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11/17/2005
BREAKING: God speaks via Westboro press release
So God apparently spoke overnight, choosing to do so via the "fag-hating" folks at Westboro Baptist Church. In response to their conversation with the Lord Almighty, the family Phelps issued the following press release this AM: Can you believe their...
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More on the merciless murder of Mercer's mercurial LGBT...damn, no synonym for 'group' begins with 'mer'
It seems that the implications made earlier this week that Mercer University was semi-supportive of their gay student group and that it was the Georgia Baptist Convention who were the big meanies who forced the organization to disband before voting...
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11/16/2005
Duelin' affidavits in Spokane
In an apparent attempt to counteract an affidavit from a computer forensics expert saying that troubled Spokane mayor Jim West (pic.) deliberately visited Gay.com using a city computer, the city's director of information technology, Garv Brakel, has filed another affidavit...
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Gay take on 'Straight Talk'
For those who have not been listening to the "ex-gay" radio show "Straight Talk Radio" since it premiered last month, let us give you an idea of what you've missed: I used to be gay, but now I have a...
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NC Baptists move to replace gay-accepting churches with gay-excepting churches
Delegates at the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina's annual meeting in Winston-Salem, have voted in favor of asking their board to "develop and implement" a policy to define what constitutes a Convention-friendly church, with a specific point made that...
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Knight/Kleder decry 'GayKK', all the while ignoring the actual 'anti-gayKK'
In another of his chats regularly posted on the Concerned Women For America's website, "Concerned Woman" Robert Knight today speaks out against a recent protest by gay activists in Machias, Maine, in which students and professors dressed in outfits that...
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Fun with typos - FOF edition
From Focus on the Family's site (family.org), as of 10AM, 11/16: Unless the help they're seeking "where" to involve proofreading, in which case FOF wouldn't seem to be the ones to tell New Yorkers "were" to go. Oh, and unless...
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Senator cites CWA as 'key members'; we suggest alternative descriptors
According to the Concerned Women For America, during last week's Senate subcommittee hearing addressing a proposed federal amendment to ban gay marriage, U.S. Senator Russ Feingold (D-Wisconsin) mentioned CWA and their head "Concerned Woman," Robert Knight (pic.), as "key members...
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Study: Are gays more easily cajoled by Madison Avenue?
A new study from Witeck-Combs Communications indicates that while larger percentages of gay and lesbians feel advertising rarely shows people like themselves, they are more likely than heterosexuals to have an ad, particulary those on TV and in magazines, inspire...
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11/15/2005
Mercer's gay support elicits Baptist affiliates' abandoment
The Mercer Triangle Symposium, the first gay student group in the history of Atlanta's Mercer University, disbanded on Monday due to complaints from Georgia Baptist Convention head J. Robert White (pic.) that the LGBT group conflicted with the school's Christian...
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Jack Drescher running for APA prez; Fran Drescher is not
Dr. Jack Drescher (pic.), an openly gay man critical of the "ex-gay movement," is running for president of the American Psychiatric Association. Though rumor has it that through bullsh*t and lies, the "ex-gays" are working to convert Drescher into an...
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11/14/2005
Survey: Smear the queer still played in Iowa schools
According to a new survey from the Iowa Pride Network, 92.3% of the state's high school students report hearing homophobic remarks frequently in their schools, 83.3% of LGBT students report being verbally harassed because of their sexual orientation, and 74.8%...
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Focus on the Family directs focus towards Big Apple
The "focused on queer conversion" folks at Focus on the Family have announced that they're launching an advertising campaign in the NYC area in which they'll promote their TroubledWith.com website (a charming little Internet home which includes homosexuality among the...
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Q TV coming 2 NYC THURS
The Q Television network has announced that starting this Thursday, Time Warner Digital Cable subscribers in New York and New Jersey will be offered the 24/7 gay network on channel 326. Most excited about the announcement are said to be...
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2010 Gay Games head to Germany; anti-gays consider boycotting weiner schiztel
It has been announced that the 2010 Gay Games will be held in Cologne, Germany. Relatedly, many misguided queers attending the event will be wearing far too much cologne, probably. Cologne to host 2010 Gay Games [Gay.com UK]
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'Out 100' out for $3.99
Sheryl Swoopes, Nate Berkus, Melissa Etheridge, Marc Jacobs, and Sharon Stone are among the honorees on Out magazine's 2005 "Out 100" list of "Most Intriguing Gay Men, Lesbians, and Straight Allies," due on newsstands this week. As for Closeted magazine's...
