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Lisa: “It can be a Catch-22; if you’re not already of a mindset to search for alternative representations you may not be exposed to things that would foster that mindset.” Yes: if you’re of a mindset to look only to porn for “alternative representations” of glbt people, porn is what you’ll find. And what *is* that mindset you’re talking about? I would have thought that being queer would be reason enough to look for “alternative representations” of human life.

It’s strange. I grew up in rural Indiana in the 1950s and 60s, yet I managed to find quite a bit of alternative material in the libraries. It was not all that encouraging, but it was there. “The Nation” was in my high school library — not a gay paper, of course, but it connected me to ideas that few in my own area would have expressed.

As far as access, you’re right. But the resources that were created in the 70s did not receive much support from the glbt community at large; that is why they aren’t there any more. (Alison is aware of this: look at the strips that deal with Madwimmin Books over the years, especially its closing.) I spent years involved with groups here in Bloomington IN that tried to come up with more social space and other resources for gay folks. “There’s nothing to do in this boring town,” the college students would whine. “Why not go to the gay dance on campus this weekend?” I’d ask them. “Oh, no, it’s too boring,” they’d whine. “It’s just a meat market — all anyone there thinks of is sex. And I never got laid there — none of the hot guys would go for anyone who looked like me, they’re so looksist.” And so on. Access to resources is a two-way street: people have to use them, too.

Dweeb: “Once upon a time, when dinosaurs roamed the earth, what is now the contemporary corporate media really WAS the left wing media Republicans decry today, and it was widely available on broadcast television.” Um, no. Woodward and Bernstein was a brief blip, not an expression of liberalism. (It had more to do with the Nixon regime going after the wrong people: wealthy and powerful Democrats instead of scruffy poor people and leftists.) I’m one of those dinosaurs you mention (though I still roam the earth), and I remember very well how the corporate media cozied up to the government in the 60s and 70s. The line on Vietnam, for instance, ran the gamut from frothing hawks to the notion that perhaps we were in a quagmire and the price we were paying was too high. (The price the Vietnamese were paying didn’t begin to register) As for coverage of gay issues — ! No, there was no golden age of corporate media. Take a look at the career of I. F. Stone, or Noam Chomsky’s early
political writings.

The “Delta of Venus” reference (pg. 76) made my day. That cell was pretty much me from grades 10-12…literally.

I’ve only read the first chapter of “Fun Home” so far, and it’s brilliant. Keep up the amazing work!

-An Appreciative Obie

I used to be a big World News Now fan, too. Back when Thalia Assuras and Anderson Cooper were the cohosts.

Keep in touch!

I visited Maude’s in San Francisco (before even the dinosaurs) and had an Irish Coffee with a spritz of whipped cream on top.

I’m also impressed by Eli’s question. At Oberlin, I would sometimes be very frustrated at running into folks asking a more narrow-minded version of that question. Thanks for taking the discussion-at-Oberlin in a productive direction.

-OCMR 0037