I’m a gay 24 year old young man and i keep on hearing people from my home town call me faggot, puff, queer and in the pub a straight man rescued me after i got kicked in the head and had a cut in my head which i needed 8 stiches. The people who done this to me are now in prision for Homophedial
Nothing like rubbing sandpaper over a bleeding, raw nerve — and when the author drags Bristol Palin into it, and sinks to the level of making a coldhearted reference to Elizabeth Edwards’ breast cancer, you know you’ve won. Or at least, I know I have.
Enjoy the sound and the fury in the comments section (at what’s become a cesspool of lying, right-wing extremists):
A county attorney in Kansas violated a girl’s privacy by showing around photos of her sexual assault, the teen and her mother claim in Topeka Federal Court. The Anderson County Attorney refused to prosecute the assailant, but showed other parents photos of the sexual assault, and was suspended from practicing law for 6 months for it, the family says.
The parents say their 17-year-old daughter attended an outdoor party in May 2007, where four men or boys forced her to take off her clothes. One of them had sex with her in the bed of a truck, despite her repeated pleas for him to stop, while others took photos of it, according to the complaint. …
The charismatic widow of assassinated opposition leader drove dictator from office, but the head of the ‘people power’ movement left a mixed legacy of political and natural disasters. …
WASHINGTON — A federal grand jury in the District of Columbia has returned a seven-count indictment charging James Wenneker Von Brunn, 89, of Annapolis, Md., with the murder of Special Police Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns and related hate crime and gun charges for his alleged attack on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on June 10, 2009.
Refugee tells stunned audience that soldiers detained, executed gay civilians
A fundraising event to benefit an LGBT community center in Lebanon last week took a surprise turn when stunned audience members were shown graphic photographs of beheaded corpses and images purportedly depicting U.S. soldiers preparing to execute gay Iraqis.
Two gay Iraqi refugees, who declined to use their real names, delivered a presentation at the Human Rights Campaign headquarters July 24 in which they detailed alleged abuses of fellow gay Iraqis while calling on their audience to donate funds to Helem, a Lebanon-based center that works to address the plight of LGBT people in the Middle East.
One of the Iraqis, who goes by the name “Hussam,” showed the audience of about 80 people gruesome images, including shots allegedly of a beheaded man who was gay and another of the victim’s twin brother grieving over the severed head.
While asserting that anti-gay violence in Iraq is often committed by Iraqis, Hussam also said U.S. service members were involved in anti-gay hostility. …
Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha has announced his party will propose a law legalising same-sex marriage.
It is an unexpected move in a country that is still one of the most conservative in Europe and where homosexuality was illegal until 1995.
Mr Berisha acknowledged the proposed law might provoke debate but maintained that discrimination in modern Albania had to end. …
In a predominantly Muslim country with almost no open homosexual community, the announcement by a conservative PM has taken people by surprise.
Goran Miletic, a Belgrade-based human rights lawyer, working partly on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) issues said it was an important step forward for the country. …
If you think “It can’t be that much,” you’ll probably be quite shocked to learn otherwise. My piddly-ass little town of +/-26,000 is losing over a million bucks. How about yours?
Yeah, there was one — a Marriage Equality “Leadership” “Summit.” (Sorry, can’t help but air-quote those last two words). Karen Ocamb wrote the best summary of it out there, but I’m not linking to it unless she posts it somewhere other than the Web site it’s on. I’ll leave that thought to lie there on its own.
Unite the Fight also summarized the meeting. That post, I’ll link to — “CA Marriage Equality Leadership Summit an Utter Failure - Shame On All of Us” — even though I disagree with almost all of it. I have no “shame,” and finally believe there’s nothing more I personally could have done to help avert the devastating passage of Proposition 8 last year. Here’s my response, currently at the bottom of a pile of other comments:
Deliberately inflammatory headline designed to make wrong-wingers insane. But that’s what it boils down to — no matter how Cincinnati.com tries to spin the reality of with the cutesy “dad” in its headline:
U.S. Senator Chris Dodd has been diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer, his office said.
