Posts tagged Germany
Happy Bath
Nov 14th
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Kiro
Nov 8th
German pop disaster Cinema Bizarre is one of the worst bands I’ve ever had the dubious pleasure to listen to but Kiro, on of the poor kids they casted for this acoustic horror trip, is quite cute nonetheless, don’t you think?
More photos are available at Teen Idols 4 You
Love is (not) for Everyone!
Nov 6th
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Now that’s amazing! Our very own Zensursula (Ursula von der Leyen, German Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth and infamous amongst the German public for her desperate try to censor the internet) has indexed the new Rammstein album “Liebe is für alle da” (Love is for everyone), meaning that the album cannot be sold to minors and cannot be stocked on store shelves. The album will now only be made available for purchase behind the counter at shops that still carry the CD. Word is that the tracks "Ich tu dir weh" and "Pussy" along with some promotional imagery featuring guitarist Richard Kruspe spanking a female were cause of the ban.
“Ich tu dir weh” is a song about S/M and the joys of giving and receiving pain for sexual sensation (find the song above and the lyrics (German & English) here) and the title “Pussy”, which was banned because it apparently advocates unsafe sex in the times of AIDS is in actual fact a song against sex tourism in third world countries. Some politicians obviously still think teenagers need Rock Music to hear about the evil force called sex. Oh, well…
Go, buy the album! It’s fucking amazing anyways!
Periodical Political Post *38
Oct 23rd
- Anti-gay groups asked to prove how gay marriage threatens traditional unions
- Church of Sweden says yes to gay marriage meanwhile
- Europe paves way for Three-Strikes style ISP disconnection policy
- U.N. Human Rights Council endorses report of Israel’s war crimes
- US military data-mines America’s kids for war recruiting
- French soldiers killed after Italy bribed Taliban in Afghanistan
- Broadband internet for all citizens a legal right with new law in Finland
- US man made coffee in his own home while nude, facing 1 year prison
- Socialists and Greens best for business according to Swedish survey
- Leftist states of Latin America agree on new currency
- Verfassungsgericht behebt mal wieder Fehler der Politik: Diesmal Homoehe
- Auch deutscher Atommüll lagert tonnenweise in Russland
- UN zwingt Israel zur Untersuchung begangener Kriegsverbrechen
- FDP knickt ein, Union plant mehr Überwachung & Ausländerdatei
- Einigung über Internetzensur & VDS kein FDP-Erfolg
- CDU & FDP verharmlosen Nazigewalt und warum das so gefährlich ist
- 28.000 Betriebe verlieren Betriebsrat wenn FDP sich durchsetzt
- Richter: Forderung von FDP & Union nach härteren Jugendstrafen Populismus
- FDP & Union legalisieren Löhne 30% unter normalem Lohnniveau
- "Tricksen, tarnen, täuschen": FDP liebäugelt mit einem Schattenhaushalt
- Grüne lassen Linke Abgeordnete in Landtagen auspionieren
- Grünen Spitze kanzelt Parteijugend wegen Kritik an Jamaika-Koalition ab
- Grüne begrüßen das Mitführen von Maschinenpistolen von NRW-Polizisten
Willst Du?
Oct 20th
Markus was in Cologne, where I lived a few years, and made some nice photos :) But all the sightseeing aside I liked the shots below. The locks are left by (mostly gay) couples after throwing the key into the river. This symbolic act represents the endless love and relationship.
Trap Thursday *14
Oct 15th
Today’s Trap was found & kindly sponsored by Olly ;)
Sourcelink will be published next week for obvious reasons
Periodical Political Post *37
Oct 13th
- US House approves Matthew Shepard hate crimes bill against resistance of Republicans
- Gay hand-holding campaigner has been honoured with award by UK government
- Gay marriage bill will most likely pass in Washington DC in December by congress
- Catholic Church blames gays for child abuse, says there are no pedos in church
- Family values group says 500,000 to boycott Pepsi over its ‘homosexual advocacy’
- Poland as a role model: France considers castration of sex offenders too
- US Department of Justice admits that telco companies are part of the government
- Canadian government using lies to sell Internet wiretapping law
- FBI arrests social worker because he helped organising G20 protest via Twitter
Matthew Wayne Shepard (1976 – 1998) was a student at the University of Wyoming who was tortured & subsequently murdered.
- CDU in Hessen verhindert entgegen Wahlversprechen Gleichstellung homosexueller Beamter
- Internetzensur von Gericht gestoppt bis gesetzliche Basis geschaffen wurde
- Französische Innenministerin will Gesetz zur chemischen Kastration von Sexualstraftätern
- Schäuble gibt zu, dass Internetzensur vor allem Wahlkampfpopulismus war
- Grüne ermöglichen Mitte-Rechts-Bündnis im Saarland, Schuld sind die Anderen?
