Sunday, May 07, 2006
Today's Bitch Slap Congress
Hate Crimes Bill Droppedby Paul Johnson, 365Gay.com Washington Bureau Chief(Washington) Legislation that would have included crimes against gays and lesbians in federal hate crime laws has been dropped in the Senate.
Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass) has been trying to get the measure passed since 1999. This session he tacked it onto a national sex offender bill.
The sex offender registry bill has been tied up in the Senate for months as Kennedy fought to have the hate crime provision passed.
Late last week he pulled the amendment allowing the sex offender bill to pass unanimously after Republicans threatened to block passage of the sex offender legislation pin the blame on "liberal Democrats" and gay activists.
Kennedy vowed to once again introduce the legislation in the next session.
"Congress can't ignore the problem," he said. "They send the poisonous message that some Americans deserve to be victimized solely because of who they are."
A House version of the hate crime bill passed the House earlier this year, as an amendment to the Children's Safety and Violent Crimes Reduction Act. The hate crime provision, which would have included gays, lesbians and the transgendered was later stripped out of the bill.
The bill would have allowed the Department of Justice to assist local authorities in investigating and prosecuting cases in which violence occurs.
Extending hate crimes law to include members of the LGBT community is endorsed by more than 175 law enforcement, civil rights, civic and religious organizations, including: the National Sheriffs' Association, International Association of Chiefs of Police, U.S. Conference of Mayors, and the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association.
Saturday, May 06, 2006
MMM Very Nice
This one was sent to me in my email for a friend, who got it in one of his yahoogroups.
Now if I was out crusing one nite and saw this hot thug on the street I would have to pull over and try to get into his pants.
Hot Black Male
Now this make me wanna join up for the services..All those hot hunky men,
some just might be looking for some shower action..
What can I say I love all men, white black, asia, whatever the race.
Friday, May 05, 2006
The First Gay and Lesbian Memorial
The Stichting Homo-Monument in Amsterdam, dedicated in 1987. This public sculpture "commemorates all women and men who were ever oppressed and persecuted because of their homosexuality."
Designed by Karin Daan, the sculpture consists of a gaint pink granite triangle, 107 feet on each side, containing three smaller triangles. One points to the Anne Frank House, one points to the headquarters of the COC, the Dutch gay rights organization, the third extends like a wharf into the Keizersgracht canal.
Designed by Karin Daan, the sculpture consists of a gaint pink granite triangle, 107 feet on each side, containing three smaller triangles. One points to the Anne Frank House, one points to the headquarters of the COC, the Dutch gay rights organization, the third extends like a wharf into the Keizersgracht canal.
Homosexual, candidates for the first
The serpent in Genesis, according to Gnostic thinking, as recorded in Hippolytus's account in Refutation of all Heresies, the serpent had homosexual intercourse with Adam, and intoduced depravity to the world.
Opheus. After his wife Eurydice's death, Orpheus was said to have turned to young men for comfort.
King Laius, According to some Greek sources, the man who would later father Oedipus was banished fromThebes and sought refuge at the court of Pelops. Falling in love with Pelop's beautiful 12-year old son, Chrysippus , Laius kidnapped and raped him. Chysippus killed himself, and Pelops pronounced the curse that would be Laius's undoing: that Laius would have a son who would "kill his father, marry his mother and bring ruin on his native city."
Lot. Though in the Hebrew Bible, God flavors Lot by warning him to flee Sodom before its destruction, Arabs appear to Hold him responsible for the "sin of Sodom," calling homosexuals "the people of Lot."
Opheus. After his wife Eurydice's death, Orpheus was said to have turned to young men for comfort.
King Laius, According to some Greek sources, the man who would later father Oedipus was banished fromThebes and sought refuge at the court of Pelops. Falling in love with Pelop's beautiful 12-year old son, Chrysippus , Laius kidnapped and raped him. Chysippus killed himself, and Pelops pronounced the curse that would be Laius's undoing: that Laius would have a son who would "kill his father, marry his mother and bring ruin on his native city."
