Tag: homophobia

Aryeh Stern, the 74-year-old chief rabbi of Jerusalem, recently asked the city’s Mayor Moshe Lion to ban rainbow flags during next week’s Pride Parade. This is a bit like asking to ban American flags during a 4th of July celebration. In his letter, Stern wrote: When asked about his letter, Stern explained: Stern added that he didn’t think his letter to the mayor would be published and wondered whether he’d made a mistake by writing it, stating, “I did not think it...

In one of his first big breaks in Hollywood, “The 40-Year-Old Virgin”, Seth Rogen went into an ad-libbed conversation with co-star Paul Rudd about how they knew each other were gay, often times delving into homophobic stereotypes. Perhaps buoyed by the popularity of that moment, the duo reprised the sequence in Rogen’s next film, “Knocked Up.” Now, in the current issue of GQ, Rogen took a moment to speak up about these and other homophobic sequences in his early work....

Kenya’s High Court just upheld the country’s antigay laws punishing “carnal knowledge” and “gross indecency” with five to 14 years in prison. The disappointing news comes just as same-sex marriages began in Taiwan and Brazil’s high court issued a ruling declaring queerphobia unconstitutional. Kenya’s three-judge hight court upheld Sections 162 (a) and (c), 163 and 165 of the country’s penal code, ruling that petitioners failed to provide “credible evidence” the law infringed on their rights, according to Quartz.com. The laws are holdovers...

They say you should never judge a book by its cover. Well, apparently British Labour MP Roger Godsiff didn’t get that memo when he suggested two LGBTQ-themed children’s books be yanked from the shelves of a school library in Birmingham, England. The 72-year-old admitted in an interview this week that he never actually read My Chacha is Gay, which tells the story of a Pakistani kid with a gay uncle, or My Princess Boy, about a boy who likes to dress up like a...

The city council of Dublin, California — a small city east of San Francisco with about 61,000 people — voted against flying a rainbow flag during Pride Month after numerous people spoke out against it. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Shawn Kumagai, the first out gay Dublin City Councilman, initiated the request and when the council first considered it, they unanimously supported the idea…. … then the public debate started. Two people said they didn’t want to raise a rainbow flag because...

Disgraced former Republican congressman Aaron Schock has now sunk even lower. If you can believe it. Schock, who recently sparked outrage via shirtless gay romp photos from Coachella, was spotted in WeHo earlier this week, chatting up a twink sandwich with bleached blonde hair at the pool of the Standard Hotel (a place that I can tell you from personal experience is a hotbed for man-on-man action). Published on the Instagram account @eelarson,...

Earlier this week, out politician Jerry Windle abruptly resigned from his seat on the Morrisville Town Council in North Carolina halfway though his four-year term, claiming he was sick and tired of being bullied by his homophobic colleague while his other colleagues did nothing to stop it. In an emotional statement given at a town hall meeting on Monday, Windle, who was first elected in 2017, told his fellow council members, “I cannot in good conscience serve on a council...

A local politician from North Carolina abruptly stepped down from his post this week after he claimed he could no longer stand the bullying he’s been suffering at the hands of one of his colleagues. Jerry Windle is, er, was a member of the Morrisville Town Council in North Carolina. That is until earlier this week when he announced his immediate resignation halfway though his four-year term. In an emotional statement given at a Town Hall meeting on Monday, Windle, who was...

Chicago high school same-sex couple Kendall Anderson and Peder Sevig allege that the cashier of the Big Boy Gyros restaurant kicked them out for hugging. Anderson said that when he hugged Sevig, the cashier said, “We can’t have two guys hugging in here.” Anderson told Chicago’s CBS News affiliate, “And then said something to the effect of, ‘If it was a guy and a girl it would be OK, but we can’t allow two boys.’” When the couple and their...

Disturbing video of a woman on a London Underground verbally assaulting a man “because he is gay” has been making the rounds online. The incident happened Monday at around 5:30 a.m. at the start of the morning rush hour. The clip was submitted to MailOnline by an anonymous tipster and shows the woman screaming homophobic abuse at a male passenger. “Because you’re gay, even more I’m going to violate you!” the women, who appears to be intoxicated, shouts in the man’s face. When...

By a vote of 118-60, the National Council of Switzerland has amended its penal code to make homophobia and transphobia as illegal as racism. Under the new ordinance, anyone who is found guilty of discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity will face up to three years in prison. The move to change the penal code was led by National Councillor Mathias Reynard. Upon passage of the new law, Reynard tweeted his celebration writing, “Victory! By 118 against 60 and 5...

This has a beautiful message Two rock stars have kissed to fight against homophobia at an anti-Nazi concert. Benjamin Griffey, who also performs as the rapper Casper, and Felix Brummer, frontman of KraftKlub, kissed on stage on Monday (3 September). The free open-air concert was put together to take a stand against neo-Nazis in the eastern German city of Chemnitz. Over the past week, the city has seen numerous protests and acts of far-right violence. Rock stars kiss at anti-Nazi concert ‘We celebrate every one...

A 19-year-old Italian gay man was savagely beaten by an unidentified attacker in a popular nighttime area of the city of Turin on Saturday. The teenager, who was only identified by the fictitious name Alberto in the Italian press, and a female friend were on their way to meet other friends when a group of people approached them near an crowded station of the underground. One of the guys, who appeared to be in his early 20s, mocked the way...

Police officers used tear gas, dogs, and batons to split up people participating in Istanbul’s 16th Anuual Pride March this Sunday. Despite the march going on for more than a decade, Istanbul’s governor banned the march for the fourth consecutive year. Last year, the governor cited concerns about “public order” and the “security of citizens and tourists” after an ultranationalist group threatened the march. https://twitter.com/ChristensenLene/status/1013435220534677505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1013435220534677505&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Finstinctmagazine.com%2Fpost%2Fistanbul-pride-marchers-ran-tears-after-police-violently-dispersed-crowd That said, it is illegal for the governor to ban the march no matter what his public...