7 month ago
plasticbag : Delightful news: Homosexual Geneticists have discovered the cause of Christianity - Pretty funny as politically charged satires on the horrors of anti-gay rhetoric go. It's not quite as clever as I think it thinks it is. Some of the analogies are a bit forced and hurt their own message. Still, enjoyable.
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8 month ago
plasticbag : Kerry spotted a singular clip from Ellen DeGeneres' TV show on You Tube - I do get into some trouble for not having much of a sense of humour about gay jokes. This is why.
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18 month ago
plasticbag : A gay pub in Australia has won a court-case that would allow it to ban heterosexuals - "The tribunal's president said groups of straight women found homosexual men entertaining but that such attention was dehumanising." I have much experience of being treated like this by unpleasant and arrogant women looking for a pet.
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18 month ago
plasticbag : The Pansy Project finds places where homophobic violence or abuse has occurred and plants a pansy on the site... - I can't helping thinking that schools would be bursting with pansies, all over the place. There wouldn't be room enough to sit down.
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18 month ago
plasticbag : Stonewall reports on a new survey on the UK's attitudes to homosexuality... - Their concern - whether the shrill voices that argue against homosexuality are representative of the wider population. Their conclusions, pretty much totally no. Awesome. Sometimes the British really cheer me up.
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21 month ago
plasticbag : George Takei responds to Tim Hardaway's recent comments about being homophobic... - Now this is where we should be. This is gay satire unashamed to take the piss out of idiots. This isn't apologetic rhetoric, it's full-blown ridicule assuming the audience is on your side already. Awesome.
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22 month ago
plasticbag : We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to remove Ruth Kelly from the position of Minister for Women and Equality. - The argument here is about Ruth Kelly's positions on gay adoption, which is widely considered to be as a result of her Catholicism and is considered by some to be incompatible with a role to promote equality within her ministry...
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22 month ago
plasticbag : The Archbishop of Westminster has written a letter to Tony Blair saying that Catholic adoption agencies should not be able to refuse gay couples... - My favourite bit is the place where the agencies will currently refer gay couples to places where they could adopt, but consider that doing it themselves would not be in the best interests of the children. Hardly a matter of principle then...
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22 month ago
plasticbag : The BBC asks, "Should church be able to opt out of gay rights laws?" - An interesting and fairly-balanced set of comments from people. Interesting point, it is already against the law to refuse to look at candidates for adoption on the grounds that they're devoutly Catholic...
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22 month ago
plasticbag : Lord Mackay of Clashfern has protested against UK legislation that would make it illegal to refuse to give gay people equal treatment... - He states, "What they are saying is if you are offering services you must be prepared to allow people to practise actions that you believe are wrong." And of course that's exactly what it says. Because if it doesn't harm him it's none of his business...
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22 month ago
plasticbag : My friend Kerry gets sent scripts for a living and received one recently about a guy who has to live with a gay guy for three months to get an inheritance... - You really have to read the rest to really get it. My thoughts: increasingly somehow gay stereotyping has been disconnected from apparent anti-gay sentiment. We've gained freedom but lost our dignity. And it's something that I find infuriating.
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25 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : One never knows when a homosexual is about - One never knows when a homosexual is about: at least I can claim I wasn't alive when this stuff was made
plasticbag : Glumbert.com has a 1950s Anti-Homosexual Propoganda film from the United States - [converted to Unicode] ?There's so much I'd say about this if I had more time. The important thing to remember is that there is a sizeable population in the US who would like to start making films like this again. Never believe that the progression in gay
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27 month ago
plasticbag : Metacritic has the pretty much excoriating condensed versions of reviews for "Another Gay Movie" - Ah, my people. How proud I am. Anyway, it looks terrible, but I'll probably go and see it if only so I can write an outraged weblog post about how gay people are being turned into pets or self-ghettoising or something.
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plasticbag : Marvel reverses labeling policy for gay characters - This actually happened a week or so ago, so I apologise for clumsily referencing the labelling policy a couple of days ago without checking. Good news anyway.
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plasticbag : Marvel Comics will have no gay characters in its mainstream books - Only books labelled 'Max' or which indicate that they are for older people will contain any gay characters. I understand why they're doing it, but it's basically selling out one culture to bow to the Christian right
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plasticbag : The use of gay issues as a wedge in the south of the US is causing gay people to move away - No doubt the Bible belt are delighted. But they shouldn't be - there's some evidence that a region's prosperity correlates well with the presence of gay communities. We're like canaries down mines in the North of England...
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30 month ago
plasticbag : I have to say I'm impressed by Yahoo's Gay and Lesbian Pride portal - It's really quite classy of the organisation to do something like this - and dragging in so many cool bits of the company too. Surprisingly happy about this.
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34 month ago
plasticbag : Ian McKellen talks about the problems of being openly gay in Hollywood - "It is very, very, very difficult for an American actor who wants a film career to be open about his sexuality," the gay British actor said. "And even more difficult for a woman if she's lesbian. It's very distressing to me that that should be the case."
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34 month ago
plasticbag : Lucas Blog talks about cowardice at the Golden Globes - Despite the success of Brokeback Mountain and Transamerica, most of the established talent prefer to talk generically about the "difficult circumstances" of their characters rather than even mention that they could be gay.
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