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1970 Remembered

10:33 pm by ratso in Books

For a good giggle, check out this snapshot of a 1970 yearbook.

Swapatorium found a 1970 yearbook and posted a bunch of the pages. It’s a lot of fun to look at these photos!
This is the best yearbook I have ever seen. A man who knows that we like photos and letters gave us a box of ephemera from an art/architecture student from the late 1960s-70s. Included was this Rice yearbook from 1970. I have scanned a few of the pages so you can get an idea what it contains. Apparently they set up a photobooth in their school in 1969 and asked students to pose. Those photobooths were then used as the yearbook images.

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Ipod Tie

10:55 pm by ratso in Gadgets, Gay

Gizmodo:

“The tie has a special loop that keeps all those wires in check, and it looks like you could run the wires up behind your tie and underneath the collar of your shirt, discreetly poking out the back on their way to your earbuds. So if you’re forced to wear that coat-and-tie monkey suit all day, might as well take advantage of it with a great place to hide your tunes. “

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Bitch Slap

9:33 pm by ratso in Male Celebrity, Gay

Oooh - bring on the real drama queens:

“”Your performance was terrible in that the show lacked mood, temperament and just about everything a show needs for success,” he wrote. “I knew it would fail as soon as I first saw it _ and your low ratings bore me out.”

“Between your daughter, with her one-word statements, your letter writing and, most importantly, your totally unconvincing demeanor, it never had a chance _ much as your daytime show is not exactly setting records,” he wrote.”

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Oxy-Mormon - Confessions of a Mormon Boy

11:51 pm by ratso in Uncategorized

My favorite part of the Salt Lake Tribune review of ‘Confessions of a Mormon Boy’ is highlighted below.

Fales begins his story with an introduction - ”I’m a gay Mormon, which I think makes me an oxy-Mormon” - and a wide, earnest smile that suggests an adolescence of innocence in Utah, the heart of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Frankly, Fales’ story would not be as interesting or even novel without the remarkable transformation he undergoes from Utah husband and father to New York City prostitute. Billing himself as a 24-year-old with Mormon manners and a Donny Osmond smile, Fales becomes quite successful on the New York escort scene and succumbs to the trappings of the stereotypical urban gay male life: drugs, random hookups and eventual self-loathing.

The self-loathing could come from having a Donny Osmond smile…

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HIV Ban Lifted on US Entry

8:10 pm by ratso in Gay, Politics

Hurray! The ridiculous ban on HIV positive entering the United States will be lifted (temporarily only!!) for the Chicago Gay Games:

“HIV positive participants and attendees of Gay Games VII can now apply for a single entry B-2 travel visa from their local U.S. consulate. The visa, valid 8-28 July 2006, will be issued on a special form instead of being placed permanently in the person’s passport.”

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Michael Owen

2:09 pm by ratso in Sports, Stud Photo, Gay

QueerClick:

“Why we watch soccer”

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Self-Censorship or Firebombs

1:10 pm by ratso in Politics

There comes a time when it seems people CAN be too sensitive… and I don’t mean in a good way.

NBC is celebrating Easter this year with a special edition of the gay sitcom “Will & Grace,” in which a Christian conservative cooking-show host, played by the popular singing slattern Britney Spears, offers seasonal recipes — “Cruci-fixin’s.” On the other hand, the same network, in its coverage of the global riots over the Danish cartoons, has declined to show any of the offending artwork out of “respect” for the Muslim faith.

Which means out of respect for their ability to locate the executive vice president’s home in the suburbs and firebomb his garage.

Jyllands-Posten wasn’t being offensive for the sake of it. They had a serious point — or, at any rate, a more serious one than Britney Spears or Terence McNally. The cartoons accompanied a piece about the dangers of “self-censorship” — i.e., a climate in which there’s no explicit law forbidding you from addressing the more, er, lively aspects of Islam but nonetheless everyone feels it’s better not to.

It is worth reading the article in its entirety. Is it really ok to pull ice cream cones from the Burger King menu, because the creamy swirl on the top of the lid looks like word ‘Allah’ in Arabic script? Hmm. I guess if more Christians were apt to firebomb, then we would not have been fortunate enough to see the brilliantly funny “Cruci-fixin’s” sketch.

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