Posts Tagged ‘gay’

GAY TEEN KILLED IN OXNARD

February 20, 2008

What’s it like to grow up gay?
From the Los Angeles Times, February 15: Ventura County prosecutors charged a 14-year-old boy with the shooting death of a classmate Thursday and said the killing in an Oxnard classroom was a premeditated hate.
The District’s Melissa Conser talks with two gay men, Matt (20) and Steve (21), about their [...]

HUCKABEE’S SPECTRUM

December 19, 2007

The candidate and the corpse fuckers
If you heart Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor and current darling of Republican primary “values voters”, because he’s the first major party presidential candidate to publicly equate homosexuality with necrophilia, I’ve got some bad news. Turns out Mike Huckabee doesn’t think being gay is the same as fucking corpses. [...]

VETERANS DAY PARADE: THE SUPREME COURT AND WACKO

November 9, 2007

The Boston parade that took its case for banning gays to the Supreme Court and won, later banned certain veterans as well.
As Will Swaim writes below, the organizers of the Long Beach Veterans Day Parade can rely on a 1995 Supreme Court decision in a case originating in Boston, which declared such events to be [...]

THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE GAYTONIA

May 16, 2007

What you got here is our annual—if by “annual” you mean first—celebration of the annual—if you mean the “24th”—Lesbian & Gay Pride Festival. And by “celebration” we don’t mean that everything listed on these pages is good, or even very welcoming of gays, lesbians, and transgender individuals—looking at you, Mr. and Mrs. Long Beach Police. [...]

 

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