Tweet Of The Day: Milo

Not how it works. Not how it works. https://t.co/ISKXAbrfqB pic.twitter.com/ZvjmwO8h7t

— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) August 21, 2016

Here's the story (of a man named Milo).

Tragically, Milo was recently permanently banned from Twitter for being a racist, misogynist and lesbophobic cunt.

MY and Ann Coulter - but which is which?

Football: Vile

An old tweet from the Burnley striker, Andre Gray, unearthed today.

Update: He's so, so sorry. 

But can you forgive her?*

The author, Lee Williscroft-Ferris, has written some pretty good non-hysterical gay stuff for Independent Voices. Some stuff I'm not so keen on, but if you agreed with everything someone says, you're almost certainly a cult member.

Donald Trump: Ask The Gays

Donald Trump continues to invoke his newly enumerated, but highly dubious support for LGBT people to encourage his election to the White House.

After recognizing the LGBT victims of the mass shooting during a national security speech on Monday reiterating his call for a Muslim ban, Trump again referenced the LGBT community on Wednesday during a rally in Atlanta, Ga.

“For the gays out there, ask the gays and ask the people, ask the gays what they think and what they do in not only Saudi Arabia, in many of these countries with the gay community,” Trump said. “Let’s ask. Then you tell me: Who’s your friend, Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton?”

Trump invoked LGBT people to criticize his rival Hillary Clinton for accepting donations to the Clinton Foundation, which conducts overseas humanitarian work, from countries that criminalize homosexuality like Saudi Arabia.

“They want to enslave women,” Trump said. “As far as the gay community, they kill gays. And she’s taking money.”

Referencing the reported contributions Saudi Arabia gave the Clinton Foundation, Trump said of the country, “I wonder why we take care of them.”

Trump: #AskTheGays

Gays: pic.twitter.com/zfzEmgOFGp

— Ed Brody (@chiefbrody1984) 15 June 2016

Promoting his plan to bar Muslims from entering the United States, Trump called it “a temporary ban in particular from certain people coming from certain horrible, where you have tremendous terrorism in the world.”

“You know what those places are,” Trump said. “But we have to put a stop to it. We have to put a stop to it until such time as we can figure out what is going on because right now we don’t have a clue what’s going on, folks.”

Trump also cited LGBT support when he decried the idea of allowing Syrian refugees to enter the United States on the basis that Muslims practice Sharia law, which he said institutes “execution for things that you would say are, like, standard parts of life.” Sharia law calls for the death of gay people by stoning.

“I will tell you the LGBT community, the gay community, the lesbian community, they are so much in favor of what I’ve been saying over the last three or four days,” Trump said to applause..

Washington Blade.

I could bore you to buggery about the media - the straights and the gays - who still use 'gays' as a noun.

#AskTheGays instantly became a meme thing on Twitter...

When @realDonaldTrump told people to "#AskTheGays" whether he supports the LGBTQ community: #NotMyCandidate pic.twitter.com/u0z3eUWRB5

— Planned Parenthood (@PPact) 16 June 2016

PS Gays for Trump. An actual thing and not a joke.

Tweet Of The Day: Liam Gallagher

Russian hooligans skintight shorts bumbags batty boy muscles ha ha I'd be more worried bout getting me arse pinched LG X

— Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) June 15, 2016

Update: Astonishingly both Gay Star News and Pink News tried to make a connection between this childish tweet and the Orlando massacre!

And here's the politically inane Patrick Strudwick on LGBT Buzzfeed earlier; 'Days after the Orlando massacre, Attitude magazine is publishing a historic interview and photo shoot with the future king...'

Eh?

Do we have to bring the Orlando massacre into everything now?

Gay Star News.

Orlando: Trump

Appreciate the congrats for being right on radical Islamic terrorism, I don't want congrats, I want toughness & vigilance. We must be smart!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 12, 2016

Creepy Tweet Of The Day: Peter Tatchell

MT @alextomo: At Canterbury @PeterTatchell with African LGBTIs outside #Anglican Primates news conference pic.twitter.com/Xlbi4iu3zI @LGCM @hrw

— Peter Tatchell (@PeterTatchell) January 17, 2016

It's Saint Peter's 64th birthday next week.

So not long til this self-serving loon retires.

Tweet Of The Day: Chelsea Manning

In 2015 @Caitlyn_Jenner ws the grinch who stole (& sold out) the trans movement. All I want 4 Xmas is Universal Trans Lib. #ChristmasEve2015

— Chelsea Manning (@xychelsea) December 24, 2015

In prison, the holiday season is grim - but I won't lose hope, Guardian.

