Homophobia

Jesse Helms' Shameful Legacy Can't Be Whitewashed

Erik Ose | Posted 07.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Racial Politics, Right Wing Media, Civil Rights Movement, Jesse Helms, Homophobia, Jesse Helms Legacy, Jesse Helms Death, Bigotry, North Carolina, Civil Rights, Politics News
Erik Ose

No amount of whitewashing Helms' legacy can erase the stain of his reliance on hate-filled, divisive politics, or the hurt he caused so many people in the process.

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Exclusive: Congress Plans Historic Hearing on "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"

Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: House, Senate, Congress, Military, Dadt, Colin Powell, Hearing, Afghanistan, Homophobia, Sam Nunn, Manpower Shortage, Gays, Iraq, Dan Coats, Canada, Politics News
Aubrey Sarvis

Any serious discussion of the crisis the country faces in recruiting and retaining qualified men and women in the military will require a fresh and serious look at the odious "compromise" known as "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."

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A Time to Ask. A Time to Tell

Richard Klass | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Gays in the Military, Homosexuality, Dod, Bill Clinton, Dadt, Homophobia, Civil Rights, Politics News
Richard Klass

What is often overlooked is that the "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy was supposed to be a way station on the road to full acceptance of homosexuals in the military.

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Jesse Helms: Yankee Doodle Jesse

Martin Lewis | Posted 07.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Misogyny, Homophobes, Vindictive, Homophobic, Petty, Jesse Helms, Mean-Spirited, Xenophobia, Racist, Redneck, Pig, Racialist, Pig-Ignorant, White Supremacist, Hick, Homophobia, Un-Christian, Un-American, Hell-Worthy, Bigot, Politics News
Martin Lewis

He's a Yankee Doodle Jesse A Yankee Doodle do or die A real live nephew of the Ku Klux Klan Died on the Fourth of July... "I hope what future generat...

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Gay Weddings and 32 Funerals: Remembering the UpStairs Lounge Fire

Erik Ose | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Glbt, Gay History, Louisiana, Gay Pride Weekend, Metropolitan Community Church, Lesbian, Same-Sex Marriage, UpStairs Lounge, 1973, Firebombing, Gay, Fire, GLBT History, California, Anti-Gay Violence, Mcc, 2008, California Supreme Court, Homophobia, Christianity, June 24 1973, Bigotry, Gay Marriage, Rip, Gay Rights, Politics News
Erik Ose

To fully understand recent events, it's important to remember a tragedy that happened thirty-five years ago, and how much things have changed for gays and lesbians since then.

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Look Out, Your Hate is Showing: Homophobia is Alive and Well

Jenny Block | Posted 06.24.2008 | Living

Read More: Homophobia, Gays and Lesbians, Gay, True Colors, Hrc, Lesbian, Fear, Hate, Cyndi Lauper True Colors Tour, Human Rights Campaign, Living News
Jenny Block

On Sunday night, I went to the True Colors concert tour stop in Dallas. It was like Gay Pride with better music. You could be as out as you want to be there with no need for worry. Or so I thought.

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Free Brigitte Bardot!

Danny Miller | Posted 06.07.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Homophobia, Racism, Brigitte Bardot, France, Entertainment News
Danny Miller

Have you heard that Brigitte Bardot, 73-year-old former movie star sex goddess, was convicted this week in France for "inciting racial hatred?"

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Why is EMILY's List endorsing anti-semitism, racism and homophobia?

Bil Browning | Posted 06.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Democratic Primary, Steve Cohen, Dirty Politics, Tinker, Anti-Semitism, Homophobia, Tennessee, Nikki Tinker, Racism, Dirty Campaigns, Election 2008, Cohen, Politics News
Bil Browning

(Originally posted on my home blog, The Bilerico Project. Feel free to join the discussion over there too. We like newbies and don't bite too hard!)...

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My First Time

Bil Browning | Posted 05.24.2008 | Living

Read More: Gay Bashing, Shameful, Sex, Closet, Homophobia, High School, First Time, 80's, Gay, Repressed, Teenagers, Living News
Bil Browning

Everyone remembers the first time they had sex. It sticks in your memory and can help shape future sexual desires and preferences. As I was scanning...

