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Doug Ireland and the Nikolai Alekseev circus: Lone Ranger fantasies in the...
I cover the waterfront: Nikolai Alekseev in full Battleship Potemkin gear, as Grand Marshal of Vancouver Pride, Canada, 2010 I hadn’t planned to say another word about Nikolai Alekseev, Russian...
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Nikolai Alekseev and Peter Tatchell respond: In solidarity, again
Tatchell and Alekseev, Moscow Pride, 2007 I believe — I’ve always believed — that everyone should have their say. That includes both Nikolai Alekseev and Peter Tatchell, whom I critiqued in the last...
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Sex imperialism
Let me take that off for you: Oprah’s liberation strip show In early 2001, Oprah Winfrey made a famous appearance at Madison Square Garden, for “V-Day,” Eve Ensler’s enormous, $1000-a-ticket benefit...
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In Russia they resist, too
September 24 demonstration in Moscow against homophobia in schools, and official neglect of Russia’s school system None of the Big News about gay Russia these days comes from Russia. Perhaps that’s a...
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He’s our bigot. Leave him alone.
L: Bad but unboring Russian activist holds easily comprehensible sign, Moscow, September 25; R: Good but boring Russian activists hold signs nobody cares about, Moscow, September 24. Police equally...
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Population panic: Homophobia, Islamophobia, anti-feminism, and the new...
“Concerning Race Suicide,” demographic warning from Puck (US), 1903. The posh upper-class people to the left are having too much fun to have babies, while the degenerate immigrant working-class mob on...
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General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi as you have never seen him before
The General is a man of destiny: Sisi (R, played by Romy Schneider) comforts the nation in its hour of distress Moving to Hungary not long after the revolutions of 1989, I spent my first few days in...
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Where’s Scott? Is his family ashamed of him?
Scott Lively at St. Basil’s: Silent partner No one cares where I am. My family gave up hope years ago. Lost soul that I am, this isn’t about me. No, a much bigger family just shoved its black sheep in...
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Kermanshah update
Closed door policy: Stone arch at the Taq-e Bostan site, a complex of Sassanid rock carvings near Kermanshah All the men detained in the October 9 raid on a party in Kermanshah have reportedly been...
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Doug Ireland, R.I.P.
At the SDS National Convention, June 1965, Elk Rapids, Michigan: Doug Ireland is at the center, in dark glasses, vest, and tie. © Bill Xcix Philiips (from Facebook) Doug Ireland was found dead today in...
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HRC and the vulture fund: Making Third World poverty pay for LGBT rights
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the largest US gay organization, is going international. It’s just been given at least $3 million to spread the word of marriage equality to benighted countries that...
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Military manhood: More arrests for homosexual conduct in Egypt
Houses made of ticky-tacky: 6 October City scene It would be hard to say why you’d bother to put a checkpoint in 6 October City. Stranded in the rock and sand a dozen or so kilometers west of Cairo...
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Privacy tips for sex subversives: Ways to protect your information and yourself
Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn’t want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one...
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Jeddah Prison, Cell 18: Entrapped in Saudi Arabia
Braiman Prison, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: from a video leaked to international media in 2012 to expose overcrowding (see...
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The warped reality therapy of Jeffrey Goldberg
Boots, and sandals, on the ground: Clay relief by Egyptian artist Adam Dott, representing the current political situation in Egypt Jeffrey Goldberg is one of those Beltway experts whose main area of...
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Puppet regime: A few more notes on Egypt and paranoia
No more yarns from you, lady: State Security arrest Abla Fahita The Jews are everywhere; start with that. In fact, the fewer Jews there actually are in your vicinity, the more you have to deal with...
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