Praise the Lord

Some more information on the amazing Creation Museum I mentioned below.
Zurcherart pointed out in my Livejournal comments that the actor portraying Adam in the museum is actually (and you wouldn't invent this, it's so good) a gay porn star. How fantastic is that! Turns out it's true as well.

Registration records show that Eric Linden, who portrays Adam taking his first breath in a film at the newly opened Creation Museum, owns a graphic Web site called Bedroom Acrobat. He has been pictured there, smiling alongside a drag queen, in a T-shirt brandishing the site's sexually suggestive logo.

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Del Martin & Phyllis Lyon



I remembered them, from when they first got married in 2004 but that marriage would end up being declared void. They've even got a wikipedia page, if that isn't celebrity I don't know what is. (Their account of the first years of their relationship is very recognisable, I have to say *g*)

I hope that this time their marriage license stays valid. I hope they can live out the rest of their lives married to each other. It's their right.

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Lesbianism, one step at a time

Today I made another step towards ultimate dykehood. I bought my first pair of... Birkenstocks. "Das Original" as the box proudly claims. Yes. Original dyke, that's me.
And you know what, I think they look rather hot.
I know, I've still got a way to go, I could've bought Teva, but that was still a step too far.

I'd like to officially apologise to the Girlfriend for making fun of her last year when she wanted to buy the exact same pair I just bought. Oops.



(oh er yeah... The Girlfriend and I are back together *g*)

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meme

Lula Bites tagged me... ooh-er. And since I always do what women tell me to do (that's just how I am), here goes:

1. Pick up the nearest book of 123 (or more) pages.
The Celluloid Closet (revised edition) by Vito Russo

2. Open the book to page 123 and find the 5th sentence.
Homosexuals were the prime suspects in "The Boston Strangler", rapists in "Riot" and hairdressers or queens in "No Way to treat a lady", "Valley of the Dolls", "The Producers", "The Loved One" and countless stock comedies.

3. Post the next 3 sentences:
Fear, hiding and self-destruction -the closet syndrome-, were implicit in all these films. Homosexuality had become the dirty secret exposed at the end of the last reel.
(and that's the end of the chapter)

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Jay Leno, the sequel

For those of you not in the know, let me recap: Jay Leno is a complete and utter wanker. We knew that already. For those of you too lazy to click on the link below, here's why:

On Thursday, March 20, 2008, Jay Leno welcomed as his guest on The Tonight Show the actor Ryan Phillippe, who, early in his career, played a gay character on the daily soap One Life to Live. During the interview, Leno hounded Phillippe, telling him to look into the camera, pretend it was his "gay lover…Billy Bob," who "has just ridden in shirtless from Wyoming" (still milking the Brokeback jokes), and give it his "gayest look."
(from mygayestlook)

Yes, Jay, because that is funny. For those of you who feel I'm overreacting, try and replace "gayest look" with "blackest look" or "most Asian look". Not so funny now, is it.

This website is now urging everyone to send in *their* gayest look. Just to give Jay some insight in what a gay look actually is. If you've got a minute, do send your photo in. I'm just waiting for someone to hand me a camera so I can pose.
(If you scroll down far enough you might even discover some worldfamous dykie bloggers)

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JK Rowling

Oh how brave, how immensly fantastic, what nerve you have, to say this after your books have all come out (so to speak) and you've done absolutely nothing, nothing at all with it.
What is it, he's old, so he can do no harm? Whereas Remus, Snape, all the others with tons more subtext... well, they're still virile, we can't have that. That would bring to mind images of working penises and we can't handle that.

And the most manipulative, bastard-ish character at that.
You utter utter utter bitch.
"oh no, slash writers, I don't like you, here I shall make one of my most queer characters straight, but here, you can play with this one"
No thanks! I don't want him!

"But you see, Harry looked up to a poofter, isn't that grand".
No, because as far as we know he looked up to a closeted poofter and what good has that ever done anyone?

Oh, and this: Rowling also said that she regarded her Potter books as a "prolonged argument for tolerance" and urged her fans to "question authority."
Yes, that comes across in your treatment of a quarter of the Hogwarts students. You've certainly showed us there are grey areas in life. What was it McGonagall said to them "your kind can all piss off back to the holes you crawled out of, we don't need you here"?
Yeah... something like that....

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No butch

Because my co-workers thought I'd be flattered when they told me they'd never guess I was a dyke, and told me how they have "nothing against gays and lesbians BUT don't understand why some women have short hair, wear ugly shirts and are unelegant and why some men wear too nice shirts and are too elegant.... Because of all of that, and because a lot of us in the queer community don't like 'em all that much either, I was going to post a photo of a fabulously butch dyke and poofy queer. But I can't find one.
Which is a bit of a let-down.

EDIT: I'm an idiot!
When in doubt, always turn to Eurovision! Here's my lovely butch:


(Click here if you want to see the only outfit The Girlfriend would ever consider marrying in.)

And my queen for today:
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Unfortunately, perfect as these examples may seem, neither of these people have (as far as I know) ever said they were gay. So I might be showing off dykie and poofie straights.
Which would prove a rather fantastic point, but hey, that's for another one of my soapbox-rants.

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Brokeback!

