About this… Rocky Horror star Susan Sarandon thinks the controversy over Glee’s usage of the word “tranny” is overblown…. GLAAD fires back: “The word ‘tra—y’ has become an easy punch line in popular culture and many still don’t realize that using the term is hurtful, dehumanizing and associated with violence.” Have you seen this? There […]
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Mother Love
A mom gets her five-year-old son the costume he wants for Halloween—he wants to be Daphne from Scooby Doo—and then gets his back: And then the big day arrives. We get dressed up. We drop Squirt at his preschool and head over to his. Boo doesn’t want to get out of the car. He’s afraid […]
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Sometimes It Gets $50,000,000 Better
I wonder how the “God Hates Fags” crowd is going to spin this. A gay couple from Vancouver, who will mark their 30th anniversary next month, now have 50 million more reasons to celebrate after winning the latest Lotto Max draw. Kurt Blanchette-Ebert, 63, and his partner Claude, 52, learned Saturday morning that they had […]
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The Daily Show Lets Andrew Shirvell Hang Himself
And boy is he well hung! (But seriously, watch this shit, it’s astounding. Shirvell’s almost too crazy to be spoofed, but Jason Jones does his best.) Thank you, Towleroad.
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NOM Supporter: We Used to Need Gay People… But We Don’t Need Gay People Anymore
Straight men needed us for the first 2.3-million-or-so years that the genus, er, homo has been around. But now that we’re not living in caves, well… “Homosexuality is bad thing. It used to be useful when we were cavemen and we needed people to guard the caves full of women and children. If I’m a […]
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Arkansas School Board Bigot Clint McCance Resigns
But first he takes his turn in the national spotlight… Good job, Anderson.
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What Beaverton is “Learning” from Screwing Up With Gay Student Teacher
This week’s news lead details how Lewis and Clark grad student Seth Stambaugh got his job back in the Beaverton school district: a winning combination of legal action, staff support, and parent pressure helped the young teacher get back his position after the district booted him for mentioning gay marriage. Lawyer Lake Perriguey took this […]
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Gleegasm: Doin’ the Time Warp Again
Happy Halloween, gleeks! Last night was the long-awaited Rocky Horror episode of Glee and it was fun fun fun. Come up to the lab and see what’s on the slab (the lab is after the jump). Last week Joneser called me out in the comments for hating a little too hard on Glee, so I’ve […]
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“They Sinned And Killed Thereselves”
Some illiterate asshole in Arkansas posted this to Facebook: In a followup post the same illiterate asshole—Clint McCance—wrote that, “being a fag doesn’t give you the right to ruin the rest of our lives,” and if “you get easily offended being called a fag then don’t tell anyone you are a fag.” He added that […]
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Tony Perkins, Vile Piece of Shit, Opens His Foul Mouth
Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council tells NPR how we can stop gay kids from killing themselves: “There’s no correlation between inacceptance of homosexuality and depression and suicide,” he says. Rather, Perkins says, there is another factor that leads kids to kill themselves. “These young people who identify as gay or lesbian, we know […]
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Christian Christian Pastor to Non-Hater Christians: Speak The Fuck Up, People
A Christian pastor tells his co-religionists pretty much the same shit I’ve been telling them for years—that their faith’s hateful reputation is largely their own fault, that they have to learn to ignore the shit about gay people in the bible just like they ignore the shit about women and slavery and lobster—in this op-ed […]