Tweet Of The Week: Sins Of The Fleshjack

CJ is the only on to use the downstairs bathroom and I went down to clean and seen this anyone know what it is pic.twitter.com/Tmb4jJiM3z

— Patty Parsons (@PattyParsonsPat) November 22, 2015

Please read the earlier tweets by Patty - a Christian mom doting over her 19 year-old son, CJ, and his (now former) sleepover buddy - and the replies to this one.

Amazingly this was one obvious online joke/hoax the gay media don't seem to have fallen for - a first?

Tweet Of The Week: Take That Putin!

.@JaymiUJWorld has a special message for President Putin in his latest GT column. Via https://t.co/KTWRgsA0xw pic.twitter.com/EHIZchabBe

— Gay Times Magazine (@GayTimesMag) November 21, 2015

LOL!

Stephen Fry: Take That World Leaders!

Here’s a Petition to World Leaders to prevent catastrophic climate change & commit to CO2 reductions @MoveOn https://t.co/FApsaKBXyG

— Stephen Fry (@stephenfry) October 28, 2015

It is touching that Stephen Fry - who we are endlessly assured is very, very clever - thinks 'World Leaders' (?) will wise up and stop destroying the planet because some people have clicked on an online petition.

Bless!

Tweet Of The Day: The Modern Parent

The Onion never let's you down. https://t.co/9FmKxmm2oc

— Danny Baker (@prodnose) October 28, 2015

Peak Independent Voices.

PS If you have an issue with this tweet, please take it up with Danny.

Thank you.

Free Speech: Transgressions

With gay marriage now legal in America, there is also the sense among online social justice communities that trans rights are “the new civil rights frontier” (as Time magazine wrote next to a photo of Orange is the New Black star Laverne Cox). Social media has acted like an accelerant on this fire: sites like Buzzfeed and Huffington Post’s LGBT section offer uplifting tales of transgender children’s achievements and famous adults coming out, alternating with occasional three-minute hates for “TERFs” (trans exclusionary radical feminists), a group who are said to be inciting violence against trans women by refusing to accept them as women. Sharing such articles has become a badge of progressive correctness. The word “TERF” is sprayed around like confetti, with very little understanding of what it means. I’ve been called a TERF, even though I think trans women are women and absolutely have a place in feminism. I think it’s become a politer way of saying “witch”...

Helen Lewis, New Statesman.

The censorship movement thrives off a sense of victimhood, the idea there are powerful forces denying them their room to speak. When journalists or debate organisers actively seek out their opinions, it is interpreted as aggression because it must be filtered through the required prism of conspiracy and suspicion.

That sense of victimhood is combined with a constant demand for political purity, whipped into a tribal frenzy by social media. Any deviation from the moral lines of the tribe is treated as harshly as possible, typically with Twitter users encouraging their followers to pile on the transgressor. The storms they create are man-made. They are not just the result of many individual decisions. Usually, they are whipped up and encouraged by a small number of prominent social media users...

Ian Dunt, Free Speech Isn't All About You, Politics.co.uk

See also Zoe Williams, Silencing Germaine Greer Will Let Prejudice Against Trans People Flourish, and Hugo Rifkind in The Times today, on l'affaire Greer, Right-on Bigots Are Their Own Worst Enemy. 

And Roger Scruton's A Point Of View: Why We Should Demand The Right To Be Offensive.

Yes, he's a right-wing shitbag, but often they seem to be the only people daring to speak out about this pitchfork-waving Victim Olympics nonsense.

The above quotes and citations also should not be seen as an endorsement of anything else they've written neither, obvs.

And nobody's defending Germaine Greer's odious comments, so don't be silly.

Football: Shaw Thing

But why did you have to clarify? And why is it headline news that two footballers are gay? Blah blah blah... Role models are important... To have two openly gay footballers in the Premier League would send a powerful message.... Blah blah blah...

Ruth Hunt, head honcho at Stonewall, Independent Voices.

If loads of people are tweeting that he's gay, what's wrong with him gently pointing out that he's not?

With a peace sign and a smiley face!

The article ends with a plug for Stonewall's 'campaign to combat homophobia, biphobia and transphobia in sport'. 

'Over the last two years we’ve sent a pair of Rainbow Laces to every professional footballer in the country and encouraged them to lace up and tackle the problem once and for all.'