Lot. Though in the Hebrew Bible, God flavors Lot by warning him to flee Sodom before its destruction, Arabs appear to Hold him responsible for the "sin of Sodom," calling homosexuals "the people of Lot."
Wednesday, May 03, 2006
Mom Kidnapped Son, Feared Dad ' Turning Him Gay'
by Fidel Ortega, 365Gay.com Miami Bureau
May 3, 2006 - 12:01 am ET
(Miami, Florida) A woman has told a Florida court that she kidnapped her 11-year old son and fled the country because she believed her former husband was turning the boy gay.
Caren MacDonald is accused of custody interference. She took the boy from a Ft. Lauderdale school in 2001 and went to Costa Rica. They remained there for four years but was arrested by U.S. Customs agents in June 2002 in Houston as she disembarked from an airplane that had arrived from Costa Rica.
The boy is now 16 and lives in Colorado with his father.
If convicted MacDonald could face up to five years in prison.
She said that she and her husband were married in 1988. The following year she became pregnant and the couple divorced in 1997.
It was at that time he came out and began a relationship with another man. To protect the identity of the child the names of the boy, his father and partner are not being published.
MacDonald and her husband fought for custody of the boy. During the dispute a court ordered psychiatrist testified that MacDonald was unstable and a judge awarded sole custody to the father. MacDonald was ordered to have no contact with the boy.
During her testimony in the criminal case MacDonald attempted to portray her ex-husband and his partner as sexual predators.
''I didn't understand how somebody could be straight and then be gay,'' MacDonald said.
She also accused the partner of massaging the boy on his buttocks several times, an allegation she also had made at the custody hearing. But last week the boy testified that there had been no inappropriate behavior and that his mother has forced him to lie at the custody hearing about being molested.
May 3, 2006 - 12:01 am ET
(Miami, Florida) A woman has told a Florida court that she kidnapped her 11-year old son and fled the country because she believed her former husband was turning the boy gay.
Caren MacDonald is accused of custody interference. She took the boy from a Ft. Lauderdale school in 2001 and went to Costa Rica. They remained there for four years but was arrested by U.S. Customs agents in June 2002 in Houston as she disembarked from an airplane that had arrived from Costa Rica.
The boy is now 16 and lives in Colorado with his father.
If convicted MacDonald could face up to five years in prison.
She said that she and her husband were married in 1988. The following year she became pregnant and the couple divorced in 1997.
It was at that time he came out and began a relationship with another man. To protect the identity of the child the names of the boy, his father and partner are not being published.
MacDonald and her husband fought for custody of the boy. During the dispute a court ordered psychiatrist testified that MacDonald was unstable and a judge awarded sole custody to the father. MacDonald was ordered to have no contact with the boy.
During her testimony in the criminal case MacDonald attempted to portray her ex-husband and his partner as sexual predators.
''I didn't understand how somebody could be straight and then be gay,'' MacDonald said.
She also accused the partner of massaging the boy on his buttocks several times, an allegation she also had made at the custody hearing. But last week the boy testified that there had been no inappropriate behavior and that his mother has forced him to lie at the custody hearing about being molested.
365 Quote of the day
"Until official policy stops targeting gays it will be difficult for commanders to crack down on anti-gay harassment."
Aaron Belkin, Center for the Study of Sexual Minorities in the Military, on report showing widespread anti-gay harassment in the military.
Aaron Belkin, Center for the Study of Sexual Minorities in the Military, on report showing widespread anti-gay harassment in the military.
Jake G.
Jake is WAY dreamy, and he is very good in this film, and, I also thought he should have won this year... but maybe we don't have quite enough distance from this film yet. Nevertheless.... I love me some Jake... Loved him in this, loved him in Donnie Darko, loved him in Bubble Boy. I expect we are going to see him nominated again in the near future.
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