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Jun '06
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The Spirit of Stonewall
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June means gay pride celebrations in big cities throughout the world. Marches, parades, rallies, festivals, and parties will commemorate the events of June 1969 wherein patrons of New York City's Stonewall Bar stood up
to police harassment. When the bar was raided that historic night, gay men, drag queens, and street riffraff-- instead of climbing meekly into the back of police wagons-- fought back. What the cops had thought would be
a routine shakedown turned into a riot. |
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May '06
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Aging Gaily
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Those hostile to gay expression often raise the specter of a lonely and loveless old age for any man who adopts "the gay lifestyle" thereby straying from the narrow heterosexual
path. As they age, gay men-- some warn-- will be abandoned by a youth-obsessed narcissistic gay culture that cares only for the young and beautiful. |
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Apr '06
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Civil Liberties: RIP?
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This month the US government's sentencing case against Zacarias Moussaoui, the alleged "twentieth hijacker" in the 9/11 disaster, was rocked by revelations of gross prosecutorial
abuse. |
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Mar '06
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Sexual Insanity
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Last month school officials in Brockton, Massachusetts, suspended a six-year-old first grader for "sexually harassing" a classmate. Allegedly, he put two fingers inside the waistband of a
female first-grader during class. No further contact was alleged. |
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Feb '06
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NY Times Sleaze
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Last December, the New York Times ran a long story "Through His Webcam, a Boy Joins a Sordid World Online." It detailed how Justin Berry ran a gay-for-pay website starring himself for
five years, from ages 13 to 18. Berry outlines how, after being offered $50 to take off his shirt shortly after going online with his first webcam, he learned to entice men to send more and
more money, processed as online credit card transactions. Soon he was making, by his estimates, up to $900 an hour for masturbating for his online subscribers, and was successfully
soliciting gifts of computer equipment to expand his business. Berry reports frequently treating his clients with contempt, delaying answers to queries just to torment his eager fans: "These
people had no lives," he told the
Times, "They would never get mad." |
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Jan '06
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The Pope vs. Jesus
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Joseph Ratzinger, now known as Pope Benedict XVI, has directed that gay men, or any men with "homosexual tendencies," are unfit to provide pastoral care to Catholic parishioners. They are, according to the new Pope, "objectively disordered"; therefore, he has ordered
that seminaries scrutinize men studying to become priests and throw out those tainted with homosexuality. |
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Dec '05
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Alito Is No Conservative
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In newspapers, television reports, and press releases, President Bush's nominee to the Supreme Court Samuel Alito is billed as a "conservative." Indeed, Alito boasts of his conservative judicial outlook, and pundits suggest his conservatism was a key factor in Bush's nomination. |
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Nov '05
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Bi Lie?
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Instead of calling people liars for not fitting into predetermined categories, let's recognize and celebrate that human sexuality is wondrously diverse. |
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Oct '05
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Life, in New Orleans & Iran
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There's been much sloganeering and muddle-headed thinking about the recent Iranian executions of two youths for gay sex. Ironically, perhaps the revelations in about the devastation caused by hurricane Katrina, can bring some clarity to the discussion |
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Sep '05
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Be Not Afraid
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Subway commuters in metropolitan Boston have recently been bombarded with "security" announcements. Three different recorded warnings (urging riders to report strange packages,
to call police about suspicious people, to remain ever-vigilant and ever-worried) are blared over loudspeakers in a continuous loop with only a brief reprieve of silence before the next
cycle. Thus, commuters can easily hear dozens of high-decibel danger alerts in a single trip. Regular subway riders will hear such "be afraid" warnings hundreds of times a week and many tens
of thousands of times throughout the year. |
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Aug '05
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Sexual Insanity
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Earlier this year, the Boston media went berserk reporting on a case involving a 15-year-old female student giving blowjobs to five members of her high school's hockey team (ages
15 to 18) in the boy's locker room on multiple occasions. No force or coercion was ever alleged, no one involved ever complained, yet all the boys were charged with child rape. |
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Jul '05
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Our Secular Foundation
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Watching today's Bible-thumpers pull the levers of state power to execute prisoners, enrich the already wealthy, and make war on non-Christians
halfway around the world, one is reminded of James Madison's note that "religion and government will both exist in greater purity the less they are mixed together." |
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Jun '05
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Witchhunt in Spokane
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The mayor of Spokane, Washington, Jim West has not been a champion of gay civil rights. But that's no reason to celebrate the sexual witchhunt that's been unleashed to destroy him. |
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May '05
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Judicial Travesty
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Last February, former Roman Catholic priest Paul Shanley was convicted of child rape, one of the latest casualties in the still-simmering clergy abuse scandal. The techniques employed in his prosecution and conviction should appall all those committed to due process and civil
liberties. And the barely concealed anti-gay malevolence that motivated press and prosecutors throughout Shanley's ordeal should especially terrify gay people and other sexual minorities. |
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Apr '05
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Sexual Foolishness
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Recent reports from New York City suggest that one man there has died of a drug-resistant and potentially new and more virulent strain of HIV. While some debate the scientific validity of extrapolating too much from a single case (did the man have a genetic
predisposition making him more vulnerable? did his drug habits contribute to his rapid demise?), others have used the avalanche of publicity to agitate for more coercive measures to stop HIV transmission. Some have called for breaching doctor/patient confidentiality in order to
identify "those spreading disease," for turning health care providers into police informants, and even for quarantining HIV-positive gay men. Shockingly, among those voices have been some gay activists. |
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Mar '05
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Anti-Gay Double Standard
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To judge by newspaper and television reports, sexual molestation of our youth is one of our culture's most pressing concerns. Everywhere you look, you find stories about allegedly overly-amorous priests, coaches, and pop-culture icons. Newspapers devote entire sections to
where clerical hands may have wandered decades ago, and the current Michael Jackson case will generate yet more fodder for society's seemingly insatiable appetite for "news" about the corruption of our youth. |
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Feb '05
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Torture: The Gonzales Doctrine
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President Bush's first attorney general, John
Ashcroft, was infamous for his contempt of
the Bill of Rights. Ashcroft used the phony
wars on drugs, pornography, and terrorism
to instill fear and disinformation so as to
expand governmental power. Due process
was a dodge
for drug dealers. Freedom of the press gave
the green light to pornographers. And any
and all civil liberties could be dangerously
exploited by terrorists. Under Ashcroft's
twisted logic, decent Americans would never
need protection from the government, and
anyone asserting
such protections was, obviously, up to no
good. |
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Jan '05
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GLAAD's Vision: Less Than 20/20
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Last month, ABC's news magazine show "20/20" aired a story about the Matthew Shepard murder. Before the hour-long special was broadcast, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) issued media advisories blasting the show's promotion as
"sensationalistic" and warning of "red flags" in the show's presumptive content. After the show aired, GLAAD urged gay people to "take action" against ABC, claiming that the network was "advancing an agenda of public ignorance" and engaging in "misguided historical revisionism." And
GLAAD continues to dedicate much of their homepage to ways viewers can "share our outrage" about the Shepard story.
