The Gay Thread

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According to The Williams Institute and posted on The Advocate, here are 10 Facts About America's Gays:

1. 9 million LGBT people live in the U.S., 3.8 % of the adult population.
2. LGBT people are racially, ethnically, and geographically diverse: 1 in 4 are people of color and same-sex couples have identified themselves on the Census in 99% of U.S. counties.
3. A substantial percentage of LGBT people are raising children: 1 in 5 same-sex couples and 6% of children in foster care are being raised by LGB people.
4. LGB people are serving in the Armed Forces: 71,000 are currently serving, and there are over 1 million LGB veterans in the U.S.
5. 70,000 same-sex couples have gotten married in the U.S.; another 90,000 have entered into civil unions and domestic partnerships.
6. The annual divorce rate for same-sex couples and different-sex married couples is similar — about 2%.
7. LGBT people are not more affluent. Gay men earn 10% to 23% less, on average, than heterosexual men. Children of same-sex couples are twice as likely to live in poverty.
8. Rates of hate crimes and employment discrimination against LGBT people are similar to or higher than for other protected groups. Until the Williams Institute, no one analyzed this data on a per capita basis, taking into account the smaller size of the LGBT population.
9. "Don't ask, don't tell" has cost taxpayers over $500 million since it started being enforced in 1994.
10. If all 50 states and the federal government recognized marriage for same-sex couples, the federal budget would benefit by over $1 billion each year.

Half a Billion dollars wasted on Don't Ask, Don't Tell. fücking awesome....

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Great list.

Originally Posted by SzczerbiakManiac

If all 50 states and the federal government recognized marriage for same-sex couples, the federal budget would benefit by over $1 billion each year.

How does this work? I thought that marriage gave you a tax break. Are we talking about revenue from businesses that are in the wedding industry?

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I've never liked Kobe Bryant. I think he's an asshole and if not a rapist, definitely an adulterer. But now I have a new reason to dislike this punk. Last night he was caught on camera calling a ref a "fücking faggot" (at the 35 second mark).

GLAAD issued a response

The NBA fined him $100,000

And then Kobe('s people?) issued this well-scripted apology:

What I said last night should not be taken literally. My actions were out of frustration during the heat of the game, period. The words expressed do NOT reflect my feelings towards the gay and lesbian communities and were NOT meant to offend anyone.

Not meant to be taken literally? Is he trying to quote Jon Kyl?

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I've brought this discussion here because it seems more appropriate here than in the Bin Laden thread.

Originally Posted by Moonliner

just for the record, I read "breeders" the same way you read "faggots"

I think that's a status you assigned to it unfairly. There is no historical basis for that equivalency.

• Homosexuals have not gone out at night in packs for decades (centuries?) with specific intention of finding a heterosexual to kill because they find their "lifestyle" disgusting and call them breeders while doing so.
• Cars full of drunk homosexuals don't ride past a heterosexual couple holding hands on the street and throw bottles at them while shouting "breeder".
• Homosexual juries don't convict heterosexuals of "crimes against nature" and quietly mutter "breeder" under their breath as they pass sentence.
• Heterosexual bar patrons have never been arrested for opposite-sex dancing, protested in the form of a riot, and had those activities reported in the newspaper the next day as an "outbreak of breedery".

The word "breeder" implies no more inherent malice than does "woman".

"I met a woman at the store."
vs.
"Crap, I'm stuck behind a woman driver."

Context & intent are everything.

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Santorum Cupcake
work safe, but kinda gross in a cheeky way
you've been warned

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Dustin Lance Black's play "8" about the Prop 8 trial will be streamed live this Saturday (March 3).

[SzczerbiakManiac]

How many homophobes does it take to change a lightbulb?

Spoiler:

None. They fear change, even if it would make the world a better place.



I don't know who said it first.

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New Hampshire House rejects bill that would have repealed same-sex marriage

WooHoo!

[SzczerbiakManiac]

I just took a call from a woman whose monitor was displaying in portrait mode instead of landscape. I was able to fix it and the following is what I entered in the work order's note field:

remoted in, changed the screen's orientation

So watch out straights, we gays can even change your computer screen's orientation!

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Gay Marine says I do on base; a first