Rainbow-Coloured Obama?

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/tearful-andrew-sullivan-praises-obama-father-figure-saying-im-fully-a-part-of-this-family/ You can’t have failed to have heard the news. Obama, who originally took a firm stance against gay marriage, preferring the traditional view that marriage is between a man and a woman, has done a U-turn. His recent statement in favour of equal marriage has sent teh gayz into spasms of emotion similar to [...]

In Defence Of… Uncle Toms

Also delighted to see she was fervently devoted to noted Uncle Tom and all-round public-school twat @marksimpsonist. Well done, fuck off.— Callum Hamilton (@Callum_TH) March 09, 2012 I was slightly shocked to see the above tweet very recently, accusing Mark Simpson, author of Anti Gay of being a gay ‘uncle Tom’.  I was partly surprised, [...]

Short People

I watched this great video recently, by two performance poets, about being short men. http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012/01/16/some-spoken-word-on-heightism/ I am a relatively tall woman, and I have to admit to having a prejudice, not against short men per se, but against dating them. And that is enough of a prejudice to count. In his brilliant satirical way, Randy [...]

Peter Tatchell’s Big Gay Mission

I received a group email from Peter Tatchell today. This is what it said: London – 22 August 2010 Dear Pride London, East London LGBT Pride – Saturday 1 October 2011 Earlier this year stickers were plastered around East London declaring it a ‘Gay Free Zone’, warning that Allah’s punishment for homosexuality is severe. Previously, [...]

A World Apart

This is an interview by a BBC journalist with Darcus Howe, the journalist, writer, broadcaster (Or Marcus Dowe as she calls him mistakenly at one point). I found it incredibly depressing viewing. The man is obviously distressed (maybe he has not slept due to worry or the sound of sirens and smashing windows), about the [...]