News and commentary about the anti-gay lobbyApril 3rd, 2012
Culture is shared perspectives and assumption. It’s the stories so familiar that you don’t need the details. It’s the following overheard statement from the postal agent who delivers our office mail (black man probably in his forties) to our office manager (white woman, early 50’s). The topic was taxes:
“…and churches don’t pay taxes at all and they go and use it on, on, well like that church in Utah, the one Romney goes to, they spent all that money on the thing against the gays, and that’s not right!”
April 3rd, 2012

"Sexual in nature."
Lamda Legal has filed a lawsuit against Waynesville High School in Waynesville, Ohio, about 20 miles south of Dayton, on behalf of Maverich Couch, an openly gay junior who was threatened with suspension for wearing a T-shirt reading “Jesus is not a homophobe” last April for the National Day of Silence. According to Lambda Legal:
The school principle (sic), Mr. Randy Gebhardt, called Maverick into his office and instructed him to turn the T-shirt inside out; Maverick complied. Over the summer, Maverick further researched his First Amendment rights, and when school resumed in the fall of 2011, he approached the school principal seeking permission to wear the T-shirt. Mr. Gebhardt restated that he would be suspended if he wore the shirt.
In January 2012, Lambda Legal sent a letter to Mr. Gebhardt outlining the legal precedent supporting Maverick’s right to wear the shirt, to which the school district issued the response, “the message communicated by the student’s T-shirt is sexual in nature and therefore indecent and inappropriate in a school setting.” [Emphasis mine[
You see, that’s the problem with dealing with people like him. His imagination is far more sexually charged than mine could ever hope to be.
You can sign a petition supporting Maverick Couch here.
April 3rd, 2012
TODAY’S AGENDA:
Savage U Premieres: MTV. Tonight will see the premiere of Savage U, featuring sex advice columnist Dan Savage as he embarks on a national tour of college campuses answering students questions about sex, dating and relationships. According to MTV:
Savage U follows Dan as he drives into university towns across the U.S. answering ANY question with humor and brutal honesty. Along with his trusty sidekick, Lauren, and his popular Q&A lecture, Dan will hit the streets of each campus, ready to get a real feel for what makes each school’s sex and relationship culture unique. From the student center to nighttime hot spots, Dan will talk to students about what really goes on between the stacks, who’s hooking up and who’s holding back. And he’ll give one-on-one advice and listen to students’ unique questions, concerns, and curiosities about sex and relationships.
Schools visited include the University of Maryland, Ohio State University, East Carolina University, Auburn University, the University of Illinois Chicago, Cornell University, the University of Oregon, the University of Central Florida, Rhodes College, the University of California Irvine, Texas Tech University and Tulane University. The series premiers tonight at 11:oo p.m. ET.
Soulforce Equality Ride: New Orleans, LA. The Soulforce Equality Ride, which is on a two-month long trip across the country to visit campuses which openly discriminate against LGBT people, is in New Orleans this week. Today, they will walk the perimeter of the campus of the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary form 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Afterward, they will old a post-demonstration gathering in front of the New Orleans Art Museum in City Park to talk about anti-gay policies at NOBTS, from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m.
TODAY IN HISTORY:
Iowa Supreme Court Declares Ban on Same-Sex Marriage Unconstitutional: 2009. In a unanimous ruling, the Iowa Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling which held that the state’s marriage statute was unconstitutional. The Court concluded that:
We are firmly convinced the exclusion of gay and lesbian people from the institution of civil marriage does not substantially further any important governmental objective. The legislature has excluded a historically disfavored class of persons from a supremely important civil institution without a constitutionally sufficient justification. There is no material fact, genuinely in dispute, that can affect this determination.
Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal and House Speaker Pat Murphy issued a joint statement welcoming the court’s decision. Citing Iowa’s long tradition in being a leader in civil rights, they congratulated “the thousands of Iowans who now can express their love for each other and have it recognized by our laws.” Iowa’s same-sex couples began marrying on April 27.
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April 2nd, 2012
From ABC we have this:
A Catholic priest in Northern Ireland has found himself in hot water after he accidentally displayed a series of pornographic gay images during a presentation to parents of children preparing to receive First Holy Communion.
Father Martin McVeigh projected 16 “indecent images of men” on a projector screen during a March 26 PowerPoint presentation to a group of 26 parents at St. Mary’s School in Pomeroy, Ireland, the BBC reports.
