Feedback, Age of Listening, Summer, SQUIRREL! . . . and a Jeffery Rant

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Amazing Weekends

Feedback:

• Email from Ray
• Email from Daniel

Topics:

• Underage listeners – JJ
• Mid-year goal review
• Summer is here! What are your plans?
• Is 69 really all that?

WTP:

• Jeffery Rant
• Wait? Sotomayor is hard to pronounce because the emphasis is on the last syllable?! Really? – Jeff
• Hulu Desktop (After Jeff’s Pick) – Griff
• Image Below –  JJ

Borderline:

• Sex Effects of Male Circumcision – Griff

Picks:

• Hulu Desktop – Jeff
• New Druid Forms in WoW – Jeff
• Up (in 3d or not, don’t think it matters much) – Jeff, JJ
• Infamous (PS3) – JJ

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• Glee (Fox) – JJ
• Gives Me Hope – JJ
• Toodledo.com – Griff
• Nakia and His Southern Cousins – Tim

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Emails:

From Ray

Another great episode guys!

In response to the discussion about the San Diego school giving that student beef on their report on Harvey Milk: I think as far as the gay community is concerned, yes sexuality is heightened. But I think that it has more to do on our response to the heterosexual world and our history than our own impulses. Many of our older generation of gays came from an era of extreme repression about not only gay sex, but just sex in general. As Margaret Cho so gracefully put it, “If you’re hated for who you like to fuck, you are gonna kick up your heels and fuck”. They really exemplified that by the period of extremely overt sex in the pre-AIDS era. We have holdover from that period today, with our generation and the younger, newer gays on the scene – not because of fighting against repression, but because wanton sex was romanticized. Yeah, we became a lot more conscious about it because of AIDS. Yeah, free love is still a pretty awesome concept whether it’s gay or straight. But it’s so prevalent; pick up a LGBT newspaper and I can guarantee that there are a minumum of five ads with bare chests, thinly-veiled nakedness, or hook-up chatlines.

We let our own media and the media of the heterosexual world tell us how we should be looking and acting. We should be creative, well-groomed, nicely dressed, hung like a horse, look like an Adonis whether we’re clothed or naked, and above all – promiscuous. We’re expected to sleep around. We’re expected to have hundreds of sexual partners – it’s what was beat into our heads by our own gay elders, and it’s what heterosexual institutions like the Religious Right (Wrong) need in order to continue villifying and condemning us.  If being slutty is ultimately how one truly feels, then so be it – be safe about it and enjoy yourselves. We’re one of a small handful of creatures on this planet that has sex for the sheer enjoyment of having it. But for those of us who aren’t into night-after-night sexcapades, that’s nothing to be ashamed about. We don’t have to be promiscuous to be gay. It’s when we finally grasp that being gay is as much emotional as it is sexual, we can start turning back the tide against institutions like the Catholic Church and Focus On The Family.  We can show them that, with the only difference being our choice of the gender of whom we sleep with, we are no more or less human.

– RaytheFLcub

Smyrna, GA

From Daniel

You were talking in your latest podcast about segregation in the gay community and it got me to thinking — one thing good about living in a smaller city like I do (Charleston, West Virginia) is that with so few gay clubs, everyone is sort of forced to socialized together. Each group can’t go off into their own separate place. The only relatively big club in town attracts an extremely diverse crowd … bears, twinks, drag queens, lesbians, etc … We’re all sort of forced to congregate in the same few places. There are actually a handful of gay bars in town, including a scary pick-up bar where nobody who isn’t on meth or coke tends to go, and a new “alternative dance club” (whatever that means). There’s also few other decent clubs in Huntington, about 45 minutes down the road, and a campground/resort out in the countryside that’s home to our local leather club and the occasional bear party.

And in case you were wondering, yes — there really is a gay community in West Virginia. And we’re getting ready for Pride, here, too. =D pridewv.org

BTW, I’m a very new listener to your show and I’m absolutely in love. You guys are terrific. Keep up the good work!

Regards,

Daniel in West Virginia