Gay Thoughts
I had a letter to Jonah at the NRO Corner posted earlier today:
Look. I am a guy who dates older guys (10 years my senior usually; I am 29).
Many older gay guys like younger, barely legal looking boys; their denying this is complete BS.
If there was no desire for this, why is “barely legal” one of the biggest gay adult video money makers?
Part of the problem is the media and pundits overuse of the pedophilia charge. Gay men are disgusted by being linked to pederasts preying on 7 year olds versus someone who is a senior in high school.
This whole Foley situation stinks and is frustrating precisely because the blowback and media coverage is utterly out of proportion.
Then I was asked a very pointed question by fellow blogger (I am not sure if he wants his identity revealed)...
Just out of curiosity here, do you think that being the younger man in a
relationship like that gives you power, because you are more desirable
because of your youth? I think the rest of us tend to assume that Foley
was the one with the power because of his age and occupation, but
perhaps that's mistaken?
My reply:
I think you make an EXCELLENT point.
This whole bit about "the children" is getting rather old.
These 17 and 18 year olds think they are all that and totally work over these older men. They PREY on them for money and gifts. That's why they are called sugar daddies.
Some of these older men did not come out until their 40's and 50's. They had marriages and children and are just entering the gay community. They have bull's-eyes on their backs from kids who are coming out like at 16/17.
They see these high school and college gays being able to "be gay" in their memorable years and the older men try to relive their younger days through these young guys.
I am NOT excusing Foley. As the adult, he is ultimately responsible.
But if you read these emails, these kids were just as nasty. I find it's the same way in the gay community.
Now Drudge said these IMs were pranks gone awry. That does not excuse Foley's behavior, but definitely changes these pages from "victims" to "instigators" which is exactly what I said above.
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Equal Opportunity Gay Hating
I think Steven Laffey can hang up the primary after reading this:
The Republican candidate wrote [the columns] in 1983 and 1984 while studying at Bowdoin College in Maine. The articles appeared in a paper published by campus Republicans.
In one column, Laffey said he has never seen a happy homosexual.
"This is not to say there aren't any; I simply haven't seen one in my lifetime. Maybe they are all in the closet," he wrote. "All the homosexuals I've seen are sickly and decrepit, their eyes devoid of life."
I certainly understand what he is saying. Rush notes that you often never find a "happy liberal" because they are always distressed about all the oppression and such. Here's the part I don't like:
In another column he wrote that pop music was turning the children of America into sissies, and criticized the singer Boy George, referring to him as "it."
"It wears girl's clothes and puts on makeup," he wrote. "When I hear it sing, 'Do you really want to hurt me, do you really want to make me cry,' I say to myself, YES, I want to punch your lights out, pal, and break your ribs."
It puts the lotion on its skin or it gets the hose again! Breaking ribs is a bit extreme, however, and while I believe he was joking, this seems to endorse gay bashing. Not good.
However, he was a dumb college kid at Bowdoin (pronounced Boe-Den). Let's take a look at the Democratic bigotry of grown-ups in Alabama:
A battle over race that had divided Alabama's Democratic Party came to an end yesterday when the party's executive committee reinstated a white woman as its nominee to represent a historically black Birmingham district in the state legislature.
The nominee, Patricia Todd, is a lesbian and, because she faces no opponent in November's general election, is in line to become the state's first gay legislator.
On Thursday, she had been disqualified by a party panel for failing to comply with a technicality that candidates had disregarded for years.
It goes on to say that the Democratic party machine wanted a black candidate no matter what:
Among those opposed to Todd's candidacy was Joe L. Reed, the state party's vice chairman of minority affairs. He called on voters to elect another black person to replace George Perdue, who has represented the district for more than two decades.
The campaign finance rule had not been enforced since 1988. Nevertheless, a five-person panel voted to disqualify Todd -- and Hendricks -- as candidates to be the party's nominee.
Can't have no dike on the Dem ticket! Thankfully, her candidacy was restored.