The Democratic 65-year-old lawmaker will go through surgery when the Senate is on recess in August, and he expects to be back at work after a “brief recuperation” at home.
“It’s something that’s very common among men my age,” Dodd told the Hartford Courant. “In fact, one in six men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer at some point during their life.” …
Common, it is. And while prostate cancer is nothing to be taken lightly, we’ve known a number of men who’ve been through it and come out with a clean bill of health.
Glad to hear they caught it early. But send good vibes anyway.
A hysterical Anti-Gay, whose hateful blog I won’t link to, hysteriamongering over the disclosure of signatories to the petition for Washington state’s anti-marriage equality Referendum 71, asks the stupid question:
“Can you imagine the outrage from Gay Activists should backers of California’s Proposition 8 demand the names and addresses of all who sign the petition against Proposition 8 to be made available for public scrutiny on a searchable internet site?”
OK by me, chucklehead. Unlike the cowardly bunch of bigots screaming to keep their names hidden, I have no need to hide my face under a white hood.
A preliminary hearing for Scott Roeder, the man charged with the May 31 murder of Kansas abortion provider George Tiller, is set for Tuesday, the AP/Houston Chronicle reports. …
In related news, the New York Times on Sunday examined the life and career of Tiller…
According to the Times, advocates on both sides of the abortion-rights debate “have been measuring the larger ramifications” of Tiller’s murder. Abortion-rights opponents are “bracing for a drop in support, especially from those in the murky middle ground of the debate.” …
Meanwhile, the Kansas City Star on Sunday included an interview with Roeder, during which he said he was “elated” that Tiller was dead and that he considers killing abortion providers to be justifiable homicide. …
More at the link, including links to cited articles.
Nicaragua’s total ban on abortions is endangering the lives of girls and women, denying them life-saving treatment, preventing health professionals from practicing effective medicine and contributing to an increase in maternal deaths across the country, concludes Amnesty International in a new report [issued] on Monday.
According to official figures, 33 girls and women have died in pregnancy this year as compared to 20 in the same period last year. Amnesty International believes these figures are only a minimum as the government itself has acknowledged that the number of maternal deaths is under-recorded.
The report “The total abortion ban in Nicaragua: Women’s lives and health endangered, medical professionals criminalized” is the first Amnesty International study examining the human rights implications of the denial of abortion when the life or health of a woman or girl is at risk, including when she is a victim of rape or incest.
Nicaragua’s revised Penal Code stipulates prison sentences for girls and women who seek an abortion and for health professionals who provide health services associated with abortion. Only 3% of the world’s countries have such absolute bans in place. …
More sobering information — and a call to action — at the link.
Worth the look: The Public Square has a fine rundown of California Supreme Court Justice Carlos Moreno’s appearance before a “packed audience at the California Endowment” last night, with a video link if you’d rather watch (rather than read about) Justice Moreno’s frank opinions on Proposition 8, Sonia Sotomayor, the death penalty, social services, and more.
Is this Arnold’s Final Solution? Kill all of us who aren’t as rich as he and Maria?
While gutting $656 million in funding (up from an earlier $489 million) — on top of previous cuts by the state legislature for programs on which Californians’ very lives depend — Arnold Schwarzenegger simultaneously approved the construction of a new Death Row housing unit at San Quentin. Cost: $356 million, with a predicted $39 million overrun.
Meet Santa Barbara City Councilmember Dale Francisco — the “lone Republican on the city council” — who helped murder civil rights in California with his $200.00 donation to Proposition 8 (in contrast to the vast majority of his constituents who voted against H8).
What do you call someone who swears he voted against Proposition 8, yet is doing his darnedest to kill the proposed Equal Benefits Ordinance in his own city of Long Beach, California?
If he’s telling the truth, “Janus” comes to mind; if he’s not, then “liar” comes to mind:
Because it’s obvious Alcee’s own liver has been replaced by that of a chicken.
“Due to pressure from some of [his] Congressional colleagues and from the White House,” Alcee Hastings withdraws “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” amendment to defense appropriations bill…?!
“Pressure”? “Pressure”? What’d they do, leave a horse’s head in his bed?
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