Wednesday, 19 December 2012
Tommy Roberts: 1942-2012
Twitter: 2012's Most Followed LGBTs
Apart from Eleen, this, my friends, only adds to my interesting new theory that the world may - just possibly - be fucked.
Tom Daley: Under The Mistletoe
I have probably just signed my privacy away forever in the vain hope of winning a life-size poster of our Tom.
He should put some clothes on though, he'll catch his death in this weather.
PS The Sun online today printed a photo of Tom so huge it's practically life-size. Think he may have a fan there.
PPS Not much worth commenting on in ver meeja today. Best make your own entertainment.
Radio: Neil Tennant's Smash Hits Christmas
Due to Radio 4's delightfully baffling programming, at some ungodly time in the morning.
It's about the swingoriliant Smash Hits.
I imagine it will be very (SNIIIP!!!)
PS Here's Brian McCloskey's Smash Hits Archive.
Update: Darling you were wonderful! A joyous, funny and moving programme about Pop's golden age and a smashing magazine, I hope you'll listen on iPlayer.
Tuesday, 18 December 2012
Daily Mail: Jolly Christmas
Where's his sack?* Fans of Darren Criss' would love to have him come down their chimney** dressed as his sexy Santa character from the festive Glee calendar
Santa Claus has never been renowned for his sex symbol looks.
But this will surely change after Glee star Darren Criss posed as a topless*** Father Christmas for a jolly festive calender.
The camp**** favourite seemed to be enjoying himself as he posed with a candy cane in hand while standing behind a mystery Christmas gift.
Your actual Daily Mail copy.
Hilarious.
Us perverts will subvert wherever we can.
Decoded below from Mailspeak...
* Testicles.
** Anal sex
*** Breaks the unofficial Mail style guide where men should be described as "shirtless". This helps bring up traffic for Googling gay pervs.
**** Daily Mail code for probably gay.
Update: It later emerged there was some question over where this photo comes from. More when we hear it. Though I'll probably have lost interest by then, to be honest...
Northern Ireland: Fag Hates Flags
Think I've just brought peace to the six counties there.
Now is not the time for soundbites...
Wittgenstein: Haus
once co-designed
a house.
The other man
Paul Engelmann
created beautiful angles
As Ludo pondered door handles.
I love Ludwig
for little things
like this.
Detail, like beauty, is all.
I'd like to live there
cause his sister
didn't much care for
it.
Monday, 17 December 2012
Frank Ocean: Oh No He Didn't!
Ridiculous.
He's never yet said publicly he's gay, just that he once had a relationship with a man.
Most of the songs on Channel Orange are clearly about women.
This really is the most ridiculous tokenistic twaddle.
Part of a tradition I call "The Whitey Album", where a record by a black artist gets fetishised and hyped by white journalists and is played at middle-class dinner parties by people desperate to show how street they are - and now this comes with added "gay"!
See also Public Enemy, De La Soul, Arrested Development, Wu Tang Tribe, Lauryn Hill etc etc...
Update: Rosie Swash on Guardian Music asks if 2012 was the year hip hop's attitudes to homosexuality changed - though she points out Ocean didn't say he was gay, and isn't really hip-hop...
Update 2: And once again Gay Star News show why they are the shittest and thickest gay media outlet in the world.
Matt Damon: Thought For The Day
“It put me in a weird position in that sense. The whole thing was just gross."
Matt Damon quoted in The Sun.*
Have to say I'm addicted to scurrilous showbiz gay gossip, but never heard any rumours Matt Damon and Ben Afleck were a couple.
Damon also talks about the forthcoming Liberace biopic, Behind The Candleabra.
“We both have a lot of gay friends and we were not going to screw this up or bulls*** it.
“It wasn’t the most natural thing in the world to do, though. Like, for one scene, I had to come out of a pool, go over to Michael, straddle him on a chaise longue and start kissing him.
“And throughout the script, it’s not like I kiss him just once. We drew it up like a football plan.”
The Sun describe Liberace as the "flamboyant pianist", natch.
