So I really fancy watching Bottoms when it comes out because in so many many ways it is what I would have loved to see when I was watching the relentlessly heterosexual American Pie (I still maintain it’s funnier than I thought it was going to be). However until August I will be amusing myself … Read More
(Spoilers for the final Anna Madrigal book ahead mention of suicide ideation) Last year at least the prompt was top five… My favourite book is a series, the Tales from the City series by Armistead Maupin. Honestly Anna Madrigal is lifegoals in many ways. I swear it’s not just old characters deciding to kill themselves … Read More
Being in the closet is one of those things that some people have to be, I hate it. But growing up I was always very aware that my opening my mouth reflected on other people. Well, by other people I mean my parents, my little sister. It may surprise you, dear readers, to learn that … Read More
I suspect this prompt was written on the understanding that religion means one of the main six, and probably one of the Abrahamic ones. I’m a Wiccan though, and there’s a mainstream cultural understanding that Paganism is free and easy when it comes to gender and sexuality… And then there’s Wicca. My religion was created … Read More
Fucking hell. I, and – fuck it I can’t be the only one – a whole chunk of my generation, have had some bad luck when it comes to children’s tv presenters. Jimmy Saville was just too fucked up for words but at least it was – in hindsight for those of us viewers who … Read More
(Content Warning – Talking about Transphobia, Bigotry, Hate Crime, Violence, Murder) When Sophie Lancaster was murdered I felt sick. I felt like she was punished somehow for society deeming it unacceptable to beat up the QUILTBAG and people who weren’t white or practiced different religions. As if hatred and anger cares about respectability. It felt … Read More
Lancaster’s Second Pride, and the last one I marched in because COVID managed to cancel last years. Look at us all! Lovely Queer Ladies marching.
Last year I named my ultimate, life-long Queer Icon. This year I’m going to name the person who has been most Queerly Iconic to me, and that absolutely has to be Symone. She’s the Drag Race winner of this year but that’s not what makes her iconic to me. What makes her iconic to me … Read More
Last year I wrote that it was the people, the sense of community and family. I stand by that, I was absolutely right, but also, there’s more. It’s the language, the jokes, the shared experience. The fact that Being Queer is Awesome. We get to be one the edge of mainstream culture (that makes us … Read More
I found this difficult to answer last year, I kept thinking about all the very easy to interact with things like Drag Race or stickers or the flags up around my house. Not really ‘culture’ per se, just nicely packaged rainbow QUEER ready for the capitalist system. But last year I was grieving, a friend, … Read More
