International gay rights groups are in an uproar over the second case in a week that actively criminalizes homosexuality in Cameroon
Two men in Cameroon were sentenced to five years jail-time under suspicion of being gay.
Franky…
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California-native, femme writer, theorist and feminist who likes pretty things. Bloodstream of ink, lyric heartbeat. I queer everything.
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QBits: Two Cameroonians sentenced to five years in prison for 'homosexual behavior'via gaystarnews.com➜
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Don’t think that because you’re gay you can’t perpetuate sexism and misogyny; you don’t have license to repeatedly call women “bitches” innocuously just because you aren’t sexually attracted to them; just because you may not overtly discriminate against women on the basis of sex doesn’t mean you have the right to subject them to the same standards of patriarchy that keep you from achieving social equality as a gay man; just because you don’t benefit from heterosexual privilege doesn’t mean that you don’t benefit from male privilege, and don’t think that lacking the former excuses you from being accountable for the latter. Thank you.via tabularasae➜
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Mark McCormack’s The Declining Significance of Homophobia: How Teenage Boys are Redefining Masculinity
Looking forward to receiving this from the library.
Hmm…not sure if I completely agree with the premise, nor that McCormack did extensive enough research. Still, I’ll probably read this. Here’s an article about it from the Economist: http://www.economist.com/node/21548961
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I Want To Know What It’s Like (by RyanJamesYezak)
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The Bitter Taste Of One’s Own Medicine of the Day: The Tennessee state senator who sponsored the controversial “Don’t Say Gay” bill — which aims to prohibit teachers from discussing homosexuality in the classroom — was refused service at a Knoxville restaurant because of his anti-gay views.
“I hope that [Stacey] Campfield now knows what it feels like to be unfairly [discriminated] against,” The Bistro at the Bijou wrote on their Facebook page.
Reached for comment, Sen. Campfield, who just days ago defended his assertion that it is “virtually impossible” to contract AIDS “through heterosexual sex,” confirmed he was kicked out, saying “I went in there and the lady started calling me names and wouldn’t serve me.”
According to Campfield, the hostess called him a homophobe and accused him of hating homosexuals. “In my business I do rental properties and I’ve rented to homosexuals, mixed-race couples, black couples,” countered Campfield.
He believes the restaurant treated him unfairly. “If you don’t think the way certain people think, then they think you don’t have a right to be served,” he told Buzzfeed.
People denying other people rights simply because they have a different worldview? I agree, Senator. That’s unacceptable.
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The Bitter Taste Of One’s Own Medicine of the Day: The Tennessee state senator who sponsored the controversial “Don’t Say Gay” bill — which aims to prohibit teachers from discussing homosexuality in the classroom — was refused service at a Knoxville restaurant because of his anti-gay views.
“I hope that [Stacey] Campfield now knows what it feels like to be unfairly [discriminated] against,” The Bistro at the Bijou wrote on their Facebook page.
Reached for comment, Sen. Campfield, who just days ago defended his assertion that it is “virtually impossible” to contract AIDS “through heterosexual sex,” confirmed he was kicked out, saying “I went in there and the lady started calling me names and wouldn’t serve me.”
According to Campfield, the hostess called him a homophobe and accused him of hating homosexuals. “In my business I do rental properties and I’ve rented to homosexuals, mixed-race couples, black couples,” countered Campfield.
He believes the restaurant treated him unfairly. “If you don’t think the way certain people think, then they think you don’t have a right to be served,” he told Buzzfeed.
People denying other people rights simply because they have a different worldview? I agree, Senator. That’s unacceptable.
[buzzfeed / facebook / photo: ap via comapp.]
via thedailywhat➜
