That Gay Thread

[arewethereyet]

I think the whole thing was a non-starter for me. My grandmother had a sister who was quite masculine, for the time. She was one of the few women who wore pants, she smoked a pipe, never married, had lots of cats (I'm kidding)...but the gender fluidity just didn't mean anything to me as it was normal. Added to that, they had a brother who was rather feminine in his manner...again, another normal for me from the time I was born. They were just my great aunt and uncle.

Don't beat me up for the masculine/feminine thing...it's just a description taken from the memory of a little kid.

[FrustratedFool]

Indeed, there's nothing like positive experiences of the 'other' to rob scapegoating and various -isms of their rhetorical power. Conversely, there's nothing like ignorance and negative experiences to help such rhetoric along.

[LinuxGal]

It's quite simply none of ypur business.
What the gay couple across the road do has zero effect on me.

Gay couple across the road: "That was so good the neighbors lit cigarettes."

[Rev. Rye]

Here's a bit of gay history: Julian and Sandy, two characters made for a British radio series called Around the Horne. And from what I understand, they were popular enough to help mainstream LGBT people in the UK, perhaps even playing a role in getting homosexuality decriminalised in England and Wales. Because, frankly, listen to this and tell me with a straight face that these chaps should be jailed just for being so bona.





Also, fun fact, actors Hugh Paddick and Kenneth Williams were able to get a lot past the censors because, in many cases, the gay double entendres either went over the censor's heads or they knew, but couldn't do anything about it without outing themselves.

[FrustratedFool]

Fantabulosa

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Boru

[arewethereyet]

My oldest grandchild turned 18 yesterday. The plan was for her to go get a tattoo and then a group of friends were going to hit the strip clubs. My daughter (her mother) suggested they go to what is known in Dallas as 'The Gayborhood' and go to one of the clubs there instead as they would probably be safer.

As it turns out, they went to an Italian restaurant for a late dinner and when they told the server it was Bail's birthday he offered them a bottle of wine. None of them are old enough to drink. But after a nice meal and a bottle of wine they were ready for home and bed. So they skipped The Gayborhood. Maybe next time.

That's how it rolls...my daughter felt it would be safer for her daughter to party in the most LGBT+ area of the city.

[Fake Messiah]

‘Orphaned by decree’: Italy’s same-sex parents react to losing their rights

Across the country, a handful of councils were quietly doing the same, transforming the lives of same-sex parents. Their elation, however, was shortlived. This year the Italian government, led by Giorgia Meloni – a hardline traditionalist who has long reiterated her view that a child should only be raised by heterosexual parents – began demanding that councils register only the biological parent.

As rights campaigners warned that the move had plunged hundreds of families in Italy into legal limbo, protests sprung up across Italy and around the world and opposition politicians slammed the move. “These children are being orphaned by decree,” said Alessandro Zan, a gay politician with the Democratic party. “This is a cruel, inhumane decision.”

The European parliament called on the Italian government to reconsider its stance. What was taking place in Milan was a “direct breach of children’s rights” set out by the UN, MEPs noted in an amendment to a 2022 report, and “part of a broader attack against the LGBTQI+ community in Italy”.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/a...ing-rights

[The Architect Of Fate]

One annoying tactic the right has begun to employ is trying to use the slogan "love is love " to insist that to be consistent you would have to be fine with incest and Polygamous marriages and if you are not you are a hypocrite. This is stupid of course the term love is love was clearly referring between Sex, Gender, Race, etc should be allowed to love without discrimination however that does not imply there are no exclusions or that it's inconsistent to have any. That's as dumb as say the army's slogan "Be all you can be " implies you should become a meth-addicted serial killer after all you can be all those things. It's extremely annoying that these dummies think they are the only ones who are allowed to have exclustionary standards on marriage or it's anything goes.

[LinuxGal]

Atheist:  "The Bible says don't charge interest."

Xian: "That ordinance was nailed to the cross."

Atheist: "It also condemns gays."

Xian: "That ordinance was not nailed to the cross."

A: "It says don't eat lobster."

X: "Nailed to the cross."

A: "It says use the death penalty."

X: "Not nailed to the cross..."