Out There is always reading print media. Newsprint on our fingers is just mother's milk to us. Here are a few keepers from recent media we'd like to share with you.
Gay athlete Adam Rippon was asked in The New York Times, 3/8/18, "Is the Olympic athletes' village really like a hotbed of sexual Tinder, Grindr, everything?" He said, "Here's the thing. The condoms aren't special. The reason they go through so many is because people like me take maybe 400 of them, and I have little gift bags for my friends. They're just like Korean - it says latex condom, but in Korean."
"Angels in America" gay playwright Tony Kushner, in The New York Times, 3/11, reminds us that theater is hard - not just for playwrights, but for the audience. "You have to show up - you can't watch it from your living room. You're aware that you're watching a bunch of people trying to remember their stuff - and part of your sympathy involves anxiety."
Bisexual actor Alan Cumming on playing a gay lead on CBS' "Instinct," same issue: "It's so unusual to have someone who's a fuddy-duddy professor, but he's also a CIA agent, and he's a writer, and he drives a motorbike, and he's gay. But the character's gayness is like the fifth most interesting thing about him, and the way it's handled is very nonsensational."
From Dwight Garner's "Books of the Times" column, 3/13: "In her (excellent) recent book of dairies, Tina Brown wrote about journalists." Oh that Tina Brown, always milking them heifers down on the farm!
["American Gothic" painter Grant] "Wood was homosexual, a fact long unpublished and, even now, commonly reported with qualifiers: 'repressed,' 'closeted,' 'latent,'" writes Peter Schjeldahl in The New Yorker, 3/12. "No special sleuthing is needed to winkle out his desires from his enraptured depictions of hunky men versus his stony ones of women, and the recurrent suggestion of male anatomy in his bizarre Iowa landscapes. A recent biography of the artist by R. Tripp Evans takes gaydar to such feverish extremes that an essay by Richard Meyer in the show's catalogue takes pains to tone it down a little. 'Sometimes an ear of corn is just an ear of corn,' Meyer remarks."
Vice, 3/13, considers the work of photographer Alexandra Leese. "'The Boys of Hong Kong,' the documentary series and zine that came out of her trip, specifically examines masculinity in China, and the wider depiction of Asian men in photography. 'Very often Asian men are met with a lot of prejudice and are seen as less attractive and more effeminate - whatever these stereotypes may be. I wanted to counter this and create something that celebrates a range of Asian masculine beauty. I wanted to show the world that these stereotypes are just stereotypes.'"
Lizard in barber's chair, in "Bizarro" comic strip, 3/17: "I've been growing it out, but it's a lot of trouble, so I guess go ahead and cut it short." Barber snips off tail.
Playwright Tony Kushner on theatre: "You have to show up."