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The Most Savage Shock Jock of Them All

Rory O'Connor | Posted 05.23.2008 | Media

Read More: Aclu, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, The Savage Nation, Rush Limbaugh, Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, Homosexuality, Talk Radio, Sean Hannity, San Fran Sicko, Glaad, Homophobia, RockStar Energy Drink, Michael Savage, Bill O'Reilly, Media News
Rory O'Connor

Dig deeper, and the question of who Michael Savage is becomes more complicated. "Savage" isn't his real name; it seems to speak to his heightened sense of masculinity, aggression, and antipathy toward minorities.

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Gays, Hate, Blacks, and the Bible

Leonce Gaiter | Posted 05.16.2008 | Home

Read More: Homophobia, Curse of Ham, Colin Powell, California Supreme Court, Bible, Racism, Christianity, Interracial Marriage, John Boswell, Loving vs. Virginia, Homsexuality, Home News
Leonce Gaiter

The California Court has drawn on apt precedence in voting to end a ban on gay marriage. Blacks and gays have both endured centuries of hatred based on perversions of original biblical texts.

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Smiles and Slurs

Ryan J. Davis | Posted 04.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Homophobia, Hillary Clinton, Gays, Mike Easley, Democrats Homophobia, Mike Easley Pansy, Politics News
Ryan J. Davis

Clinton owes the gay community, which she has shamefully used as an ATM during her campaign, an apology for gay-baiting. We're waiting, Hillary.

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Daytime TV and the Homosexual Agenda

Kip Williams | Posted 04.29.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Luke Snyder and Noah Mayer, Homophobia, As the World Turns, Gay, Cbs, American Family Association, Entertainment News
Kip Williams

As the World Turns has been developing a love story between two men, Luke and Noah. Each time they kiss, the AFA rears its ugly, homophobic head and organizes a bunch of bigots to contact sponsor Procter & Gamble to complain.

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Gay Hockey Fans Say NY's Madison Square Garden Is Toxic Environment

NY Times | KATIE THOMAS | Posted 03.21.2008 | Home

Read More: Homophobia, Madison Square Garden and Homophobia, New York Rangers, Madison Square Garden, Home News

During the final 10 minutes of many Rangers home games, the spotlights focus on Section 407 as Larry Goodman, a longtime season-ticket holder, pumps u...

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What Sally Has Wrought

Chuck Wolfe | Posted 03.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Sally Kern, Homophobia, Lgbt, Homosexuality, Hate Crimes, Bigot, Bigotry, Politics News
Chuck Wolfe

If State Rep. Sally Kern had offered similar hateful views about African Americans, Native Americans or Jewish people, we wouldn't even be debating her speech. We'd be saying goodbye.

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Terrorists Among Us: Rep. Sally Kern

Kirk Snyder | Posted 03.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Lgbt, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Sally Kern, Hate Crimes, Bigot, Bigotry, Politics News
Kirk Snyder

Free speech is not a license to incite hate and violence, and sadly that is what Sally Kern's ugly oration about homosexuals is all about.

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The Anything But Homosexuals Agenda

August J. Pollak | Posted 02.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Draft, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Gays in the Military, Army, Army Recruitment, Homosexuality, Homophobia, Gays, Politics News
August J. Pollak

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Obama Speech Addresses Homophobia, Anti-Semitism Among Black Americans

New York Observer | Jason Horowitz | Posted 01.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Barack Obama, Xenophobia, Martin Luther King Jr., Homophobia, 2008 Campaign, 2008 Elections, Baptist Church, Politics News

In a speech today at Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.served as pastor, Barack Obama talked about the existence of i...

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Gay Sex Equals Death! Again! Always!

