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Category Archives: Homosexuality
Cumberland County HIV positive black man ordered to trial on new charges of raping child, airing it on the internet
REPORT: It took only a few minutes Monday for a district judge to order William C. Byers Augusta to stand trial in Cumberland County Court on new charges linked to the rape of a 6-year-old boy that was aired over … Continue reading
Farm Boys: Lives of Gay Men from the Rural Midwest
Amazon.com reviews: * “Farm Boys” is a superb work of American oral history and sociology. Author Will Fellows spoke to rural gay Midwestern men of all ages, to draw out, record and give shape to their life stories. The result … Continue reading
Life As A Deeply Closeted Orthodox Rabbi
Some Orthodox rabbis are impossible to understand until you realize that they are deeply closeted gay men. Sure, they might have wives and children, but at heart, they feel a romantic and sexual tug towards males. They may never act … Continue reading
NETHERLANDS: Daughter of Archbishop Desmond Tutu Ties Knot with Woman Professor
REPORT: The Rev. Canon Mpho Tutu, the daughter of former South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, tied the knot this week with Professor Marceline van Furth in the Netherlands. According to Netherlands broadcaster Jeanette Chabalala of News24, the couple reportedly married … Continue reading
NYT: U.S. Support of Gay Rights in Africa May Have Done More Harm Than Good
Comment: “Shockingly, liberals’ attempts to impose their peculiar brand of morality on third world savages has not played out as expected. The self-righteous feelz must have been pretty satisfying at the time, though.” New York Times: LAGOS, Nigeria — Suspicious … Continue reading
Salon: Was planning a march against violence against women an inherently racist undertaking?
From 1999: There is one person on the planet whom I can honestly say I hate. This in spite of two and a half years of lovingkindness meditation. I’m not talking about the profound yet somehow abstract hatred you feel … Continue reading
The Power of HIV-Positive Thinking
Jim Goad writes: There are multiple documented cases of people purposely infecting others with HIV, which makes me puke just a little bit more into the bag. “While most people try to avoid acquiring viruses online, these fellas make it … Continue reading
The UC Lesbian Mafia
Comments: The U. of California system has an Old Lesbians Network among the administrators, such as the UC Santa Cruz president who jumped off the highrise of her girlfriend (for whom she had gotten a $180k job with UC). * … Continue reading
Mean Girls
Comments to Steve Sailer: * It’s hard to deal with these sorts of girls, because they take a small scale personal conflict and escalate it into a societal issue and rope as many others into the drama as possible. They … Continue reading
Maureen Dowd Slams Hollywood Sexism: ‘It’s a Sick Society – Like the Catholic Church and Saudi Arabia’
TheWrap: “New York Times writer Maureen Dowd lambasted Hollywood as a “sick society” that clings to a myth of liberal values while it persists in excluding women from many aspects of the entertainment business.” Comments: No mention that Hollywood is … Continue reading