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Their passage had been denied. There was no ferryman in sight.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3364cb7c9327edb63689b7/1576436987688-UVMTSUVG1OO2TLC314FL/chesspieces.jpg Jason Villemez: Fiction - The Only One Who Could Ever Teach Me Joyland, December 2019 “It was true: she had found ways to be happy. And yet even with her right there for him to observe, to mimic, to reflect, he never learned how do the same.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3364cb7c9327edb63689b7/1546917822680-FM432VF2V1O2MBOLV717/FullSizeRender+%287%29.jpg Jason Villemez: Fiction - Coda Ruminate, issue 48 (print only) “They heard her voice drifting in through the kitchen window, from a radio across the alley. Summer gave way to fall and to the swing of their first date. Tom took his hand and they danced.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3364cb7c9327edb63689b7/1568662333533-RCO31PPP029BHM11TY8E/IMG_7833.JPG Jason Villemez: Fiction - Homecoming F(r)iction, Issue #14 (print only) “They were going to use some upsetting language. Perverse. Abnormal. Prey. They were going to say Jeffrey had never helped anyone. Sam should try to block all that out and stick to what he knew. He knew more than anybody about Jeffrey." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3364cb7c9327edb63689b7/1556729097478-9J1NVYDMKIGFGPFOLCT4/FullSizeRender+%2811%29.jpg Jason Villemez: Fiction - The First Time Post Road, issue 35 (print only) “They make their way down a hallway flanked by opaque glass doors with red privacy lights. At the end of the corridor is a shoji screen with a plaque that reads Staff Only. They turn into one of the small, carpeted rooms. The air reeks of disinfectant and the carpet holds a history of stains.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3364cb7c9327edb63689b7/1546917898938-I4SU9E8F3QW4NKN4X02H/image-asset.jpeg Jason Villemez: Fiction - Position Foglifter, volume 3 issue 1 (print only) “Saki assumed that the move to Los Angeles would mean shorter workdays for Kenji. It would mean more time together as a family, a Western education for her daughter, and American desserts.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3364cb7c9327edb63689b7/1579133084892-1KMQ9WE4KVZUHOUFVOK3/beach.jpg Jason Villemez: Fiction - How To Be Gay At The End Of The World “My editor had recently assigned me a feature story, about sex and love at the end of the world..” https://jasonvillemez.com/nonfiction daily 0.75 2020-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3364cb7c9327edb63689b7/1547172249560-IL6QO8BSZHJOIXLJV770/HISTORY-WillyceKim4.jpg Jason Villemez: Nonfiction - Willyce Kim Wrote Her Own Story “When I came out in the 1970s I came into a community of all white women. She was the first Asian-American lesbian that I saw in the flesh, so she really was a great role model for me because I thought I was the only one.”" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3364cb7c9327edb63689b7/1578246068429-ONGMSX7EWWJMTEI32ZQZ/IMG_6646+%281%29.JPG Jason Villemez: Nonfiction - Stonewall’s 50th Anniversary For 12 hours, onlookers watched marching bands, politicians, big banks, religious groups, tourism agencies, skincare brands, candy conglomerates, queer motorcycle clubs, healthcare companies, civil rights groups and every other type of organization walk the city… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3364cb7c9327edb63689b7/1547172851762-AUNMCUM9232WYK7UMVV8/jail.jpeg Jason Villemez: Nonfiction - I Went To Reading Gaol “Along with the 43-year-old Oscar Wilde, the prisoners of Reading Gaol ranged from ten-year-olds to seventy-year-olds.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3364cb7c9327edb63689b7/1547172403982-FHG38SOCLCGL2317ODV9/Chee_at_event+%281%29.jpg Jason Villemez: Nonfiction - Alexander Chee: From ACT UP to Acclaim “The sort of basic split that I recall is that the AIDS crisis had radicalized a lot of white gay men who had not been particularly political before then, had not ever aligned themselves with anything other than white male privilege, which is not a community, and also not really an identity; it’s just a kind of status quo.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3364cb7c9327edb63689b7/1561473190642-L11UGZWS4ORH14DLOV3B/FullSizeRender+%2815%29.jpg Jason Villemez: Nonfiction - Some Notes On Judy Garland “There have been a lot of stories written about me, some of them fantastically distorted.” – Judy Garland, January 1960 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3364cb7c9327edb63689b7/1547172026884-S8LIB0GBLWQDM53WYL6F/FullSizeRender+%287%29.jpg Jason Villemez: Nonfiction - Lessons Learned: Revisiting “Coda” “Stories have a way of percolating in people. They land, they ripple outward, they settle. Over time they become a part of us through their telling and retelling, a new limb through which we feel the world.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3364cb7c9327edb63689b7/1602347815627-T1JIW7C4NU42IH9RPGLK/Copy-of-Dragon-Age-Inquisition_Game-1-1024x531.jpg Jason Villemez: Nonfiction - Press A, Be Gay: LGBT Video Game Characters “Most of the queer characters in mainstream games of the 1990s fit into two categories: stereotypical or discreet.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3364cb7c9327edb63689b7/1547171385310-OTFDLPC7M4A2JWXB4HZK/highg.jpeg Jason Villemez: Nonfiction - The Penguins of Highgate Cemetery “I noticed the extra space awaiting the S at the end of PARTNER. I noticed the penguins, who mate for life and who are occasionally used as a symbol of the gay community…” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3364cb7c9327edb63689b7/1547171892042-INSOFNJCWN6T0QJV85VU/Berlin_bookstore_prince+valiant+%281%29.JPG Jason Villemez: Nonfiction - We’re All Coming Too Fast “If it’s safe to assume that Netflix killed the video store and Napster sounded the death knell for record shops, then it’s not a stretch to say that X-Tube killed gay booksellers by decentralizing lust.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3364cb7c9327edb63689b7/1547171573466-C7OIJ7VQ9AQXTNSAS4M9/mphelps.jpg Jason Villemez: Nonfiction - The Last Time I Raced Against Michael Phelps “I wasn’t sitting with the most decorated Olympian ever; he hadn’t broken any world records yet. I was sitting with a Maryland teammate, a fellow competitor, and, simply, a good kid.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3364cb7c9327edb63689b7/1573760977445-SOL8ODBLC6OKRQIYJ2UT/GiovannisRoom.JPG Jason Villemez: Nonfiction - Authors and Activism: LGBT Bookstores “You weren’t there for the economics, and it would be exhausting if you were in it for the politics. We were starved.” https://jasonvillemez.com/contact daily 0.75 2019-01-11 https://jasonvillemez.com/news-1 daily 0.75 2023-09-24 https://jasonvillemez.com/contact-1 daily 0.75 2021-09-05 https://jasonvillemez.com/howtobegayattheendoftheworld daily 0.75 2023-09-24 https://jasonvillemez.com/all-styles daily 0.75 2025-05-09