Why Do We Still Need Gay Pride?

There’s a great post by Mustang Bobby about Gay Pride Day where he says:

“I’m not a huge flag waver.

“I don’t have a rainbow flag on my car, and I don’t wear symbols of my gayness on my lapel or my sleeve. I don’t have a problem with people who do, but it’s just not me.

“If people are going to take me for what I am, then they can do it without a semiotic clue or a preconceived idea.

How to Reinvent Yourself Again: Gay Icon Madonna to Release Hard Candy Late April 2008

Madonna’s Hard Candy is coming — order yours today!

On March 17, 2008 the first single “4 Minutes” (a duet with Justin Timberlake and also featuring Timbaland) was released digitally.

Gay Icons, Space Aliens and the Normalcy or Banality of the Surreal Sex Object

In the Online Journal of Media Studies an interesting article discusses the concept of the ‘alien’, something many GLBT people can relate to as a lifelong experience.

In this case the discussion focuses upon the way David Bowie radically changed the perception and audience reception of the ‘alien’ he created in the persona of Ziggy Stardust.

Scottish Bishop Longs for Days When Gays Were Tortured and Imprisoned

“Devine claims that there is a “gay lobby” in Scotland orchestrating a conspiracy against Christian values. He adds that gay rights groups align themselves with groups, such as Holocaust survivors.”

“To project an “image of a group of people under persecution”. Because if there’s one thing that Catholics aren’t guilty of is falsely portraying themselves as victims of persecution.”

Extreme Evangelical Fanatics in Fort Lauderdale Claim They Are ‘Maligned Victims’ When Gays Protest Homophobic Violence and Hate Speech

Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jim Naugle makes wild claims that gay men are (to paraphrase) having sex in public and threatening the ‘innocent’ streets of Fort Lauderdale and putting Broward County children at great risk, etc. (Lest we forget the hateful anti-gay Anita Bryant campaigns in the 1970s)

The Evangelical ‘Hate Churches’ line up to support Naugle, but the rest of the Broward county commission, Tourist officials and most citizens of South Florida denounce Naugle and predict that his hate-filled rhetoric could lead to hate crimes and violence.

Would You Call Blades of Glory (2007) Homoerotic or Homophobic or Just Silly?

Pictured above: BOG-16798 Photo by: Suzanne Hanover
In the 2007 film Blades of Glory, about a pair of straight (but effeminate) figure skating narcissists who are forced to become the first male-male couple to compete, one has to ask, is this film Homoerotic or Homophobic or Just Silly?
The film has the same flavour of supposedly good-natured [...]