Op-ed: The Scientific Study That Proves How to Advance LGBT Rights
Because after marriage, there will still be plenty to be done.
Lorri L. Jean
www.advocate.com/commentary/2014/12/12/op-ed-scientific-study-proves-how-advance-lgbt-rights
Daily Archives: December 12, 2014
Watch Rosario Dawson and Jenny Slate share the perfect, romantic NYE kiss
Watch Rosario Dawson and Jenny Slate share the perfect, romantic NYE kiss
It is adorable and amazing
joem
Last Day to Win a Date with Dustin Lance Black and Tom Daley
Last Day to Win a Date with Dustin Lance Black and Tom Daley
Bobby Jindal 'Prayer Guide' Blames Gays For Hurricane Katrina – VIDEO
Bobby Jindal 'Prayer Guide' Blames Gays For Hurricane Katrina – VIDEO
Louisiana Governor and anti-gay “Christian” nutjob Bobby Jindal is claiming in material for a prayer rally to kick off his possible presidential run that Hurricane Katrina and other natural disasters are the result of god’s anger at gay people, reports Right Wing Watch.
Last month, Jindal spoke at an anti-equality, “pro-family” event in Dallas. He has also given anti-gay Duck Dynasty star Phil Roberston an award for Entrepreneurial Excellence.
Jindal is set to kick off the potential presidential campaign in January with a stadium prayer rally organized by anti-gay groups and individuals including listed hate group the American Family Association.
It would appear that Jindal’s campaign is being closely modeled on Rick Perry’s disastrous 2012 run for president. Organizers are actually reusing material from Perry’s 2011 prayer rally in Texas that blame natural disasters on gay people, marriage equality, legal abortion and Internet pornography.
The prayer guide for the rally also appears to be exactly the same as the guide distributed to participants in Perry’s 2011 event. As Right Wing Watch points out, the materials have not “even been updated to include the increased number of states that are bringing God’s judgment on America by allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry.”
The prayer guide includes the following nuggets of “Christian” wisdom:
“We have watched sin escalate to a proportion the nation has never seen before. We live in the first generation in which the wholesale murder of infants through abortion is not only accepted but protected by law. Homosexuality has been embraced as an alternative lifestyle. Same-sex marriage is legal in six states and Washington, D.C. Pornography is available on demand through the internet.
“Biblical signs of apostasy are before our very eyes. While the United States still claims to be a nation ‘under God’ it is obvious that we have greatly strayed from our foundations in Christianity.
“This year we have seen a dramatic increase in tornadoes that have taken the lives of many and crippled entire cities, such as Tuscaloosa, AL & Joplin, MO. And let us not forget that we are only six years from the tragic events of hurricane Katrina, which rendered the entire Gulf Coast powerless.”
Watch Jindal speak at this year’s anti-gayathon GOP-backed Values Voter Summit, AFTER THE JUMP…
Jim Redmond
www.towleroad.com/2014/12/bobby-jindal-prayer-guide-blames-gays-for-hurricane-katrina-video.html
EXCLUSIVE: Watch the Season Finale of Trans Web Series 'Brothers'
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checcoro LGBT
Una prova molto speciale: di "Natale la vigilia", canto di natale illustrato. Musica di Felix Mendelssohn, testo di CHECCORO, illustrazioni di CHECCORO. Riprese e montaggio di Alice Redaelli…
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Traveling, Legislating, and Moving: Your Diary Entries for #DayInLGBT
Traveling, Legislating, and Moving: Your Diary Entries for #DayInLGBT
The third and final part of our diary series, capturing the #DayInLGBT.
Advocate.com Editors
Hollyoaks’ Kieron Richardson wants you to choose UK’s LGBTI heroes
Hollyoaks’ Kieron Richardson wants you to choose UK’s LGBTI heroes
British LGBT Awards returns next spring
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Get Bent With Queer Zine “Crooked”
Get Bent With Queer Zine “Crooked”
Photo by Nick Bostick
The latest edition of the queer zine Crooked makes for a perfect raunchy Christmas gift. There are tales of a naughty public masturbator, bathhouse misadventures, sex in porn shops, an interview with amateur porn icon Dom Fournier, photos by Amsterdam-based photographer Paul Bujis and artwork by New York-based artist and author Slava Mogutin. What’s not to love?
Scanning the pages of Crooked is like being in a time warp and on poppers. The “fagazine,” edited and published by Montreal writer Jordan Coulombe, is an homage to the glory days of pre-Internet ’80s and ’90s punk zines. It’s an exhilarating read.
“When I was a closeted kid in the early ’90s I used to collect gay magazines and other gay printed paraphernalia in a box hidden in my bedroom,” Coulombe recalls. “These magazines were my first connection to other fags and to some extent I learned what being a fag was all about from them.”
Even in the Internet era — where it seems everything is shared online, anonymous or not — there’s something refreshing about just how frank the writers are about various perverse, off-the-wall sexual shenanigans. “I’d like people to see Crooked as a platform for confronting taboos and overcoming shame through confessional storytelling and flagrant exhibitionism,” says Coulombe. “At first glance Crooked might just appear to be this sleazy rag, but I think by creating a space for uninhibited, intimate writing, it also manages to normalize human experiences that we’ve been conditioned not to talk about openly. I’ve certainly found myself revealing some compromising anecdotes I would have never imagined myself publishing until the zine started pulling them out of me. But beyond that, it definitely is still a sleazy rag that’s trying to encourage people to have a sense of humour about their human impulses and shortcomings.”
Crooked may put off some on the more earnest end of the politically-correct spectrum, but Coulombe says he’s not about to start wearing beige anytime soon. “There’s certainly this element of contemporary queer discourse that’s all about being cautious and policing what is unsayable. However, Crooked is more concerned with trouble-making than paralyzing people with self-doubt about whether they’re being politically correct enough. I’ve published a certain amount of political articles in Crooked but the fourth issue is definitely leaning more towards the sleazy and scandalous, which you can tell just by the sheer increase in the amount of dicks scattered across the pages. I do a lot of work creating design layouts for each piece in Crooked and I’m always a little panicked that the more militant queers are going to cannibalize me for getting a little too provocative, but so far the project’s been pretty well received, even by the most humourless.”
The publication of Crooked raises the obvious question: a printed zine instead of going online? “I can definitely see the benefits of producing an online magazine but I’ve remained really opposed to the idea. My reasons are certainly more complicated than a romantic nostalgia for print, but there’s probably an element of that to it. I don’t think I’d be able to get people to open up in quite the same way for an online magazine, which would be easily Googled by family members and potential employers. I also like the way reading such a graphic printed magazine in public completely exposes you in a way that digital media doesn’t. For example, I can’t help feeling really conspicuous reading Crooked on a bus and I think it’s healthy to confront that awkwardness and learn to feel comfortable being a giant queer in public.”
Crooked #4 is out now.
Jeremy Kinser
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