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John Oliver

04 Friday Jul 2014

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John Oliver is making moves and shaking things up, tackling hot topic political issues and calling people out on their shit. He’s cute and nerdy and smart, but he does still have not cute British teeth for some reason. John Jernigan-Oliver

John Oliver is also a big gay rights activist, here is his introduction to both the fantastic Pepe Julian Onziema and the fucktard Scott Lively


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If “Heterophobia” Was Real

08 Saturday Mar 2014

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Love is All You Need

A short film entitled “Love is All You Need?” uses real life events in an alternate universe to explore if “heterophobia” were real.

“Love” creator and director K.Rocco Shields uses intolerance, bullying and suicide to depict what the world would be if being gay was the norm and straight people were in the minority. The film has already won a total of 19 film festival awards.

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Damn Obama and Queers!

27 Thursday Feb 2014

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Damn Obama and Queers!

They ain’t talkin’ about me…wait, maybe they are..? I do love the theater, dahling

The ATLAH Worldwide Missionary Church is led by Dr. James David Manning, a man who has been outspokenly critical of the Obama administration and the progression of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights over the course of the past six years.

“This is devastating what Obama is doing to the black man and the black woman, and how the white homo is now moving into the black neighborhoods looking for black men that have been converted into homosexuality. But black woman let me say something to you: you have a very hard time competing against a white homosexual male. He’s usually got money — a white homo usually has an American Express card. He usually has an opportunity at the theater — homos love the theater. They love to go out to dinners, parties, they love that kind of a thing… black people need to rise up in mass and recognize the utter destruction that Obama is going in to destroy the black family with these homosexual statements that he has done and release of demons.”

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Volunteers Smuggle Stray Dogs Out of Sochi

11 Tuesday Feb 2014

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Volunteers Smuggle Stray Dogs Out of Sochi

An animal activist carries a stray dog to his car, brought out of Sochi by fellow activist, at a rendezvous point 120 kilometers away from the Olympic area, in the early morning hours of Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014, in Tuapse, Russia. The volunteers are part of an emerging movement of animal activists in Sochi, alarmed by reports that the city has contracted the killing of thousands of stray dogs before and during the Olympic Games. Stray dogs are a common sight on the streets of Russian cities, but with massive construction in the area the street dog population in Sochi and the Olympic park has soared. Useful as noisy, guard dogs, workers feed them to keep them nearby and protect buildings. They soon lose their value and become strays. Tonight, a few dogs will be taken on their way to a new life in Moscow.

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15 Hateful Tweets About Michael Sam Coming Out

10 Monday Feb 2014

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15 Hateful Tweets About  Michael Sam Coming Out

Jordan Bowers @BowersIsTheBoss
Call me heartless, but I won’t support Michael Sam. I won’t discriminate, but I also can’t praise a man who has disregarded God’s laws.

Mary Fords Grandbaby @MaryFordgb
It saddens me that black male role models now are either homo or in jail.College football star Michael Sam: I’m gay

Pastor Jeff Earls @PastorJeffEarls
New Fag League – The Doom of a Great American Game

Spirit of Truth @SpiritofTruth1
Michael Sam I’m gonna cast yo fag fucking ass to hellz!!!

Smokey Dope @TokeyDope
Who gives a shit if Michael Sam is a fag I dont wanna hear it everytime I turn to @ESPN

sam palmer @sampalmer14
No one care if Michael Sam is gay. Be a homo in private. I want to watch sports center not a gay guy who plays football.

NBAInsider @wesleym80
what a wacko Michael Sam lol says hes atracted to guys WTF thats fucking gross haha @espn #SportsCenter that should be Not top 10 lol

Randy @RandalldaCandle
That queer Michael Sam needs to go home. No one wants gay people on there football team.
Dub @DawgsAreInAnI

Michael Sam bringing smear the queer to a whole new level #corksoaker

Gopis dead @Gopisdead
MLK is ROLLING in His Grave. Did He DIE 4 This? Who is going 2 follow this guy w/o the liberal elite?

