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May '07
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Tortured Priorities
By: Jim D'Entremont
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In July 2006, the federal government embarked on a series of inspections of porn-model records. These fishing expeditions netted an almost nonexistent catch. |
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Apr '07
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Trans Fats Boiling Over NYC Ban
By: Bill Andriette
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Mass unrest reprise of Stonewall Rebellion |
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Apr '07
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Bread, Water, Equal Rights
By: Joseph Couture
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Canada beggars gay pension applicants. When is equality too costly? |
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Mar '07
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Amore e Guerra
By: Jim D'Entremont
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In a fight over gay marriage, Italy's left-of-center coalition may plump for divorce |
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Mar '07
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Seizing Gay Books
By: Bill Andriette
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Sympathy without redress, as the Canadian Supreme Court lets Canada Customs get away with censorship |
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Feb '07
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Tennessee Sting
By: Jim D'Entremont
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Police decoys lure over a dozen men to arrest, while local media trumpet the threat posed by the area's 'homosexual population.' How will Knoxville area queers cope? |
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Jan '07
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Anti-Gay Horror in Iraq
By: Jim D'Entremont
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Iraqi police raided a safe house in Baghdad's al-Shaab quarter on November 9th, 2006, abducting five gay activists. The men, ranging in age from 19 to 29, had ties to the underground group Iraqi LGBT. A few days later,
Haydar Kamel, a gay-identified men's clothier in Sadr City-- Baghdad's teeming proletarian suburb-- was kidnapped by members of the Shiite Mahdi Army. Elsewhere in the Iraqi capital, police took four men into custody at the Jar
al-Qamar barbershop, an establishment known to have gay patrons. |
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Dec '06
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How Gay Republicans Saved America
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Over the years, the Log Cabinettes had put their wood-hewing skills to work in a secret project. Despite derisive barbs and recurring splinters, they persisted in fashioning a large Trojan Horse, which they quietly wedged
into Party headquarters, somewhere between the evangelical pillars and the glittery tough-on-sex-deviants chandeliers. |
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Nov '06
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Flower or Power
By: Bill Andriette
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When it comes to repressive firepower, what corporations can do pales before the capability of states. And among states, the US is, for now, first-amidst-equals in laying down the law on the internet. |
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Nov '06
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The Big Chill
By: Bill Andriette
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Verizon's decision last month to shut off a Montreal ISP for hosting edgy gay chatboards points to a colder, grayer internet ahead |
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Oct '06
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Vicious Sex-Crazed Attack
By: Bill Andriette
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Every few years since the late 70s, the US Congress passes another omnibus antisex law that scales new heights of repression, censorship, and vindictiveness. The "Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006" is
the latest in the series, and it looks both backward and forward. |
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Oct '06
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Political Science
By: Jim D'Entremont
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Chicago gay paper blackballs sex researcher after transgenders protest. Censorship? Or keeping science accountable? |
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Sep '06
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Murder Most Foul
By: Jim D'Entremont
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Sofia Rodriguez-Urrutia-Shu was found dead in a shopping center restroom in Canning Vale, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, on June 26. The eight-year-old girl had been savagely beaten, stripped naked, raped,
and strangled....
