In knee-jerk, archetypical fashion, a big, bullying newscaster threatened to punch out a homosexual in front of live TV cameras in Northern Virginia last week.
Tag: gay
Anything But Straight: How Low Can They Go?
It was unusually satisfying to watch beauty contestant turned Bible-thumper Carrie Prejean crash and burn.
Nicholas F. Benton: ‘Media Matters’ Foils Fox
For the better part of the decade, right-wingers in the media have been dogged relentlessly by a pesky fact-checker who has caught them over and over again willfully distorting and fabricating their news.
Anything But Straight: A Fractious Movement
In an online discussion forum, a respected activist recently lamented the decentralization of gay community advocacy. He made a powerful case that we would be better off if our efforts were more regimented and unified.
Anything But Straight: Beauty Queen Vs. Bitchy Queen
The Miss USA contest began as a beauty contest and ended up as a mud bath. The theatrics started when celebrity blogger Perez Hilton, who was a pageant judge, asked Miss California, Carrie Prejean, if she supported marriage equality.
Anything But Straight: The Globalization of Gay Bashing
The latest alleged anti-gay terrorism in Iraq – is gluing shut the anuses of homosexuals, while forcing the victims to ingest a form of Ex-Lax.
Anything But Straight: Words That Kill
It’s been a heady couple of weeks for gay activists and it keeps getting better.
Marriage: The Writing Is On The Barn Wall
Only ten years ago, it looked like gay people would not be able to marry until the cows came home.
Anything But Straight: Jamaica: A Killer Vacation
This week, I joined San Francisco organizer Michael Petrelis and Box Turtle Bulletin editor Jim Burroway in launching an international boycott against Jamaica (www.boycottJamaica.org). While the island appears laid back, gays are under attack.
Anything But Straight: Obama’s Parent In The Pulpit Complex
George W. Bush longed to escape his daddy’s shadow, while Barack Obama has turned to shadowy preachers in his long search for a father figure.