Pariah’s Child @Lakeshow_248
Michael sam. Hope u die
Al Hannum @AlHannum3

Michael Sam’s don’t ask don’t tell brotha.Now I can’t watch sport center for the rest of the week ,you ruined it god damn

Alek Aker @AlekAker
Why are people praising Michael Sam & acting like hes greater than God just because hes openly gay?!? Its a sin! #ThisWorldIsGoingToHell

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Michael Sam Comes Out

10 Monday Feb 2014

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Michael Sam Comes Out

I listen to 98.7 if I’m in the car afternoons. Booger McFarland, a beloved former Buccaneer who played his college ball at LSU, called the NFL locker room “the most homophobic work place in the world” today. There are some really ugly sentiments being expressed, some by players. One thing that keeps being mentioned is that the other players will be uncomfortable and unhappy in the locker room, because apparently Michael will be ogling them and cruising the showers for the gay sex all of the time. I’ve got news for you assholes, there are gay men in all walks of life, including the NFL. Michael is just brave enough to come out and own who he is. Sadly, unfortunately, since his announcement his draft stock has plummeted. Once projected as a 4th or 5th round pick, the draft boards are now predicting that he might not get drafted at all, as NFL teams “don’t need the drama or media attention” that a player of his caliber will be generating. I say Hoorah! for you, Michael Sam, for being a proud, gay man, and a role model for the next generation.

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Russia Declares Discrimination Newest Olympic Sport

09 Sunday Feb 2014

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buy John's book on Amazon, civil rights, Equality, gay, gay marriage, gay pride, Gay Rights, hate, homophobia, human rights, Lesbian, LGBT, Putin, queer, Russia Freedom Fund, Sochi, Winter Olympics

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Russia: Gay Men Beaten on Camera

04 Tuesday Feb 2014

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compassion, faggots, gay, Gay Rights, homophobia, human rights, human rights watch, john jernigan, LGBT, love, perspective, point of view, Putin, queers, Russia, Sochi

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Faggots Getting Married, Disgusting

27 Monday Jan 2014

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Macklemore, Mary Lambert and Madonna singing Same Love/Open Your Heart on the Grammys last night while 30 straight and gay couples were married by Queen Latifah was beautiful and touching. Sadly, a lot of the U.S. felt differently. Twitter has been full of horrible, homophobic tweets all day. CHECK OUT THESE TWITTER BIGOTS DISGUSTED BY MACKLEMORE’S ‘SAME LOVE’ WEDDINGS

Bryan Fischer @BryanJFischer
Heads up: Grammy telecast to feature sodomy-based wedding ceremonies.

Dr R Joseph Milligan @parsonjoe1
@CBS CBS: Shame on you, the Grammy’s is supposed to be a family friendly show. It was disgusting, and sick to have gay marriages.

BusterWilson @busterwilson
Total mockery of God on the Grammys tonight! The world has gone gay-mad! And it is sickening!

GRAMMY’S ARE PATHETIC.. I BOYCOTT FROM NOW ON. A GAY MARRIAGE ON TV IS DISGUSTING AND UNCALLED FOR.
▲NAE NAE ▲ (@OFFICIALZHERO) JANUARY 27, 2014

Dalton Glasscock @dglasscock
I don’t care if they are gay or straight this is wrong. Quit shoving your leftist agenda down my throat. Enough is enough.

ebh•♛ @_BrookexO__
I said to mom “you still watching the Grammy awards”
She texted back & said “I was until this fag started singing”

THIS GRAMMY’S SUCKS SO BAD, THIS GAY/NON GAY PREACHING BY MACKLEMORE IS DISGUSTING. GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE PEOPLE.
TREATS (@IMORETREATS) JANUARY 27, 2014

Brenda @Brenda061750
the wedding on the grammy’s was in poor taste….most of America don’t believe in gay couples….we don’t want it thrown down our throats..

Only in Cali .. Faggot ass state supporting fags. Wtf is this propaganda by celebs. ? #grammy

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#CheersToSochi

25 Saturday Jan 2014

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Queer Nation

The Real Thing for Russia’s LGBT community includes brutal violence, complete oppression of the basic human right to speech, assembly and expression. Coke cares only about their Sochi profits. 

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A Brutal, Senseless Death

29 Sunday Dec 2013

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A Brutal, Senseless Death

Authorities are calling the early morning murder of Pumba the warthog a swine hate crime. His life partner Charlie woke to find his mangled body in their living room floor. Charlie described Pumba as “loving, fat and flatulent.” Law enforcement has a suspect in custody, a lesbian bulldog, ironically also described as fat and gassy.

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Black Drag Queen Santas Terrorize Semmes Alabama!

23 Monday Dec 2013

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Semmes, Alabama, is named for a Confederate admiral. Shockingly, the people of Semmes, Alabama, felt a little weird about an “all-male, African-American gay dance team from Mobile” impersonating sexy Santa gals at their annual Christmas parade. If by weird, you mean irate.

