homophobia
A Valentine’s For Homophobes: FCKH8’s new video
(Warning: Explicit language)
FCKH8 released a new Valentine’s Day-themed video calling out the “hypocrisy of homophobes’ claims to preserve the ‘sanctity of marriage.’”
FCKH8.com will give 5¢ for every Facebook “Share” & Twitter tweet of this video - up to $5,000 - to H8Sux.com, a project that will give thousands of free “OK4U2BGAY” t-shirts to school kids to fight bullies, suicide and H8 in schools! FCKH8.com has raised over $250,000 for the fight for equal rights through T-shirt sales! Tees start at $9.99. Get yours at FCKH8.com!
The press release states that FCKH8’s videos have generated over 6 million views and sold over 70,000 t-shirts with $250,000 raised for gay rights causes.
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Uganda’s “Kill The Gays” Bill reintroduced without death penalty
Uganda’s highly controversial Anti-Homosexuality Bill has been reintroduced by its author, David Bahati, according to the BBC.
The original bill was introduced in 2009 and resulted in international media cry before being shelved in 2011.
Homosexual acts are already illegal in Uganda, but the bill aims to increase the penalty to life in prison.
Originally, the legislation proposed the death penalty for those who engage in gay sex where one participant is under the age of 18, disabled, or HIV-positive. The death penalty has been removed from the revised version of this bill.
Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill is not only a threat to gays, but to anyone who is aware of individuals participating in homosexual acts and doesn’t report them to authorities.
Ever since the bill was introduced, gay people in Uganda are increasingly facing harassment and threats.
(Photo: AP)
Slap Upside The Head: An illustrated LGBT news blog
There are quite a few blogs that just grab any image they can find to image to illustrate an article, but Slap Upside The Head doesn’t settle for that. Slap Upside The Head is an LGBT news blog that illustrates its articles with humorous, satirical, or clever comics.
Run by a 31 year old Canadian man named “Mark,” the blog covers LGBT-related topics such as politics, homophobia, same-sex marriage, and LGBT culture.
Slap Upside The Head has been voted the Best GLBT Blog in Canada for four years in a row at the Canadian Blog Awards.
(Illustration credits: 1, 2, 3, 4)
14-year-old asks Maryland lawmakers to vote against gay marriage [audio]
In this audio clip, a girl visits the Maryland’s Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee on her 14th birthday and asks lawmakers to vote against same-sex marriage.
“…I really feel bad for the kids who have two parents of the same gender. They have no idea what kind of wonderful experiences they miss out on…”
(via ThinkProgress, Peter Frank)
“Homosexuality leads to love and families. Homophobia leads to discrimination and violence. Which is the real danger to society?” —M. Matthew Phelps
“A Coming Out Story”
“A teenage boy comes out to his family about his sexual orientation, which proves disastrous.”
Iraq’s Unwanted People: A documentary about being LGBT in Iraq
Bradley Secker, a U.K based photojournalist, spent two months living in Damascus, Syria in autumn 2010. He spent his time locating LGBT individuals that had fled Iraq in fear of being persecuted because of their sexuality. Gaining the trust of these individuals meant Bradley could see inside the closed diaspora of Iraqi LGBT refugees first hand. His primary aim was to create a photo essay with written, first hand testimonies.
On return to the U.K, Bradley started work on ‘Iraq’s unwanted people’, a short documentary highlighting the problems faced by Iraqi LGBT individuals. The film shows two personal accounts of men living in fear as refugees in Syria. Through photos, interviews and moving image, the film hopes to pose the question as to how, and why, such acts of violence and brutality can be overlooked in a new ‘free’ Iraq.
Contact GRN for more information.
(via Peter Galazka on Google+)
8 year old tells Michele Bachmann: “My mommy’s gay but she doesn’t need any fixing.”
“Video of Michele Bachmann trying to get her photo op in with my 8 year old son. It’s hard to hear but he leans in and tells her that his mom is gay and she doesn’t need fixing. GO ELIJAH! Love that look of shock she gets.”
It Gets Better by Allie Osterloh
An illustration created by Allie Osterloh for Spirit Day 2011.
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Here Comes The Bigotry of the Day: A Highland Park woman was denied the purchase of her “dream bridal gown” from a New Jersey wedding dress store because she is marrying another woman.
Alix Genter, who is set to marry her longtime partner next July, had her dress all picked out when Here Comes the Bride store manager Donna phoned her up and told her she couldn’t buy it because she was a lesbian.
According to Genter, Donna decried the marriage as “illegal” and said the store “do[es] not participate in any illegal actions.” (Genter and her partner are planning to get married in New York, which legalized same-sex marriages in June.)
“I was devastated,” Genter told Philadelphia Daily News columnist Ronnie Polaneczky. “I was crying. I called her a bigot; I told her, ‘I am a happy person and you are a miserable person.’ Then she hung up on me.”
When Polaneczky followed up with Donna, she was told that Genter’s replacement of the word “groom” with “partner” on the customer-information sheet was a deliberate provocation in an effort “to show that she’s different.” The manager then went on to define lesbians as women who are experimenting with other women because “men can be difficult.”
Apparently Donna has been “persuaded” by a bad Yelp review from Genter to meet with her parents “to try to smooth things over.”
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Here Comes The Bigotry of the Day: A Highland Park woman was denied the purchase of her “dream bridal gown” from a New Jersey wedding dress store because she is marrying another woman.
Alix Genter, who is set to marry her longtime partner next July, had her dress all picked out when Here Comes the Bride store manager Donna phoned her up and told her she couldn’t buy it because she was a lesbian.
According to Genter, Donna decried the marriage as “illegal” and said the store “do[es] not participate in any illegal actions.” (Genter and her partner are planning to get married in New York, which legalized same-sex marriages in June.)
“I was devastated,” Genter told Philadelphia Daily News columnist Ronnie Polaneczky. “I was crying. I called her a bigot; I told her, ‘I am a happy person and you are a miserable person.’ Then she hung up on me.”
When Polaneczky followed up with Donna, she was told that Genter’s replacement of the word “groom” with “partner” on the customer-information sheet was a deliberate provocation in an effort “to show that she’s different.” The manager then went on to define lesbians as women who are experimenting with other women because “men can be difficult.”
Apparently Donna has been “persuaded” by a bad Yelp review from Genter to meet with her parents “to try to smooth things over.”
