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Hate The Sin, Hate The Sinner
Where I come from, being called a bigot used to be an insult, and being called bigoted was an accusation people used to take very seriously. Considering that I grew up in South Africa during the last...
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Hook, Line And Stinker
In a new press release in which the Family Research Council (of Focus on the Family and James Dobson infamy) dragged an eight year old "study" out of mothballs and served it up with today's sauce, they...
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Dear Robert Mugabe
(Originally published on http://www.gaywarfare.blogspot.com/) On Friday your police force raided the Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe’s offices searching for “indecent material” and drugs. Consequently,...
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Fundamentalist Christians & Your Porn
(Originally published on http://gaywarfare.blogspot.com/)As I alluded to last week there is a clear and present danger threatening my private porn collection. Yes, you read correctly, I have a porn...
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A World Without Fear
Xenophobia?What's that?Recently there were some widely publicized outbreaks of violence in South Africa which were directed at foreigners living in the country, particularly illegal immigrants from...
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Blind Eyes, Deaf Ears
Sometimes I get despondent because it feels like my efforts are wasted, my warnings go unheard, my words fall on deaf ears like seeds falling on hard, dry earth. It was just three short years ago when...
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Gender Stereotypes And Diversity
The following is a speech I made at a university in Port Elizabeth today, where I was asked to speak on stereotypes and the trans community as part of their Diversity Week. A special note of thanks to...
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Are Militant Homosexual Activists An Extinct Species?
Back in the day, opponents of equality and human rights for us Pink folks used to call anyone who dared speak out against them or shoot down their ridiculous arguments "militant homosexual activists"....
View ArticleSarah Graham: A Letter to my Body
'A Letter to my Body' is a series of essays - broadcast on BBC Radio 3 - in which five thinkers, artists and writers ask themselves how they relate to their own bodies.Sarah Graham, a successful...
View ArticleHow I Became a Feminist
Originally posted at Gender Focus.Reading some personal accounts of how people became feminists, including “The Fire Inside Me” by a grade 6 girl on the F-Bomb blog, which I linked to earlier this...
View ArticleReading Between The Lines
Apparently South Africa has gained a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council - for the second time. I can only imagine the kind of mayhem they could wreak if they ever got a permanent seat. As a...
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“The homosexuals are coming! The homosexuals are coming!”
Yesterday I received an incredibly long-winded and frantic response from Errol Naidoo - it seems the email campaign to demonstrate our objection to his attack on Cape Town Tourism for supporting the...
View ArticleHappy New Year
When I sat down to write today's article, I started off thinking about last year and all the things I felt good about. It's my first article for the new year... and then I thought about last year, and...
View ArticleFree Hate Kills
You believe in freedom of speech, don't you? How about freedom of religion? You believe in that? I know I do. But every so often there are people who come along demanding that some forms of freedom of...
View ArticleSleeper Awake!
Sometimes it feels like you are the only one who sees the world for what it is, while it seems that all those around you are blissfully unaware - not knowing and not caring to know things that could...
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The Parliamentary Drowning Pool
Last weekend, Mr Gay South Africa won the Mr Gay World contest - the second time a South African title holder has walked away with the top honors of this prestigious event - and also incidentally, the...
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Are Good Christians "Too Forgiving"?
Are good Christians "too forgiving"?That's quite an interesting question, especially if you look at the "inerrant' scriptures which set the precedent for "turning the other cheek". Why do I think...
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Living In Interesting Times
A few thousand years ago the Chinese developed a saying that went "May you live in interesting times". This is, believe it or not, intended as a curse, not a blessing. By "interesting times" of course,...
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Spit Or Swallow?
Belief is subjective, you don't have to like somebody else's beliefs any more than somebody else might agree with folks standing in church waving their hands in the air. Some folks see religion as...
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Not Seeing Is Believing
Ever hear a child put his hands over his ears, or sometimes closing her eyes too, and chanting loudly, "I can't hear you - lalalalala"?Aside from the old adage that "there are none so blind as those...
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SA - Not So Liberal After All
Not interested in politics? Not interested in how the government spends its time - and your money? Really? Think we live in a nice, quiet, safe country where all is right with the world? The government...
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Come To The Dark Side - We Have Cookies Too
Christians - you just can't seem to win with them. If you're gay, you're evil. If you're not religious, you're evil. If you're an atheist, you're a "willing pawn of the devil". If you believe in...
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Blasphemous Rumors
I know I have been quiet lately, but it's just because I've taken the weekend off. Honest. Rumors of my being raptured are greatly exaggerated - in fact, I am still here, and so is my underwear drawer,...
View ArticleBed-knobs And Broomsticks
If people today think of anyone who is sexual, or who enjoys sex, as "immoral", "deviant" or "undesirable" today - it is because of religious indoctrination. If we think of people who abstain from all...
View ArticleChristo-fascism Anti-fun Police At Work In SA
In recent times I began pondering more deeply about religious matters. Having come from a Christian background, I am more familiar with the way things work in what Pagans tend to describe as a "book...
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I Woke Up This Morning
I woke up this morning, alone. The space beside me, cold and empty. You should have been there, but you weren't. Your pride was too strong and you were too good for me, remember? Well, I do. How could...
View ArticleThe Blood Feud Continues...
I keep hearing the SA blood "service" whining about another blood shortage - but at the same time they continue to refuse to accept blood from people who are gay. They won't accept the perfectly good...
View ArticleA Place In The Sun
No matter what I am or what I have done, I am also just as human and just as flawed and vulnerable as anyone who thinks they are perfect, or stronger, or better than me. Nevertheless, it seems there...
View ArticleOut And About
Outing. How do you feel about it?I'm referring to the willful public exposure of individuals against their will, and without regard for their health or well-being. Quite often this is an intentional...
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The Softer They Come: Book Review Of The Declining Significance Of Homophobia...
The Declining Significance of Homophobia – How Teenage Boys Are Redefining Masculinity and Heterosexuality By Mark McCormack New York: Oxford University Press 2012.This book, The Declining...
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