The Gay Animal Kingdom. From the JUN/JUL 2006 issue of Seed: Credit: Catherine Ledner Joan Roughgarden thinks Charles Darwin made a terrible mistake.
Not about natural selection—she’s no bible-toting creationist—but about his other great theory of evolution: sexual selection. According to Roughgarden, sexual selection can’t explain the homosexuality that’s been documented in over 450 different vertebrate species. The Real Story on Gay Genes. But 21st-century Western society, and the homosexuals therein, could be something of an anomaly in human history, according to Paul Vasey, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta.
“Do I think the social contexts are less representative of our evolutionary past? I’d say yes,” Vasey says. “The kind of gay men and lesbian women we are familiar with in Western culture express their homosexuality as egalitarian—they’re not differentiated as far as gender.” In other times and other places, one partner typically adopts a masculine role, while the other adopts the feminine. What the Gay Brain Looks Like. What makes people gay?
"8": A Play about the Fight for Marriage Equality. Equality chief: Religious are not above the law. The chair of the UK’s Equality and Human Rights Commission has said religions must defer to the public laws of the state. Trevor Phillips said the religious should leave their views “at the door of the temple” and be governed by public law when providing public services, Catholic newspaper The Tablet reports. Mr Phillips also pointed to the case of Catholic Care, which last year lost its bid to be exempted from equality laws which make it illegal to discriminate against gay couples who wish to adopt.
He said agencies should not be able to decide they were “different” and so request different laws. He explained: “There’s nothing different in principle with a Catholic adoption agency, or indeed Methodist adoption agency, saying the rules in our community are different and therefore the law shouldn’t apply to us. Jamaican gay rights activists hopeful of repealing anti-homosexuality law. They are one of the world's most beleaguered gay communities, brutalised by violence, hounded by a law that makes homosexual acts a crime and driven into the shadows in a country where four in five people admit they are homophobic.
But now gay people in Jamaica are cautiously optimistic that change may be in the air. A new government has begun making noises about an end to discrimination and repealing an anti-gay law. Portia Simpson Miller, standing for election as prime minister in December, declared that "no one should be discriminated against because of their sexual orientation", and indicated she would be willing to have gay people in her cabinet. Sh*t Homphobic People Say Goes Viral (VIDEO) Lamda Legal, a national organization that works tirelessly on behalf of the LGBT community (a.k.a., working tirelessly debunking stupid, crazy sh#t said by stupid and crazy homophobes), ratcheted up their outreach and appeal by releasing a viral video that’s aptly entitled “Sh*t Homophobic People Say .”
Not wasting any time on fancy intros and snappy bumpers, the video immediately starts with a clip of Tony Perkins, the President of the Family Research Council and deluded little sh#t who makes millions hoodwinking god-fearing, sanctimonious evangelical republican voters every major election year, spouting nonsensical homophobic claptrap. Thankfully, we only have to look and listen to that smug little twerp briefly. The video then transitions to latest 2012 Republican drop out, Rick Perry, and his notorious campaign video of the so-called dumber version of George Bush saying homophobic crap as he wears the wardrobe, ironically enough, from Brokeback Mountain. GRAN LAKOU. Pope rallies visiting US bishops against gay marriage. 9 March 2012Last updated at 15:01 ET Pope Benedict XVI has long supported traditional marriage between a man and a woman Pope Benedict XVI has denounced gay marriage in a speech to US bishops visiting Vatican City.
The Pope warned of "powerful political and cultural currents seeking to alter the legal definition of marriage". He also urged the bishops to emphasise to their Church that premarital sex and cohabitation was "gravely sinful" and "damaging to the stability of society". The Pope's comments come shortly after the US states of Washington and Maryland legalised same-sex marriage. But at least five US states have scheduled ballot measures that could overturn gay marriage laws. College student comes out as lesbian, school asks her to hide sexual orientation. OAKLAND COUNTY, Mich. -- A college student recently came out as a gay woman.
She has the support of her family and friends, but the same can't be said for her school! Kiah Zabel is a 19-year-old student at Rochester College, a Christian-based school in Oakland County Michigan. She recently told those close to her that she was gay. She posted a Facebook photo that said, “Out, proud, and lesbian.” Anti-Gay, Anti-Ellen DeGeneres Boycott Fails Miserably. It’s a sign of the times when that conservative standby, homophobia, fails to stir the base.
One Million Moms, a front for the American Family Association (not an SPLC designated hate group quite yet) just found this out the hard way as their boycott against JCPenney amounted to a whole lot of nothing.