The 3,000-strong population of Semmes apparently likes its Christmas parade the way it likes its nooses: straight. And the Friends of Semmes, who put on the parade, feel just awful that the town’s upstanding citizens and children were forced to see the young African-American gentlemen of the Prancing Elites in action, according to Mobile’s Fox 10:

[Prancing Elites] Group Captain Kentrell Collins said he had every reason to believe the routine would be welcomed at the Semmes Christmas parade. After all, they were invited.

“I said, ‘we’re all over 21 and we’re guys.’ She was so excited. She was like ‘I didn’t know they had any groups like that in Mobile,'” Collins said.

However, instead of applause or cheers group members said they heard lots of jeers.

“Some of them were saying stuff like ‘Oh my God, what’s that?'” dancer Adrian Clemons said.

Claudia Davis, area white woman, spoke to the TV station on behalf of wide-mouthed concerned citizens everywhere. “I was outraged and appalled,” she said, as she stood shaking beside her presumably now-warped daughter:

“I never expect anything like this at the Semmes Christmas parade!.. If they were gonna put this… kind of… activity in the parade, they should have notified the people of Semmes so that we had a choice whether we wanted out child to attend and see something like that.”
Indeed. Besides naming its fair town in honor of a secessionist who was arrested for treason after the War of Northern Aggression, Semmes’ other claims to fame are that it has its own zip code and Walmart.

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I’m Homophobic

19 Saturday Jan 2013

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I'm Homophobic

People are either beautiful or nice, and *Mark* is one of the nicest people I know.

*not his real name…

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Since 1977, have you ever had sex with a man?

18 Sunday Nov 2012

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An excerpt from my book, The Gay Road Less Traveled, which I hope to have published in early 2015.

My money is low, my spending habits out of control, my budgetary skills questionable. This past Monday my office was off work for Labor Day, so I took the initiative to go sell some plasma. Now, let me first say that I was tested for HIV & had a full workup at the end of October, I always practice safer sex (if and when the opportunity should arise, kind of being very picky? selective? virtuous..) since moving south. Apart from being a little out-of-shape I am glad to say I’m in good health. The plasma center makes you jump through some hoops to get in there, apart from the blood test and physical exam I was given a 53 question exam, which I took in a computer cubicle. Several of the questions specifically focused on sex, and I found myself giving a somewhat sketchy history. Here is one of the questions posed:

Since 1977, have you ever had sex with another man? This would include

A) Oral sex, either giving or receiving, mouth to genitals or anus oh!!!

B) Anal sex, either giving or receiving

With the quickness I checked No, and checked a few more No’s along the way. I would like to say I did it in protest of the prejudice and hypocrisy and double standard and whatnot…but my mind was on them ends, stacks, scrilla, duckets ya heard? I finish my homophobic exam and return to the lobby. My blood test comes back clean of course, so I am led to the donation room. People are laying on hospital beds with tubes in their arms, squeezing, pumping out blood that plasma is then extracted from, the blood then pumped back into the person. The center has a somewhat urban feel to it btw…

The worker (Shaquana)* who is charged with sticking me with a needle looks about 12, and is in fact telling everyone that it’s her birthday, she is turning 19. Since I am right-handed I request my left arm to be poked.

Shaquana: You ready?

Me: Nods

Shaquana: Pokes/stabs/impales

Shaquana: Uh-Oh

I look down at my arm, the skin has blown/bubbled up about the size of a golf ball.

Shaquana: This is what happened, I put it in the right way, see it went in the vein, just not far enough. It’s gonna bruise. Also we have to use the other arm now…

Shaquana (to her supervisor): Could you please come do this for me? He is really mad, I can tell.

The supervisor comes over, changes the prop pillow to my right arm, quickly and efficiently inserts the needle and starts the machine to pumping.

Shaquana: My bad

An hour later, my plasma bottle is full, another worker unhooks me as Shaquana has kept her distance, and I am free to go, with my $50, on a debit card.

I am forced to wear long sleeve shirts all week, it’s Saturday night and I have bruises like a heroin junkie on both arms, one small bruise…one big-ass Shaquana bruise. I might have to go back to workin’ the corner of W Las Olas & Broward again, thanks Shaquana you wildly unprofessional teenager who shouldn’t be in charge of needles!!!

* not her real name, similar though

 

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