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Is notion of a genderless humanity going too far?
We don’t even have pronouns for this.
That’s what accounts for the clumsy grammar of the statement parent Kori Doty issued about Doty’s newborn baby, Searyl Atli Doty. For that matter, it also accounts for the clumsy grammar of the sentence you just read.
Anyway, Kori Doty’s statement read: “It’s up to Searyl to decide how they identify, when they are old enough to develop their own gender identity. I am not going to foreclose that choice based on an arbitrary assignment of gender at birth based on an inspection of their genitals.”
As noted, the English language is not ready for this. For all its splendors, English offers no gender-neutral singular pronoun except “it.” Who wants to be an “it?”
If the language is not ready, well, truth to tell, neither is your humble correspondent. It’s a jarring realization.
Is notion of a genderless humanity going too far?
Pronoun use at center of rape case involving former Chowchilla prisoner
The gender confusion in Scotland over prisoners now rears its head in Northern Ireland
I Set Out To Report On Violence Against Trans People
'I wanted to blow up the internet'
Trump to sign executive orders proclaiming there are only two biological sexes, halting diversity programs
OMB Q&A REGARDING MEMORANDUM M-25-13
EEOC won't advocate for trans and nonbinary people
Argentina to ban hormone therapy for trans children
Republicans help defeat bill that would’ve jailed parents of trans kids
The secret gay history of Winston Churchill
When the first discussions about whether to decriminalize gay sex in the UK reached the cabinet, Winston Churchill was Prime Minister.
His words at that meeting set in motion the creation of the Wolfenden Report – a government sanctioned investigation into homosexuality. This would eventually lead to the partial decriminalization of gay sex.
But the Prime Minister did this at a time when LGBTI lives were totally closeted. And while leading the right-wing Conservative party.
So did he simply hold liberal views, or was he leading a secret double life?
Gay Star News
Wolverine aka Hugh Jackman is voting yes to marriage equality
Hollywood heartthrob and all round nice guy, Hugh Jackman, is the latest celebrity to support marriage equality.
Jackman tweeted that he and his wife Deborah Lee Furness will vote ‘yes’ in Australia’s postal survey on marriage equality.
‘We believe all Australians deserve to be treated equally under the law (sic) That’s why Deb & I are voting YES #equality and #love!’ the Wolverine star tweeted.
Gay Star News
Four Brazilian soccer players fired after locker room gay sex video goes viral
Four players from Sport Clube Gaúcho, a Brazilian soccer club based in Passo Fundo, Brazil, have had their contracts immediately terminated after a video of them engaging in a locker room sexcapade appeared online.
The 11-second video was reportedly recorded on Friday and uploaded to the Internet over the weekend. It depicts one player on his knees in front of two other players while a fourth player records, laughing hysterically.
The names of the four players have not been released. Within hours, the video, which is currently available to view on YouTube of all places, went viral.
Queerty
Gay disabled man beaten and gang-raped by five men bravely speaks out
A gay disabled man who was allegedly beaten and gang-raped by five men has bravely spoken out about the attack.
Steven Greyeyes-Clouse, who has developmental disabilities, is autistic and has cerebral palsy, was sitting in Sacramento Park filling out an adult coloring book on 26 May.
He said four men approached him and exposed themselves.
Attempting to flee from the group by going to the bathroom, an older man followed him and allegedly threatened him with a knife.
The 29-year-old said all five men forced themselves on him, choked and beat him until he blacked out, as the attackers mocked his disability.
Gay Star News
More than 200 LGBT people have been killed in Mexico in just three years
At least 202 LGBT people have been murdered over the past three years in Mexico.
That’s an average of six homicides every month between 2014 and 2016.
“Trans women are the most exposed to this type of lethal violence,” the report’s authors state.
“It is the first time that the number of trans women murdered exceeds the number of gays,” they added.
Mexican civil rights organisation Letra S SIDA reported that criminals had formed gangs dedicated to targeting gay men, whom they first seduce before attacking and robbing them.
Pink News
Gay Loneliness Is Real—but “Bitchy, Toxic” Culture Isn’t the Full Story
Something in Hobbes’ portrait—more specifically, in the words of the group of gay men he chose to interview—reminded me of a kind of conversation that I encountered when I’ve worked in offices with large gay populations. The conversation happened frequently enough that I began to be able to predict how it might unfold. An older gay male colleague, typically white and trim and successful, would set off on a lament about the impossible meanness and pettiness of gay culture. They would speak heartbreakingly about loneliness and feelings of inadequacy. Then, strangely, the conversation would turn to the idea, expressed with varying degrees of confidence and anger, that there was a subgroup of gays who had the ‘wrong’ goals: too much sex with too many people, going to drag bars on a Tuesday night. These sorts were holding the “good’ ones back from finally merging into the mundane—and, it was suggested, more fulfilling—everyday of bourgeois life.
Slate
Gay Ex-Palm Springs Mayor Steve Pougnet charged with corruption
BY KAREN OCAMB / The long Palm Spring sun seems to be setting on Steve Pougnet, the one-time fair-haired gay politico who served two terms as mayor and vigorously but unsuccessfully ran for Congress against Mary Bono in 2010. On Thursday, the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office filed a criminal complaint alleging that Pougnet took $375,000 in bribes from two real estate developers in exchange for favorable votes for the two years between September 2012 and September 2014.
