Mixed
Foreskin Man!
Jul 30th
Periodical Political Post *57
Jul 28th
Queer News
- Argentina becomes first country in Latin America to legalise gay marriage
- Nepal plans to hold first gay pride march in its history
- First Europe Pride in Warsaw draws cheers and jeers
- Gay Australian cabinet minister comes out against gay marriage
- 17 people die, 18 get injured at gay party shooting in Mexico
- New Zealand school sanctioned for firing gay sports coach
- Gay Zombie film banned from festival by Australian censor
Other News
- US judge who sent kids to prison for money pleads guilty
- Second student sues US school district over webcam spying
- Brutal guide to punishing kids in jail revealed in the UK
- British girls undergo horror of genital mutilation despite tough laws
- Australia refuses to share web-spying plans, fears "unnecessary debate"
- Montana parents outraged over plans to teach kids about sexuality
- Officer cleared of charges in berating of skateboarding teen
- Fundamentalist Christians more inclined toward domestic violence
- Boy dressed as Joker sets school on fire in revenge on hypocrisy
- High taxes are a nightmare! Or are they? Highly taxed countries Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden & Netherlands are the world’s happiest countries. And the most democratic. And the ones with the most press freedom. And the least corruption. Let your local Teabags know ;)
Argentina became the first Latin American country to legalize same-sex marriage. They join a small international club of countries where gay couples enjoy the same rights as heterosexual couples.
Thanks to our newshounds Bodmin, Alex & Nes who sent in stories for this post. Did you find an article you want to share? Let us know!
Sharing is Daring
Jul 23rd
Sharing is Caring, a motto that is apparently still not fashionable in America as a teenage boy gets arrested because his friend shared his lunch with him. Another little victory in the never ending fight against socialism! Oh boy.
Sharing or trading food during school lunchtime is not unheard of, but sharing landed one teenager in police handcuffs. Adam Hernandez was accused of stealing chicken nuggets from a $2.60 meal. But those were actually the nuggets his friend, Gakaree Garner, gave to him. Adam got in the lunch line to get some sauce for them. According to Garner and the police report the cafeteria cashier told the Assistant Principal Adam stole the chicken nuggets. The Assistant Principal then told the police officer in the school, who called a squad car. Garner says, "They actually put him in handcuffs, and actually tried to force him into the car." Ava Hernandez, Adam’s sister, says, "They were like, ‘Well do you know that friend receives federally free lunch?’, and I said, ‘I do now.’, and they said, ‘Well, it’s illegal to share a free lunch so either way Adam was breaking the law’." Adam was issued a municipal citation for theft and a $170 fine, which he chose to fight in court to keep his record clean. A youth group Urban Underground trumpets Adam’s cause, fighting against young people needlessly being put in the judicial system.
More on the story, a video and photos can be found here
And we thought the Free Lemonade story was ugly. I don’t even know what is worse here: That a school wants a teenage boy arrested and handcuffed for “stealing” or that sharing your lunch is illegal. Good thing he didn’t point the nugget at his buddy saying "bang!" They’d be stringin’ him up on a tree by now. What kind of society is that?
Found at reddit
2 Boys, 1 Cup
Jul 22nd
2000 years old, worth £1.8 million, banned from the USA, not publicly exhibited until 1999.
Meet history’s most expensive piece of gay porn: The Warren Cup
One side depicts a man (the active participant or erastes) engaging in anal sex with a young man (the catamite, eromenos, or passive participant), who lowers himself onto the erastes using a rope or support from the ceiling in roughly the modern sexual position of reverse cowgirl. Meanwhile a boy, perhaps a slave, watches surreptitiously from behind a door — the inferior status of a slave in Roman eyes would make him suitable to this role of voyeur. The other side depicts two young men making love. Both scenes also include draped textiles in the background, as well as a kithara (lyre) in the former scene and auloi (pipes) in the latter. These, along with the careful delineation of ages and status and the wreaths worn by the youths, all suggest a cultured, elite, Hellenized setting with music and entertainment.