Two years after its release date I finally bought Brokeback Mountain. If I'd waited any longer they'd have taken away my Dyke Faghag-card. Name any kind of obscure, bad, ridiculous gay or lesbian film, chances are the Girlfriend and I have it. But Brokeback Mountain? Er... no. Not until today that is.
So, yes, my Dyke Faghag-Card is safe for the time being. Until people find out I never got around to buying "Philadelphia" on DVD...

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But that's childish, so childish

Because Pet Shop Boys lyrics need to be quoted more often (and because this is the song that made me fall head over heels in love with the boys -and invent all kinds of theories about their sexlives, but that's beside the point-) and because, let's face it, we all all us uncool idiots remember being mocked for our musical tastes:

"She's made you some kind of laughing stock
Because you dance to disco, and you don't like rock
She'd make fun of you, and even in bed
Said she was gonna go and get herself a real man instead"
And all this to a happy dancebeat.

You know what, have another look at the video. You know you want to!

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Oh. Alright then.

Just when I've blogged about the gay-friendliness of Amsterdam, I find this. (link in Dutch)

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Anthony Stuart Head

I'm probably way too excited about this. Quick! Hand me my Geek t-shirt.

To tide us over, I thought I'd link to a clip of Anthony Head in... Spandex!
And because he's fabulous as Prime Minister:

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Red ribbon

For years I've worn a red ribbon pinned to my jacket or bag. I must have gone through at least five, since they don't always last too long. I lost my latest ribbon somewhere last year and ever since then I've bee on the lookout for a replacement. Impossible. I've tried gay bookshops, gay pride rallies, sex shops in three different countries.... Nothing. Nowhere.
Yes, I did find a red ribbon-fridge magnet, but I'm not about to glue that to my bag. And I could have bought rainbow-ribbons, pins, bumper stickers, flags, underwear, anything. Everyone of these places also had leather- and bear-flags. But no mention of AIDS anywhere.
Now I've got the impression I could have easily found a red ribbon at either of these places (especially Gay Pride!) a few years ago. So what happened? Is it because of the "new" drugs that keep the AIDS-virus at bay for longer? Is the gay community sick of the association with AIDS?

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WTF

I wonder if the Girlfriend could explain this...

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Gay Moscow

I'm angry now.
(Especially about the fact that I have to keep posting links like this)

Hey, but on the other hand, the Pet Shop Boys are big in Russia. Fancy that.

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D'uh

What do you do when you can't sleep?
Well, you find out interesting things about gay flamingos who've adopted an egg.
Obviously.

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It's too easy

See, sometimes the religious right is just too funny...

For those of you not in the know already: Jerry Falwell's dead.
Boo-hoo.
Falwell was a queer-,woman-,anything-hating piece of shit.
Kinda like Fred Phelps.

Both of them enjoyed picketing funerals of people who'd died of AIDS, with funny little signs saying "god hates fags", thanked god for massacres (because those were god's punishment for sinners" and other tasteful things.
Nice guys, right?

You'd think they'd get along though. Two idiots often do.
But listen to this: Fred Phelps is planning to picket Jerry Falwell's funeral because, apparently "Falwell warmly praised Christ-rejecting Jews, pedophile-condoning Catholics, money-grubbing compromisers, practicing fags like Mel White, and backsliders like Billy Graham and Robert Schuler, etc. All for lucre -- making him guilty of their sins."

Now that's Karma for you!

(through Melle)

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Politics

In last night's debate of contenders for the Republican nomination for President, former Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson said employees should have the right to fire workers if they are gay.

(He retracted it later. Of course)

(yep, I thought I'd balance the Eurovision thread)

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The end of the world

De bisschop van Namen (wie?) zegt over homoseksualiteit: "Ik spreek, net zoals Freud, over een seksualiteit die gestopt is met ontwikkelen. Dat weerhoudt me er niet van om respect te hebben voor homoseksuelen."
(hij ontkende dat hij ooit gezegd heeft dat "homoseksuelen abnormaal" zijn).

Een puntje van kritiek, Monseigneur. Als ik de toenmalige assistent psychoanalyse moet geloven, heeft Freud ofwel nooit gezegd dat jeanetterij abnormaal was, ofwel dat later terug ingetrokken.

Ik dank u.

En, Mijnheer de Bisschop, Freud was een product van de 19e eeuw. Die bovendien (ook?) zei dat vrouwen die enkel door clitorale stimulatie (alle jeanetten lopen nu gillend weg. "Eeeeeaak Girlparts!") konden klaarkomen, geen volwassen seksuele ontwikkeling hadden. Vindt u dat dan ook? Of weet u niet wat een clitoris is?

En een grote dank u aan Peter Vande Veire die deze morgen na het nieuws van 8 (toen verrukkelijke Sofie Lemaire het nieuwtje over de bisschop voorgelezen had), "the end of the world as we know it" van REM opdroeg aan de Monseigneur.
Gegierd van het lachen terwijl ik me voordien zat op te winden.

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Damage control

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama do some damage control about the "are queers perverted" question.

Turns out they probably have some gay campaign funders as well.

They leave enough room to be able to crawl back from their statements though. You've got to love the guys that write those speeches!
(and you've got to love The Stranger)

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Mexico... Mexiiiiiiicoooo

Same sex civil unions in Mexico.

To quote Daffyd: Gay Rights For Gays!

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