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Murder By Numbers’ Thorny Queer Politics

By Jeremy Signor • April 15th, 2020

Murder By Numbers makes an attempt at making queer people both visible and respected. It only partially accomplishes this.

Strange Flesh and Making A Gay Man Whole

By Jeremy Signor • January 22nd, 2020

Repressed gay men can experience a second sexual awakening after beginning to accept oneself, and a completion of their whole being comes along with it.

Problematic Bodies

By Jeremy Signor • August 21st, 2019

Tired tropes make gay men the butt of way too many jokes in games. But we can find power within the problematic bodies they inhabit.

Transforming Bodies

By Jeremy Signor • August 1st, 2019

Transformation is oftentimes central to the queer experience. That’s why bodies that represent humanity’s transformative nature are so appealing.

A scene from Persona 5. A character named "Scruffy Romantic" says "we're the fashion police If you don't answer our questions, we'll take you away"

Microaggressions

By Jeremy Signor • July 24th, 2019

The more media takes little swipes at the core of who you are, the more you wonder if you should be consuming it in the first place.

one of the dads from dream daddy holding a baby to his chest and smiling

The Gay Dating Conundrum

By Jeremy Signor • July 17th, 2019

Dating sims are increasingly taking on a queer bent, but few examine the quiet devastation of absence felt by the rural gay.

The Gay Normalcy Fantasy

By Jeremy Signor • September 12th, 2018

Sometimes we just want to escape into a power fantasy. For many gay people, there’s power in the fantasy of normalcy.

Wins of Omission

By Riley MacLeod • January 11th, 2016

Exclusion for the sake of inclusion.

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