Naturally Father McVeigh has no idea where those pictures came from or how they ended up on the memory stick he inserted into the computer. Here we call such a device a flash drive.
April 2nd, 2012
October 7, 1998. That’s the day that American was introduced to a slight fragile 22 year old gay kid left in the snow to die alongside a rural Wyoming road. That is the day that when the nation shifted.
Every movement has a before and after moment. Often several. When parents in Ohio and Missouri and Nevada heard about Matthew Shepard, and saw his picture, they didn’t see a militant homosexual activist in the big city who got what he had coming; they saw the face of their own kids and the ones down the street. And overnight – literally – things were different.
March 27, 2012. That is the day that Chile was introduced to a slight fragile 24 year old kid who kidnapped and tortured by four young men. He was burned with cigarettes , swastikas were carved into his skin, part of his ear was cut off and then he was beaten to death. And shocked Chileans are ready for change.
I had started a commentary with the above title, but didn’t have time to finish. Fortunately, the Christian Science Monitor has made the same comparison so I can just reference you to their excellent article.
Thousands of mourners thronged the family of 24-year-old Daniel Zamudio as they carried his battered body to his grave on Friday, a month after a violent attack apparently motivated by anti-gay sentiment.
As the family drove through Santiago, bystanders threw flowers, cheered, and chanted for justice. The brutal murder has shocked Chileans and has sent support for gay rights soaring in a country that has lagged behind many of its neighbors in addressing discrimination based on sexual orientation. The case spurred the government to fast-track an antidiscrimination law that has been stalled in the legislature for seven years.
“It’s a historic day. Thousands of people came out to mark a ‘before’ and an ‘after’ for the country,” Jaime Silva, a lawyer representing Zamudio’s family, said in an interview at the funeral. “This crime grabbed attention for its brutality. It was the most brutal attack we’ve seen since the days of the dictatorship. And it was utterly senseless. If it happened to Daniel, it could happen to you or me or any one of us.”
April 2nd, 2012
Last week, we were astonished to read the document dump that revealed the National Organization for Marriage’s race-baiting strategy to drive a wedge between African-Americans and Latinos against fellow members of their respective communities which happen to be LGBT, as well as their strategy to drive wedges within LGBT families. Of course, we’re not astonished at the existence of the strategies themselves, but the casual ease with which they could be set to paper with nary a qualm.
It’s ironic that the only reason those documents were made public is because NOM decided to flout Maine’s campaign finance laws. NOM has refused to disclose their donors as required under Maine law. But it has now surfaced that in 2008 during the height of California’s Prop 8 campaign, former Massachusetts governor and current GOP presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney donated $10,000 to NOM. And more recently, Romney signed NOM’s five-point pledge at the start of the GOP race for the presidential nomination. Now that Romney looks like he is in the best position to take that nomination in August, it’s time he clarified whether he agrees with NOM’s race-baiting and family-dividing strategy. And he needs to do it now, because there’s no way that stain will disappear just by shaking an Etch-A-Sketch come summertime.
April 2nd, 2012
New Jersey’s biggest newspaper (by far) has released an editorial on the National Organization for Marriage:
It is sick beyond words that a group to “save” marriage would exploit racial and ethnic divisions, stir intolerance and fear, and even rip families apart by pitting children against parents. In their self-described “battle,” they come across as the biggest losers of all.
Its not looking like a happy week at the NOM office and today is only Monday.
April 2nd, 2012
TODAY’S AGENDA:
Soulforce Equality Ride: New Orleans, LA. The Soulforce Equality Ride, which is on a two-month long trip across the country to visit campuses which openly discriminate against LGBT people, arrived in New Orleans yesterday, where they will remain for most of this week. Today, the Equality Ride will be in friendly territory with a UNITY Group meeting of the University of New Orleans. That meeting will take place at Fair Grinds Coffee on 3133 Ponce de Leon St. from 4:30 to 5:30. The event is free and open to the public.
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April 1st, 2012
TODAY’S AGENDA:
Other Celebrations This Weekend:BFI London Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, London, UK; Dinah Shore Weekend, Palm Springs, CA.
AIDS Walk Today: Ft. Worth, TX.

