gay persons of color

That's all folks!

Well, the world is a better place today than it was when I started this blog way back in 2006. Over 1300 posts later, a series of Canadian Blog Awards, and, most important, wise feedback from you, my readers, I end this blog with a feeling of great accomplishment. Thanks to all who helped, questioned, and validated me for the past eight years. I think I made a difference with this. I really do.

Jan

Video: We Are Jamaicans campaign to fight homophobia

Dane Lewis, the Director of the Jamaica Forum of Lesbians, All-Sexuals and Gays (JFLAG), is featured in the above video, part of the impressive new We Are Jamaicans campaign to fight homophobia on the island nation once regarded as the most homophobic place on earth.

Background music is Macklemore & Ryan Lewis—Same Love—featuring Mary Lambert.

Jan

Cory Booker, a model of personal transformation for gay haters

Cory Booker, the popular mayor of Newark, New Jersey, was a student at Stanford University when in 1992 he published an article in the Stanford Daily that described how he once "was disgusted by gays," but through a process of understanding the plight of a Stanford counselor named Daniel Bao, Booker chose to embrace gay people once and for all.

Jan

Study reveals same-sex relationships in China over millennia

Sociologist Pan Guangdan has found plenty of historical documents bearing evidence to the existence and tolerance of homosexuality in China over thousands of years. For example, during his groundbreaking study, Pan discovered that almost every emperor of the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 24) had or was suspected of having male partners.

Jan

Azealia Banks controversy comes with hypocrisy

Much controversy has been stirred by American rapper Azealia Banks's tweet to gossip maven Perez Hilton, which stated "omg u should just kill yourself… Like for real… lol what a messy faggot you are." The context for their interchange is nicely summarized at digital spy.

Jan

Video: Video Games - Boy George - Directed by Mike Nicholls

The process of joy on the woman's face when she first meets her man is priceless in this video. Thank you, Angel Rose and Cesare Polini (playing the featured couple), Boy George, Lana Del Rey, and Mike Nicholls.

Jan

Video: Queer Lisboa 16 - Death of the Gay Cliche!

I somehow missed this awesome ad for the 2012 Queer Lisboa 16 - Lisbon Gay and Lesbian Film Festival commercial created by the agency FUEL Lisbon. It hits one of the seminal aspects of my blog, which is to destroy gay stereotypes.

Nov

Video: "Awkward" by Saucy Monky

Behold "Awkward," the awesome and latest video from Saucy Monky, an indie rock band based in Los Angeles and fronted by Irish-born singer and guitarist, Annmarie Cullen (who formerly performed under the pseudonym Ann Marie Montade), and East Coast vocalist and guitarist, Cynthia Catania. The group's rhythm section is Steve Giles (bass) and Megan Jane (drums). All of the musicians in the band are extremely talented. And incidentally (or not?), the three ladies happen to be gay.

Nov

Vatican ups its homophobic rhetoric

I am so sick of Pope Benedict XVI poking his papal nose into the bedrooms of people across the globe to encourage bigotry against LGBT human beings.

Nov

Video: [Stereotypical] Gay Men Will Marry Your [Stereotypical] Girlfriends

I find it sad that the above video relies on ridiculous stereotypes to promote gay rights and marriage equality in the United States (where same-sex nuptials are now a legal reality in nine states and the District of Columbia). Even sadder perhaps is that the video has gone viral thus perpetuating at an accelerated rate a monolithic image of gay men as effeminate, musical-loving, ultimatum-slinging, gym bunnies, among other cringe-worthy clichés.

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