- Platzeck bweweist mal wieder, dass er der einzige SPDler mit Restverstand ist
- FDP verabschiedet sich rasant von Vor-Wahl-Idealen: PKW-Maut angeregt
- CDU und FDP begraben Solarenergie und sagen Atomausstieg ab
Censorship of Gay Sites
Oct 12th
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Turkey’s two largest gay and lesbian Internet communities, hadigayri.com and gabile.com, have been shut down by the Turkish Telecom Directorate. The newly-created body is permitted to shut down websites without a court order if it believes they violate the Turkish law in any form. The web sites have more than 200,000 members combined. According to its administrators and members, the sites do not contain any criminal or even pornographic content. The directorate blocked the sites without providing any information to the owners or issuing a demand to take down certain content, site mangers said, calling the action unlawful and arbitrary. Read the full story at Pink News Those who get into a rant about censorship in Muslim countries should keep something in mind ‘tho: Many Western states are about to build a web censorship system right now and those who already have one do block mostly gay websites instead of Child Porn, while the latter is the alleged reason behind the whole enterprise. And in times where portraits of fully clothed teenagers are called “child porn” it won’t take long till sites like this will end up on such lists (we had the honour to be on the Australian “child porn” censor list with Count Candy for a while already). |
The worst case, of course, is when some countries don’t even have to come up with such censorship laws – like the USA – because their local companies are so hysterical about everything that doesn’t fit into the norm that its gets deleted anyways. Blogger is a good example here, they started to delete hundreds of perfectly legal gay blogs in August and no, we’re not talking about blogs like milkboys but about blogs with buff 30 year olds.
Kids smash Gender Roles
Oct 6th
US-based toy retailer Toys"R"Us has been reprimanded for gender discrimination following a complaint filed by a group of Swedish sixth graders about the store’s 2008 Christmas catalogue. According to the youngsters, the Toys"R"Us Christmas catalogue featured “outdated gender roles because boys and girls were shown playing with different types of toys, whereby the boys were portrayed as active and the girls as passive”. Thumbing through the catalogue, 13-year-old Hannes Psajd explained that he and his twin sister had always shared the same toys and that he was concerned about the message sent by the Toys"R"Us publication. “Small girls in princess stuff…and here are boys dressed as super heroes. It’s obvious that you get affected by this.” – Read the full article at The Local
Hey Koes, it’s a pony! ;) Photo made by Cheatara
I’m well aware of what kind of comments will be posted by some of our readers but I don’t really care. I’m so sick of these stupid gender clichés. You like boys to be “boyish”? Well, good for you but that doesn’t mean they want to be boyish just because you or the society expects them to be. We should get rid of the whole concept of acting masculine or feminine. The case above isn’t really special for Sweden but I’m glad to see that this Swedish attitude comes to Germany too (even if some Swedes might already be annoyed by all the political correctness ;p).
UPDATE: Boing Boing had a post about this too earlier today and the first 2 comments there made my day. Sorry America, you just got pwned ;o) On a more serious note: Stop thinking of teenagers as brainless mutants, kthx.
Periodical Political Post *36
Oct 2nd
- Study finds no difference between children raised by gay or straight adoptive parents
- Poland’s lower house approves forcible chemical castration for sex offenders
- Amnesty calls for immediate repeal of new medieval anti-gay laws in Indonesia
- Germany obviously dumb: Gets Center-Right government of Christians & Capitalists
- Germany mulls realities of first openly gay foreign minister in Europe but he’s a bitch
- Pirate Party and Socialists with strong results at German Federal Election (at least)
- Vatican doesn’t want that monopoly, says child abuse is rife in other religions too
- Wal-Mart employee reports mother to police over her kids’ bath time photos
- Apropos Wal-Mart: Short overview of the “values” of one of the biggest US companies
- UK Border Agency wants DNA test to detect “true race” of asylum seekers
- 3 of 763 house searches under PATRIOT Act in US in 2008 were related to terrorism
- New law in France to cut off your internet if industry says you’re a pirate
- Weitere Studie bestätigt: Gleichgeschlechtliche Paare sind keine schlechteren Eltern
- ..in die Traufe: FDP würde gern in eimem Runumschlag den Sozialstaat abschaffen
- FDP als Bürgerrechtler? Haha. Erste Amtshandlung in Sachsen: Mehr Überwachung
- Dass ist also der Politikwechsel in Thüringen? SPD will mit CDU statt mit Linken regieren
- Rechtstaatlichkeit in Bayern: Zwei “Islamisten” werden grundlos “vorsorglich” festgenommen
- Potenzieller Außenminister Westerwelle spricht kaum Englisch, lässt BBC-Reporter abblitzen
- Studie des Bundesumweltamtes: Atomausstieg und Kohleverzicht keine Gefahr für Stromversorgung
- Verdammt in alle Ewigkeit: Amerikas Gesetze für Sexualdelikte erklären verliebte Teenies zu Verbrechern
Milk Monday *10
Sep 22nd
It’s still Monday somewhere, right? Good, because this one was too good to be wasted ;) This week’s milkboy is not only especially cute but also blessed with some other talents. Juan José Amaro Fernández was one of the candidates at “Deutschland sucht den Superstar” (a German version of shows like American Idol or Britain’s got Talent), was featured in Germany’s well-known youth magazine BRAVO and his band UNFAMOUS can be found in the German MySpace charts regularly. And he’s a milkboy. Thanks heaps for making that cute photo for us Juan! <3
Go and watch his videos!
