Archive for the ‘Gay’ Category
In which The Gay Recluse provides a gay alternative to this week’s Modern Love offering in The Times. (Note: For Kayla’s response, please click here.) By KAYLA RACHLIN SMALL and THE GAY RECLUSE THE rules forbade me from being within three feet of her. I knew those rules; she knew them. Sharing a drink meant […]
Filed under: Disease, Gay, Language, Longing, Resignation, Sickness, Stereotypes, The Gay Recluse, The Times | 1 Comment
Tags: Daniel Jones, Fashion & Style, Gay Modern Love, Kayla Rachlin Small, Lesbian, Stereotypes, The New York Times
In which The Gay Recluse holds a contest. Sort of. Today we received this submission from Ed, a reader in Murray Hill who writes: Dear Gay Recluse: Since you launched your competition I have kept my eye open for hot gay statues in Murray Hill, which is my neighborhood (32nd and Lexington, to be exact). […]
Filed under: Architecture, Competitions, Gay, Hot Gay Statues, Letters, New York City, The Gay Recluse | 4 Comments
Tags: Eagle, Gay, Gay Statues, Hot Gay Statues, Irving Marantz, Murray Hill, New York City, Park Avenue, Peace Obelisk
In which The Gay Recluse photographs birds. Some days we want to photograph the George Washington Bridge. Today we went for the seagulls.
Filed under: Gay, GWB Project, Infrastructure, Landscape, Photography, Technology, The London Eye, Washington Heights | Leave a Comment
Tags: Birds, George Washington Bridge, Seagulls, Trucks
In which The Gay Recluse would laugh at government doublespeak (and the media’s reporting of the same) if it were in a novel instead of the real world. Today Jeff Weinstein sent us the following quote from an article in The Times (of London) about the British government’s decision to reopen the asylum case of […]
Filed under: Capitalism, Communism, Disaster Footage, Gay, Government, Language, Politicians, Quotes, The Gay Recluse | 1 Comment
Tags: Ahmadinejad, Doublespeak, Executions, Gays, Iran, John McCain, Mehdi Kazemi, Mike Huckabee, Quotes, The Times of London
In which The Gay Recluse holds a contest. Sort of. Today we are extremely honored to present another hot-gay-statue submission, this one a joint effort from Jeff Weinstein/Out There and John Perreault/Artopia. Jeff writes: I sent partner John to shoot Garibaldi in Washington Square Park and instead he came back with [a fuzzy shot of] […]
Filed under: Architecture, Capitalism, Competitions, Gay, Infrastructure, Photography, Ruins, The Gay Recluse | Leave a Comment
Tags: Bronze, Gay Statues, Hot Gay Statues, Louis-Leon Cugnot, The Park Avenue Armory, Young Jupiter
In which The Gay Recluse holds a contest. Sort of. On the topic of hot gay statues, one of our readers — David from Queens — writes with an important observation/challenge: Great contest, Gay Recluse. But it would be virtually impossible for our splendid nation to top the statue of Hercules and Cacus (attached) in […]
Filed under: Architecture, Competitions, Decay, Gay, Ruins, The Gay Recluse, Travel | 2 Comments
Tags: Contests, Firenze, Florence, Gay Statues, Hercules and Caucus
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 Signal in the Sky Said: Marry Her Subject: A goofball straight […]
Filed under: Conspiracy, Gay, Language, Search, Stereotypes, The Gay Recluse, The Times | Leave a Comment
Tags: Daniel Jones, Fashion & Style, Gay Modern Love, Gay Stereotypes, Gay Voice, Gay Writers, Homophobia, Lesbian, Modern Love, Republican, The New York Times
In which The Gay Recluse provides an alternative to this week’s more tedious and stereotypical Modern Love offering in The Times. By Ben Karlin and The Gay Recluse THE problem was Paolo. I met him at an Italian restaurant in my neighborhood in Brooklyn, where he was a devastatingly cute waiter and I a frequent […]
Filed under: Drivel, Gay, Language, Stereotypes, The Gay Recluse, The Times | Leave a Comment
Tags: Ben Karlin, Daniel Jones, Fashion & Style, Frat Boys, Gay Modern Love, Stereotypes, The New York Times
In which The Gay Recluse ponders New York Magazine’s “Best of New York” Special Double Ish. Recently, through a series of startling but ultimately mundane machinations we’d rather not get into because it involves that most hideous of modern chimeras (i.e., frequent flier miles), we happened to receive in the mail (we know, gross) a […]
