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- "Politically Incorrect" and gay marriage
- Aw, how sweet. Turning an event that should be really special into a media event designed to be the kickoff of a Very Special Episode of "Politically Incorrect." I'm sure that this will make Bill Maher jerk off extra hard right before this show. (Supposedly, that's what he does before every show, according to E! A sort of good luck charm/tension relief, I gather. "Rub the genie ... wait, that's not a genie...")
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- Comicazee
- "Alternate online comics". Includes Dykes to Watch Out For, Curbside, Northern Mystique and other gay and lesbian comics.
- And their gift store is selling a way cool Kali lunchbox. If I brought my lunch--if I ate lunch--I might actually buy the thing.
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- Pele says ... what, exactly?
- It's a very strange article, actually. I mean, in any other circumstance, it would probably be called sexual abuse of a minor. The article even says that the coach of Pele's team "preyed on the vulnerable members of its youth team". And yet somehow this gets transmuted into this great thing for all of gaydom.
- I swear, sometimes I just don't understand people at all.
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- QueerCinema
- Reviews and previews of gay-oriented/content films and videos. An ... interesting rating system. (Apparently I have to hand in my Gay Guys Union Card. Again.)
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- Safe Schools of Washington (state): Legislative Report
- "Please read the following announcement before proceeding:
- This website contains descriptions of some assaults that have occurred in schools. The stories have been related here without censorship or softening of the sometimes brutal experiences and offensive language as they were reported.
- This website also contains links to outside internet sites which may be helpful to teachers, parents, counselors and students. The Safe Schools Coalition cannot endorse specific websites, as they change frequently. And some of the links from this site may contain further links to sites intended for adults only. The Safe Schools Coalition cannot recommend all the links of links."
- You have to have a very strong stomach to get through the descriptions of the incidents. And so many of the kids were betrayed by the adults in their lives at one point or another ...
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- AIDS in the Priesthood
- A really intense series about how the Catholic priesthood is coping with AIDS.
- Overall, the answer to that question would be: Not at all well. Priests die of AIDS at four times the rate of the general population.
- It does highlight, if nothing else, the peculiar paradoxes of the priesthood. You ban homosexuality, make it a major sin, yet you create a society in which, for the most part, men find the company only of other men (and women only of women, for that matter). Priests are supposed to be celibate, yet they die of a sexually transmitted disease. (I do wonder what the rate of infection for VD would be; if the rate of AIDS infection is four times that the general population, surely the rate of VD should be equivalent.) The Church now tests for AIDS prior to ordination, but priests are supposed to have been celibate and therefore should not have been exposed through sex during their seminary period.
- Of course, the other issue is that the Church tries desperately to ignore sexual activity by its priests generally. I spoke with my mother about this issue not long ago, and she told me about several priests she knew who were married and practicing, not even trying terribly hard to hide it. For that and other reasons, the church has been hemorrhaging priests, at least in this country, throughout the latter half of the century. The tension between the Church and the 20th century may well destroy its priesthood in the 21st.
- It's also clear that the Star is expecting "difficulties", to say the least, over its decision to run this series. I'm not sure that the editorial is meant to defuse any of that; merely to explain why the series is worthwhile on its own merits. But ... shouldn't that be obvious?
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- Blacklist: Black History Month/Proud History
- An interesting take on Black History Month from Blackstripe.com, first done on Frontiers in 1998.
- I have to say, though, some of those profiles reach real hard. They infer a lot from what wasn't done or said, rather than what was. Nonetheless, interesting to read.
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- Challenging Homophobia: a workshop for educators
- "Challenging Homophobia is a tool for middle and high school teachers, staff, and providers drawing on their own experience and strengthening their skills for intervening against homophobia -- in the classroom, on the street, in the media -- whenever and wherever they encounter it."
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- El Modena students win one ... almost
- The El Modena students who want to create a gay-straight alliance club win an order from the judge, stating that they can meet until the issue is resolved.
- The school board, of course, appealed immediately.
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- Four gay men murdered in Harlem (NY Observer)
- "Residents of Central Harlem have been shaken in recent months by a series of murders of gay men. Anxiety rose in late October after no suspect was named in the slaying of Nathaniel Tyrone Hayden, a 28-year-old man who was stabbed in his own apartment. But with the Jan. 11 stabbing of another gay man, the fourth since 1997, local politicians and gay advocacy groups are growing more and more frustrated with a police investigation that they view as fruitless and flat-footed.
