Media Digest for 2009-07-02
Posted on | July 3, 2009 | Comments
- Huge Victory for India's Gay Rights Movement http://bit.ly/UnljQ [video #lgbt #p2] 04:22:28
- Text "fan gayrightsmedia" to FBOOK (32665) to become a fan of the Gay Rights Media Facebook page. http://facebook.com/gayrightsmedia 00:14:59
- BREAKING NEWS: India's High Court in Delhi Legalizes Homosexuality http://bit.ly/FvGtd [progress #lgbt #gay #p2] 23:20:39
- Loved & Lost: The Death of a Same-Sex Spouse http://bit.ly/19Acv8 [testimony #lgbt #gay #p2] 22:12:38
- Death of Camp Pendleton Sailor Might be a Gay Hate Crime http://bit.ly/aEOZ3 [developing story #lgbt #p2] 22:12:13
- India High Court Decision on Section 377 Regarding the Decriminalization of Homosexuality Imminent http://bit.ly/28MuaJ [video #lgbt #p2] 22:11:20
- KUSI San Diego Marriage Equality Debate with Marriage Equality USA's Fernando Lopez http://bit.ly/9eFUl [video #lgbt #gay #p2] 22:06:17
Media Digest for 2009-07-01
Posted on | July 2, 2009 | Comments
- July 2nd: Beginning of the End for Prop 8? http://bit.ly/kzmj2 [analysis #lgbt #gay #p2] 09:29:41
- Homophobia at the Cubs-Sox Game on Proud Display http://bit.ly/ASkJY [sports #lgbt #gay #p2] 09:29:13
- Judge Likely Won't Grant Prop. 8 Injunction But Agrees Gay Couples Harmed http://bit.ly/17vTTA [lawsuit #lgbt #p2] 20:17:09
- Dan Savage and Keith Olbermann on Don't Ask, Don't Tell Policy and Obama's Inaction http://bit.ly/jkYw0 [video #lgbt #gay #p2] 19:41:06
- Beyond Hatred – POV Documentary on a Hate Crime in France Involving a Gay Man and Three Skinheads [video #lgbt #gay #p2] 19:08:23
- Efforts to Block Washington D.C. Marriage Law Dismissed http://bit.ly/LUU0o [legislation #lgbt #gay #p2] 19:05:34
Media Digest for 2009-06-30
Posted on | July 1, 2009 | Comments
- Pentagon Mulls Easing 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Law http://bit.ly/dXf85 [military #lgbt #gay #p2] 15:46:28
- Everyday Evil Reborn: Racism and Homophobia http://bit.ly/5xWPi [analysis #lgbt #gay #p2] 15:45:26
- Gay Pride Weekend & Stonewall on CNN http://bit.ly/784vb [video #lgbt #p2] 15:42:34
- No Regrets on Prop 8, California Chief Justice Says http://bit.ly/oeR1L [interview #lgbt #gay #p2] 01:51:07
- India Poised to Decriminalize Gay Sex http://bit.ly/6FZrl [legislation #lgbt #p2] 00:26:41
- Full Video of President Obama's Remarks at White House LGBT Pride Reception http://bit.ly/ULd62 [video #gay #p2] 23:53:35
- Out In The Bay Podcast of June 28 – Death to Gays – Travels in the Muslim World http://bit.ly/dIRO2 [audio #lgbt #p2] 21:58:33
- First Half of Obama's Remarks at White House LGBT Pride Reception http://bit.ly/ATgTW [video #gay #p2] 21:19:33
Media Digest for 2009-06-29
Posted on | June 30, 2009 | Comments
- Rep. Jared Polis on Obama's LGBT Commitments and Clips of Obama Remarks http://bit.ly/13qRx2 [video #gay #p2] 15:45:49
- Movement Malpractice? Response to Criticism Over Attending White House Events http://bit.ly/3hgrqT [analysis #lgbt #gay #p2] 15:43:26
- Gay USA Weekly LGBT News Hour Podcast with Andy Humm and Ann Northrop http://bit.ly/pSfA [audio #gay #p2] 15:41:47
- Audio of Obama's Remarks at Today's LGBT Reception at the White House http://bit.ly/1azOax [audio #gay #p2] 15:39:51
- Fort Worth Residents Protest Raid on Gay Nightclub http://bit.ly/108c8b [harassment #lgbt #p2] 21:14:21
- 'Gayby Boom': Children of Gay Couples Speak Out http://bit.ly/m4f6i [family #lgbt #p2] 21:13:18
- The Gay Liberation Front Founding Members http://bit.ly/n4NO1 [video #lgbt #p2] 21:12:43
Everyday Evil Reborn
Posted on | June 30, 2009 | Comments
This commentary was originally posted on May 19th, 2005, but given a very disturbing video taken during LGBT Pride Month this year and given this video’s similarity to many scenes in the photos below, I’m reposting it with the new video at the beginning.
[CAPTION: My friend and I were leaving the Gay Pride Festival in Minneapolis, MN (6/27/09) and came across a group of Somalian kids who asked my friend if he was gay. When he answered "yes", they proceeded to harass him and me with verbal threats and even throwing rocks at my friend at one point.]
[CAPTION: Alex Wilson is kicked by a school integration protester after refusing to run from a mob near Little Rock Central High.]
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Ignorance and fear are at the heart of evils of all kinds. Two of them are racism and homophobia. Others include sexism and anti-semitism.
First, no one speaks for god and the bible is not the literal truth. Anyone who claims otherwise in the first case is a liar and in the second is a hypocrite.
Third, think of the images of black children walking into a newly desegregated school with men and women protesters all around pointing to passages in the bible. Think of the preachers and leaders just a couple decades ago who denounced interracial marriage as unnatural, immoral and against God’s plan. The phrase some of them used was ‘purity of race’. I would imagine the KKK still use these supremacist ideologies though majorities have finally, finally decided to abandon them. The Supreme Court ruled that banning interracial marriage was unconstitutional only in 1967!
[CAPTION: Teen-agers storm Baltimore's City Hall in protest against school integration, 1955.]
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Fourth, majorities now are shamefully making the same mistakes of their ancestors when it comes to NOT evolving their treatment and understanding of a minority section of society. In this case it’s not a race but a sexuality which the majority is refusing to upgrade to full human status.
Look above in these posts and you will find phrases used by those who wish to keep homosexual people defined as subhuman. These phrases can be matched almost word for word to the phrases used by whites opposing full equality for blacks during the african-american civil rights movement. These phrases, just as in the case of racism, are based always on supremacist ideologies. We are superior; they are not. We have god on our side; they do not. We know what’s best for society and children; they do not.
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