* Here's the original interview in US Playboy - a must-read at Fagburn Towers..
The Independent: 50 Years Of Sexual Liberation
Highlights include. 'Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex (But Were Afraid To Ask)' (9), written by a noted homophobe, The launch of Page 3 (12), The Chippendales (25) and The Death Of Terrence Higgins (26).
Yay!
Can't believe people get paid for churning out this dumb-ass shit.
Oh, fuck off back to Roedean.
Religious News: The Queen James Bible
Titled the Queen James Bible, its publishers argued in a statement that it accurately translates certain verses pertaining to homosexuality, which have been misunderstood by religious conservatives.
"Homosexuality was first overtly mentioned in the Bible in 1946 in the Revised Standard Version. There is no mention of or reference to homosexuality in any Bible prior to this – only interpretations have been made," said the editors.
"The Queen James Bible addresses those controversial verses by editing them very slightly for interpretive clarity. The edits all confirm that the Bible does not condemn homosexuality, and therefore renders such interpretations impossible."
The Christian Post.
What an insane, insulting and pointless exercise.
Taking out the anti-gay bits from the Bible is as obscene as excising anti-semitism from Mein Kapf.
Piss off back to Sodom.
PS Here's the great homo historian Rictor Norton on that big ole queen, King James. Rictor's whole website is required reading for the modern homosexual.
Murray Lachlan Young: A Tribute To Patrick Moore
A tribute to Sir Patrick Moore.
Batty eccentric, Gentleman amateur
Clipped English tones, of an era gone by
Dottiest ‘boffin’ and Crusty old Bachelor
Pipe in your mouth and a glass in your eye
Terrible golfer, pussycat stroker,
Right-wing and radical, militant stoker
Serving the masses with lunar crevasses
Around for so long, gone away far too soon
With an eminent place in our knowledge of space
As the man who made maps of the moon
The moon
As the man who made maps of the moon
You juggled gravity, built an observatory
Gave a fried egg as a cosmic analogy
Served up the feast well aware of the joke
As we stared with you heavenward, viewing the yolk
Heavenly broker, grey matter poker
Martian and minstrel and avid Pipe smoker
A voice and a knack with a rat a tat, tat
Drilling deep in our minds to the great cosmic tune
With dress sense to match, while you lifted the latch
As the man maps who made of the moon
The moon
As the man who made maps of the moon
Memories of empire, thoughts of old England
Fade further now, as your atoms disperse
In the final great joke of our temporariness
And the black hole you left in our own universe
Where do atheists go when they no longer are?
When they pack up their trunk at the end of the show
One could paraphrase you when you talked of the stars
‘As in so many cases, we simply don’t know’
With the feats of: Gagarin and Armstrong and all?
Amplified to the skies in the infinity’s thrall?
Yes you stayed for so long but you left far too soon
Yet your legacy orbits our own consciousness
In the maps that you made of the moon
The moon
From the man who made maps of the moon
Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore: 4th March 1923 - 10th December 2012.
Thought this was wonderful.
Thanks to Murray for sending me the text.
x
G2: Great Opening Paragraphs Of Our Time
The Guardian.
Sadly I do know who he is, he's one of the reasons I don't have a tellybox.
PS I apologise unreservedly for posting a photo of his fugly face.
Porn: Filter
Techwatch.
Good.
If someone wants to watch porn then let them watch porn.
Boys and men wank all the time, why stop their fun, matron?
Unlock it.
Letters To The Telegraph: PS I Am Mad
Marriage is not about love. This fairly recent idea is not only
misguided, but
also dangerous.
Couples who feel that they are no longer “in love” doubt whether their
marriage is viable, with horrible consequences for the couple
themselves,
and for any children they may have.
Marriage is a contract entered into by a man and a woman for their
long-term
mutual support and companionship, and for the nurturing of children,
if they
have any. A male and female parent are necessary for the propagation
of
offspring.
I am not a person of deep religious conviction, but I strongly disagree
with
those making the case for same-sex marriage, because I think their
arguments
fail to recognise these fundamental realities.
Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire
SIR – There seems to be an accelerating rush by some members of the Government in wanting same-sex marriage legislation passed through Parliament, even though there was no mention of such an intention in the Queen’s Speech.
Is this urgency because the Government would like as much time as possible to pass before the next election so that the change has escaped people’s attention by then?
Raymond Cox
Halesowen, Worcestershire
SIR – Lesbian and gay members of the Church of England and others who support the full inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people are dismayed by the fourth element of the quadruple lock proposed by the Government, stating that it would be illegal for the Church to marry same-sex couples.
If the Bill is enacted in its present form, in 2014 married lesbian and gay Anglicans, lay and ordained, will be worshipping and ministering in parishes of the Church of England.
This will raise pastoral and legal questions for the Church. Will married lesbian and gay couples receive the same pastoral care the Church offers heterosexual married couples? Will the Church continue to discriminate against lesbian and gay clergy whether married or in civil partnerships? Will the Church continue to undermine the family relationships of its lesbian and gay members? Parents of gay children long to attend their children’s wedding service in church. Couples starting a family will look forward to the baptism of their children.
The Church of England has to consider how it will offer pastoral care and a generous welcome to married gay couples and their children. It is in crisis because of its failure to approve women bishops and the insistence that it maintain the right to discriminate against LGBT people by exemptions from equality legislation.
The Church needs to relinquish its exemption from the equal marriage Bill and address the expectation of the majority in every parish that it will continue to offer pastoral care to every citizen, including gay married couples and their children.
Until the Church of England allows clergy to solemnise same-sex marriages in our churches, as a matter of pastoral response those of us who are priests will counsel lesbian and gay members of our congregations to marry in those churches willing to celebrate faithful same-sex relationships.
Revd Colin Coward, Devizes, Director of Changing Attitude England, Anne Aitken, Southport, Tristan Alexander-Watts, Chelmsford, Dean Ayres, London, Erika Baker, Somerset Sally Barnes, London, Revd Al Barrett, Birmingham Joe Bayly, Liverpool, Revd Christina Beardsley, London, CA Trustee, Che Bee, Oxted, Surrey, Liz Bellinger, Lincoln, Rev Anne Bennett, Rochester, Dr Tony Bentley MRCGP, Houghton on the Hill, Leicestershire, Revd Dr Mike Benwell, Seacroft, Leeds, Judith Blackburn, Hackney, London Mrs Allannah Brennan, Birmingham Anne Brooke, Elstead, Surrey, Katie Brown, Frome, Somerset Revd Graham Buckle, London Abbot Stuart Burns OSB, Worcester Paul Burrows-Gibson, Southampton Rachma Bush, Radstock Revd Bob Callaghan, Canterbury Revd Tom Cameron, Hassocks Martin Carr, London Revd Richard Cattley, Maidenhead Revd Mark Chilcott, Manchester Dr Rob Clucas, Hull, CA Trustee Michael Craske, Southwark, London Marion Clutterbuck, West Dean, Salisbury Revd Prof James Meredith Day, Brussels, Belgium Fr Andy Delmege, Weoley Castle, Birmingham John Dinnen, London Revd Trevor Donnelly, Blackheath, London Revd Andrew Dotchin, Ipswich, Member of General Synod Stuart Dronsfield, Oldham Charlotte Elizabeth, Oxford Guy Elsmore, Liverpool Deborah Elston, Leicester Revd David Emmott, Liverpool Rob Evans, London Revd Stephen Flatt, London, Fr Steve Hardwicke, Cowley, Revd David Ford, Hucknall, Notts, Member of Religious Society of Friends, Phil Gardner, Leeds, Revd Ray Gaston, Tutor