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Category Archives: Homosexuality
When The Gay Money Comes Pouring In
From the New York Times Book Review: How the Religious Right Made Same-Sex Marriage a Gay Rights Crusade THE ENGAGEMENT: America’s Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage By Sasha Issenberg Money itself, especially the importance of “gay economic might,” also takes … Continue reading
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Jonestown: The Power and the Myth of Alan Jones
From The Guardian May 13, 2020: Alan Jones: end for the shock-jock whose views on women, race and climate pandered to his tiny audience Fifteen years ago, when broadcaster Alan Jones was at the height of his career, media academic … Continue reading
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NYT: Dr. Richard Friedman, Who Debunked Homosexuality Myth, Dies at 79
From the New York Times: In the 1980s, when marriage and adopting children seemed impossible dreams for gay men, the psychoanalyst Richard C. Friedman became their champion. His 1988 book, “Male Homosexuality: A Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspective,” showed that sexual orientation … Continue reading
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LAT: Second body found in West Hollywood home of Democratic donor Ed Buck
Comments at Steve Sailer: * As Lady Bracknell would say, “To lose one gay black prostitute may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose two looks like carelessness.” * One crib death is a tragedy, two is suspicious, three is … Continue reading
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Gay Rock Stars
Comments at Steve Sailer: * First, Mercury was not gay. He was bi. May let this slip in an NPR interview when he got his PhD. The NPR hack was all about celebrating Mercury being a gay icon, and May … Continue reading
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LAT: ‘Researchers find no difference between kids raised by two moms and kids raised by mom and dad’
A friend says about this Los Angeles Times article: There is really an underlying issue that very few persons discuss. We focus on adults’ right to have children and we now believe that the sexual orientation of the parent shouldn’t … Continue reading
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The Homosexual Question, Media Lament Toxic Twitter
* MP3. TOPIC: The Costs of Homosex. Trump’s ban on transgendered in the military, citing costs, re-ignited the culture war. In that context we examine the economic and social price of LGBTQ behavior. Show Notes Donald J. Trump Tweet, Jul. … Continue reading
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LAT: ‘LGBTQ college student is stabbed 20 times in an ‘act of rage,’ but was it a hate crime?’
If Blaze Bernstein was LGBTQ, then those separate categories have no meaning. How could Blaze Bernstein be a lesbian? Was he trans? Unfortunately for the accused murderer Woodard, in 2014 California banned the gay panic defense in murder cases. Women … Continue reading
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Is Gay Happiness Not Worth A Mazal Tov?
Ari Shane Weitz writes: After my boyfriend Avidan and I got engaged at the end of October, our friends and family — both our given and chosen families — congratulated and applauded this milestone. They were celebrating our happiness and … Continue reading
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Gay Jews
Audacious Epigone posts: Riffing off the previous post, the following table shows the percentages, by religious affiliation, who identify as gay or bisexual (N = 8,582): Bear in mind that the Jewish sample, at 161, is small, as the question … Continue reading
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