Ricky and Friends: "Don't Fool With the Church"

Yesterday, Rick and his hate-mongerer-in-Christian-clothing buddies spewed the typical claptrap at Justice Sunday III Mr. Santorum said “extreme liberal judges” are “destroying traditional morality and creating a new moral code.” “The Supreme Court has become the supreme branch of the government imposing its unrestrained will on all of the people,” Mr. Santorum said. “The only […]

10 Reasons Gay Marriage is Wrong

This is making the rounds.  Found it at HouseBlend Ten Reasons Gay Marriage Is Wrong1. Being gay is not natural. And as you know Americans have always rejected unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning. 2. Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will […]

Mass voters claim tricked into signing anti-gay petition

This from 365gay.com …. (Boston, Massachusetts) “I don’t want to alarm you, but was your signature stolen?” That is the beginning of an automated telephone message that is going out to thousands of homes throughout Massachusetts. The calls to 10,000 people, along with letters to another 14,000, warn that they may have unwittingly signed petitions […]

Book of Daniel

Two hour premiere tonight.   Found it to be engaging, more reminiscent of Picket Fences than Joan of Arcadia. With a salty dash of Desperate Housewives tossed in or perhaps it was the similar background music?  Either way, the gay characters are soooo not the biggest issue for the American Family Association.  This show has several flavors […]

Coach Rene's team succumbs to Lavender Menace

From 365gay.com (East Lansing, Michigan) More than a dozen people in purple T-shirts with the slogan “Lavender Menace” were scattered throughout the stands Thursday night as Penn State met Michigan State in women's basketball. The demonstrators were protesting against Penn coach Rene Portland who is accused of engaging in a reign of terror over her […]

Brokeback Mountain in Pittsburgh

Opens in Pittsburgh on 1/13/2005.  Sue

NBC's Today Reviews Brokeback Mountain: Labels Character Predator

From Pam's House Blend and GLAAD Gene Shalit of the Today show offered a strange review of Brokeback Mountain, characterizing Jake Gyllenhaal's character as a sexual predator because he's gay.  He dredges up a classic predator/victim gay stereotype that indicates, IMHO, that Shalit was uncomfortable with the movie.  Homophobic?  Yes.  Should GLAAD have called him […]

America helps the white Katrina survivors ….

Caught this little tidbit in Newsweek Katrina—Welcome: 'White Couple' Newsweek Jan. 9, 2006 issue – As Katrina evacuees scrambled to find homes, whites were given incentives to rent in some places, while blacks were charged extra or politely turned away 66 percent of the time, according to a five-state report by the National Fair Housing […]

AFA at it again: NBC's Book of Daniel LGBT connections

This from 365gay.com (Terre Haute, Indiana) NBC affiliate WTWO has become the first station to announce that it will not carry the program “The Book of Daniel” following pressure from the American Family Association. <snip> The American Family Association has been calling for its members to complain to NBC affiliates about the show which features […]

Not a good time to be a woman at Penn State …

The women at Penn State aren't fairing well in the hands of the current Administration.  Women basketball players have been enduring the homophobic tyranny of Rene Portland for years.  and this from today's Post-Gazette … The only sour note is that JoePa appears not to have understood the seriousness of a sex assault charge made against a […]