TODAY IN HISTORY:
First Openly Lesbian Candidate Wins Public Office: 1974. For most of the previous decade, politics was the lifeblood of The University of Michigan’s Ann Arbor campus. In 1964, President Lyndon B Johnson chose that progressive campus to unveil his Great Society proposals during the commencement ceremony. In 1965, the anti-war movement was born when UM faculty members and 3,000 students held the nation’s first faculty-led “teach-in” to protest the Vietnam war. By 1974, protests, demonstrations, sit-ins and teach-ins to support all sorts of counter-cultural causes — civil rights, peace, women’s liberation, marijuana decriminalization, and all sorts of other progressive and radical causes — became mundane events in Ann Arbor’s student life.
And so when Ann Arbor city elections came around in 1974, few eyebrows were raised when a local local political party, the Human Rights Party (HRP), ran Kathy Kozachenko to represent the second ward surrounding the UM campus. The Republicans, which until then had a solid lock on city government, couldn’t find anyone to run in the second ward, leaving a lone Democratic candidate to run against Kozachenko. With Kozachenko running openly as a lesbian, it proved to be a tight race. After expressing fears that she might lose on election day, she ended up winning by just nine votes. “This is so goddamn great!” she told reporters. “Our victory cannot be attributed simply to gay people and the HRP ‘core’. I think people really understood the difference between actions and words.” Meanwhile, Kozachenko’s opponent, Mary Richman, gave what was perhaps the most unlikely concession speech in the history of American politics. “Apparently all the Republicans voted for Kathy.” In fact, Kozachenko may have been helped by a successful HRP-sponsored ballot initiative which proved popular with UM students: the so-called “dope ordinance” which reduced the fine for possession of marijuana to $5.
First Gay Couples Marry in Netherlands: 2001. In 1998, the Netherlands became the first non-Scandinavian country to institute registered partnerships (geregistreerd partnerschap). That law was written so that opposite-sex couples could also enter into registered partnerships, making it a viable alternative to marriage for straight people while, at the same time, being the only option available for gay couples. That changed in April 1, 2001, when the Netherlands became the first country in the world to grant marriage equality to same-sex couples. At the stroke of midnight, three couples — two male and one female — were pronounced legal spouses in ceremonies at Amsterdam City Hall.
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April 1st, 2012
I have struggled with how to discuss James Langteaux. I’ve started three times in three different directions and I think the only way to get through this is to tell his story, suggest what is perhaps the best response and invite you to weigh in
Langteaux was raised in a conservative pentecostal family, went to Oral Roberts University, and immediately upon graduation began working for The 700 Club. He is also gay, a fact that seems to have gone through a number of closet stages.
I was SO far in denial that I convinced myself that I wasn’t gay. I just had this inconvenient attraction to men – exclusively. But I sure the hell wasn’t gay!
Langteaux became a power player in Christian Television, wrote a couple of books and even earned himself some cachet by being an ex-gay example. And through his work at the 700 Club, a vehicle for pushing conservative Christian viewpoints, he hurt a number of people. Mainstream Christians, people of other faiths, atheists, liberals, and gays – always gays – were portrayed with little regard for honesty and the empire thrived to praise the glory of Robertson and those who think like him.
So what advise is there to offer someone like James Langteaux? Come out of the closet, tell your story, expose the hypocrisy, and live with integrity from this day forward.
And he has. He came out, wrote a book, and offers words of encouragement to young gay people from conservative families.
But the truth is, I am finding it difficult to like this man. There’s a pinch less remorse and a punch too much self congratulations to make me think that he understands what he has been a part of.
But I am no where near ready to join Dan Avery at Queerty and pen a hate piece. For one thing, I see no value in blanket hate. I’ll criticize a behavior but should it change I consider it counterproductive not to change my response.
Yes, it is tempting to heap abuse on his head and tell myself that he deserves it. But I’m reminded of a shared wisdom that many of our philosophers have told us but we find so hard to fathom; a truth that prophets and messiahs and theologians have expounded but which churches find hard to actualize:
What we do impacts ourselves far more than it does anyone else.
I could hate on Langteaux and if he ever heard of it, it would have little lasting impact. But I would have become that guy, the one who spews hate. I could refuse to forgive him but Langteaux doesn’t strike me as the kind of guy who cares what anyone else thinks. And I would become bitter and angry and resentful of any of his future successes.
So to James Langteaux I say, “Congratulation. I know you will be much happier. I hope you have the opportunity some time to heal the harm you’ve done. I wish you well. Good bye.”
