Oct 16 2008
An Update of Sorts
Well recently, I’ve not been posting as much as I would have liked or as regularly as I have done previously, there are several reasons, so I felt I kinda offered everyone a bit of an explanation.
Firstly I never wanted to post for the sake of it and to a certain extent I’m breaking that rule by posting this entry. I really only wanted to post when I have something to say, and whilst I have a lot I’d like to say, not much of it has anything to do with bisexuality.
Mind you, Mark Simpson has posted anything on his blog in the Bisexual Category since January, so I’m doing better than the erstwhile leader of British male bisexual movement (ahem!).
Occasionally something topical has cropped up, but I’ve been too busy with work to find time to write a post about it and the moment passed. I’ve also joined the Geek Squad proper and become addicted to World of Warcraft, which is about as unsexy as you can get and as sapped up large quantities of my leisure time.
So this post is a quick round-up, a relatively short entry full of bite sized gems which have caught my attention or amused me over the past few weeks.
- Stonewall chief executive Ben Summerskill appeared at a Conservative Party Conference fringe meeting. Somewhat surprising considering the Tories less than favourable records on LGBT rights. Summerskill expressed hope for a future when LGBT people might be able to vote for a political party base on real issues like Economic and Foreign Policy and LGBT rights were removed from the equation.
- Sir Ian McKellen (aka Gandalf the Grey) has given his backing to the Stop Homophobic Bullying Campaign launched to tackle victimisation of LGBT children in schools.
- DELGA (Lib Dem LGBT Group) managed to get the UK Party conference to back their campaign to end the deportations of LGBT asylum seekers to countries where they face persecution, torture or even death because of their sexuality. (Lets see if the government takes notice.)
- For Harry Potter fans, I finally managed to convince my work colleagues that Dumbledore was gay - I had to dig out a news story which reported J K Rowling’s revelation. But lets face it, wasn’t it obvious? Why else would he have entered Goderic’s Hollow?
- Apparently in the US, some conservatives have accused homosexuals of recruiting people to their cause and turning people gay. GT Magazine responded by commissioning leading advertising agencies to design posters to actively recruit straight people to the queer cause. (Not on-line but buy this month’s issue for a good laugh.)
- Keeping on the gay recruitment theme. Watching Magnum PI can turn you gay… apparently. Well no not really, this is a spoof of Christian Fundamentalism. However, listening to these bands definitely will turn you gay, or at least a bit bisexual… no-one is quite sure whether this guy is for real or not.
That’s all for now. Hopefully I’ll be back with something more meaningful shortly.
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the bands that definitely turn you gay i think is the most bs here, iv listened to about 14 of those
Not my bullshit mate, its the bullshit of Donnie Davies.
Listen to his single… its the campest thing I’ve seen since Boy George. “Will you cum?” LOL - I really think this guy is taking the piss out of Chrisitan Fundamentalism.
funny that list is like every band ever. marlyin manson ??? come on
I find it incredibly funny that Evanescence is on his list of safe bands. Maybe because the song about suicide also mentions Christ? LOL I wonder how big of a fit this dude would throw if he saw some of the popular Japanese bands that girls are falling over. Half of them have dressed feminine or at least wear interesting makeup.
OMFG!! He forgot Tool. I mean “Stinkfist” and “Prison Rape”… what a giveaway!!1!
And he mentions Elton twice….
Look, I don’t expect a lot from X-tians (I used to but they’ve kinda devolved from a social movement into some bitter finger-pointing collective) but I do think if a dopey twit like this guy can go to all the trouble to figure out how to do a dot-point list on a webpage then he really ought to be able to proofread a bit.
And ignoring a band like Tool? Off to the seventh circle of hell with you , boyo… Jesus is SO gonna spank your butt…