Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Monday, April 26, 2010
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Friday, April 23, 2010
Straight Education
1) Stop assuming the myth of Compulsory Heterosexuality…right now. It’s embarrassing.
2) Stop demanding The Gays come out. No homosexual owes you an explanation for, or disclosure of, anything…ever.
3) Stop equating discretion with delusion.
If a “Suspected Stealth Gay” does not “come out” to you that lack of disclosure does not always mean a person is “Gay” and closeted. It very often means that person is: 1) avowedly “Gay” without any intention of discussing it with YOU and acknowledging your offensively suspicious, circumspect manner; or 2) heterosexual and annoyed with your mistake. In either case you’re way out-of-line. People, Gay or straight, simply do not want to deal with your erroneous invasive presumptions about their sexuality.
Stop expecting all Gays owe you some sort of disclosure. Stop pressuring Suspected Stealth Gays to signify as “Gay” or do something “Gay”, when they do not automatically come out to you personally, just to accommodate you’re remarkably-creepy-need-to-know. This compulsion to “come out” is a heterosexual fantasy and a bigoted function of the closet imposed upon The Gays by you.
4) Stop using the phrase “openly Gay”. Sexual orientation is avowed not admitted.
5) Stop speculating freely and conspiratorially on the sexuality of others. It betrays your grotesque insecurity. It is also called Sexual Harassment.
6) Admit the destabilizing fear, anxiety and discomfort you feel when every single Suspected Stealth Gay you think you know does not personally reveal sexual orientation to you immediately.
7) Face that destabilizing fear and anxiety alone. “The Gays” do not come-out-of-the-closet to accommodate your anxiety and indulge your remarkably creepy need-to-know. Here’s a thought: healthy people have boundaries.
8) Admit your unchallenged belief in Compulsory Heterosexuality is the single cause of that destabilizing fear and anxiety NOT the presence of ostensible, unverifiable, unconfirmed homosexuals (i.e. Suspected Stealth Gays). The solution is simple: 1) stop expecting every person on earth to be exactly like you, 2) stop expecting every person on earth must disclose or explain their difference to you.
9) Stop professing you are “fine with The Gays”. We’re sure you have many black friends too. Please stop telling us about it.
10) Stop forcing homosexuals to tolerate your “tolerance”.
11) Stop extrapolating from personal experience.
Exhibit A: “I like The Gays so all straight people are cool like me. I’ll just indulge my uninterrogated belief that homophobic bigotry is a fantasy and expect The Gays not to be offended by my narcissistic ignorance because, really, my personal feelings and comfort are much more important than the systemic oppression and persecution of an entire class of people worldwide for centuries. Because straight people really are the center of the universe! No, I mean I’m really the center of the universe!”
12) Stop generalizing from personal experience.
Your limited knowledge and experience of your “Gays” is at best partial and, I emphasize, irrelevant to the individual and collective specificity of all homosexuals and homosexuality worldwide.
The Gay “minstrel show” you love is a lazy, fallacious construction of your own uninterrogated delusions which you, consciously or unconsciously, continue to impose on The Gays…unironically. Not all Gays conform to those comforting preconceived (i.e. bigoted) notions you so freely and uncritically swallow.
The truth is heterosexuals freely embrace the comforting predictability of homophobic stereotypes mistaking such “acceptance” as “progressive”. Unwittingly becoming stereotypes themselves. Whether all this is unconscious or self-conscious it is misguided. The soft bigotry of low expectations.
So, stop imposing the claustrophobic “Gay Box”.
Exhibit A: “I have [insert exaggerated number here] Gay friends so I already know what ALL Gays are like. Please don’t expect me to believe you’re an individual or somehow different. You’re exactly like all The Gays I already know. Kind of the way all my Asians friends look and think and act alike. Kind of the way all my Black friends look and think and act alike.”
Exhibit B: Kathy Griffin’s reality show persona. She is being ironic about “her Gays”. Do you get that?
13) Stop defending yourselves.
We know some heterosexuals are cool. Stop reminding us. At the very least personally acknowledge your enormous privileges of marriage, reproductive freedom, adoption rights, hospital visitation rights, military service, no-risk access to housing and employment, tax benefits, personal safety etc. Privileges that are not only guaranteed for you but paraded throughout this and every culture on earth as not just the standard but the zenith of human experience and quality of life. Privileges that are not universal inalienable rights for The Gays. Privileges in exact disproportion to the systemic disenfranchisement of an entire class of people worldwide which you neither understand nor realize.
