I care, do U? LGBTQ summer 2018

RIP Dick Leitsch, leader of the 1966 sip-in at Julius' bar

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/dick-leitsch-whose-sip-in-was-a-milestone-for-the-gay-rights-movement-dies-at-83/2018/06/22/eb54aae8-7667-11e8-805c-4b67019fcfe4_story.html

RIP

A SPANISH public servant who skipped work for a decade without anyone noticing spent his free time running a male brothel and drawing erotic comics.
Carles Recio, who was paid a 50,000 euro ($80,000) salary as an archives director in Valencia’s provincial government, would show up to the office every morning at 7:30am to clock in using the fingerprint scanner before heading home, only returning to the office at 3:30pm to clock out.
He kept up the routine for 10 years before colleagues began to raise suspicions. After Spanish newspaper El Mundo broke the story 18 months ago, Mr Recio was finally sacked, despite his insistence that he had done nothing wrong.
Mr Recio was making a name for himself as a erotic comic book artist and creator of the popular character Fallarela, a busty superhero who hurls flaming Valencia oranges at her enemies

It also emerged Mr Recio had been running a male brothel out of his home since 2005. At one point he threatened to reveal the identities of his clients, warning there may have been cameras inside and the “graphic information” could compromise many politicians.
As part of his high-profile campaign to clear his name, Mr Recio even attempted to use a council venue for an art exhibition entitled, “Love for Valencia: the works of a man who never worked”, with four floors of works including paintings, sculptures and even a bronze bust of himself.
The City of Valencia cancelled the show, which described Mr Recio as “the most slandered writer in modern-day Valencia”, just before it was due to open after the council discovered he had booked the venue using a fake name.

FUCK gay bars, btw. I have nothing in common with these faggots besides a taste for cock. especially the rotten music.

That's the spirit!

such a dreary and limited scene in NYC compared to 20 years ago

Two conversion therapy films out later this year. The former is Desiree Akhavan’s follow up to the great Appropriate Behavior and is based on a YA novel that I currently have sitting on my to-read pile, so it’s the one I’m more immediately interested in.

https://youtu.be/toXBb638n2Y

https://youtu.be/-B71eyB_Onw

Saw Miseducation of Cameron Post at SIFF and I recommend it. The young cast is very strong: Chloe Grace Moretz, Native actor Forrest Goodluck, Emily Skeggs who originated Middle Allison in the Fun Home musical, Sasha Lane who was street cast for her first film just a couple years ago.

Good to hear. It looks like enough of a tonal shift from her first film that I wasn’t sure how it’d turn out.

that looks excellent. fwiw gay conversion therapy has just been made illegal in the uk.

there ain't much good happening over here but that's one good thing.

As a follow up to the earlier discussion of The Miseducation of Cameron Post, I just finished reading the novel, by Emily M. Danforth, and recommend it highly. Much more of a queer bildungsroman than just a novel about conversion therapy, which doesn't even enter enter into the novel until well over the halfway point anyway. I'm really looking forward to the film, but at 90 minutes (to the book's nearly 500 pages), I'm assuming that there's a whole lot that the film just isn't going to cover.

Desiree Akhavan has written a six part TV show for channel 4 in the UK and it is cringe-inducingly terrible. It's a comedy (half hour episodes) that isn't funny at all. The direction is terrible, the casting the same. Bless Maxine Peake for being involved but it's a huge misstep for Akhavan.

I mean, I say misstep but I haven't seen any of her other things so maybe it's just typical. Maybe her direction and writing in other things is better than her writing/directing/acting in this.

oh, it's called The Bisexual, btw.