LGBT News Digest 11/23/09

John Corvino writes at 365gay.com about the "slippery slope of religious exemptions" in regards to enforcement of gay rights laws.
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The Irony & Irrationality of Minority Homophobia

Bishop Harry Jackson is a man who, as an African American, has a legacy of grinding oppression and unimagined suffering relieved only by intensive civil rights agitation by those who endured what Martin Luther King called “a season of suffering.
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Consider the irony, Mr. Diaz

Consider the irony, Mr. DiazCampus Times... as a senator who was forced to resign from the Civilian Complaint Review Board for suggesting that the Gay Games would spread HIV and encourage .
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Rob Pattinson's favorite part of New Moon

The scene where he almost took it all off."I felt pretty goofy stepping out into the sunlight in front of 2,000 people in a town square, ripping my clothes off.
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Gay Headlines for Monday

The Gay Headlines for Monday Include: Speculation on the Winnipeg bathhouse fire; Is Ohio Liberal?; Are gay politicians in Canada no big deal?; Ugandan Irony; An update on the UK gay hate law; Rhode Island’s plan; Buenos Aires marks a 1st; DC lawmakers vs the RCs; India’s Gay Prince; And a bit of gay science… Crime [.
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Brangelina Design Jewelry Line Centered Around Snakes. Oh, The Irony!

A publicist from Women’s Wear Daily sent me a very serious and earnest email today alerting me to the new Asprey jewelry collection with pieces that are designed by Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.
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Facebook app developer rejects App Store, irony ensues

We always said that if Apple's arbitrary, inconsistent, and quite frankly baffling approval process didn't get straightened out soon, the defections were going to pick up pace -- and what do we have here? Joe Hewitt, the developer of the well-loved and highly regarded Facebook iPhone app, has flipped the script and rejected the App Store.
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Foxx And Lawrence As Wanda And Sheneneh!

Although 1992 has come and gone, Screen Gems (oh, the irony!) has acquired Sheneneh and Wanda, a comic caper starring Jamie Foxx and Martin Lawrence as the female characters they developed during their stand up days! Uh, 15 years ago!!!! Foxx will pen the script, which will be based on a movie trailer parody [.
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Sexy mormonic irony

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MTV celebrates Berlin wall coming down by building a new wall

Idiots. Twenty years ago, thousands of Germans converged at the Berlin Wall to watch as the hated barrier between east and west was torn down.
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"The House of the Devil": Creepy, stylish fun

Director Ti West's horror homage looks to the '80s, without irony
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Brothers And Sisters

Chris Dierkes, who has both Catholic and Anglican roots, notes an irony in the Pope's recent actions: If personal experience and lifelong immersion in a sub-culture is any form of persuasive evidence, I can tell you that conservative Anglo-Catholicism —.
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LGBT People Like Saving Their Planet More Than Straight People

If Mother Nature had her way, the world might be run by LGBT people. That's because a new poll out shows that LGBT Americans think and act in more green-friendly ways than straight people.
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ReNu solar panels announced for iPhone charger, sound dock, LED desk lamp

Sure, we've been frustrated by solar-powered iPhone chargers and amused by the irony of solar-powered lamps in the past, but that doesn't mean we're not looking forward to the day when we can meet our gadgets power needs without relying on fossil fuels.
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Anatomy of a Slur

by David Link

The latest ad from Stand For Marriage Maine is a political attack in the classic tradition of Lee Atwater’s Willie Horton ad for the first George Bush, and California Governor Pete Wilson’s infamous smear showing immigrants flooding across the border with a narrator intoning, “They keep coming.
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Irony alert: Transphobe caught filming women's bathrooms

Irony alert: Transphobe caught filming women's bathrooms
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Religious Bigotry in the Black Church

Rev. Irene Monroe, an out lesbian African-American minister and advocate, wrote a powerful piece on the harm many African-American churches and ministry leaders are doing to the LGBT community, especially the youth, and can't escape the irony of that coming from some of the same people who had to fight so hard to win their own rights in society.
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Hypocrisy , irony and other things not to do with a cell phone camera.

The CVS Pharmacy manager who allegedly admitted Friday to filming women in his store's bathroom was an active participant in the 2008 charter amendment to "keep men out of women's restrooms.
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A Skeptic Too Far

Over on Richard Dawkin's blog, Michael Shermer types an open letter to Bill Maher on vaccinations: Vaccination is one of science’s greatest discoveries.
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Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Didn’t Protect Me

Once I joined the Navy, I was tormented by my chief and fellow sailors, physically and emotionally, for being gay.
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