June 12, 2003
The Butler Did It (Fight Repression! Make Porn!)
Once upon a time I worked with Lezzie SMUT! magazine, first as a lowly submissions-getter, then as one of the editors on the board. Back in '94, one of the things that had just begun to have a great effect on our work as queer pornographers was the Butler decision -- you know, where the powers that be decided that pornography of any sort is very bad for us poor women who need protection from such stuff as sex. [snort]
Since the heavy powers wielded under the Butler decision had immediately been brought to bear against (1) Trish Thomas, a butch dyke author of some pretty dang hot smut and (2) Eli Langer, a queer artist expressing his emotions about his childhood abuse, we knew we were in for a difficult haul.
Now, I can't draw so goodly, but I was moved to create a wee single-panel cartoon on the matter, which was featured in Lezzie SMUT! issue five. Clicky-clicky for a Very Big Version of the image.
