In Georgia 2 marines have been arrested for beating a gay man in Savannah. The victim is still in hospital after suffering 2 seizures during the attack. But but of course

They have been charged with… a misdemeanour. But it’s possible federal hate crimes charges may be brought since Georgia has no hate crime law.

Of course the attack was justified ( Read more... )

Largely I haven’t spoken on the topic because people have said it all and said it better, but I’m still going to open my mouth on something related - this is an industry problem and it’s also a corporate culture problem.

And no, that isn’t a defence of BP. BP’s failure is epic and unacceptable - and I think any other oil company in the same ( Read more... )

Another unfortunate look at the forces of homophobia out there and the victims they leave behind. From politics to media to the church and the endless attacks on our children, our work places and our bodily integrity there seems to be no shortage of stories and I know I only scratch the shallowest surface

Around the world, politics continues to ( Read more... )

The Sun has commissioned a YouGov poll to ask a vital question we all simply must know:

“Should gay people be cabinet ministers”

Somewhat ironic since I just submitted a post to Womanist Musings about homophobic debates and questions that various organisations and the media are so fond of.

This is not an acceptable question. Frankly, it’s grossly ( Read more... )

One of the things the new government of doom is going to do, as well as screw the poor, mess with welfare, hand GBLT protections over to a raging homophobe and pat little Cleggy on the head while they give him a not-really-reformed Alternate Vote system that they will then campaign against, is they will protect our right to a trial by jury!

Which ( Read more... )

This is something I have been debating ever since the Uganda genocide law was proposed (and, to the people trying to distract from the evils of that law - yes it IS genocide. Just because GBLT people are the target or because it’s being justified by the religion you share doesn’t make it any less genocidal) and is only strengthened by the ( Read more... )

Teresa May is perhaps the most glaringly horrendous cabinet choice of the new government since she’s supposed to be the protector of the marginalised from prejudice, but glancing over the other Tories who now lead the nation, she is hardly the only homophobe in power.

Far from it. I only glanced over the new cabinet and I cringed. None of  these ( Read more... )

With several coffees and a morning’s work under my belt, I look with trepidation at the new government - and already I’m very very worried.

Theresa May has been appointed as the new Home Secretary and Minister for Equality. A nice combination that means a lot of equality and justice in this country rests on her shoulders.

This is the woman in ( Read more... )

David Cameron is now PM. Words can’t express how depressing this is.

The part of meanness, cruelty, callousness and bigotry is now in power. Hopefully their lack of a majority will hamstring them from reversing all that we have achieved these last few years - some of it will go, certainly. We’re heading to a less fair, less equal, less ( Read more... )

Now some fool in the foreign office who probably needs someone to send him a big stack of dictionaries with the word “diplomacy” marked pretty heavily (actually, may not be a bad idea for the foreign office in general) has written a memo that offended the Pope ahead of his visit.

The memo suggested  that while he was here we would commemorate it ( Read more... )