The Gay Thread

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Many young Broadway stars recorded a song called "It Gets Better" to raise awareness and give hope to LGBT youth contemplating drastic actions. The song was written by Jay Kuo and Blair Shepard. It will be available for purchase via iTunes on October 19th but you can see it here. Proceeds benefit The Trevor Project.

[Mousey Girl]

Originally Posted by SzczerbiakManiac

Many young Broadway stars recorded a song called "It Gets Better" to raise awareness and give hope to LGBT youth contemplating drastic actions. The song was written by Jay Kuo and Blair Shepard. It will be available for purchase via iTunes on October 19th but you can see it here. Proceeds benefit The Trevor Project.

While I appreciate all of the stuff aimed towards young people not taking their own life, I really wish they would either quit using Seth Walsh as their posterboy or at least report the ENTIRE truth on the many things that contributed to his suicide.

[Chernabog]

Originally Posted by JWBear

I'm beginning to think we need a benevolent dictator.

I would totally swear fealty to Oprah!

[Kevy Baby]

Heard about this on the radio this morning and was just so amused by the ridiculousness of it, I had to share.

There is a group called "Love God's Way" that has come up with a list of 'Gay' music:

One of the most dangerous ways Homosexuality invades family life is through popular music. Parents, please keep careful watch over your children’s listening habits. Especially in this age of Internet mp3 piracy.
There are multiple levels of Gay Music. Some bands are what we like to call Gateway Bands. They lure children in with Pop Grooves and Salacious Melodies leaving them wanting more. They’ll move on to more dangerous bands and the next thing you know you’ve got a homosexual for a child.
We’ve taken the time to highlight the bands that are particularly Gay. Please take the time and dissect your child’s CD / iTunes catalog. If you find 3 or more of these bands in their collection it is time to take action.
We Strongly recommend that you burn the CDs. Make sure your child is watching. Make sure they can feel the heat. It is crucial that the image remains emblazoned in their young minds. They need to know that if they continue to listen to these bands they may Burn eternally as well.

You can see the whole list here, but some that caught my eye include (the parenthetical notes are theirs):

• Lil'Wayne
• George Strait
• Toby Keith (cowboy)
• Ravi Shankar
• The Doors
• Phish
• Metallica
• The Rolling Stones
• Kansas
• Eminmen
• Nirvana
• Ted Nugent (loincloth)
• Frank Sinatra
• Tom Waits
• The Cramps

I think my favorite entry on the list is a band that I am not familiar with, but I loved their parenthetical note on them:

• The Butchies (lizbians)

There is also a safe list, not surprisingly dominated by Christian acts such as Jars of Clay and Michael W. Smith, but four "safe" bands that just amused me were:

1. Cyndi Lauper
2. Dresden Dolls
3. Blondie
4. Cheap Trick

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

Heard about this on the radio this morning and was just so amused by the ridiculousness of it, I had to share.

Yes. Ridiculous enough to make me very skeptical.

And rightly so, as it turns out. It seems to be a strange and not very funny attempt at some sort of satire.

[blueerica]

That website almost seems like a joke....

[Ghoulish Delight]

See my link...

[blueerica]

Ahhh - yeah, I had this tab open a while before I got to it.

[SzczerbiakManiac]

For those who enjoy "joining":

Wear purple on Wednesday, October 20 to show your support for teens who took their lives because of anti-LGBT bullying.

[Alex]

Wait, we don't support them do we? We think they made a poor decision (though since I do think suicide is sometimes a reasonable option I might actually support some of those decisions).