Richard Nixon, un président secrètement gay. Bebe Rebozo et Richard Nixon, inséparables. Alcoolique, violent avec son épouse et amoureux d'un conseiller aux relations troubles: la vie privée du président le plus haï de l'histoire des Etats-Unis est l'objet de nouvelles révélations. On ne compte plus, aux Etats-Unis, les relectures queer des biographies de personnalités historiques. Après Malcolm X ou Gandhi,et à quelques jours de la sortie du biopic consacré par Clint Eastwood à J. Edgar Hoover, c’est une autre figure obscure de l’histoire américaine dont la face homosexuelle émerge: Richard Nixon (1913-1994). Selon une biographie à paraître aux Etats-Unis à la fin janvier, rapporte le «Huffington Post», l’ancien président destitué en 1972 à la suite du scandale du Watergate aurait eu une relation durable «de nature homosexuelle».
Dans «Nixon’s Darkest Secrets», le journaliste Don Folsum s’intéresse particulièrement à une figure bien connue de l’entourage de Nixon, le banquier Charles Gregory Rebozo, alias «Bebe». Video: Michele Bachmann challenged by “gay robot” On her campaign trail to win the Republican party’s nomination for the presidential race, Michele Bachmann received an unusual heckling. In Iowa City yesterday, Bachmann, who has been no stranger to surprise challenges of her stance on gay rights this year, was called on to support equality by a “gay robot”.
Calling himself “roboprof”, the heckler approached the politician in a silver costume with a loudspeaker outside Hamburg Inn No. 2 restaurant. He said: “I am a gay robot and I want you to support equal rights for gay communities and robot gay people”. The heckler was reportedly booed and asked to leave the establishment. One Youtube user commented on the footage this morning: “Doesn’t this prove gays are nuts?” According to the Iowa City Patch, the “gay robot” said he had also heckled Bill Clinton on his visit to the University of Iowa four years ago. After the 2007 incident, “roboprof” was revealed to be Kembrew McLeod, a communications professor at the University. 21 ans de prison pour le meurtre d'un étudiant homosexuel | Greg Risling | États-Unis. Le juge Charles Campbell, de la Cour supérieure, a condamné Brandon McInerney après avoir tenu compte d'une entente conclue avec les procureurs, selon laquelle il sera expédié en prison à compter de janvier, soit une fois qu'il aura atteint l'âge de la majorité.
Vêtu d'un chandail blanc et d'un pantalon bleu, McInerney n'a pas parlé pendant l'audience, mais son avocat, Scott Wippert, a déclaré que son client s'excusait d'avoir tué Larry King, qui était âgé de 15 ans en février 2008. Selon Me Wippert, McInerney éprouve de profonds remords et s'il pouvait reculer dans le temps et effacer son geste, il le ferait en un instant. McInerney a plaidé coupable à une accusation de meurtre non prémédité, de même qu'à un chef d'accusation d'homicide volontaire et d'utilisation d'une arme à feu, lui évitant ainsi un nouveau procès.
En septembre, son procès avait été annulé lorsque les membres du jury n'ont pu s'entendre sur le degré de culpabilité de l'accusé. George Michael Hospitalized: Christians For A Moral America Calls For Singer's Death In Light Of His 'Satanic Lifestyle' George Michael fans were stunned last week when the singer was admitted to an Austrian hospital with pneumonia and forced to postpone his tour indefinitely, but one right-wing organization had a much different reaction to the news. After the Daily Mail reported that Michael's family and long-time partner Fadi Fawaz had gathered at his bedside in Vienna, Christians For A Moral America took to Twitter, claiming the singer "has AIDS" and calling for followers to pray for his demise in light of his "satanic lifestyle.
" Read the Nov. 26 series of Tweets, from a user identified only as Keith, below: @GodsWordIsLaw Keith Apparently George Michael has AIDS. Figures since he's a homosexual and it goes with the territory. Another sodomite bites the dust? Once George Michael bites the dust, it'll be the perfect time to roll out new anti-sodomy ads. Pray for George Michael's demise. @Nick_S_D No, he has not. Honor George Michael by taking a look at some of his greatest hits below: 'Faith,' 1987. Le fanzine gay «Butt» publie son dernier numéro. Après quasiment deux ans d’absence, le fanzine gay Butt publie ces jours-ci son n°29 (automne-hiver 2011) et ce sera son ultime numéro, son chant du cygne, annoncent ses deux fondateurs Gert Jonkers et Jop van Bennekom. CONTRE-PROGRAMMATION En l’espace de 10 ans, Butt aura à coup sûr marqué le paysage des publications gays. Face à l’imagerie homo standardisée des années 90 (le Ken épilé au sourire Ultra Brite, pour aller vite), le fanzine sur papier rose pas du tout glacé a joué la contre-programmation totale en misant sur le mélange des styles (bears, twinks et boys next door en tout genre), les interviews déjantées hors promo, les photos de lecteurs à poil côtoyant celles des people… à poil aussi.