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Show Me State lawmakers move to silence Show Me Hate protesters
Following in the footsteps of Indiana state Sen. Brent Steele, Missouri state Sen. Charlie Shields (R) and state Rep. Martin Rucker (D) proposed a law on Friday that would make funeral protests, popularized by the hate artisans at Westboro Baptist,...
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11/11/2005
On gay adoption, child abuse, and triple chins
Responding to the recent revelation that Catholic Charities of Boston has, on occasion, placed children with homosexual couples, Catholic Action League of Massachusetts's CJ Doyle (pic.) tells the Concerned Women for America: "We support the position of the Church: that...
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FOF warns of 'Kiss Kiss Bang Bang's 'Gay Gay Agenda Agenda'
This week in Focus on the Family's Friday movie reviews (which we rely on religiously, bad pun absolutely intended), the "pro-fams" take on the new Val Kilmer/Robert Downey Jr. flick, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Now just from the title alone,...
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Minn. gay marriage foes, fans work for 'mos, bans
Yesterday in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, around 250 pastors gathered at Grace Church to strategize about a state ban on queer nuptials, while 75 or so opponents (including some pastors) protested outside of the meeting in the name of acceptance. According...
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Report: Mass. gay marriage opponent no longer gonna oppose it
One of Massachusetts's most outspoken opponents of same-sex marriage, state representative Eugene O'Flaherty (pic.), tells New England's Bay Windows newspaper that he is no longer backing an amendment to ban queer nuptials in the Bay State. O'Flaherty tells the gay-centric...
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Perry all sorts of excited about Texas history's future black mark
Texas Governor Rick Perry (pic.) finally spoke yesterday about this week's passage of a constitutional gay marriage ban in the Lone Star state. Speaking for his wife and himself, Perry is quoted by the AP as saying, "We believed passionately...
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11/10/2005
Focus on the Meta Tags
If your browser allows you to "View the Source" of websites, we'd like to advise you to take a look at the "Keywords" Meta tag in the "Homosexuality" section of Focus on the Family spinoff site, TroubledWith.com. You might be...
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Like an annoying mosquito hellbent on ruining your picnic, Federal Marriage Amendment refuses to disappear
A Senate subcommittee on Wednesday gave approval to a new federal marriage amendment along a 5-4 party line vote; we'll let you guess which parties which went ways. This motion sends the piece of poo to the full Judiciary committee,...
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Who's a big boy anti-gay leader?
In response to Tuesday's gay-friendly vote in Maine, the state's most outspoken anti-gay, Micheal Heath, has announced that he has called on Gov. Baldacci to introduce an amendment that would constitutionally ban gay marriage. We hear that Heath then went...
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PNO, LPI become one; anti-gays will now work to protect sanctity of corporate mergers
Planteout Inc. has acquired LPI Media Inc., publisher of both The Advocate and Out magazines, forming one gigantic superpower of queer infotainment. The merger is of course great news for us, as we no longer have two gay media giants...
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Wife o' Heath offers Mainers her 1.25 cents
In a slightly sore loserish diatribe titled "Why Maine Lost," Paulie Heath, wife of the Christian Civic League of Maine's Michael Heath, asserts her belief that the attempt to repeal Maine's anti-discrimination law failed on Tuesday "because people don't trust...
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11/09/2005
New record - 'Agape' manages to offend in article's first eight words
Because as everyone knows, one's sexuality and their religious beliefs are one and the same. Be sure to keep an eye out for future Agape articles, where they will tell the tales of a onetime bisexual who became a Jew,...
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Key to a happy gay: When anti-gays compare you to cancer, compare them to a Muppet
Ake Green (pic.), a Swedish pastor who in 2003 referred to gays as a "cancerous tumor on all of society," continued his sentiment o' offense in the nation's highest court on Wednesday, saying that his musings on the carcinogenic nature...
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'Radar' ranks boy-boy screen smooches; we resist urge to employ the term 'gaydar' anywhere in this headline
In honor of the Kilmer/Downey Jr. lip lock in Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang and the Ledger/Gyllenhall boy lovin' in the upcoming Brokeback Mountain, Radar Online has ranked what they feel to be the "Top 10 Man-on Man Onscreen Kisses." Or...
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Openly gay victoires à trois in Ohio
As the election results pour in, it seems that Maine was not the only state to serve up a victory for the LGBT community last night, as three openly gay candidates, Joe Santiago, Mark Tumeo, and Nickie Antonio (pic., clockwise),...
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Old Paths Church carves antiquated trail through Indiana
According to the Indiana Daily Student, the newspaper of Indiana University, members of the Old Paths Church protested outside of gay-owned business The Inner Chef on Monday, where the church members chanted anti-gay slogans, burned a gay pride flag, and...
