Larry’s List: Shoot-Your-Laptop Edition

Staff / Truthdig Dec 16, 2009 What prompted Israeli authorities to shoot someone's laptop? How do you fight a war on behalf of a country that doesn't want it? Answers to these questions and more in today's list. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Larry’s List: All-You-Can-Eat Weekend Wrap-Up

Staff / Truthdig Dec 14, 2009 What have you been doing all weekend? If the answer isn't reading about Fox's goofy polls, the man who hid 44 lizards in his pants and great moments in Orwellandia, hop on past the jump for the weekend list and catch up. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Larry’s List: Gay Animals Edition

Staff / Truthdig Dec 9, 2009 Today on the list: the power of same-sex liaisons, poetry in the Bible and more. Update Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Larry’s List: Rainy Day Edition

Staff / Truthdig Dec 8, 2009 It's pouring in Larry HQ, which makes it a better time than ever to read about guns and gals, China and America's inferiority complex, military anthropologists and more. Soak it up after the jump. Many, many updates Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Larry’s List: West Point Hangover Edition

Staff / Truthdig Dec 3, 2009 A few of the morsels that landed in Larry's web this post-escalation day: How to protest a homophobic protester, Obama speech aftermath, digitizing Da Vinci and much, much more. Update Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Larry’s List: Afghan Surge Edition

Staff / Truthdig Dec 2, 2009 All eyes are on the president and his planned escalation of the war in Afghanistan, but there's plenty else worth clicking on, such as Uganda's "execute gays" law, zombie Reagan and more. Update Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Larry’s List: Cyber Monday Edition

Staff / Truthdig Dec 1, 2009 No bargains here, just the news and notes that caught the eye of esteemed scholar and infomaniac Larry Gross. Mega updates Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Catch Up on the News With Larry’s List: Thanksgiving Weekend Edition

Staff / Truthdig Nov 30, 2009 It's been a long holiday weekend of gratitude and family strife, yet somehow the world continues to turn. Here comes Larry Gross with an update of all that's new and interesting. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Larry’s List

Staff / Truthdig Nov 26, 2009 We're kicking off a new feature. Get the best of the Net from Larry Gross. Tonight: Internet for Nobel Prize, secrets of the Kremlin, augmented reality art, charges against nude model dropped, and more. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Hollywood’s Closet Still Closed for Business

Larry Gross / Truthdig Nov 26, 2008 Gus Van Sant's "Milk" is the first major Hollywood "gay themed" film since “Brokeback Mountain,” and moreover (unlike “Brokeback”), this one is about openly gay activists, not tortured closet cases. Yet, once again, the lead gay roles couldn't be filled by openly gay actors. What's going on here? Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )

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Year of the Queer: Hollywood and Homosexuality

Larry Gross / Truthdig Feb 27, 2006 Truthdig's Larry Gross, a pioneer in the field of gay studies, argues that for all the hoopla surrounding "Brokeback Mountain" and this year's spate of gay-themed films, there is little about them that upends Hollywood conventions or challenges popular ideas about homosexuality. "Hollywood and much of the media may be awash in liberal self-congratulation," Gross writes, "but they--and we--are also soaking in the familiar hypocrisy of homophobia." Update: Down to the WireGross argues that for all the hoopla surrounding "Brokeback Mountain" and this year's spate of gay-themed films, there is little about them that upends Hollywood conventions or challenges popular ideas about homosexuality. Dig deeper ( 22 Min. Read )

Don’t Believe the Hype

Staff / Truthdig Jan 31, 2006 "Brokeback Mountain" may be topping the Oscar charts, but its success has just as much to say about America's homophobic tendencies as it does our homophilic ones.Check back Wednesday for a major new essay on that topic by Truthdig's Larry Gross, a pioneer in the field of gay and lesbian studies. Dig deeper