Queer links
Dustin (Hoffman) and Jason (Bateman) doing the big kiss thing.
Iceland’s PM has married her partner of several years.
UK forced marriages unit is finding gay or bisexual men being forced into marriages.
Slavic gay pride in Belarus defies ban.
China has its first gay pageant.
About standing against Uganda’s “execute homosexuals” laws.
The Malawi couple who were gaoled for 14 years for conducting a same-sex marriage have split.
US Supreme Court rules that a public college can deny funding and recognition to a Christian group that does not let gays join. Noting that it is the consequence of government funding.
UK Lord Chief Justice Laws rules that it is not discriminatory to dismiss an employee who refuses to provide services to clients on religious grounds.
About the debate on whether the nominee for the Supreme Court is gay or not.
Oz Olympic swimmer Daniel Kowalski comes out.
AFL player Jason Akermanis says gay players should stay in the closet. A response. It has sparked quite a debate.
NSW Transport Minister is filmed coming out of a gay sauna and resigned.
Large survey of same-sex oriented in Oz. Attitudes of the same-sex oriented are clearly changing over time.
The UK Tories published a list of gay Tory MPs and candidates.
Noting that the Minnesota Republican Party can broadcast its gay-hatred in a lot fewer words than the Texas Republican Party. Looking at the surge in gay and pro-gay activism in the Republican Party. GOProud tangles with the Family Research Council.
About reporting the Proposition 8 trial. The Proposition 8 trial transcript is available here.
About the libertarian support for same-sex marriage.
About discrimination by “official” gays against people who work in porn. Hoping that the gay community will support the young rent-boy at the centre of the Rekers scandal.
The Brookings Institute held a conference on gays in the military with attendees from the UK, Canadian, Oz, Dutch, Swedish militaries. The transcript (pdf). A former US Navy petty officer on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”:
The irony of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" is that it protects bigots and punishes gays who comply.
Vanderbilt adjunct Professor explains how homosexuality is punishable by death in Isalm.
Arguing that the Left’s appeasement of Islam is leaving gays vulnerable:
That may well be true. But this ignores the widespread intolerance of homosexuality throughout the Muslim communities, which in Britain are growing up to ten times the rate of the rest. This community can only increase in power and predominance, especially when faced with a weak, vacillating establishment which will do anything to avoid making a scene, let along stand up for Western liberal values.
A Europe-wide Gallup survey carried out last year found that none of the 500 British Muslims interviewed believed that homosexual acts were morally acceptable. What was perhaps more alarming was a Policy Exchange report from 2007, Living Apart Together, which found that 71 per cent of Muslims aged 16 to 24 thought that homosexuality was not only wrong but should be illegal. This staggeringly high number also gave the lie to the notion, so often trotted out, that with time, younger generations of immigrant families would become more liberal, more integrated into Western ways: the figure of 71 per cent was the highest for any of the age groups questioned (the same survey found that a large minority - 37 per cent - of 16- to 24-year-old Muslims would prefer to live under sharia in Britain). …
Those who refrain from passing any judgment which they view as "culturally imperialist" are, arguably, also not helping Muslims who are themselves gay (the same principle applies to many Western feminists, whose silence over the treatment of women in Islam is shameful). While researching the project, Newson learned of the fear felt by many gay Muslims, some of whom had had "horrific experiences". Last year, the gay homeless charity, the Albert Kennedy Trust, reported that it was seeing a rise in the number of gay Muslims fleeing from forced marriages and domestic violence. …
But many gay Muslims live in a largely invisible world, one which can be fraught with conflicts between two aspects of their identities.
Madrid Pride banned Israelis from participating.
Iceland’s PM has married her partner of several years.
UK forced marriages unit is finding gay or bisexual men being forced into marriages.
Slavic gay pride in Belarus defies ban.
China has its first gay pageant.
About standing against Uganda’s “execute homosexuals” laws.
The Malawi couple who were gaoled for 14 years for conducting a same-sex marriage have split.
US Supreme Court rules that a public college can deny funding and recognition to a Christian group that does not let gays join. Noting that it is the consequence of government funding.
UK Lord Chief Justice Laws rules that it is not discriminatory to dismiss an employee who refuses to provide services to clients on religious grounds.
About the debate on whether the nominee for the Supreme Court is gay or not.
Oz Olympic swimmer Daniel Kowalski comes out.
AFL player Jason Akermanis says gay players should stay in the closet. A response. It has sparked quite a debate.
NSW Transport Minister is filmed coming out of a gay sauna and resigned.
Large survey of same-sex oriented in Oz. Attitudes of the same-sex oriented are clearly changing over time.
The UK Tories published a list of gay Tory MPs and candidates.
Noting that the Minnesota Republican Party can broadcast its gay-hatred in a lot fewer words than the Texas Republican Party. Looking at the surge in gay and pro-gay activism in the Republican Party. GOProud tangles with the Family Research Council.
About reporting the Proposition 8 trial. The Proposition 8 trial transcript is available here.
About the libertarian support for same-sex marriage.
About discrimination by “official” gays against people who work in porn. Hoping that the gay community will support the young rent-boy at the centre of the Rekers scandal.
The Brookings Institute held a conference on gays in the military with attendees from the UK, Canadian, Oz, Dutch, Swedish militaries. The transcript (pdf). A former US Navy petty officer on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”:
The irony of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" is that it protects bigots and punishes gays who comply.
Vanderbilt adjunct Professor explains how homosexuality is punishable by death in Isalm.
Arguing that the Left’s appeasement of Islam is leaving gays vulnerable:
That may well be true. But this ignores the widespread intolerance of homosexuality throughout the Muslim communities, which in Britain are growing up to ten times the rate of the rest. This community can only increase in power and predominance, especially when faced with a weak, vacillating establishment which will do anything to avoid making a scene, let along stand up for Western liberal values.
A Europe-wide Gallup survey carried out last year found that none of the 500 British Muslims interviewed believed that homosexual acts were morally acceptable. What was perhaps more alarming was a Policy Exchange report from 2007, Living Apart Together, which found that 71 per cent of Muslims aged 16 to 24 thought that homosexuality was not only wrong but should be illegal. This staggeringly high number also gave the lie to the notion, so often trotted out, that with time, younger generations of immigrant families would become more liberal, more integrated into Western ways: the figure of 71 per cent was the highest for any of the age groups questioned (the same survey found that a large minority - 37 per cent - of 16- to 24-year-old Muslims would prefer to live under sharia in Britain). …
Those who refrain from passing any judgment which they view as "culturally imperialist" are, arguably, also not helping Muslims who are themselves gay (the same principle applies to many Western feminists, whose silence over the treatment of women in Islam is shameful). While researching the project, Newson learned of the fear felt by many gay Muslims, some of whom had had "horrific experiences". Last year, the gay homeless charity, the Albert Kennedy Trust, reported that it was seeing a rise in the number of gay Muslims fleeing from forced marriages and domestic violence. …
But many gay Muslims live in a largely invisible world, one which can be fraught with conflicts between two aspects of their identities.
Madrid Pride banned Israelis from participating.