Center of Gravitas

Queer men face a serious problem within the community that does not receive much attention or discussion. A pathological current spreads am...

Recently, Money Magazine ranked “College Professor” as number two in their list of the fifty best jobs (we lost to software engineer for num...

Over the past few days, the inevitable occurred. Two colleagues from my university found my little bloggy and deduced the true identity of ...

My department completed the arduous voting process to select our new super-senior historian. It came as little surprise, but the traditiona...

For those who don’t know, Hypoxic wanted queer bloggers to devote today to voting and registering to vote. Adam , meanwhile, has been torm...

GayProf has a tough truth to put out there today. We might not like to hear it. It’s key, however, to my reasons for why queer people must ...

TornWordo proved insightful in the pervious post’s comments. Friday’s meeting and some other minor annoyances (not worth mentioning) put m...

I recognize that I don’t have a particularly difficult job. Being a college professor doesn’t involve a lot of heavy lifting. We don’t nee...

Dear readers, it turns out that GayProf still has his moments of cowardice. “No, GayProf! That can’t be true,” I can hear you saying, “Sure...

Yep, I had some fun claiming to be a fictional creation for April Fool’s Day. Let’s be honest: It would be so lonely on the blogsphere with...

This informs readers that the Center of Gravitas (hereafter referred to as “the site”) has been part of study funded by the University of T...

Because I teach a class on the history of sexuality, student groups occasionally ask me to give short talks as part of their programming. U...

Though I still think of myself as new to the blogsphere, I have noticed a trend when I find a new blog. Like any relationship, there are cy...

One of the things I love about the emergence and dominance of DVD technology has to be the Director’s Commentary function. My inner (and ou...

Roger Owen Green left a comment on my bloggy a bit of time ago that had me thinking. Since around 2001, the media has been expressing thei...

Over the weekend I contemplated which episode of Spenser: For Hire that I wanted to reenact first upon moving to Boston. During that time,...

One of my Amazon Sisters recently suggested that I need to outline the qualities that I want and don’t want in a perspective boyfriend. In ...

Thanks to all who sent good wishes. I am excited about Boston, but I am coming back to the realization that I still have at least five mont...