14) Stop flattering yourself with the “Homosexual Panic Defense”. Gays do not want to have sex with you. This is emphasized for straight men. Really. Look in the mirror, step on a scale, then look around.
15) Stop conflating homosexual with “Gay”. Sexual orientation and cultural identity is not the same thing, especially when the cultural identity in question has NEVER BEEN FORMED OUTSIDE OF OPPRESSION. While all “Gays” are homosexual, not all avowed homosexuals culturally identify as “Gay”.
Understand this fantasy of “Gay” identity is arguably dysfunctional: the post-traumatic-stress-disorder of sexual apartheid and centuries of oppression. “Official Gay Culture” is a massive exercise in behavior modification. Nothing more than a compromised reaction-formation desperately constructed ONLY in the last few decades to negotiate and adapt to centuries of consistent persecution and disenfranchisement.
Acknowledge the grotesque personal, psychological damage such universal persecution produces in an entire class of people. Understand that celebrating the resultant dysfunctional “cultural identity” is neither deferential nor transformative.
Acknowledge your complacence with that caste system.
Acknowledge your collusion with the very hegemony that produced and perpetuates it.
Acknowledge sexual apartheid.
16) Do not challenge the masculinity/femininity of The Gays.
17) Do not make The Gays defend the right to get married. What are your own reasons for wanting to get married? There’s your answer.
18) Do not make The Gays defend the right to raise their own children and create their own families. What are your own reasons? There’s your answer.
18) Do not make The Gays defend the right to serve their country.
19) Stop pretending Gay is a choice. Did you choose to be heterosexual? There’s your answer. The day heterosexuals can “change” will be the exact same day homosexuals can “change”. Got that?
20) Stop asking what “causes” homosexuality, as if it is a disease. Pretending heterosexuality is genetic and therefore “natural” but homosexuality is magically aberrant betrays a remarkable sense of entitlement. The question is not what causes The Gay. The question is: what are the biological determinants of sexual orientation in general, as a universal human trait and characteristic?
21) Stop pimping The Gays in your elections and ballot measures.
22) Stop pretending The Gays are filthy, disgusting, promiscuous, disease vectoring, predatory whores out to destroy you and your children.
23) Stop terrorizing, attacking, beating and killing The Gays in your streets and your schools and your courts and your legislatures.
24) Stop pretending The Gays imagine your tyranny, conveniently absolving yourselves of guilt while projecting delusion and culpability in one genius stroke.
That you have absolutely no knowledge or interest in how Gay lives are confined, restrained and coerced every moment of every day because of you is insulting. Recognize ignorance and complacency as your exclusive hegemonic privilege. Explain this to your friends and stop being part of the problem.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Monday, April 19, 2010
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Friday, April 16, 2010
National Day of Prayer ruled unconstitutional
National Day of Prayer ruled unconstitutional: Prepare for Armageddon.
A federal judge in Wisconsin ruled the National Day of Prayer unconstitutional Thursday, saying the day amounts to a call for religious action.
U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb wrote that the government can no more enact laws supporting a day of prayer than it can encourage citizens to fast during Ramadan, attend a synagogue or practice magic.
'In fact, it is because the nature of prayer is so personal and can have such a powerful effect on a community that the government may not use its authority to try to influence an individual's decision whether and when to pray,' Crabb wrote.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Day of Silence in Schools Nationwide April 16th
Day of Silence in Schools Nationwide April 16th: "
The Day of Silence will be held tomorrow throughout the country. The organization responsible for this annual event is GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network) and here is their write up on the event.
'The National Day of Silence brings attention to anti-LGBT name-calling, bullying and harassment in schools. Hundreds of thousands of students will come together on April 16th to encourage schools and classmates to address the problem of anti-LGBT behavior.'
Whether you are a student, a faculty member or just a concerned citizen please see how you can get involved in this important day that has shaped and changed the lives of many queer and straight allied students around the country.
