Part 3: The Roman Empire Outlaws Homosexuality

The third part of series A Queer History that looks back to Early Greece and onward to now. The Roman Empire outlaws homosexuality.

“The construction of Christianity under the Roman emperors was not about the religion. It was about power.”

August 20-26, 2012

Weekly Digest of articles, Week of August 20-26, polarimagazine.com

“This week: Queer History, Eric Kuhlmann, Tale of Homophobia, iamamiwhoami, Charli XCX, Tom Bullough, Cecilia Gimenez, Gore Vidal.”

25 August, 2012

Recommendations from Polari’s writers based on what they are watching this week.

“This week: 13, Weekend, Dark Knight Rises..”

25 August, 2012

Recommendations from Polari’s writers based on what they are reading this week.

“This week: Patrick Ness, Nathan Englander, Ake Edwardson, Leif G.W. Persson.”

Jay Parini to write Vidal Biography.

Polari’s editor talked to Gore Vidal about Jay Parini being his ideal biographer back in 2009. Parini has been contracted by Doubleday to write the biography for a 2015 publication.

“I asked if there was any chance that Parini would write the decent biography, and added, ‘he seems to me like the best candidate’. Vidal responded, ‘I think he would be, but I prefer some things after death’.”

24 August, 2012

Recommendations from Polari’s writers based on what they are listening to this week.

“This week: Perfume Genius, Antony and the Johnsons, Matthew Stone, Ian Shaw.”

Contemporary Art’s New Face!

Cecilia Gimenez took it on herself to ‘restore’ a mural depicting Jesus Christ. The editor took one look and said, “Jesus Christ!” …

“Watching the interview with the new star of contemporary art about her completely artless disfiguration of the fresco is like watching a scene from an Almodovar film.”

Search terms that have led readers to Polari.

It’s madness, and part of Polari’s WTF Friday features. Dirty homo sex and brainwashing.

“Doesn’t Google know that Polari has delusions of grandeur and isn’t another excuse to perv?”

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Viking • March 10, 2012 [HB]

Tom Bullough’s Konstantin is a impressionistic novel about the opening of a young mind to a world of wonders and possibilities.

“Konstantin opens in 1867 and tells the story of how the young boy Kostya grows up to become Konstantin Tsiolosky, the father of Russian rocketry and astronautics (1857-1935).”

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Charli XCX, August 22, 2012

Little Bastard is astounded by the energy of Charli XCX in her Sebright Arms gig, August 22, 2012.

“Charli XCX headbangs, she pounds every inch of the stage, and she does it all in vintage platform buffalo trainers (from eBay). She not only owns the stage, but she makes it difficult for anyone to occupy it again! “