A well-known fact is that my last name is difficult to pronounce — difficult enough to send even the most hardened receptionist or telemarketer into a full-blown panic attack whenever they attempt it. A lesser-known fact is that my family name is not German but Dutch. This is a very...

So, geeky ones, I spent part of Valentine’s Weekend at BYU. I will now pause to let you all get the cackling and shrieking out of your systems. While BYU is home to a number of undesirable things including anti-gay policies and the Cougars — who, as a U of U alum, I’m contractually...

Ah, Valentine’s Day! The holiday that divides people of all sexes, orientations and gender identities into one of two camps: Those who hate it with the heat of a combustion reactor and want to mow down anyone carrying a Whitman sampler and those who love it and get defensive about, well,...

I caved, geeky ones. For Christmas, I asked for and received one of those cute little netbooks which have been all the rage for the past, oh, I don’t know, two years or so? It’s compact, sleek (if disappointingly a little too fragile) and light weight, perfect for my back that can no...

Following last issue’s outing of Snow Miser and Heat Miser as Christmas’ gayest icons, I thought that creating a gay — and geeky — holiday viewing guide was probably in order, given the number of movies and Christmas specials (and the rare non-Christmas holiday special) showing in...

My two favorite secular Christmas icons are fruity as nutcakes, geeky ones. And no, I’m not talking about Santa Claus or Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Given the centuries they’ve been together, I think we can dismiss any arguments about Mrs. Claus being a beard, and as the classic 1964...

Well, geeky ones, ‘tis the season: Of bright lights and winter wonderlands, of a score of delightful A Christmas Carol productions, of at least a dozen religious and cultural symbols, and of parties where your employer asks everybody to bring white elephant gifts and you end up bringing home...

Along with Easter, Christmas and Pride Month, Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. Probably because the other three don’t come with a roster of terrible movies — The Santa Clause notwithstanding. Longtime readers of “Gay Geeks” know that I have a thing about B movies, those...