Andrew Sullivan passes on ...
Andrew Sullivan passes on ...
Andrew Sullivan passes on ...#1
Posted: 1/28/15 at 6:54pm
… continuing his blog The Dish.
His reasons are debatable, por ejemplo: "I’m a human being before I am a writer; and a writer before I am a blogger…"
He did leave a note.
Andrew Sullivan passes on ...#2
Posted: 1/28/15 at 7:01pmWe should be so lucky. Didn't he promise to quit a few years ago?
Andrew Sullivan passes on ...#2
Posted: 1/28/15 at 7:43pm
Good riddance! Now, stay off of TV and radio and I will be more than happy!
Andrew Sullivan passes on ...#3
Posted: 1/28/15 at 7:51pm
I’ve had increasing health challenges these past few years. They’re not HIV-related; my doctor tells me they’re simply a result of fifteen years of daily, hourly, always-on-deadline stress. These past few weeks were particularly rough – and finally forced me to get real.
His readers are KILLING HIM.
Andrew Sullivan passes on ...#4
Posted: 1/28/15 at 8:23pmOh the stress, oh Pul-lease!
Andrew Sullivan passes on ...#5
Posted: 1/28/15 at 8:26pmIt's NOT the HIV. Which he got through oral sex not the BAD WAY. And meth is JUST LIKE several cups of Starbucks. And if you're gonna have glutes, of course they should be POWER GLUTES.
Andrew Sullivan passes on ...#6
Posted: 1/28/15 at 10:31pm
Wow, gang, why so vitriolic?
I've been a lurker on The Dish from time to time and found it incredibly informative and balanced.
I'm sure Sullivan has enemies galore, being a professional conservative homosexual and all. But I've always found his views were articulately expressed even if I disagreed with him.
What am I missing?
Andrew Sullivan passes on ...#7
Posted: 1/28/15 at 10:48pmI've often enjoyed his writing, even though we got in a debate over my use of the word queer once upon a time, but I think he's making the right choice. The Internet has enough instruction sites to everything. I rather someone get off the treadmill, give something more thought, and create something more interesting as a result.
Andrew Sullivan passes on ...#8
Posted: 1/28/15 at 10:54pm
Wow, gang, why so vitriolic?
You have to have been a gay street activist when he was dismissing such as relics of the ineffective movements of the '60s maybe. You maybe had to be out there fighting for queer liberation and an end to AIDS when the Human Rights Campaign Fund decided to change the focus of the '92 March on Washington to gays in the military and endure Sullivan saying once there was gay marriage those awful old "gay rights advocates" (he never once framed it other than gay "rights", liberation was never part of his theology) could fold up their tents and go home.
Forget his rabid anti-Rhodes Scholar vitriol against Bill Clinton, for me the latest last straw was his criticism of that book that gave all the credit for success of gay marriage in the US to two Republicans, not because it left out the cornerstone work of Mary Bonauto from Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders or Sue Hyde of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (one of the many groups he despised back when he was the kind of Republican who defended W and the war in Iraq) and the Sodomy Project (which started to overturn sodomy laws and was the first to move to gay marriage) but because the book LEFT HIM OUT. Him and his blog and his TV appearances. THAT was the problem with the book.
Add to that the way he made fun of gay affinity groups until he grew a beard and for some other reason (which I am leaving unwritten because Pal Joey once told me I can never ever say in print what that reason is) decided he was a "bear" and began singing the praises of community for the first time in his I'M SUCH A UNIQUE SNOWFLAKE life.
I am SICK TO DEATH of people like Sullivan who "evolve" and whose "thinking changes" but who think writing something like "sometimes it means I write imprudent arguments I have to withdraw" means he's let himself off the hook and thinking people should too. Well, where are the gold stars for those of us who were already where Sullivan took years to evolve to? Hmmmmm?
That's speaking only for myself. Others' mileage may vary.
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
Andrew Sullivan passes on ...#9
Posted: 1/29/15 at 7:29amIn the final analysis he's a guy with an overriding intellectual quest: "What do I think about what you think about what I think about what you think about me?"
