Episode 30 - LGBT News Transcript
LGBT News Transcript
Host: wook77
This is the LGBT news segment for slashcast, episode 30. I'm wook77 and I promise to rant less and report news more. This is a promise I will probably break.
To celebrate its fortieth anniversary in print, Funky Winkerbean will feature a strip showing a gay couple at fictional Westview High School. While I wish we lived in a world where this isn't a BFD, I do appreciate the fact that the creator of this comic is willing to show the tough bits of high school, whether teen pregnancy or alcoholism. It's tough dating in high school, let alone being part of a gay couple what with all the fucking bigotry and bullying about. So, hats off to the creator for featuring gay couples in a positive manner and showing how tough it can be.
The television show, The Good Wife, featured a rather detailed lesbian scene between the bisexual investigator, Kalinda, and Special Agent Lana Delany. I don't watch a lot of television but I caught this scene and holy fucking hell. That was amazing.
Speaking of amazing, there was an awesome marriage proposal between a Navy corpsman that was forced out under Don't Ask, Don't Tell and his active duty partner, a Marine that just came back from a 10 month deployment. Totally romantic and awesome, even if you hate romance like a certain person recording the LGBT news segment right now.
And, speaking of marriage proposals, I stumbled across a short PSA currently airing in England from the Coalition for Equal Marriage that features a serviceman proposing to his partner. It's sweeping and moving to the point that my bitter heart even twinged a bit, just like a romance grinch. Stupid whoville whos singing happiness and love everywhere.
The Justice Department's National Crime Victim's Victim Service's Award honored Victoria Cruz, a latina transgendered woman that works with the Anti-Violence Program, an LGBT advocacy program to help people with justice for anti-LGBT violence in cases where the police fail to act.
Looks like the USS Harvey Milk might just happen. Following in the wake of such ships as the USS Bob Hope, the USS John Murtha, the USS Caesar Chavez and the USS Medgar Evers, the US Navy looks to name certain classes of ships after iconic public figures. As Congressman Bob Filner, a Democratic Congressman from San Diego notes, the timing is perfect with the recent repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell coupled with Harvey Milk's lasting legacy in his quest for equality.
The ongoing legal battle of Prop 8 is going to have some interesting arguments in the future. The chief study held up as the reason behind the need to protect the children from all those evil gay people has been retracted in addition to an apology being given to the gay community. Gotta wonder who the bigots are going to point to next as their amazing reason for trying to legislate bigotry.
Speaking of California and equality, a senator there has proposed a bill that would require psychotherapists to warn people of the dangers of gay reparative treatments. It would also prohibit the practice of such supposed therapies on anyone under the age of 18. Hooray!
Sandra Fluke continues to be an awesome person. I know, I know, she's already established as a classy lady with her poise in responding to the continued attacks against her advocacy for a woman's right to needed medical care but, recently, when she got engaged to her boyfriend, she was attacked with anti-LGBT language. Sandra, rather than saying anything against the gay community, stated that she didn't find it insulting that someone might've thought she was a lesbian but, instead, she was upset about the blatant homophobia. Hooray for Sandra!
James Franco will be portraying Hart Crane, a gay poet that eventually took his own life at the age of 32. I'm super excited for the movie and will link the trailer. It looks awesome.
The EEOC commission of the US has come down with a huge, landmark decision. They recently ruled that discrimination against transgendered people and the families of transgendered people is a violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 because it is, at its heart, a discrimination based on sex.
Are you sitting down for this last piece of news? No? Warning, you might want to pull over if you are driving. Stop jogging if you're listening to this while jogging. Sit down. Brace yourself. Are you braced? Should I give you a minute?
In response to a viewer question of "What would you say to a school that has LGBT students being bullied by Christian kids?", Pat Fucking Robertson said on his 700 Club show that bullying LGBT kids is terrible and wrong and, all right, he did say that homosexuality was an abomination but, still, dude. Bullying is worse?
I know, right? Holy shit. No pun intended. You know, when I hear stuff like that, I think that that whole Mayan prophecy about the world ending in 2012 might just happen after all because this is Pat Robertson saying that bullying gays is wrong. This is the guy that blamed 9/11 on gay people. This is the guy that said gay marriage is the same as angel rape. So even though it's an abomination, it's equally abominable to terrorize LGBT youth and, yet, it's all right to terrorize the adults? I don't even get it.
And, with that bit of what-the-fuckery, if you have any links or tips to any news items you'd like to discuss, please leave a comment in our post!
