Tag Archives : Homophobia

Marriage is often referred to as a dead institution because the most basic tenets of a marriage are not fulfilled today. Most people would advice you that it is a pure waste of time, a trap, a merely temporary legal binding between two individuals who would eventually lose their freedom (as well as their state of mind). Whether the idea of a marriage [...]

Ex-Miss California Carrie Prejean wanted nothing more than to win the Miss America title and go on to spread the word of Jesus to all her righteous countrymen. Unfortunately for her, there were so many people treading on the wrong paths who just didn’t want for her to be the second Virgin Mary. These vile and evil creatures (gays and lesbians, for [...]

Daily Mail’s controversial homophobic column by Jan Moir after death of Stephen Gately has met with severe criticism and public outrage. More than 21,000 complaints have been filed about the piece with Press Complaints Commission. This is more than sum total of all the complaints PCC has ever received in last five years. PCC cannot ignore the matter [...]

There is no rest, no respite. Since the Delhi HC verdict decriminalising homosexuality not a day goes by without someone throwing a tantrum and demanding the return of the infuriating law; it appears the homophobic of this country are even more obsessed with homosexuality than the LGBTs! The most interesting thing about these oppositions are people [...]

2009 is being called the Queer Year, and no wonder! When you think about the amount of queer news this year has seen (and we are only half-way through), it makes one wonder where all the straight people have gone! As Brazil sends out rainbow colours to their pink brethren with the very biggest and the very best in gay prides, the rest of the world isn’t [...]

After Obama’s great equality speeches about LGBT rights it is indeed unfortunate that California Supreme Court should do a U turn on gay marriages. On Tuesday, much to the dismay of all LGBT activists it upheld Proposition 8 and put a ban on gay marriages. Only solace was it did not nullify some 18,000 gay marriages. Gay rights activists are back [...]

The sexual orientation of humans have for long pushed gays into the limelight and into the line of fire from fundamentalists and crazed obsessives who believe that none should survive or be given the right to live happily unless their main desire in life is to procreate. Although homosexuality is neither a disease nor a disorder and is a normal occurrence [...]

India’s only gay magazine, Bombay Dost, used to be a poor black and white self-funded publication that finally had to be closed down due to lack of advertisers and inefficient funds. 7 years later, it makes a comeback in all rainbow coloured glory and with the backing of Indian actress, Celina Jaitley. Celina has always been pro-gay, both in declaring [...]

Sometimes called “the last permissible prejudice,” homophobia reifies social ideas of gender, and ultimately reinforces inequality in society. Homophobia is an even worse and extreme case of sexism. If sexism is imprisoned in the strict confines of sex and gender stereotypes, homophobia sees these already warped stereotypes in an acute and even [...]

If you are an Xbox fan, and you happen to enter your sexual orientation which Microsoft thinks is not ‘ok’ then you must just get yourself banned! In what appears to be one of the most blatant cases of corporate homophobia, Microsoft banned a gamer for she mentioned in her profile that she is a lesbian. The explanation given by Microsoft [...]