Pougnet, 53, is being charged with nine counts of receiving bribes, eight counts of conflict of interest as a public official and three counts of perjury, according to extensive reporting by the Desert Sun. District Attorney Mike Hestrin also said that developers John Wessman and Richard Meaney were each charged with nine counts of offering a bribe and all three are charged with conspiracy to commit bribery. Pougnet faces a possible maximum sentence of 19 years in state prison if convicted on all charges. If they are convicted, Meaney, 51, and Wessman, 78, could each face a potential 12 years in state prison.
The Pride
Little Caesars founder quietly paid Rosa Parks' rent for years
(CNN) Those who knew Mike Ilitch, the Little Caesars founder and Detroit Tigers owner who died last Friday, have spent the past few days fondly remembering his impact on friends, on Detroit residents, and on the sports community.
Ilitch also had an impact on the daily life of one of the most iconic figures from the civil rights movement.
For more than a decade, Ilitch had quietly paid for Rosa Parks' apartment in downtown Detroit, according to CNN affiliate WXYZ.
That story came to light thanks to Damon Keith, a Detroit native and federal judge.
CNN
HS football players forced teammates to suck each other off ![]()
High school football players forced teammates to suck each other off in an abusive hazing ritual, a lawsuit has alleged.
Members of Lake Zurich High School, in Chicago, are accused of routinely sexually assaulting and degrading the two alleged victims who have filed the lawsuit.
Attorney Antonio Romanucci, representing the two former members of the 2016 football team, said they were ‘brutally mocked, teased, humiliated, embarrassed and emotionally harmed, all in the name of team bonding.’
Both the authorities and the lawsuit have redacted passages and many details from the report.
However, the lawsuit largely alleges some players urinated on other members of the team, slapped them in the face with their genitals and forced teammates to perform oral sex on each other.
...suck each other off
This naked man was too hot for Facebook
Facebook’s “nudie police” are out of control — again.
The social network has apologized for taking down a photo of a Renaissance statue of the sea god Neptune after an initial crackdown that cited the artwork’s “explicitly sexual” nature.
Art historian Elisa Barbari had posted a photo of the 16th-Century statue in Bologna, Italy — which shows Neptune naked and holding a trident — to illustrate her page “Stories, curiosities and views of Bologna.”
But Facebook took it down, telling Barbari it violated Facebook’s guidelines on advertising.
“It presents an image with content that is explicitly sexual and which shows to an excessive degree the body, concentrating unnecessarily on body parts,” Facebook told Barbari, according to a screenshot posted by Barbari on her page.
Even more prudishly, Facebook declared that “the use of images or video of nude bodies or plunging necklines is not allowed, even if the use is for artistic or educational reasons.”
Barbari responded defiantly: “Yes to Neptune, no to censorship.”
NY Post
The Shocking Truth About the Lives of Gay Men
Gay men are steeped in shame.
There is no gay man in this culture who has not been invited to indulge in a great amount of shame creation and subjugation. No matter our backgrounds, our subculture is one that invites shame.
America is both sex obsessed and sex phobic.
This makes for disturbing and horribly stupid thinking and behavior around sexuality and its expression.
Gay men raised in American culture are heavily influenced by the parents who raise them (who also are as confused, angry and uninformed as the children they rear).
As a gay man, I am keenly aware of the need and lust for acceptance by people who will never understand my “choices” (yes, I still have contact with people who subscribe to this bs)and will use the lack of understanding to create distances where there should be love.
These same people will use misunderstanding and a refusal to change as the reason to not accept me.
Good Men Project
Blame white women for country’s failure to shatter glass ceiling
Glass ceiling, my a--.
Go ahead and blame James Comey if you want. The FBI director's last-minute dirty email bomb certainly didn't help things much.
And I know African-American voters didn't turn out in droves like they did when President Obama — bless his soul — was on the ballot.
But if you're looking for someone to hold responsible for the unimaginable morning-after mushroom cloud we woke up to after Election Day, well, you could start with women.
White women.
NY Daily News
What’s It Like To Be An “Average Looking” Gay Man?
It’s not easy being an “average looking” gay man. Just ask Adam Dupuis.
In a new op-ed titled Being Average Looking in the Gay Community, Dupuis writes about the day to day struggles he faces as someone whose physical appearance falls somewhere between “OK” and “nothing special.”
“Being attractive seems to be pretty much a necessity to feel a sense of belonging in the gay community,” Dupuis writes. “Sure, you can go out with friends, travel, experience life, but it can be mentally and emotionally dangerous to travel with more attractive friends when you’ll most likely be the one going home alone as the others pick up a guy or two.”
Dupuis calls never being hit on “a little lonely as well as depressing.”
“Yes, you can exude confidence, socialize, and dance like no other,” he writes, “but that doesn’t seal the deal when looking for someone that is physically attracted to you.”
Not to mention, he adds, “it gets tiring to stand there and be the best self that you can with what you are working with.”
Queerty