The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Oh, My Goodness: Jesse Jackson Accused of Sexually Harassing Gay Staffer?

Well, well, well — what have we here? The Rev. Jesse Jackson is vehemently denying allegations from a member of President Obama’s gay rights issues panel, who claims he was fired from the civil rights leader’s Rainbow PUSH Coalition because he is openly gay. Tommy Bennett, who worked for the organization for more than two […]

London’s Gay ‘Kiss-In’ Protest

This image is from a video posted by the U.K. Guardian: Two poofters got bounced from a Soho pub after they started kissing and — because everything is now political — there was a protest: The pub at the centre of a homophobia row closed its doors, as hundreds of people prepared to attend a […]

Brilliant!

Last year, the National Organization for Marriage hired a 24-year-old kid who, as a high school senior in 2004, had gone door-to-door campaigning for John Edwards in the Iowa Democrat caucuses. NOM didn’t just hire liberal Democrat activist Louis J. Marinelli to do office work, stuffing envelopes or something. No, they recruited him as the online […]

Military Gay Training

This is going to work out real smooth: Four branches of the military have begun sending training material to 2.2 million active and reserve troops as a prelude to opening the ranks to gays, with instructions on, for example, what to do if an officer sees two male Marines kissing in a shopping mall. Key […]

Define ‘Hate Group’

Also, define “secretly funneled,” because I’m having a little trouble with Josh Dorner’s Think Progress headline: Newt Gingrich Secretly Funneled $350,000 To Anti-Gay Hate Groups Last Year Except, of course, that there wasn’t anything “secret” about the “funneling”: It was duly reported as required by law and, as Think Progress itself notes, Gingrich was outspoken […]

Tell It to the Marines!

“There were a few gay girls who lived in the barracks. . . . The other gay girls had affairs with each other in the barracks, and ‘hit’ on other girls in the barracks. This really freaked out some of the Marines. We were all very young, and inexperienced in these types of situations. “It was […]

Chicken Sandwich, Sweet Iced Tea and a Side Order of Homophobia, Please!

The fashionable grievances of the perpetually indignant get a write-up in the New York Times: Chick-fil-A is among only a handful of large American companies with conservative religion built into its corporate ethos. But recently its ethos has run smack into the gay rights movement. A Pennsylvania outlet’s sponsorship of a February marriage seminar by […]

‘That Little Faggot With the Earring and the Makeup’? He’s Now Banned in Canada

Dire Straits ix now branded a homophobic hate group: It was No. 1 in 1985, but it’s unacceptable for Canadian eyes and ears today. The Dire Straits song “Money for Nothing” was ruled by the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council to be “extremely offensive” and thus inappropriate for airing because it uses an anti-gay slur. . . […]

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