I"m Not Making This Up. From the AP earlier
this week, about
a priest's slightly unusual online offering:
A Web site founded by a priest that featured images of young wrestlers in bikini briefs was voluntarily shut down after questions were raised about its content and purpose. --
So he's just a wrestling fan, I guess.
A Movement of Their Own.Yet another annual "Dyke March" will decend on Washington, D.C. this weekend. According to the official Dyke March website, organizers are "Calling all "lesbians -- dykes -- bi-women -- lesbian moms -- lesbianas -- transwomen -- androgs -- queers -- gay girls -- womanists -- asian dykes -- dykes on bikes -- senior lesbians -- lesbians of color -- rural dykes -- femmes -- butches -- goddesses -- poly girls -- amazons -- hippy chicks -- lipstick lesbians -- lesbian avengers -- differently abled dykes -- wise old lesbians -- boychicks -- grrrls -- leather dykes -- babydykes and all those in between!" Well, that about covers it.
The event will once again be an "in-the-streets in-your-face celebration/demonstration of dyke love, power and rage," as if you couldn't guess.
By the way, can you imagine the righteous outrage if gay men dared to entertain the thought of staging a male-only march to celebrate male solidarity and male-bonding (and reached out to straight men in order to form a broader men's movement?) And what if this "for men only" march were led by male-only groups ranging from a "Gay Male Avengers" (with a "bomb with lit fuse" logo) to a "National Center for Gay Male Rights." I"m not advocating it, mind you, it's just that the sexist double standard ("We want our own groups and events; oh, and we want control of the biggest lesbigay groups and events, too. You disagree? Sexist pig!) is so all-encompassing that we typically don't even bother to recognize it anymore.
Actually, maybe my crankiness is, in fact, just jealousy. There
was a time in the early days of the movement when it was acceptable
for both gay men and lesbians to have their own cultural, social,
and political space (aside from the purely sexual spaces, that is).
Working to create a culture of gay men was not automatically
denounced as part of an anti-woman conspiracy. But today, lesbians
may claim their own sphere, but outside the bars and sex clubs, gay
males can't associate in private gay-male associations without
being denounced as part of an anti-lesbian conspiracy -- unless the
purpose of the group is to confess and work towards overcoming
their supposed misogyny.