The dish
Quick queer media hits.
The American
Q Television Network is hurtin' bad.
Details here.
AND...
Rex Wockner is probably the best-known gay reporter in the United States. He's a syndicated writer who does the unthinkable -- he makes a living as a freelancer in the queer press. (Oh, it is to dream!) And he's now, sort of, retiring. One of his signature, er, products, is The Wockner Wire. His last regularly appearing scribbles can be
found here.
"[T]his will be the end, except for when I really need you to listen to me rant," he sez. "I've written opinion pieces for gay media on a weekly, biweekly or monthly basis for most of 21 years."
And one of the reasons for moving on? "In recent years, I drifted from 'the gay community' and lost track of the latest trends. (I do still follow gay politics and activism and such, and cover that beat as a news reporter.) .... What does it mean to drift from the gay community? Probably that I've had all the experiences, good and bad, that one can have in/at gay bars, gay organizations, gay neighborhoods, gay events, gay cyberspace -- and now I'm spending my time having other experiences.
"It also probably means my sexual orientation is, more than ever, just a piece of me and not something I center my life around."