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Mothers’ Day and the Queer Kitchen

BY KELLY JEAN COGSWELL | One of the few times I’ve been back to Kentucky in the last zillion years, my mother offered to make lunch if I came over. The menu turned out to be frozen pizza and brownies made from a mix, and for that I was truly grateful. The woman’s a rotten cook. Mostly [...]

May 8, 2013No CommentRead More

The Boston Attacks: Learning to Regret

BY KELLY JEAN COGSWELL: He looked just like a young Bob Dylan, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev — handsome as sin and a little lost, with the same dark angelic ringlets, same soulful eyes. All the networks kept showing the photo Friday, right next to one of a boat parked in a suburban yard. Then, they’d show the scene [...]

April 24, 20131 CommentRead More

Queering Democracy In France

BY KELLY JEAN COGSWELL | Seems like whenever you demand LGBT rights in a democracy, some asshole declares, “It’s a free country. You can do whatever you want inside your home. Why do you have to impose it on me?” Then they call you a fascist and sometimes cap things off with the advice, “Go back [...]

April 10, 20132 CommentsRead More

Same-Sex Marriage Cases Are No Roe V. Wade

BY KELLY JEAN COGSWELL | In an op-ed piece masquerading as fact, the New York Times on Sunday declared that the “Shadow of Roe v. Wade Looms Over Ruling on Gay Marriage.” According to Times legal correspondent Adam Liptak, any positive marriage equality decision handed down by the US Supreme Court will face the same endless [...]

March 26, 2013No CommentRead More

The Secret of Power

BY KELLY JEAN COGSWELL | City Council Speaker Christine Quinn finally tossed her hat in the ring and came out as a candidate for New York’s top job. It’s a big deal. She’d be the first female mayor, not to mention the first dyke, in Gracie Mansion. It’s astounding that she’s gotten this far. Being the first [...]

March 13, 2013No CommentRead More

For African Dykes, Zanele Muholi

For African Dykes, Zanele Muholi

BY KELLY JEAN COGSWELL | I forget sometimes how important art is, what images can do. Last week I got blown away by an exhibit in Chelsea at the Yancey Richardson Gallery. The photographer was Zanele Muholi. Her subjects were African dykes like herself. They stare out from the prints in their best ball caps and [...]

February 27, 20133 CommentsRead More

Putting the Pope Out to Pasture

Putting the Pope Out to Pasture

BY KELLY JEAN COGSWELL | It’s finally curtains for the inauspicious reign of Pope Benedict the Whatever, who resigned Monday citing health concerns as the reason for breaking a 600-year-old tradition of serving until death. I suspect he was just sulking after his attempts to “protect” straight marriage in France were soundly defeated. Or maybe he [...]

February 13, 20131 CommentRead More

Selma, Seneca Falls, Stonewall

BY KELLY JEAN COGSWELL | All hail January. The first was not just New Year’s Day, but the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln signing the Emancipation Proclamation. A couple weeks later, Barack Obama, our first black president, had his second inauguration ceremony on Martin Luther King Day. I remember a lot of (white) people were pissed off [...]

January 30, 2013No CommentRead More

Being Jodie Foster

BY KELLY JEAN COGSWELL | I was maybe 12 or 14 when some man at the hospital said, “You remind me of somebody. That actress. You know. What’s her name? Straight hair? Young? She was in that movie a couple years ago?” Which he couldn’t think of, either. I was taking newspapers around to patients, [...]

January 16, 2013No CommentRead More

Bah and Humbug, Inc.

BY KELLY JEAN COGSWELL | Thank God the holidays are over. I used to be freaked out by the whole psycho happy family display. Now, it’s the ode to the passage of a dozen short months that drives me nuts. Seriously, who but farmers organize their projects in convenient twelve-month bundles with sparklers that go off [...]

January 4, 2013No CommentRead More

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