Tag Archives: homophobia

When Straight, White, Cisgender Men Don’t Get It

There’s a post on SexIs today from Roland Hulme, in which he shows that he almost gets how his privilege works. In his piece, he discusses the responses to a previous post of his, in which he wrote that (at the time), he was of the opinion that transgender people shouldn’t be able to change […]

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Bullies Aren’t Just Other Kids: LGB Teens Get Harsher Treatment

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Is anyone really surprised by the news that LGB youth are about 40% more likely to be punished by school authorities, police and the courts than heterosexual kids who do the same things? Just as driving while Black or flying while Muslim result in people being targeted for more intense scrutiny and harassment, people who […]

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Australian Teen Can’t Take Her Girlfriend to the Prom

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This post also appeared on the Good Vibrations Magazine. Clipped from: feministing.com (share this clip) What is it with schools not letting teens bring dates to the prom? According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Hannah Williams wanted to bring her girlfriend to the prom and the folks in charge at Ivanhoe Girls’ Grammar School in […]

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Homophobia in Church? Finns Say “No Way!”

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This post also appeared on the Good Vibrations Magazine. Clipped from: www.helsinkitimes.fi (share this clip) According to the Helsinki Times and Huffington Post, over 30,000 people have left the Finnish Evangelical-Lutheran Church, the national church of Finland. The reason? They held a debate on LBGT rights and comments made by various folks on the anti […]

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Shame as a Public Health Issue

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This post also appeared on the Good Vibrations Magazine. For years, safer sex advocates have been saying that self-esteem has a huge effect on how much people engage in risk-reduction and harm-reduction behaviors. That’s why many of the most effective intervention programs & organizations, whether online like Scarleteen.com or in-person like the StopAIDS Project, offer […]

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Lies, Damn Lies, and Homophobic Fundraising Letters

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I suppose I really shouldn’t be surprised that Eugene Delgaudio, the District Supervisor in Sterling, Virginia, is trying to stir up campaign contributions with a homophobic moral panic. Moral panics have always been a great way to scare people (usually with something imaginary) in order to distract them from what’s really going and get them […]

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GOP Chairman Michael Steele: “gay marriage is bad for business”

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via Carnal Nation Does it seem to you that the anti-gay marriage folks are getting a little desperate to come up with a logical, reasonable explanation for why they don’t want gays to marry (besides their homophobia, I mean)? You’ll love this one, then. GOP Chairman Michael Steele has proposed that if gays are allowed […]

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