March 31st, 2012
TODAY’S AGENDA:
Pride Celebration This Weekend: Exeter, UK.
Other Celebrations This Weekend: BFI London Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, London, UK; Dinah Shore Weekend, Palm Springs, CA.
AIDS Walk This Weekend: Bloomington, IN; Ft. Worth, TX.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY:
Richard Chamberlain: 1934. He first gained fame as the handsome young intern, Dr. Kildare, in the television series fo the same name in 1961, a role that lasted until the series ended in 1966. From there, he became involved in repertory theater and film roles which had a more literary bent: The Tree Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Music Lovers, and The Lady Carline Lamb (his 1974 appearance in The Towering Inferno being a notable departure.) He returned to television in the 1970s in several popular miniseries, including Centennial, ShÅgun, and The Thorn Birds as Father Ralph de Bricassart. He lived in Hawaii with his partner, Martin Rabbett, from 1976 to 2010; and it was during that time that he was outed by a French women’s magazine in 1989. While that outing didn’t really stick very well with the general public, it didn’t surprise many people when Chamberlain finally and officially came out in 2003 in his autobiography Shattered Love. In 2010, he advised actors who sought leading-man roles to remain in the closet. “Despite all the wonderful advances that have been made, its still dangerous for an actor to talk about that in our extremely misguided culture. Look at what happened in California with Proposition 8. Please, don’t pretend that we’re suddenly all wonderfully, blissfully accepted.”
Barney Frank: 1940. He has represented Massachusetts’s 4th Congressional district since 1981, and he has done so as an openly gay representative since 1987. When he came out to The Advocate that year, he became the first member of Congress to do so voluntarily. He recalled that when Rep. Stewart McKinney of Connecticut died of complications from AIDS (McKinney’s physician claimed that McKinney became infected from a blood transfusion, but many didn’t believe it.), there was “an unfortunate debate about ‘Was he or wasn’t he? Didn’t he or did he?’ I said to myself, I don’t want that to happen to me.” After coming out, Frank easily won re-election in 1988 and in just about every election since then.
He earned a reputation for being one of the House’s quickest wits, saying, for example, that he was unable to finish reading the Starr Report about President Bill Clinton’s relationship wth Monica Lewinsky because it was “too much reading about heterosexual sex.” In 2006, Rep. John Ostettler (R-IN) accused Frank of pushing a “radical homosexual agenda.” Frank acknowledged that he supported marriage equality, gays in the military, and non-descrimination in the workplace, “but I do not think that any self-respecting radical in history would have considered advocating people’s rights to get married, join the army, and earn a living as a terribly inspiring revolutionary platform.” Frank has announced that he will be retiring from Congress at the conclusion of the current term. He also announced that he will marry his partner, Jim Ready, sometime this year.
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March 30th, 2012
So it turns out that the JetBlue flight in which the pilot went batpoop crazy had a bunch of passengers heading to some security convention. It’s no wonder they tackled and held the nutcase until they were on the ground. With my luck, it would be like, ‘This is the flight going to the pride parade in San Francisco’. When I said we should get him, they’d respond, ‘you go get him, girl, and I’ll cheer you on. Look, I brought my pom-poms.’ And that’s when you start looking for the lesbians.
Is that funny? Is it offensive?
It depends on who says it. If it’s a gay comic, then it’s an inside joke – we can mock ourselves because it’s us. If it’s Kathy Griffin, sure, I’d laugh. Truth is, Kathy probably would be on a flight to the gay pride parade traveling with someone who brought pom-poms. If you spend enough time in our community, you become part of it and earn the right to a little self-mockery.
If it were Senator Inhofe, however, I’d be offended.
Basically, it hinges on three things: is there some truth in the joke, is it designed to “laugh with us” or to “laugh about them”, and is it malicious?
Of course, I’m talking about Carson Daly’s joke about the JetBlue flight:
On this particular flight, most of the people were on their way to some sort of security conference in Las Vegas… so it was a bunch of dudes, and well-trained dudes. If that were me…with my luck, it would be like, ‘This is the flight going to the pride parade in San Francisco… I mean, that would be my colleagues. “Uh, we’re headed down to Vegas for the floral convention.”
And everyone came unhinged. What a raging homophobe, claiming that all gay men are frightened weaklings. What a jerk, and in This Day and Age. How very dare he?
