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Friday, October 08, 2010

Know Your LGBT History - Staircase

Not too many people remember Staircase (1969), the story of a two gay hairdressers in a 20 year relationship, even though it starred two legendary actors, Richard Burton and Rex Harrison. There is a reason for this. According to Wikipedia:

Instead of marketing it as the comedy-drama it was, the studio treated it like a camp comedy. It was panned by most critics, including Roger Ebert, who gave it one star in his review and called it "an unpleasant exercise in bad taste . . . Stanley[Donen] gives us no warmth, humor or even the dregs of understanding. He exploits the improbable team of Rex Harrison and Richard Burton as a sideshow attraction." The film was a commercial failure that lost most of its investment.

Rarely seen on television, the film was broadcast by Turner Classic Movies during its June 2007 tribute to gay cinema. Noting this broadcast, a month later film critic Armond White called the film "a rare Hollywood movie to depict gay experience with wisdom, humor and warmth", and "a lost treasure".

Judge for yourself:

MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell cites my piece in takedown of David Barton and other Friday midday news briefs

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Sorry for the brag but the Huffington Piece piece cited by MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell in his very awesome takedown of faux historian David Barton was written by yours truly. Thank you so much Jeremy Hooper for pointing that out. And if I may digress, this does a lot for my day. I have been contemplating for a while whether or not the work that I do in exposing religious right lies is having any effect. I've been doing this for over four years. Not too many people know me. I'm not on television. I do this part time and can't devote as much attention to it as I would like to. So when something like this happens, it lifts my spirits big time.

In other news

Will FRC Take Over The "Day of Truth"? - A lying organization taking over a lying event. Talk about your ugly matches.

Walmart Carrying Anti-Gay Book for Children - What the hell is this?

ABC Family Developing Movie About Lesbian Teen Who Was Banned from Prom - Excellent! Good things keep happening to Constance McMillen.

Gay Member of Rev. Eddie Long’s Church Speaks Out In BET Video - No "new scandal" but excellent nonetheless.

One News Now, Matt Barber dehumanizes recent suicide victims

Our "friend" at the Liberty Counsel, Matt Barber - the same person who defends countries persecuting lgbts - is accusing the lgbt community of exploiting the recent suicides of gay youths.

By way of the American Family Association's One News Now:

Four recent homosexual youth suicides have sparked a fresh cry for anti-bullying laws.

According to the Cyberbullying Research Center's survey of 4,400, one in five youths between the ages of 10 and 18 have been a victim of cyberbullying or admit to participating in it.

Matt Barber, director of cultural affairs for Liberty Counsel, thinks harassment and bullying of all children should be corrected immediately, but he also finds it "absolutely disgusting to watch as the Human Rights Campaign and other extremist gay pressure groups lick their chops and really rub their hands together over the tragic suicides of these troubled and sexually-confused young men. Before these kids have even been laid to rest, the radical homosexual lobbyists pounced."

He decides those groups are "shamelessly exploiting their deaths in order to further their own selfish political self-interests," and he feels their approach is political exploitation "at its slimiest."

Interesting how Barber and One News Now can refer to these children as "sexually confused" but didn't have the decency to say their names.

These children had names, guys. Couldn't you have at least said their names? Or the circumstances which led to their deaths.

Naw, you wouldn't do that. That would be acknowledging them as human beings and calling attention to how your nonsense leads to the stigmatization of not only these children but all gay youth in general.

Their names were:
Seth Walsh
Asher Brown
Tyler Clementi
Raymond Chase

Thursday, October 07, 2010

Shocking new video by Breitbart rocks the White House

A scandal has rocked the White House and the Obama Presidency through a videotape pushed by Andrew Breitbart and James O'Keefe.

The video allegedly shows the president urinating in some undisclosed bathroom, shaking himself once and allegedly not washing his hands.

You may remember that Breitbart is the owner of several blogs, including Big Government, where he daily exposes the Liberal Illumnati out to destroy America. Breitbart was recently tricked into pushing a distorted video of a government worker, Shirley Sherrod, falsely claiming to be racist to a white farmer.

It was later discovered that Sherrod was the one who sent Breitbart the distorted video in an attempt to scandalize the work he does against the liberal agenda.

O'Keefe was the young man who exposed the organization ACORN for the communist thugs they were by dressing up as a pimp and exposing how they defraud the government.

The videos were successful in exposing ACORN's agenda until a secret cabal of liberal attorney generals conspired to claim that O'Keefe had doctored the tapes.

This liberal cabal was also responsible for framing O'Keefe on a charge that he tried to interfere with the telephone system of U.S. Senator Mary Landreau and also had a hand in framing him in a attempt to discredit CNN by trying to trick correspondent Abbie Boudreau to have sex with him on a boat.

