Quickies: I am Cait, Straight Pride Parade, Thai Gay Jurassic Porn
By - “‘Mom, I’m Trans:’ Comparing Our Coming Out Experiences to Caitlyn Jenner’s” – In last night’s premier of “I am Cait”, Jenner comes face to face with her mother for the first time post-transition. Dawn Ennis talks about the experiences many trans folk go through coming out to their parents.
- Obama Advocates for Gay Rights in Kenya – “President Barack Obama and Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta sparred over support for gay rights here Saturday, with Obama urging fast changes and Kenyatta saying it was not something Kenyan culture or society would ‘accept.’”
- New Website Rates Businesses on Queer-Friendliness – “Users will review and discover safe places and business locations based on experiences of LGBTQ+ visitors.”
- Organizer of Straight Pride Parade Blames Gays for Nonexistent Turnout – “Seattle-based Anthony Rebello has attempted to hold an event yesterday on the city’s Capitol Hil, to celebrate heterosexuals and heterosexuality… However, despite inviting thousands of people to come via Facebook – Rebello appears to be the only attendee of the actual parade, posting a photograph of himself holding black balloons and a ‘straight pride’ sign.”
- “The Infamous Heels Return in a Delightful Gay Porn Parody of Jurassic World” – “While viewers were divided on whether the heels represented a sexist stereotype or a miracle of style under pressure, we can all agree that they were iconic—so much so, in fact, that they have now reappeared (in white pump form) on the feet of a drag queen in Jurassic Porn, a gay Thai parody film first noticed by Matt Baume over at the Advocate.”
Featured image: Jurassic Porn
Jac,
I really like that quote by Obama at the end of the story about him promoting gay rights in Kenya.
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“If you look at the history of countries around the world, when you start treating people differently,” he said, “that’s the path whereby freedoms begin to erode and bad things happen.”
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Its so true. Meanwhile, fundamentalist nut job, Pat Robertson is begging him in the most condescending way to basically become a dictator and ban the gays!
Pat Robertson: Obama Must Listen To ‘His Fellow Africans’ And Ban Homosexuality
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pat-robertson-obama-must-listen-his-fellow-africans-and-ban-homosexuality
Thankfully Obama knows better than to listen to people like him.
I’m glad Obama is taking a stand for LGBT and women’s rights in Africa. Enough with cultural relativism. Hurting people is wrong, regardless of tradition.
As to Pat Robertson’s BS, Obama is the POTUS, not the POA. So if he’s bound by public opinion, it would be that of the US public, which overwhelmingly supports gay rights.
As an anthropologist, I’d like to point out that cultural relativism is not the same as moral relativism. A cultural relativist would argue that we should help LGBT activists on the ground in Kenya on their own terms and not impose our own ideas on them, whereas a moral relativist would be more likely to argue that we should not be involved because of differences in moral systems.
OK, my bad.
It’s okay, it happens a lot, I just try to correct that misunderstanding when I see it. 😉
As a cultural relativist (hehe), I am thankful for what Obama did and I hope it empowers Kenyan activists to do the work they need to do.