Queer links
Don’t kiss a boxer. But it might work as a soccer tactic.
About the dancing boys of Afghanistan: intense cultural misogyny results in the eroticisation of boys.
A founder of Exodus talks about parents abandoning their children because they were gay.
Colin Farrell talks about the hell his gay brother went through at school in Belfast.
The socialist Bolivian President demonstrates that one does have to be a top Vatican official to say stupid things about cause and effect and homosexuality.
Oz former swimming champion Daniel Kowalski has come out as gay.
Ricky Martin announces that he is “a fortunate homosexual”. Lots of related links including a naked Ricky promo video. When Latin pop star Christian Chavez came out, Ricky was supportive: now he gets to support the favour. Wondering if, in light of evidence people are pretty good at picking other people’s sexuality, whether coming out is becoming redundant.
An amusing skit giving advice on how to be closeted gay politician.
A very un-pc fairy tale about the magic of having a ‘D’ after your name.
A State Senator facing an attempt to recruit an opponent purely on the basis that she recently married another woman. A “No Homo mayor” campaign.
About anti-gay activism in Senegal, whose PM blames homosexuals for all manner of things.
Noted homophobe named Norway’s role mode of the year: the process of the Western European Left throwing gays and lesbians under the bus to appease Muslims continues.
SCOTUS declines to stop same-sex marriages in Washington DC.
A boy in a smalltown gets permission to take his boyfriend to his Prom: the school says yes but his parents kick him out. He and his boyfriend go to the prom, without problems.
How homosexuals were portrayed in a CBS report from 1967.
Congressman Barney Frank is impressed by progress onf GBLT issues and predicts they will be substantially over in 20 years.
A case of what utter shits government and hospital officials can be when dealing with a same-sex relationship they refuse to recognise, including details of the legal complaint. President Obama extends hospital visiting rights to gay partners.
Retired US General claims that inclusion of gay troops in Dutch army contributed to the worst massacre in post-war Europe. Or not so much, maybe,
Fluent Arabic speaker Lt Dan Choi on being an activist for the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell:
Why not now? Within the gay community so many leaders want acceptance from polite society. I think there's been a betrayal of what is down inside of us in order to achieve what looks popular, what look enviable. The movement seems to be centered around how to become an elite. There is a deep schism [in the gay-rights movement], everyone knows this
A former US Air Force Major on the damage done to unit cohesion by Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.
A proposed conference in Surabaya on how marginalised GBLTI folk are in Asian societies is closed because the police refuse a permit, are subject to denunciation and hostile action by Muslim activists and the organisers are now threatened with prosecution under blasphemy laws.
The harm done by “ex-gay” programs:
I think it is characteristic of Exodus as a whole because they’re based on that idea that if you’re gay you’re broken, you’re sick, you’re damaged, you’re in need of repair, you’re engaged in something that will eternally separate you from God.
It’s the message that’s destructive, it’s the overall message.
As that message sinks in to your sense of self that you’re damaged, you’re broken, you’re in need of repair… that’s the damage.
There are people that don’t become aware of that damage until years later.
TAbb reaches out to the gay community. A podcast of the interview is available here (go to “Freshly Doug”).
About the dancing boys of Afghanistan: intense cultural misogyny results in the eroticisation of boys.
A founder of Exodus talks about parents abandoning their children because they were gay.
Colin Farrell talks about the hell his gay brother went through at school in Belfast.
The socialist Bolivian President demonstrates that one does have to be a top Vatican official to say stupid things about cause and effect and homosexuality.
Oz former swimming champion Daniel Kowalski has come out as gay.
Ricky Martin announces that he is “a fortunate homosexual”. Lots of related links including a naked Ricky promo video. When Latin pop star Christian Chavez came out, Ricky was supportive: now he gets to support the favour. Wondering if, in light of evidence people are pretty good at picking other people’s sexuality, whether coming out is becoming redundant.
An amusing skit giving advice on how to be closeted gay politician.
A very un-pc fairy tale about the magic of having a ‘D’ after your name.
A State Senator facing an attempt to recruit an opponent purely on the basis that she recently married another woman. A “No Homo mayor” campaign.
About anti-gay activism in Senegal, whose PM blames homosexuals for all manner of things.
Noted homophobe named Norway’s role mode of the year: the process of the Western European Left throwing gays and lesbians under the bus to appease Muslims continues.
SCOTUS declines to stop same-sex marriages in Washington DC.
A boy in a smalltown gets permission to take his boyfriend to his Prom: the school says yes but his parents kick him out. He and his boyfriend go to the prom, without problems.
How homosexuals were portrayed in a CBS report from 1967.
Congressman Barney Frank is impressed by progress onf GBLT issues and predicts they will be substantially over in 20 years.
A case of what utter shits government and hospital officials can be when dealing with a same-sex relationship they refuse to recognise, including details of the legal complaint. President Obama extends hospital visiting rights to gay partners.
Retired US General claims that inclusion of gay troops in Dutch army contributed to the worst massacre in post-war Europe. Or not so much, maybe,
Fluent Arabic speaker Lt Dan Choi on being an activist for the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell:
Why not now? Within the gay community so many leaders want acceptance from polite society. I think there's been a betrayal of what is down inside of us in order to achieve what looks popular, what look enviable. The movement seems to be centered around how to become an elite. There is a deep schism [in the gay-rights movement], everyone knows this
A former US Air Force Major on the damage done to unit cohesion by Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.
A proposed conference in Surabaya on how marginalised GBLTI folk are in Asian societies is closed because the police refuse a permit, are subject to denunciation and hostile action by Muslim activists and the organisers are now threatened with prosecution under blasphemy laws.
The harm done by “ex-gay” programs:
I think it is characteristic of Exodus as a whole because they’re based on that idea that if you’re gay you’re broken, you’re sick, you’re damaged, you’re in need of repair, you’re engaged in something that will eternally separate you from God.
It’s the message that’s destructive, it’s the overall message.
As that message sinks in to your sense of self that you’re damaged, you’re broken, you’re in need of repair… that’s the damage.
There are people that don’t become aware of that damage until years later.
TAbb reaches out to the gay community. A podcast of the interview is available here (go to “Freshly Doug”).