Take that homophobia in sport!

Ah well, at least she didn't say 'IT'S THE LAST TABOO!!!'

PS 'My only concern is that this doesn’t cause a bit of a witch-hunt. On social media, people are already starting to guess who they think it is. 

'I can’t help but feel this is testing the water to see what the media and public reaction is to this story, which may inform the players whether or not they think coming out is a good idea at this time.' 

Ed Connell, chair of GFSN [Gay Football Supporters Network], quoted in The Telegraph.

Yup.

Gays In The News: Michael Taylor

This has been retweeted to buggery today. #literallybanter etc

Young master Taylor's tweets are sadly protected, but we do know he describes himself as; 'Master of Music student & Operatic diva at The Royal Northern College of Music!'

Twitter detectives have revealed she also used to work at Selfridges (!), and here are pics of his two pin-ups, and his full name (yup, he's even posher than Jacob Rees-Mogg).

Verily, he is the face of today's modern Conservative Party!

Great British Bake Off: Political Correctness Gone Macaroons!

 Fruit and nut cake, Amanda Platell, in the Daily Mail - and all over Twitter...

Drunk Tweets Of Last Night: Sam Smith

Via Twitter (obvs).

Matt Damon: You Can't Say That!

Today in Matt Damon Mansplains It All, the Martian star suggests gay actors shouldn’t publicly come out of the closet if they want to be successful. We suggest he stop talking.

Kevin Fallon, The Daily Beast.

The article is actually quite nuanced, but the line 'Damon posits that gay actors should stay in the closet if they want their careers to thrive' is such a silly misreprentation of what he meant.

This article - but of course - caused the inevitable Twitterstorm from hysterical gaybores.

Here's Matt Damon's rather bland comment to The Observer.

“I think it must be really hard for actors to be out publicly. But in terms of actors, I think you’re a better actor the less people know about you period. And sexuality is a huge part of that. Whether you’re straight or gay, people shouldn’t know anything about your sexuality because that’s one of the mysteries that you should be able to play.”

But why not twist it so you can all play the victim and have a jolly good online whine?

PS Obligatory Guardian Cif liberal winky-wank.

Edit: To clarify, I think Matt's point was that great stars tend to be mysterious and enigmatic. That. Is. All.

Tweet Of The Day: Hameron

Couldn't resist a bit of #snoutgate photoshopping. #piggate #hameron #porkback pic.twitter.com/j5dm53xqgO

— Zombride (@MariBiscuits) September 21, 2015

That's probably enough about Piggate...

A rare photograph of King Edward II with his young lover Piers Gaveston, of Society fame.

Strictly: Come Twitterstorm!

Strictly bosses say there are no plans for same-sex pairings - because it's a "family show" http://t.co/9JlKKVB5lc pic.twitter.com/V2wmkkn4CX

— Attitude (@AttitudeMag) September 5, 2015

Around noon on Saturday a mini Twitterstorm ERUPTED! over a quote in the Mirror's Strictly story from a BBC spokesbot; 'Strictly Come Dancing is a family show and we’ve chosen the traditional format of mixed-sex couples...'

Not sure if this is from a rather dim-witted and/or clumsy-tongued junior press office.

I've a feeling it's not a direct quotation, but has been 'massaged', possibly after the Mirror asking leading questions.

Quotes in tabloids can be only very loosely based on what was actually said, and are often completely made-up.

Whilst they clearly don't want same-sex couples on (yet), I'd be flabbergasted if this 'because it's a family show ' is Aunty Beeb's official line.

If a press wonk actually said this antedeluvian twoddle I hope they get a good old-fashioned Beeb bollocking.

Whatever, this would hardly be the frst time that a gay Twitterstorm has ERUPTED! over something that didn't actually happen.

Or something that doesn't really matter that much.

PS This Attitude reader is MAD AS HELL!

I'm more than happy to boycott Strictly for this. Purposely excluding same-sex couples is sick http://t.co/OEeYPtGoQG pic.twitter.com/YHUGJpSR0B

— Tim Doble (@BetterThanToday) September 5, 2015

Good luck with your incredibly well thought out 'boycotting a TV show' thing, posh dude.

Worst Tweet Of All Time: LGBTory

The @Conservatives. For hard twerking people. @ManchesterPride pic.twitter.com/MzuZCBsp7A

— LGBTory (@LGBToryUK) August 29, 2015