Posts Tagged "lgbt"
Replacements Limited’s Stand for Gay Marriage Has a Cost - NYTimes.com »
Hey everybody!
In an article intended to warn people away from standing in solidarity with LGBTQ folks, The New York Times unwittingly advertises Mr. Bob Page’s company and wares in Greensboro, North Carolina. I wonder if people can order online?
Omg -
Mr. Spainhour said he worried about Mr. Page’s safety, and has discussed his concerns with him. He mentioned Charles C. Worley, pastor of the Providence Road Baptist Church in Maiden, N.C., not far from Greensboro, who preached on May 13 that lesbians and gays should be separated from each other and society and quarantined behind electrified fences. “In a few years, they’ll die out,” Mr. Worley said. “They can’t reproduce.” Video of the sermon circulated on the Internet.
Okay but here’s the thing - lesbians and gays have NEVER been able to reproduce together and yet they’re still here.
Now I understand all the Anderson Cooper screencaps I’ve seen. His look of exasperation is quite accurate to the level of missing logic here.
Bristol Palin wins the award for worst take on Obama voicing support for same-sex marriage. »
While it’s great to listen to your kids’ ideas, there’s also a time when dads simply need to be dads. In this case, it would’ve been helpful for him to explain to Malia and Sasha that while her friends parents are no doubt lovely people, that’s not a reason to change thousands of years of thinking about marriage. Or that – as great as her friends may be – we know that in general kids do better growing up in a mother/father home. Ideally, fathers help shape their kids’ worldview.
In this situation, it was the other way around. I guess we can be glad that Malia and Sasha aren’t younger, or perhaps today’s press conference might have been about appointing Dora the Explorer as Attorney General because of her success in stopping Swiper the Fox.
Sometimes dads should lead their family in the right ways of thinking. In this case, it would’ve been nice if the President would’ve been an actual leader and helped shape their thoughts instead of merely reflecting what many teenagers think after one too many episodes of Glee.
Obama was being a dad. Good dads listen to advice that doesn’t suck.
“while her friends parents are no doubt lovely people, that’s not a reason to change thousands of years of thinking about marriage”
That’s a joke, right?
Is she not aware that we’re also no longer forcing 12 year old girls to marry 20 year old men and bare 12 children out of marital duty?
Omg I almost snorted
As (noted problematic figure) Bill Maher said: giving people rights isn’t the slippery slope to giving animals those same rights. Giving women the right to vote didn’t lead to hamsters voting. -Jess
I SAW WHERE COOKIES WEREN’T
AND SAID
NO
THIS WILL NOT DO
THIS WILL NOT DO
I MADE MY OWN FOOD WITH SCIENCE.
Every time I see this on my dash I smile.
Cookies are fucking goddamn delicious.
If making delicious cookies is considered gay then I want to be the gayest thing on the planet.
Reblog whenever I see this, cause I like this guy, He knows what’s up.
I have to reblog this when I see it because “I saw where cookies weren’t and said NO! THIS WILL NOT DO!!”
(via marionr2)
Source: thatgirlsamm"
The actor — who is straight — also used the interview to call for gay marriage, relationship education in schools that would cover both gay and straight relationships, and attacked some of the US Republican presidential candidates.
Radcliffe said that he wished more educational establishments, especially in the US, were not in thrall to religion, stating: “I’m not religious, I’m an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation. We need sex education in schools.
He went on to say that he has been “disgusted, amazed, stunned” by candidates seeking the Republican presidential nomination, such as Rick Santorum or Michele Bachmann, who have been openly hostile to gay rights.
" —Harry Potter knows what’s right.
Daniel Radcliffe ends support for Liberal Democrats - Guardian
"Remember, Jesus would rather constantly shame gays than let orphans have a family."
— Stephen Colbert(via therikeone)
Fabulous, fabulous clothes.
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Oh the stuff I find while looking for journal articles.
