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Sucker for Love.
Francesca and PaoloDante Gabriel RossettiAuguste RodinGustave DoreAry SchefferFrancesca da Rimini was a contemporary of Dante, who placed her and her lover, Paolo Malatesta, in the second upper realm of hell, in Dante's great poetic work, The Divine ...
Constantine Cavafy.
A Horror Story
“Coyote Love” By Kraig Blackwelder This short story leads a compilation of tales promised to be chilling stories, in Bending the Landscape—Horror, edited by Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel. All the stories are writt...
GBG's 7th video.
This comes from Macbeth (Act 5, Scene 5, lines 17-27) and is one of Shakespeare's most famous soliloquys....
Yet another video by GBG
Hi! I just want to tell you all that I think you're wonderful. If somebody in the flesh world hasn't told you this today, then throw them a curve ball and pay them the compliment. I discovered that if you tell 10 random people something sincerely com...
Possessed
Hi, friends. Here, Gay Bipolar Guy makes his 1st foray into reading poetry, which is something we wanted to do in learning vlogging. We really hope you enjoy!...
A Novel Worth Your Time.
Shakespeare's Sonnets, a NovelbySamuel Park This gay themed novel is exquisitely written by a young author who knows his literature. Samuel Park's debut novel is a beautiful love story set in 1948 at prestigious Harvard University, then a men's schoo...
Boy with a Thorn--Three Pictorial Examples
The brilliant and queer author, Andrew Holleran (Dancer from the Dance), mentions in Grief a replica of Boy with a Thorn. I saw Lo Spinario in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence (which took every fucking penny I could scrape together to get there. But It...
The Most Challenged Book of 2007.
The American Library Association’s Banned Book Week was September 29th-October 6th, 2007. A librarian at my local branch was helping me assemble a list of banned and challenged gay/lesbian themed books. (She said, “I’m sure if you just a...
Faggots! Read This Book! (Cool Pictures, Too.)
QuerelleMany artists have taken their shot at defining Jean Genet's novel, Querelle. I commend all of them, because this is one piece of fiction which literally rubs against the flesh in a secret way. It is masturbation by the one great writer who th...
A Rebours (1884)
I just finished reading a book, A Rebours (Against the Grain) by Joris-Karl Huysmans, which I would not recommend, unless you have the patience of a diseased saint and a penchant (or, at least, a lazy, constipated tolerance) for simpering, neurotic s...
A Great and Famous Novel
The Picture of Dorian GrayI come to this post from various directions. For one, when I unearthed the old photo portrait I posted recently, I saw how young and perfect I was. No, not an ego perfect nor perfection in terms of ever having been the...
Fun With Words
THE WASHINGTON POST'S STYLE INVITATIONAL once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary,alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter,and supply a new definition. 1. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund,...
Essay--The Lesbian Vampire
Carmilla The belief in vampires is ancient. Throughout Europe, this creature has haunted civilization. The ancient Greeks and Romans believed in, and wrote about, vampires. The belief in their existence was so strongly held, subsequent European gove...
Poem
Here Gay Bipolar Guy goes again....