Filed under: Architecture, Capitalism, Gay, New York City, Retail, Stereotypes, Television, The Gay Recluse, Washington Heights | Leave a Comment
Tags: Best of New York, Bravo, Frequent Flier Miles, New York Magazine, The Daily Intel, The Real Housewives of New York City
In which The Gay Recluse sponsors a competition. Sort of. After our recent post about the smokin’ hot statuary on Audubon Terrace in Washington Heights, a reader wrote to ask if we were aware of other such collections, particularly in the United States, where — in case you haven’t noticed — the puritanical impulse runs […]
Filed under: Architecture, Competitions, Gay, Government, Photography, Search, Technology, The Gay Recluse, Washington Heights | 4 Comments
Tags: Audubon Terrace, Competitions, Homoerotic, Photography, Sculpture, Statuary, Statues
In which The Gay Recluse becomes increasingly obsessed with The George Washington Bridge. Time and Date of photograph: March 1, 2008, 5:58pm. Notes: A panoramic view of the pre-war ruins of Washington Heights and the post-war ruins of New Jersey. “The George Washington Bridge over the Hudson is the most beautiful bridge in the world. […]
Filed under: Architecture, Gay, GWB Project, Landscape, Photography, Ruins, Science, The Gay Recluse | Leave a Comment
Tags: George Washington Bridge, New Jersey, Ruins, Washington Heights
In which The Gay Recluse provides an alternative to this week’s more tedious and stereotypical Modern Love offering in The Times. “Me, My Daughter and Them” By Heidi Wendel and The Gay Recluse MY newest girlfriend, vintage four weeks, was spending her first overnight at our Upper West Side apartment en famille and didn’t know […]
Filed under: Conspiracy, Drivel, Gay, The Gay Recluse, The Times | 2 Comments
Tags: Daniel Jones, Fashion & Style, Frat Boys, Gay Modern Love, Heidi Wendel, Stereotypes, The New York Times
In which The Gay Recluse ponders a sampling of recent search terms used to find the very pages you are now reading. Note: All search terms listed are in the exact form provided by WordPress.com, which is the host (at least for a while) of this blog. Hyperlinks to relevant posts included. Search: students ‘shallow […]
Filed under: Architecture, Gay, Infrastructure, Language, Search, The Gay Recluse, The Russian Blue, The Times, Washington Heights | Leave a Comment
Tags: Big Boobs, Bob Mould, Burt Lancaster, Daddy Bears, Daniel Jones, Gay Sex in the Seventies, Geraldine Ferraro, Grant Hart, Hüsker Dü, Henry James, Hot Bears, In the Mood for Love, Janice Dickinson, Outcast, Povery, Shit Sandwich, Super Bowl, The Rainmaker, West Side Piers
In which The Gay Recluse scores selected opinion pieces in The Times. David Brooks/Remembering the Mentor The Short Version: Even though he was a Nazi, I loved William F. Buckley. In her words: “Buckley was not only a giant celebrity, he lived in a manner of the haut monde.” Score: F (Foolish) In this column […]
Filed under: Capitalism, Dissonance, Drivel, Film, Gay, History, Obsession, The Gay Recluse, The Times | Leave a Comment
Tags: David Brooks, Luchino Visconti, Nazi Germany, The Damned, The New York Times, William F. Buckley
In which The Gay Recluse contemplates an uncommissioned masterpiece from the walls of an uptown subway station.
Filed under: Conspiracy, Gay, Graffiti, Infrastructure, New York City, Subway, The Gay Recluse, Washington Heights | Leave a Comment
Tags: Advertising, Graffiti, MTA, Subway Art, Transit Check
In which The Gay Recluse provides an alternative to this week’s more tedious and stereotypical Modern Love offering in The Times. “The April Fools’ Joke I Played on Myself” by Jay Ruttenberg and The Gay Recluse MY boyfriend and I were descending into the Eighth Avenue L train subway station when I remembered it was […]
Filed under: Drivel, Gay, Stereotypes, The Gay Recluse, The Times | Leave a Comment
Tags: Daniel Jones, Fashion & Style, Frat Boys, Gay Modern Love, Jay Ruttenberg, Stereotypes, The New York Times
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