En s’inspirant d’illustres prédécesseurs (le mythique Straight To Hell, qui existe toujours, Magazine, etc.), Butt a réussi à accommoder l’esprit libertaire des années 70 et du début des années 80 à la sauce des années 2000. 1er numéro-dernier numéro. Secret Agent, Gay Ally Rose Robertson Dead at 94. After serving as a British secret agent in Nazi-occupied France, Rose Robertson would set up the first help-line for U.K. parents of gay children. The pioneer died peacefully last week at the age of 94. An adventurous young woman, Robertson would enlist in Britain's Special Operations Executive program in 1941. According to gay rights leader Peter Tatchell, Robertson told him that she parachuted into France to spy on German troop deployments and to act as a courier for the British.
It was her time in France where her interest in gay people would begin. Spending an evening with two French resistance fighters, she entered their room to find them in an embrace. She knew nothing about homosexuality and was curious; the men shared stories of prejudice and rejection. A similar experience played out when she took in two lodgers in the 1960s when she was a happily-married housewife. Georgia University to Employees: Reject Premarital Sex and Homosexuality, or Leave. Working at Georgia’s Shorter University isn’t a nine-to-five gig. It’s a way of life. That’s what the university’s top brass seem to be hoping, anyway. On Oct. 26 the Baptist university in Rome, Ga. announced that all 200 employees must read and agree to a Personal Lifestyle Statement.
Among other things, it commits them to being active members of their church and avoiding the consumption of alcohol in public. “The ‘why’ is really simple: What you stand for matters,” the school said in a statement. Straight being the key word. (PHOTOS: The Evolution of the College Dorm) Speaking to LGBT newspaper Georgia Voice on condition of anonymity, one employee said he would likely leave the university as a result of the “witch hunts.” Don Dowless, the school’s president, said that no employee—no matter how high up the chain of command—is exempt. 'Pregnant Man' done having kids.
Une tribu amérindienne légalise le mariage homosexuel. La Cour suprême rejette un appel contre le mariage gay à Washington. La Cour suprême des Etats-Unis a rejeté mardi un appel demandant l'annulation du mariage homosexuel dans la capitale fédérale américaine, Washington DC. Sans donner d'explication, la plus haute juridiction a refusé de se saisir d'un recours déposé par un pasteur conservateur noir, Harry Jackson, qui attaquait la ville de Washington (District of Columbia) pour ne pas avoir soumis à un vote par référendum sa décision d'autoriser le mariage des couples homosexuels. Il s'agit d'un revers pour les opposants au mariage gay, alors que la question de son autorisation en Californie (ouest) devrait à son tour atteindre la Cour suprême.
La cour d'appel fédérale de Californie a saisi le 4 janvier la Cour suprême de l'Etat pour déterminer si les opposants au mariage gay peuvent se substituer aux autorités de l'Etat pour faire appel d'une décision de justice qui avait légalisé en août 2010 les mariages homosexuels. Basic Rights Oregon has TV ad campaign to win support for gay marriage. The state's largest gay rights group is running its second statewide television advertising campaign aimed at warming Oregon hearts and minds to same-sex marriage. Basic Rights Oregon is in the second week of a three-week ad campaign on network and cable television stations that is expected to reach 750,000 Oregonians.
The group ran a similar campaign last summer and has been working more than two years to engage Oregonians on the issue of same-sex marriage through community meetings, neighborhood canvassing and house parties. Its goal is to pass an initiative that would overturn the state ban on gay marriage. Basic Rights has no specific plans to launch an initiative campaign, said Jeana Frazzini, executive director, but the group has said in the past that it could act as soon as 2012. "We've basically set for the rest of this year a goal of identifying 100,000 new supporters for the freedom to marry here in Oregon," she said.
