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No, it’s not that Noah’s ark, silly. It’s the television show with a ‘c’ and not a ‘k.’ Noah’s Arc is television’s first black gay series. And I’ve blogged before about over at Persistent Vision (a blog which I won’t be updating so much anymore).

Anyway, one of the stars is interviewed in the current The Advocate (click on the current feature link to get to the article — they make it hard to get to stuff!). In it he speaks about a mother who has been using the show to help her son as he comes out of the closet. Wow! That’s what I call good television. In fact, the whole aspect of this with the new and widening choices of distribution (Logo, an MTV product, is one of two all gay cable channels with several Internet ones on their way) is something we talked a lot about at Persistent Vision. These new forms of distribution allow people who may not have access to the big cities to find images of themselves and come to terms with their selves.

So, I love this story. I’m so glad Logo chose to make a black gay series it’s preeminent show.

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Today marks the 37th anniversary of the Stonewall raid and reaction. Since we should all be better informed about what happened, here is a newspaper account of it all. Done from a campy (and perhaps condescending?) perspective, it still gives wonderful detail.
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Well, now Michael Cunningham (since when did you become ubiquitous?) interviews Tom Spanbauer, another of my favorite writers, on the arrival of his latest book, Now is the Hour. I share the first book of his I read, The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon, with many of my friends. I am always anxious until they return it. I’ve only read it three times. But is such a compelling book that mixes so many aspects of me — spirituality, sexuality, and more.

I can’t stand it. Michael, dump the boyfriend and marry me, kay?

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Okay, i think I just wet myself. I’ve just read that Jake Shears and Michael Cunningham are friends, that Michael has a boyfriend these days, and that one of Michael’s books inspired a song on the Scissor Sisters new album.

I’m a huge Cunningham fan. His book, Mysteries of Pittsburgh, had a tremendous effect on my development of self. He showed how one didn’t have to be “just gay.” One could make up an identity that was broader and less defined by social conventions. I read it in a formative period, and I have been a Cunningham fan ever since.

And, of course, I love the Scissor Sisters. What a day! I have had a somewhat near obsession about running into Michael at some point on BART or such. He lives over in Berkeley. He no longer has the long hair that so captivated me back then. But, then again, I’ve always been in love with the authors I liked back then: Christopher Bram, David Leavitt, Patrick Gale. They were all part of a new breed of gay writers who wrote more from an integrated sense of gayness than the darker novels of the years prior.

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