I see this blog the same way I do regular news media. Cutbacks and overworked staff have lead me to accept what I get and if for some reason I feel I can do better no one is stopping me.

Believe it or not, queerty, I honestly do love this blog. I just see things differently (as do others) and appreciate you allowing me to share my views with others.

Queerty, like a lot of gay media, is so anti-intelectual that there is no discussion of issues. In fact, of course, there is a huge gulf of opinion that marriage is the ethical way to pursue relationships. The politics are narrow and single(or simple) minded.

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No, your take on the issue is. This is the same type of comment that we’ve been hearing from the burned out old St. Marks Bath’s crew for over a decade now, when you aren’t waxing nostalgic about the good old days of drug induced hazes and getting gang banged in a dark room that is. You have every right to decide that marriage isn’t something you want to do, however the larger issue is that we should not be told we cannot participate in an instituation merely because of who we are. What you said would be the same thing as if a woman said “Well I don’t really want to go out and vote so it’s silly to have women be allowed to vote at all.”

Try not to mix up your own personal views with overall civil rights.

After all, homosexuals have thrown in their lot with bisexuals and guys who think they are women.

Representing such a motley collection of oddballs and weirdos is it any wonder nobody takes the ‘gay’ media seriously – apart from GBLT’s??

Is there a jewish culture? A black culture? A latino culture in our country? I would say yes, even though not all jews, or AAs, or latinos like the same things, nor behave in the same ways, nor vote for the same candidates all the time.

And BTW, your tractor pull-lovin’ buddies are most likely participating in “redneck” or blue-collar culture.

THERE IS NO GAY CULTURE! Just like not only one thing makes up a gay person, not only one culture makes up a gay person. I would much rather go to a tractor/truck pull than a gay bar. I would much rather swig bear with my straight friends than go for mixed drinks with my gay ones. The problem is that being gay is about who we like not what we like. That means all that “culture” is just trash. Its pointless drivel. Just because some queer dude likes to dress in drag doesn’t mean its part of our culture, just because half naked men like to parade down the street doesn’t mean its part of our culture, just because some gay dude could paint it doesn’t mean its part of our culture, and just because some singer that happened to be gay could make your ear drums rupture (I’m talking about you Adam) it doesn’t make it part of our culture. The only constants in our culture is we like the same sex and we deserve equal rights. Past that, “gay culture” does not even exist.

I said the funding is being cut, you stupid bitch. I never said programs were not available. What little there is now is on the chopping block, especially in calif. It was posted on this site, or did you bother to read that? I doubt it. There was nothing to show in that article but compassion for the poor, race be damn.

You care so little for you brethren who weren’t offered the priviledges in life you and I (education, employment and HIV-neg sex partners) were fortunate enough to have that you would walk right past them on the street as they die and not call 911. Your response would/is they will/should have to wait(ed) in line longer, tough luck. I’m getting married so the entrie world can see for the next year (at best) I am a respectable queen and am now a pillar of west hollywood society.

I won’t go into what if you and honeybunch both lost your jobs (yes, ms. know-it-all, it has happened to even strait couples at the same time too) what would you do because you would only answer with something even stupid. But feel free. You have already shown us your ass so go ahead and show the rest of ALL you know and feel.

I do thank you for confirming what I did say in my post about how selfish and spoiled rotten gay children of the priviledged are. But don’t worry. Since the majority of gay men and women are no different than the rest of the population as far as common sense goes your kind have nothing to worry about.
Just sit or stand in your best twinky pose with your newly minted bi-ceps and tight pants to show off your buns via dominance of the squat rack in the gym and the queens will just fall in love with the fantasy and open their wallets to you and fuck their sickly counterparts.

I just ask you be kind and pick a cliff not to high to march them over so at least one or two can look back in anguish later on in life at their ignorance and their equally ignorant, ivy league educated (and no doubt divorced) leaders who marched them over it.

And I’ve never heard someone say “Ms. Thang” while rolling their eyes at someone. You fail at internet humor.

Who cares?

Yes. You are indeed ASSuming. :)

I’d understand that being part of a stable, monogamous married family unit would provide me with a large degree of economic stability (not to mention maintain my health).

AIDS funding and government health care have been available for years. They suck, and it’s been documented over and over.

Married people are more financially stable and healthier. That’s also been documented over and over.

Hmmmm… wanting economic stability and better health… what should I lobby for, another failed expensive government program that doesn’t address the root causes of HIV infection (promiscuity), or the successful (and constitutionally mandated) goal of equal marriage — which also provides immediate health and economic benefits?

Wow, that’s a hard decision!

Unfortunately for you, I’m white.

Try again.

Yeah, because every gay person who doesn’t swallow Obama’s bullshit is a drug-addled hedonist.

The opposite of the porn-filled bourgeois hedonistic lifestyle is… a standard married gay family, right?

And which presently-serving president of the USA is resolutely and unshakably opposed to gay marriage equality — to the point where he states in his own book that he’s willing to be on the wrong side of history if need be over the issue?

Yeah, that one.

@Marlena:

you sound like another privileged gay white male

Oh Ms. Thang!

Sounds like sour grapes to me.

The New Gay is an interesting site, but the Blade’s art coverage is much broader than its founder portrays, as he well knows. And no, the editor of the Washington Blade — and any other newspaper — should not be selling ads. Maintaining the divide between editorial and advertising is crucial. Could we trust an editor who is trying to sell ads not to tilt coverage in favor of his potential clients?

I love that every time Window Media is mentioned, we get the same poster who tells us basically how David Unger is god come to save us all. Tone it down if you want to be taken even somewhat seriously.

Meanwhile, I know I don’t read Queerty every day, but what happened to Japhy?

I was out way before many of you are born (1974 was my come out year). I am old enough to remember the days when friends meant something and the way society has accepted or become more tolerant (than then) of our lifestyles. I, a gay middle-aged man, find myself disgusted at muscle marys who walk around feeling as though the word hello is a sign of “let’s have sex”.

I see a bunch of lonely little boys in the body of a grown man whose mentalities have been set by many gay publications such as Hx, Next and others that cater to this mentality (International Male). Every page features some muscle mary showing us his glutius maximus with a hint of “it will cost you” look.

I mean really, it was a situation of overkill waiting to happen. Is it possible that people have become turned off to it all now and are basically lost as to what direction to go and the gay media is paying the price? Publications I thought were suppose to set the trend or tell the trend of a community. If this is what ours is saying then I am frightened.

Or is it that because of the strong tilt toward sex many mainstream deep pocket advertisers were turned off by that and backed away. In other words I am questioning if the publications cut their own throats. It seems highly possible. I personally got tired of seeing some young 20th’s ass (race be damned) with 6 pac abs on every other page.

In california AIDS and healthcare funding are being deeply cut but the queens march on for gay marriage. I ask you what happened to commons sense. Ok you don’t have HIV, but what if you found yourself without a job one day and needed health care?