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
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Slap 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: Naughty Penguins Horrified Polar Explorers
A century-old academic paper labelled “Not for publication” has been discovered at the Natural History Museum in Tring, England. The paper, written by a polar explorer in 1915, observes—with horror—the deviant and immoral sex lives of Adélie penguins. The naughty, naughty penguins were described as having “autoerotic tendencies” as well
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Killer Snails, Therefore No Same-Sex Marriage
A recently retired politician in Denmark seems to have discovered a new argument against equal marriage: Killer snails are hermaphroditic, therefore same-sex marriage should be illegal. Gee… I never thought of it that way before.
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Anti-Gay Lobby Group Calls Canada “Doomed”
Family Research Institute, an anti-gay lobby group based in the United States, has warned Americans that advancements in equal rights for GLBT citizens has “doomed” Canada forever. Funny… I don’t feel particularly doomed today. I mean, once you get used to all the walking corpses wailing through rivers of fire along
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Anti-Gay Protest In Ontario
A crowd of about 200 appeared in Queen’s Park, Ontario yesterday, protesting provincial legislation that will help eliminate anti-gay bullying in schools. This rally also marked the unveiling of some brand new terminology to be used by the anti-gay lobby, as a spokesperson began referring to Gay-Straight Alliances as “homosexual
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Happy Saint Patrick’s Day
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day, kids! If you’re planning on heading out to a parade—specifically the world’s largest in New York City—you likely won’t be surprised that Irish gay groups are still banned from marching (yes, in 2012). Gee, I wonder if there are places where Irish gays celebrating their heritage
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