Dan Savage’s YouTube channel ‘It Gets Better’ invited a flood of video uploads that keep coming. In these two-minute to 15-minute videos, people from all walks of life—celebrities, politicians, activists, baristas, and librarians—promise all the bullied, isolated, struggling young queers throughout the country that their life will get better. The videos come as a response …
Monthly Archives: October 2010
Castro Land
My first paying job in San Francisco was as a freelance videographer. The Stop AIDS Project, a local non-profit, hired me to produce a series of web videos. The series was called PRIME; the videos featured different participants, gay men over the age of thirty, who discussed in what areas of their life they felt …
Score On Four
In the seminal 1984 film Parting Glances, Nick (played by Steve Buscemi, in an unforgettable performance), a gay man living with AIDS, classically sums up the problem of so many gay men’s relationships: NICK: You know the difference between gay guys and straight guys? MICHAEL: I forget NICK: There isn’t any. That is the scary …