Gay Slang Dictionary
When someone pointed me to this link a while back, I knew I’d wind up posting about it eventually. It’s a web site that’s a gay slang dictionary and I’ve found myself lost there more than a few times reading terms and phrases I never knew existed. From the way it looks, they keep it updated, too.
Here’s one from the “P” section:
And there are plenty more where that came from. You can check it out here, for anything about gay slang you always wanted to know, from A – Z. Once you start browsing it’s hard to stop.
Just one more from the “D” section:
Simon & Schuster & Judith Regan
The only reason this is of interest for many is because of Judith Regan’s past. I’ll get to that below with a link. But first, Simon & Schuster is forming some kind of new distribution in partnership with Judith Regan’s imprint, Regan Arts.
“We are delighted to welcome Regan Arts and its authors to Simon & Schuster,” stated Steve Black, Vice President, Client Services for Simon & Schuster. ”Our sales and distribution infrastructure are poised to provide them with the best possible service and help them to reach the widest possible audience. We look forward to a very productive partnership.”
You can read more about that, here. But here’s where I think this gets interesting. HarperCollins fired Judith Regan when she started a huge shitstorms with a book and an interview with O. J. Simpson. I remember all this when it went down. Up until that point, Regan wielded a great deal of power in publishing because she usually got results…she knew what she was doing. In many ways, she’s a woman to be admired. But she did screw up big time with this:
HarperCollins announced the dismissal, “effective immediately,” in a two-sentence news release that was issued at about 7 p.m. Eastern time. The announcement was made by Jane Friedman, president and chief executive of HarperCollins, who has long had a strained relationship with Ms. Regan.
The Simpson book was to give an account of how he might have murdered his former wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald L. Goldman.
You can read more about this O.J. Simpson debacle here. What I find the most interesting about this announcement about the partnership with Regan and Simon & Schuster is that old publishing always reminds me of old boy Republican politics in a way. They’re all still in bed with each other, and they just keep pushing and recycling the same old faces (and ideas) forward, but never really seem to get anywhere. You never have to wonder why Amazon always seems to get what it wants. I know it was just rumor a few weeks ago, but I’m starting to think that Amazon will actually wind up owning them one day.
Maybe it’s time for some new blood?
Matthew Camp Sex Scenes
These days it seems as if there’s always something new popping up in gay culture. This time it’s go-go dancer Matthew Camp talking about how much he loves to do sex scenes. He talks about a film he’s starring in titled, Getting Go. It’s supposedly about obsessing and crushes.
‘The film is a story about infatuation, love and the internet,’ he said.
‘Some of the more interesting tones in this film deal with very interesting ideas of assimilation of the gay community into the mainstream.
‘I think that the general feeling of this movie is very adult and educated and open, there is no awkward coming out story as a focus.’
Sounds interesting, especially the assimilation part. I hear a lot about that and I’m not sure it’s something that’s ever going to happen completely with gay men. How do you take the most integral part of a gay man away? I’m not sure it can happen. Right now assimilation seems trendy. I guess only time will tell with that.
This makes me wonder, though. It’s not something I would have said while promoting a new movie.
‘I like that there are a growing number of gay characters in media,’ he says.
‘I really loved the way that the relationship was portrayed between the two gay characters in Cloud Atlas. The characters were flawed and lovable.’
In 2012 I posted about Cloud Atlas and the “yellowface” scenes that were highly offensive to many people. I found them offensive. I also mentioned how poorly this was treated by some associated with Cloud Atlas.
You can read more here about Matthew Camp and how much he loves doing sex scenes. There’s a clip and I have to admit that it does look interesting. I hope it’s distributed well. The problem a lot of us are having these days is that we’re all caught in between on demand, streaming, and DVD rentals online. Gone are the days where indie video stores used to stock these films all the time and we didn’t have to look too hard.
