Dykes To Watch Out For

writer's blockade

THANKS FOR THE FEEDBACK, SYDNEY. YOU'RE RIGHT ABOUT MORE INTERTEXTUAL EMPHASIS IN CHAPTER THREE.

WELL, IT'LL HELP DEMONSTRATE THE INSTABILITY OF THE HEGEMONIC DISCOURSE, ON WHICH YOUR SITING OF THE CORPOREAL INSCRIPTIONS OF RACE AND GENDER DEPENDS. DOING ANYTHING FUN THIS WEEKEND?

OH, YEAH. LIFE IS JUST ONE BIG MARDI GRAS WITH THIS DISSERTATION HANGING OVER MY HEAD. THANKS FOR THE RIDE.

I'LL THINK OF

YOU WHILE I'M OGLING MUBILE SNOWBOARDERS ON THE LIFT LINE.

1996 BY ALISON BECHDEL

NO! IT'S LIKE LIVING WITH MY FRAT BOY STUDENTS! LOIS, WHAT THE MELL ARE YOU DOING?

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GETTING READY FOR THE BIG DRAG KING CONTEST AT CLUB Q. WHAT DO YOU THINK? DO I PASS? FOR A HIRSTUTE CUB SCOUT.

I'M SICK OF THIS PLACE! HOW'M I SUPPOSED TO THINK IN THIS CHAOS ?! HOW'M I SUPPOSED TO WRITE SURROUNDED BY LAYABOUTS AND ANTI-INTELLECTUALS?

AND IF I HAVE TO LISTEN TO YOU HAVING SEX TONIGHT, HOMEBOY, I'LL SLICE YOUR EIGHTY-DOLLAR SILICONE SCHLONG LENGTHWISE AND WRAP IT AROUND YOUR WAIST!

STOMP STOMP STOMP SLAM!

you take me të

Funky

OH. HI2

tow... GNGER HEY! CLIK!

WHY'D YOU BECAUSE UNLIKE YOU

TURN THE SLACKERS, I HAVE FRIDAY!

GINGER, IT'S

MUSIC OFF? WORK TO DO! GOD!

WE'RE JUST

IT'S LIKE LIVING WITH UNWINDING!

MY STUDENTS!

m

ONE HOUR OF FRUITLESS

STARING LATER...

NOW WHAT ARE THEY UP TO?

I DON'T HEAR A THING!

Dear Ginger

We're gone for the whole weekend. The house is clean and there's a pot of Chili in the fridge. All you have to do is write.

Love, your housemates

OH, THANKS A LOT! HOWM I SUPPOSED TO THINK IN THIS STERILE ENVIRONMENT? HOW'M I SUPPOSED TO WRITE CUT OFF FROM HUMANITY AND THE FLOW OF LIFE?

WHAT ARE YOU LAUGHING ATPLET'S NOT FORGET WHOSE DISCOURSE IS HEGEMONIC AROUND HERE.

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THE MOSTLY UNFABULOUS SOCIAL LIFE OF ETHAN GREEN. YOU KNEW GUNTHER FROM WHEN LAST SPRING GUNTHER GOT SICK YOU WERE WITH DOUG. THEY BECAME PAUL, HIS LOVER, BEGAN TURNING FRIENDS-OR FUCKBUDDIES-BACK WHEN TO DOUG FOR HELP RUNNING ERRANDS, DOUG WAS FIRST COMING OUT&GOING AND STAYING WITH GUNTHER WHEN TO THE BARS. PAUL HAD TO WORK.

I GOT THOSE JOE JACKSON TICKETS.

EXCELLENT.

C'MON DOUGIE

SUCK THAT TIT./

UMMM.

THIS ALL WENT ON A LONG TIME AGO. BEFOR DOUG BEGAN GOING TO THE GYM.

DOUG,THANK YOU SO MUCH, QUIT THANKİNG ME PAUL..

I'M HERE FOR YOU GUYS OKAY?

·

DOUG BEGAN RELYING MORE ON YOU. YOU'D ALWAYS LIKED GUNTHER & PAUL AND BEING ASKED TO HELP MADE YOU FEEL INCLUDED. PART OF SOMETHING

DOUG IT'S NO TROUBLE. REALLY I'D LIKE TO.. OK, I'LL SEE YOU AT FOUR...

By Eric ORner. GUNTHER DIDN'T TAKE ANY SHIT. WHEN CYBELLE, A HOME-CARE PROVI ER, OBJECTED THAT HIS FAVORITE CAN DLES MIGHT DETONATE HIS PORTABLE OXY

GEN TANK, HE FIRED HER.

OK. I AM SO OUT OF HERE. SWEETIE, YOU WERE SO NEVER HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE.

Y

WINCE

LATER,HE INSISTED THAT PAUL & DOUG BURN SAGE IN THE BEDROOM THIS, HE CLAIMED. WOULD CLEANSE THE SPACE OF ANY LINGERING, BUREAUCRAT AC, HEALTH-CARE-INDUSTRY ENERGY.

LIKE THIS?

YEAH.

OR A WHILE, AROUND COLUMBUS DAY, HE RALLIED. SOMETIMES YOU WERE ASKED TO TAKE HIM FOR WALKS

AROUND THE CITY.

HOW'S YOUR FRIEND BUCKY?

OUT OF HIS MIND. REMEMBER THAT YOUNG DYKE HE MET AT PRIDE? HE WANTS TO ADOPT HER.. CIRCUIT QUEEN SAVES RUNAWAY TEEN...

FILMAT ELEVEN

ONE OF THOSE TIMES, YOU RAN INTO JASON CHANG, WHICH TURNS OUT TO BE THE NAME OF THAT MAN YOU WERE CRUISING A FEW MONTHS BACK AT A LARRY KRAMER LECTURE.

AND SINCE, AS WE GET OLDER, WE GROW REMOVED FROM ONE ANOTH ER BY EVER FEWER DEGREES OF SEP ARATION. IT TURNS OUT THAT JASON USED TO BE PAUL'S ROOMMATE, BACK

GUNTHERPOHHH BEFORE PAUL MARRIED GUNTHER.

HEY!

GUNTHER!

L

(YNTHER) HI JASON,

DO YOU KNOW EACH OTHER? ETHAN, THIS IS JASON.

376VE

COF

THE ALYSON ALMANAC

PRESENTS

FEBRUARY

February 8, 1977: Midge Costanza, acting as community liaison in the new Jimmy Carter administration, receives the first official lesbian and gay delegation to the White House. Carter had been in office less than three weeks at the time.

Happy Birthday Ramon Novarro

(Feb. 6, 1899-Oct. 31, 1968) Novarro appeared in over a hundred films by 1922, usually typecast as the quintessential Latin lover. Swooning women

made him a

box-office hit, but his real interest was in rough trade. He was brutally murdered by two hustlers one

Halloween night.

In 1982, Hollywood featured lesbian and gay themes on a level never before ached Personal Best (released Feb. 5) ariel Hemingway and Patrice peting athletes who fall in

fer came Harry Hamlin in frama about a married

That same month, Wisconsin became the first state to get a wide-reaching gay rights law. Governor Lee Dreyfus, a Republican, as he signed the bill into law, expressed his belief in the 'fundamental Republican principle' of restricted governmental involvement in the lives of citizens.

Sources: Willhoite's Hollywood, by Michael Willhoite; and The Alyson Almanac.

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