Sara Whitman | Posted 01.16.2008 | Living

Read More: Mrsa, Homosexuality, Stds, Pharmaceutical Industry, Staph Infection, Antibiotics, Homophobia, New Staph Infection, Media Bias, Media Prejudice, Gay Men Staph Infections, Living News
Sara Whitman

Whenever gay men's sex lives ends up being classified as deadly instead of focusing on the pharmaceutical industries responsibility for the growth of antibiotic resistant infections, I have to wonder why.

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I Love the 90s: Gender, Race and the Clintons

Paul Jenkins | Posted 01.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: 1960s, Al Sharpton, Women's Issues, African-Americans, Bill Shaheen, George W. Bush, Drugs, Primaries, Joycelyn Elders, Identity Politics, Sexism, New Hampshire, John Edwards, Racism, Senators, Nita Lowey, Bill Clinton, Gender, Black Voters, Lani Guinier, Clintons, Joe Biden, Black Issues, Feminism, Chris Matthews, Barack Obama, 1990s, New York City, New York, Elections, Sister Souljah, Rudy Giuliani, Race, Martin Luther King, 2008 Presidential Race, South Carolina, Iowa, Homophobia, George H. W. Bush, Hillary Clinton, Democratic Presidential Race, Lyndon Johnson, Senate, Gay Issues, White Voters, Governors, Politics News
Paul Jenkins

Hillary has begun a campaign based on rigorous 1990s politics of identity, a game at which the Clintons excel, using one group against another as the need arises.

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Their Mullahs -- and Ours

James E. Groves, MD | Posted 12.18.2007 | Politics

Read More: Misogyny, Homosexuality, Larry Summers Comments on Women, Supreme Court 2nd Amendment Case, 2nd Amendment, Gay Bashing, Homophobia, Larry Summers, Mullahs, Separation of Church and State, Politics News
James E. Groves, MD

Mullahs everywhere tend to have a world view based on three core beliefs, about theocracy, infallibility, and patriarchy.

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House Dems Selling Out Gays? Again.

Lane Hudson | Posted 12.06.2007 | Politics

Read More: Employment Non-Discrimination Act, Matthew Shepard Act, Homosexuality, Hate Crimes, Democrats and Gays, Enda, Hate Crimes Bill, Matthew Shephard, Homophobia, 2007 Defense Authorization Bill, Gays, Sexuality, Politics News
Lane Hudson

The Matthew Shephard Act is shaping up to be a complete sell-out of any campaign promises that Democrats made to the gay community.

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The F-Word

Sara Whitman | Posted 12.04.2007 | Media

Read More: Homosexuality, Faggot, Gay Rights, Details Magazine Faggot, Homophobia, Details, Details Power 50, Details Magazine, Media, Gay, Homosexuals, Media News
Sara Whitman

Details is right on in their list: the word "faggot" got a lot of action this year. The age-old taunt continues to haunt us as a weakness that brings powerful men to their knees.

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Second Class Even In Death

Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 11.01.2007 | Politics

Read More: First Amendment, Fred Phelps, Christians Gays, Picketing Funerals, Homosexuals, HIV/AIDS, Freedom of Speech, Homosexuality, Iraq War Veteran, Religion, AIDS Gay, AIDS Gay Religious Right, Homophobia, Religious Right, Picket Funerals, Discrimination, Conservative Christians, Gay Funerals, Phelps Funerals, Christians Homophobia, Aids, Christians Discrimination, Politics News
Charles Karel Bouley

A generation of gay men that died of AIDS in this country have been slapped today; they are citizens not entitled to the same rights as a dead Iraqi war veteran.

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Confessions of My Inner Fat Girl

Ash Christian | Posted 11.01.2007 | Living

Read More: Homophobes, Small Town, Ash Christian, Coming of Age Film, Homosexuality in Media, Gays in Texas, Fat Girls, Indie Film, Women and Body Image, Texas, Homosexuality, Fat Girls Film, Independent Film, Body Image, Brokeback Mountain, Gay Actor, Homophobia, Canton Texas, Gays in Film, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Will and Grace, Gays, Homosexuals in Film, Living News
Ash Christian

I thought shooting a film with gay lead character in today's society would be easy and not be met with much opposition. I was wrong.

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