In the absence of published facts, scapegoating started at once. |
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Sep '06
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Your Laptop Belongs to Uncle Sam
By: Jim D'Entremont
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On July 24, a unanimous three-judge panel of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that US customs agents may conduct warrantless, random searches of travellers' laptops regardless of reasonable suspicion
or probable cause. |
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Aug '06
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Weapons of Mass Destruction Not Found
By: Jim D'Entremont
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But in a quest for illegal beer and wine,
Albuquerque cops turn gay bathhouse into a mini-
Abu Ghraib |
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Aug '06
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21 Years Late
By: Jim D'Entremont
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Now 41, Baran has spent more than half his life in
prison for crimes he insists he did not commit. |
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Jul '06
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Moscow's Stonewall
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From Adelaide to Zurich, gay pride parades these days are mostly good excuses for a street party. On May 27th, what was intended to be Moscow's first-ever gay march, banned by the city, devolved into assaults on
gay supporters-- with rocks, fists, and some 120 arrests, of both would-be marchers and their skinhead and militant-Christian attackers. For months, Moscow's mayor and religious leaders had foamed with anti-gay
rhetoric. Even by the measure of their own demagogic aims, did authorities go too far? |
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Jun '06
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Choking the Net
By: Jim D'Entremont
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Following its tradition of handing communications media over to
anointed business entities, Congress is about to change the nature of the internet, transforming the last democratically functioning telecommunications
sector into a class-driven corporate money machine. |
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Jun '06
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Scam Alert
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More than average, people in the gay community look out for each other. Alas, that fact gets exploited time and again by scammers looking to con money out of the unwary. Often it works like this: someone calls
and claims to be in your circle of friends or associates-- and in serious trouble. Won't you wire money to help? In one of the latest outbreaks of this scam, dozens of
Guide advertisers have been targeted over the past month
by a man (or men) apparently operating from Toronto. |
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May '06
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Homophobic Outrage
By: Jim D'Entremont
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Paul Shanley, now 75, was convicted in February 2005 on two counts of child rape and two lesser charges, and sentenced to a prison term of 12 to 15 years. (See The Show Trial
of Paul Shanley, The Guide, May 2005.) |
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May '06
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Politics Trumps Justice
By: Jim D'Entremont
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Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney is angling for the White House-- getting himself into the news with a new quasi-progressive health-insurance law, on the one hand, while pushing
a harsh anti-gay and anti-sex agenda, on the other. Case in point: Romney's elevation last month to a judgeship of a prosecutor who helped convict a pro-gay priest and send him to
prison for life after a fraudulent, homophobia-tinged trial. |
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Apr '06
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Mouse Trapped?
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Legions of office workers made limp-wristed from carpal tunnel syndrome and a lot of curious gay men perked up ears this month when Microsoft announced its long-awaited Gerbil
the world's first computer pointing device to put the powerful anal sphincter and rectal musculature to work pushing the cursor around the desktop. |
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Apr '06
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Chips Ahoy!
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"The lesbian and gay movement has long trailblazed new frontiers in the struggle for freedom and dignity for all," declared NGLTF's Executive Director Matt Formen at an April 1
press conference, announcing the launch of a program to embed radio-tracked "PrideChips" in LGBT Americans. |
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Mar '06
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Keep Dancing
By: Tom Reeves
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On January 12th, prosecutors dropped all remaining charges stemming from a May, 2003 raid on the Montreal gay strip club, Taboo (see Stonewall II? and Raid Response
The Guide, August & September 2003). "The
crown decided that indecency charges are a non-issue," a Montreal police spokesman was quoted in the
Montreal Gazette. Seven male strippers and club staff, as well as one customer,
were completely cleared. |
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Mar '06
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Raising Hysteria?
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Canadian gays up-in-arms as new right-wing government seeks to raise age-of-consent |
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Mar '06
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Canada's Frolicsome High Court
By: Joseph Couture
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Canada has taken a sudden and dramatic leap forward in the struggle for liberation of the country's sexually adventurous minorities. |
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Feb '06
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Cop, Prosecutor, Hangman
By: Jim D'Entremont
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The untold story of how a sleazy, exploitative
New York Times reporter will destroy the lives of hundreds of gay men |
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Jan '06
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Nowhere Over the Rainbow
By: Jim D'Entremont
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On October 21, 2005, the Kansas Supreme Court declared discriminatory punishment for underage gay sex unconstitutional. The ruling gave Matthew Limon a measure of freedom after five years and four months of incarceration. |
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Dec '05
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Constitutional Collapse?
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Like the video of the plane crashing into the Twin Towers replayed in slow-mo, the stacking of the US Supreme Court with far-right authoritarians-- foretold with the reelection of G.W. Bush-- now unfolds before our eyes. But from the media soundtrack accompanying reports of
Samuel Alito's nomination to the high court, you'd think the horror-show was a love-story. In large part, it's really a
sex story-- about how Alito wormed his way into the hearts of the right-wing by expanding the state's ability to punish sex, and the people who have it. |
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Dec '05
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Why Dicks Have Gotten Bigger
By: Blanche Poubelle
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In his fascinating book The Mating Mind, Geoffrey Miller looks at the issue of how sexual selection has shaped the human mind and the human body. Sexual selection, as the gentle reader will recall, was proposed by Darwin as a second force shaping evolution, alongside the
better-known natural selection. |
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