The Pridelets Files for October 28
On this day in 1935, The New York Times has great news for all of you "women suffering from masculine psychological states" (and/or lesbians). Some of your type have been "cured" when one of your obviously "overfunctioning" adrenal glands is surgically removed. And after this no-doubt costly quack procedure is performed you'll no longer have an "aversion to marrying" someone of the opposite sex. God bless science-ness!
BIRTHGAYS (and the occasional straights)
* 1561 - English philosopher, statesman, spy, Freemason and essayist Francis Bacon
* 1754 - Revolutionary War soldier and statesman John Laurens
* 1897 - Hollywood costume designer (and "They Might Be Giants" lyric inspiration) Edith Head
* 1903 - "Brideshead Revisited" author and satirist Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh
* 1856 - Artist Anna Elizabeth Klumpke
* 1903 - Novelist Evelyn Waugh,
* 1909 - Artist Francis Bacon
Q.UOTE
"I came out to myself when I was 21, a junior at the Academy. I became involved with another guy at the Academy — so involved, in fact, that I decided to call my parents and tell them I was sleeping with a guy. My mother asked, 'Is this something you think you want to keep doing again and again, or is it just a phase?' 'I think I want to do it again and again,' I replied. My dad then said, 'If that's the case, you're probably gay.' I asked them if that was all right and they told me, 'Of course it is.' Basically, my parents told me I was gay." -- Reality show winner, and boyband singer boyfriend, Reichen Lehmkuhl
THE BEDSIDE TABLE
"The Way Out: The Gay Man's Guide To Freedom No Matter If You're In Denial, Closeted, Half In, Half Out, Just Out Or Been Around The Block" by Christopher Lee Nutter
Christopher Lee Nutter came out of the closet in 1994 with a bang in a brutally honest essay for Details magazine, thrusting him into the spotlight as an unofficial mentor to gay men across the country.
Twelve years later in this edgy memoir, Nutter chronicles his journey from closeted Southern boy to gay New York bartender and party boy, sharing everything he's learned about how gay men are taught to see themselves in a fundamentally destructive way. Assaulted with programming from the "gay" and "straight" worlds alike, gay men are left to ask themselves, Am I the coolest, sexiest, trendiest thing ever, or an illegitimate cancer on society?
Nutter contests that gay men are neither, but rather conscious beings on the path to realizing that they have the power to create their lives according to their own will rather than the will of the world, or the illusion of their fears. Part memoir, part philosophy, The Way Out gives tools tailored to the reality of gay men's daily existence--whether it's in the boardroom, the bedroom or the steam room--so that they can connect to this power, and in the process, discover the love, freedom and happiness they long for and deserve.
This work is copyright© 2006 Thomas Allen Heald, all rights reserved. Contact the author at tom@idontgetit.org and the latest column are always available at www.Pridelets.com.
BIRTHGAYS (and the occasional straights)
* 1561 - English philosopher, statesman, spy, Freemason and essayist Francis Bacon
* 1754 - Revolutionary War soldier and statesman John Laurens
* 1897 - Hollywood costume designer (and "They Might Be Giants" lyric inspiration) Edith Head
* 1903 - "Brideshead Revisited" author and satirist Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh
* 1856 - Artist Anna Elizabeth Klumpke
* 1903 - Novelist Evelyn Waugh,
* 1909 - Artist Francis Bacon
Q.UOTE
"I came out to myself when I was 21, a junior at the Academy. I became involved with another guy at the Academy — so involved, in fact, that I decided to call my parents and tell them I was sleeping with a guy. My mother asked, 'Is this something you think you want to keep doing again and again, or is it just a phase?' 'I think I want to do it again and again,' I replied. My dad then said, 'If that's the case, you're probably gay.' I asked them if that was all right and they told me, 'Of course it is.' Basically, my parents told me I was gay." -- Reality show winner, and boyband singer boyfriend, Reichen Lehmkuhl
THE BEDSIDE TABLE
"The Way Out: The Gay Man's Guide To Freedom No Matter If You're In Denial, Closeted, Half In, Half Out, Just Out Or Been Around The Block" by Christopher Lee Nutter
Christopher Lee Nutter came out of the closet in 1994 with a bang in a brutally honest essay for Details magazine, thrusting him into the spotlight as an unofficial mentor to gay men across the country.
Twelve years later in this edgy memoir, Nutter chronicles his journey from closeted Southern boy to gay New York bartender and party boy, sharing everything he's learned about how gay men are taught to see themselves in a fundamentally destructive way. Assaulted with programming from the "gay" and "straight" worlds alike, gay men are left to ask themselves, Am I the coolest, sexiest, trendiest thing ever, or an illegitimate cancer on society?
Nutter contests that gay men are neither, but rather conscious beings on the path to realizing that they have the power to create their lives according to their own will rather than the will of the world, or the illusion of their fears. Part memoir, part philosophy, The Way Out gives tools tailored to the reality of gay men's daily existence--whether it's in the boardroom, the bedroom or the steam room--so that they can connect to this power, and in the process, discover the love, freedom and happiness they long for and deserve.
This work is copyright© 2006 Thomas Allen Heald, all rights reserved. Contact the author at tom@idontgetit.org and the latest column are always available at www.Pridelets.com.
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