Orlando: Owen

Thought I'd give this - pretty much the whole EXPLOSIVE! discussion - its own post, seeing as it's set the agenda for debate over the last 24 hours, and has become such a media event.

Surely this obnoxious erasure is just another twist on that idiotic line about people who 'just happen to be gay'?

Our Owen really is fantastic here.

Watch him making fists with fury.

Even better than him calling out that rancid racist old queen David Starkey on Newsnight after the 2011 London riots. 

Actual Mirror online poll. LOL etc.

See also David Braniff-Herbert's Are We Witnessing 'Straightsplaining' Of The Orlando Massacre?, Clickhole's: 6 Convoluted Ways Of Thinking About The Orlando Shooting If You’d Prefer Not To Acknowledge It As An Anti-Gay Hate Crime, Mother Jones' Here Are 25 Statements Republicans Gave About the Massacre in Orlando. Guess Which Word None of Them Used?, Douglas Robertson's Call the Orlando shooting what it was: a homophobic hate crime, not 'an attack on us all', HuffPost Queer Voices' Can we please stop pretending this massacre wasn't about homophobia, the Daily Mirror's A gay man explains why the Orlando massacre was more than simply an attack on The West and Owen's own article, On Sky News last night I realised how far some will go to ignore homophobia. 

Alpha-Homo: Turn To The Right

A major transformation of Europe is now in motion.

Our own Faith Goldy has pointed out the pitiful response of Europe’s men towards the recent epidemic of rape and sexual assault.

Of course, there are many men speaking out and fighting back, but often they are smothered by accusations of ‘racism’, ‘mansplaining’ and ‘white privilege’ or just ignored altogether.

Aside from strong women like Marine Le Pen and Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the most oppositional voices have come from Europe’s gay men.

A prime example of this is Breitbart editor and leader of the Twitteratti-glitterati, Milo Yianoppolous, who has been strongly outspoken regarding Europe’s current predicament.

On a recent appearance on the BBC’s Big Questions, he made straight men in the room look like damp rags and rightly deserved the right to tweet, "I am one of the very few alpha homosexuals."

It’s not just Milo, but other gay men like Douglas Murray and David Starkey, who are increasingly representing the masculine voice on British television.

The rise in gay men who are concerned about Europe’s future is not just limited to charismatic TV personalities. At the grassroots level too, there is a lot of evidence that Europe’s gay men are leading the way in opposition to Islamification...

These "alpha-homos" remind me very much of Oscar Wilde. When a group of rugby boys arrived at Wilde’s dormitory to destroy his blue and white china, the 6' 3" Wilde picked up the first boy, threw him, and knocked them all down the stairs as if he was playing a game of skittles. Wilde then said, "Well boys, that’s enough of that game, if you want to I shall make you toast with anchovy butter and tell you stories." The rugby boys meekly went back up the stairs, sat and were enraptured by his tales.

We have a moral duty to protect 50 years’ worth of fighting to achieve gay rights. Not only this, but we have a moral duty to maintain Europe as a safe haven for refugee gay men fleeing the least tolerant regions of the world.

James Campbell, The Rebel Blogger.

Uh-huh...

Britain's Students: The New Fascists?

A thought-provoking piece by Brendan O'Neill.

Perhaps you can read it if you think provoking thought is a good thing.

Though Brendan also does seem fond of being merely provocative.

And if you put something in a Daily Mail banner headline, you can forgive people who think you're now just Melanie Phillips in man drag.

Queen: Off With Her Head!

Daily Mail.

Little Miss Controversy strikes again!

This is everywhere - Mail Online has already run TWO correctives.

Thought For The Day: David Starkey

Life is good at the moment. I used to be very moody and, to be blunt, I think it was the result of a lack of success and control in my life. But now, by and large, I have been successful, and to a great extent I am in control, so I have become much more equable... far less bad tempered and edgy. My temper now is very much a performance. 

A Life In The Day Of, The Sunday Times magazine.

And if you believe that...

PS We also learn his parents were Quakers! Mind you, so were Richard Nixon's.

David Starkey: Ludicrous

[Asked 'So nothing is entirely good, not even the legalisation of homosexuality?]

“No, not at all. I think it’s largely destroyed homosexual creativity. We’ve just become boring. Now you get gay men running around trying to bring up children . . . ludicrous. One of the first things that saved me from becoming a boring Establishment old fart was that I knew what it was like to be moved on by a policeman. All that’s gone. You just fit into that absolutely standard undifferentiated metropolitan upper-middle class.”

The Sunday Times.

Even a stopped clock...

PS It's a quote from this interview where Little Miss Controversial compares the SNP to the Nazis that's gone interstellar.

