The Queer Issue: The Village Voice Media Advisory for the June 22, 2005 Issue

The Queer Issue: The Village Voice Media Advisory for the June 22, 2005 Issue

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NEW YORK, June 20 /PRNewswire/ -- * Diff'rent Strokes: Mixed-race Loving in the Gay Community Turns the Rainbow into a Reality A new study show that more gays and lesbians are in interracial relationships than their straight counterparts. Should we be celebrating progressiveness? Brad Sears investigates. PLUS: Elizabeth Cline explores interracial dating in the transgender community

* 'L' Is for 'Look Out, World' Village Voice Executive Editor Laura Conaway reflects on the powerful way the Showtime series The L Word is refashioning the public image of lesbian eroticism. PLUS: Conaway talks to Ilene Chaiken, the creative force behind The L Word.

* The Irresistible Banality of Same Sex Marriage: How Opponents of Marriage for Gays Will Be Bored into Submission Kenji Yoshino, Deputy Dean and Professor of Law at Yale Law School, explores the recent spate of books on same sex marriage, arguing that the gay and lesbian wedding guidebooks may ultimately prove even more influential than those works arguing from a civil rights standpoint.

* We Are Not O.K. Crystal Meth Marks a New Crisis for the Gay Community Los Angeles author Patrick Moore argues that the current response to the Crystal Meth epidemic isn't tackling the underlying problem of gay and lesbian alienation and oppression.

* PLUS: Humorist and performer Mike Albo explains why he won't be marching in the Pride Parade this year. Comedian Marga Gomez wonders why gay women so often leave the fold only to move in with a vegetarian dude who looks like a lady. James Hannaham provides tips to avoid dating the wrong kind of Caucasian boy.

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