Posts tagged “lgbtq rights”

Trinidad and Tobago's anti-gay laws are why I can't live in the country I was born in. Jason Jones is taking the T&T government to court to overturn them, and he needs your help. Please donate to his campaign. I'll be matching donations on Twitter.

I'm a gay Caribbean man responding point-by-point to a homophobic newspaper column. The author's claims about homosexuality being abnormal, his grotesque medical misinformation about anal sex causing incontinence, and his dangerous lies about AIDS transmission all deserve correction. I correct each factually, firmly, and with occasional dry humor.

I constructed a hypothetical dialogue with Rick Santorum using his actual public statements, walking through his positions on gay marriage. His arguments ultimately contradict themselves: he claims to support equality while opposing gay sex, civil unions, and any legal recognition of same-sex relationships.

The California Supreme Court upheld Prop 8, letting a voting majority strip away my civil rights. So fuck you, California voters. The rest of the country is moving on without you, and soon you'll just look like hateful throwbacks alongside Mississippi.

I'm passionately against Prop 8, but we lost a fair election. Protesting or pursuing legal challenges feels undemocratic and counterproductive. The real problem is older voters, and they're dying. We should put marriage equality back on the ballot in 2010. We will win eventually.

My friend Ed and I can't figure out why Mormons donated a billion dollars to fight gay marriage. I live in SF and see guys kiss maybe twice a year. If you find it icky, stay in Utah. Expecting rational thought from the religious is itself irrational.

I'm urging Californians to vote no on Proposition 8, which would eliminate same-sex marriage rights. Arguments against gay marriage don't hold up: marriage grants legal rights to people of all faiths. Voting yes is like supporting interracial marriage bans. Please vote no, or donate to the campaign.

I subscribe to AFA newsletters for the laughs, but today's message from Donald Wildmon is genuinely alarming. He's claiming this election will permanently destroy America's Christian foundation, eliminate religious freedoms, and pass the entire "homosexual agenda." The panic is palpable. Register to vote. Defeat Prop 8.

The AFA's Ford boycott roundup reads like a great advertisement for Ford's gay-friendly policies. No gay rights group is tracking Ford this closely. The "horrific" gay kiss they link to is laughably tame, and their claims that the boycott hurt Ford's sales are just as ridiculous.

Here every creed and race Find an equal place and may God bless our nation (from The Trinidadian National Anthem) The Archdeacon of Tobago doesn't want Elton John to perform at the Plymouth* Jazz festival. Because he's not a jazz singer? No, because he's gay. And because Trinidad and Tobago is not so great at keeping its laws up to date and has altogether too many religions, there are still laws on the books against sodomy: passed as recently as 1986, the law provides for up to 10 years in prison for homosexual acts between consenting adults (but if you are a minor, and you commit the act, it's only five years... how lenient!). There's also another, much older law which prevents "self-confessed prostitutes and homosexuals" from entering the country, but I cannot find any record of it online. It doesn't look like this will really happen, of course. Gay rights has come a long way in Trinidad in recent years. But this kind of story just makes me want to weep for my stupid,...

I can't give blood in the UK because I'm a gay man who's had sex. The National Blood Service calls it "behaviour based" policy, but that's just weasel words for discrimination. Sign the petition to overturn this ridiculous ban.

A Christian college receiving $10 million in state funding expelled an honor roll student simply for being gay. This is textbook discrimination, and exactly why church and state must stay separate. Spread this story.

I wrote to the Western Mail to protest Lowri Turner's column arguing gay men are unqualified to lead because they can't have children. Her logic is spurious, her stereotypes offensive, and her claim that "different from the norm" disqualifies anyone from office is dangerous nonsense.

Go read my thoughts on Bush's proposed constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, posted over at the gay geek site.

Today's a great day: Massachusetts just struck a blow for marriage equality, and I'm done with euphemisms. He's my husband. Not my partner. My husband. Also, Henry VIII's church probably shouldn't lecture anyone about traditional marriage.

The Tories are dropping their anti-gay stance, which I support, but I worry about where the bigoted voters will go. A Steven Norris quote in the article points to a disturbing answer: the BNP. Maybe we need the Tories to keep losing to keep the scary right-wingers away from power.