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fyeahlilbitoeverything: If a clock gets hungry it goes back four seconds. Once you’ve seen one shopping center you’ve seen the mall. Acupuncture is a jab well done. Jumping off a Paris bridge makes you in Seine. Bakers trade recipes on a knead to know basis. Your calendar’s days are numbered. I break into song if I can’t find the key. A dyslexic poet writes inverse.

fyeahlilbitoeverything:

  • If a clock gets hungry it goes back four seconds.
  • Once you’ve seen one shopping center you’ve seen the mall.
  • Acupuncture is a jab well done.
  • Jumping off a Paris bridge makes you in Seine.
  • Bakers trade recipes on a knead to know basis.
  • Your calendar’s days are numbered.
  • I break into song if I can’t find the key.
  • A dyslexic poet writes inverse.

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anticapitalist: Our real first gay president The new issue of Newsweek features a cover photo of President Obama topped by a rainbow-colored halo and captioned “The First Gay President.” The halo and caption strike me as cheap sensationalism. I realize airport travelers look at a magazine for 2.2 seconds before moving on to the next one. I grant that this cover will probably get Newsweek a 4.4 second glance. I also understand that Newsweek is desperate for sales. Nevertheless, I doubt that the Newsweek of old, before it was sold for a dollar, would have pandered as shallowly. The caption is a superficial way to characterize an important development of thought that the president — along with the country — has been making over recent years. It is also entirely wrong. Like the mini-furor a couple of months back about the claim that Richard Nixon was our first gay president, the story simply ignores that the U.S. already had a gay president more than a century ago. There can be no doubt that James Buchanan was gay, before, during and after his four years in the White House. Moreover, the nation knew it, too — he was not far into the closet. Today, I know no historian who has studied the matter and thinks Buchanan was heterosexual. Fifteen years ago, historian John Howard, author of “Men Like That,” a pioneering study of queer culture in Mississippi, shared with me the key documents, including Buchanan’s May 13, 1844, letter to a Mrs. Roosevelt. Describing his deteriorating social life after his great love, William Rufus King, senator from Alabama, had moved to Paris to become our ambassador to France, Buchanan wrote: I am now “solitary and alone,” having no companion in the house with me. I have gone a wooing to several gentlemen, but have not succeeded with any one of them. I feel that it is not good for man to be alone; and should not be astonished to find myself married to some old maid who can nurse me when I am sick, provide good dinners for me when I am well, and not expect from me any very ardent or romantic affection.

anticapitalist:

Our real first gay president

The new issue of Newsweek features a cover photo of President Obama topped by a rainbow-colored halo and captioned “The First Gay President.” The halo and caption strike me as cheap sensationalism. I realize airport travelers look at a magazine for 2.2 seconds before moving on to the next one. I grant that this cover will probably get Newsweek a 4.4 second glance. I also understand that Newsweek is desperate for sales. Nevertheless, I doubt that the Newsweek of old, before it was sold for a dollar, would have pandered as shallowly.

The caption is a superficial way to characterize an important development of thought that the president — along with the country — has been making over recent years. It is also entirely wrong. Like the mini-furor a couple of months back about the claim that Richard Nixon was our first gay president, the story simply ignores that the U.S. already had a gay president more than a century ago.

There can be no doubt that James Buchanan was gay, before, during and after his four years in the White House. Moreover, the nation knew it, too — he was not far into the closet.

Today, I know no historian who has studied the matter and thinks Buchanan was heterosexual. Fifteen years ago, historian John Howard, author of “Men Like That,” a pioneering study of queer culture in Mississippi, shared with me the key documents, including Buchanan’s May 13, 1844, letter to a Mrs. Roosevelt. Describing his deteriorating social life after his great love, William Rufus King, senator from Alabama, had moved to Paris to become our ambassador to France, Buchanan wrote:

I am now “solitary and alone,” having no companion in the house with me. I have gone a wooing to several gentlemen, but have not succeeded with any one of them. I feel that it is not good for man to be alone; and should not be astonished to find myself married to some old maid who can nurse me when I am sick, provide good dinners for me when I am well, and not expect from me any very ardent or romantic affection.

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But the real reason I want to take this show to task is because it is Exhibit A of a TV trend I’m officially tired of. It might have been funny, a long time ago, for two straight men to constantly fend off the suggestion that they are gay (though perhaps for GLBTQ people, these kinds of jokes were never all that funny). But there are a few reasons I’ve grown very tired of this particular trope (which also occurs a little too frequently for my taste on the otherwise good “Sherlock”).

… it’s past time to stop treating gay, lesbian and trans characters as The Other. When “Seinfeld” introduced the phrase “not that there’s anything wrong with that” in connection to the possibility of a character being gay, GLBTQ characters were a rarity on TV and thus that joke may have served as a sort of crude but useful enlightening tool. Now that kind of joke — “We’re close friends, but we’re not gay!” — feels like a distancing technique, something that draws attention to gays and lesbians as something out of the norm.

And honestly, who cares? In this day and age, are you telling me that two men who are best friends would constantly have to deal with the assumption that they’re gay? I just find the whole idea fairly preposterous. Who doesn’t know straight men who hang out all the time without anyone thinking about or guessing about their sexuality? How is drawing attention to not-gayness, at this point, anything but a representation of lingering shreds of mild but unmistakable gay panic?

… More to the point, the show makes nonsexual male intimacy seem weird or odd, which it isn’t — I want to take this moment to introduce the “We’re friends, but we’re not gay” schtick to the Cliche Hall of Fame.

HuffPo TV Critic Maureen Ryan on USA’s new show “Common Law” (via king-renly-baratheon)

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theplatypusfactor: historical-nonfiction: This is the earliest known portrait of a transvestite. Called Chevalier D’Eon, it is of Charles D’Eon, who lived the second half of his life as a woman. It started in 1763, when he was hiding from the French ambassador in London. Charles had worked for the ambassador, and when Charles made public some embarrassing secret documents after a falling-out, he accused the ambassador of trying to kill him. When rumors about his gender began in 1770, Charles demanded that the French government pay his debts and they agreed, scared he would expose more secrets like their plans to invade England. Part of the agreement was that he would remain dressed like a woman, which he did until his death. Painting by Thomas Stewart. This is fascinating/awesome! I know a few of you will appreciate.

theplatypusfactor:

historical-nonfiction:

This is the earliest known portrait of a transvestite. Called Chevalier D’Eon, it is of Charles D’Eon, who lived the second half of his life as a woman. It started in 1763, when he was hiding from the French ambassador in London. Charles had worked for the ambassador, and when Charles made public some embarrassing secret documents after a falling-out, he accused the ambassador of trying to kill him. When rumors about his gender began in 1770, Charles demanded that the French government pay his debts and they agreed, scared he would expose more secrets like their plans to invade England. Part of the agreement was that he would remain dressed like a woman, which he did until his death. Painting by Thomas Stewart.

This is fascinating/awesome! I know a few of you will appreciate.

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