Terre Thaemlitz, also known as DJ Sprinkles, is a legend of house music who came up in the disenfranchised queer scenes of ā80s and ā90s New York City, and has grown to be one of the most vital, vibrant intellectual forces and queer theorists in electronic music.
Anne of Green Gables may not be the the first work on your list of āclassic queer literature,ā but maybe it should be. Thereās something about Anne Shirley which seems, at least to me, undeniably queer. Itās little wonder that I have always identified heavily with Anne and the novel remains my favorite novel of allā¦
Writer Michelle Tea followed Beth Ditto through the whirl of Paris fashion week, and lived to tell The Believer. What's interesting about Tea's account is that it places front-and-center one of the fashion industry's biggest unstated issues: Social class.
Joe The Plumber may not want his kids around "queers", but apparently, (the gay!) Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi are the celebs moms feel safest leaving their kids with. (They beat Brangelina.) [Reuters]
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, a giant in the world of queer theory and the author of several landmark works of literary theory, has died of breast cancer at 58. [New Yorker, FLP]