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They All sound like a bunch of fags
In his lawsuit - filed in May in Manhattan federal court - Green outlines 11 years of "terrible treatment," saying he was assaulted by a manager and "groped" by a fellow employee, who approached him in a "suggestive manner, grabbing his buttocks."
The same employee handed Green pornographic material.
In his lawsuit, Green claims managers were also racist, calling all male black and Hispanic employees by effeminate names like "Shamequa" or "Beyoncé."
"These were married men," he said. "It was totally wrong and inappropriate. My name was 'Sade.' "
That sounds like a gay friendly environment to me.
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So I came out to two coworkers today
It took me picking up the phone and saying, "would you like to ask my father?" to get them to believe me. And they were broads! Women should know this stuff...
UPDATE: NRO's Corner and RWN point to this gem of honesty from the left...
...I would further strongly urge Democrats who don't believe marriage is between a man and a woman but who feel they ought to pretend to believe this in order to win elections (a plausible position) need to do a better job of pretending. I've heard a shockingly large number of politicians say things, in rooms where journalists are present, that make it perfectly clear that they think gay marriage is just fine but that the voters aren't ready for it. That's a sensible thing to believe, but you can't go around saying it if you're trying to win votes. If you're going to lie, then lie -- and lie convincingly!" -- Prominent liberal blogger Matthew Yglesias
Spoken like a true Democrat.
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Does Simply "Being Gay" promote homosexual behavior?
I fail to see that by simply saying one is gay that it means s/he is promoting a certain lifestyle or sexuality:
Johnson, a sophomore majoring in theater arts, was expelled from the university Thursday because he declared online that he is gay. In a statement released last week, the university's president, Jim Taylor said students are held to a "higher standard" and that "students know the rules before they come to this institution."
But a copy of the student handbook provided by the university confirmed the policy was not spelled out in 2003-04, when Johnson chose to attend. The school did not provide a copy of the policy for the 2004-05 school year. The 2005-06 student handbook says: "Any student who engages in or promotes sexual behavior not consistent with Christian principles (including sex outside marriage and homosexuality) may be suspended or asked to withdraw."
What do you think about this? Certainly, a private, religious school can have a policy against certain behavior--but to me, "being gay" is not a behavior. Dating someone of the same sex is....
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Scientific Gayness
There is a story by Lesley Stahl about the Science of Sexual Orientation.
That's all fine and good; I don't want to get into a debate about whether being gay is genetic or a choice. What I want to discuss is parenting. Check this out:
The bedrooms of 9-year-old twins Adam and Jared couldn't be more different. Jared's room is decked out with camouflage, airplanes, and military toys, while Adam's room sports a pastel canopy, stuffed animals, and white horses.
I don't think I would let my 9 yo deck out his room in total military fashion--I'd actually prefer nice stuffed animals instead for my son (at age 9). But then there's this...
Adam was also proud to show off his toys. "This is one of my dolls. Bratz baby," he said.
What on earth is a 9 yo doing with a Bratz doll? I watch a lot of Cartoon Network and everytime a Bratz commercial comes on I shake my head and say "Slutz" when the song says Bratz.
There's more...
Adam wears pinkish-purple nail polish, adorned with stars and diamonds.
Asked if he went to school like that, Adam says, "Uh-huh. I just showed them my nails, and they were like, 'Why did you do that?'"
Why is a 9 yo wearing make-up to school? The parents in this situation need to question not whether their son is going to be gay, but whether he will end up turning tricks.
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Look at Me! I'm a Victim too!
This is really typical of the gay/lesbian lobby: we suffer as much as blacks did...
Stickers saying "Heterosexuals Only" were placed on bus benches and public drinking fountains in downtown Boise and at the Statehouse Monday morning.
A group of gay and lesbian activists, who spoke to KBCI-Local 2 News on condition of anonymity, put up the 150 stickers to protest the legislature's passage of a proposed constitutional amendment banning same sex marriage in Idaho, which voters will face in November.
"This was an issue we cared a great deal about," one activist told Local 2 News. "It affects us personally, it affects friends and family of ours."