But I’m just not all that upset. Mostly, because Carson Daly actually isn’t a raging homophobe with a history of anti-gay animus. Less than a year ago, he was talking up the show he hosts, The Voice, as being gay-friendly, unlike it’s better known alternative. And his response to the brouhaha is telling.
Running Daly’s comment through my matix, here’s what I find: it is true (like it or not) that – in general – a plane full of security officers and a plane full of gay men are likely to have different responses to a crazy pilot. Also, based on comments before and since, I don’t think that the joke was malicious.
But the third criteria is tougher. Clearly, Daly hasn’t earned the right to mock the gay community. He’s not an out gay man, he doesn’t primarily socialize in the community, his hasn’t made a point of advocating for our community. He isn’t “us”. So Daly doesn’t get to make jokes based on gay stereotypes.
Rightly, GLAAD called him on it; stereotypes can be damaging if they go unchallenged. And the best response was from the mother of Mark Bingham, the gay man generally credited for leading the passengers to bring down Flight 93 on 9/11/01, thereby by saving either the White House or the Capitol Building. In fact, it may be Bingham’s example that has led to passengers being proactive recently in mid-air incidents.
Daly immediately apologized. And met with GLAAD. And apologized again. And I accept his apology and fine, it’s over.
And if you look more closely at his comments, and you take into consideration his age, occupation, and that he was raised in Santa Monica, there’s a pretty good chance that Daly thought that he was talking about “us” when he said that he’d probably be on the gay plane not the security plane. So I’ll cut him a little slack.
But not everyone agrees. Currently 63% of Huffpost Gay Voices respondents to the poll question “Is an apology a sufficient enough response when someone makes an anti-LGBT joke or remark?” are saying “no.”
And it got me thinking about why. Why is it that a thoughtless joke made by someone who supports our community and our rights requires some great public lamentation and self flagellation? Why the fury and the denunciations?
And I think I may have an inkling. We don’t know how to respond to “yes”.
For decades we have come before politicians and religious leaders and corporate leaders and Aunt Thelma and expressed our grievances and made our demands only to have reluctant, at best, response. We’ve been smilingly told that while they hear us, they do have to consider the views of others. And that they’ll form a committee to carefully look at the issue and issue some unidentifiable response in some unspecified future and they are so glad we brought this to their attention, there’s the door.
We don’t know how to respond to “Oh, dude, yeah I can see that was offensive but I wasn’t trying to dis you, man, and I’m really sorry.” That’s still new to us.
But the good news is that we had better learn.
March 30th, 2012
TODAY’S AGENDA:
Pride Celebration This Weekend: Exeter, UK.
Other Celebrations This Weekend: BFI London Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, London, UK; Dinah Shore Weekend, Palm Springs, CA.
AIDS Walk This Weekend: Bloomington, IN; Ft. Worth, TX.
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March 30th, 2012
Last month, the St. Petersburg city government enacted a law banning public advocacy for LGBT people. Now a similar bill is being considered in Russia’s lower house of Parliament. The proposed bill, which was introduced by Novosibirsk regional lawmakers, includes fines for up to 500,000 rubles (US$16,500) for “public activities that promote homosexuality as normal behavior.” It also calls for a fine of 1 million rubles (US$33,000) for publish material promoting pedophilia. Like the St. Petersburg law, the new proposal would effectively link homosexuality with child sexual abuse.
In addition to St. Petersburg, similar laws have also been enacted in Ryazzan, Arkhangelsk and Kostroma regions.
March 29th, 2012
TODAY’S AGENDA:
Soulforce Equality Ride: Oklahoma City, OK. Soulforce is spending all week this week in the Sooner State capital. On today’s schedule, they have a Workshop on the Intersections of Faith, Gender and Sexuality, beginning at 6:00 p.m. at Mayflower Congregational Church (3901 NW 63rd St) that is free and open to the public. Then at 9:30, they will be at the Karaoke and Variety Show at Partner’s (2805 NW 36th St), where Soulforce members will meet with Oklahoma Baptist University alums.
Pride Celebration This Weekend: Exeter, UK.
Other Celebrations This Weekend: BFI London Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, London, UK; Dinah Shore Weekend, Palm Springs, CA.
AIDS Walk This Weekend: Bloomington, IN; Ft. Worth, TX.
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