Host: wook77
This is the LGBT news segment for slashcast, episode 30. I'm wook77 and I promise to rant less and report news more. This is a promise I will probably break.
To celebrate its fortieth anniversary in print, Funky Winkerbean will feature a strip showing a gay couple at fictional Westview High School. While I wish we lived in a world where this isn't a BFD, I do appreciate the fact that the creator of this comic is willing to show the tough bits of high school, whether teen pregnancy or alcoholism. It's tough dating in high school, let alone being part of a gay couple what with all the fucking bigotry and bullying about. So, hats off to the creator for featuring gay couples in a positive manner and showing how tough it can be.
The television show, The Good Wife, featured a rather detailed lesbian scene between the bisexual investigator, Kalinda, and Special Agent Lana Delany. I don't watch a lot of television but I caught this scene and holy fucking hell. That was amazing.
Speaking of amazing, there was an awesome marriage proposal between a Navy corpsman that was forced out under Don't Ask, Don't Tell and his active duty partner, a Marine that just came back from a 10 month deployment. Totally romantic and awesome, even if you hate romance like a certain person recording the LGBT news segment right now.
And, speaking of marriage proposals, I stumbled across a short PSA currently airing in England from the Coalition for Equal Marriage that features a serviceman proposing to his partner. It's sweeping and moving to the point that my bitter heart even twinged a bit, just like a romance grinch. Stupid whoville whos singing happiness and love everywhere.
The Justice Department's National Crime Victim's Victim Service's Award honored Victoria Cruz, a latina transgendered woman that works with the Anti-Violence Program, an LGBT advocacy program to help people with justice for anti-LGBT violence in cases where the police fail to act.
Looks like the USS Harvey Milk might just happen. Following in the wake of such ships as the USS Bob Hope, the USS John Murtha, the USS Caesar Chavez and the USS Medgar Evers, the US Navy looks to name certain classes of ships after iconic public figures. As Congressman Bob Filner, a Democratic Congressman from San Diego notes, the timing is perfect with the recent repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell coupled with Harvey Milk's lasting legacy in his quest for equality.
The ongoing legal battle of Prop 8 is going to have some interesting arguments in the future. The chief study held up as the reason behind the need to protect the children from all those evil gay people has been retracted in addition to an apology being given to the gay community. Gotta wonder who the bigots are going to point to next as their amazing reason for trying to legislate bigotry.
Speaking of California and equality, a senator there has proposed a bill that would require psychotherapists to warn people of the dangers of gay reparative treatments. It would also prohibit the practice of such supposed therapies on anyone under the age of 18. Hooray!
Sandra Fluke continues to be an awesome person. I know, I know, she's already established as a classy lady with her poise in responding to the continued attacks against her advocacy for a woman's right to needed medical care but, recently, when she got engaged to her boyfriend, she was attacked with anti-LGBT language. Sandra, rather than saying anything against the gay community, stated that she didn't find it insulting that someone might've thought she was a lesbian but, instead, she was upset about the blatant homophobia. Hooray for Sandra!
James Franco will be portraying Hart Crane, a gay poet that eventually took his own life at the age of 32. I'm super excited for the movie and will link the trailer. It looks awesome.
The EEOC commission of the US has come down with a huge, landmark decision. They recently ruled that discrimination against transgendered people and the families of transgendered people is a violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 because it is, at its heart, a discrimination based on sex.
Are you sitting down for this last piece of news? No? Warning, you might want to pull over if you are driving. Stop jogging if you're listening to this while jogging. Sit down. Brace yourself. Are you braced? Should I give you a minute?
In response to a viewer question of "What would you say to a school that has LGBT students being bullied by Christian kids?", Pat Fucking Robertson said on his 700 Club show that bullying LGBT kids is terrible and wrong and, all right, he did say that homosexuality was an abomination but, still, dude. Bullying is worse?
I know, right? Holy shit. No pun intended. You know, when I hear stuff like that, I think that that whole Mayan prophecy about the world ending in 2012 might just happen after all because this is Pat Robertson saying that bullying gays is wrong. This is the guy that blamed 9/11 on gay people. This is the guy that said gay marriage is the same as angel rape. So even though it's an abomination, it's equally abominable to terrorize LGBT youth and, yet, it's all right to terrorize the adults? I don't even get it.
And, with that bit of what-the-fuckery, if you have any links or tips to any news items you'd like to discuss, please leave a comment in our post!