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WINDY CITY TIMES
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MEDIA WATCH
by Jim Edminster 2002-09-25
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This article shared 2105 times since Wed Sep 25, 2002
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From the "Gilding-the-Lily" file, the Chicago Sun-Times ( 9-18 ) has screenwriter Ted Talley of the new Alexander the Great movie, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, saying "Our lead is omnisexual. He has three mistresses, three male lovers, and even has sex with a eunuch and an Amazon." We noticed they skipped his wife, Roxanne, by whom he had a son.
The NY Times ( 9-15 ) reports on several straight couples who have joined Times Squares, the NY gay square dance club. They prefer the Manhattan gay group "because the dancers are more enthusiastic and their music is faster and more challenging." Not mentioned is the fact that the club is the only square dance club in Manhattan.
The Independent, a British newspaper ( 9-19 ) , in a column dissecting the row over homosexuality in the Anglican church, says rather snarkily that the crisis point over this issue was not now as the just departed Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, has said, but rather five years ago when a Nigerian bishop tried to exorcise the leader of the English Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement on live TV.
From the "How-Could-We-Improve-This?" file is a story from the Sun-Times ( 9-20 ) : "A group of men who marched in the buff in downtown Toronto during this summer's Gay Pride parade were cleared of public nudity charges because they were wearing shoes. 'Nude means absolutely, utterly, completely bare without a single solitary scrap of clothing,' said Peter Simm, defense lawyer. The men were all members of a group called TNT!MEN ( Totally Naked Toronto Men Enjoying Nudity ) ."
The Chicago Reader ( 9-20 ) , in an article "Trans-Spotting" tells of a new small gallery of transsexual and transvestite memorabilia inside Transformations, a clothing store for cross-dressers in Oak Park.
The sports section of the NY Times ( 9-8 ) , which apparently more lesbigays read than one would imagine, carried on about the emerging gay sports culture. "Where else... besides the ballet...can you spend three hours watching tight shots of extremely athletic men in action?" says Jim Buzinski, a co-founder of www.Outsports.com . |
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