Andrew Sullivan passes on ...#10
Posted: 1/29/15 at 9:36am
Maybe this time it will stick.
Happy Tenth Anniversary of Andrew Sullivan's Previous Blogging Hiatus
Andrew Sullivan passes on ...#11
Posted: 1/29/15 at 11:02amAuggie distills it to its pithy essence!
Andrew Sullivan passes on ...#12
Posted: 1/29/15 at 11:04am
I would NEVER call myself a Dish-head...but I read the blog daily. I've gotten a thrill out of watching him work through his daddy/authority issues in real time. And by 'work through' I mean 'chase his tail around and never quite catch it.'
His fetishization of all things that could be termed 'masc gay' is HILARIOUS. But, I must confess, I have no idea what's being referenced when the term 'power glutes' is used. What did I miss??
Andrew Sullivan passes on ...#13
Posted: 1/29/15 at 11:41am
Once upon a time, in those innocent months of 2001, before 9/11, when "bareback" first became a thing, and Andrew Sullivan was railing and lecturing and moralizing against sex-crazed gay radicals and sex-crazed drag queens and sex-crazed bears (even as he was gradually becoming one), there was a scandal involving an online ad by an obviously sex-crazed individual, posted on a website called barebackcity.com. The ad was posted by someone named "RawMuscleGlutes," who took great pride in the sexual magnetism of his "massive pics" and "power glutes" and his “killer muscle ass that loves to milk loads."
That anonymous poster was quickly identified by several sex partners as none other than the moralizing Andrew Sullivan.
Already steroided but not yet large, Sullivan's ad warned that "no fats, no fems" need apply. It also included this oddly Dr. Seussian list of preferred behaviors:
I take loads in my ass.
I take loads in my mouth.
I give loads in asses.
I give loads in mouths.
Thanks to the miracle of caches, Andrew's original ad has been saved for SonofRobbieJ's edification:
WEB.ARCHIVE.ORG: Bareback City Profile for RAWMUSLGLUTES
Andrew Sullivan passes on ...#14
Posted: 1/29/15 at 11:53am
I knew about the ad.
But I didn't KNOW about the ad.
I shoulda worn a condom before I read all that.
Andrew Sullivan passes on ...#15
Posted: 1/29/15 at 11:55amI'm guessing I shouldn't click on that link at work.
Andrew Sullivan passes on ...#16
Posted: 1/29/15 at 11:57am
Sorry, Robbie--that link was to a Village Voice article about the ad. I fixed the link so it goes to the web-archive ad.
And, yeah, it wasn't safe for work in April 2001, and it's NSFW now.
Andrew Sullivan passes on ...#17
Posted: 1/29/15 at 12:01pm
Barebacking was always a thing, it was the testicles that got small!!
(even as he was gradually becoming one)
Well, something was gradually happening (and you know what!) but as a Christian woman you once told me I couldn't say it, so my lips are sealed. 
Andrew Sullivan passes on ...#18
Posted: 1/29/15 at 12:07pm
Oooooooh, she likes dark chocolate.
Sure, exalt The Bell Curve and then live out your Mandingo fantasies. Bitch, please.
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
Andrew Sullivan passes on ...#19
Posted: 1/29/15 at 12:44pmAll of this rarefied parsing of loads talk makes me think oddly of the personified washing machine in CAROLINE OR CHANGE. Think about it, really. If sung, any of those phrases rendered as lyrics would be rated PG.
Andrew Sullivan passes on ...#20
Posted: 1/29/15 at 12:49pm
What you're saying is we need to send this thread to Jeanine Tesori for to musicalize.
I assume I'm being offered the role.
Andrew Sullivan passes on ...#21
Posted: 1/29/15 at 2:00pmIf you play Andrew, who plays your woofy bf?
Andrew Sullivan passes on ...#22
Posted: 1/29/15 at 2:03pm
Adam Driver because they've both previously done nudity.
Andrew Sullivan passes on ...#23
Posted: 1/29/15 at 2:04pmAndrew's bf is an actor, why not just have him play himself...
Andrew Sullivan passes on ...#24
Posted: 1/29/15 at 2:05pmThen it's the rear mez seats that would have to be the premium ones.
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