Meg gay
Being gay in is not the same as being gay in At least not from society’s standpoint. It’s still difficult for a teenage boy, but fifty years ago it was the worst possible scenario. Most same-sex attracted boys and young men did everything they could to cloak it at great cost to their mental and emotional wellbeing. The most pejorative label you could sling at a teen at that time was to call him a “fag.” And the more the object of the slur denied it, the louder the slanderer yelled. Homosexuality was the only taboo subject in Junior High School health classes. You didn’t want to go there.
I cannot imagine what Christopher went through in those days. He was one of the most popular boys in the class—blond, handsome, adored by the girls, and a member of a small group of boys who came to our house regularly to hang out. I thought his friends were great, especially since they did all sorts of chores around the house that I was too busy to do. They seemed eager to please, but they might just have appear over to see my girls or enjoy the joie de vivre that pervaded the Peterson household. Not one of them
Meg Christian
Episode Notes
Olivia Records cofounder Meg Christian helped ignite the women’s music movement of the s with lesbian classics like “Ode to a Gym Teacher.” Meet Meg, in song and conversation, in our final episode drawn from the Studs Terkel Radio Archive.
Episode first published January 7,
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Meg Christian was a pivotal figure in the queer woman feminist movement of the s. Find out more about the celebrated singer-songwriter and activist in this brief biography and this creator profile. Explore her harmony through this fan channel.
For a deeper dive into Christian’s work, head to Queer Harmony Heritage, where you can find a wide-ranging collection of articles as adequately as Christian’s discography and album covers. While you’re there, listen to JD Doyle’s tribute episode to Christian (or read the transcript here).
Before Christian became a “founding mother of women’s music,” she started out as a performer of other artists’ songs; study about the early days of her music career in this Off Our Backs interview.
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Why M3GAN Is A Gay Icon
I saw M3GAN at the weekend, a show so good I’m prepared to shatter my usual command of avoiding gross branded styling. It’s not DOOM, it’s not NieR, and it’s definitely not Watch_Dogs. But it is M3GAN, and I assume the sequel will be MEG4N, despite existence the second in the series and not fourth. The reason M3GAN can get away with this while Doom and Watch Dogs cannot is because M3GAN does not take itself seriously. Watch Dogs uses the underscore to imply some sort of dark web edge, as if a little line in place of a space is the signifier of a complex desktop genius’ mind at work, rather than something we all did on MSN when we were at school with names like jenny_rawr_xd. M3GAN knows exactly what it is, and what it is is for the gays.
As adv as silly stylised names, I’ve always had a petite bit of an issue with something being ‘for the gays’. As both a queer millennial and someone whose job requires them to be online a lot of the time, I see a lot of queer internet spaces. There are a few factors there. Firstly,
Megan Stalter: ‘People do speak ‘hi gay’ to me on the street. It’s nice’
“Desperate”, “deluded”, “mayhem” are just some of the words associated with Megan Stalter’s stand-up comedy. Her character videos, which span annoying coworkers through to fake ads to problematic agents, shared via her Instagram, entertained many of us throughout the pandemic and beyond. Now she is bringing an amalgamation of her bratty personas to Edinburgh Fringe with a show centring on a misguided starlet who is at once “an incredible comedian, curious storyteller and plus-size model”.
When she’s not doing standup, Megan is acting in shows like Hacks, the Emmy award-winning HBO comedy about a young struggling comedian tasked with writing for a legendary older standup in Vegas. She’s also working on a comedy called Church Girls with A24, about a closeted Christian lesbian, loosely based on her experiences growing up in Ohio. However, when we speak, she is on a hiatus from acting and writing, and talking about acting and writing gigs, in solidarity with the SAG Hollywood writer’s strike. We attempted a