Posts tagged USA
Periodical Political Post *48
Mar 19th
- US general says Srebrenica massacre was fault of Gay Dutch soldiers
- UK passes bill to cut off internet for thousands of households
- Most British schools break law to spy on their pupils
- US court says govt. can put non-sex-offenders on sex-offender-list
- Texas rewrites school books to fit Republican agenda
- In the US loud sex is a reason for cops to search your home
- US department of defence fights secret war on WikiLeaks
- Canadian government tries to censor press about climate change
- Viacom sued YouTube over videos uploaded by… Viacom
- MySpace sells user photos, blog posts, names, zip codes etc.
- French village went insane after CIA spiked its bread with LSD
A man in Cornwall, England was barred from hosting a gay disco at a community hall because of fears a party full of homosexuals could offend the local Christians in the town of St Agnes.
Godly Boyish
Mar 14th
Cam Archer is an independent filmmaker who, at the same age of most recent college graduates, has written and directed a vast amount of his critically acclaimed and award winning films. His debut feature film Wild Tigers I Have Known, which was executively produced by veteran indie filmmaker Gus Van Sant, premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and has gone on to become a landmark in new-queer cinema.
While dealing with the sensitive and taboo subject of adolescents coming to terms with their homosexuality, Archer creates images that are fresh, beautiful, and undoubtedly original. His films blend formal narrative structure with extreme and abrasive experimental imagery to help tie the symbolic knots together, and create a better understanding of the state of mind in which his main subject is trapped inside. His work, which could be compared to many Van Sant films, (Elephant comes to mind) are able to hold up on their own through their breathtaking cinematography, subtle background scores, and of course an innovative take on a subject that has been dealt with thousands of times in the history of cinema. Archer is a controversial artist, who makes films on his own terms, and through his collection of work, has created a style in which no film buff could deny.
In the short film Goodly Boyish, Cam Archer’s moody, elliptical exploration of the interior lives of teenagers, two boys (Jasper Bel and Cassidy Field) dream of a life together in heaven…
Husbands & Husbands
Mar 12th
An interesting exchange with a small boy who meets a gay couple at a family function
For this boy it was a simple step of logic. First, he admits he knew about husbands and wives but had never seen a husband and husband before. He says: "This is the very first time I’ve seen husbands and husbands." And then he draws his conclusion: "So that means you love each other." A logical conclusion, but one so many people seem to miss.
Periodical Political Post *47
Mar 11th
- Mexico enacts Latin America’s first gay marriage law
- US Anti-Gay senator comes out as gay after arrest
- Kid kicked out of pre-school because parents are gay
- US high-school prom cancelled in Lesbian panic
- Man branded as pedo for taking photo of his son
- Obama supports DNA sampling upon arrest
- European Parliament gives the US a lesson on freedom
- Why surveillance cameras won’t make us safer
US newspaper readers are in uproar over this photo. The Washington Post’s internal ombudsman has defended the newspaper’s decision to carry a front-page photo of a gay couple kissing. The newspaper printed the image last week on the first day gay couples in the district were able to apply for marriage licences. Couple Jeremy Ames and Taka Ariga are shown sharing a peck on the lips outside the DC Superior Court. But Post ombudsman Andrew Alexander said he received complaints from readers: "A few of the readers have engaged in rants, often with anti-gay slurs. One called me to complain about ‘promoting a faggot lifestyle’.” Read on…
Coming Out in Middle School
Mar 9th
Austin didn’t know what to wear to his first gay dance last spring. It was bad enough that the gangly 13-year-old from Sand Springs, Okla., had to go without his boyfriend at the time, a 14-year-old star athlete at another middle school, but there were also laundry issues. “I don’t have any clean clothes!” he complained to me by text message, his favored method of communication.
When I met up with him an hour later, he had weathered his wardrobe crisis (he was in jeans and a beige T-shirt with musical instruments on it) but was still a nervous wreck. “I’m kind of scared,” he confessed. “Who am I going to talk to? I wish my boyfriend could come.” But his boyfriend couldn’t find anyone to give him a ride nor, Austin explained, could his boyfriend ask his father for one. “His dad would give him up for adoption if he knew he was gay,” Austin told me. “I’m serious. He has the strictest, scariest dad ever. He has to date girls and act all tough so that people won’t suspect.”
Austin doesn’t have to play “the pretend game,” as he calls it, anymore. At his middle school, he has come out to his close friends, who have been supportive. A few of his female friends responded that they were bisexual. “Half the girls I know are bisexual,” he said. He hadn’t planned on coming out to his mom yet, but she found out a week before the dance. “I told my cousin, my cousin told this other girl, she told her mother, her mother told my mom and then my mom told me,” Austin explained. “The only person who really has a problem with it is my older sister, who keeps saying: ‘It’s just a phase! It’s just a phase!’ ” Read on
Periodical Political Post *46
Feb 26th
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- Australian Senate rejects gay marriage bill even ‘tho 60% of Aussies support it
- New Bill will allow British schools to teach that homosexuality is wrong
- France first country to delist Transgenderism as a mental illness
- Lithuanian law bans promotion of gay marriage & sexual relations between minors
- US congress renews PATRIOT Act, keeps abandoning civil rights
- US fesses up to potentially illegal spying, including peace groups and Planned Parenthood
- Texas stores blood samples of new born babies for massive DNA database
- Citibank closes bank account of gay social network, says content is “objectionable”
- Iceland’s new free speech laws for media after Swedish model pass first discussion
- US copyright lobby says using open source software makes you a pirate
After threatening to end its adoption and homeless services programs in Washington D.C. if the City Council approved gay marriage there, the catholic church’s charities unit is indeed dismantling its foster care program because they fear the city might somehow "force" the church to officiate gay unions and recognize same-sex partners of employees. However, maybe this has turned out for the best. The children, their families, and even the program’s semployees have found a new home — at the National Center for Children and Families, which is not affiliated with any religious institution. Which means these children will still have the services they very much need, without the intervention of a church that abandoned them to uphold discrimination and seeing how church institutions have sexually & physically abused thousands of kids it might be for the better.
- Papst befahl Bischöfen die systematische Vertuschung sexuellen Missbrauchs
- Amnesty International kritisiert CDU & FDP für Blockade von Diskriminierungsschutz
- Zensurgesetz tritt in Kraft, CDU & FDP ignorieren Petition von 134.000 Deutschen
- Rot-Rote Regierung in Berlin beschließt Programm gegen Homophobie
- Parlament schickt mehr Soldaten nach Afghanistan, gegen den Willen der Bevölkerung
- Zu links um Deutsch zu sein, Linksparteipolitkerin darf nicht eingebürgert werden
Love Trip
Feb 20th
Download this Video in HD | Found by Declan | Content Warning: Cheesy Clichés :p
I know the protagonist is a bit too young for the average milkboys audience and the film starts out somewhat slow but it has a cute message at the end eventually so watch it till there ;)
