When I wrote the script for ‘Bug Chaser,’ I wrote a story I thought only I would ever read. I didn’t think there was any way it could possibly be made; it was disgusting and, as my co-producer pointed out, one isn’t used to seeing the word “sphincter” in a script, let alone several times. …
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Love Burroughs
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within; this documentary about the incendiary “Beat” writer illuminates the man and his contributions to American culture. I recently read Naked Lunch, after many starts and stops because I just couldn’t take that much information at once. I then read Queer, and am looking forward to Junky. Burroughs has inspired …
Better vs Better
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 …