Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Ukraine throws out 'gay propaganda' bill
The law is no longer on the agenda for the Ukraine's current session for the Verkhovna Rada, meaning it will not return for debate. In 2012, the parliament voted unanimously for a bill that would bring its law in line with Russia's homophobic policies.
Religious groups also collected tens of thousands of signatures calling on lawmakers to ensure children do not grow up seeing same-sex relationships as 'normal'. Over the last two years, the adopted bill was 'frozen' - not discussed, debated or voted on again, left in the fringes of parliament's agenda. But after the election in October, and a new constituted Verkhovna Rada, it appears that Ukraine now wants nothing to do with Russia - including its anti-gay policies. In parliament this week, deputies voted to call Russia an 'aggressor state'.
It happened on the basis of Article 95 of the Parliamentary Rules, stating the 'Verkhovna Rada may withdraw the bill from consideration if the bill has lost its relevance'. Svyatovslav Sheremet, a gay rights activist based in Ukraine, said: 'The idea that the country could use LGBT citizens must be extremely tempting for a number of the deputies. 'But now, with the understanding homophobia is linked to Russia and the "Russian world", such initiatives can hardly expect to succeed.'
Now don't go getting the idea that Ukraine's government is suddenly softening on anti-gay animus,
nope, just as homophobic as before, they just really hate Russia that much!
Sally Kern Believes She Has A Religious Right To Face Fuck You With Her Bigotry
Oklahoma State Rep. Sally Kern has
defended filing three bills targeting the gay community, saying that
sexual orientation is a choice gay people can make.
One bill, titled the Preservation and
Sovereignty of Marriage Act, threatens government employees who issue
marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples. Gay couples started
marrying in the state in October after the Supreme Court refused to
review an appeals court's ruling declaring unconstitutional a 2004
voter-approved constitutional amendment limiting marriage to
heterosexual couples.
The bill seeks to cut off government
funding for the licensing or support of such unions in Oklahoma.
Kern's other proposals include allowing
parents to seek therapy to change an LGBT teen's sexuality without
state interference and allowing businesses to refuse service “to
any lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender person, group or
association.”
“It's a bill about freedom,” Kern
said of her legislative proposal on conversion therapy. “Why
shouldn't a parent have the freedom to take their child who's
struggling with same sex attraction, which we're having more and more
of today. Why? Because it's promoted and pushed in the schools.”
On her marriage bill, Kern asked, “Who
do we answer to?”
“Do we answer to the judges or do we
answer to the people of the state of Oklahoma?”
“They have every right to believe the
way they want,” she said. “They have every right to practice the
lifestyle they want to, but they don't have the right to push it down
the throat of the rest of America to where we have to say we accept
it morally. And that's what they want. It's like oil and water, it
won't mix.”
The whole premise of this,” she
continued, “is are you born this way, homosexual or not? And the
homosexuals say we're born this way so you have to accept us.
There's no credible scientific evidence showing this.”
Kern, a Baptist minister's wife,
suggested that gay rights supporters are attempting to undermine
religion: “If there was proof, then see this book right here, the
Bible? Throw it out. This book has stood the test of time and
you're not gong to find proof.”
Troy Stevenson, executive director of
LGBT rights advocate Freedom Oklahoma, criticized the bills, saying,
“It's basically a re-institution of segregation, except this time
the gay community won't have a water fountain sitting there, it will
be straights only.”
The 68-year-old Kern previously made
headlines for saying that “the homosexual agenda is a bigger threat
than terrorism” at a 2008 gathering of Republicans.
Sally, just because pseudo-religious terrorist like you, have been oppressing and torturing homosexuals for 2 thousand years, doesn't make it a religious right.
It's evil, vile and disgusting, just like you.
Ask yourself Sally, how much homosexual blood has been spilled in the name of Jesus, how many lives have been ruined, how many gay men, women and children have been forcibly tortured by religious zealots?
Now ask yourself, how much heterosexual blood has been spilled by homosexuals?
