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L in a Handbasket

Kate Clinton's Politics of Funny

An interview with Kate Clinton by Aimee Dowl, appeared in issue Fun & Games; published in 2005; filed under Activism; tagged comedy, gay, humor, Kate Clinton, lesbian, politics.

Kate Clinton has been called the lesbian Jon Stewart. Her fans, however, prefer to think of Stewart as the straight Kate Clinton. Her career as a political humorist spans several White House administrations, but the current regime has offered her, like most liberal comedians, endless material for both her onstage comic monologues and her monthly columns for the Progressive and the Advocate.

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We Were Here, We Were Maybe Queer

New Historical Biographies Tell Us to Get Used to It

Article by Laura Nathan, Illustrated by Aaron Artessa, appeared in issue Truth & Consequences; published in 2005; filed under Books; tagged gay, history, homosexuality, queer, role models, sexuality.

Four score and seven years ago, our forefathers—and most infamous tyrants—were getting down with other men. Or so some folks would like us to believe. Historians and posthumous biographers have of late been venturing into the relatively uncharted territory of sexual historiography, exhuming some celebrated corpses to uncover the steamy, secret queer lives they once lived.

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Fan/tastic Voyage

A Journey Into the Wide, Wild World of Slash Fiction

Article by Noy Thrupkaew, published in 2003; filed under Books; tagged erotica, fan fiction, fantasy, gay, gender, gender bending, homoerotic, homosexuality, queer, romance, sci-fi, science fiction, slash, slash fiction, tv.

The kiss was not at all like Kirk had expected... “Spock, wait... wait,” he whispered desperately.... “I can’t... We can’t... You... God, Spock... I want you. Don’t you understand? I want you so much!” Kirk still couldn’t believe that the Vulcan knew what he was getting himself into.

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