Monthly Archives: June 2021

GAY PLUS, SUPER-PLUS,SUPRA-PLUS, META-PLUS; AND PLUS. BY STEVEN BENSON

“GAY PLUS”….From Myers’ novel,( “The Magnificent Sons” ,2020) Oh, “that’s too separatist/ghettoized {do these mock soothsayers even know the implications of the word ghetto?}; even (from one person): it is “HETEROPHOBIC”{sic; sick}”. Well, us gays and trans and nongenderbinaries and … Continue reading

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PART TWO.THERE(HERE)TO THERE (THERE), ATHWART A THORN-STREWN BRIDGE. BY STEVEN BENSON

{sings and plays piano..}:”Somewhere over the Rainbow”… Dorothy and the rainbow are on the floor; they should be on the wall (of the gay room) They WERE (all together on the wall….) to the side of this (I took pics … Continue reading

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START FROM GAY/QUEER;AND GET BACK TO GAY/QUEER(SPACE/PLACE).LIMINAL.ESCAPE/CONFRONT/IN-BETWEEN/ATHWART . PART ONE. BY STEVEN BENSON

I am TORN between exigencies and escape; I do not (quite) feel safe enough to indulge in (much) escape; but I am really struggling to confront reality. Whose reality? MY reality. This: …..oh, it is in a box; my Virginia … Continue reading

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THE MODERNISTIC GAY MAN. THE HEAD-OVER-HEALS BLUE{PINK}-PRINT CONTINUES. COGENT FRAGMENTARINESS. BY STEVEN BENSON

The LGBT+ Society contacted the Modernist Society about a collaboration;what could lgbt+ persons learn/adapt from Modernism. [CHANGE OF VOICE/PERPECTIVE] Why are WE (us lgbt persons)trying to (en) queer/ gay-up/trans-ify modernism; why are WE taking an established, primarily hegemonic ism and … Continue reading

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FIRST DRAFT: INTERREGOTATING MODERNISM. IS THERE A QUEER/GAY/LGBT MODERNISM? IF SO, HOW CAN IT INSPIRE US AS LGBTQ PEOPLE? PART 1: HIRAETH AND (CONTESTED) HOMELAND.LET US START BUILDING. BY STEVEN BENSON

HIRAETH (Welsh):”It speaks of a longing or nostalgia for a home you cannot return to because it no longer exists or never existed” {definition from Igwe and Stokely,”Hiraeth, or Queering Time in Archives Otherwise”(in “Reader:the Stomach and the Port”, Liverpool … Continue reading

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