Found in this essay about boy love, tweeted by fishfawn & posted on reddit
They called me a Child Pornographer
Jul 20th
I took some photos of my kids naked on a camping trip. A drugstore employee called the police — and my family’s life became a living hell.
Shortly before Thanksgiving 2004, I took my three kids camping in Mistletoe State Park near Augusta, Ga., with my best friend and his two kids. After six years in Savannah, my family was about to move to France for my wife’s new job as an administrator for an American company. We had all been camping together before and figured the trip would be a great getaway from all of the packing, painting and stresses of moving, and would allow the kids to be together for one last time. Our wives decided to stay home to organize the packing and spend some quiet time together to say goodbye.
For us, camping has always been a back-to-basics experience. We pack in all food and supplies to our remote site and take out trash and whatever is not consumed. For toilets, we dig holes with entrenching shovels and cover our traces. We teach our kids respect and responsibility in the forest. And we teach them to have a good time.
Land of the Free…
Helpful Hands?
Jul 17th
Not a day goes by without someone mailing his photo to be featured here. Some actually end up on the blog but most don’t. Not because the people on them don’t look good – a lot of the readers, of you guys, are actually really cute ;) – but because the photo itself doesn’t really fit the quality standards of the blog (there’s no polite way to say that :p). Just look at the photo on the left: There’s an amazingly handsome boy on it (who’s turning 16 today by the way, happy birthday Felix!) but the image is small and the quality isn’t the best. It’s mostly either poor light, an outdated camera or this or that. Now we all know that not everyone can afford a good cam or learn to be a great photographer within a day.
But then again some people are investing a lot of time and money into photography – Olly is just one of them so he’ll be my example here ;) And here’s what I thought: I know that there are quite a few regions where lots of milkies live somewhat close to each other. Like the UK, Sweden or parts of the US. So maybe we could get up a little database with people who are willing to make photos and people who’d like to get one or two good photos of themselves so these people could get in touch with each other? With some kind of feedback system to bar out creeps who might get the wrong idea about the whole thing. The photographers would have some models they could practise with and the people being photographed don’t need to buy an expensive cam and learn how to do proper photos to get a picture that is good enough to be featured here.
Good idea, bad idea? I didn’t really think about the details yet, it was just something that popped into my mind so let me hear your comments & suggestions.
Adventurous Teen Outlaw eventually caught
Jul 12th
19-year-old serial criminal Colton Harris-Moore has been caught in the Caribbean. Finally. The 6-foot-five teen was dubbed the "Barefoot Burglar" during his two-year crime spree because of his habit of removing his shoes prior to break-ins, and sometimes leaving white chalk footprints as a calling card.
"Colt" became an internet folk hero. He was an outdoor survivalist, a pilot and crasher of planes, a hot-wirer of cars, a pirate of boats, a stealer of other people’s stuff, and a prolific amasser of Facebook fans (log in today and hear their lamentations, mostly "Busted, Bro!"). His momma has a book deal, and has retained a lawyer to handle their "entertainment interests."
The long arm of the law caught up with Colt Sunday morning, just before dawn, as he tried to dock a boat he’d recently stolen at a tourist spot in the Bahamas:
Burglary victims in Eleuthera told The Associated Press on Saturday they had little doubt the lanky (…) fugitive was on the island. Ferry boat captain Freddie Grant said he was returning from Harbour Island in northern Eleuthera on Wednesday evening when he saw a tall, white teenager bathing or swimming in an inlet near the ferry landing. Ferry service employee Stan Pennerman also said he saw Harris-Moore lurking in the woods the same day. Neither man thought much of it until they noticed the next morning that somebody had damaged the ignition system on three of their boats.