According to Breitbart, he and O'Keefe put the video out there to expose the nasty elements of the Obama Presidency in retaliation of not only the unfair branding of tea party members as racists, the planting of racists signs at tea party rallies, but the mind control techniques used by the Obama Administration to make tea party participants create the signs and carry them.

Reaction from the conservative media was swift.

Fox and Friends had a diverse group featuring right-wing columnist Cal Thomas, Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, and Wendy Wright of Concerned Women for America.

All of the three agreed that Obama was secretly assuring that homosexual community that he still would pursue their agenda.

The show also featured a urologist who really didn't have time to talk about the video because everyone, the urologist included, was busy complimenting Gretchen Carlson for searching google to discover what the word "urologist" meant.

Sarah Palin's ghost twitterer voiced her displeasure at the President:

"Once again, President Obama has demonstrated how he is unlike regular Americans. Everyone knows that all American men use two hands to shake their whatchamacallits."

Palin's tweet had to be rewritten because it misspelled "whatchamacallits."

Glenn Beck had a very interesting discussion on his show with Dinesh D'Souza and Newt Gingrich, although neither could agree on whether Obama shaking himself once had anything to do with Saul Alinsky or his "Luo Tribesman father."

Megyn Kelly had shocking new information that didn't need to be corroborated by anyone other than herself that President Obama was at the New Black Panther Party headquarters when he was using the bathroom.

Liz Cheney of the organization "Keep America Safe" also blasted the President:

"The nonchalant way the President shakes himself emboldens the terrorists. If he can't be seriously concerned with eliminating all of his water, how can we be sure that he can be serious about protecting the country?"

In an unusual first, Rush Limbaugh participated with Michelle Malkin in a panel on Sean Hannity's show where they both blamed Michelle Obama for the president's one handed shake. The other panelist, Pam Geller, said Obama was secretly signaling Muslims that he was for the alleged "Ground Zero Mosque."

Hannity said that the video has him conflicted. He said he couldn't decide whether President Obama was a demonic monster or a monstrous demon.

Bill O'Reilly had someone on his show but the person was not identified because O'Reilly kept talking over him or telling him to shut up.

The White House had no comment about the alleged video but according to the site Politico, a White House insider claimed that the video left some things out.

"Of course the President washes his hands after using the bathroom," the insider said.

Editor's note - Just in case someone tries to be stupid, what was written is what one calls satire.

Online bullies make fun of recent suicides and other Thursday midday news briefs

Tasteless online bullies makes fun of recent lgbt youth suicides:

Hat tip to Jeremy Hooper.

In other news:

NJ Senator Calls For Anti-Bully Law After Rutgers Suicide - Well it's about time.

FRC: DeMint So Right In Wanting Gays Banned From Classroom We Don't Even Have To Defend Him - Speechless.

Straight people are hurt by homophobia too - The piece speaks for itself

Chris Armstrong speaks out about attacks from Andrew Shrivell

From AC360, University of Michigan student Chris Armstrong finally speaks out on the campaign of harrassment waged against him by Assistant AG Andrew Shrivell

Hat tip Joe.My.God.

Wednesday, October 06, 2010

Exodus International dropping support of anti-gay event Day of Truth

From the Department of What Took Them So Long:

A national Christian organization will stop sponsoring an annual event that encourages school students to "counter the promotion of homosexual behavior" because the event has become too divisive and confrontational, the group's president told CNN on Wednesday.

"All the recent attention to bullying helped us realize that we need to equip kids to live out biblical tolerance and grace while treating their neighbors as they'd like to be treated, whether they agree with them or not," said Alan Chambers, President of Exodus International, the group that sponsored the event this year.

Called the Day of Truth, the annual April event has been pushed by influential conservative Christian groups as a way to counter to the annual Day of Silence, an event promoted by gay rights advocates to highlight threats against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students.

The Day of Truth, held on the same day as the Day of Silence, "was established to counter the promotion of homosexual behavior and to express an opposing viewpoint from a Christian perspective," according to a manual for this year's event published by Exodus International.

On the Day of Silence, students take a "a vow of silence to bring attention to anti-LGBT name-calling, bullying and harassment in their schools," according to a web site run by the event's sponsor, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN).

The Day of Silence began in 1996. The Day of Truth started in 2005 and attracted the participation of 6,000 students nationwide this year, Chambers said.

"I thank Exodus for making this very important step," said GLSEN Executive Director Eliza Byard on Wednesday after hearing of Exodus' decision. "The Day of Truth was an effort to push a very specific set of opinions about homosexuality into schools in a way that was inappropriate and divisive."

More here

It's a nice article but let's be honest. The Day of Truth was a flop from the beginning. It was a bad idea pushing bad information on children. Compared to the Day of Silence, the Day of Truth paled like snow. It got very little support and even less media attention, unlike the Day of Silence, which so many folks got on board. Exodus International probably pulled support from Day of Truth to save face.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Hat tip to Truth Wins Out

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Day after the Day of Truth - another Day of Silence

Day of Truth? Give me a break!!