December 10, 2009

Protest Buju Banton’s Grammy Nomination

or, Start a Petition

Change.org

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September 10, 2009

Dear Hawaiians: Between the Mormons and “Beat Haole Day,” You Can Have Hawaii Back

Honest, Hawaiians, I used to be in favor of returning Hawaii to independent sovereignty because it was the right thing to do. These days, the more I hear about Hawaii, the more I want to give it back… for reasons that aren’t quite so positive. So, have at it — this is one less haole you’ll have to worry about. The Mormons, however, are still your problem.

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August 12, 2009

Scumbag Calls for O.D. Death of Chris Dodd, Glenn Beck Acts Out Poisoning of Nancy Pelosi, and More from the Insane Right-Wing Posse

We have no words. No words. Just watch:

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August 5, 2009

Overheard

“We aren’t supposed to talk about religion, but it was a Mormon that tied Matthew Shepard to a fence, a Baptist who beat him to death, and a Catholic (Rep. Foxx) who called it a hoax.”

— “Chance,” responding to
Jay’s claim of culpability
in the Tel Aviv murders

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August 3, 2009

Shooting at Tel Aviv Gay & Lesbian Youth Center Leaves Two Dead, 10-15 Wounded

According to witnesses, the unidentified gunman, wearing a mask, stormed into the club and began shooting in all directions. Then he fled. Hundreds of Israeli police have launched a manhunt for the assailant.

Voice of America
August 2, 2009

More after the video.

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August 1, 2009

August Provost Murder Suspect Jonathan Campos Commits Suicide

Buffy touched on the death of August Provost earlier this month; now, reports OnTop:

Suspect In Gay Sailor’s Death Commits Suicide

The seaman being held in the brig of the Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton charged with the death of a gay sailor was found unresponsive Friday, the ‘Houston Chronicle’ reported.

Petty Officer Jonathan Campos was charged last month with the death of August Provost, a gay sailor found dead on June 30 in a Camp Pendleton guard shack near San Diego. …

Campos was taken into custody on July 1 but military prosecutors officially charged with him the death of Provost last week.

Provost of Houston, Texas was found dead about 3:30AM on June 30…

More at the link.

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Elephant Man, Still Inciting Torture & Murder of Gays, Bounced from Toronto Show

Good:

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July 31, 2009

Sometimes, My Heart Hurts So Much…

Comment to “Life, Interrupted” tonight:

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

When will it ever end? Will it ever end?

Rhetorical questions, I’m afraid.

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James Von Brunn Indicted for Murder of Officer Stephen Johns, Charged With Hate Crime for Holocaust Museum Attack

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.

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U.S. Troops Executing Gay Iraqis?

U.S. military accused of atrocities
against Iraqi gays

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. …

More shocking details at the link.

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July 30, 2009

George Tiller Murder: Preliminary Hearing Set for Scott Roeder

Per NPWF:

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.

Related: George Tiller

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July 28, 2009

PFAW: Right-Wing Attack Machine Goes Into Overdrive

Via email from People For the American Way:

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July 27, 2009

Two Idaho Men Convicted for Federal Hate Crime Assault

WASHINGTON — Michael Bullard and Richard Armstrong were convicted [July 22, 2009] by a jury in Boise, Idaho, on federal hate crime and conspiracy charges in connection with the racially-motivated assault of an African American man outside of a Wal-Mart store in July 2008, announced Loretta King, Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Civil Rights Division; Thomas E. Moss, U.S. Attorney for the District of Idaho; Timothy Fuhrman, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Salt Lake City Field Office; and Bill Augsburger, Chief of the Nampa Police Department.

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July 26, 2009

Barbara Boxer on the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act

California may be in a shambles, but living here still has a few rewards — Barbara Boxer among them.

By the way, when you get to Sen. Boxer’s floor remarks, notice the letter from Lee Baca — do you remember his name? We certainly do.

Via email this morning:

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July 24, 2009

Pro ‘Phobe Ron Prentice on Pedophilia; Also, Thanks Mormons for Prop 8

Chino’s got the video and pertinent quotes of professional gay-basher Ron Prentice railing against hate-crimes laws (which, fortunately, we already have here in California, Ronnie):

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July 22, 2009

So, What’s the Deal with the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act?

As my grandmother would say, while lifting her eyes and her outstretched hands heavenward: “Che pastiche!”

In short: To get the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act passed, it was attached to next year’s defense funding authorization bill — a must-pass bill, but one President Obama warned he would veto if it “included a provision to fund seven twin-engine F-22 Raptors at a cost of $1.75 billion” (WaPo). The F-22 funding was struck, increasing the likelihood the bill would pass, and Obama would sign it — thus increasing the likelihood the attached Matt Shepard Act would be signed into law along with it.

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July 17, 2009

Lateisha Green’s Killer Convicted of Hate Crime

Yes, it is an unusual decision — and a welcome one: This is only the second time in the U.S. anyone has been convicted of a hate crime in the killing of a transgender person.

That transgender murders are almost never recognized as hate crimes (when they almost always are) is shameful — and only further proof of the need for a fully-inclusive ENDA.

Still, we’re glad this jury, at least, recognized the murder of Lateisha Green for exactly what it was: a hate crime — even though Dwight DeLee was only convicted of mere manslaughter.

Explains Feministe: “it seems that the jury concluded beyond a reasonable doubt that DeLee acted with intent to cause serious bodily harm as a result of his perception regarding Teish’s sexual orientation, but not that he had intent to kill as a result of the perception.”

