Monday 30 July 2012

Gay Star News: Handmaidens Of Power

Gay Star News have been tweeting away like mad this morning about a story they've headed; 'Lebanon arrests 36 in gay porn cinema'.
They must be really pissed about this one, right?
It's a strange way to frame it.
Earlier this year police in Florida arrested 600 men in cruising grounds around Palm Beach.
Gay Star News didn't cover that.
But if they had, would they have given it the headline; 'US arrests 600 in Florida parks'?
So what does 'Lebanon arrests 36 in gay porn cinema' mean?
That you can demonise an entire country if it's an Arab country?
Well, they're all so backward, aren't they boys?
And that GSN are so politically braindead they just puke up Orientalist cliches that support neo-imperial US hegemony?

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