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 a dollar store bra that itches, so you...
read moreAlong 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 paragns of bad writing, bad acting, bad...
read moreI think I’ll always remember where I was and exactly what I was doing when Cleve Jones called for all of us to march on Washington, D.C. in October: working the QSaltLake booth at the Utah Pride Festival, and sneaking away for a few minutes to listen to his speech while everybody was scribbling on our super duper cardboard...
read moreWhat is it about geeks and cats, geeky ones? They are the most image macroed animal on the planet thanks to icanhascheezburger.com. They are the subject of at least one famous internet song, “Cat Videos on the Internet,” partly because of those image macros. They appear so frequently in science fiction and fantasy books that...
read moreIs it just me, or does everything around here slow down after Pride? It’s kind of a shock. I mean, here we spend weeks and weeks building the perfect float, picking the perfect music, and finding just the right pair of red bootie shorts to go with your angel wings (you know who you are, if you’re reading this, and you looked...
read moreIt’s been awhile since I’ve said this, so it definitely bears repeating: I love b movies. Unhealthily so. The trashier, campier and all around more laughable, the better. Especially if they’re the kind of b movies that aren’t trying to make some kind of “gee aren’t I smart!” postmodern comment on b movies (trust me,...
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