USA: This Is Fascism

The Week.

A truly backwards, barbarian nation.

Doubtless Saint Peter Tatchell and Stephen Fry will be calling for a boycott and protesting outside the American embassy.

All together now; 'THIS IS HOW HITLER STARTED!'

Stop buying Coca Cola!

Joe My God.

USA: Boycott This Anti-Gay Hellhole Now!

The Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage ruling was supposed to settle the fight over LGBT rights, right? Not a chance. In 2016, states across the nation have been divided by a raft of new legislation—more than 200 bills advocates consider anti-LGBT have been introduced so far this year, according a tally by the Human Rights Campaign. These measures take many forms and have many aims, but they are often rooted in social conservatives’ reaction to two things.
Here’s a primer from Time magazine.

The New US Gay Media Map Of The World: Bad Vs Good

Orange: Land of the free. Absolutely amazeballs!
Green: Totally evil! Worse than Hitler.

PS: Iran has now fallen off the media map cause America no longer wants to bomb them to buggery. Interesting news analysis of how the Western media suddenly thought Iran was homophobic when they wanted to invade FOR THE HOOMAN WRITES!

USA Today: Barely Legal

Gay rights groups have made great strides in repealing anti-sodomy laws on federal and state levels, and these efforts should be commended. And yet, prosecutions for sex crimes are growing faster than any other type of crime, with an exponentially rising rate of arrests and convictions. Gay men are arrested in cruising stings, HIV-positive men are sent to prison for merely being sexually active, and sex workers and clients are arrested for victimless crimes. Much of these prosecutions disproportionately affect queer folk, despite advances in civil rights for LGBT people. Have the baldly homophobic laws of the 20th century really gone away? Or are they merely being repackaged and rebranded for a more gay-friendly public? More pointedly, is queer sex actually legal? ...

David Booth and Andrew Extein, Truthout.

A fascinating piece - now read on - and BOYCOTT AMERIKKKA!!!

PS While looking for an appropriate image came across this video for What Law Am I Breaking Now? by Blood Sausage. Forgotten about this, but it features Fagburn's bum!

USA Today: 19

Indiana has come under fire for a bill signed Thursday by Gov. Mike Pence (R) that would allow businesses to refuse service for religious reasons. The NCAA has voiced its concern ahead of Final Four in Indianapolis next week, there are calls to boycott the state, and Miley Cyrus has even weighed in, calling Pence a name that we can't reprint on this family Web site in an Instagram post.

But Indiana is actually soon to be just one of 20 states with a version of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, or RFRA, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Here are those states, in dark teal [Above].

Forty percent of U.S. states have something similar to Indiana, as does the federal government.

A federal RFRA signed by President Clinton in 1993 shares language with Indiana and other states' bills, prohibiting the government from "substantially burdening" individuals' exercise of religion unless it is for a "compelling government interest" and is doing so in the least restrictive means...

Washington Post.

Just sayin'!

Independence Day: Happy July 4th Day, American Dudes!

Any country that produced Noam Chomsky, Dorothy Parker, Elvis Presley and The Simpsons can't be all bad.
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America: Land Of The Free

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A dozen states still have anti-sodomy laws on the books 10 years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled they are unconstitutional.

One such state is Louisiana, where gay rights groups contend police have used anti-sodomy laws to target gay men. But state lawmakers sided with religious and conservative groups in refusing to repeal the law last week.

Of 14 states that had anti-sodomy laws, only Montana and Virginia have repealed theirs since the Supreme Court ruling, said Sarah Warbelow, legal director for the Human Rights Campaign, a national gay rights organization.

Warbelow says that in addition to Louisiana, anti-sodomy laws remain on the books in Alabama, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Michigan, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas and Utah.

The Supreme Court ruled in Lawrence v. Texas in 2003 that it is unconstitutional to bar consensual sex between adults, calling it a violation of the 14th Amendment.

Last year, police in East Baton Rouge Parish arrested gay men for attempted crimes against nature using the anti-sodomy law in a sting operation that caused a national outcry.

Associated Press.

And 33 states have banned gay marriage.

Meanwhile, back in the USA, right-wing goons and hand-maidens of power like James Kirchick, Michael Lucas, Dan Savage and Queer Nation NY can only protest about Russia.

And finally, US states that have anti 'gay propaganda' laws...

Boycott AmeriKKKa!

After Sochi: Where Next?

Arizona's just legalised anti-gay discrimination - mass arrests of protesters.
Gay marriage is still illegal in 34 states.

8 States have laws outlawing giving 'gay propaganda' to minors.
Gay men are still being arrested for 'crimes against nature'.
Gay adoption banned.
It's legal to sack a worker for being gay in most states. 

Chelsea Manning imprisoned for life.
Gay teen suicides seem to never end.
Queerbashing in New York is on the rise.
The Westboro Baptist Church won't shut up.
The Republican Party is in hock to anti-gay Evangelists.
Radio talk shows are dominated by homophobic scum.
Enough!
We must make a stand.

BOYCOTT AMERICA!

Research: How Big Is America's Closet?

WHAT percent of American men are gay? This question is notoriously difficult to answer. Historical estimates range from about 2 percent to 10 percent.

But somewhere in the exabytes of data that human beings create every day are answers to even the most challenging questions.

Using surveys, social networks, pornographic searches and dating sites, I recently studied evidence on the number of gay men. The data used in this analysis is available in highly aggregated form only and can be downloaded from publicly accessible sites. While none of these data sources are ideal, they combine to tell a consistent story.

At least 5 percent of American men, I estimate, are predominantly attracted to men, and millions of gay men still live, to some degree, in the closet. Gay men are half as likely as straight men to acknowledge their sexuality on social networks. More than one quarter of gay men hide their sexuality from anonymous surveys. The evidence also suggests that a large number of gay men are married to women.

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, New York Times.

This is fascinating - a whole new way of trying to answer this and other eternal queer questions by looking at and analysing what men are actually doing and saying online.

Please read.

PS Here's Fagburn's own humble formula for working out how many gay men are there?

Marriage: Forty Years On

Or alternatively...

Or alternatively, think how stupid you look now.