This author taught us that hateful speech can be an Unforgivable. The targets of Unforgivables must defend themselves, if possible, but do not owe the caster forgiveness. Forgiveness would not remedy the caster’s harm. The only hope for the caster is to undergo remorse. On the morning of December 19, 2019, J.K. Rowling broke a
Figure skater Adam Rippon, the first U.S. athlete to medal at a Winter Olympics while being out as gay, has released a memoir called Beautiful on the Outside. I’ve been following gay issues in figure skating since the 1990s, and once ran a website called Rainbow Ice (1998-2006) that was the first to be dedicated to
Happy Pride month. Want to see something that feels really queer? Not rainbow-themed platitudes from otherwise anti-gay corporations, but the kind of nervy, wary seductiveness that makes you think of lipstick and riots? Sons of an Illustrious Father’s cover of “Don’t Cha” by the Pussycat Dolls dares you to look, to desire but not approach —
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