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Wednesday, July 16

Cruel.

“[Homophobic] taunting and bullying often goes unnoticed by teachers, and administrators have few policies in place to handle it. Only 11 states have enacted laws to protect schoolchildren from being bullied specifically because of sexual orientation.” [ABC News]

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Queerty on 07-16-2008
Monday, July 14

Under Coverage Update.

With regard to Insure.com’s blog spreading anti-gay myths about gay life expectancy: “[CEO Robert Bland] wrote a response defending his company’s material, and he has left other comments on this web site which suggest that Insure.com has little interest in factual accuracy or professional...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Queerty on 07-14-2008
Friday, July 11

Words...

“It has flabbergasted us,” says Atlanta-based Dan Young of his and his partner Larry Bilger’s reaction to anti-gay graffiti scrawled on the windows of their upholstery business. [AJC]

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Queerty on 07-11-2008
Friday, July 11

Under Coverage.

Publicly traded Insure.com’s blog hosted two entries in which employee Joe White described homosexuality as “the biggest risk to life expectancy that goes unrecognized by insurance companies.” Being gay, he goes on, all the while citing bunk research, can be just as disastrous as smoking...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Queerty on 07-11-2008
Thursday, July 10

Queer Denials.

Anti-gay Alabaman Attorney General Troy King’s currently caught in quite the scandal: “A spokesperson for Alabama Governor Bob Riley denied that Attorney General Troy King is preparing to resign in the wake of a massive rumor campaign that has yet to be fully confirmed. The word is, according...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Queerty on 07-10-2008
Tuesday, July 08

Premeditated.

Hungarian secret service agents knew ahead of time which anti-gay activists planned on attacking last weekend’s gay pride march, but didn’t arrest anyone because that would “not be democratic,” according to state secretary Imre Iváncsik. The fifty-seven people who were arrested...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Queerty on 07-08-2008
Thursday, July 03

Bad Juice.

“William Bolthouse has just donated $100,000 dollars to the ballot initiative to amend California’s constitution to ban same-sex marriage. He owns 43% of Bolthouse Farms, a company famous for its juice.” [Bilerico]

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Queerty on 07-03-2008
Wednesday, July 02

Brainless?

Citing a recent spike in HIV infection among gay men, she-beast activist Linda Harvey implores her fellow backward peers to ramp up the fight against gay clubs in schools. Shrieks Harvey, “When are public health officials going to intervene and shut down homosexual clubs and other pro-homosexual...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Queerty on 07-02-2008
Wednesday, June 25

Violent Spike.

Things aren’t looking so good in the Eastern European nation of Belarus, where there have been at least seven anti-gay attacks over the past few weeks. Many of the attacks have involved gangs of multiple men, including skin heads. Most of the victims refused to go to the police and echoed the same...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Queerty on 06-25-2008
Thursday, June 19

Low Key Loki.

Social conservatives opposing gay marriage in California instructed the rank-and-file not to cause a scene: “Instead of appearing in front of the television cameras that recorded joyful couples applying for marriage licenses, the sponsors of the California Marriage Protection Act remained on the...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Queerty on 06-19-2008

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