It needs to get better right now. So says Rick Mercer in his latest trademark video rant. In it Mercer, a popular Canadian political satirist and TV personality, talks about how insufficient the “It gets better” message is for gay teens. Mercer recorded this video in response to the recent suicide of 15-year old Jamie ...
While tolerance for the LGBT community is slowly increasing, sometimes it still seems relegated to the streets proudly bearing the rainbow flag. You expect to see gay couples in Toronto’s Church Wellesley Village, Vancouver’s Davie Village and San Francisco’s Castro District, but what about when they venture out of designated “homosexual neighbourhoods?” Well, homophobia rears ...
Same-sex marriage is now legal in New York state, but this doesn’t mean that gay men are rushing to the altar. Lesbians are getting married much more than gay couples in the six states where same-sex marriage is legal. In Connecticut, where same-sex marriage has been sanctioned since 2008, 3,252 lesbian couples have tied the ...
Hordes of women are having abortions to achieve a level playing field with their lesbian sisters, Pat Robertson ranted recently. The television evangelist and ex-Baptist minister said married women were “aborting their babies” so they could catch up to homosexual women in the career world, and so lesbians wouldn’t be forced to feel bad about ...
A lesbian couple has started the UK’s first fertility clinic exclusively for homosexual couples. It will help match parents with sperm donors, egg donors and surrogates. “We wanted to set up something where we would act as a go-between and where couples could meet potential donors face-to-face to work out how they would work things ...
The United Kingdom allows gay people to form civil partnerships, but not get married. The ceremonies cannot take place in a church, involve a priest /minister, or include any other religious element. But that is all about to change. Lynne Featherstone, the Liberal Democrat equalities minister, will soon be unveiling plans which would allow the ...
A French father-of-two is claiming that his Parkinson’s medication turned him gay. He is suing GlaxoSmithKline for not warning him about the drug that he claims made him addicted to internet gambling and sex with men. His lawyer claims that some of these encounters led to rape. In 2003 he began taking the drug and ...
Millicent Gaika was bound, strangled, and raped for five hours by a man who claimed that he was curing her lesbianism. It is called “corrective rape” and is common in South Africa, with more than one a day being recorded in Cape Town alone. In 2008, women’s football star Eudy Simelane was raped and murdered. ...
A senior decided to use the Martin Luther King Jr Day assembly to come out to her school. In this eloquent speech Kayla discusses what it felt like to discover that she was gay and what she wants out of life. She said: Now I feel this need to stand up in front of all ...
Apparently men will not do anything in a skirt. When shown sexual stimuli men will only become aroused when the porn corresponds to their own sexual preferences. Women are a little more loosey-goosey. We will become aroused when shown most sex acts, even when the partners are not human. That’s right, we like a little ...
So, we’re having this baby. It’s due in a few weeks and we’re trying to get organized with all...
I recently heard about what is claimed to be the rising phenomenon of Japanese men remaining virgins for longer...
Ladders. Patriarchal conspiracy. I’ll explain… This week I climbed a ladder. I was trying to reach a loft space,...
Dear Madame X, My boyfriend needs to look at porn while we have sex. It bothers me because I...
Mrs. Dalloway is yet another feminist classic that I had to grow into. Wrapped up in Woolf’s instantly recognizable...
Last week saw a Big Thing come to our soggy little island. Well, it was a Big Thing for...
Last weekend I was entertaining a guest, you know, the sort I was planning to have lots and lots...
All little girls want to be princesses… right?! It’s bad enough that toy aisles are separated out by what...
