GLBT

After our class read Boy Meets Boy byDavid Levithan we had many very interesting discussions about this topic. We talked about the book itself, about some of the articles we read on the same subject and general topics about the gay/lesbian community.
After reading the book and the article that Levithan wrote, I must agree with him when he said
" We've reached the point where you don't have to read a gay or lesbian book just because it's a gay or lesbian book. You have to read it because it's a good book in its own right, about something important." And this is true with Boy Meets Boy, you could put the name of any character the place for Noah or Paul and it would still be a good story about high school teen angst and young love.
Another topic that was mentioned in class was the Katy Perry song Ur So Gay, and what the lyrics were. I remember reading an article in a GLBT newspaper (Between the Lines) a while back, so I looked it up again to see what the newspaper itself had to say about this topic. The overall feeling from the article was that the writer, Chris Azzopardi, was not offended by the song even calling the lyrics " a politically-incorrect stab at a metro sexual ex." If you want to read the full article, you can find it online at www.pridesource.com under back issues. The Katy Perry interview is in issue 1628 and there is a small mention of MSU students gathering to discuss the future of gay rights mentioned in issue 1640.