Here’s an abstract for an article called Homosexual behaviour in birds: frequency of expression is related to parental care disparity between the sexes.
Homosexual behaviour occurs in over 130 species of birds, yet explaining its maintenance in evolutionary terms appears problematic at face value, as such sexual behaviours do not seem in immediate pursuit of reproductive goals. Parental care sexual conflict theory predicts that release from parental care translates to an increased propensity towards polygamous sexual behaviour. We hypothesized that homosexual behaviour(s) may be expected to increase in frequency for the sex that invests less in parental care and potentially enjoys increased mating opportunities. Consistent with our predictions, lower relative contribution to parental care for a particular sex is related to increased frequency of occurrence of homosexual behaviour. For males, highly polygynous species with minimal male parental investment exhibit higher frequencies of male homosexual behaviour, including male-male mounting and especially courtship. In socially monogamous species, male parental investment is greater, and the expression of male homosexual behaviour is lower. Similarly, among pair-bonding species, frequencies of male-male pair bonding increase with decreases in male contribution to care relative to females. When females of socially monogamous species provide less care than males, they exhibit higher frequencies of homosexual behaviour, namely pair bonding and courtship activities. Conversely, when females of polygynous species provide the bulk of parental care, female-female sexual behaviour is infrequently expressed. Homosexual behaviour in birds is more likely to occur under scenarios of enhanced mating opportunity without necessarily influencing reproductive success and thus may exist neutrally, or alternatively provide a behavioural template co-opted for adaptive design.
tl;dr - gay birds are really just opportunistic since they don’t got no kids to take care of.
Gotta love media-perpetuated transphobia »
Oneal Ron Morris — who police say was born a man and identifies as a woman — was arrested Friday after nearly a year of being sought and charged with practicing medicine without a license with serious bodily injury.
I’m sorry, but how is that at all relevant to the rest of the article? I am so disgusted.
Shame, Huffington Post. Shame. I’d contact the author, but there’s conveniently none listed.
The gay penguins at the Toronto Zoo are being split up
I don’t care if the Toronto Zoo wants to separate these penguins so they can breed with females. This is cruel. Why are you ruining one of the greatest romances of the 21st century? You have to keep them together, if only to ruin homophobic conservatives’ dreams of a completely heterosexual world. Cenk Uygur explains:
“Conservatives are going to lose their minds. [The penguins] are gay and they’re African… and one of them is named Pedro and he shacked up with Buddy. This is a conservative’s nightmare.”
FYI, world: Our city is run by a homophobic big-C Conservative. Who is also trying to sell the the zoo off from being city-run.
Source: mohandasgandhi
Adorable.
I’m still trying to figure out what to call my moms because I feel like it’s no longer appropriate to say “my mom” and “your mom” to my collection of sisters.
Source: stinsonIt's really weird to read the blog of a 15 year old who just killed himself. »
The stuff people put online, man. And nobody speaks up?
Source: jimnasiumMy friend Nikki and I are on our way to a wedding in Big Bear. Needing food, we stopped off at an Albertsons in a Republican heavy town just outside of San Bernardino. While trying samples of the many different flavorless pastas they offer in the deli, an announcement came on over the loudspeaker: “We’re offering a free knife to every customer in the store right now… Meet at the red table to pick up your FREE knife.” I smelt a fraud but Nikki insisted that we get the free knife, as it would be a nice gift to give the newlyweds. Nothing is free in this world and sure enough we had to sit and listen to some woman give a demonstration in order to get our gift.
“Should this knife ever get dull, you have a lifetime warranty. Just send it in and we’ll give you a new one. Don’t you wish you had that assurance when you buy a new car? Or how about when you get married? If he gets dull, you can just send him in for a new one…”
Lurking in the back and annoyed that we were wasting precious traveling time listening to this imbecile, I shouted out, “But I cant get married.” Heads turned. I smiled and then crossed my fingers and whispered to the woman next to me, “Hopefully one day, though.” Just doing my part.
