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Anti-Gay Hate in NYC: It’s Time to Rally!
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GAY MARRIAGE USA     Authored by Gay Marriage USA, May 11, 2013 Published on Huffington Post, May 13, 2013. In the past week in Manhattan two anti-gay assaults have been reported, seriously drawing into question the validity of NYC’s “gay friendly” tag. Despite the fact that New York legalized same-sex marriage in 2011 and  that NYC has a very large LGBT population, this week’s events are a sad reminder that homophobia is still alive and thriving in this city. Two Recent Attacks On Sunday afternoon of May 5th a gay male couple in their 20s were walking arm-in-arm down 8th Ave between West 34th and 35th street when they were subjected to a brutal anti-gay assault. It has been alleged that within the vicinity of Madison Square Garden, and presumably in the presence of numerous bystanders, the two men were called “faggots,” knocked to the ground, and physically assaulted. Both men received treatment in hospital. Their attackers, described as a group of up to 8

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KOH2RVA: Day 236

Not long ago I had coffee with a church member who put it bluntly: “What do you think about homosexuality?” We had been talking about the recent decision of Ginter Park Baptist Church to ordain an openly gay man and she wanted to know where I stood on the issue. I was caught a little off guard, so I asked, “What do you think about it?” She said, “I think it’s a sin.” And that got the conversation started. I can’t remember everything I said in just the way I said it, but I’ll try to capture the gist of the conversation below, and maybe even add a few thoughts. I said: “I don’t think it’s a sin to be homosexual, but the Bible is pretty clear about homosexual behavior. It condemns it. But it also condemns a lot of heterosexual behavior, including adultery and fornication.” I said, “Some people believe that homosexuality is a choice—that people choose to be gay. I suppose that’s possible. We humans are born sinners. We’re capable of almost anything. But in my conversations with gays

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Dresses with Mommy
Crippled Engines

John was a good boy and liked to help his mother. They would go to the store together and he would help her pick at clothes. When John and his mom got home, they would cook dinner and sing songs with each other. John would play in his mother’s closet and try her makeup on and wear her shoes. John’s father did not like these games. John’s father would come home late at night, smelling of rust and whiskey, and would get angry at John and his mother for having a good time. Then John would go to his room to wait for the shouting to stop. “Queer” “Faggot” “Sissy” These words floated through the walls and stung John’s chest. He didn’t know what they meant but he could hear his name in each of them. John’s mother would come into his room afterwards and sit with him on the bed. “We can’t play anymore,” she would say. “Why not,” John asked. “I like our games.” “Our games make

Equal
Scripted Solace

I’m quite used to homophobia, both the blatant, aggressive kind (“DYKE” being yelled at us, in the street and “Do you fear God? DO YOU?”) and the slightly more insidious kind (the sometimes strangled, silent looks when I come out, the religious hand-wringing on the radio all couched in careful terms), but even I found Norman Tebbit’s recent comments difficult to stomach. I wasn’t initially sure why – given he is quite clearly unable to form a rational or believable argument and most people (on Twitter at least) think he’s a loon – but I think it is something to do with the implication that same- sex marriage is preposterous. So laughable, in fact, that it could be likened to a marriage between him and his son to avoid inheritance tax or that it puts the monarchy at risk of an heir conceived by a lesbian using artificial insemination. My relationship is not preposterous. It is not an economic attempt to circumvent tax (which says quite a lot about Tebbit’s noble intentions,

Peace Corps Announces New Service Opportunity for Same-Sex Couples
Global Equality Today

Peace Corps Press Statement Washington, D.C., May 21, 2013 – Peace Corps Deputy Director Carrie Hessler-Radelet today announced that the agency will begin accepting applications from same-sex domestic partners who want to serve together as volunteers overseas. Same-sex couples may begin the application process starting Monday, June 3. “Service in the Peace Corps is a life-defining leadership experience for Americans who want to make a difference around the world,” Deputy Director Hessler-Radelet said. “I am proud that the agency is taking this important step forward to allow same-sex domestic partners to serve overseas together.” Expanding service opportunities to same-sex domestic partners who want to volunteer together further diversifies the pool of Peace Corps applicants and the skills of those invited to serve overseas in the fields of education, health, community economic development, environment, youth in development and agriculture. Married heterosexual couples have been servin

These Times Are A Changing
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Winning The War Against Homophobia/Racism/Sexism
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OUT AND COMPLICATED IN BANGKOK
Party, Glamous, Sex, Music and Liquor are cool but we still lose in the planet
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Love, one of life’s important things
OUT DESIGNS

Most commonly the most important things in life are…. food, water, sleep and love. These are considered the basic needs for everyone to live and happy and healthy life.                   Is it so wrong to love someone of the same sex?  Why do we even ask this question, of course it’s not! We’re not harming anyone.  Love is love, no matter if it’s a man and a woman, two women or two men.  Love is human nature, it’s natural to love, so why is it so hard to live in an equal world? Sometimes we do forget how lucky we are to live in the UK, here it’s not illegal to be in a same sex relationship, we don’t risk imprisonment or death.  We can even get a civil partnership and hopefully soon marriage, so let’s take a minute to think of the sacrifices and fight those before us have given to get to this stage today, not forgetting those in other countries that find every single day a living struggle, just

Lord Tebbit – gay marriage threat to bees as queens more likely to become lesbians
Pride's Purge

