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Ex-QAnon believer apologizes to Anderson Cooper for thinking he was a baby-eating robot

"I would like to apologize for that right now. So, I apologize for thinking that you ate babies," Jitarth Jadeja said...

Have you ever needed to apologize for thinking someone was a baby-eating robot? Well, you’re not alone.

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"Remember, you can't spell heterosexual without HEROES. You know what homosexual spells? Aloe Mush Ox. Ew. What even is that? That's why straights are better."

--Nobody

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I’ve been learning Arabic for a while and the fact that Duolingo made Carrie a lesbian in the Arabic course is so damn amazing. Putting queer representation in an Arabic language course? Bold Duolingo, very bold. I approve. I also love that in the comments, there are obviously a fair amount of upset Muslims but there is also a lot of LGBTQIA support. my favorite comment is: “homosexuality has existed longer than Islam so, get over it.” True and entertaining.

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Dangit!! I forgot!

Happy national coming out day (one day late)! Hope your LGBBQTI life is frustrating heteros & enriching your life. I count myself among you as I was, for all intents and purposes, engaging in homosexual activities during those 24 hours, and I was happy to be doing so. I was here, I was queer, and October 11 was the day you were supposed to get used to it. Hope you were as successful getting used to homos as I was at being a homo.

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The (Straight) Male Gaze Rules on Sanitized Social Media

Facebook, Instagram, and now Tumblr prize naked women, while deleting naked men. The ramifications are bigger than a shortage of sexy pics.

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Exile in Guyville by Dave White

Genre: Memoir (Technically LGBT, but really more fish-out-of-water or Hollywood tell-all circa 2000)

Grade: A

 A book featuring a charming nontraditional gay couple that meets in White’s home state of Texas, but the book takes place as White moves to LA and deals with Hollywood & fish-out-of-water stuff.

 It’s fitting that I’m reading this book now, because I’m writing these reviews in the style that I first got from Dave White back when he was writing music reviews in The Advocate magazine. This was back when it was cool, in the late nineties. I liked his writing because it was short & pithy. He liked these weird bands that I connected with so deeply. Most of all, his reviews were accurate. You could tell if you were going to like the group or not. This book here is covering the year between when he was writing the reviews freelance while teaching in Texas, to when he became a fairly big-deal movie reviewer for various online sources. This book was wonderful. I’d been having trouble with follow-through on books lately (I’ve been trying unsuccessfully to get myself into Universal Harvester by John Darnielle). This book broke that cycle. I finished the thing in about three days. The interplay between him & his partner (a man awesomely dubbed Morocco Mole) is completely charming. They have the entertaining but supportive interplay you hope to find in your own partner someday. Also, ‘Dallas Beth’ is fantastic. It’s listed as an LGBT book because this was the nineties and gay writers were frequently ghettoized to the ‘LGBT Fiction/Non-Fiction’ sections of bookstores. It’s PG-13. It’s a funny, sarcastic, entertaining book about a cool dude who cannot be tamed trying to be genuine in a land of superficiality. I loved this book.

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My Brother’s Husband (Volume 1) by Gengoroh Tagame

Genre: LGBBQTI-Themed Manga (Japan 2017)

Grade: B+

 This is a beautiful and complex graphic novel about coping with loss and cultural homophobia.

The story is about two muscular Japanese twin brothers and their very different paths in life. As teenagers, one of the brothers came out as gay and was met with silence from his family until he eventually left the country and went to Canada where he eventually married Mike. The other brother is straight and is raising a child as a single father with an estranged wife. This man’s gay twin brother dies in Canada forgotten by his family. One day, a large hairy gay Canadian man named Mike visits this straight twin in Japan to meet the family of his departed husband. The Canadian named Mike starts living with this emotionally reserved straight man and his young daughter while the straight man comes to terms with his failure as a brother.

Overall, this was an amazing story well told… but people wanting a quick resolution should note that this is volume one, so you will be left with a cliffhanger that leaves you with more questions than answers. Also, since this is manga, it may be a while before the creator is able to make another volume. Who knows how many volumes this series will have before the story is truly told. Still, the fact that I care so much after one afternoon with these characters is a testament to how meaningful the story is and how much it has enriched my life.

I read this book in a day. It was amazing. It was the first manga that I’ve ever read and I felt like it told an amazing story. There were so many amazing moments in the story that I’m glad that I could get visually so I can say that I understand the necessity of this genre and why this was the right medium to tell the story. I could’ve gotten this plot in a novel but I would’ve missed all the little beautiful visual moments in it that added so much to the characters. Still, I maintain that I didn’t get enough of the plot for what this book costs. I happened to get this book from my local library so I wasn’t paying the sticker price of $15-$20. For me, that would be way too much money for an afternoon of entertainment. I love how the straight twin who is a single father only allows himself his bath time to really think about his life because that’s the only time he has ever alone and not doing anything. Little things like that just seemed authentic to the characters.