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Loveless
Mar 15th
Twelve-year old Aoyagi Ritsuka is left with his insane mother as his only family when his brother, Seimei, is killed suddenly. After moving to a new school, he meets Agatsuma Soubi, who claims to have known his brother. Ritsuka eventually discovers that Soubi and Seimei used to be a fighting pair, whereby Soubi was the "Fighter" and Seimei was the "Sacrifice". Now that Seimei is gone, Ritsuka has inherited Soubi, who will become his "Fighter". After learning that Seimei was killed by an organisation known as the "Seven Moons", Ritsuka decides to investigate into his brother’s death, with the sometimes useless help of Soubi, along the way.
Loveless has been called a “boylove anime” and by Western standards it is, of course. What else can a series that circles around the love affair between a 12-yearold and a 20-yearold be called? If in doubt, the series itself will provide you with the necessary clues. Like for example when Soubi’s jealous ex-boyfriend accuses him of having a “Lolita complex” because of his obsession with Ritsuka.
At the same time it should not be called a “boylove anime”. This anime is made for TV by a big production company. The aim is to earn money. And how do you earn money? By attracting a lot of people. And a lot of people are apparently attracted to the love between Ritsuka and Soubi. In the West, we call that boylove. In Japan, they call it sweet.
This text is a short excerpt from an article about Loveless in the first issue of the Destroyer Journal. You can order it at I Love Mags if you want to read the full story. A review can be also found here.
Godly Boyish
Mar 14th
Cam Archer is an independent filmmaker who, at the same age of most recent college graduates, has written and directed a vast amount of his critically acclaimed and award winning films. His debut feature film Wild Tigers I Have Known, which was executively produced by veteran indie filmmaker Gus Van Sant, premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and has gone on to become a landmark in new-queer cinema.
While dealing with the sensitive and taboo subject of adolescents coming to terms with their homosexuality, Archer creates images that are fresh, beautiful, and undoubtedly original. His films blend formal narrative structure with extreme and abrasive experimental imagery to help tie the symbolic knots together, and create a better understanding of the state of mind in which his main subject is trapped inside. His work, which could be compared to many Van Sant films, (Elephant comes to mind) are able to hold up on their own through their breathtaking cinematography, subtle background scores, and of course an innovative take on a subject that has been dealt with thousands of times in the history of cinema. Archer is a controversial artist, who makes films on his own terms, and through his collection of work, has created a style in which no film buff could deny.
In the short film Goodly Boyish, Cam Archer’s moody, elliptical exploration of the interior lives of teenagers, two boys (Jasper Bel and Cassidy Field) dream of a life together in heaven…
Cute Caturday *3
Mar 13th
He might also be a candidate for the Too Much Photoshop Tuesday but you have to admit, the kitten is a natural beauty ;) Thanks for finding this Declan. Be sure to send us your cat boys too, kthxbye!
Husbands & Husbands
Mar 12th
An interesting exchange with a small boy who meets a gay couple at a family function
For this boy it was a simple step of logic. First, he admits he knew about husbands and wives but had never seen a husband and husband before. He says: "This is the very first time I’ve seen husbands and husbands." And then he draws his conclusion: "So that means you love each other." A logical conclusion, but one so many people seem to miss.
Periodical Political Post *47
Mar 11th
- Mexico enacts Latin America’s first gay marriage law
- US Anti-Gay senator comes out as gay after arrest
- Kid kicked out of pre-school because parents are gay
- US high-school prom cancelled in Lesbian panic
- Man branded as pedo for taking photo of his son
- Obama supports DNA sampling upon arrest
- European Parliament gives the US a lesson on freedom
- Why surveillance cameras won’t make us safer
US newspaper readers are in uproar over this photo. The Washington Post’s internal ombudsman has defended the newspaper’s decision to carry a front-page photo of a gay couple kissing. The newspaper printed the image last week on the first day gay couples in the district were able to apply for marriage licences. Couple Jeremy Ames and Taka Ariga are shown sharing a peck on the lips outside the DC Superior Court. But Post ombudsman Andrew Alexander said he received complaints from readers: "A few of the readers have engaged in rants, often with anti-gay slurs. One called me to complain about ‘promoting a faggot lifestyle’.” Read on…
Tainted Tuesday *29
Mar 9th
Click on the photo to strip him ;) More can be found here (thx Geoffrey)
Coming Out in Middle School
Mar 9th
Austin didn’t know what to wear to his first gay dance last spring. It was bad enough that the gangly 13-year-old from Sand Springs, Okla., had to go without his boyfriend at the time, a 14-year-old star athlete at another middle school, but there were also laundry issues. “I don’t have any clean clothes!” he complained to me by text message, his favored method of communication.
When I met up with him an hour later, he had weathered his wardrobe crisis (he was in jeans and a beige T-shirt with musical instruments on it) but was still a nervous wreck. “I’m kind of scared,” he confessed. “Who am I going to talk to? I wish my boyfriend could come.” But his boyfriend couldn’t find anyone to give him a ride nor, Austin explained, could his boyfriend ask his father for one. “His dad would give him up for adoption if he knew he was gay,” Austin told me. “I’m serious. He has the strictest, scariest dad ever. He has to date girls and act all tough so that people won’t suspect.”
Austin doesn’t have to play “the pretend game,” as he calls it, anymore. At his middle school, he has come out to his close friends, who have been supportive. A few of his female friends responded that they were bisexual. “Half the girls I know are bisexual,” he said. He hadn’t planned on coming out to his mom yet, but she found out a week before the dance. “I told my cousin, my cousin told this other girl, she told her mother, her mother told my mom and then my mom told me,” Austin explained. “The only person who really has a problem with it is my older sister, who keeps saying: ‘It’s just a phase! It’s just a phase!’ ” Read on