The group says it used the "Heterosexuals Only" stickers to symbolize "Whites Only" and "Colored Only" stickers from past discrimination in the history of the American civil rights movement.
"In the struggle for human rights, an iconic image of that struggle has been signs that exclude classes of people," an activist said. "You know, 'Whites Only' on drinking fountains, or blacks to the back of the bus."
There's only one problem with this: gays have never been made to sit at the back of the bus, or were denied the right to vote or made slaves because they were gay.It's almost pathalogical to wish it were so...
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This Pisses Me Off
I just don't buy the police chiefs response...
A small-town police chief was accused in a federal lawsuit Thursday of stopping a would-be rescuer from performing CPR on a gay heart attack victim because he assumed the ailing man had HIV and posed a health risk.
Claude Green, 43, died June 21 after being stricken yards from City Hall in Welch, a community of about 2,400.
The American Civil Liberties Union sued on behalf of his mother.
Police Chief Bobby Bowman called the allegations "a boldface lie." He said that he called an ambulance and that Green was taken to the hospital in "no more than nine minutes."
"No one refused him CPR as his sister and mom are saying. They can do what they want, but if they're saying I refused him CPR, that is no way true," Bowman said.
The lawsuit accuses Bowman of pulling off Green's friend Billy Snead as Snead was performing chest compressions on the man. Snead was a passenger in Green's pickup truck when Green collapsed; Snead had managed to pull over the vehicle.
Green was pronounced dead at the hospital after about 30 minutes of attempts to revive him.
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Gay "Swap" Suit
'WIFE Swap" may have gone too far this time.
An Oklahoma husband is suing the show for sending a gay man to live with him and his family as his half of the swap.
He's seeking more than $10 million in damages.
Jeffrey Bedford, who lives with his wife and kids outside Muskogee, assumed he was swapping wives with a heterosexual couple. He also said "Wife Swap" producers refused to let him talk to his wife while the show was being taped.
The episode was taped in October 2004 but has not aired yet.
An ABC spokesman said the contract for the show specified that the swapped spouse "could be either male or female.
"The show is meant to challenge a family's norms," the spokesman told a local Muskogee newspaper, which first reported the suit over the weekend.
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I Suck
Wow, I enjoyed being on the radio, but that was such a brief segment! I didn't get to talk about the whole adultery thing--but oh well.
Thanks to Kevin and Alex for helping set it up.
You can hear it here.
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Me on the BBC
I will be on a BBC forum tomorrow @ 1:40pm to discuss the upcoming release of Brokeback Mountain.
You can submit questions and tune into the program here.
I've posted on the movie here, here, here and here.
You can read my comments to a trackbacker that actually helped me get the spot on BBC here.
If all goes well (i.e. I make it on the program), I will post the transcript here later.
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Republicans: Back Off
Let me just give my fellow repubs/conservatives some advice out of the gate--barring some turbulent scene or showings of this movie at high schools or whatever--conservatives/republicans need to back off and not try to make political points with Brokeback Mountain. It is just a movie and will probably be a good one.
And it will win awards...just let people who want to see it see it.
Drudge has the latest:
XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SUN NOV 06, 2005 19:28:02 ET XXXXX
HOLLYWOOD ROCKED: 'GAY COWBOY' MOVIE BECOMES AN OSCAR FRONTRUNNER
Arriving with nudity and explicit gay sex scenes between two cowboys, UNIVERSAL/FOCUS FILMS's BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN has quietly become an award season frontrunner, interviews with Academy members reveal.
"It could very well be the last film standing at this year's Oscars," a top Hollywood producer not associated with the film explained from Hollywood.
"There was not a dry eye in the house at the screening at Telluride [Film Festival in Colorado]," says the producer, who asked not to be named out of respect for the cast and crew of the producer's own Oscar contender. "Watch it come out of the gate at the Golden Globes with super controversy."
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS critic Jack Mathews predicts the gay cowboy movie, which takes place in Wyoming, may be "too much for red-state audiences, but it gives the liberal-leaning Academy a great chance to stick its thumb in conservatives' eyes."
