Sunday Morning! “Giovanni’s Room” by James Baldwin
On the end of grief, and James Baldwin’s classic story of grief at the beginning and end of first love.
Tagged: Homosexuality
Eight Awesome 19th Century Advertisements
Nearly entirely baseball-free, but with a free bonus of presidential politics!
A Wolf In A Penguin’s Clothing
There is nothing more immodest than a young woman in a tuxedo. Apparently.
Three Short Essays: One About Jason Collins, One About Basketball, And One About Waiting For Bigots To Finally Be Right
Sam on Jason Collins, basketball, and bigotry.
Have We Gone Too Far Now?
I’m doing a class with 7th and 8th graders on leadership and diversity. Today I asked them to brainstorm a list of words they thought of when they heard the phrase “Sexual Orientation”. One...
The End of Absolute Sexual Morality
My friend Darwin observes: When trying to make-nice to conservatives, proponents of “same sex marriage” tend to emphasize it as a way of enshrining commitment and sexual morality. However, while this tends to suggest...
“Dignity and Respect”
I’m not sure why this hasn’t taken the Internet by storm, but Wired found a military comic from 2001 explaining how army personnel are expected to deal with “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Fortunately (or...
Desire and Deviance, again
A few weeks (months?) ago, David kicked off an interesting discussion on gay culture and sexual orientation. From The Utne Reader, here’s a smart take on the political logic of presenting sexual preferences as...
A Note on Athenian Pederasty
This is one of the posts from my other blog that disappeared into the ether with our technical difficulties. It seems to deserve reposting here for a couple of reasons. First, it fits well...
Survey Says: 49% of Americans Don’t Much Like Homosexuality
This exchange between Rod Dreher and Ta-Nehisi Coates on the basis of opposition to same-sex marriage is interesting, if only because it provides another striking example of how ones identity has an incredible impact on how...
