Tag: gay

  • Review: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

    This is a most beautiful autobiography produced in a novel comic-book format. Alison Bechdel’s tale of growing up, her dysfunctional household, closeted homosexual father, and her own growing awareness of her lesbian identity is a touching and wonderfully rendered memoir of her early life. Insightful and fascinating from beginning to end, this is really worth […]

  • The ‘Pregnant Man’ and Gender

    My friend just made an interesting post about the “Pregnant Man” story. ‘[It’s] complete nonsense,’ he says, ‘Beatie is not a pregnant man […] the fact that Beatie has had her breasts removed does not make her a man.’ He goes on to say that, ‘Dennis Abner is not a tiger.’ This was my reply: […]