While homophobia is something that we gay folks live with on a day-to-day basis, at least in my everyday life it tends to operate in the background, like a buzzing fluorescent light -- if you pay attention to it, it can become quite disconcerting, but if you can focus your attention elsewhere you don't notice it as much. Every so often, though, the buzz not only buzzes but shocks me. I hang out on...
Did you hear the good news? Did you see the tiny, sad headlines as they crept across the Interwebs a couple days ago, as reliable as teen pregnancy in Kansas, as certain as bestiality in South Carolina? Fear and homophobia, sadness and confusion have come '...
Via Videogum: The fight against political correctness is such a nonsensical throwback argument to the early-’90s. No one is pushing for “political correctness” as a decontextualized blindly dogmatic philosophy. What people are pushing for is not pretending that racism and homophobia and misogyny and anti-semitism don’t exist, or trying to camouflage these things as “jokes.”...
First, I reject Michael’s definition of homophobia. I have neither fear of nor prejudice against any class of persons. I have now, and have always determined what I thought of persons on a case by case basis. I don’t deem all Church of Christ members shotgun toting lunatics because Mary the Murderess Winkler shot her [...]
If there was ever any doubt that homophobia was alive and well in the wide world of sports, just take a look at the past two weeks. In the NFL there was Kansas City Chiefs running back Larry Johnson berating a Twitter follower with anti-gay language. In the NBA, Dallas Mavericks center Drew Gooden allegedly blasted a Los Angeles fan with some homophobic rhetoric. And in hockey, a minor league player...
We're told that Cameron is man of modern sensibilities. The Tory media machine tells us he understands that racism, sexism and homophobia are more than just a bit of harmless fun. It's hard not to believe it's true when you see his lovely soft haircut and elegant frowns of concern at all the right moments. However, it looks like the Tories still have a little way to go in purging sexism from their...
. One of the most important progenitors of rap music, Gil Scott-Heron's aggressive, no-nonsense street poetry inspired a legion of intelligent rappers while his engaging songwriting skills placed him square in the R&B charts later in his career, backed by increasingly contemporary production courtesy of Malcolm Cecil and Nile Rodgers (of Chic). Disregard the understated title, "Small Talk...
After this week's South Park episode in which the characters decided to change the meaning of the word "fag," using the epithet an unbleeped hundred or so times, GLAAD has issued a condemnation of the show, saying that its creators' well-intended humor went over the heads of America's dummies. The creators of “South Park” are right on one important point: more and more people...
Boston: Fired Brookstone Manager Claims Religious Discrimination Over His Anti-Gay Workplace Comments ( Source-JMG ) WGB : This is a little bit long but worth the view. I wanted to watch this because at first I was concerned that someone was fired simply for their belief system and even though it may be different from mine, it is still their belief system. But as he spoke and his homophobia and ignorance...
Universal, rental and retail Predictably outrageous, Sacha Baron Cohen's latest sticks close to the Borat template without ever having quite the same impact. Partly, this is the law of diminishing returns: this time our jaws drop almost by reflex. But a gay Austrian fashionista doesn't have the man-from-the-unknown aspect that made the Kazakh oaf such a joy – and the homophobia...
Last month I exposed how the Conservatives have allied themselves in the European Parliament with Valdemar Tomasevski, a Lithuanian MEP who has described homosexuality as a ' perversion ', and who voted in his national parliament earlier this year for a draconian new law banning public discussion of homosexuality. Today, on Left Foot Forward , Will Straw publishes striking new evidence of Tomasevski's...
Muslims throwing rocks at a homosexual man in Minn, a Muslim in Washington D.C. stating that homosexuals should be killed under Sharia law, and now this. Is this the "tolerant" part of Islam, that we keep hearing about? Hat tip to the The Religion of Peace. Crabby cabby boots same-sex lovebirds By KIRSTEN FLEMING, TOM NAMAKO and REUVEN FENTON An overzealous cabby allegedly booted a gay couple...
Al-Akhbar has been breaking waves. It is quickly becoming a major media source in Lebanon and beyond. While there are no clear data on sales, it is emerging as the number one newspaper in Lebanon, and you can check Alexa ranking in Lebanon for that. It has been breaking taboos, right and left and does not spare any side from criticisms, especially religious fundamentalists and others. Its Hariri and...
The Diary Of Chukwunwikezarramu Okumephuna (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
I am surprised that you claimed in your editorial of Friday November 5, 2009 that Nigeria is not ‘exactly afflicted’ by amongst other things ‘victimisation, discrimination and other forms of oppression’ to warrant the exodus of Nigerians to the west for asylum and refuge. The fact is that the editorial is misleading bearing in mind that there is a strong case against Nigeria...
Thursday’s LGBT Related Viewpoints, Editorials & Observations on: Politics, Marriage, Maine, Sex Scandals, Homophobia, Elders, Media and More… Disability Viewpoints: ThisAbility: Gay and disabled – Back in the closet for you. Elder Viewpoint: Don Kilhefner: Gay Elders! Gay Elders! Where Are You? Health Viewpoint: Petrelis Files: UCSF’s Hysterical Gay Staph Crisis —...
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