Tag: homophobia

A group of drag queens were all set to perform at a Montgomery, Alabama restaurant in honor of Pride last weekend when police raided the eatery just minutes before the big show. The Touch of Soul Café had planned to host the event the night of June 29. The restaurant kicked off the Pride party at 11 pm, with plans to continue until 2 am. Owner Geri Moss believed she had the right to keep the restaurant open until that hour...

FCB is one of the largest advertising agencies in the world, representing some of the biggest brands today, ranging from Coca-Cola to Levi’s to Nivea skincare. In a leaked internal memo written by FCB CEO Carter Murray, the agency will be terminating its account with the skincare company at the end of 2019, when its contract expires, after allegations of homophobia on Nivea’s part. According to Ad Age, it all started when the brand rejected an image FCB pitched depicting two men’s...

The Evangelical Covenant Church, a 134-year-old denomination of the American evangelical church, voted this past weekend to defrock pastor Dan Collison and expel his church First Covenant Church of Minneapolis for permitting a staff member to officiate same-sex marriage in 2014. The Guardian explains what actions got the church and its pastor censured: “In 2014, a First Covenant staff member officiated at an offsite wedding of two women from the church worship band. The church has also put out a “love...

Well, this is embarrassing. It turns out former North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory lost out on a position with the Department of Energy because Donald Trump found him too problematic. Newly leaked documents detail problems in McCrory’s record which blocked him from gaining higher-level positions within the government. Chief among them: the former Governor’s signing of a bill that stripped cities of their LGBTQ protection ordinances, and that forced transgender individuals to use the bathroom of their assigned birth sex. McCrory...

The Air Force says it is investigating an airman who posted a series of videos of himself calling gay people “cockroaches,” “pedophiles,” “sodomites,” and “vermin scum,” among other antigay slurs. “The sodomites, the homos, they do all their filthy acts in the dark of night where no one can see them,” the airman, who has not been identified but who was wearing his uniform in the videos, said. “When you get these perverts on their own, they flee like cockroaches, like...

Federal prosecutors allege that Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-California) illegally used campaign funds to pay for not one, not two, but five–yes, five!–extramarital affairs with female lobbyists and congressional aides who were under his employ. Hunter, who vehemently opposes same-sex marriage, tried to delay the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, and touts his commitment to “preserving family values” on his website, has been busted spending thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars on women other than his wife. “Hunter spent thousands...

A Houston man was shocked to discover derogatory language used to describe him at the bottom of his receipt written by a restaurant employee. The man, who asked not to be identified, dined at Plush Daiquiri Bar and Grill in Houston last Saturday. When he went to pay bill, he noticed the words “to go dude with dreads, fat, gay” at the bottom of the receipt. “I don’t even know her, she don’t know me,” he tells his local news station....

Muhammad Haziq Abdul Aziz (image via Facebook)Haziq Aziz is a Malaysian cabinet member who serves as the Senior Private Secretary to the Deputy Minister of Primary Industries and Commodities. Or rather, he was until earlier this month. About two weeks ago, Aziz was ousted from his government position after a sexually explicit video of him with another man leaked online. The video quickly made the rounds on social media and, in response, Aziz was forced to make a videotaped “confession,” admitting...

After having his GoFundMe fundraiser yanked, a new campaign has been launched to help disgraced rugby player Israel Folau raise $1 million to cover his legal expenses after getting fired for being a homophobe. And it’s making serious bank. GoFundMe announced earlier this week that it was suspending Folau’s campaign to raise $3 million to cover his legal expenses after he his contract with the New South Wales Waratahs team was terminated when he wrote a series of antigay social...

A local politician from Minnesota who has been exposed as bigot says he’s allowed to be as homophobic as he wants because his religion says so, and anyone who feels otherwise is attacking his faith. Kassim Busuri is a City Council member from St. Paul, Minnesota. Last Wednesday, the council approved a resolution recognizing June as LGBTQ Pride Month. The resolution was sponsored by every council member except Busuri. Busuri later said the reason he didn’t sponsor it was because he...

Whether the beloved ’90s sit-com Friends was homophobic still sparks fierce debate among modern audiences and longtime fans. And, apparently, the show’s actors, as well. (Spoiler: It was! But it was also a product of its time.) Now, one of the actresses who played part of the show’s lesbian couple is sharing her thoughts about it. Jane Sibbett played Carol, the ex-wife of Ross, played by actor David Schwimmer. In the sit-com, Carol leaves Ross after coming out as a lesbian...

(image via YouTube screenshot)GoFundMe just deleted the campaign of Israel Folau because the crowdfunding website doesn’t like helping homophobic jerks raise money on their platform. Imagine that. Is GoFundMe single? Because we wanna marry it. The former Australian rugby player had reportedly raised $485,234.99 of his $3 million campaign before it was shut down. He had launched the campaign to help pay for his lawsuit against Rugby Australia after the sports authority fired him for making homophobic posts on social media. After...

Roy Moore, the accused child molester and anti-LGBTQ nut who in 2017 lost Republicans a U.S. Senate seat in red state Alabama, has announced that he’ll be running for the same seat in 2020. Republicans are dead set against his candidacy, and between all the in-fighting and the fact that Moore is an awful bigot, we don’t know if we’re delighted or terrified. Let’s examine our feelings. You may recall that Moore used to be an Alabama Supreme Court Justice,...

What a difference a day makes! Former professional rugby player Israel Folau launched a GoFundMe page this week to raise money for his legal expenses after having his four-year $5 million contract with the New South Wales Waratahs canceled after he posted series of homophobic diatribes on social media in April. Yesterday, Folau had only raised $1,300 towards his $3 million goal. Today, he’s raised more than $460,000 and counting from almost 6,000 individuals. Some donors have used their real names when...