The Gay Thread

[Kevy Baby]

Wow - those comics are still only $0.12?!?

[innerSpaceman]

Seems that Riverdale High is where the gay action is nowadays.

Or rather, it's high schools across the South that have become the center of the gay rights movement this graduation season.



There's the lesbian who wanted to take her girlfriend to their Mississippi prom. The school didn't have any basis to ban them from attending - so they cancelled the prom!. The girl sued, and a judge found the school acted improperly - but didn't award any damages because a private prom was being arranged, which the girls were invited to.

Little did they know that the private prom was a ruse and a trick. When the girls got there, it turned out to be a short-bus prom with only 7 other unpopular and special-ed kids in attendance, while the rest of the senior class had a SECRET private prom that same night at an undisclosed location.



A week or so later, a gay guy in (Tennessee or Alabama? - I forget) wanted to take his date to the prom, and the school said "sure." Wow, what a difference. Oh, except his parents kicked him out of the house for being gay (or rather for getting so much publicity about being gay), and now he's homeless. Nice.


Yesterday, again in Mississippi, a school removed all mention of a graduating lesbian student from their yearbook. She wore a tuxedo in the school picture. They said they would not run the photo because it violated their dress code, but they went further and removed all mention of her in the yearbook - despite that she's an honor's student involved in a ton of activities and teams. Meanwhile, kids who have been found guilty of drug offenses and kids who have dropped out & aren't even graduating remain in the yearbook.


These incidents have riled the gay activist community. We don't like it when kids are picked on. Gay kids have a vastly higher suicide rate than straight kids, so we don't take bullying lightly - and we don't take school discrimination well at all.







Pfft, we should have let the Confederacy go their own way when we had the chance. I'm sure there are millions of nice people there, and the South has a well-deserved reputation for politeness and charm. It also has a well-deserved reputation for bigotry and backwardness. I hope every gay kid unfortunate enough to grow up there finds a way to get the hell out.

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Funny or Die takes on DADT with puppets in No Strings Attached.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Say hello to Sparrow Men.

[innerSpaceman]

Yep, I don't usually go for bearded guys, but he's got some look about him.

How does he look without the rapier, I wonder.

[JWBear]

Here we go again!

NARTH member and vigorous gay adoption opponent Dr. George Rekers was caught by the Miami New Times as he returned from a ten-day vacation with a young male prostitute that he hired on Rentboy.com.

Are there any of these guys who aren't in the closet?!




ETA: Joe has a couple of updates...

Rekers claims he was "counseling" the young man.

If you talk with my travel assistant that the story called “Lucien,” you will find I spent a great deal of time sharing scientific information on the desirability of abandoning homosexual intercourse, and I shared the Gospel of Jesus Christ with him in great detail.

I just bet you did....

And the "travel assistant" himself

[innerSpaceman]

"Counseling" is a much better and well-thought-out excuse than the original one, which was that the young twink was hired to handle Rekers' luggage following a back injury. That failed to fly when he gave it straightfaced within moments of him being photographed bustling with his own bags all through customs.

Much more believable that's he's been counseling the young man on his gay conversion science in an effort to redeem the lad from the evils of homosexual attraction, and has been counseling him for the last 10 days. In Spain.


(A lot of comments on that linked site are puzzled by Reckers' attraction to this waif of a boy - which has led to the fortunate christening of the best hypocrite euphemism I've heard since "Hiking the Appalachian Trail" - namely, "Whatever Lifts Your Luggage."


Bwahaahaha.

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Colbert made Rekers his Alpha Dog of the Week

Leno got in a few jabs Tuesday night (just after the seven minute mark)

Towle Road's full coverage

Watching an evangelical fall is better than eating Reese's Peanut Butter Cups while getting a blow job.

[innerSpaceman]

Yep, was just gonna post that the rent-boy, Jo-Vanni speaks out.


This story just keeps getting better and better. Click the link there (also to Towleroad) to read about the details of Rekers', ahem, preferences. Nothing to do with lifting luggage. Well, except that I'll be calling my junk my luggage from now on, so maybe Rekers was just a self-fulfilling prophet.


Bill McCullum, a candidate for governor of Florida, has had his campaign facebook page shut down because it was flooded with demands for answers and accountability over his payment to Rekers of $87,000 for testimony against gay adoption.

And lest we forget that Rekers recently adopted a 16-year old boy. In this one case, I tend to believe Rekers' testimony that teen boys adopted by gay parents face risk of molestation. Methinks he knows himself pretty well. <<shudder>>




Oh, and Jo-Vanni's a total cutie. I'm glad he came forward and did the right thing. I think I'll farm all my household chores out to kind folks at rentboy.com.

[JWBear]

He adopted the 16 year old 4 years ago. The son is now 20 - the same age as Reker's boy-toy. To me, that makes it even more tawdry and increases the ick factor.