printing.
I thumbed through the book for nearly an hour. Tim did a fantastic job with its layout and design, and it was a bit dazzling to see so many of my scripts in print. Throughout the YBIL series, my scripts have been splendidly rendered by some of the series most talented artists: my favorite–Tim Fish, as well as, Kyle Cummings and Paige Braddock! They have also benefited from the co
Fuknut Tim Hardaway 2007-02-19 03:43:12 This post initiates a new recurring blog feature. Periodically, as events warrant, Decker will announce a Fuknut award recipient. How does a person become deserving of a Fuknut? A cursory review of the inaugural winner should sufficiently reveal the criteria.
Former NBA player Tim Hardaway recently revealed his repressed homosexuality through his homophobic self (homophobia’s the symptom; repressed homosexuality’s the diagnosis. Yolanda, I’d start making your down low husband condom it, and if I were you, I’d get an HIV test before you find yourself lost in an E. Lynne Harris novel). Hardaway asserted:
“You know, I hate gay people, so I let it be known.” Hardaway said. “I don’t like gay people and I don’t like to be around gay people. I am homophobic. I don’t like it. It shouldn’t be in the world or in the United States.”
Hardaway’s comment produces strange fruit, and if he would like to avoid finding himself swaying in the breeze, he might w
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