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Alt-Folk Singer Michelle Shocked Goes On Homophobic Rant, Tells Audience “God Hates Fags” / Queerty

justinspoliticalcorner:

Michelle Shocked, an alt-folk singer who had success in the 1980s and ’90s, shocked audience members at Yoshi’s in San Francisco Sunday night with a homophobic rant that wound up clearing out the club.

The crowd had come, presumably, to hear songs like “Come a Long Way” and “On the Greener Side,” which got airplay on MTV back in the day. (“Greener Side” was even up for a VMA against Madonna’s “Vogue.”)

Instead they were treated to a tirade that allegedly included Shocked announcing “God hates fags.”

Matt Penfield, who was live-tweeting the show from onstage called her rant, delivered during her second set, “totally sincere [and] super anti-gay and hateful.”

We’re still trying to get the full text of her speech, but apparently she told fans “you can go on twitter and say Michelle Shocked said ‘God hates fags.’”

Another Twitter user posted that Shocked “said she lives in fear that the world will be destroyed if gays are allowed to marry.”

The singer has been open about being a born-again Christian, but was still active in progressive politics. (She was arrested at an Occupy L.A. event in 2011).

“I am a believer. I am a devout practicing Christian,” she told Edge on the Net in 2008. “I don’t like the ring of that because I know so many people who profess the faith, and I look at their social conscious, and I can’t see how they reconcile their faith with their politics.”

In that same 2008 interview she confessed to some “inconvenient truths,” like how the Bible teaches homosexuality is immoral. “But homosexuality is no more less a sin than fornication,” she said. “And I’m a fornicator with a capital F.”


h/t: Queerty

Just because I believe that states should have the right to define marriage in the traditional way does not make me a bigot.

Marco Rubio

Actually Mr. Rubio, here’s the definition of a bigot:

a person who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices; especially : one who regards or treats the members of a group with hatred and intolerance (source)

Which means supporting legislation directly targeted at our gay neighbors to deny them a basic right every other of-age member of American society can enjoy is bigoted. Period.

(via world-shaker)

Victor Garber confirms he's gay

gaywrites:

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All the cool kids are doing it.

In an interview with blogger Greg Hernandez of Greg In Hollywood, Victor Garber confirmed what had been suspected, if not already known: that his partner of 13 years is another man. Garber is recently well-known for appearing in Argo, but if you’re like me, you loved him in Milk, Titanic, Legally Blonde and Annie too. 

So I got up, walked into the lobby of the Langham Huntington Hotel and found Garber. I just decided to ask him: “Wikipedia lists Rainer Andreesen as your partner. I wondered if that’s something that’s public, that you’ve confirmed.”

He seemed surprised by the question but said: ‘I don’t really talk about it but everybody knows.”

Garber then added: “He’s going to be out here with me for the SAG Awards.”

That was easy! I will always love him. 

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blubeau:

from the movie “Better Than Chocolate” - I’m not a fucking drag queen.

I love the lyrics, it’s beautiful, the lyrics, the song, everything about this clip is just beautiful. I’ve included the lyrics so it can be shared with you guys :) Enjoy!

Boys forced to hold hands at school as punishment

gaywrites:

Today in stories that actually are not from The Onion:

As punishment for fighting, two Arizona high school students were forced to hold hands for 15 minutes in the middle of their school’s courtyard during lunch. The punishment was invented by a teacher and is apparently not condoned by the school district:

The Westwood High School students in Mesa, Ariz., were given the option of either holding hands or being suspended from school, ABC News reports. Photos and video of the boys, who covered their faces, eventually wound up on Facebook and Twitter. Their peers taunted the boys by calling them names and asking, “Are you gay?”

Okay. This is infuriating for a number of reasons, all of which the commenters on this piece have already figured out. First, the severity of this punishment is based entirely on the taunting and bullying that results. This is the administration not simply condoning bullying, but encouraging it as a means of correcting bad behavior. 

Further, this of course implies that holding hands with another boy is something worth making fun of, completely ostracizing any LGBT students at this school who may hold hands with a same-sex partner not as a “punishment,” but an expression of love. The message the school is sending here is: “If you’re holding hands with another boy, you’re doing it because you did something bad, and you deserve to be teased.” 

I can’t even wrap my head around how mad this makes me. Thoughts?

Prop 8: Will we know tomorrow? The different possibilities

gaywrites:

The U.S. Supreme Court is slated to decide tomorrow whether it will hear a case challenging Prop 8, the California law banning same-sex marriage. Prop 8 has already been ruled unconstitutional by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, but whether or not the Supreme Court takes it on has huge implications for marriage equality throughout the country. 

Here’s what could happen tomorrow:

  • The Supreme Court could take the case and later rule Prop 8 unconstitutional, allowing marriage equality in California and making it more likely that other states will start allowing same-sex couples to marry too.
  • The Supreme Court could take the case and later rule Prop 8 constitutional, meaning marriage equality will remain illegal in California and could become illegal in even more states.
  • The Supreme Court could decline to take the case, meaning the lower court ruling will stay and marriage equality will become legal in California, BUT there will be no implications or guidelines set for the rest of the country.

I think it’s safe to say we’re all ready for the next step in this one. Stay tuned for updates.

That ‘tomorrow’, by the way, is today.