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Dec '04
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What Values?
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Political pundits analyzing the 2004 election debacle conclude that Republicans won on
"values" issues. They sure couldn't have won based on their mendacious war-mongering nor
their steal-from-the-poor, give-to-the-rich economic policies, so these "values" issues must be
politically potent. Many Democratic strategists now urge adoption of a more "values
centered" platform in order to be politically competitive with Republicans. |
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Nov '04
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Fundamentalist Error
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When President Bush attempts to justify his Iraqi mis-adventure, he inevitably claims that he is on the side of justice and truth and that those who oppose him are "evil doers"-- or their accomplices. Again and again he reminds the world, you're either for us, or against us. There
is no room for nuance, much less dissent. Though he has learned to avoid the word itself, "crusade" accurately describes the evangelical fervor with which Bush pursues the continued occupation of Iraq. His fanatical zeal can admit no mistakes nor tolerate any criticism. |
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Oct '04
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Kerry Sucks Less?
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Perpetual war-- that is President Bush's declared vision for America. We are to arm ourselves to the teeth and initiate first-strike "preemptive" wars with those who might become our enemies. We are to ignore the Geneva Conventions in order to torture and kill enemy
prisoners "legally." The Bill of Rights' fair and open trials are to be replaced with secret tribunals and off-shore military "justice." |
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Sep '04
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Leather Leaders
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Our society remains bedeviled by the Puritanical notion that sex is wicked. Despite gay liberation's advances, many people continue to see any sex outside narrow boundaries (with the ideal being a married man and woman having vaginal sex in an attempt to procreate) as
intrinsically wrong. |
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Aug '04
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Right on Rites
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Traditional, gender role-bound marriage hasn't worked well for straight people in recent years. Let us celebrate that gay leadership has the potential to make better relationships for everyone, gay or straight, married or not. |
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Jul '04
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The Torture President
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It is horrific to learn that the Bush administration has engaged in the systematic torture of prisoners in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the concentration camps of Guantanamo, Cuba. It is also
chilling to realize that the majority of those beaten (some to death), attacked by dogs, electro-shocked on their genitals, sodomized with large objects, and made to curse their religion on
video are not combatants, but simply among the thousands rounded-up and imprisoned, held indefinitely, with no way to assert their innocence, no hope of a hearing, no date for release--
just endless months, or years, of torment at the hands of sadistic captors. |
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Jun '04
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Prisons' Pride Lessons
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Veterans of earlier pride marches, parades, and demonstrations can easily lament the relatively apolitical, non-confrontational tone of many of this June's pride celebrations. No longer
are pride events rowdy gatherings of sexual outlaws demanding an end to legal and political persecution. Instead, they have become "family friendly" events aimed at demonstrating
our normality-- and peddling a plethora of rainbow hoopla to our new "market niche." |
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May '04
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Bear Power!
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Bravo's hit cable series "Queer Eye for the Straight
Guy" is a remarkable phenomenon. In it, five homosexuals offer
grooming and decorating tips to an un-hip heterosexual guy. By
following gay advice about hair removal
and puff pastry, the straight guy's previously slovenly life is,
supposedly, transformed into something more fabulous than it was
before his queer make-over. |
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Apr '04
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Sexual Rights, Secular Wrongs
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The current national debate about gay marriage has been clouded by muddled thinking-- from all sides. And the key confounding issue is the role of sex in our lives and law. |
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Mar '04
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Unequal Injustice
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It is difficult to get people to think rationally about how the law should, and should not, deal with adolescent sexual expression. |
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Feb '04
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Tyranny of Fear
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Fear is tyranny's greatest weapon. Tyrants treat a few especially brutally, counting on fear to keep others docile and compliant, afraid of the fate that would befall them should they challenge those in power. |
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Jan '04
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Prenuptial Agreement
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One of the central roles of traditional marriage has been to signal that married partners were each other's sexual property. Indeed, until recently, only marital sex was socially sanctioned and legally permissible. Fornication and adultery laws, along with social stigma (especially
for women), underscored that one of the prime benefits of marriage was access to sex. |
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