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On the Rag, Vol. 673
A weekly look at what's making news in the gay magazines:
Dallas Voice: Remembering Fantasha
Lavender: Layshia Clarendon on changing the game
San Francisco Bay Times: 45 years of Dykes on Bikes
Between the Lines: Arthouse icon Udo Kier and co-star Michael Urie on their moving, queer gross-generational bond in ‘Swan Song’
Song of the Day: 'Spellbound' by Siouxsie and the Banshees
Classic first single off Siouxie and the Banshees' fourth LP, "Juju," a promo copy of which my brother Bill brought home from the review pile at the Phoenix Gazette in the summer of 1981. Spellbound? Indeed we were! I remember the album came with a bonus 45 of a song called "Israel," which I later learned had been a standalone single the previous year in the U.K. (We had no idea why it was tucked in the album at the time.)
With its Star of David on the record's center, I wasn't really sure what was happening. Having grown up agnostic in two vanilla suburbs -- no religious iconography of any kind in our house -- I was kind of weirded out by it. (I didn't even know what "being a Jew" meant until I was in college, much less why Duran Duran and the Queen of Post-Punk were writing songs about this mysterious land.) What strikes me as funny now is that this memory is eight years older than the nation of Isarel was then!
Page 1 Roundup (08/27)
BosGuy: Furry men galore
Boy Culture: 'Dynasty' hunk is dead at 76
The New York Times: Revealing his identity, Capitol Police officer defends shooting nitwit on Jan. 6
The Washington Post: A woman mailed her diary to a stranger, who added an entry and did the same. People have kept it going for a year.
The Wall Street Journal: Time’s Up President Tina Tchen resigns
Hot Cat of the Day: This bodega kitty gets paid in cold ones
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