Oh those crazy foaming fundamentalist rightwingers and their homophobia.On Sunday, Bachmann and her curious husband, attended a church service at which the pastor railed on, denouncing homosexuality as “unnatural” and “immoral.” At the end of the…
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gay persons of color: Watch: Jamaica launches anti-homophobia PSA campaign
In arguably the most homophobic place on earth, Jamaica, a new anti-homophobia video public service announcement (PSA) campaign debuted Monday on television and the Internet. The campaign, “Unconditional Love,” features Christine Straw, former Miss Jam…
Continue readinggay persons of color: What Racist Queers Say
Thanks to my friend Richard over at Three Dollar Bill for bringing my attention to an amazing article, “Racist Queers” by comedian Solomon Georgio, who outlines some of the most common reactions white queers have when they are accused of saying or doin…
Continue readinggay persons of color: Ghana minister orders arrest of all gays and lesbians in Western Region
Paul Evans Aidoo, Minister for the Western Region of Ghana, has reportedly tasked Ghana’s Bureau of National Investigations and security forces to immediately round up and arrest all gays and lesbians in the region. The move follows months of campaig…
Continue readinggay persons of color: Oakland A’s suspend minor league prospect for gay slur
Photo from Checkoutmycards.comThe Oakland A’s nipped team homophobia in the bud Sunday by indefinitely suspending top minor league pitching prospect, Ian Krol, for tweeting what was reported by the San Francisco Chronicle’s Susan Slusser as a “gay slur…
Continue readinggay persons of color: Nazis’ sexual minority victims commemorated in Vienna
Image from Die StandardI’m a big fan of public artworks that remind humans of their potential to terrorize each other under the pretext of any number of ideologies or religious beliefs. Case in point, a monument of flowers spelling the daunting phrase …
Continue readinggay persons of color: Watch: Boston Red Sox "It Gets Better" video
Released last week, the Boston Red Sox contribution to the It Gets Better project features manager Terry Francona, captain and catcher Jason Varitek, and first/third baseman Kevin Youkilis, whose words are woven together with those of “real” people to …
Continue readingMichele Bachmann: gay marriage will lead to ‘poligamy and group marriage’
This is what it has come to for the Republican party. This person is a leading contender for the 2012 presidential election. It just keeps getting crazier. 2012 may not be the end of the world but it will be one of the most entertaining, at least in t…
Continue readinggay persons of color: Uninformed Indian Health Minister makes idiotic remarks
Epic ignorance from India’s Health Minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad, was displayed Monday when he told delegates at a Delhi HIV/AIDS conference, “Unfortunately, there is this disease in the world and in this country where men are having sex with other men,…
Continue readinggay persons of color: Chinese actress under boycott and banned from awards
Thrice married, born-again evangelical Chinese actress Lü Liping is facing international boycotts and has been banned from the 2011 Golden Horse Awards, considered the Oscars of Chinese cinema, after posting anti-gay remarks on her microblog last week…
Continue readingEvaluating Mammoliti, redux | #PrideTO #TOpoli
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Continue readingOn second thought, Rob, stay at the cottage | #PrideTO
The whole idea of Mammoliti at the Dyke March just seems … wrong.[View the story “Watching Mammoliti at #PrideTO: Ya know what, Rob? Stay at the cottage” on Storify]
Continue readinggay persons of color: "Homosexual" not the friendliest of words
Words can be like people. Once you get to know them, you can enjoy a friendship or move on and find others with whom you are perhaps more compatible. With this in mind, I am continually surprised that mainstream news outlets in this day and age still u…
Continue readinggay persons of color: Five myths about gay people debunked
Here is something handy that you might want to share with those less-enlightened in your circle, kind of like a red card that you can show every time you come across someone who erroneously believes that all animals are heterosexual, or that gay relati…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Exodus Quacks and the Hooray You’re Gay Song
Holy Lady Gaga. Sometimes it’s not easy to be gay eh? When the bigots aren’t trying to kill you, the Christianist closet queens are trying to “cure” you.Like the pathetic quacks at Exodus Global Alliance. (EGA)In the United States their huggi…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Rob Ford and the Gay Pride Parade
Well I see that Rob Ford has announced that he’d rather get drunk at his cottage, than march in the Pride Parade.Rob Ford is skipping the pride parade to spend his Canada Day weekend at the cottage, ending a long tradition of participation by Toronto m…
Continue readinggay persons of color: New WHO AIDS guidelines target global discrimination of gays
Over 30 years after the first AIDS case was diagnosed on June 5, 1981, and after nearly 30 million people have been killed by the pandemic and more than 33 million have the virus that causes it, the World Health Organization (WHO) Tuesday finally publ…
Continue readinggay persons of color: UN Human Rights Council passes equal rights bill
The United Nations Human Rights Council passed on Friday an historic resolution that seeks equal rights for all regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. The 47-member Council voted 23 in favor and 19 against, with 3 abstentions. The resolut…
Continue readinggay persons of color: Hate, violence at Croatian Pride event in Split
Just 24 hours after the European Commission announced that Croatia would be able to join the European Union, violence marred the first Gay Pride Parade to be staged in the port city of Split on Sunday. UK Gay News reports that shouts of “kill the fags”…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Tracy Morgan and the Power of Redemption
I see that after having been buried by an avalanche of criticism, Tracy Morgan has apologized for his hideous homophobic rant.
“I’m not a hateful person and don’t condone any kind of violence against others. While I am an equal oppor…
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