Posts Tagged ‘homophobia’

Larry King Currently Accepting Homophobic Flip-Flops

Soften your raging homophobia unto me!
If you're a raging conservative homophobe looking for a prime time interview spot, all you've got to do these days is suddenly pretend to be only a mild conservative homophobe, and you've got an audience on on Larry King Live.
First, noted conservative homophobe Rick Warren appeared on King's show to [...]

Update: Welcome to the Anti-Gay Auditions!

NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM
Well, the National Organization for Marriage keeps bitching at someone to have its hilarious gay storm audition reels pulled down from video sharing sites like Youtube and Vimeo. Citizen bloggers keep ripping their own copies of the auditions and reposting them to those same sites, causing what must [...]

Welcome to the Anti-Gay Auditions!

Here's the National Organization for Marriage's new anti-same-sex-marriage scare ad:
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The Human Rights Campaign has released a report detailing the ad's inaccuracies, which is great. But the HRC has outdone itself this time by tracking down the audition reels of actors stumbling over ridiculous NOM lines like "the clouds are dark and the winds are strong, [...]

Democrats, Republicans Work Together to Out Gays

Last month, Greg Hambrick at the Charleston City Paper wrote a story resurrecting the Lindsay Graham gay rumors—and the renewed effort to out him. It's largely a non-story: Graham is still single, still maybe gay, still saying he's not, and there's no more evidence to suggest he is, still. But that hasn't stopped Michael Signorile, [...]

Fred Phelps Donates Funds to Local Gay Group

Last week, a group of George Washington University students gathered to protest a hateful White House appearance by noted homophobe Fred Phelps and his anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church. The counter-protest used a time-tested anti-Phelps tactic: The "Phelps-A-Thon." Writes G.W. Hatchet columnist Tom Braslavsky:
An initiative called Phelps-A-Thon, similar to that at my high school, donated about [...]

What Minority Do Brits Hate the Most?

Researcher Pete Jones: "being gay or lesbian could be ‘the new black.'"
According to a study conduced by the British Psychological Society’s Division of Occupational Psychology, Brits hold the most "negative attitudes" toward lesbians, followed by gay men, Asians, blacks, and Southeast Asians. Here are the stats:

Step the Fuck Off the Napolitano

Hey, blogger Sascha Elise Cohen! I've just read your satirical op-ed for the Huffington Post asking Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano to be your "Valentine." My favorite part is where you do away with clever jokes crafted from legitimate criticisms to make fun of how you think she looks like a dyke. ha, ha, oh, you [...]

Homophobic Police Graffiti Also Anti-Woman?

Chris Henderson over at upstart blog Just A Couple Questions posted a question for me and some other local news outlets yesterday: Why did media reports about the homophobic graffiti written on a D.C. police officer's locker overlook a second victim in the case—the "female police sergeant" referenced in the graffitti?