Archive for the ‘Gay’ Category
On How Incredibly Fucked Up: Book of Closet Cases Wins Lambda Literary Award for Men’s Fiction
In which The Gay Recluse is rather perturbed. Hey, apparently all it takes to win a Lambda Literary Award for Men’s Fiction — even if you’re not gay! — is to write a seriously homophobic treatment of a teen romance, get a bunch of testimonials from important straights, and put a smokin’ hot cover on […]
Filed under: Competitions, Conspiracy, Drivel, Gay, Language, Sickness, Stereotypes, The Gay Recluse, Writers-American | 4 Comments
Tags: Andre Aciman, Gay Voice, Homophobia, Lamda Literary Awards
In which The Gay Recluse holds a contest. Sort of. Ok, to all the doubters who thought that the Hot Gay Statue contest was winding down, we refer you to reader Genghis Kuhn, who recently wrote us with the following: [Herewith a] few pictures from my recent “research” trip to London. The firefighting statue is […]
Filed under: Architecture, Competitions, Gay, Hot Gay Statues, The Gay Recluse, Travel | 1 Comment
Tags: Bangin' Bods, Big Snakes, Doubters, Firefighters, Gay Firefighters, Hot Gay, Hot Gay Statues, Phallic Symbols, Statues, V & A Museum
In which The Gay Recluse updates his informal but rather telling quantitative analysis of Modern Love, the weekly Style Section (of The Times) column in which openly gay writers almost never appear, and even less frequently describe a romantic relationship. This week’s piece: Instant Message, Instant Girlfriend by Roger Hobbs Subject: A nerdy but sweet […]
Filed under: Animals, Gay, Search, Sickness, Stereotypes, The Gay Recluse, The Times | Leave a Comment
Tags: Daniel Jones, Roger Hobbs, The New York Times, Zoos
In which The Gay Recluse presents a gay alternative to this week’s Modern Love offering in The Times. Those looking for our quantitative analysis should click here. Instant Message, Instant Boyfriend By ROGER HOBBS and THE GAY RECLUSE Published: May 24, 2008 FOR several years I had a problem unusual among Internet geeks: I had […]
Filed under: Gay, Search, Stereotypes, Technology, The Gay Recluse, The Times | Leave a Comment
Tags: Daniel Jones, Dweebs, Gay Modern Lover, Modern Love, Nerds, Roger Hobbs, Teens, The New York Times
In which The Gay Recluse has shaky hands and doesn’t regret it. There’s a saying among serious gardeners. Annuals are gay! “Friends don’t let friends buy annuals.” We can appreciate that. The colors are sometimes kind of gay garish! But then again, we hate to be austere about anything. And perennials can be very temperamental! […]
Filed under: Gay, GWB Project, Longing, Photography, The Gay Recluse, The Spring Garden, Washington Heights | 1 Comment
Tags: Annuals, Botany, Drugs, Eight, LSD, orange, Pink, Yellow
In which The Gay Recluse updates his informal but rather telling quantitative analysis of Modern Love, the weekly Style Section (of The Times) column in which openly gay writers almost never appear, and even less frequently describe a romantic relationship. This week’s piece: May I Have This Dance? by Owen Powell Subject: A soldier in […]
Filed under: Gay, Search, Stereotypes, The Gay Recluse, The Times | Leave a Comment
Tags: Daniel Jones, Gay Modern Love, Iraq, Modern Love, Owen Powell, Soldiers, The New York Times
In which The Gay Recluse presents a gay/impressionistic alternative to this week’s Modern Love offering in The Times. Those looking for our quantitative analysis should click here. May I Have This Dance? By OWEN POWELL and THE GAY RECLUSE Published: May 17, 2008 I SPENT most of last year and a decent-size chunk of the […]
Filed under: Gay, Stereotypes, The Gay Recluse, The Times | Leave a Comment
Tags: Gay Modern Love, Johnny Depp, Modern Love, Owen Powell, The New York Times
In which The Gay Recluse tries to convey some semblance of the truth, as opposed to this obituary, written by Michael Kimmelman, one of the most notoriously oblivious critics at The Times. By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN and THE GAY RECLUSE Published: May 14, 2008 Robert Rauschenberg, the irrepressibly prolific American gay artist and rather typically homophobic queen who […]
Filed under: Drivel, Gay, Language, Search, Sickness, Stereotypes, The Gay Recluse, The Times | 3 Comments
Tags: Gay, Homophobia, Obituaries, Robert Rauschenberg, The New York Times
In which The Gay Recluse updates his informal but rather telling quantitative analysis of Modern Love, the weekly Style Section (of The Times) column in which openly gay writers almost never appear, and even less frequently describe a romantic relationship. This week’s piece: A Wedding Invitation for a Mom Long Gone by Julie Buxbaum Subject: […]
