I JUST saw the video of the “Pastor” advocating physical and emotional abuse & bigotry. His retraction seems so phony.
somepeoplearegaygetthefuckoverit:
100 Real Tweets from Homophobes Who Would Murder Their Gay Child
@Homophobes, a Twitter account that retweets homophobes to expose their ignorance, published a collection of 100 horrifying tweets where people said that they would murder their child if he or she was gay. These tweets were all posted within 24 hours.
From the Storify post:
On March 12, 2012, the hashtag #ToMyUnbornChild became a trending topic. People used this hashtag to “tweet to” their future child. Here are 100 real tweets from real people — all within 24 hours — saying they would murder their child if he or she was gay.
Of all the things a person can turn out to be! all the bad things! really? ‘Gay’ is the worst you can come up with?
Read a few of them. Really sad. I may not agree with every decision my child makes, but I will never threaten to kill or beat or physically harm her. The moment I knew she was inside me, I vowed to love her unconditionally. And I meant it. I don’t care what her sexual orientation is. She’s mine. And I’m going to love and support her regardless, not just because that’s my job as a mom either, but bc I love her.
(Source: equalitopia)
I just posted 239 icons. A few are fandom-related. Most are stock, including ones for St. Patrick’s Day. There are also quite a few political ones. The icons are linked to the post they are in. Other icons I’ve made can be found here (for this year’s icons) and here. (The last link is for all or most of the icons that I’ve ever shared.) 
The sequel: Gay porn made out of Rick Santorum.
Welp……………………………
why would you ruin gay porn like that?
I’ve been forced to explain homosexuality to my kids (aged 3 and 4) because their uncle is gay. This incredibly difficult and traumatic experience went as follows:
Child: Why does Uncle Bob go everywhere with Pete?
Me: Because they’re in love, just like Mummy and Daddy are.
Child: Oh. Can I have a biscuit?
We’re all scarred for life. Scarred, I tell you.
(Source: Guardian)
There should not be a single person in the world who doesn’t have this on their blog.
I’d like to add straights in there as well. Everyone needs support.
And questioning and asexual folks.
EW.com recap of “On My Way” (x)
That was out of line for him, though I was a bit too pissed at that moment at the “it was selfish” angle that Quinn took on the attempt.* I think that Kurt’s “who’s had it worse” thing was kind of handled by Will’s speech on how everyone has a different breaking point.
* It seems selfish of people to focus on how they’re hurt by someone else’s attempt/suicide. People who commit or attempt suicide are in massive amounts of pain, and they just want that to stop. I get so sick of seeing and hearing people call suicide selfish. Maybe if they cared more for their depressed friends/lovers/family members, then they [the complainers] wouldn’t be hurt by a possible attempt.
(Source: azulalikesgirls)
Considering that my son has a longstanding crush on Glee’s Blaine and regularly refers to him as “my boyfriend,” I thought there was a fair chance that he would someday say, “I’m gay.” But my kid is only 7 years old. I figured I had a few years before we crossed that threshold (if we ever did), probably when he was 14 or 15. I never thought it would happen this soon.
Six months ago “gay” wasn’t even a word in my son’s vocabulary. He has always known that some of our male friends are married to men and some of our female friends to women, and it is such a normal part of his life that he never needed a special word to describe them. When he did notice the word and asked what it meant, I told him that when boys want to marry boys and girls want to marry girls, we call that “gay.” He didn’t seem very interested and quickly went off to do something else more exciting than a vocabulary lesson with his mom.
Fast-forward a few months. I was on the phone with a relative who had just discovered that I was blogging on The Huffington Post and openly discussing my son’s crush on Blaine. I was in another room alone (I thought), explaining, “We’re not saying he’s straight, and we’re not saying he’s gay. We’re saying we love who he is,” when my son’s voice piped up behind me.
“Yes, I am,” he said.
“Am what, baby?” I asked.
“Gay. I’m gay.”
My world paused for a moment, and I saw the “geez, Mom, didn’t you know that already?” look on my son’s face.
I got off the phone and leaned down to eye level with him and rubbed my nose against his. “I love you so much.”
“I know,” he said, and ran off to play with his brothers.
Since that day, any time the word “gay” has come into conversation, he has happily announced to those around him, “I’m gay!” He says this very naturally and happily, the same way he announces other things that he likes about himself. Mention that a person is tall and he’ll quickly add, “I’m tall!” If he hears the word “Legos,” barely a second passes before he says, “Legos. I love Legos.” Saying “I’m gay” is his way of telling people: this is something I like about myself.
It’s amazing, but it’s also shocking. How many people have a 7-year-old come out to them? A lot of people don’t know how to react, and I don’t blame them. Before my son, I’d never met a child who came out this young — and we don’t know anyone else who has. The mere idea of children having a sexual orientation makes people uncomfortable. It’s something we don’t think about (or just don’t like to).
But here’s the thing: straight children have nothing to announce. Straight is the assumption. No one bats an eye at a little girl with a Justin Bieber poster in her bedroom, or when little girls love playing wedding with little boys every chance they get. If our sexual orientation is simply part of who we are, why wouldn’t it be there in our elementary years?
I’ve heard from countless adults who say they knew that they were gay as young as kindergarten but lacked the language to talk about it. And in most cases, they knew it was something wrong that they should hide. Because gay people are part of my son’s everyday life, he has the vocabulary, and it has never occurred to him there is anything wrong with it.
On one occasion after an “I’m gay” announcement, I watched my husband reach out to ruffle our son’s hair. “I know, buddy,” my husband said to him. “And you’re awesome, too.” That’s how we’re handling it. We want him to know we hear him, and that he’s wonderful. It feels like the right thing to do, and that’s all we have to go by. We don’t have any other examples.
We did take a few extra steps. Within a few days we had a quick talk with him about how some people don’t like it when people are gay, explaining that those people are wrong. If he hears anyone says anything about being gay like it is something bad, he is to run and get us immediately. We had a brief conversation with his teachers: Our son is identifying as gay. We don’t think there’s anything wrong with that or with him. And this is the only acceptable opinion on the subject. All his teachers, while surprised, were on board. We learned that he hasn’t used that word at school yet, so we’ll cross that bridge when the time comes.
I don’t think it will always be easy. We don’t know what to expect. At this point we aren’t looking for trouble, but at the same time we’re preparing for it. We know we have a journey ahead of us, just like everyone does. And this is one part of the story of our son and our family.
Do I think this is the last word on his orientation? I don’t know. He’s 7. Maybe as he gets older he’ll tell me something else, but it’s just as likely that he won’t. But really, that doesn’t even matter. What matters is right now. And right now I have a young son who happily announces “I’m gay.” And I’m so proud to be his mom.
(by Amelia, via The Huffington Post)
Penny Wong and Sophie Allouaches baby isn’t due to be born until December, but is already the subject of political debates about same-sex marriage and assisted fertility treatment for lesbians.
The Finance Minister yesterday announced her partner Ms Allouache had fallen pregnant with the help of in-vitro fertilisation and a sperm donor whose name would not be publicly released.
Adelaide-based Senator Wong described the pregnancy as a private matter. But NSW upper house Christian Democrat MP Fred Nile criticised the couple for choosing to have a baby.
The child is due to be born in the same month Labor’s national conference will debate same-sex marriage.
Did anyone criticize Fred Nile’s decision to get married and have kids even though he is clearly a bigot? Seems like bigotry would be more damaging to a child’s psyche than growing up with 2 moms or 2 dads.
(Source: hinkypunk)