To be fair, Pink News, that does sound a bit ludicrous, yes. pic.twitter.com/gmSmgvAVId

— Fagburn (@Fagburn) June 15, 2015

General Election 2015: Those Celebrity Gay Backers In Full

Conservatives: Christopher Biggins.

Only patron of LGBTory who's not an MP!

Though they can also count on Ivan Massow and David Starkey*, too!

What a right bunch of right-wing gay cunts, eh?

Lib Dems: Patrick Smugtwit?

Probably.

He is Britain's most boring wet liberal poove.

And it's a family affair!

Green: Peter Tatchell.

And who better to dispel the myth that the Greens are all a bit nutty, than the publicity shy campaigning celeb?

Pete's probably said somewhere that he founded the Green Party, if not Planet Earth itself.

Bless.

Labour: Owen Jones.

No, really, he is. Trust me on this one.

SNP: Alan Cumming.

Was often wheeled out during the 'Yes!' campaign.

But like their most famous celeb supporter, Sean Connery, Mr Cumming is an ex-pat. Oops!

'England for the English...' etc etc.

Ukip: Morrissey.

"I nearly voted for Ukip. I like Nigel Farage a great deal," he told Loaded in 2013.

"His views are quite logical – especially where Europe is concerned."

And La Mozza's views are highly logical, too.

She loves England so much she's spent much of the last 20 years living abroad in tax exile, cos it's been flooded with foreigners, innit?

Silly old queen.

* Dr Starkey threatened to do a big queeny flounce and leave the country if Cameron didn't win the 2010 General Election. Paul O'Grady - a man Fagburn much admires - has said he'll leave if the Tories win again this time. It's usually the most unbearable right-wing shits who do this - I am unaware if anyone has actually carried it out.

PS If you decide how to vote because of something a famous person has said, may I implore you not to vote tomorrow?

Update: Undecided/Undeclared - Will Young. Former politics student Will Nice-But-Dim offered his astute analysis to Digital Spy; 'I don't know, it'll be a hung parliament and it all just feels like a wet fart.'

David Starkey: Victims

“All forms of liberation – and I speak as gay and I was in all this when it wasn’t fashionable, when you didn’t get your CBE for being a prominent poofter, when there were actual penalties for doing it – all of them depend upon you taking control. About you refusing to be victim. And I find it very, very sad the way there is now this perpetual procession of people – group after group – wanting to assume the status of victim. It’s catastrophic.”

From an interview in the Telegraph.

Yes, some people do wallow in victimhood, but the doctor - tellingly - gives Doreen Lawrence as an example, which is so scummy.

Dr David also denies he's a racist and sexist - and then proceeds to say some unfeasibly racist and sexist things. 

He'll be voting Tory, by the way.

David Starkey: A Gay Right-Wing Racist Speaks Out On How Black People Don't Play By Our Rules

"How appropriate is it to hold the Commonwealth conference? I mean, here we are picking on Sri Lanka as a particularly bad example of human rights.* If I remember correctly it's almost half the members of the Commonwealth more-or-less outlaw homosexuality. In other words, this is an organisation where apart from a handful of members of the old WHITE Commonwealth, they don't do things as we do - it's simple as that."

David Starkey, Any Questions.

Astonishing he got away with this loathsome racist shit - though Dr Starkey appears to be making a career out of being a loathsome racist shit - but this neo-imperial narrative about how homophobia is a product of countries that are - unlike our fantastic selves - "backwards", "uncivilised" etc has now become "common sense".

* Estimated Tamil deaths in Sri Lankan civil war 40,000-70,000. Caring David Cameron left the Commonwealth summit to sell more arms to Gulf State despots...

Royal Baby: Leading Gay Racist Royal Historian David Starkey Writes

Splendid news!
I feel an immense sense of joy.
Utter, utter joy.
Because he's not black.

Radio Times: By Royal Appointment

"Kate & Wills" are having a baby!
And leading racist gay historian David Starkey is back on the telly!
Cor blimey, makes you proud to be British, don't it guv?
Truly, these are wonderful times to be alive.