Queens Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education Birmingham, Dr Claire George, Cowley, Middlesex, Canon Giles Goddard, Waterloo, London, Pam Gold, Warrington , Revd Alice Goodman, Lady Hill, Laurence William Philip Gough, London, Prof. Russell Goulbourne, Hebden Bridge , Kes Grant, London, Brutus Green, London, Jay Greene, West Dean, Salisbury, Jonathan Gregson, Camberwell, London, Phil Groom, Langford, Beds, Matthew Hall, Rotherhithe, London, Revd Sue Hammersley, Sheffield, David Hammonds, Sedgley, Worcester, Chris Hansen, London, Revd Canon Rosie Harper, Amersham, Rt Revd Professor Lord Harries of Pentregarth - House of Lords, Revd Helen Hayes, Bradgate, Leicester, Revd Dr Keith Hebden, Pioneer Minister, Southwell and Notts., Bernadette Hegarty, Harrogate, Jeanette Holder, Winchester, Steve Howes, Belenden, Revd Chris Howson, Chaplain to Sunderland University, Revd Robert Hughes, Colchester, Roy Humphrey, London , Al Johns, Antwerp, Belgium, Hilary Johnson, Birmingham, CA Trustee, Mark Johnson, Wormelow Hundred, Herefordhsire, Revd Patrick Jordan, Downham, London, Revd John Joyce, Brighton, Katherine J Kaye, Oxford, Karen Kennedy, Revd Rosemary Lain-Priestly, London, Revd Clive Larsen, Manchester, CA Trustee, Kate Lee, Weston-super-Mare, Vicky Leggat-Green, Bristol, Dr Fiona Little, Durham, Gerry Lynch, churchwarden, Belfast, Davis Mac-Iyalla, Camden, London, Rev Clare MacLaren, Heaton, Bradford, Marcello Manca, Purley, Surrey, Anderson Marsh, Petersfield, Jo Marshall, Whitechapel, London, Richard Marshall, Alfreton, Derbyshire, Robert Marshall, Macclesfield , Darwin Marty Martin, Banbridge, Revd Hayley Matthews, Salford, Mediacity Chaplain, Revd Jean Mayland, Hexham, Ann Memmott, Reading, Sarah Moon, Newcastle upon Tyne, Revd Dr Georgina Morley, Durham, Fr Andrew Moughtin-Mumby, Walworth, London, Revd Bryony Morrison, Epping, Fr Andrew Moughtin-Mumby, London, Janet Murch, Barrow upon Humber, Canon Barry Naylor, Leicester, Revd Dr Mark Newitt, Sheffield, Leon Nicholls, London, Lynn McAdam O’Connell, Cork, Ireland, Revd Bertrand Olivier, London , Peter Owen, Liverpool, Michael Parish, Wrexham, Revd Kate Pearson, Birmingham, Canon Jeremy Pemberton, Southwell, Anthony Phelan, Oxford, Brenda Ramsden, Oxted, Ruairidh Reynolds, London, Revd Ben Rhodes, London, Fr Laurence J Roberts, London , Claire Robson, Bath, Tony Robson, Seaham, Christopher Rogers, London, Revd Sister Rosemary CHN, Member of General Synod, Revd David Rushton, London, Richard Sewell, Barnes, London, Dennis Shattell-Parkes, Canon Tony Shepherd, Harrogate, Marcus Small, Eardisley, Herefordshire, Carole Smith, Camberley, Surrey, Geoff Smith, Salisbury, Graham Smith, Sleaford, Lincolnshire (ordinand) , Kate Smith, West Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, CA Trustee, Revd Steve Smith, Leeds, Andrew Smyth, Glasgow, Elaine Sommers, Bristol, CA Trustee, Erica Jane Soulsby, Lay Minister All Hallows by the Tower, London, Revd Graham Southgate, Wiltshire, Sue Suddaby, Sussex, Revd Dr Andrew Teal, Chaplain, Fellow, Dean of Degrees, Pembroke College, University of Oxford, Fr Geoffrey Thompson, Southwark, Revd Trevor Thurston-Smith, Leicester, Miranda Threlfall-Holmes, Durham, Paul Tilson, Belfast, Jeremy Timm, Howden, Yorkshire, Chair of CA Trustees, Angela Townshend, Bath, Clarissa Turner, Swallow, Lincs, Captain Katie Watson, Newcastle upon Tyne, Ann Wheeler, Geoff White, Reading, Sue Whitlock, Hurworth, Mandy Will-share, Revd Rowan Williams, York, Paula Wilson, Liverpool, Stella Wiseman, Bristol, Joyce Yendole
Devizes, Wiltshire
SIR – Before the shipyards were closed on the lower reaches of the Clyde, many consultations were held between the owners and the local community. Coming out of one meeting, a lady said to me, “There will be all this talk, and then they will shut us down.” She was right.
