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Friday, June 11, 2010

Know Your LGBT History - Adorable Adrian Adonis

A few months ago, I featured a segment on the "Exotic" Adrian Street, a rule-breaking professional wrestler who acted gay to unnerve his opponents.

At the time, I said Street's portrayal was an excellent satire on homophobic fears.

Unfortunately there have been other exploitations of homophobic fears in pro wrestling and they weren't all as well done as Street.

The late Adrian Adonis (Keith A. Franke) is not known to many except for the die-hard pro wrestling fans (like myself) and this is a shame because he was one of the best.

In the American Wrestling Association, he and former Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura formed the East-West Connection and held the tag team titles:

Then he moved to the World Wrestling Federation (now World Wresting Entertainment) where he held tag team titles with the late Dick Murdoch.

During this time, he had a tough guy leather gimmick which was pretty cool:

The man interviewing Adonis is one "Rowdy" Roddy Piper. Then Piper was in his super rulebreaker, bad guy wrestler mode with his show "Piper's Pit," which made him legendary amongst wrestling fans. Remember this because it's important for later.

Then things changed. Adonis took to not only wearing dresses and make-up during interviews and also while he wrestled:

This led to a very interesting angle. An "angle" in wrestling terms is a storyline. In this particular "angle," Roddy Piper had left the WWF due to a leg injury and Adonis had taken over his show, changing it from "Piper's Pit" into the "Flower Shop."

Needless to say when Piper came back, he wasn't pleased. And yes it was because of the homosexual implications. If you don't want to watch the entire clip below, here is the gist. Piper is HIGHLY offended by Adonis's show and his manner and says so, leading him to be destroyed by not only Adonis but two other wrestlers:

Which led to a match at Wrestlemania 3 where the loser gets his hair cut. Guess who lost?:

President Obama says 'ass,' Concerned Women for America fan themselves and other Friday midday news briefs

President Says Potty Word, Concerned Women for America Hit Fainting Couch - This is the SAME group which doesn't have a problem with the discredited research of Paul Cameron.

Survey: Bisexual women in poorest health - BEFORE the religious right tries to distort this study's outcome to demonize the lgbt community (and they will), take a look at what it says as to the why bisexual women have health problems. Two to one, the religious right will omit this crucial part of the study.

Gay Youth Homeless Shelter Vandalized - This doesn't make any sense at all. But since when does hate ever make since?

Gay flag raises issue at VA - Other flags have been raised. Those who disagree with this should get over themselves.

WeHo issues Lesbian Health Bill of Rights - An excellent idea whose time has come. It needs to be expanded to other cities and states.

Arizona mayor insults gay troops during Memorial Day speech

It's one thing to have a personal belief that homosexuality is a sin, but it's something else entirely to have that belief lead you into acting like a damn fool

Someone should make Yuma, AZ mayor Al Krieger aware of this fact. At a Memorial Day service honoring fallen troops at the Desert Lawn Cemetery, he disrespected our lgbt fighting men and women by saying the following:

I cannot believe that a bunch of lacy-drawered, limp-wristed people could do what those men have done in the past.

And then to make matters worse, while refusing to apologize for the comment, he compared himself to former presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln:

I hate situations when public officials make ugly anti-gay comments and then try to make themselves seem noble for doing such.

The ugliness of Kreiger's comments is only exacerbated by his self-righteous tone.

Kreiger would do well to remember that the freedom he enjoys, including the right to run his mouth like a horse's ass, was bought and paid for partly by the lives and limbs of "lacy-drawered, limp-wristed people."

And if he can't say thank you, then maybe he shouldn't say anything at all.

Just a suggestion.

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Make the Health and Human Services aware of Peter Sprigg's anti-gay bias

This idea came from Jeremy Hooper of Goodasyou.org

I would suggest that more of us get involved to do this sort of thing. The following is my email to the Health and Human Services Advisory Committee on Blood Safety and Availability (ACBSA):

Dear Health and Human Services Advisory Committee on Blood Safety and Availability (ACBSA):

As I understand it, tomorrow you will be hearing testimony from Peter Sprigg of the Family Research Council concerning the ban on gay blood donors.

While I understand the need for parity and listening to both sides of an issue, please bear in mind that Sprigg is not an unbiased or an accurate witness in matters of the gay community.

In 2008, he has advocated for the exportation of gays out of the United States and earlier this year, on Hardball with Chris Matthews, he said that "gay behavior" should be outlawed.

Again, I understand the need for parity, but when one is dealing with a serious issue such as this, it is crucial that one hears accurate and unbiased testimony so that the right course of action will be taken.

You will not receive accurate and unbiased testimony from Sprigg.

Thank you for your time,

Alvin McEwen
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters
www.holybulliesandheadlessmonsters.blogspot.com

The email address for the Health and Human Services Advisory Committee on Blood Safety and Availability (ACBSA) is ACBSA@hhs.gov

Feel free to cc: Jerry Holmberg, Ph.D., Senior Advisor for Blood Policy and Richard Henry, Deputy Director for Blood Policy and Programs (jerry.holmberg@hhs.gov, richard.henry@hhs.gov)

AIDS drug funds could suffer because of Tea Party nonsense and other Thursday midday news briefs

AIDS drug funds threatened by Tea Party scare? - This ain't good, folks.