Director Ang Lee's movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger won the Golden Lion, the top prize at the Venice Film Festival earlier this fall.
But will a movie even Madonna calls "shocking" sit with the heartland?
Playwright and lifelong Wyomingite tells the STAR-TRIBUNE of Casper this week that she has never encountered a gay cowboy, and doesn't think it's right for Hollywood to portray Wyoming as a state with gay cowboys.
Her message to the writers of BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN: “Don't try and take what we had, which was wonderful -- the cowboys that settled the state and made it what it was -- don't ruin that image... There's nothing better than plain old cowboys and the plain old history without embellishing it to suit everyone."
Meanwhile, Michell Howard of the state's Travel and Tourism Division says her agency is already hearing a buzz that people in other countries are expressing interest in visiting Wyoming because of the film.
“It's gotten rave reviews from the international community,” she said. “I don't know if they're more tolerant or something, but they're viewing it as a great Western movie.”
Developing...
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Andrew Sullivan: Gay Culture Is Ending; Me: Good Riddance
Andrew Sullivan spins a yarn on how he and fabulists are actually becoming, well, more American. Good. I never really enjoyed being identified with a culture of tweak sex, Ellen, bathhouses, Rosie, circuit parties, Queer Eye, AIDS, David Brock, flamboyance, Tony Kushner (although Angles in America was actually good), militant politics, Elton John, McGreevy, Will and Grace and HGTV.
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Replace DeLay with Gay?
UPDATE: Dreier was not asked to replace DeLay.
This is quite interesting:
The latest target of a Capitol Hill outing campaign — designed to expose closeted homosexual Republicans who oppose civil rights for gay people — is San Gabriel Valley Congressman David Dreier.
The powerful 12-term congressman — chairman of the House Rules Committee, chairman of the California Republican House delegation, co-chairman of Californians for Bush, chairman of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s transition team — is in the cross hairs of Mike Rogers and his Blogactive.com Web site, whose outing campaign has already forced one GOP congressman out of politics. Representative Ed Schrock, a reactionary from Virginia, ended his re-election campaign last month after Rogers put on his Web site an audiotape of Schrock trolling for tricks on a gay chat line.
Now, Rogers — a former development director for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force — has given Dreier the “Roy Cohn Award, in recognition of 24 years of working against gay and lesbian rights while living as a gay man yourself.” He is pummeling Dreier with almost daily revelations as a response to the GOP’s anti-gay crusade for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages.
Rogers’ campaign against Dreier got a major boost when it was taken up by Raw Story, the hot new liberal gadfly newsblog. Raw Story — which is edited out of Cambridge, Massachusetts, by 23-year-old John Byrne, who is also gay — last week published an interview with Dreier’s Democratic opponent in 1998 and 2000, Dr. Janice Nelson, who said she was aware during her 2000 campaign that Dreier was living with his chief of staff, Brad Smith. “Brad was like an invisible presence,” she said. “They really have the routine down slick.”
First of all, you will recall I met and confronted this Rogers fellow at the National Press Club. He firmly believes that all gay Republicans are shams and in hiding unless they are actually sodomizing each other on C-Span. I didn't see Rogers shouting down McGreevy at any press conferences.
And until I see the "Anti-Gay Person's Act H.R. 666" that Dreier authored and voted for, then excuse me for not being exited by this information. Dreier would be a gayhater to this crowd unless he was actually signing Andrew Sullivan and David Brock's marriage certificate.
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Gay Cowboys Eating Pudding
I am dying to see this movie after watching this trailer...what will Republicans say? I don't know. What I do know is that Andrew Sullivan will use this movie to advance his agenda of gay penis pride...
click on image to view trailer...
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Brokeback Mountain
Any movie that discusses a gay relationship that doesn't have scenes of a tweaked-out orgy, a circuit party, a priest, aids deaths, bashes Reagan, or has men in drag will be a welcome site to any movie goer.
December 2005. I look forward to seeing it.
Other observations:
I assure the #1 gay porn film next year will be "Bareback Mountain" and star Jeff Palmer and Tom Sizemore.
