The Genevieve Files

I just randomly tripped across this scene from Rosanne. I have swiss cheese for brains and I'm mixing up Rosanne Barr with someone else and misremembered her as being gay, so I was expecting something better. The show is about an uncouth working class family and it's not really my cup of tea, but it's not really a homophobic scene either.  I will say that I personally intensely dislike the practice of trying to fix people up with a date. That's just not something I would do. I think the world would be a better place if parents would stop trying to tell kids from an early age that they will grow up and fall in love with a member of the opposite sex and get married. Like just let your kids figure out their sexuality themselves. You probably don't have your own sexuality figured out that well. So butt out. So I made a note of the clip because I write about LGBTQ stuff and figured someday I might do something with it, and then I tripped across a longer clip from what i...

Below is an AI summary. I typically write my own posts but I tripped across this news and wanted to post it "hot off the presses" as quickly as possible: Alan Turing wrote a newly transcribed autobiographical story about homosexuality Alan Turing's unpublished, semi-autobiographical short story titled "Pryce's Buoy" has been fully transcribed and analyzed for the first time.  A literary analysis by Professor Sarah Dillon from the University of Cambridge was published in The Review of English Studies. The text provides a rare, direct look at how the legendary World War II codebreaker and computer scientist viewed his own homosexuality.  The Plot: The six-page handwritten manuscript serves as an "autofictional" retelling of the late-1951 sexual encounter in Manchester that ultimately led to Turing’s 1952 arrest for "gross indecency".  The Characters: Turing casts himself as "Alec Pryce," a celebrated scientist who has just complet...

Einstein Riding a Llama   is intended to be an inclusive resource for people negatively impacted by sex crimes. It kind of grows out of a couple of super negative experiences I had because I'm a female survivor of sexual abuse who is willing to talk to anyone -- even men -- about this issue. One of those incidents was covered on this site: Sadly . Another was written about a bit elsewhere: Stupid is as Stupid Does . There's actually two posts with the exact same name on that second site, so if you don't use the direct link and you search the site instead, you may get a little confused. So it kind of grows out of my observation that there's a dearth of resources for men in specific but it also grows out of that unstated emotional reaction described in the second piece of "Well, if women can't talk to men about this, where does that leave your trans buddies, Mr. So-called Trans Ally, hmmmmmm?" So I'm trying to make it as ungendered as I can. Thus, it...

And another reason to not REALLY be enthused about continuing to write here: I'm very very very against trying to "cure" people of being gay, but I suspect that some people who think they are gay are really attracted to people who have enough of something in common with them and they just aren't finding it in members of the opposite sex. Some chick on probably Reddit remarked once that she was beginning to worry she liked bad guys and then realized all the bad guys in movies she liked were played by the same actor. She liked that actor in any role he played, bad guy or not. During my divorce, I was involved with a man fourteen years older than me and about the time I was thinking "This is a shit show and I'm NEVER getting with an older man again." I met a guy sixteen years older than me and we really hit it off. I have B.A.G.G.A.G.E about my tendency to like older men. It took me a long time to sort that and not feel like me liking older men somehow was ...

To my surprise, this blog already has a whopping four posts dated 2026. This will be the fifth post this year. I thought it was deader than that. I have a lot to say about a lot of topics. It's fueled a bunch of different blogs while I try desperately to both "find my voice" and figure out how to open my mouth in public without undue drama. I've spent years throwing things at a wall and seeing what works. I have several blogs that either gelled after multiple attempts to find my voice, like Native Influence that finally came together earlier this year after multiple tries that got redacted in whole or in part, or blogs that were the umpteenth attempt to make a blog about a concept, like Feminine Character Works replaced a project called Feminist Slacking. I also have a history of giving up on a project and declaring it DEAD, then finally writing buckets. That happened on Project SRO where I did a brain dump of unpolished stuff after announcing "I'm done an...

Fear and Self Loathing  documents my reasons for believing the worst homophobes are closeted homosexuals. A more recent post says: I believe that trauma in the LGBTQ community from family that simply cannot accept them is so common that most people cannot distinguish the damage done by abusive bullshit from "LGBTQ." If you are a parent, I suggest you get with the person in the mirror and get over your crap. Let me suggest you start with getting a boxed set of Farscape or ability to stream it. In one episode, the make the point that the problem isn't the occupying forces demanding tribute. It's the local leadership agreeing to it without a fight. I love my sons . I know I love my sons because I CHOSE to get over my crap for their sake, something I didn't know how to otherwise do. I was molested as a child. I know some parents tell their kids stuff like "Scream if someone wants to touch your private parts." I thought long and hard  about it and decided...