Comments on: Gay BBC Radio Host Threatened With Arrest in Uganda

By: Timothy Kincaid

Timothy Kincaid — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:02:31 +0000

But while the traditional healers were laughing at him, I’d certainly rather meet them in a dark alley than the good Christian fellow. They seem less likely to murder me. And I think I’d survive being whacked with a wet chicken.

By: Timothy Kincaid

Timothy Kincaid — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 23:59:28 +0000

Meredith,

So this was less of an exorcism of a spirit than an invocation for a possession? (My Voudou knowledge is a bit sketchy)

By: james

james — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:04:01 +0000

You know, every time I’ve ever rubbed a wet chicken against my body my homosexual urges only grew! Different kind of chicken, though.

By: Meredith

Meredith — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 07:17:33 +0000

Having seen video of traditional Vodou/Vodun rituals, I think that’s what they were doing here. They use roosters (which I believe are associated with Elegua/Legba, the loa of the crossroads between the earth and the spirit realm) to draw the veve of whatever loa they want to invoke in the air, and the tree they had him leaning on was probably what in Haitian Voudou is called a poteau mitan, the center post the loa use as a guide down to earth to (hopefully) enter a designated body and give it their attributes. I think that’s what they were attempting here–to call a spirit down to enter Mills’s body to give him more “manly” straight attributes.

The laughing was probably just due to the fact that he was scared of the chickens. I’m not gonna lie, either; I laughed when he said he didn’t want to do it if there were chickens involved because they might flap at him.

By: darkmoonman

darkmoonman — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 22:16:00 +0000

This called “let’s make fun of the stupid whiteboy.”

By: WMDKitty

WMDKitty — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 04:44:28 +0000

Best. “Exorcism”. Evar.

By: Rob San Diego

Rob San Diego — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 01:46:48 +0000

Are you telling me that I could of been straight all this time and all I had to do was find people to laugh at me while they rub my body with a wet chicken?

I tried the wet chicken thing before but I didn’t have people laugh at me, I also used clean pure water. It appears in this vid that they used dirty stagnant water.

Maybe the key is dirty water and laughter. It must unlock the secret proprieties of heterosexuality. But then there is the whole self humiliation aspect of the ritual itself. So feeling dirty and being ridiculed is what makes a straight man straight.

If only there were a scientific device that could help me out in all of this, (clenching my fist to the sky I yell,) “Damn you Star Trek, where is my Tricorder?”

By: Pender

Pender — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 01:35:39 +0000

Isn’t that an act of war? Can we call in the Predator drones yet?

By: anteros

anteros — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 00:30:27 +0000

armed police arrived at the sheraton? dude wasn’t playing around… he meant business. maybe misdirected payback for being sent away from that conference stateside?

By: tavdy79

tavdy79 — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 20:50:36 +0000

I imagine that after his experience with Rachel Maddow, Bahati is somewhat wary of gay media types.

@ AJD, don’t be too surprised. Surreal as it might seem, Fawlty Towers was based on the experiences the Monty Python team had while staying at the Gleneagles hotel on the English Riviera. Which just goes to prove that, as here, reality really is often stranger than fiction – especially when it involves those whose grasp on reality is somewhat attenuated.