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Women’s boundaries and male exclusion
I am glad my friends set boundaries and excluded me, because it taught me a valuable lesson: women have the right to say no.
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Sarah Mary Chadwick’s “Full Mood” is a hauntingly beautiful love song for our time
“Full Mood” didn’t remind me of any one man I dated. It reminded me of many.
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Words on Walford: Fortnight of 13 – 24 April 2020
Has the pandemic changed the way anyone else watches EastEnders? I used to watch every night, but lately I’ve been saving up four episodes (or what would be a week’s worth in normal times) and binging them at the weekend. In some ways this is nice—Friday night was spent in Walford, for example, and I […]
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How Modern Family changed American television
When Modern Family won the 2010 Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series, I was livid. A derivative show which mashed the mocumentary-style of The Office up with the formulaic family sitcom (a la Everybody Loves Raymond), I couldn’t see how it could it could possibly rank as more “outstanding” than Glee, another nominee in its first […]
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On Phillip Schofield and remembering my own coming out
In a very moving statement released on Twitter this morning, and in an equally moving segment on This Morning, Phillip Schofield came out as gay. Married for 27 years to his wife Stephanie, they have two daughters. By Schofield’s own account his wife and children have been nothing but supportive. This can’t have been […]
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20 questions with… EastSiders creator and star Kit Williamson
Most people will have first met Kit Williamson when he starred as Ed Gifford on the Emmy-winning series Mad Men, but now he’s best known as the creator, writer, producer, and director of EastSiders, the Emmy-nominated web series about a group of LGBT friends living, loving, and often lying in Los Angeles. Its fourth and […]
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The gay community must do more to protect young gay boys from sexual exploitation
Earlier this month, news broke that Ralph Shortey, a Republican Oklahoma state senator and prominent Donald Trump supporter was charged with engaging in child prostitution for soliciting sex from an underage boy on Instagram and Kik, social media apps popular with teenagers. Shortey was found with the boy (whose name is withheld for privacy) […]
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Stop calling me the liberal elite
In the days after the general election, I said that I am no longer American. This was prompted by the seeming consensus that to be American one must live in an exurb or rural area somewhere not on a coast. But I have changed my mind. While the media narrative surrounding the rise of fascism […]
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An open letter to Trump voters, from a gay American
Dear friends who voted for that vile man*, I am angry, and I hate you. It would be disingenuous for me to say anything else. The other night I said I hope you die. I meant it. I’m not sure I do now, but at the time I did. I hate you for voting for […]
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Orlando was a homophobic terrorist attack. Let’s own it.
I am heartbroken, and I am weeping. This has been one of the hardest days of my life, on par with the day my friend Garic (a proud gay Marine) died, and 9/11. As a gay American, this assault on our freedoms and very right to exist is in many ways too much to […]
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Welcome to the personal website of writer Skylar Baker-Jordan 