Pink Pound: Meet Pink Paint

It was billed as homophobic vandalism but a queer group has now claimed credit for the defacing of a sequined ATM.

ANZ gave an Aukland ATM a glittering sequined makeover as a "GAYTM" but by Friday someone had smothered it in pink paint, which bank describing it "as pretty sad".

It was labelled a homophobic attack, coming just before the Auckland Pride Festival.

But in an anonymous online post, a group calling themselves "Queers Against Injustice" claimed credit for the "pink-washing".

They claim the bank had "co-opted" gay symbolism for commercial purposes, using them to obscure their business practices and treatment of workers.

"It is disheartening that the representation of our symbolic pinkwashing of the GAYTM has been manipulated into an act of hatred and complicity. This misrepresentation reinforces the image of tolerance that ANZ has spent a lot of money marketing to us."

Stuff, New Zealand. 

Hahaha - excellent work.

Queers Against Injustice Political Statement Regarding 'Vandalism' Of GAYTM can be read here. 

Christian Nutter Watch: God Hates Skiing

"The God who onced nuked Sodom has every right to be offended. Is it a surprise that He hit the island with its biggest earthquakes ever - on the morning the perverts began their "Gay Ski Week". The "buglies" (butch uglies) and the poofs, will claim it is just a co-incidence - but, despite their shrieking and bullying, they can't PROVE it was only a co-incidence...
"THE SEPTEMBER QUAKE AND THE AFTERSHOCKS WERE WARNINGS - PIKE RIVER WAS THE BEGINNING OF THE JUDGEMENT -- AND THEN CAME FEB 22ND 2011"

From the website Christchurch Earthquake - A Warning Not A Judgement.
I'm sure you'll agree it's certainly something to think about.
Though Fagburn suspects that Christian fundamentalists now almost knee-jerk blaming great human tragedies and natural disasters on The Gays - from 9/11 to Hurricane Katrina - has more to do with how they know it will garner an incredible amount of incredulous publicity; the political economy of bigotry.
I think any rational human being - never mind any friends or relatives of one of the hundreds of people reported dead or missing - would think they and their genocidal god sound like psychotic nutcases.
You do wonder if websites like this are just a bigot-mocking joke.
[Edit: The more I think about this, the more I think it's a joke...}

• On February 22nd Gaynz.com reported; "Glbt venue owners around the country are expressing sympathy for the owners and staff of Christchurch's devastated venues, which one terms 'the heart of Christchurch's glbt communities.'
"Cruz nightclub has been crushed and is 'closed for good' according to reliable sources quoting co-owner Bruce Williamson."
Gaynz.com later added an Editor's Note; "In an emotional series of emails and postings email Bruce Williamson of Cruz has today strongly refuted the comments sourced to him in the above story and says he is in fact looking to the future and how the venue might be prepared for re-opening."
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