Just submitted to @wwnorton.com and @pushkinpress.com for June 2027 publication: my biography, the first, of Rudi Gernreich, who was one of the two degrees of separation between Karl Marx and Cher.
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writer, historian, gay wrongs activist @badgayspod.bsky.social, opera queen, @noisybits.bsky.social OUT OF FASHION: RUDI GERNREICH & THE LIBERATION OF STYLE (2027) BAD GAYS: A HOMOSEXUAL HISTORY (Verso, 2022) www.benwritesthings.com
counterpoint: how close would it have been without the airwaves being blanketed with $60,000,000+ in outside money that backed her campaign?
Jonathan Ladd@jonathanmladd.com · 3h agoGiven how close the primary was, it seems likely she could have won if she had held the exact same policy positions but refused campaign money from AIPAC. Hard to imagine other Dem politicians not noticing and learning the lesson.
it is VERY funny to see those Steffen Krach billboards where he takes the oath of office or all the SPD posters saying "Krach for Mayor" when they're polling at 12% lmao
i really have no patience whatsoever for people who are scared of muslims having elected office
One cool thing about Berlin today is that it is 300% humidity.
AIPAC routinely spends tens of millions on primaries, cutting ads that mostly don’t mention it or its actual policy priorities — seems like a less healthy development IMO
Liam Hoare 🇺🇦@liamhoare.com · 12h agoI don't think the framing of every political race as a win or defeat for AIPAC is a healthy development in American politics.
For women's music to stay in the repertoire, we don't just need recordings. We also need score publication, composer info & advocacy. So I'm delighted to announce the launch of UNHEARD HERITAGE, a recording initiative marrying research & performance leahbroad.substack.com/p/announcing...
Habt Ihr eigentlich mitbekommen, dass die Berliner Polizei an dem Tag, als der CSD angegriffen wurde, die Internationalist Queer Pride verprügelt hat? Warum Polizei aus migrantisch-queerer Perspektive keine Lösung ist, schreibt @tarekshuk.bsky.social www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1201...
Solidarität statt Repression
Der Terrorangriff auf den Berliner CSD steht für eine Queer-Feindlichkeit, die fundamentalistische Gruppen mit der extremen Rechten verbindet.
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Die Bundesregierung setzt ein, solche Bedingungen auch hier zu schaffen
Waltraud Meier IS 1995 Love Parade Bisexual Lighting Cindy-Lou Who
large elements of the democratic establishment will attempt to prevent abdul el-sayed and francesca hong from winning their general elections in swing states because they’d rather discipline primary voters than defeat maga. much will depend on how much their grip on normie dems has loosened
sources say she's thinking about the Evgeny Titov Salome again
GLADT offers counseling for queer people who also experience racism, inquire at info@gladt.de. All Berliners affected can call a support hotline at 0800 – 0009546.
We open the episode by talking about the recent attack on CSD (Pride) in Berlin, where Ben lives. If you live in Berlin and are experiencing trauma related to the attack, help is available.
On this episode, we discuss the Gen Z sex recession–one needs a room of one's own to get fisted, as Virginia Woolf might have written––and then take a question from a listener upset about a friend's decision to prioritize a couple over friendship. www.patreon.com/badgayspod/p...
vote blue no matter who unless it’s a *insert slur here*
Ich hab die ZEIT gekauft um das Sarrazin-gespräch zu lesen. So viel Rassistische, antisemitische und liberalo-völkische Aussagen habe ich lange nicht in einem Text gelesen.
Middlebrow movie fans really do get fascistly angry when people express critical opinions about the tentpole products and brands that they have decided to build their lives around
"We had to go to extraordinary lengths to find clean water to feed into the machine, because all the water that comes out of the machine is irretrievably polluted. But we persevered."
Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival@theharvestmaid.bsky.social · last wk.Why is everything so transparently evil now?
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