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Gayscape #5: Vampire Movie Edition
While the gay element in vampire literature has always been a bit more hidden, the homoerotic element in vampire films and television has always been that much more obvious, especially in the past 25...
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Gayscape #7: Gay Cowboys Eating Pudding – A Look Into Gay Indie Cinema
In the wake of the critical success of Gus Van Sant’s Milk, I couldn’t help but wonder why there are only a handful of truly great examples of gay cinema out there. Believe me, I know there is no...
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Gayscape #8: Top Ten Movies Adored by Gay People
Last Week, I gave some of the best and the worst of gay cinema. But there is another gay cinema: Movies meant for a mainstream audience that end up getting embraced by a loyal gay cult following...
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Gayscape #9: Top Ten Bad Gay Portrayals in the Media
For every positive gay portrayal in the media, there seems to be another dozen crappy ones waiting in the wings. Here, then, are my top ten bad or stereotypical portrayals of gays in the media. Some...
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Gayscape #10: Growing Up Gay in the 80′s and 90′s
In our culture, movies, television and music (and for some of us, comic books and video games as well) inform almost everything we know about our world. It’s logical that they should, then, inform...
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Gayscape #11: Disney is the Most Gay Friendly Congolmerate Out There
Being gay, and a geek, growing up, it was difficult to find other gay people who were passionate about the same things I was – namely sci-fi ,fantasy, horror and comic books. Nowadays, it’s much easier...
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Gayscape #12: A Nightmare on Gay Street
Of the three big slasher franchises of the 80′s, A Nightmare On Elm St. was always my favorite. I loved the original Halloween, it’s truly a seminal film, but it’s really the only movie in that series...
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Gayscape #13: The Greatest Would Be Gay Power Couples
Ok, first things first, this is not an article about which characters in the Marvel and DC Universes are really gay or not — mostly because I already did that. I don’t really think ANY of these...
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Gayscape: Northstar- The Pride of Canada
Ask any comic fanboy the question “name a gay super hero” and chances are that fanboy will either struggle to come up with one, or just go for the standard stock answer: Northstar. Northstar (alias...
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Gayscape Goes to Camp Part 1
In a neighborhood near me growing up, there was an unassuming suburban home with a particular feature that gave people the chills, or maybe just made them want to puke. In front of this standard one...
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Gayscape: Watchmen and the Dr. Manhattan Penis Panic
So Watchmen mania has hit, for better or worse, depending on your feelings on the movie. This isn’t going to be an article about whether Watchmen was a good movie or not, there are plenty of places...
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Gayscape Goes to Camp: John Waters Part One
The King of Camp. The Pope of Trash. The Prince of Puke. All titles that have at one time or another been attributed to openly gay writer/director/pop culture personality John Waters. I think it is...
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Gayscape Goes To Camp: John Waters Part 2
Last week I wrote about how film maker John Waters emerged out of suburban Baltimore in the 60′s, pack of wild friends in tow, to become the premiere architect of modern camp cinema. Today we’re gonna...
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Madonna: A Queer Obsession
Since there has been such a thing as a Gay Community, there have been the gay “Divas” — women singers who have a left an indelible mark on the minds and hearts of queers everywhere. There probably...
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Homo Superior, Or Just Plain Homo?
In light of the impending release of X-Men Origins: Wolverine (to theaters anyway. Snap!) now is as good a time as any to reflect upon comicdom’s biggest and most beloved gay allegory, The X-Men....
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Is Going Gay the Real Final Frontier for Star Trek?
It seems I’ve been a Star Trek fan all my life. Growing up with re-runs of the old show, not to mention being there as a kid for the theatrical runs of almost all of the original films, I’ve always...
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The Top Ten Gayest Robots In Pop Culture History
While there has always been a lack of central gay characters in sci-fi and fantasy, for some reason it seems robots have been filling the role of the token queer for decades. In a way this makes sense,...
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Gayscape: Comic-Con Edition
Comic Con International 2009 was my 10th Comic Con, which I’m having a hard time believing even as i write it. Back in 2000 when I attented my first Con, Geek Culture was just about to take over in a...
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Gayscape #6 – The Top 10 Gayest Costumes in Comic Book History
By definition, almost all Super Hero and Super Villain costumes are at least a little bit gay. I mean, they tend to be skin tight, multi-colored outfits with lots of emphasis on showing off the muscles...
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Gayscape #14 The Weird, Wild World of Slash Fiction
Fan Fiction based on popular properties has been around for decades, giving lonely nerds a chance to tell stories about their favorite characters that they don’t own and didn’t create. But there is a...
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