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  • Births of Babies in Unlikely Places — Or the Grinch Who Impeded Gay/Lesbian Equality
    24 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By James Nimmo
    During this winter solstice time in America some of you will consider again the birth of babies in unlikely places, such as a particular middle-eastern stable during the Roman era approximately 2,000 years ago. And while reading about the 2007 Sissy Awards at www.advocate.com I got to thinking about another unlikely birth place, a particular lesbian womb of the early 21st century. The animal stable birth is well publicized by the anecdotal writings of the Middle Eastern (…)

  • FRANCE / A Look into the Muslim Headscarf Hysteria
    24 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    y Laila Lalami, The Nation
    A kind of aggression." "A successor to the Berlin Wall." "A lever in the long power struggle between democratic values and fundamentalism." "An insult to education." "A terrorist operation."
    These descriptions — by former French President Jacques Chirac; economist Jacques Attali; and philosophers Bernard-Henri Lévy, Alain Finkielkraut and André Glucksmann — do not refer to the next great menace to human civilization but rather to the Muslim woman’s headscarf, (…)

  • Why We Shouldn’t Celebrate Thanksgiving
    22 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Robert JENSEN
    Thanksgiving Day should be turned into a National Day of Atonement to acknowledge the genocide of America’s indigenous peoples.
    After years of being constantly annoyed and often angry about the historical denial built into Thanksgiving Day, I published an essay in November 2005 suggesting we replace the feasting with fasting and create a National Day of Atonement to acknowledge the genocide of indigenous people that is central to the creation of the United States.
    I (…)

  • Truth Wins Out Criticizes Letter Defending Obama’s Decision to Embrace Anti-Gay Gospel Singer Donnie McClurkin
    5 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Christian Right-funded Exodus Ad
    Language Used In Letter Echo’s Offensive 1998 Million Dollar Ex-Gay Campaign
    NEW YORK – Truth Wins Out criticized a letter from GLBT advocates and African American preachers defending Barack Obama’s poor decision to offer a platform to virulently anti-gay gospel singer Donnie McClurkin. In an effort to win the crucial Democratic primary in South Carolina, the Obama campaign seems willing to open it’s “big tent” to bigots at the expense of GLBT citizens, (…)

  • Australian Election: Bush-ite Media IGNORE Iraqi Genocide, Afghan Genocide & Aboriginal Genocide
    3 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Australia is in the middle of a Federal Election campaign but to the best of my knowledge the Australia-complicit carnage in Occupied Iraq – the Iraqi Holocaust, the Iraqi Genocide - has not simply NOT been aired by Australian Mainstream media, the ABC or politicians in a process of egregious and remorseless holocaust-ignoring and genocide-ignoring. This holocaust ignoring in Australia (the Land of Lies and Flies) is so sustained and comprehensive that it amounts to utterly repugnant (…)

  • SPORTS NICKNAMES: HARMLESS OR RACIST?
    22 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The late scholar and author W.E.B. DuBois once wrote, “The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line.”
    Sadly, it is also the problem of the Twenty-First Century as demonstrated by a majority of so-called “justices” on the current United States Supreme Court whose racism is so blatant they had the audacity to cite the case of Brown vs. Topeka, which outlawed racial segregation in public schools, to reinstitute racial segregation in public schools.
    Although the (…)

  • Pointing Out the Monsters among the Sheep
    13 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Pointing Out the Monsters among the Sheep By David Glenn Cox
    They beat a 14-year-old child to death for a minor offense and the law says they did no wrong. Emmett Till was 14 when he was beaten to death in Mississippi back in 1955. He had supposedly whistled at a white woman but that minor offense carried a death sentence. Martin Lee Anderson had stolen his grandmother’s car and was sentenced to boot camp where he was executed for his crime. (…)

  • SEVEN THOUSAND Lashes and Twenty Blows to the Head
    10 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    SEVEN THOUSAND Lashes and Twenty Blows to the Head By James Nimmo
    (OKLAHOMA CITY) As we approach the ninth anniversary of the death of Matthew Shepard (October 12, 1998) it’s neither sentimental nor maudlin but realistic to reflect on two festering sores that have finally broken open this past month in the Congress. Their maturation has been a long time reaching this point but I’m afraid suppuration will begin again from the re-infection and contamination by the homo-haters that are (…)

  • PFOX Cried Wolf
    27 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Wayne Besen
    It was the oddest event in my fifteen-year activism career.
    I had ventured to Orlando, Florida last summer to attend the National Education Association’s annual meeting. Crashing the conference was the so-called "Ex-Gay Educators Caucus," a sham organization run primarily by anti-gay lobbyists, who are attempting to get the viewpoints of "former homosexuals" into public schools. To counter their presence, I staged a press conference outside the huge convention center. (…)

  • A Hero Gets His Due
    26 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Anything But Straight
    by Wayne Besen
    About three years ago, I was lounging in a Montreal hotel room when I got a call from activist Mike Rogers. I was unaware of who he was, but this intense stranger began interrogating me for information about - well, I don’t even remember what the topic was anymore. But, I do recall that he was about the toughest advocate I had encountered in quite some time. As I hung up the phone I thought, "thank God this guy is on our side."
    In an era of softer (…)