Filed under: Gay, Language, Search, Stereotypes, The Gay Recluse, The Times | Leave a Comment
Tags: Animals, Daniel Jones, Gay Modern Love, Julie Buxbaum, Modern Love, The New York Times, Zoos
In which The Gay Recluse presents a gay/impressionistic alternative to this week’s Modern Love offering in The Times. Those looking for our quantitative analysis should click here. By JULIE BUXBAUM and THE GAY RECLUSE Published: May 11, 2008 SEVEN months ago, I was married in an ivory lace dress to a woman in a gray […]
Filed under: Dissonance, Dream, Gay, Longing, Memory, Search, Stereotypes, The Gay Recluse, The Times | Leave a Comment
Tags: Bridal Showers, Death, Dresses, Gay Modern Love, Julie Buxbaum, Lace, The New York Times, Weddings
In which The Gay Recluse asks a reader to think more conceptually. In response to our recent Franco Harris Hot Gay Statue submission, Reader Queerunity writes: all football players wear spandex, why is this gay? We’re posting this comment — and thanks for bringing this up, Queerunity — because we think it raises an interesting […]
Filed under: Athletes, Conspiracy, Gay, Hot Gay Statues, Language, Letters, Literature, Photography, Stereotypes, The Gay Recluse | Leave a Comment
Tags: Football, Franco Harris, Gay, Hot Gay Statues, Spandex
In which The Gay Recluse holds a contest. Sort of. Today we received an interesting submission from Reader Troy, who writes to us from Pittsburgh: I have an important question for The Gay Recluse. In the Pittsburgh airport there is a statue of Franco Harris, who I have no reason to believe is gay. Yet […]
Filed under: Architecture, Competitions, Gay, Hot Gay Statues, Infrastructure, Letters, Search | 4 Comments
Tags: Airports, Franco Harris, Hot Gay Statues, Pittsburgh, Steelers
In which The Gay Recluse suggests a link. The most beautiful ads are always for dead companies. Like this one we recently took on 35th Street between 5th and 6th Avenue. Does this company still exist? We hope not, because we don’t want to have to think about buying anything. New York City is filled […]
Filed under: Architecture, Capitalism, Communism, Conspiracy, Decay, Disease, Dissonance, Dream, Gay, Graffiti, Health, History, Infrastructure, Landscape, Longing, Memory, New York City, Obsession, Pessimism, Photography, Quotes, Ruins, Search, Sickness, The Gay Recluse | 2 Comments
Tags: AIDS, Apple, Dead Companies, Gay Blogs, General Electric, Google, HIV, Microsoft
In which The Gay Recluse documents the sunset of a dream. Today the tide seemed to finally turn against Hillary Clinton. We felt bad about it, but mostly on behalf of our mother. She’s in her seventies now and really wanted Hillary to win. She’s spent the better part of four decades fighting for women’s […]
Filed under: Dissonance, Dream, Gay, Government, GWB Project, Landscape, Language, Memory, Nostalgia, Pessimism, The Gay Recluse | 4 Comments
Tags: Hillary Clinton, Mothers, Orchids, Ronald Reagan, Sunsets
In which The Gay Recluse hopes that a young woman will not succumb to the more conventional pressures that sadly ooze from this week’s Modern Love offering in The Times. Those looking for our quantitative analysis should click here. Want To Be My Girlfriend? Please Don’t Define By MARGUERITE FIELDS and THE GAY RECLUSE RECENTLY […]
Filed under: Gay, Landscape, Language, Longing, New York City, Search, Stereotypes, The Gay Recluse, The Times | Leave a Comment
Tags: Conventions, Gay Modern Love, Marguerite Fields, Modern Love, The New York Times
In which The Gay Recluse reports on monthly traffic whoring metrix to the Board of Directors. I. Summary After a record month of whoring in March, we experienced a slight dip in April. But! It was still our second best month on record. II. Traffic Whoring Metrix WordPress Total Views March: 13,957 Grand Total Number […]
Filed under: Architecture, Conspiracy, Decay, Gay, History, Infrastructure, Landscape, Search, Technology, Traffic | Leave a Comment
Tags: April, Board Reports, Metrix, SiteMeter, Traffic, Traffic Whoring
The Gay Recluse 
On Our Own Method of Diluting the Homophobosphere
In which The Gay Recluse attempts to reconcile his traffic-whoring impulses with a desire to flee the crazies. In March, as part of a new traffic-whoring initiative, we opened up The Gay Recluse to commenters. By and large we’ve been very pleased with the results, not only in terms of traffic but in terms of the many […]
Filed under: Drivel, Gay, Hot Gay Statues, Infrastructure, Knockbusters, Language, Letters, The Gay Recluse | 4 Comments
Tags: Commenters, Dilution, Homophobosphere, Traffic Whoring