So, in the last bad news round up, we had the Texas GOP honing their homophobia to a razor sharpness by speaking in favour of those sodomy laws and punishing pro-gay straight people with prison sentences.

Well, the Montana GOP has looked over at their Texas counterparts and said “gosh darnit, y’all can’t be hatin’ more than us!” and decided to ( Read more... )

The Tories are doing a really bad job of removing that “nasty party” label. Makes me wonder if they even wantr to.  They certainly can’t resist squeezing in plenty of sexism as well. They’re the Tories after all, masters of the objectionable.

First of all, the Tories have decided to push a much vaunted marriage tax break. This tax break will give £ ( 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... )

In the not-too-distant past (though it seems to have been very well forgotten) we invaded Iraq for.. well, no particular reason and a whole lot of lies and an amazing amount of blithering foolishness.

Iraq is not now a happy fun place. Of course, Iraq wasn’t much of a happy fun place before, but amazingly enough invasion, bombing and largely ( Read more... )

If it weren’t for my deeply cynical view of humanity, I would be surprised at some of the people and groups that constantly try to claim some kind of moral authority - and right to judge us. More, I am rather depressed at how many people who are willing to accept these “moral authorities” and their judgements despite their actions ( Read more... )

Apparently, on average, straight women with gay male friends have a better body image than straight women without gay male friends. Odd how these things work.

See? This is a good way to report on this little news snippet.

Then we have O magazine’s ways to increase your self esteem: “And if you don't already have a few gay men in your circle of ( Read more... )

One of the most annoying arguments used against gay rights is the "slippery slope" argument. I.e. we give gay people right and next we know men will be marrying their pot plants ( Read more... )

This piece originally appeared at Womanist Musings where Renee has very generously allowed my random musings to appear on her excellent blogWhy do you expect one of us to be a woman in our gay male relationship ( Read more... )

I wasn’t going to mention the case of Dave Burk, an arsehole teacher of Consumer Education (as an aside... consumer education? What?) who spouted homophobic drivel in his class. After all, if I scouted the world for homophobic arseholes my blood pressure would go through the roof and I’d have little time for little else ( Read more... )

Hyperbole is a common tool, I use and abuse it myself. It can be extremely effective - it can also be extremely silly (Godwin‘s anyone ( Read more... )