Yes, I said it. Am ashamed to admit am ... gasp! ... heterosexual.

In the past few weeks I've been asked more than a couple of times if am gay. Am totally flattered. I mean, I get offended if I don't get hit on by a mamacita at least once a week.

Unfortunately ... ahem ... I like dick too much. Like, you know, the kind that is attached to a really hot and sweaty and horny guy. Yeah ... that kind.

This blog though has been a queerish blog since forever. We used to have Jeff Langstraat blogging about queer politics in the US eons ago. Now we have Leo Igwe doing it from the context of Africa politics and culture.

Am happy to call myself a fag hag --even though the term is so totally politically incorrect-- and an honorary member of the clit club.

Do I ever fantasize about being gay?

Totally. For an instance I think it would make my love life easier and then all I have to do is call up my lezzy or gay friends to smack me into reality. My love life woes may have different contexts but they hit me in just about the same way as theirs hit them.

Have I kissed a girl?

Yup, and then some.
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Because with posts like Memo to the GOP: Go Gay, she pushes people like Dan Riehl to confront their moral and political relativism. The problem? Neo-cons like Riefhl don't get it. GOP2.0ers like Kristen Soltis of "The Next Right", do.

BTW: Am totally fangirling on Meghan. Her battle is totally quixotic and, given El Quijote is my favorite book in the world (well, it's #1 in a long list), I love her for that.

If Kanye wanted to get buzz out of his relationship with Amber Rose, boy is he getting it. After all, it was him who wrote in Stronger:

So we gon' do everything that Kan like,
Heard they do anything for a Klondike,
Well, I'd do anything for a blonde dyke.
And she'll do anything for the limelight,
And we'll do anything when the time's right,
Uh, baby, you're makin' it
Harder, better, faster, stronger

I wonder if they eat Klondikes.

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Ok, I pictured how they may be eating them and now I need some mental bleach.

They are both the awesome words of the day!

A fauxmosexual is a hetero who tries use celesbianism as a marketing ploy a la Katy Perry. Why? Because celesbians are only famous for being lesbians and very little else. It's like shooting fish in a barrel in a culture where media presentations of lesbians are the most often borne of male heterosexual sexual fantasies.

So even if it is surprising it is not shocking that Katy Perry would jump on the celebianism bandwagon to move an album or two. Up until last year she was a daughter of Christian Evangelical pastors, struggling as a Christian pop-singer under the name Katy Hudson.

Cue an overnight makeover, some fauxmosexual lyrics, a masterfully manufactured image and behold! A new, improved and, it goes without saying, successful product.
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Check out the etymology of the word bad (via Volokh Conspiracy who got it from Language Log) :

Prof. Zupitza, with great probability, sees in bad-de (2 syll.) the ME. repr. of OE. bæddel ‘homo utriusque generis, hermaphrodita’ ... and the derivative bædling ‘effeminate fellow, womanish man ...’ applied contemptuously; assuming a later adjectival use, as in yrming, wrecca, and loss of final l as in mycel, muche, lytel, lyte, wencel, wench(e. This perfectly suits the ME. form and sense, and accounts satisfactorily for the want of early written examples. And it is free from the many historical and phonetic difficulties of the derivation proposed by Sarrazin [which ends up relating it to an OE. word meaning ‘forced, oppressed’] .... No other suggestion yet offered is of any importance; the Celtic words sometimes compared are out of the question.

Oh snap!

Yeah! Bejata is back!

I first wrote about Bejata back in 2006 but Bernard is back from a blog hiatus, so it's time for an update.

Bernard has one of the most corageous, provocative yet heart-warming series written on any blog, Black Gay Men at Midlife.

If it is not easy being a gay black man in America, it can be twice as hard for those reaching middle age. Bernie with this series seeks to expose those stories but what he also does is to expose the misconceptions, hypocrisies and ageism that exist within the black gay community and use that opportunity to start a dialogue about "what's next".

Check out the whole series. Another favorite? His sports archives. You're going to have a hell of a blog ride.