On three separate occasions last summer, a young male BMW driver (photo below) performed “burnouts” on Pride street art (vide0). On Tuesday, November 12, 204, police arrested Ivan Barzul, 21, of Renton, Washington (read story here). Hate crime? Or just being an immature jerk? Barzul is c[...]
Posts Tagged ‘homophobia’
November 8th, 2024 - 6:01 pm § in Law and Courts, Schools & Colleges
How 12 college students just ruined their lives
They lured a gay man to a rooming house by going on Tindr and pretending to solicit sex; when he arrived they grabbed him, forced him into a chair, then punched, kicked, and spit on him. They threw him to the floor every time he tried to leave. Twelve students are charged with “first degree [&[...]
June 10th, 2024 - 3:16 pm § in Law and Courts, Schools & Colleges
Student tests school free speech with anti-gay tee-shirt
The Supreme Court ruled decades ago that students have some free speech rights, but left the water muddied, perplexing courts and schools to the present day. Consequently, school free speech cases are very complicated. School authorities usually “are motivated by a desire to maintain order, av[...]
June 10th, 2024 - 3:43 am § in Misc.
Watch how man avoids “gay” stairs (video)
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Kayleigh McEnany says something intelligent, but still has blind spots
The first time I saw Kayleigh McEnany on TV, she impressed me as a twit, and my opinion of her hasn’t changed much. She currently works as a Fox News propagandist, which is an appropriate placement for her. She doesn’t belong in respectable journalism. Even though I pronounce her name &#[...]
June 23rd, 2022 - 2:07 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Kentucky’s “Teacher of the Year” driven out of teaching by bigots
“Kentucky’s 2022 teacher of the year, Willie Carver Jr., is leaving his K-12 post for a university job, citing anti-gay discrimination,” The Hill reported on Thursday, June 23, 2022 (read story here). He isn’t leaving Kentucky, not yet anyway, but after 17 years of teaching K-12 [...]
April 26th, 2022 - 10:52 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
How to deal with a hater
First, if he’s breaking the law, call the cops. Then he should be prosecuted. That’s what befell the idiot in the photo at right, shown here in court with his attorney. His name is Alexander Jerich, and he defaced an LGBQT crosswalk in Delray Beach, Florida, by skidding his pickup truck [...]
Why Florida’s attack on Disney is monstrous
Florida’s legislature, which is controlled by Republicans (specifics here), passed a bill requested by GOP Gov. DeSantis, which he signed, that repeals the special taxing district established in 1967 for Disney’s Florida theme parks (details here) to retaliate against Disney for criticiz[...]
Request to GOP: Can we have some leaders?
Karl Marx famously said, “the masses are asses,” to justify what he called a “dictatorship of the proletariat” that turned out to be just another plain old dictatorship. The idea of representative democracy is to entrust ultimate authority for decision-making to the collectiv[...]
April 17th, 2022 - 2:27 am § in News Media, Politics
Jerk kicked off train for anti-gay rant
He just couldn’t mind his own business. A bigot on an Amtrak train decided to lecture the 6-year-old son of a gay couple. “Remember what I told you! Marriage is between a man and a woman. They stole you, and they’re pedophiles.” The couple notified Amtrak staff, and the train’s con[...]