· Queerty wraps the Catholic school teacher in Las Vegas who was fired after looking for man-2-man love on MySpace.
· The LA Weekly has published an excerpt from Blood Beats: Vol. 1 Demos, Remixes & Extended Versions, the new collection of essays by Ernest Hardy. He's the critically-acclaimed music-film-lit-cultural critic who often appears in their pages. Think Joan Didion—but black and gay.
There is an engaging passage where Tim'm West discusses the "homothug" aesthetic adopted by so many black/Latin gay men, especially the younger set: "On the other side of this new hardcore homo-thug thing is a lot of risky sexual behavior. It’s about experience, not identity, so you experience gay sex, but you’re not talking about gay identity. ... [There’s] a lot of self-hate among black gay people, especially the younger generation. They’d rather go to a club and listen to Puff Daddy say somebody is ‘[as] pussy as RuPaul.’ That’s always upsetting to me." How true, how true.
Ernest Hardy is a wonderful writer. I read him all the time in the LA Weekly. You really do get around, don't you?
Posted by: Lee Owens | 25 May 2006 at 21:03
I smell an argument on the horizon.
Posted by: afro_asian_american | 25 May 2006 at 23:53
Rod,
Thanks very much for giving me and my book some space on your site. It's much appreciated.
Peace
Posted by: Ernest Hardy | 26 May 2006 at 10:00