I love “queer.” I see “queer” as meaning that which deviates from the script. Political resistance is “queer.” You live the best way you can, with the biggest awareness that you can, and try to mitigate suffering if you can. That’s what it means to be human. There’s no purity to one position. — Joan…
An SA Transparent conversation
Last week, as Variety reported, the Amazon series Transparent made history when it won two Golden Globe Awards (best TV series, and Jeffery Tambor for best actor). It was the first time an online series won awards of that magnitude. The show itself– pardon the now oft-repeated pun–is transformative. The series, taken from creator Jill…
Hometown hero: Rene Roberts’s Dia de los Muertos ball
“Hey, a girl’s gotta eat!” Rene announces as we hop in my car and speed off to Ramona’s Café to talk about the wild success of his epic San Antonio ball. Yep, I’m talking about the the Annual Dia de los Muertos Ball Presented By Rene Roberts. You know the one, right? Rene has been…
Hey, Lena Dunham? Thank You.
“Young people do not wake up on their thirteenth birthday, somehow transformed into a sexual being overnight. Even young children are sexual in some form.” – Heather Coleman, PhD & Grant Charles, PhD, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada and The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. Two disclaimers: I have not read Lena Dunham’s…
The Intimacy Doctor shops for sex toys
The Two Main Characters in Pixar’s ‘Toy Story’ are Woody and Buzz Clearly This Was Intentional Me: I need a catchy title for my column about sex toys. Dan*: A dildo in hand is worth two in the bush? Me: No way! Two in the bush is waaaaay better! My poor fiancé really took one…
The Intimacy Doctor cooks with the Beekman Boys
I realize that I am the Out In SA sex columnist, not the food columnist. But since I adore food almost as much as I adore sex, I am also a regular attendee of events at the Central Market cooking school here in San Antonio. I got to hang out with the Beekman Boys this week,…
Go f*ck yourself
“Everyone does it, but no one admits it.” This statement almost always refers to one of two human activities. One is eating Jack in the Box egg rolls at 3 a.m. The other is masturbation. Masturbation is simply the touching of one’s genitals for the purpose of sexual pleasure. Historical records and anthropological studies indicate…