Steve then says, "In the end, it was talking to our daughters. New York city extends gay marriage plans. All of the gay couples who applied to wed on the first day gay marriage is legal in New York will be able to do so. The new law comes into power on Sunday and as the city can only cope with so many ceremonies officials ran a lottery to determine who could wed on the day. It was predicted that register offices around the city could cope with 764 couples but when 823 couples – 59 more – signed up, officials decided to accommodate them all. More than 530 couples have asked to wed at the city’s Manhattan register office. Officials said the venue would stay open until all couples had been served. Usually couples must wait 24 hours to wed after applying for a marriage licence. This means that couples will arrive, get their marriage licence, have the waiting period waived and then have their ceremonies.
New York legalised gay marriage last month, Five other states – Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, New Hampshire and Vermont – and the District of Columbia – currently allow gay couples to marry. Anti-gay group files lawsuit against New York gay marriage. An anti-gay group in New York has filed a lawsuit against the city’s new marriage laws. The group, called New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms, claims the state Senate acted illegally when it voted to approve a gay marriage bill earlier this year.
According to the lawsuit, the Senate violated the state’s Open Meetings Laws by failing to follow procedures. The group claims the Senate illegally prevented opposing senators from speaking and did not send the bill to the appropriate committees. It also claims that Republican senators were offered campaign incentives by “high-profile elected officials and Wall Street financiers” to change their votes in favour of the bill. Rev Jason J McGuire, the executive director of New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms, said: “Constitutional liberties were violated.
The Senate has not commented. Vent de folie à New York pour les premières unions homosexuelles - Flash actualité - Monde - 24/07/2011. The Most Homophobic Woman in America. (Weekly Column) The field of contemptible anti-gay activists has long been overcrowded, like a room full of teenagers frenetically rushing a concert stage.
In this cacophony of crazy it is quite a feat to rise above the din. Yet radio host and Mission America President Linda Harvey is making a name for herself by fast becoming the most homophobic woman in the nation. Unlike her more sophisticated counterparts, Harvey is a zealot without a filter who appears unable to finesse her fanaticism. She is outright paranoid of an imagined gay menace that in her diseased mind is lurking to corrupt children on every street corner. Harvey is also opposed to openly LGBT schoolteachers and claimed on her website that that, “These teachers then become role models, in-house activists, and possible confidants for students who want to start homosexual behavior.
Exactly what does Harvey mean when she says, “If homosexuals and transgenders are allowed to live and love as they see fit?” (Un gourou tue un garçon de quatre ans qu’il soupçonne d’homosexualité) Jamey Rodemeyer, 14, Dies in Suicide. Another tragic reminder that bullying against gay youth is a continuing problem comes with the suicide of a 14-year-old boy, Jamey Rodemeyer, who had asked for help repeatedly. The Buffalo, New York, teen died on Sunday, his body found later outside his home after an apparent suicide, according to the Buffalo News. His death followed not only taping his own It Gets Better video, but also blogging on Tumblr about the bullying at school that just wouldn't stop.
"I always say how bullied I am, but no one listens," he wrote on September 9. "What do I have to do so people will listen to me? " In May, he was on a high after coming out to friends, and he pointed to the support from people online as the reason it gets better. "I have so much support from people I don't even know online," he told the camera. Reaction on Tumblr has been of shock and sadness. "Jamey Rodemeyer is dead? "He lived 45 minutes away from me," another said. Watch other videos from Rodemeyer on the following pages. Utah Undie Run: Thousands Strip In Salt Like CIty In Protest Of Conservative Laws. Un hétéro exclu du don de sang parcequ'il parait homo - USA.
Aaron Pace, un jeune homme de 22 ans à l'allure raffinée, mais pas gay, s'est vu renvoyé d'un centre de don de sang de Gary, dans l'Etat américain de l'Indiana, par le personnel qui a estimé qu'il mentait sur son orientation sexuelle. Pendant l'entrevue avec le personnel, on lui a signifié que son apparence et son comportement le faisait paraître comme gay et qu'en conséquence il ne pouvait donc pas donner son sang. Le jeune homme avait répondu par la négative quand on lui avait demandé s'il avait déjà eu des rapports sexuels avec un homme. Mais le personnel médical ne l'a pas cru.Aaron Pace a déclaré au Chicago Sun-Times: "Je me suis senti humilié et embarrassé. Il n'est pas juste que les SDF puissent donner leur sang, mais pas les homosexuels. Et en plus, je ne suis même pas homosexuel". Wyoming, Kansas beat California for same-sex parents | News Blog from 365gay.com. Is This The First Openly Gay Campaign Ad To Feature The Candidate’s Kid?