Damian Barr: Maggie & Me

By the time I’m 16, I have told Heather my secret. We start sneaking off to Bennett’s, a gay club in Glasgow, vogueing our arms off to Madonna — but we still manage to do our revision.
I go on to do a degree in English literature and sociology and begin my career as a journalist, while Heather travels all over the world, teaching English as a foreign language.
Sometimes we go back home to catch up with each other and our families. They are still there but Newarthill is unrecognisable.
Ravenscraig’s great steel gates were padlocked for ever in 1992 and now they are gone, along with the cooling towers that used to puff clouds into the sky. There’s only one sunset now.
In her declining years, the woman held responsible could often be found in one of the smaller London parks, walking slowly on the arm of a paid companion like an aged aunt from a PG Wodehouse novel. Her platinum helmet was a gentle champagne-coloured halo and few passers-by would have guessed that she was once the most powerful woman in the world.
Sometimes, I thought about going to that park to watch her from afar. Not to trouble her or talk to her, but to see her in person just once before she went.
Yes, she smashed the miners and closed Ravenscraig. Yes, she created Clause 28 to ‘prohibit the teaching of homosexuality’ — not very successfully in my case.
She did all that and many other things she became hated for. But she also led by example, making a hero of the individual and a cult of the striver.
That gave me the escape ladder from the world I hated. It made it possible for me to run away and never look back. And for that, I will for ever be grateful.

Barf!
The Mail has found an ex-working class gayer who liked Maggie Thatcher.
And it's not David Starkey or Andrew Pierce!
It's another gay Uncle Tom and "useful idiot".
Some journalist I've never heard of called Damian Barr.
He also hates the working-class world he's so proud he escaped from - and makes it sound positively ghastly.
Oh well, another name to add to my lamp-post list of gay collaborationists.

Update: America's The Advocate has published online an even more pukey and poofy puff-piece by Damian Barr; Maggie Thatcher: My First Gay Icon. 
Using someone's death as a marketing opportunity?
"Maggie" would have been proud.

Update2: Ten days after, only seen one review in the nationals, Adam Mars-Jones in The Guardian.
He quite likes it, but note AM-J's last three paragraphs.  

Stockholm Syndrome: Evil Men

Stockholm Syndrome describes the strange propensity of hostages to feel positively towards their captors – sometimes to the point of defending them. It catalogues the “strong emotional ties that develop between two persons where one person intermittently harasses, beats, threatens, abuses, or intimidates the other.” Gay men of Mr Starkey’s age remember well when the British establishment harassed and intimidated gay people, and the state’s reluctance to afford equal marriage rights continues those abuses today.
Mr Pierce, Mr Everett and Mr Starkey – as gay men, I do believe you have a touch of Stockholm Syndrome. The disappointing thing is that, deep down, I’m sure you would love to live in an equal society and enjoy the same rights as everyone else. It’s just so very sad, then, to see you lick the hands that push you down.

Paris Lees in Independent Voices.

Good piece as ever from Paris, but she neglects to state the obvious - gay men who are "anti-gay" are invariably middle/upper class snobs and/or really right-wing.
Mentioning no names [Cough! Mark Simpson].
What they hate is ordinary gay men - ie the rest of us.
Cause; "They're all so frightfully common and vulgar, yah?"
I wish them all dead.

PS Pierce looking slightly rougher there than the photo he uses in his Daily Mail by-line.

David Starkey: Blah Blah Blah

"Gay activists mock the supposed hypocrisy of the Church. It was founded, they jeer, to enable Henry VIII to marry whomsoever he wished: what therefore is its moral authority for resisting the sincere desire of gay men and women to ratify their union by marrying in the sight of God – or at least in the eyes of the State?

"As it happens, I am torn. As an atheist gay who regards marriage as part of the baggage of heterosexual society which I have come to respect but can never fully share, I am tempted to say a plague on both your houses. As a conservative and a patriot, however, I am aware – and increasingly so – of the value of established institutions and suspicious of the levelling equality which dissolves them and atomises society. Above all, as an historian I believe in getting things right..."

Disgraced racist gay Tory windbag David Starkey writing in the Daily Telegraph.
He - somewhat idiosyncratically - thinks the equal marriage debate is about "whether gays can legally call each other Mr and Mrs."
Erm...
His article - which cites obscure acts of parliament, bobbins church declarations and arcane royal tittle-tattle - is every bit as bum-achingly boring as I recall history lessons being at school.
After much careful thought, Mr (Mrs?) Starkey decides to side with the establishment and support the status quo.
Surprise!
 

David Starkey: Carry On Digging!

'The television historian has used the first anniversary of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s wedding to question whether a member of the Royal family would ever marry someone who is black or Asian.

'Asked whether a prince who was homosexual would be morally obliged to “come out”, he says: “No, unless you’re going to argue this notion of a representative Royal Family; therefore, we have a survey which says that X per cent of population is gay. Right, you’re the gay one. X per cent of the population is Indian. Right, you go off and get the girl in the sari. Do they have to send out an order? Harry, find a black!”

David Starkey quoted in the Telegraph. 
Oh do fuck off, deary, you silly old Tory.
Will no one rid us of this tiresome gay prick?
And that's one of your actual historical royal quotes.