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Maine & Texas: A tale of two votes
Well my pets, election '05 is now but a memory. The votes have been cast, the results are all in, and we now have nothing but the political fallout and life-changing, voter-inititated measures to remind us of these kooky referenda...
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11/08/2005
Expert: West's Gay.com visitation wasn't accid.ent
A computer forensics expert has filed an affidavit on behalf of the Spokesman-Review newspaper saying that beleaguered Spokane mayor Jim West (pic.) deliberately visited Gay.com on numerous occasions, and that hundreds of "highly offensive" images and documents found on his...
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Westboro thanks God for IN twister; Mother Nature all like, 'What the..? Where's my thanks? Well, not that you should thank anyone for this, but if you must give insane credit, I think I deserve a bit. It's because I'm a woman, isn't it?'
Well, you know what they say: Every time a Phelps issues a "News Release," an angel gets sick and precedes to vomit over Westboro's fervent embrace of such malevolence, before returning to their computer with an empty stomach to try...
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Who's trying to cure 'the gay' in Virginia?
If you have $250 and live in the NewPort News, Virginia area, you can join "Living Water," an "ex-gay" ministry featuring a 30-lesson, 6 month program designed to turn you into a "former homosexual." Relatedly, if you have a paper...
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'WorldNet' headlines: The gifts that keep on giving
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Fakin' it, the gay way
We'd like to take a second and welcome a new site, Fake Gay News, to the irreverent gay block. Unlike us, their news will be totally fake; like us, they'll attempt to make gay news a little less depressing. That,...
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Gay Catholics to destroy sanctity of traditional dollars
To peacefully protest some of the church's anti-gay policies, gay Catholics in Minnesota have announced that they'll start marking their donations with a symbol to let the churches know just how much the gay community financially supports them. Bills will...
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Incurable case of gay gets alum booted from Baylor
The Baylor Lariat, the student newspaper of Baylor University, is reporting that the Dr. Terry Maness (pic.), dean of the University's Hankamer School of Business, has booted five-year member Tim Smith from the biz school's adivsory board because he learned...
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11/07/2005
Elton becomes Ambassador to Gay Games; games now a tad gayer
It has been announced that Sir Elton John has become an official Ambassador to the 2006 Gay Games, which are scheduled to be held next July in Chicago. Upon hearing of the ambassadorship, the ridiculously anti-Gay Games folks at the...
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'Kiss-in' leads collegiate GOPer to pucker up to 'da punim of lawsuit frivolity
The vice chair of the University of Nevada-Reno's Republican Club, Matt Beisner, is attempting to sue three of the school's gay rights-focused groups, due to a "kiss-in" they recently held to protest the presence of military recruiters on campus. In...
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We unapologetically attack the sanctity of Knight's smugness
In a new Knight Ridder piece regarding tomorrow's gay marriage vote in Texas, leading anti-gay mouthpiece Robert Knight says of politicians who support queer nuptials: "If you think Social Security reform is the third rail of American politics, try coming...
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Minneapolis schools once again scouting for potential knot tiers
Due to a federal mandate in the "No Child Left Behind Act" requiring equal access, the Minneapolis school district is once again having to distribute Boy Scout recruiting materials to students. This reverses a decision made by the district in...
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The joy of missing 'World Net's point
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Golf club no longer under pressure from Atlanta; Baseball bat still getting some sh*t from Boston
Lawyers with the city of Atlanta have halted attempts to force Druid Hills Golf Club to recognize partners of gays in the same manner that they recognize spouses of the club's hetero members. However, no lawyer will ever be able...
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Survey: Gays still not flocking to Topeka
According to a new Community Marketing, Inc. survey, NYC, Las Vegas, and San Francisco (in that order) are the top three U.S. destinations for gay and lesbian travelers. Better luck next year, Fagkill, West Virginia. Las Vegas Named One of...
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'Southern Baptist Sissies' to grow up, leave oppressive land of plays, head to big city, become film
Writer and producer Del Shores (pic.), formerly associated with "Queer as Folk," is reportedly bringing an adaptation of his play "Southern Baptist Sissies" to the big screen. The tale of young gays boys growing up in a Southern Baptist community...
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KKK vs. Gay Gay Gay in Austin Austin Austin
According to local reports, only about twelve KKK members turned out for the group's "pro-family values"/anti-gay marriage rally this Saturday in Austin, TX, none of whom wore the ivory ensembles one typically associates with the "White rules, the rest of...
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11/04/2005
Ugh, what an idiom!
Responding to yesterday's Washington Supreme Court decision allowing a lesbian to sue for parental rights to the non-biolgical daughter that she raised with the child's mother for the first six years of her life, the American Family Association's Brian Fahling...
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