- "City Council member Bill Perkins, whose district encompasses at least three of the murder sites, is especially piqued by the small-time publicity the murders have generated beyond the community level–namely, one story in the Daily News."
- Well, he may be piqued, but he can't possibly be surprised. I mean, it's Harlem, all but one were black, and all but one were gay. Not the sort of victim profile that gets onto the news. Now if they'd been, oh, say, blond and desperately wealthy, we'd be watching the second or third TV movie about it this weekend.
- Cynical? Me?
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- Gay Day at the Millennium Dome
- No, really, that's what it is. They're having an "unofficial" Gay Day at the Dome in London.
- Schools are protesting.
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- Gay Teen Resources 2000
- "GayTeenResources Online
is concerned with the online promotion and support of Sexual Minority
Youth. This support consists in part of making available to youth
the resources needed to develop their own independent projects,
and in part in promoting existing resources. In addition, GayTeenResourcesô
Online will develop its own projects geared towards the
active support of queer youth."
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- Gay Teens fight back (The Nation)
- "Jared Nayfack was 11 years old and living in the heart of conservative Orange County, California, when he told his best friend from school that he was gay--"and my friend then came out to me," says Jared. When he turned 15, Jared celebrated his birthday by coming out to his parents and closest friends. By then, he was attending a Catholic high school, and on a school-sponsored overnight field trip, Jared and his schoolmates decided to spend their free evening at the movies seeing The Rocky Horror Picture Show. "Some of us had decided to get all costumed up to see it, and when the teacher who was with us saw us she threw a fit: She forced me to get up in front of the other twenty-one students--many of whom I didn't know--and tell them I was gay. Most of the kids supported me, but later that evening, one of them--a lot bigger than I was; he had a black belt in martial arts--came into my hotel room and beat me up. I was a bloody mess, and he could have killed me if another student hadn't heard my screams and stopped him." Instead of punishing Jared's assailant, the school's dean suspended Jared and put him on "academic and behavioral probation." "The dean told me that even though I was forced to tell the others that I was gay, I was at fault because I'd 'threatened the masculinity' of the kid who'd beat me up," Jared recalls."
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- Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN)
- "GLSEN works to end [the] cycle of bigotry in K-12 schools. Through its growing network of 85 chapters in 35 states, GLSEN strives to assure that each member of every school community is valued and respected, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. Founded as a volunteer group in Boston in 1990, GLSEN led the fight that made Massachusetts one of the first states to ban anti-gay discrimination in its public schools in 1993. GLSEN went national in 1994 and has since become one of the nation’s leading voices for equality and safety in the educational system."
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- Immigration woes
- "I don't qualify [for immigration] because I'm Latin American. I don't qualify because I don't have a lot of money. I don't qualify because I'm not heterosexual."
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- It's Ok to be gay!
- Well, I'm so thrilled that it's settled! (from wetlog)
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- John Goodman to play gay man on new sitcom
- YES! Not that John Goodman is playing a gay character, as such but ... well, John Goodman is playing a gay character who drinks, likes football and basically plays your ordinary working stiff.
- Like, say, probably 70-80% of your gay folk out there.
- Yes, I must admit. Not all of us are cursed with the burden of fabulosity. We do not all have an innate sense of style. Many of us have not worn a dress in our lifetime.
- Some of us--like, say, me--even like .... football. (In fact, some of us have even played football! the horror, the horror ...)
- You know, the only other thing I'd ask is that they actually let him date. Or even have a relationship. I don't even ask that they let him kiss and get all physical; I just want them to acknowledge the possibility.
- Well, we'll see what happens.
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- LAPD accused of targeting gay men
- Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund is accusing the Los Angeles Police Department of illegally targeting gay men for lewd conduct arrests. They've repeatedly requested documentation under California's open public documents laws, but the LAPD has either stated that they didn't have the personnel to do the review, or that the documents were exempt.
- Gee, the LAPD doesn't want to give out information about systematic misconduct. What a surprise.
- In any event, Lambda has now taken the LAPD to court, where they get to defend their decision.
- OK, anyone want to bet that when/if Lambda gets the records, they'll have been redacted of all useful information, liberal applications of whiteout and black marker blocking out everything they're looking for? Anyone?
- Didn't think so.
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- Lesbian, gay and binational
- It seems that a representative from New York has sponsored an act to include "permanent partners" as a category for immigration, so that both homosexual and heterosexual nonmarried couples could immigrate together.
- OK, anybody think this has a snowball's chance of passing? anyone? Just wave your mouse...
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