If you speak French, you’re in for a real treat from this group of protestors in France. And if you don’t, I think you’ll find that the clip transcends language into something that is universally mockable.
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Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Russian Anti-Gay Lobby Warns About Gay Milk
Other countries take note. If you enact crazy anti-gay laws forbidding any positive portrayals of homosexuality, here’s what you can expect to happen: A popular brand of milk is being accused of illegally promoting homosexuality in St-Petersburg, Russia. The milk, a PepsiCo-owned brand, features a jolly dairy farmer, standing in a lovely
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Report Says Women Drivers Cause Homosexuality
Saudi Arabia is one of the only countries in the world that forbids women from driving. Any woman caught behind the wheel there is subject to arrest and lashings. Amidst growing international criticism for this policy, a report prepared for the country’s legislative assembly has been released to justify
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Rob Anders Says Something Stupid (Again)
My former MP, Rob Anders, a fierce opponent of “homosexual sex marriage,” has once again done something incredibly dumb. Rick Mercer explains it nicely.
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Pope Says Gays Aren’t Fully Developed Humans Who Threaten Families
In a speech to French bishops last week, Pope Benedict XVI announced that gay people aren’t fully developed humans and are threatening families. While I’m sure very few gay people actually care what the pope thinks of us, sometimes this guy’s just evokes imagery I really want to draw. “The family
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Site Counts Homophobic Tweets
Students and researchers at the University of Alberta have created a website that counts homophobic slurs on Twitter in real time. It’s both amazingly awesome and a little depressing, but makes me pretty happy to be a U of A alumni. Check it out.
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Hong Kong Billionaire Puts Bounty On Converting Gay Daughter
A lot of gay people find their relationships don’t receive much support from their parents, but I think a lot of us can be glad we don’t have anyone quite this determined: A Hong Kong billionaire is offering over $65 million to any man who can woo his daughter away
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Australian Parliament Votes Down Equal Marriage Rights
I’ve always thought that Canada and Australia are similar in a lot of ways. It’s kind of like a parallel Canada with a warmer climate, more poisonous animals, and a superior electoral system. And now, like Canada once did, it’s going through some setbacks in its transition on the path
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Principal Cancels Course To Prevent Gay Student From Taking It
The lengths people go to in order to stop gay people from enjoying their life… Thomas Amons, a principal for the Beaumont Independent School District’s Taylor Career and Technology Center in Texas, has canceled an entire cosmetology course rather than let a student whom he thought was gay take it.
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Theatre Producer Charges For Gay Play
Slap reader Christian submits this bit of craziness: David Cecil, a British theatre producer, is facing a possible prison sentence after staging a play criticizing Uganda’s anti-gay attitudes. The performance, entitled The River and The Mountain, is about a gay businessman who is killed by his own employees. Since it
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Doctor Chemically Castrates Gay Patient
Slap reader Daniel sends us this crazy bit of news: A doctor in Sydney, Australia has prescribed chemical castration drugs to an 18 year old New Zealand patient in an attempt to “cure” his homosexually. Cyproterone acetate blocks production of testosterone, mostly eliminating sexual drive in males. Luckily, the Medical
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Saudi Arabia Moves To Block .gay
The kingdom of Saudi Arabia has launched a formal objection to a proposed kind of website address ending in .gay. The complaint asserts that the new top level domain name would offend their culture. Personally, I just wonder what the difference between google.com and google.gay would be. Perhaps the logo
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Christian Group Sues School Board Over Lesson Plans
A group calling itself the “Parental Rights in Education Defense Fund” along with an anonymous “beleaguered parent” is suing the Ontario school system for not providing advance notice of gay subject matter. “The parent seeks nothing more than to be given advance notice so that he can […] withdraw his
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Anti-Gay Group Says Equal Marriage Leads To Abortion
The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), an anti-choice and anti-gay lobby group based in the UK, has distributed fliers suggesting that legal same-sex marriage will lead to an increased number of abortions. “Legalised same-sex marriage will increase confusion about what it means to be a man or
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Lethbridge “Plastered” With Homophobic Graffiti
The city of Lethbridge, Alberta has been plastered with homophobic and racist graffiti, resulting in a citywide cleanup effort. Still, the fact that this story actually made national news is a pretty good indicator of the awesome progress being made in Canada, don’t you think?
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Bad Blood Documentary
Bad Blood, a documentary film about the ban on blood donations from gay men, looks like it’s well worth checking out. Although I have to wonder… If Canadian Blood Services were to screen the documentary like they screen their blood, do you think they’d give it zero stars even if
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Pastor Says To Kidnap Kids of Gay Parents
Bryan Fischer, a U.S. pastor, has called for an organized plan to kidnap children from same-sex parents and deliver them to opposite-sex households as part of a modern-day “underground railroad.” When it was pointed out that this plan would be illegal, Fischer replied: “So was the underground railroad.” Hmm… I
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Housing Discrimination Courtesy of Rental Diva
Rental Diva, an unlicensed rental agency in Brampton Ontario, is likely to face a human rights tribunal after turning away clients because they’re gay. Thiago Derucio and Christ Prentice called Juliet Stewart—operator of Rental Diva—about a basement suite, but were promptly told they could not rent the property because the
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Ukraine Proposes Jail For Positive Gay Depictions
Lawmakers in the Ukraine have introduced an anti-gay bill that would punish “propaganda of homosexuality” with fines and up to five years in prison. Russia recently enacted a similar law this year, with expected disastrous results. Gay activists in the country have been arrested simply for marching for equal rights,
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