The same goes for the consultations over same-sex marriage: David Cameron and his pals will insist on it no matter what people want.
Rev Bill Shackleton
Glasgow
SIR – What trust can religious people place in the state not imposing its moral code on their beliefs when, in response to the Church of England voting against the ordination of women bishops, the Prime Minister lamented the fact and stated that it was important to have a modern-looking church?
Similarly, what trust can religious people place in politicians who, several years ago, introduced civil partnerships saying that they were not a means of introducing same-sex marriage by stealth, but now propose to introduce same-sex marriage anyway?
M P Onoszko
Chineham, Hampshire
SIR – The “Freedom to Marry” group, supporting the arguments in favour of same-sex marriage, claims that “a substantial majority of the public, including people of faith, support equal marriage”.
Where is their evidence of such a majority?
Paddy Germain
Marden, Kent
SIR – The basic and essential point of marriage is to enable a man and a woman to enter a lifetime contract with the prospect of the procreation of children. Such an outcome is physically impossible in a single-sex coupling. Marriage is not a fashion statement.
Edward Lambe
Bishops Lydeard, Somerset
SIR – Amid all the calls for gay people to be allowed to marry in church, has anyone given any thought to heterosexual couples who are not allowed to?
My husband and I, regular churchgoers before we decided to get married, were denied a church wedding as we were both divorced, although neither of us was the “guilty party” in our divorces. Our local rector was happy to bless our union in church, but would not marry us.
Why should we have been denied this, when homosexual couples may be allowed to flout the teaching of the church to marry in one?
Gillian Smith
Stalbridge, Dorset
SIR – I am sure that there can never be a consensus on gay marriage. Therefore, may I suggest that marriage be made a private contractual matter, ignored by the civil administration and optional to register.
Religious organisations may recognise them or not as they wish. Enforcement will continue to be through the civil courts and children will continue to be protected as at present.
The only remaining matter is tax. What simpler than for HM Revenue & Customs to register the marriage or civil partnership to provide the inheritance tax and capital gains tax status of the relationships?
Dr Michael Ford
Villeneuve-sur-Lot, France
Daily Telegraph - 35 Tory MPs on that letter, so it's no biggy.
Worth reprinting in full, I thought.
Your little baby Jesus was born out of wedlock, and after his mother was impregnated by your rapey god.
He's a godless bastard.
And then he performed some magic tricks, like walking on water, and turning water into wine, these actually happened - and then he was raised from the dead.
Or he would have been if he existed.
This lunatic medieval nonsense infects ya brains.
It's 2012, not 30 CE.
Let's move on.
Sunday, 16 December 2012
Alan Turing: Pardon?
Now some of our most eminent scientists, including Stephen Hawking, want Turing’s conviction overturned, erased from the record.
Does this do any good? Doesn’t it devalue the battle that has been fought for 40 years by gay rights campaigners, for legality and, later, equality under the law, to suggest that Turing’s case was a grotesque anomaly, an isolated instance of prejudice by a reactionary state, which can be suddenly put right by an emollient statement from the prime minister?
If we pardon Turing retrospectively, shouldn’t we also pardon convicted homosexuals who were not possessed of genius — who were, to put it bluntly, a bit thick, or completely useless? The boring, workaday clerks and the bus drivers and the plumbers and the greengrocers, who were subjected to treatment no less horrible. Should brilliance — and Turing certainly possessed that — make someone a special case under the law, deserving of different treatment?
I fear that this replaces one prejudice with another; I suspect that the scientists who are demanding this pardon think of themselves as exceptions, distinct from the masses, caviar to the general. They believe that, as a consequence of their learning, they stride above the morass and should be dealt with differently...