(satire) Outspoken former Conservative chairman Lord Tebbit has joined a growing chorus urging action to save the world’s endangered bee populations under threat from gay marriage saying it would pave the way for queens to become lesbians thereby endangering future colonies. In an interview for the Big Issue, Lord Tebbit also claimed that legislation legalising gay marriage would pave the way for higher honey prices as bees spent less time and energy on making honey from nectar in order to concentrate more on making honey with each other. Tebbit said that Downing Street had tried to push the legislation too quickly and had not properly considered what the full ramifications of allowing gay marriage might be for the future of English breakfasts: I said to a minister: have you thought this through? Because you’re affecting the future of toast eating, too. It’s time more decent people stood up against this insidious attempt to wreck English breakfast routines in the name

Between Worlds
tisjustlife

Between WorldsI am a person who doesn’t feel like they belong in this world, like a strange or someone whodoesn’t fit any particular mold, an alien. I don’t feel like a stranger in all aspects of my life but because Iam a gay individual living in a heterosexual world, I sometimes feel like i’m a visitor. I feel like someone who is always moving from the straight world into the gay world, or visa versa. I don’t fully belong to either and will explain why, beginning from my origins to my present self.As a child I always knew I was gay but I thought it was just some phase that I, like everyoneelse, would simply grow out of. I was never really attracted to girls in a sexual manner, I admired theirbeauty, charisma, confidence,and other traits which, at times, confused me for a bit in believing thatperhaps I was bisexual. I had always found men sexually attractive, different from how I perceivedgirls.You could definitely say that I was in denial at the beginning. Being gay as a kid was

Queer Youth and Allies Social night!
BAHS QSA

The Boston Area Homeschoolers’ QSA and the Robbins Library are co-hosting adrop-in night for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans+, and questioning youth andtheir allies! There will be music and nut free snacks! The meeting will be in the Robbins Library community room from 7-8:30 onThursday nights on May 23, June 13, and June 20.For more information, please contact bahsqsa@gmail.com or Aimee Gagnon atagagnon@minlib.net. Hope to see some of you there!

The Lavender Scare
Joel Engardio

The students at San Francisco’s Lowell High School weren’t entirely bored with my guest lecture on the history of media and political campaigns. They laughed at the vintage TV ads, especially the “I Like Ike” cartoon from 1952. But they had no idea who President Dwight Eisenhower was. Hormones and a warm, spring day can explain the lack of interest in dead presidents. Two boys in the front row held hands the entire time I spoke. I wanted to stop the lecture and tell the affectionate boys they should thank Eisenhower if they’re going to the prom together. The Glee-era high school experience they enjoy today is connected to Eisenhower’s purge of gay people from the U.S. government 60 years ago. It was May 27, 1953 when Executive Order 10450 went into effect, banning anyone engaged in “sexual perversion” from federal employment. Frank Kameny was fired from his job as a government astronomer. Thousands of gay and lesbian civil servants quietly accepted the shame of losing their career. Som

Beyonce “Standing On The Sun”
Horatio/Lanier

I know I am kind of  late with this one but I was told by an avid H/L reader that I hadn’t posted this video or said anything about it. I did mention on H/L that Beyonce teamed up with H& M and now she has created a commercial/video for her song “Standing On The Sun” which is featured on her new upcoming album Mrs. Carter. The video gives you a kind of “Baby Boy” feel but she looks great in the video and we get to see her with black hair that she doesn’t wear to often but check if out if you haven’t already and tell me what you guys think.

Nigger, please give advice?
Acumagnet's Blog

Nigger please give advice < Acumagnet > 05/20/2013 20:15 -19+20  Ok, how racist does it sound when you say nigger at the beginning of the sentence? To me, it doesn’t sound as bad as ending the sentence with nigger.  For example look at the placing of the word nigger in this sentence:Nigger, who was on the phone? Now, compare it to its placing in this sentence:Who was on the phone, nigger?  Which sounds worse? When someone is very angry at another person they usually leave the name calling at the end of their sentence. It’s an emotion of hatred they want to convey strongly to communicate their own frustration. In a lot of ways, the actual derogatory word isn’t as important, since they all express a deep anger. Here is an example of showing anger: “I don’t like how you leave your clothes laying around, stupid slob.”  That is hurtful expression of feelings that get emphasized with the name calling. The feeling about not liking clothes laying has a

Stupid Things Straight People Say
L-Sophisticated

First Edition So I decided I needed to share this story will you… As I know you will truly appreciate it. I was out to lunch with some of my colleagues, most of which I know on some personal level, but there were also a couple of people there that I had never met before.  We were having fun just chatting and gossiping, not a tantalizing conversation, but still interesting enough to keep my attention. Then a couple of women passed by our table holding hands. This did not go unnoticed by one of the new-comers at the table. Now before I continue with the story, it is important to know that I am “out” about my relationships with women so all of my colleagues know, however, I am not particularly masculine, which of course is the stereotype for lesbians, so needless to say everyone assumes that I am straight! So as the ladies pass by one of the new-comers said, “What a waste.” Now of course I knew exactly to what he was referring but I pretended I didn’t so he would keep talking.  I am the t

CELEBRATE your SEXUALITY
Lesbianne Musings

  Photo from  Spiritual Networks page on FB via Krystyna – thank you DON’T STAY WHERE YOU ARE TOLERATED, GO WHERE YOU ARE CELEBRATED Spiritual Networks Page on FB via Krystyna  - thank you