Gays after taking their guncle photos for insta gif
Jessie Ware only recently learned what "wig-snatching" means, and fresh off the European leg of her current tour, I've taught her "guncle." The 33-year-old British songstress takes full edge of this latest lesson in queer-speak, breaking from our phone chat just long enough to notify her gay brother, Alex, he's a guncle ("I'll take that," he says). With Ware's nearly-2-year-old neonate girl in tow, the siblings have just arrived at a Palm Springs lodge they rented, a family vacation before Ware's Coachella performance.
For her solo live shows, Ware's culled a setlist encompassing her three musically varied releases: her debut "Devotion" (2012), which features her breakout single "Wildest Moments"; her even-more sophisticated "Tough Love" (2014); and last year's experimental "Glasshouse," a collection so personal she tells me she wants to record a full album of escapist club harmony next.
Though jet-lagged, Ware discussed her plans to start watching "RuPaul's Flamboyant Race," her supportive friendship with Sam Smith, and how the queer people helped her through a very challenging time.
Speaking of your brother, is he dating one of your gay fans yet?
No, he isn't virtual dating one
GENERAL DISCLAIMER: THIS IS NOT A POST I’M MAKING TO CRAP ON SAPPHIC LIT. SAPPHIC LIT IS AMAZING, AND THERE ARE TONS OF BEAUTIFUL SAPPHIC BOOKS OUT THERE – BUT MORE ON THAT LATER. A LOT MORE ON THAT LATER, SINCE APPROXIMATELY 85% OF MY READING IS SAPPHIC. IT IS…(MOSTLY) ABOUT SAPPHIC REP IN MAINSTREAM MEDIA. AND MAINSTREAM, WHITE, SAPPHIC RELEASES. MOSTLY. YEAH.
Okay, so this post is going to be…a bit of a rant (are you honestly surprised?).
It isn’t a secret that sapphic literature (aka queer female-spec literature) is woefully underrated. Even leaving the objectively impossible level of gross heteronormativity of the world we live in aside, books about girls who devote girls or queer girls in any context don’t get a sliver of the attention books about gay men do in the publishing world. As a teenaged queer female myself, even I felt inexplicably obligated to begin my journey into the colourful, rainbow-y universe of queer literature by reading about…wait for it…gay men. I can’t completely blame myself for my stupid decisions endorse then, though, for a host of reasons:
- We exist in a world where every story has to be first told through a mas
THE BABADOOK, Actually, Is Gay
The internet is taking a moment this week amid its confetti-storm of Pride celebrations to revisit a beloved masterpiece of gay cinema, Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook(2014).
The film is the story of a bereaved family coming to terms with their new tenant – a shambling, screeching storybook demon who lives under the stairs and, once given call or thought, can never be exorcised: “If it’s in a word, or it’s in a book / You can’t get rid of the Babadook!” He is gay.
It has come to our attention, however, that the heterosexual community, in their usual loud and baffled way, is somewhat mystified by this icon of LGBT culture. What is so homosexual, wonders the average straight person (a very average creature indeed), about the hapless misadventures of Mister Babadook?
“DO you HAVE to say everything that goes through your mind?!?” Amelia Vanek (played by Essie Davis) bellows at her outspoken son, Samuel (Noah Wiseman), after his poor behaviour mortifies her for the dozenth time. Tempted though we might be to bellow the same here at this impudent dismissal of one of our community’s most cheri