Order your t-shirts, print out your silent cards, and see what you can do to be active on behalf of GLBT equality.
http://www.dayofsilence.org/
"
The Day of Silence will be held tomorrow throughout the country. The organization responsible for this annual event is GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network) and here is their write up on the event.'The National Day of Silence brings attention to anti-LGBT name-calling, bullying and harassment in schools. Hundreds of thousands of students will come together on April 16th to encourage schools and classmates to address the problem of anti-LGBT behavior.'
Whether you are a student, a faculty member or just a concerned citizen please see how you can get involved in this important day that has shaped and changed the lives of many queer and straight allied students around the country.
Order your t-shirts, print out your silent cards, and see what you can do to be active on behalf of GLBT equality.
http://www.dayofsilence.org/
"
On Christian Terrorism
On Christian Terrorism: 
Alternet today features a lengthy essay on the rise of Christian terrorism seen recently via the murders of abortion providers and the resurgence of heavily armed Christian militias.
Alternet today features a lengthy essay on the rise of Christian terrorism seen recently via the murders of abortion providers and the resurgence of heavily armed Christian militias.Christian terrorism has returned to America with a vengeance. And it is not just [Dr. Tiller's murderer] Roeder. When members of the Hutaree militia in Michigan and Ohio recently were arrested with plans to kill a random policeman and then plant Improvised Explosive Devices in the area where the funeral would be held to kill hundreds more, this was a terrorist plot of the sort that would impress Shi’ite militia and al Qaeda activists in Iraq. The Southern Poverty Law Center, founded by Morris Dees, which has closely watched the rise of right-wing extremism in this country for many decades, declares that threats and incidents of right-wing violence have risen 200% in this past year—unfortunately coinciding with the tenure of the first African-American president in US history. When Chip Berlet, one of this country’s best monitors of right-wing extremism, warned in a perceptive essay last week on RD that the hostile right-wing political climate in this country has created the groundwork for a demonic new form of violence and terrorism, I fear that he is correct.Read the entire scary piece.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Monday, April 12, 2010
TRAILER: Stonewall Uprising
Stonewall Uprising is making the festival rounds and will open early this summer around the nation. Schedule here. Synopsis:
"It was the Rosa Parks moment," says one man. June 28, 1969: NYC police raid a Greenwich Village Mafia-run gay bar, The Stonewall Inn. For the first time, patrons refuse to be led into paddy wagons, setting off a 3-day riot that launches the Gay Rights Movement. Told by Stonewall patrons, Village Voice reporters and the cop who led the raid, Stonewall Uprising compellingly recalls the bad old days when psychoanalysts equated homosexuality with mental illness and advised aversion therapy, and even lobotomies; public service announcements warned youngsters against predatory homosexuals; and police entrapment was rampant. A treasure-trove of archival footage gives life to this all-too-recent reality, a time when Mike Wallace announced on a 1966 CBS Reports: "The average homosexual, if there be such, is promiscuous. He is not interested in, nor capable of, a lasting relationship like that of a heterosexual marriage." At the height of this oppression, the cops raid Stonewall, triggering nights of pandemonium with tear gas, billy clubs and a small army of tactical police. The rest is history.
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Christian Terror in the heart of Africa.
'Is it not homosexuality but rather the laws against it that were imposed on Africa by the west. Many African states are using the very laws introduced by European colonialists more than a century ago to persecute gay men and lesbians today.' ~Peter Tatchell
Fight to Halt Anti-Gay Terror Sweeping Africa
www.guardian.co.uk
A homophobic backlash is sweeping Africa, partly because gay men and lesbians are becoming more assertive about their rights, partly because of intolerance fanned by interventions from evangelical churches in America.
Fight to Halt Anti-Gay Terror Sweeping Africa
www.guardian.co.uk
A homophobic backlash is sweeping Africa, partly because gay men and lesbians are becoming more assertive about their rights, partly because of intolerance fanned by interventions from evangelical churches in America.
Thursday, April 08, 2010
KKK Repudiates Westboro
KKK Repudiates Westboro: 
Blogger Jake Garland turned up the following: 'NOTE: The Ku Klux Klan, LLC, has not or EVER will have ANY connection with the 'Westboro Baptist Church.' We absolutely repudiate their activities.' Uh, yay?
Blogger Jake Garland turned up the following: 'NOTE: The Ku Klux Klan, LLC, has not or EVER will have ANY connection with the 'Westboro Baptist Church.' We absolutely repudiate their activities.' Uh, yay?
Wednesday, April 07, 2010
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