Shortly after Worldcon, John C. Wright, a man whose bizarre ideas about sex and gender should come as no surprise to anyone, posted a deeply homophobic rant (since deleted) on his LiveJournal. This prompted a group of people to found The Outer Alliance. Those who have signed up (of which I am one) adhere to the following:
As a member of the Outer Alliance, I advocate for queer speculative fiction and those who create, publish and support it, whatever their sexual orientation and gender identity. I make sure this is reflected in my actions and my work.
Today is the first ever Outer Alliance Pride Day. Members around the world are posting about queer issues. I have a number of posts I’d like to highlight.
I have finally completed the write-up of the Future of Gender panel that I moderated at Worldcon.
As part of that I had to write a brief Gender 101, which I have posted here.
Given that book reviewing is something I do, I have written a review of a book by a lesbian author which has a lesbian central character: The Red Tree, by CaitlÃn R. Kiernan.
And finally, as almost everyone else is posting fiction, I figured I had better point you at something. This is something I wrote last year: a short tale of gender confusion in ancient Greece. It isn’t very good, and I keep meaning to find the time to work on it, but it is all I’ve got.
A round up of all posts can be found here, but here are a few highlights I have seen so far today by friends of mine.
I’d also like to point you at this post about the LGBT issue of Crossed Genres, which I will have an article in once I get around to writing it.
And finally, mention of John Coulthart reminds me that the city of Manchester celebrated its Pride Weekend a few days ago. As part of the celebrations the local LGBT community put together a little video based, with kind permission, on Lily Allen’s magnificent anti-bigotry rant, “F**k You”. Listen and enjoy.
Update: added Nicola whose post doesn’t seem to have come through the OA email system.
Absolutely beautiful!
Hah. Love that video.
“posted a deeply homophobic rant (since deleted)”
But as I pointed out in an update at the bottom of my post on his lunatic rant, can still be read here.
Others have saved it elsewhere; I haven’t kept a list.
LOL, love the video. I’ve seen a couple of other collabs (‘big fat gay collab’ and a French one inspired by it, I think) on YouTube but hadn’t seen this one yet.