Monday Night Links
New York Times Book Reviews: Male Like Me & The Conformist
Bay Area Reporter: Leather community debates trans exclusion at upcoming contest
WIBW.com: Kansas Lawmaker Moves to Control Protests at Funerals
Chicago Tribune: Students face hate-crime charges
San Francisco Business Times: PlanetOut buys travel company for $6.5M
247Gay.com: Radio Host Janet Parshall Calls Gay Adoption “State-Sanctioned Child Abuse”
Reuters: Gay channel Logo looking for gay life in America
I liked this quote from the B.A.R. article:
“There is this funny idea that an FTM is somehow a frog to a butch lesbian pollywog. But we hardly ever hear that an MTF is on ‘the gay male spectrum.’ Once she cuts off her penis she is considered a woman,” said Arana
As for Janet Parshall on Larry King:
She then asserted that allowing a gay couple to adopt constituted “state-sanctioned child abuse because you’ve purposely taken away either a momma or a daddy, and mom and dad are both necessary in a child’s life.”
So, in order to prevent child abuse, are we going to begin forcing hetero couples with children to immediately remarry after getting a divorce? And which “you” is she referring to who has forcibly taken away a parent when gay couples marry?
I don’t know how to react to the banning of protests at funerals. On one hand, I applaud it for two reasons: People who are grieving shouldn’t be subjected to protests for any reason and I can’t stand the Westboro Church and its homophobic bile. On the other hand, I am always cautious about banning speech, even hate speech. This is a tough one for me.