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July 12, 2009

Stench from Free Republic Wafts All the Way from Fresno to Vancouver

I also received an e-mail with a photo of a very mature fetus’ arm protruding through — what? — a hole in a pregnant belly? A bloody image meant to shock. Turns out the same photo is posted on the FreeRepublic thread about my column, but the contributor, calling himself Revelation 911, confides that it’s actually a picture of in-utero surgery and that the gestation went full-term. …

There are a couple of ugly remarks regarding anatomy and even rape, and a bunch of digs at San Francisco. A few people suggested it was time for another earthquake here. It was supposed to be funny, but it amounts to a wish for my death. There’s a lot of that among pro-lifers, I guess. Someone suggested advocates for choice should commit suicide!

Debby Morse
FreeRepugnant.com
San Francisco Examiner, February 15, 2002

I guess I’m surprised that anybody else is surprised by the current wave of racism overflowing the cesspit known as Free Republic. Oh, yes indeedy, the latest freeper attacks on Malia Obama are utterly vile, and make me want to throw up all over Jim Robinson’s entire operation (but that’s the problem with virtual communities: there’s nothing to throw up on, save for the Web server dutifully regurgitating the spew from the diseased minds of the perpetually persecuted).

Nevertheless, I don’t understand why anyone should be surprised by this latest display of racist hate. Maybe it’s because they’re attacking a little girl? No… They attacked Chelsea Clinton plenty. Maybe because they’re using some of the worst sort of racist talk? No… They do that all the time. Maybe because they’re slamming a wartime President? No, no, no — that’s what they attacked liberals for doing during the Bush Reign. And they’ve made (and still occasionally make) death threats against Bill Clinton. (I remember, quite clearly, seeing one freeper express the wish to nail Bill’s body to the front door of the White House; I’ll see if I can find a copy of the message I sent to the FBI quoting it.)

Whatever the reason folks are so up in arms over Freakerville this time, it’s good to see JimRob’s Institute for the Criminally Logic-Challenged being exposed, again, in the MSM…

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July 6, 2009

Sean Kennedy’s Mom Learns Son’s Killer Released… By Robocall; Meanwhile, Jim DeMint Continues to Defend Gay-Bashers

Despite the best efforts of Sean Kennedy’s mother, Elke, and many others to stop the early release of Sean’s murderer, Stephen Andrew Moller (”who called him ‘faggot’ while punching him so hard that he broke every bone in Sean’s face. Sean fell to the pavement; the impact caused his brain to separate from his brain stem”) was allowed to plea-bargain down to involuntary manslaughter, earning him a five-year sentence — suspended.

Now Moller has been released. And Elke Kennedy learned about it through an automated phone message.

Two articles after the jump.

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Gay in Iraq: “They Killed Him and They Chopped Him Like a Lamb”

“Investigating reports of the murder and torture of gay men in Iraq, Ashley Byrne found that some gays found Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship preferable to the threat of violence they face today. …”

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July 5, 2009

Judy Shepard Rejects Perez Hilton’s Blood Money

We’ve been aware that Perez Hilton got his lip bloodied after calling Black Eyed Peas singer will.i.am a “faggot,” then launched an online catfight, and threatened a lawsuit… If you want all the gory details, the L.A. Times offers a mercifully short recap.

We haven’t blogged about the incident until now because 1) we waste as few pixels as possible on that particular attention-whoring drama queen (Hilton, not will.i.am), unless it involves something or someone that really, really interests us (like Carrie Prejean or Michael Jackson), and 2) I personally found it next to impossible to write word one about the incident without saying something extremely out of line regarding karma and Schadenfreude.

But when this came up on our radar … Well, it interests us, a lot — and reminds me, especially, how to dissociate from the bottom-dwelling scumsuckers among us with true class. Not that I’ll necessarily remember the lesson the next time somebody ticks me off, but still…

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July 1, 2009

Somebody in My Town Doesn’t Just Hate The Gays — They Hate the Jews, Too

Actually, the perps are probably not from this sleepy little town of ours — it sounds like a gang from San Jose came up and did the dirty work — plus, we’ve also got a serious and growing gang problem right across El Camino in Mountain View, which at one time was as sleepy and safe as Los Altos. Now… Well, since the first drive-by murder (there’s been at least one more since) within a one-block area of Mountain View over the past year or so, I don’t go to my favorite 7-11 after dark anymore. Sad.

But what’s sadder — and IMO far more disturbing than rival gangs killing one another — is the sight of swastikas etched into storefront windows:

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Watch the Gang of Bigots Harass the Gay Man After Minneapolis Pride

H/T to my wife

“My friend and I were leaving the Gay Pride Festival in Minneapolis, MN (6/27/09) and came across a group of kids who asked my friend if he was gay. When he answered ‘yes’, they proceeded to harass him and me with verbal threats and even throwing rocks at my friend at one point. …”

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June 29, 2009

Arsonist Sets Fire to San Francisco’s Hillside Pink Triangle

Nothing surprises me anymore. Nothing.

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June 27, 2009

Where’s Our Harvey? Or Do We Need One?

Jeremy W. Peters makes some good points re: Why the Gay Rights Movement Has No National Leader:

Gay people have no national standard-bearer, no go-to sound-byte machine for the media. …

One explanation is that gay and lesbian activists learned early on that they could get along just fine without one.

Well, yes, that’s been true, but only as long as “gay activists pursued a different approach, focusing on issues pertinent to their local communities”:

City councils and state legislatures are where domestic partnership laws and legislation extending anti-discrimination protections to gays and lesbians originated.

That’s the way it’s always been — until now. Now, we’re on the national stage.

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