• Image, 'The David Starkey Story: When Flounce and Crazy Right Wing Opinions Collide', from the blog Questionable Time. 

David Starkey: The Return Of Dr Nasty

"But aren’t you offended by the Tories’ residual homophobia? ‘Ne-ow,’ he says, ‘Section 28 was more of an insult than any real threat. That inspired one of my best moments on Question Time, as you may remember.’ I don’t, so he tells me. Jeffrey Archer was arguing to keep the gay age of consent at 18 and Starkey told him: ‘Englishmen like you enjoy sitting on the fence so much because you enjoy the sensation.’ He giggles: ‘The house came down. He has never forgiven me.’"

David Starkey makes what I think is his first public appearance since his racist outburst on Newsnight - from The Spectator.
Given a very easy ride by Guardian journalist, Tanya Gold.
Pass the sickbag, Alice.

BBC: Praise Be!

The BBC World Service recently broadcast a documentary about America's Marin Foundation; God and Gays: Bridging the Gulf
In a puff piece on the BBC's website 'Why Conservative Christians Flock To A Chicago Gay Bar' they explained "[Andrew Marin]
works to try to bring Christians and gay people together in open conversation about sexuality and spirituality - and that includes running a large-scale meeting four times a year at Roscoe's, one of America's most famous gay bars."
The BBC make them seem like saints;
"The Marin Foundation believes that polite, honest conversation between people of all perspectives is essential if Christians are to address questions about sexuality more effectively..."
Bless.
If only that was all they were doing.
Mr Marin is actually trying to recruit the gays to his bizarre Christian death cult.
It gets worse.
Michael Signorile has repeatedly exposed Marin as a loopy homophobe who thinks being gay is a sin and secretly wants us all to pray the gay away and go straight.
Well done the BBC - another winner!

This just in!
Ofcom has cleared Newsnight over its handling of David Starkey's insane racist outburst in August.
It's a good day for mad old bigots.
(Media Guardian).

David Starkey: In Unhappier Times

Another day, another David Starkey story. This from the eminent human rights barrister and professor Conor Gearty, who writes of a TV debate in the late 1980s in which he was pitted against the historian and patois-hating riots doomsayer. The debate, on a programme chaired by Jonathan Dimbleby, "involved me taking a civil libertarian line critical of the Thatcher government, and Starkey saying things weren't at all bad", Gearty writes. "Then an incredible thing happened. Starkey came out on TV – declared himself gay, but unpersecuted. Dimbleby turned, delighted, to me: 'So what do you make of that, then, Dr Gearty, ah ha?' ... Clearly they all knew it was coming, a fab scoop on as-live TV. Then another amazing thing. Starkey didn't know me, had never met me, but had listened to enough of what I had said to detect an Irish accent ... 'Now Conor, like me, comes from a poor background ...' he began to proclaim, on no basis other than how I spoke. So there you have it: an obsessive self-publicist and casual maker of racist assumptions, even then, over 20 years ago."

From The Guardian Diary.
Note to younger readers: David Starkey was once "Chairman" of TORCHE, the Tory Campaign For Homosexuality Equality.
Though seeing as Starkey was unpersecuted, clearly he thought equality had been achieved some time before.
At the time of the above interview it was called Conservative Group For Homosexuality Equality.
They are now LGBTory - and they're still cunts.

Update: David Starkravingmad keeps right on digging in an unthink-piece in The Daily Telegraph on Saturday.

Daily Express: In Defence Of David Starkey

The Daily Express has leapt to the defence of David "Enoch" Starkey today;
'Dark Past Of The Rudest Man on TV'
Were you disgusted by his vile racist outburst on Newsnight on Friday night?
The Express's Anna Pukas wasn't - she thought it "was Dr David Starkey, aka Dr Rude, doing what he does best: giving voice to what the rest of us keep hidden in our thoughts."
Oh dear. Speak for yourself, dear.
"This was Starkey at his most provocative."
And most racist - you forgot to say racist.
The BBC has received more than 700 complaints about Dr Racist's comments.
But bravely the Express sought to understand where his "anger" comes from.
His difficult relationship with "his domineering mother", apparently.
Why thank you, Dr Freud.
It's a wonderful and enlightening piece all round - and it would be churlish to say that Anna Pukas's idea of "research" appears to have involved little more than reading David Starkey's Wikipedia page.
Well done to the both of you.
Well done!

• 'It was like Enoch Powell meets Alan Partridge' Owen Jones in the New Statesman.

David Starkey: Drop Dead You Gay Racist Cunt

Awful man.
Well done Owen.
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