A bar at the ferry landing was also burglarized Wednesday night by a thief who cut a screen to break in, dismantled a security light, and moved the television’s remote controls, said Denaldo Bain, the 30-year-old manager of Coakley’s International Sporting Lounge. "He was watching television. He was just chilling," said Bain, who also said he saw the teenager in the inlet. [via Boing Boing]
Periodical Political Post *56
Jul 11th
Queer News
- Irish parliament approves civil partnerships bill
- Icelandic prime minister weds as gay marriage becomes legal
- Gay asylum seekers win UK appeal, allowed to stay
- Advance in quest for vaccine against HIW & AIDS
- US doctor claims to have discovered "cure" for lesbians
- ‘I was scared to sleep’: Queer youth face violence in US prisons
Other News
- British surveillance system monitors spoken conversations
- 18-year-old arrested for “selling child porn” of herself
- US police officers taser 86-year-old disabled woman in her bed
- Body scanners at air ports most likely dangerous for humans
- Australia delays internet censorship (incl. gay sites) until next year
- US teacher to girl with Mexico shirt: “What are you doing in my country?”
- Finland enshrines ‘legal right’ to high-speed internet access
Top Story
- Gay Best Friends are this season’s hottest teen accessory
Important sociological journal Teen Vogue has an in-depth and thought-provoking study of a fascinating phenomenon: Sometimes heterosexual females are friends with homosexual males. Though "friends with" implies parity. Let’s say: Heterosexual females have homosexual male friends…
…because it’s trendy!
About the Boys from YouTube
Jul 9th
Do you shave your armpits? Are you cut or uncut? Do you masturbate? How do you pee with a morning wood? When did you first cum? Are you circumcised? How often do you wank?
These where just a few of the many stupid questions the guy in this video got on his formspring after the video was featured here. And according to him this was just what he didn’t delete because it was way too creepy. This happens pretty much every time a video is posted here. Let alone the people who instantly switch into stalking mode whenever they see a cute boy in a video and try to find his Facebook, mail address and so on.
There is no free Lemonade!
Jul 7th
I think you should read this column posted at the Chicago Sun-Times (not The Onion, mind you!).
There is NOTHING I hate worse than sweet little girls doing nice things. Fucking socialists! But seriously: What is wrong with America is that they think this is what is wrong with America. I’d say conservative columnists DO represent everything that’s wrong with America. Meanwhile, I’ll stay with socialism, thanks very much.
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Hope you paid for that drink, pal!
Transgender Teens: Girls will be Boys
Jul 4th
The British soap Hollyoaks is about to introduce a challenging new storyline about Jasmine, the girl who wants to be Jason. Can it help change attitudes to transgender teens?
Victoria Atkin (left), who is to play Jason in Hollyoaks, with Benson Bell.
‘From the age of about eight I knew something wasn’t right with me," says Benson, a 17-year-old from Cumbria. "But it was never an issue because I was just a kid having fun. When I hit puberty and started growing breasts, I looked at other boys and thought, No – that’s the way I am supposed to be. I had no idea what transgender was. The internet helped a lot and I began to read blogs. I never came out to my family; they just guessed, really." At 16, he went to the doctor.
Benson Bell – or Ben to his friends – was born a girl. He is now hanging out on the set of Hollyoaks to swap tips with Victoria Atkin, the actor portraying a transgender boy as part of a controversial new storyline on the teen soap opera. He is one of a group of teenagers with gender identity disorder who have been working in secrecy with the show for the last few months. Also known as gender dysphoria, gender identity disorder is defined as feeling that you were born into the wrong gender. Up to 100 children a year – from babies to 18-year-olds – are referred to the specialist Gender Identity Development Service (Gids) at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. Doctors estimate that of those who are referred pre-puberty, only around 20% will actually change gender. But of those who present post-puberty, up to 80% will go on to have hormone treatment and surgery, as Benson hopes to do.
Early next month, Hollyoaks will follow the character of Jasmine, a 15-year-old girl, on exactly this journey. Jasmine has always felt like a boy and dresses as one in secret. The storyline will chart her transition towards becoming "Jason", coming out to friends and family and taking hormone-blocking treatment. Read on…
