Tuesday, October 25 2011
Other Princesses, Other Castles: The Problem with Playing Romantically in Video Games
The insensibly repetitious nature of romance present in both video game plots and in their mechanics leads to all too familiar storytelling.
Wednesday, August 10 2011
The Taming of the Dude: ‘Catherine’ and the Sex Comedy
Much of the driving force of Catherine’s ethics seems to be traditionally moralistic, given its consideration of marriage as the only real means of “taming the dude.”
Friday, January 21 2011
The Stigma of Synth: My Secret Life with Depeche Mode
With no girls to flirt with or ask out, how was an all-male prep school boy going to step outside the shadow of his favorite leather-bearing, lipstick-wearing band and establish his heterosexuality? Easy. Take his fandom into the closet and deny, deny, deny.
Thursday, September 24 2009
Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility by Mary L. Gray
Instead of long-suffering iconoclasts who want to leave the family farm, Gray introduces teenagers that are keenly aware of their environs and the means at hand to navigate a life that is both queer and rural.
Tuesday, June 30 2009
Turn Off the Lights: Cultivating Love to Get Through Summer
One sure way to care is a sure investment in health. Health, like love, cannot be bought, but cultivated, and oils the wings of love. So here’s a tip on summer cultivation, a sure way of taking care of your partner from someone who is in the midst of the seven-year itch.
Monday, June 22 2009
A Boy’s Own Story by Edmund White
The narrator's voice -- by turns lyrical and brutal, expansive and introspective -- is White's greatest triumph, elevating what could have been a cliché into a fascinating study of sexual reckoning.
Wednesday, October 29 2008
The Porning of America by Carmine Sarracino & Kevin Scott
Fast forward 30 years and find that the behavior and attitudes we associate with pornography have only become more omnipresent since porn’s heyday.
