Posts Tagged ‘Geraldine Ferraro’

In which The Gay Recluse weighs in on a “controversy.” Obviously, when we endorsed Geraldine Ferraro for president, it was with the expectation that she would hover benovolently in the past and not say unthinking things like: “If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a […]


In which The Gay Recluse scores selected opinion pieces in The Times. Marueen Dowd/Ways of the Wayward The Short Version: Elliot, Geraldine — yikes — problems! In her words: “It makes you wonder how sharp Eliot Spitzer’s pencil was on the state’s fiscal discipline.” Score: B (Blurry) Dowd starts out making fun of Spitzer in […]


In which The Gay Recluse mixes pleasure and politics. Today — in what we can now confirm was the biggest day ever at The Gay Recluse (from a traffic-whore perspective) — we had the pleasure of having Dan Savage link to our smokin’ hot gay-statue contest. We encourage you to check out the full post […]


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 […]


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: two headed […]


Until now we’ve been careful not to endorse either of the leading Democratic candidates — preferring to hold out for Geraldine Ferraro — but with the New York State primary upon us, we have decided to end our prevarication and officially endorse Barack Obama. Our decision is not based on any particular issue — for […]


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: gay stereotypes […]


With the official debut of the presidential primaries this week in Iowa, we would like to offer — after careful consideration of each candidate and his or her respective platform — our endorsement of the one we think would best be suited to run the United States beginning in January, 2009. Those familiar with The […]


We begin by noting that — even more than “freedom” — the word “community” has entered a new and perhaps unprecedented level of (mis)use from which the gay recluse will wish to completely disassociate himself. Particularly noxious are those forms of community — e.g., the gay community, the Irish community, the international community — regularly […]