Also, the play on words will be in full force, i.e. we discover that Jake and Heath are tops:
Brokeback Mountain, starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, topped 19 other competitors, including favourite Good Night, and Good Luck, George Clooney's black-and-white movie set in the McCarthy era of the early 1950s.
It's a shame. I was hoping to see two bottoms trying to get it on.
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Marine Jeff Key, aka Andrew Sullivan
Ahh, see, this is another part of that "complete coverage" the MSM is giving us. Remember this Marine who is everywhere with Cindy (in the same outfit)?
[here you see him accosting a camera man]
Well, it turns out that he wasn't against the Iraq War until after realizing how hard it was to be a gay Marine in the military with the current, Clinton-era, "Don't Ask; Don't Tell" policy. All of this suspiciously happening at the same time Andrew Sullivan threw all principles to the wind when Republicans would not give him a marriage license.
Look, I know plenty of people in the military that have absolutely NO problem being in service of their country and being gay at the same time. They live in condos in Dupont Circle, spend their weekends at gay bars. But when they get to work, they just don't tell their CO about all that man lovin' they got that weekend. Straight people shouldn't be doing it either. In fact, Marine Jeff Key demonstrates this (and embarrasses himself) with this statement:
"Banning gays in the military is archaic and stupid," Key says. "Marines are designed to take orders. If they are ordered to keep their mouths shut and not harass the person who speaks truthfully about who they are, they will follow that order. That's what marines do. If they are told to walk into a hail of gunfire, that's what marines do, follow orders."
Well, Marine Jeff Key, you were ordered not to tell and you didn't follow that order. So much for your training to take orders.
But this is a good piece of information that I have yet to read anywhere with the reporting of this marine. God bless his service, but if he is going to be on national television and Cindy Sheehan's body guard, we should know why.
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Filthy, Disgusting Inbreeds Protest Funerals
I know, from the title you thought I was talking about Code Pink, but no, not this time. A bunch of inbed, snake-handlers, Deliverance cast members were protesting at the funeral of two servicemen saying they died because our nation coddles gays:
Members of a church say God is punishing American soldiers for defending a country that harbors gays, and they brought their anti-gay message to the funerals Saturday of two Tennessee soldiers killed in Iraq.
The church members were met with scorn from local residents. They chased the church members cars' down a highway, waving flags and screaming "God bless America."
"My husband is over there, so I'm here to show my support," 41-year-old Connie Ditmore said as she waved and American flag and as tears came to her eyes. "To do this at a funeral is disrespectful of a family, no matter what your beliefs are."
The Rev. Fred Phelps, founder of Westboro Baptist in Kansas, contends that American soldiers are being killed in Iraq as vengeance from God for protecting a country that harbors gays. The church, which is not affiliated with a larger denomination, is made up mostly of Phelps' children, grandchildren and in-laws.
I love how this is NOT like Viet Nam. Chasing all the nuts out of Crawford and Tennessee.
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And the Libs Want these People to Have Nukes?
I just found this story, but no attention could be diverted by the MSM from Cirque de Sheehan.
Two Iranian Teenagers were executed for the crime of homosexuality. I am literally horrified:
Above you see the teenagers being taken to their execution overcome with grief.
Above you see the teenagers being escorted to the galley.
Above, well, you see evil in action.
I will never forget when Senator Kerry said during the first debate that we should give uranium to the Iranians to test their sincerety. And I don't want to hear about how the right-wing would want to do it in this country if they could because you know that is a total lie: (1) sodomy laws were misdemeanors and (2) not granting marriage licenses is not akin to what you see above.
What's worse, is that two more men will be hanged in the city of Arak next week.
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Sometimes One Needs Release
Ladies, I present the photo of the week!
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The "John Roberts Is Gay Photo"
I'll give it 24-48 hours before this picture is all over Ameriblog or DailyKos saying this PROVES Judge Roberts is a closet case. "Don't you see him and the officer checking each other out???"
I wonder what the gay crowd would think if Roberts were gay and still wanted to overturn Roe.
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