"In That Strange Street Carnival..."
It's time for The Carnival of Bent Attractions, and it's here this month! As usual, there's some really fascinating stuff, some of the most thoughtful posts I find on the web. If I missed someone, let me know (email link to the side), and I'll update. For a lot of my readers, these blogs will be new, so check them out. You'll like a lot of what you see.

For this carnival, the guidelines are that each person is allowed to nominate one of their own posts, so if you put up two or three, I linked to one (guidelines here). I'm not trying to be exclusive, but this does encourage multiple voices. Also, a couple of people nominated entire blogs and not specific entries, and the carnival is for specific entries. I've been bad about nominating posts in the past for myself and others, so let's all try to find a good, provocative entry or two, especially by people we don't often see here, for the next one, hosted at Les Faits de la Fiction on October 10.

Start reading! And start thinking!

Andy gets us started with some thoughts on Mel Gibson: I'm Sorry (Again) posted at The Spicy Cauldron.

Monica Bielanko at The Girl Who believes It Would Suck To Be Straight.

Cain Cooper reports on the coming out of one of my favorite pop stars in Darren Hayes Finally "Coming Out", posted at cain9ine.

helen boyd, author of one of my favorite books on trans issues, makes another compelling argument about how we talk about trans in What I Don't Like at (en)Gender.

David Rosenthal at Evolving Education reports from the North Carolina Gay and Lesbian Film Festival in NCGLFF.

isabella mori explores books by queer psychologists in queer books posted at change therapy.

Twenty-one years ago, Ron Hudson tested positive for HIV; in Twenty-one Years Now at 2sides2ron, he reflects on what has and has not changed in that time.

Once again, Nina Smith offers great financial advice at Queercents in The Baby-Making Business; as she says, "The cost of making a baby... two mommies, one anonymous sperm donor and $8000 and counting."

Winter, in Looking Back; Thinking Forward: Feminism & LGBT Politics at Mind the Gap!, explores the relationship between feminist and queer politics, something with which I know many readers struggle daily.

At Coaching4Lesbians, Paula Gregorowicz asks Who Are You When (You Think) Nobody is Looking?

Jay Sennett (and I'll be saying more about him in the next couple of weeks as his book comes out) at jaywalking responds to the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival in "But We're Victims, Too" ~ No, You're Not Like a Woman of Color.

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