The disgrace of papal blessing for Ugandan homophobia
From: the guardian The Catholic Church is foundering, and it’ll take a lot more than 140 characters and a rightwing “news” hack to put it on a modern track. The pope is a… Read More
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“None of these princesses get to marry another girl”
Earlier this month I posted about the project my 11-year-old pupils have asked to do in their PPE (Politics, Philosophy and Economics) lessons. They want to investigate why men and women are different,… Read More
Two thirds of gay students feel excluded from team sports at university
Homophobia in school can put gay students off sport for life, according to research by the National Union of Students (NUS). By the time they get to college or university 34.6% of lesbian, gay, bisexual… Read More
California Outlaws Therapy To “Cure” Homosexuality In Kids
California is now the first state to outlaw “conversion therapy” — treatments intended to “cure” homosexuality — when practiced on minors. (You can read the bill here). The future of the bill is up in the… Read More
The New Gay Marriage Map (US)
Gay rights advocates won five major victories across the United States yesterday. Wisconsin elected America’s first openly gay Senator, Democrat Tammy Baldwin. Maryland voted to affirm a same-sex marriage act the state legislature approved earlier… Read More
I Was a Secretly Gay Jehovah’s Witness: How I Tried to Pray the Gay Away
The following is an excerpt from Cowboys, Armageddon, and The Truth: How a Gay Child Was Saved from Religion published by Lethe Press. I learned what it meant to be a homo from a fellow sixth grader. Michael… Read More
Same-Sex Marriage Support Up Among Basically Everyone
Republicans have been trying to use same-sex marriage as a wedge issue to secure more votes from Latino Americans — a group that the GOP has actively marginalized because of the GOP’s general… Read More
Gay and lesbian parents are “perfectly average” (i.e. just like everyone else)
A report out in the October issue of the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry finds that “high-risk” children adopted from foster care do just as well when matched with gay, lesbian or straight parents.… Read More
I wish my moderate republican friends…
[Source: Facebook.com via grainnemcmahon on Pinterest] The man has a point.
Nick Griffin’s tweets and the limits of free speech
[...] Regardless of whether people visit this house or not, this controversy will unfold in a particularly frustrating manner. Griffin has already begun to complain that he is a free speech martyr, the… Read More
NoHomophobes.com – tracking homophobic language on twitter
NoHomophobes.com Look at how quickly those trackers rise. And, beautifully, the tweeters are being named and shamed. Related: NoHomophobes Site Exposes Homophobic Tweets in Real-Time (mashable.com) Counting casual homophobia real-time #NoHomophobes (osocio.org) Twitter… Read More
How My Church Tried to Make Me Hate Gay People
[Trigger warning] The following post contains frank descriptions of the hate speech against LGBTQ people that my church used to inculcate fear and contempt in its youth. It’s probably not something you want… Read More
Homophobia is still rife in UK prisons
Despite moves in recent years towards eradicating discrimination against prisoners on the grounds of race or religion, the challenges facing gay men in prison have still not been addressed sufficiently by the prison… Read More
Athy (Ireland) councillor, supporting gay marriage, is called on to resign from school board by Catholic group
Dear Old Ireland. Athy town councillor Aoife Breslin (pictured) has been called on to resign her position on the board of management of a local school by an Athy resident who represents a right… Read More
China – Pressure to conform for 17 and 30 million gays “is crippling”
Coming out as gay is tough almost the world over. In China, it can constitute a major tragedy. When one man in northeast China told his parents he was gay, his father pulled… Read More
This is how to end gay cures
An email this morning from Allout.org: They’re coming to the UK. This Sunday, an extremist religious group is holding workshops for gays and lesbians on how to hate themselves for who they are. These… Read More
Why is Michael Gove so close to Christian extremists from LoveWise?
More evidence (as if we needed it) that this government is vehemently anti-choice. A government backed Christian charity called Lovewise teaches school children that most rape victims ‘regret abortion’. According to Dina Rickman, the charity also teaches children that… Read More
Archbishop ‘links MP’s death to being gay’
Unbelievable. Philip Tartaglia, the current Bishop of Paisley who has voiced his opposition to legalise same-sex marriage, appeared to suggest David Cairns’s death was connected to his sexual orientation. While he did not name… Read More
The “politics” behind the Boy Scouts of America’s anti-gay ban
They’re either lying about their motivations or completely clueless about human sexuality. There is no association between homosexuality and perpetrating child abuse and, though these people would probably rather gouge their own eyes… Read More
Gay men also forced into marriage
The original title (“Why don’t we hear about forced marriages and gay men?”) and the comments on the piece smack of “poor menz” but it’s an important point nonetheless. Gay men are forced… Read More