Rod Liddle, The Sunday Times.
It's rare that I agree with Rod Liddle, but he's quite right in the above.
I can see no good that an official posthumous pardon would do.
Will Turing rise from his grave and say "thank you"?
What happened to Alan was a great crime, but it happened to thousands of other men, their names not known.
You could even argue Turing got special treatment, by not being sent to prison.
It is also unclear if he commited suicide, or if so for what reason.
Here's a link to the Telegraph on the letter that Hawking co-signed - proof that genius can still be vacuous.
I bet Alan Turing would think this was all a bunch of stuff and nonsense that boils no cabbages, and then went back to work.
Sunday Express: "David Cameron Has A Big Gay Following"
I think that civil partnerships or marriage should
be as fully available to homosexuals as they are to heterosexuals and I
am glad that the attitude towards homosexuals has changed for the better
since the days of Oscar Wilde and his Ballad Of Reading Gaol.
Yet during my 63 years in show business and
broadcasting I have worked on programmes with homosexuals and never
heard any of them raise what, thanks to the Prime Minister, now appears
to have become a highly controversial subject...
Jimmy Young, Sunday Express - one of the few newspaper columnists who lived through the Wilde trials.
Some of his best former colleagues were homosexuals etc.
Not sure where they got that amusing photocaption from, can't think of any gayer that can stick him, gay marriage advocate or no.
The Express has gone into full on attack mode on this in the last week.
Can't be arsed to contest their bigoted daftness blow by blow, but here's the ever hilarious Ann Widdecombe.
Fair dos - a rare article on gay marriage not illustrated by cake-toppers, or men's hands etc but an actual couple.
I bet she puked.
I bet she puked.
Sunday Telegraph: Controversial
Does anyone actually believe this twaddle?
Love thy neighbour.
And if you want to marry him, then do.
I, personally, don't give a flying fuck.
Crazed old anarchist in me emerging; Do what you want, if it does no harm - it's not up to me.
Let's move on.
Saturday, 15 December 2012
The Independent: Hello, Pot Meet Kettle
The report, which included an in-depth consultation of leading lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) expert groups and individuals, found that lesbian women were “relatively invisible compared to the level of coverage of gay men”.
The report did not include information about the representation of transgender individuals on television.
Although gay men were perceived by LGB experts to have greater representation on television, the range of portrayal of gay men is felt to be too narrow and reliant on outdated stereotypes.
“Gay men seem to be so much better represented [than lesbians], although I’d say they get slotted into the camp niche and the diversity of their representation is consequently restricted," said a spokesperson for arts trade union Equity.
“Gay male representation is improving, although camp gay men are still the norm, especially in comedy scenarios.”
The Independent.
Slight irony here, in this being reported in the newspaper with the most woeful gay coverage.
The Telegraph wonderfully mangled this as, BBC told to put more gay people on children's TV.
The horror! The horror!
PS Here's the report linked as a PDF on a BBC News story.
For some reason everyone seems to illustrate this story with a photo of John Barrowman.
Thus perhaps showing the paucity of the representation of The Gays on the tellybox.
Dunno why anyone has a problem with gay men being shown as camp - apart from the fact they are heteronormative boring fuckwits.
But we are Blanche, we are!
PPS How, exactly, does one become a leading gay expert?
Update: As ever this has sent Daily Mail readers delightfully mad.
Adam Lanza: Wait & See
Tick tick tick...
Update: Changed the photo because it was unclear if it was Adam - see comments below. Hopefully this is him, and not Ian Brown of Stone Roses fame.
PS It's nothing to do with guns - do you really think a psychopath killer is going to care about gun laws?
It's capitalism that drives us mad.
Tom Daley: Splash!
Vern, who fronted sports entertainment series Let’s Get Gold in July, will co-host the ITV1 show with former Wales international gymnast Gabby Logan.
Olympic medal-winning diver Tom Daley will train celebs including Katie Price’s ex Leandro Penna and TOWIE’s Joey Essex...
The Sun.
Swings.
Roundabouts...
Update: And how big is this photo of Tom in a later edition?
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