Have you ever seen, read or heard of just one case where a heterosexual person has been attacked by a homosexual, just for being heterosexual?
Come on, just one?
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
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AL Rep. Patricia Todd Kickin' Ass And Taking Names Later
Alabama State Rep. Patricia Todd has
threatened to reveal the adulterous affairs of lawmakers who oppose
gay marriage.
Todd, Alabama's first openly gay
elected lawmaker, made her threat in a Facebook post published
shortly after House Speaker Mike Hubbard, a Republican, released a
statement condemning a federal judge's ruling striking down the
state's ban on gay marriage.
“We will continue defending the
Christian conservative values that make Alabama a special place to
live,” Hubbard
said.
“I will not stand by and allow
legislators to talk about 'family values' when they have affairs, and
I know of many who are and have,” Todd wrote. “I will call our
elected officials who want to hide in the closet OUT.”
“One thing I'm pretty consistent on
is, I do not like hypocrites,” she told The Huffington Post.
“If you can explain your position and you hold yourself to the
same standard you want to hold me to, then fine. But you cannot go
out there and smear my community by condemning us and somehow making
us feel less than and expect me to be quiet.”
Gay victims of the Holocaust, we will remember you
'We must exterminate these [homosexuals] root and branch...We can't permit such danger to the country; the homosexual must be entirely eliminated.'
With these chilling words, the head of the SS, Heinrich Himmler, set out the Nazi master plan for the sexual cleansing of the Aryan race.
Heinz F was a care-free young German gay man in the early 1930s. He had no idea of what was about to happen. 'I didn't fully understand the situation,' he admitted with pained regret. One morning, out of the blue, the police knocked on his door. 'You are suspected of being a homosexual,' they told him. 'You are hereby under arrest.'
'What could I do? Off I went to Dachau, without a trial,' he recalls in an interview for the documentary film Paragraph 175. After spending a year and a half in Dachau, Heinz was released but soon rearrested and sent to Buchenwald. He was stunned to discover the grisly fate of gay and bisexual men. 'Almost all the homosexuals...nearly all of them...were killed.'
Heinz amazingly survived a total of eight-plus years in concentration camps. Following the war, he never spoke to anyone about his experiences. He was afraid. Gay ex-prisoners were regarded as common criminals - not victims of Nazism. With tears trickling down his cheeks, he lamented: 'Nobody wanted to hear about it.'
His life had been very different up until 1933. Berlin was the gay capital of the world, with a huge, buzzing gay scene of bars and clubs. It boasted gay magazines and gay arts and sports associations, as well as organisations campaigning for greater understanding and rights. Life in Berlin was good - and getting better - for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people. Although homosexuality was illegal under paragraph 175 of the German criminal code, it was relatively rarely enforced. In the Reichstag, MPs were on the verge of securing its repeal. A new era of freedom seemed to be dawning. Then came the horrors of Nazism.
Within weeks of assuming power in 1933, Hitler outlawed homosexual organisations and publications. Gay bars and clubs were closed down soon afterwards. Storm troopers ransacked the headquarters of the gay rights movement, the Institute of Sexual Science, and publicly burned its vast library of 'degenerate' books.
Before the end of the year, the first homosexuals were deported to newly established concentration camps.
In 1934, the Nazis stepped up their anti-gay campaign, with the creation of the Reich Office for Combating Abortion and Homosexuality. According to Himmler: 'Those who practice homosexuality deprive Germany of the children they owe her ... our nation will fall to pieces because of that plague.' The police were ordered to draw up 'pink lists' of known or suspected homosexuals. Mass arrests followed.
The Nazis again intensified the war against what they called 'abnormal existence' in 1935, broadening the definition of homosexual behavior and the grounds for arrest. Gossip and innuendo became evidence. A man could be incarcerated on the basis of a mere touch, gesture or look.
Later, Himmler authorized a ‘scientific’ program for the eradication of 'this vice'. Gay prisoners were subjected to gruesome medical experiments in a bid to 'cure' their homosexuality - including hormone implants and castration.
