Tag: homophobic

More bad news for Judy Tucker, the Georgia woman who was carted off to jail last weekend after attacking two female soldiers inside a family restaurant. The 72-year-old’s problems all started last Saturday when she and her homophobic son became enraged at two female soldiers, Treasure Sharpe and Stephanie Mitchell, who they say “got in their way” in a Cheddar’s parking lot in Macon, Georgia. The mother/son duo chased the soldiers, one of whom is pregnant, into the restaurant and created...

Biedroń is an openly gay politician where 70% of the population is against same-sex relationships Poland’s first openly gay mayor, might just become the country’s first ever openly gay president. Robert Biedroń is throwing his hat in the presidential campaign ahead of a national vote in 2020. Even though the election is a few years away, recent polls show one in every four Poles is willing to vote for Biedroń. This is a remarkable achievement in a country where between 50 and...

Radar’s editorial staff is back to their old homophobic ways. In a new report, the celebrity gossip rag claims to have obtained “a secret government report detailing the terrifying, near-fatal catastrophe in 1992” involving John Travolta and his private Gulfstream II jet. According to Radar, the “gay orgy jet”, which Travolta was piloting, suddenly lost electrical power at 30,000 feet and almost crashed into another aircraft flying over the nation’s capital. “John Travolta was at the controls of his notorious gay orgy...

Four teenage boys have been convicted of assaulting a gay couple. One of the victims was left with four teeth missing after the attack, during which the youths hurled homophobic slurs at Jasper and Ronnie Vernes-Sewratan, including “homo” and “flikker” – the Dutch word for ‘faggot’ – according to their lawyer. The perpetrators – three 17 year olds and a 15 year old – were sentenced to perform between 80 and 160 hours of community service each by the court in...

"I wasted so much energy trying to manipulate my sexuality." Ricky Martin can totally relate to the homophobic oppression that pervades The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story. https://instagram.com/p/Bg4nqe0AdTh/?utm_source=ig_embed Martin played Antonio D’Amico, fashion icon Gianni Versace’s longtime partner, in the ’90s-set FX drama series. In a new Attitude cover story, he discusses his deep personal connection to the character. “The level of injustice that we as a community were dealing with back then was heavy,” says the 46-year-old Puerto Rican performer,...

Michael Smalanskas has been having a rough semester. The 22-year-old philosophy and theology major has taken quite a bit of heat from his classmates after putting up an antigay bulletin board with the headline “Marriage: The Way God Intended It” in his dorm hallway. “Traditional marriage: God ordained it. Nature reveals it. Science affirms it,” the bulletin board said. “Marriage should be reinforced. Not redefined!” The billboard also included a quote from Pope Francis that read: “We must affirm the right...

Jake Bain, an openly gay football star at John Burroughs High School, received tons of support from his family, friends and community this morning as Westboro Baptist Church descended onto their town to once again do another homophobic-filled hate protest. Hundreds of people lined the streets to support one of their own, as they waved the rainbow flag and sported a ton of fantastic signs to let him know that they have his back no matter what Westboro or anyone...

Plot twist: it turns out I don't have any problem with Alex kissing guys if it's me he's kissing. We’re pretty sure this story is pretty much better than any romantic comedy, but you be the judge! This straight guy, who we’ll call Mike, has been roommates with Alex for a year. When Alex told Mike he was gay, he was absolutely fine with it. But then when Alex started to bring guys home…he started getting annoyed, resentful, disgusted. Posting on Reddit,...

This new viral Russian ad campaign will be the perfect antidote for those of you who have woken up each day over the past year thinking "Ugh, if only I could live in Russia!" While it is obviously the land of dreams, this video, suspected to be financed by the Putin campaign according to the New York Daily News, highlights one of the country's teeny-tiny little quirk - the government and many Russian citizens are soul-crushingly homophobic. The video...

A series of videos are circulating promoting anti-gay gospel from a group of Jehovah’s Witnesses. The videos, which are homophobic in nature, are set to be shown at the “Be Courageous!” Convention for JWs which teach to stand up against members of the LGBTQ community—because the bible tells you so. The videos have been leaked and are now circulating and causing fear and disappointment that the millions of people who will watch these videos are being told that intolerance toward...

The Benham Brothers have penned another homophobic op-ed. This time, they’re worried about the seeds being sprinkled on young society by gay men and “gender unicorns.” In a new op-ed titled Mind-blowing plot to sexually confuse America’s little ones, the twinsies take aim at their local school board for voting to “sow seeds of sexual confusion into the minds of our schoolchildren.” “It all came about when the school board decided to expand the definition of diversity in its multicultural policy...

Mathieu Bastareaud was initially suspended for calling an opposing player a "f*cking f*ggot." A rugby team in France has dropped a player for using an anti-gay slur. Mathieu Bastareaud, a center with the French Rugby Club (RC) Toulon, was initally given a three week suspension by the European Professional Club Rugby (EPCR) after he called Italian forward Sebastian Negri a “fucking faggot” during Toulon’s match against Benetton Treviso last weekend weekend. Prior to EPCR’s disciplinary hearing, Toulon came to Bastareaud’s defense. In...

Now they're suing the company Stephen Heasley and Andrew Borg were looking forward to their September wedding in Pennsylvania. Then they received a rude awakening in the form of homophobic pamphlets. The pair, who currently live in Australia, ordered the pamphlets from Massachusetts company Vistaprint. The cards were supposed to have the order of events, members of the wedding party, and lyrics to the Above & Beyond song Treasure. Instead, they featured fire-and-brimstone religious imagery and words. One of them read: ‘Satan knows...

Friends is one of those shows that is almost always on TV, a familiar 90’s sitcom is just like a comfort food that you can always turn to. It is probably one of the most known series, and that is the reasons that millions of fans were thrilled when it was announced that it would be coming to Netflix. However, excitement quickly died down when people began to binge watch the show and found that it was more problematic than they...