FRC Ominously Warns of "The Pinking of America" - Shhh! Don't give our nefarious plans away just yet, FRC.

Fischer: "The Inescapable Conclusion is That Gay Sex is a Form of Domestic Terrorism" - How low can Bryan Fischer sink the already sullen reputation of the American Family Association?

Federal health panel considers allowing gay men to donate blood - This hearing is needed.

Is this what Peter LaBarbera want to teach youths about the gay community?

Since news came out yesterday of Peter LaBarbera trying to start a "Truth Academy" designed to fight the alleged "gay agenda" and "reverse years of pro-”gay” brainwashing in the schools and popular culture," I couldn't help but to ruminate over it.

The news of LaBarbera's "Truth Academy" was met with derision by some. But let's not be so quick to totally laugh it off, especially when one takes into account who his "instructors" are going to be.

LaBarbera's tenative list is a veritable who's who when it comes to disseminating false and dehumanizing data on lgbts, such as Matt Barber, seen here at the religious right "Great Awakening" panel discussion on lgbt rights, where gay rights are linked to the raping of disabled veterans, child molestation, bestiality, and fecal matter:

One wonders if LaBarbera will invite homophobic Ugandan Martin Ssempa to teach students. After all, this sort of thing seems to be up his alley:

Wednesday, June 09, 2010

'Porno Pete' LaBarbera wants to instruct the next generation

It always happens. Every time I promise that a certain post is coming up, something wild always comes up which causes me to pre-empt it.

Peter LaBarbera, head of the anti-gay group Americans for Truth, claims to have spent many years "tracking" and "exposing" the alleged "gay agenda."

However his legacy will be the monicker of "Porn Pete" given to him by members of the lgbt community for his penchant of going to subcultural and leather events to take pictures of gay attendees while giving heterosexual attendees a free pass.

In this age of the Rekers rentboy scandal, draw your own conclusions about this sort of behavior. I won't because I am neither a psychologist or teacher.

However, LaBarbera is now seeking to be the latter. He is actually attempting to start the "Truth Academy," which he says is designed for instructing youths (between the ages of 14 to 25) lessons in "combatting the gay agenda" and supposed homosexual "misinformation." at a cost of $99 a head.

It almost sounds like a plot out of a B-rated science fiction movie (Plan Stop the 'Queers' from Outer Space?), except for the fact that LaBarbera is serious. He has even assembled a team of "instructors," including:

Robert Knight of Coral Ridge Ministries - who has spent years demonizing the lgbt community even to the point of freely citing the discredited research of Paul Cameron, a man who publishes "research papers" accusing gays of such things as wallowing in feces and plunging gerbils up their rectums.

Knight has also in the past described lesbians as "pretty big heavy set women who look like they’ve been over working October Fest for the last six years "

Ryan Sorba, Young Conservatives of California - a man so nastily anti-gay that he was booed off of the stage at a right-wing conservative conference for his comments.

Laurie Higgins, Illinois Family Institute - who has compared the lgbt community to the Nazi Party and in a recent harangue, viciously attacked President Obama for acknowledging that June as LGBT Pride Month:

Once again, Barack Obama has affirmed his commitment to radical, subversive change; his sycophancy to the homosexual lobby; and, implicitly, his embrace of heresy.
...
...the sexual impulses and sexual behavior of homosexuals and cross-dressers are irrelevant to their contributions. Therefore, making irrelevant characteristics the central focus of "Pride" month as Obama did is absurd. More important, the particular irrelevant characteristics that Obama has chosen to highlight are, in the view of many, disordered and immoral.

Those who experience, for example, selfish, vain, greedy, gluttonous, deceitful, promiscuous, incestuous, sadistic, pederastic, gossipy, philandering, or polyamorous impulses and engage in behaviors impelled by such impulses have also contributed to society. How would Americans respond if the president were to proclaim June "Polyamory Pride Month"? Substituting another irrelevant and morally questionable characteristic for homosexuality brings into sharper relief the dubious nature of Obama's proclamation.

Greg Quinlan, Parents and Friends of Gays and Ex-Gays - who, when he is not distorting the words of prominent researchers such as Dr. Francis Collins, attempts to spin court defeats into victories for his fraudulent group.

And last but not least:

Matt Barber, Liberty Counsel - who has made a career out spinning the false tale of how he was fired from his job at AllState Insurance "simply" for writing an anti-gay column on "his own time," while not commenting on the allegations that he not only used company equipment to do so but also identified himself as an employee of AllState in the piece in question.

Barber is also the same man who described gay relationships as “one man violently cramming his penis into another man’s lower intestine and calling it ‘love.’”

And lest we forget, Barber is also the same man who encouraged attendees at a conference last year to go into more detail in describing gay sex acts as a way to disgust people.

Imagine him instructing 14 to 25-year-olds on how to be anti-gay.

With all due respect to LaBarbera, his "Truth Academy" and his "crackpot" team of associates, I wouldn't take my pet dog to his academy much less any youth I knew.

And I would sincerely hope many others would have the good common sense not to either.