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Monday, March 15, 2010 - 11:06am By Simon SheppardIt's a tried-and-true truism that many of the folks who most loudly condemn the ostensible sins of others are really struggling against something in themselves. Repression leads to oppression. That goes for institutions, too: though it gleefully...
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Thursday, February 25, 2010 - 8:56am By Matthew LawrenceWhen one thinks "gay-friendly," one usually doesn't think of collegiate wrestlers. But that may soon change, if one University of Maryland senior gets his way. This week Outsports profiled Hudson Taylor, a University of Maryland wrestler and...
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Monday, February 22, 2010 - 1:53pm By Simon SheppardWhat the fuck is going on with Africa? There's a tsunami of homphobia deluging the lands south of the Sahara. Zimbabwe's dictatorial headman, Robert Mugabe, has spent the last half-decade in an antigay snit, calling queers "lower than pigs and...
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - 5:43pm By Tim McElreavyBritain's Football Association, the sport's national governing body, has abruptly postponed the premiere of a hard-hitting advertisement about with homophobia in the sport. The ad was slated for showing on Thursday, February 11, at Wembley...
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Monday, February 8, 2010 - 12:17pm By Simon Sheppard“Feces is dripping out of your fag mouth,” the nice middle-aged lady said to me. Yes folks, the Fred Phelps freak show had come to town. Members of the gay-bashing, Jew-hating Westboro Baptist Church—you know, the delightful folks who picket...
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Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 1:24pm By Chris HallOne of homophobia's biggest and most tenacious myths is the idea that gay men are child molesters by their very nature. It's one of the first things that most people are taught to associate with homosexuality, and like some undead aristocrat...
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Monday, January 25, 2010 - 4:58pm By Chris HallHaving already produced what may be safely considered the year's most sensational and harsh critique of pop diva Lady Gaga by damning her to hell, Fred Phelps and company have decided to expand their cultural analysis to the performing arts and...
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Friday, January 22, 2010 - 9:24am By Matthew LawrenceGoDaddy, the American Apparel of web hosting companies, once again plans to alinate the family values crowd with two provocative Super Bowl ads. Like last year's ads, they'll mainly feature dumpy-looking college boys interacting with NASCAR...
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Sunday, January 17, 2010 - 12:21pm By Matthew LawrenceIn an article entitled "Gay German MP Campaigns Against Jamaican music," the Jamaica Observer reports on a panel discussion taking place next month at Berlin club Kesselhaus. That's where a performance by dancehall artist Sizzla [pictured] was...
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010 - 4:36pm By Tim McElreavySince the international media began reporting on and criticizing a bill proposing the death penalty for some gays in Uganda, President Yoweri Museveni has found himself in a difficult position on the world stage. The BBC reports that in his first...
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Thursday, January 7, 2010 - 1:59pm By Clarisse ThornIt's one thing to know that you live in a place where homosexuality is locked up, locked down, punished by draconian laws and vigilante "justice". It's another to, well, know. When I first moved to southern Africa this year to do...
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Monday, December 14, 2009 - 3:09pm By Chris HallWhile Uganda inches closer to making homosexuality a capital offense, 10 young men in Iran are already awaiting execution and two more are slated to be re-tried on charges of sodomy or lavaat, according to Doug Ireland in Gay City News. The...
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Thursday, December 10, 2009 - 8:02am By Jessica O'ReillyThough several years have passed since the Union of European Football Associations first acknowledged the reality of deeply entrenched homophobia in sports, sex-based discrimination is still far too common in football (or soccer, as it is called in...
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Thursday, December 3, 2009 - 10:58am By Chris HallOn Monday, CarnalNation wrote about the links between American fundamentalists and the Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill, which would make being an HIV-positive gay or lesbian a capital crime, and which seems almost certain to pass. Shamefully, it...
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Monday, November 30, 2009 - 3:22pm By Chris HallPastor Rick Warren of Saddleback Church (left) and Ugandan Minister Martin Ssempa (right). The Ugandan anti-homosexuality law, which would make same-gender sex punishable by imprisonment and apply the death penalty to lesbians and gays who are...
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