Tag: Homophobia
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Black Friday: Ferguson or Modern Warfare?
Robert Cohen of St Louis Post Despatch posted this image of Ferguson last night, it looks like a dystopian computer game, the sort that will be flying off the shelves in parts of the western world in tomorrow’s ‘Black Friday’ – but not in places like this. Sadly it’s real, it’s not a cut-scene, and…
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Project Homophobia
Great and thought-provoking film I saw on the Gaily Grind, about homophobia and the military.
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It’s never OK to say that’s so gay
Nice to see this video from the Teens React series to cover something more serious, about Jonah Hill being a dick calling someone a faggot (I can use that word, as a gay man, you can’t Jonah!). I’ve noticed this tendency over the last decade or two, the whole ‘that’s so gay’ thing, the f-word…
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Oppressive – The Best Gay Possible
Where’s the love? Where’s the love? Where’s the love? I’ve been waiting here for you For so many years Missed this from earlier in the year – after the amazing Panti Bliss speech I posted here, the Pet Shop Boys set it to music. It’s a beautiful and hard-hitting video, and still pertinent. Homophobia never…
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Commonwealth? Well not for the LGBTQ
With the Commonwealth Games nearly over and seem to be a success, the assumption is the Commonwealth is some happy cuddly family. Well not quite. This graphic gave me cause to pause* – 42 out of the 53 Commonwealth countries still have anti-gay laws on the books, making being gay/queer a crime, and are enforcing…
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Pantigate
Only just found out about Pantigate via the very welcome comment from Archbishop of Ireland that ‘Homophobia insults god’ but I’m horrified at the treatment of Rory O’Neill aka Panti Bliss in Ireland. During a debate over same-sex marriage on RTE he was asked to name examples of homophobia by the host, and the people…