IBR is coming up soon and we’d like to hear about how it went. I’ve sent an email to see if we get anything from the organizes, but we’d like to hear other people’s experiences at IBR. Send us an email at cubsoutloud@gmail.com and we’ll post it on the site.
Category Archives: News
PLANitGAY.com: For All Your GLBT Travel Needs
The Gay Travel Blog and UTalkMarketing are reporting that a new GLBT travel site is about to be launched, PLANitGAY.com. The site’s goal is to be the most comprehensive GLBT Travel site in North America and Europe. One of the neat features of this site is that any GLBT bar, restaurant, club, hotel and any other venue can make their own page on the site, however, it must be updated at least once a month to stay active. The idea is to make sure that the locations are always accurate. This will help travelers if the business moves or goes out of business. Right now the site isn’t up yet, but it said it was just registered. So, if you’re heading somewhere in Europe or North America, check this site out for all your gay travel needs.
Bears in Media: Colossal hopes on ‘bears’ market
Insomniac, The Late Show, and now Marketplace. For the life of me, I can’t remember how I came across this but Bears have now been highlighted in a segment for Marketplace. The segment also features Colossal Clothing, a Big and Tall Men’s wear outfitter, who is targeting the Bear Market. Check out the story here.
Become A Learned Gay
When I ventured over to bTALK World.com, home to our beloved bTALKers, today I found a link to this story. One section of University of Michigan’s English 317 course is going to be “How to be Gay: Male Homosexuality and Initiation.” taught by Instructor David Halperin (halperin@umich.edu). Apparently, it’s not enough to be a gay male. Apparently, there is a couple of things we need to learn. I don’t know about you but this just seems wrong. What even sounds worse is the whole “Initiation” portion:
His three course angles include: (1) gay initiation “as a sub-cultural practice”; (2) gay initiation “as a theme in gay male writing”; and (3) gay initiation “as a class project, since the course itself will constitute an experiment in the very process of initiation that it hopes to understand.”
Umm, this just doesn’t sound good.