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Simon Sheppard has been called by San Francisco magazine "our erotica king." He's the editor of the Lambda-Award-winning Homosex: Sixty Years of Gay Erotica and Leathermen, and the author of Sodomy!, the award-winning Hotter Than Hell and Other Stories, In Deep: Erotic Stories, Kinkorama: Dispatches From the Front Lines of Perversion, and Sex Parties 101. His work has also been published in nearly 300 anthologies. He co-hosts, with Carol Queen, the notorious performance series Perverts Put Out, and hangs out at www.simonsheppard.com.
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Simon Sheppard, October 8th, 2010
I guess a lot of us hanker to be around to witness a cosmic turning point in history. That would explain why, for a good 2,000 years, Christians have been saying, "Today is the first day of the End...
Simon Sheppard, October 4th, 2010
Sorry to be a buzzkill, but sometimes it's hard to be witty, or snarky, or much of anything but sad.
And it's been a depressing, deadly month.
See, this gay kid named Asher Brown, tired of...
Simon Sheppard, September 27th, 2010
It's not that I'm hopelessly nostalgic for the 1960s—sorry, aging Deadheads, but I got rid of my last tie-dyed T-shirt long ago. (Though I do have a fetching Nehru-collared day-glo paisley shirt I...
Simon Sheppard, September 20th, 2010
Well, well, well. It comes as no surprise that the Director of Issues Analysis of the frothingly anti-queer American Family Association, one Bryan Fischer, hates Muslims, as well.
Well, not "...
Simon Sheppard, September 14th, 2010
No upstanding white leftist guy wants to call a middle-aged black woman an asshole, at least not publicly, but…well….
Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther, had this to say when she recently...
Simon Sheppard, September 7th, 2010
Back in the W. Days, President Bush had no problem coming up with a simple—not to say simple-minded—reason why Islamic militants were jihading against us virtuous 'Murricans: They hate us for our...
Simon Sheppard, August 30th, 2010
No, I'm not Shirley Sherrod, not anything like her. I don't work for the Department of Agriculture; I write porn. I'm a queer secular Jew, not a religious black woman. My dad wasn't killed by...
Simon Sheppard, August 23rd, 2010
Yes, as we ruefully all know, there's a hardy streak of anti-intellectualism in American life. Still, those anti-gay-marriage folks seem to be hell-bent on proving it past reasonable doubt.
After...
Simon Sheppard, August 16th, 2010
I've always been a tad suspicious of secretly queer homophobes who get outed, only to then morph, hey presto, into crusaders for gay rights.
Take Roy Ashburn, for instance. As we all no doubt...
Simon Sheppard, August 9th, 2010
Way back over a half-year ago, when I started writing for CarnalNation, my very first column, "Marriage, Shmarriage," bemoaned the queer movement's glorification of the bourgeois model of...
Simon Sheppard, August 2nd, 2010
I was dyspeptically hanging around the Dore Alley Fair, the second-largest annual leather-oriented event in San Francisco with my pal Larry-bob, the genius behind the seminal 'zine Holy Titclamps...
Simon Sheppard, July 26th, 2010
Yes, absolutely: Chubby people need—and deserve—love. Sure, an unhealthy obsession with weight and dieting has taken its toll on many a person's health. I'm aware of studies that show that...
Simon Sheppard, July 19th, 2010
"A Defense Department survey sent this week to 400,000 service members asks such provocative questions as whether its troops have shared shower facilities with a gay person or if they would be...
Simon Sheppard, July 12th, 2010
Y'know, it would probably be easier for me to love my enemies if they didn't so often turn out to be duplicitous assholes.
The euphoniously monickered Linda Lingle, governor of the small-but-...
Simon Sheppard, July 5th, 2010
Just when you figure Mike Huckabee couldn't be any more of a putz than we already know he is, he goes and surprises you. Most recently, the ex-governor of Arkansas caused a minor shitstorm by...
Simon Sheppard, June 28th, 2010
I was surprisingly—almost shockingly—polite when I was in Salt Lake City last month. Nonsense-spouting Morbots took me on tours of Temple Square and Brigham Young's house, and I didn't say one...
Simon Sheppard, June 21st, 2010
Stonewall Week is here again, gang, time to haul out those rainbow-colored tchotchkes. You know, the plastic shit manufactured in that bastion of queer rights, the People's Republic of China. And...
Simon Sheppard, June 14th, 2010
Ah, the things you learn from debates on online message boards….
The following post, a classic from somebody named Don, is worth quoting verbatim: "Homosexuality is a harbinger of a cultures...
Simon Sheppard, June 7th, 2010
As a seemingly endless string of secretly queer antigay demagogues are booted from their closets, the recent decline and fall of Indiana Representative Mark Souder serves as a valuable reminder:...
Simon Sheppard, May 31st, 2010
Familiar with the phrase "gay as a goose?" Well, how about "sodomitical as a swan?"
It's been weeks since I ran across an article on a same-sex pair of British swans, and yet an utterly...
Simon Sheppard, May 24th, 2010
So just how gay is too gay? The issue rages as, from the Supreme Court to Broadway, questions of queerness have taken center stage.
The shit hit the theater fan a few weeks back when a Newsweek...
Simon Sheppard, May 17th, 2010
Holy shit! Here the headlines go again: Homo-hating closet case hires hustler!
Yes, folks, yet another—another—fag-basher has been discovered with his pants down…and his cock hard. The whole "the...
Simon Sheppard, May 10th, 2010
I finally caught up with the reincarnation of Pearls Over Shanghai, a Cockettes show I first saw at San Francisco's Palace Theater, way back in the psychedelicious days of just-post-Stonewall 1970...
Simon Sheppard, May 3rd, 2010
Old joke:
Guy #1: "My mother made me a homosexual."
Guy #2: "If I give her the yarn, will she make one for me, too?"
OK, maybe not a great joke. But it reminds me of an often-heard retort to...
Simon Sheppard, April 26th, 2010
In the latest queer kerfuffle, a gay softball league has been accused of anti-bi bias because it stripped a San Francisco team of its tournament title for having too many not-gay-enough guys on the...
Simon Sheppard, April 19th, 2010
Those of you who've been following this column might be under the impression that I do nothing but sit around with a scowl on my face, figuring out new ways to slam the Catholic hierarchy. But that...
Simon Sheppard, April 12th, 2010
It's a truism at least as old as The Scarlet Letter: the most stringent moralists often are those with something to squirmily hide. And that, for some reason, seems to go double for those who seek...
Simon Sheppard, April 5th, 2010
Nobody likes a nostalgic leftist.
Except other nostalgic leftists, and I'd hate to think of myself as that.
And I do admire ousted gay Marine Dan Choi, campaigner for queers in the military, a...
Simon Sheppard, March 29th, 2010
Those of us who've dutifully plowed through Michel Foucault's A History of Sexuality know that the exercise of power is not merely a top-down dealie, nor even a dialectical, back-at-ya force-and-...
Simon Sheppard, March 22nd, 2010
The last couple of weeks, I've wrapped up watching the fourth season of the HBO series Big Love, a high-end soap opera about Bill Henrickson, a Mormon fundamentalist with three wives. It's a really...
