Center of Gravitas

I like well-meaning people and appreciate people who intend to be nice to me. I really do. So I don’t want this post to come off the wrong...

Adam , a cool blog author in Dallas, recently had a post on Queer Theory that put my little gears turning for a bit. At different times, I ...

This time of year brings tons of students to my door looking for letters of recommendation for graduate school. Unlike some of my colleague...

My quest to leave Texas continues. For the past few days I interviewed at a university in the far Southeastern U.S. True, I haven’t been o...

I work for a university that conducts cloning experiments. Though one might not expect such abominations in the middle of the Bible belt, r...

In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the Associated Press has been pushing a recent AP-Ipsos poll. With blazing headlines such as “Most...

Hey, queer folk, we need a new flag. Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate the sentiment behind the rainbow flag (let’s call it rainsy, for shor...

I harbor a dark desire. Sometimes I think I have it under control. When I least expect it, though, the unquenchable yearning returns and ha...

All the good little historians have left Philadelphia taking with them another set of conference memories. We return to our universities an...

We have reached that time of year, kiddies. Yes, all the historians across the U.S. make a pilgrimage to some American city. This year, we...

I’m back from New Mexico and just waiting until I leave again for New Year’s. Time in my former home-state, as I mentioned before, usually ...

Santa came and left his gifties. Many good things came GayProf's way. Still, I did not get that golden tiara and bullet-deflecting bra...

I leave tomorrow for New Mexico. It will be an opportunity to lick some wounds, visit family, and reconnect with some friends. Trying to f...

We all know that I sometimes confuse myself with worship the Amazon Princess. Yet, there are a few things that always troubled me about he...

From a certain perspective, I don’t do a good job of living up to expectations about being Latino. In most of the U.S., racial identities s...

Your results: You are Batman Batman 75% Superman 70% Spider-Man 70% Green Lantern 60% Wonder Woman 55% Robin 52% Supergirl 50% The Fl...

Gay men navigate conflicting visions of gender ideologies. We should think of ourselves as being gender renegades. Drag queens, at one end...

Over the past few days, I visited my family. There is something healing about returning to New Mexico for me. Looking out the window of th...

Every two months, the senior professors in my department revise the guidelines for reviewing all the junior faculty. You see, as a junior f...

While away on my interview, my blog had its 5,000th visitor. For many bloggers, I know that is small potatoes. For me, though, I feel like f...