Queers Destroy Science Fiction

The Queers Destroy issue of Lightspeed has been released and is available as trade paperback and ebook.

Brown Dwarf Aurora

(artist's rendition)

Hallinan discovered in 2006 that brown dwarfs can pulse at radio frequencies, too. This pulsing phenomenon is similar to what is seen from planets in our solar system that have auroras.

Powerful Auroras Found at Brown Dwarf | NASA

A phenomenon used to brilliant effect in Peter Watts's Blindsight.

APOD: Stripped Galaxy

A distant galaxy is stripped of gas as it collides with a supercluster. Hubble image via APOD

Revisiting Chasing Amy

I can't figure out a pull quote from this one, so I'll leave it at Society’s Bisexual Hangups: How Chasing Amy Is Still Ahead of Its Time at the Mary Sue

Best Security Practices

Best scurity practices from a study done by the google security blog.

My Name is N/The Swede, and other links

A few years back, a US literary agent considered making a first attempt to sell My Name Is N to American publishers. (The book is titled The Swede in the US.) But the agent hesitated, saying the mainstream crime fiction market couldn’t stomach a gay male hero. She suggested that I rewrite the book to make the protagonist straight.

I thought seriously about it. But in the end, I decided to be true to the man I based my protagonist on. Hugh Swaney was a legendary homicide detective on the US west coast. I’d spent a week interviewing him, taking notes on his life and work as he was dying of Aids. He was the toughest man I’ve ever come across (including many in the special operations community I’ve met over the course of my military career).

— Robert Karjel comments on negative reviews regarding the bisexuality of his protagonist for My Name is N. (Guardian)

Also:

• A reason why I'm a bit nervous around police. Gay man dies in custody after being denied medication. (Advocate)
• The true meaning of the word cisgender (Advocate)

And this is why I don't do Marvel: Hercules

When asked about previous hints of bisexuality and an alternate Hercules' romantic relationship with an alternate Wolverine in the 2012-2013 "X-Treme X-Men," series, Alonso responded, "Hercules and James Howlett’s relationship in 'X-Treme X-Men' took place in a unique alternate universe, similar to how Colossus was gay in the Ultimate Universe, but is straight in the 616. Same goes for Hercules here."

And this is why I don't do Marvel. (Marvel Addresses "Hercules'" Sexuality - Comic Book Resources )