David discovers homophobia under the right's opposition to the Ontario sex education curriculum; and wonders if the AIDS crisis of the '80's and the death of an older generation of gay male mentors is the real reason for a douchebag generation of the sexually awful.
Category: LGBT
How Much is a [Gay] Life Worth?
twenty-five years with the possibility of parole Bruce McArthur will be 91 when he is able to apply for parole. CREDIT: Pam Davies/CBC Bruce McArthur, the serial killer who targeted gay men in Toronto from 2010 to 2017 — yes, for eight years — and who evaded capture even after being brought in for questioning as a suspect in 2013, … Continue reading How Much is a [Gay] Life Worth?
SlowPainful: Director’s Cut, cha-cha-cha!
Well, it's good news, here at bittersweet-comic-personal-essay-political-satire-with-a pimento-stuffed-olive-and-a-twist-of-gay-as-a-goose bootcamp. I'm done. Not just done. Done, or even DONE. There's nothing more. I am squeezed dry, like a lemon wedge squeezed repeatedly by a blue-haired lady over her Dover sole in the dining room of her cheap seaside bed and breakfast, somewhere on the south coast … Continue reading SlowPainful: Director’s Cut, cha-cha-cha!
We have PAPERBACK! + REVIEW offer
Sorry to SHOUT BUT I'M REALLY EXCITED! Oh, fuck I started SHOUTING AGAIN BUT I CAN'T HELP IT! Really, really sorry about my lack of control. But it's not every day that you PUBLISH A PAPERBACK !!!. Oh, god. This is really embarrassing. Just try to bear with me as I tell you a little … Continue reading We have PAPERBACK! + REVIEW offer
In Defence of Deviance
Toronto's PRIDE 2017 celebrated diversity and inclusion. Yet some people—even some gay men—still think that's a shame. Men, men, men! Not a flicker of humor in a back room full of us! Forever shooting our wads, then rolling away from the damp spot and falling asleep; forever forgetting that ejaculation is for Christmas, but a snuggle … Continue reading In Defence of Deviance
“I Feel Like I’m Dressed Really Faggy Today” : A Meditation.
++PLUS++ The Reviews are in! https://vimeo.com/davidroddis/faggy Director's notes: This video is, like, about that moment when you're, like, walking downtown OK and then you suddenly go all wtf I'm dressed really faggy lol ! LMAO!! And you want to go home and change but, like, you have no home and the world feels dangerous? Like … Continue reading “I Feel Like I’m Dressed Really Faggy Today” : A Meditation.
Geezer Libertarians: White Heterosexual Males Fighting for their Survival in a Hostile World.
sorry, couldn't keep a straight face for that! February, 1981: The Toronto Bathhouse Raids Protest, which provided the impetus for the first "Gay Pride" March There is a certain type of online commentator who rears his head (and they are overwhelmingly male) on issues typically described as liberal concerns: Queer equality, Feminism, social welfare and … Continue reading Geezer Libertarians: White Heterosexual Males Fighting for their Survival in a Hostile World.
I’m flippant, now take me seriously.
Just to make sure your heads keep spinning slowly like the restaurant in the CN Tower, I occasionally change tack and go all serious on you. If my suspicions are correct, and they are at least once a decade, this probably happens just at the moment you've finally decided never to expect anything from me except sophomoric toilet humor at … Continue reading I’m flippant, now take me seriously.
Puttin’ the Moves on Pride
Here in Toronto, the City Without A Soul, where the terrible WAR ON CARS rages unabated - at least, according to the Neanderthals from the 905, who drink petroleum for breakfast and, although unable to cope with words greater than one syllable or concepts greater than one person, think nothing of simultaneously texting, reading the National … Continue reading Puttin’ the Moves on Pride
In which I get serious – but don’t worry, it will pass – and I affirm the impending death, in a few years at most, of Phyllis Schlafly. I mean, she’s over 90.
Once in a while I get serious about things, usually about 3AM when no one's looking, which probably means I've gotten blitzed on whatever is handy and performed the entire "Judy Garland at Carnegie Hall" album to whoever happens to be staggering through my squalid excuse for a living room. My "guests", as I charitably call them, tend … Continue reading In which I get serious – but don’t worry, it will pass – and I affirm the impending death, in a few years at most, of Phyllis Schlafly. I mean, she’s over 90.