From 1933-1945, an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 men were arrested under paragraph 175 for the crime of homosexuality. Some were tried and sentenced in the courts; others were sent direct to concentration camps without any trial or formal sentence. The death rate of gay prisoners in the camps was over 50 per cent, the highest among non-Jewish victims.
Heinz Dormer and Gad Beck were also interviewed for the film Paragraph 175. Dormer spent nearly ten years in prisons and concentration camps. He remembers the haunting, agonized cries from 'the singing forest', a row of tall poles on which condemned men were hung: 'Everyone who was sentenced to death would be lifted up onto the hook. The howling and screaming were inhuman...Beyond human comprehension.'
The Nazi ‘homocaust’ sought to completely eliminate gay and bisexual men. It was an integral part of the Holocaust. Contrary to false histories that claim the persecution of Jewish people was entirely distinct and separate from the victimization of other minorities, the mass murder of Jews was part of Hitler’s grand design for the racial and genetic purification of the German volk. The Nazis set out to eradicate what they deemed to be racial and genetic "inferiors" - not just Jews, but also gay, disabled, Slav, Roma and Sinti people.
Gad Beck carried a double burden. He was gay and Jewish. He recalls his first sexual experience as a teenage schoolboy: 'I ran home to my mother and said: "Mother, today I had my first man."' Luckily, his parents accepted his homosexuality. But they feared for his safety: 'They said: "Oh my god, he's Jewish and he's gay. Either way he'll be persecuted. This cannot end well."' But Beck survived the war, although nearly everyone around him perished. Two of his lovers were seized by the Nazis: 'I met this beautiful blonde Jew. He invited me to spend the night. In the morning the Gestapo came ... I showed my ID - not on the list. They took him to Auschwitz. It had a different value then, a night of love.'
Later, Beck tried to free another lover, Manfred Lewin, from a Gestapo transfer camp. He posed as a Hitler Youth member and asked the commandant to release Manfred to help with a construction project. Although this incredibly daring, dangerous deception was successful, as they walked to freedom Manfred told Gad he could not abandon his family in the camp. Beck watched helplessly as his lover returned to be with them. He never saw Manfred again. Lewin and his entire family were murdered in Auschwitz.
During the Third Reich, these heart-breaking personal tragedies were repeated over and over millions of times for both gay and non-gay victims of Nazism. But for gay people the trauma was compounded by the fact that they often suffered alone - rejected by their families, persecuted by the Nazis and vilified by other concentration camp inmates.
No wonder so few survived and why so many were reluctant to speak out in the post-war years. Paragraph 175 remained on the statute books after 1945. Homosexuality continued to be a crime in East Germany until 1968 and in West Germany until 1969.
I just want to add, not one of my gay friends knew or remembered what today was...not one!
I have to ask myself, what does that say about us as a community?
Monday, January 26, 2015
I'll See You One Week Of Anti-Gay Marriage RightsSpeeches In The Philippines With One Interview With A Trans Man
Just another Papal dog and pony show to help obfuscate his week long tirade against homos getting married and the furtherance of the churches anti-gay animus while trying to appear concerned about *disordered* Catholics.
Now make sure your a good little faggot and drop your 10% tithe in the collection plate after next Sundays mass so the Pope and the church can fund the next anti-gay rally/Republican candidate they want to sponsor.
Yet More Facebook Homophobia
The above pic, of two policemen about to kiss, has gotten one of my favorite gay photographers a 30 day ban from Facebook for it's content.
Now, I know Facebook is a public forum, but I have seen literally hundreds of pics of str8 couples being far more intimate than this pic is and they weren't even cautioned, let alone banned for 30 days.
It's this all pervasive homophobia, that just oozes from Facebook, that has stopped me from using the forum and with incidents like this continually happening, I doubt my stance will change anytime soon.
A petition has also been started at www.facethehate.org, which calls on Facebook to change the policy for reporting pages and people’s profiles, in order to prevent harassment and bullying.
Sunday, January 25, 2015
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