Posts tagged homophobia

NoHomophobes.Com

An astonishing real time display of Tweets that include the words: Faggot, Dyke, NoHomo, So Gay is designed as a social mirror to show the prevalence of casual homophobia in society. Words and phrases like “faggot,” “dyke,” “no homo,” and “so gay” are used casually in everyday language, despite promoting the continued alienation, isolation and — in some tragic cases — suicide of sexual and gender minority (LGBTQ) youth. Tweets are streamed without review or verification. Re-posting of a Tweet is not intended to imply that the Tweeter or anyone else is homophobic. Reposting is solely for journalistic, research and public education purposes.

Homophobic? Maybe You’re Gay

“Why are political and religious figures who campaign against gay rights so often implicated in sexual encounters with same-sex partners? One theory is that homosexual urges, when repressed out of shame or fear, can be expressed as homophobia. Freud famously called this process a ‘reaction formation’… In this month’s issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, we and our fellow researchers provide empirical evidence that homophobia can result, at least in part, from the suppression of same-sex desire”

In 2010, designer Andy Chen called the Silence=Death logo “meaningless”, “effete” and even “self-stigmatizing” in his essay for Design Observer, see Not Queer, But Human. Radical fairies of yesterday were encouraged to assimilate and after watching the majority of their friends die of AIDS, encouraged by Chen to join some sort of imaginary “collective human tapestry”, and play nice. Fast forward two years, art photographer Iannis Delatolas was Gay-Bashed in Brooklyn last month. Rather courageously he didn’t stay silent, he told his story to The Village Voice, Photographer’s Gay-Bashing In Brooklyn Leads To Haunting Image, he empowered himself by making ART, and putting a still relevant graphic front and center on his chest for his latest self-portrait. Silence=Death stands the test of time, and unlike Chen’s assertion, social dissent is still powerful, even when it makes a few Gay-Bashing cowards feel a wee bit uncomfortable; and for us gay guys, still queer, even more human.

In 2010, designer Andy Chen called the Silence=Death logo “meaningless”, “effete” and even “self-stigmatizing” in his essay for Design Observer, see Not Queer, But Human. Radical fairies of yesterday were encouraged to assimilate and after watching the majority of their friends die of AIDS, encouraged by Chen to join some sort of imaginary “collective human tapestry”, and play nice.

Fast forward two years, art photographer Iannis Delatolas was Gay-Bashed in Brooklyn last month. Rather courageously he didn’t stay silent, he told his story to The Village Voice, Photographer’s Gay-Bashing In Brooklyn Leads To Haunting Image, he empowered himself by making ART, and putting a still relevant graphic front and center on his chest for his latest self-portrait. Silence=Death stands the test of time, and unlike Chen’s assertion, social dissent is still powerful, even when it makes a few Gay-Bashing cowards feel a wee bit uncomfortable; and for us gay guys, still queer, even more human.

Did Art Stealing, Santorum-supporting, Gay Hating, Urban Outfitters CEO License A T-Shirt Featuring Robert Mapplethorpe For His Store? - “The [Mapplethorpe] Foundation reps were not aware of the shirt’s sudden disappearance, but it was gone, simultaneously, everywhere. Circumstances taken into the account, yes, this seemed to have happened suspiciously fast. Hidden amidst the boobs, blunts and OBEY, had Mapplethorpe been passing as straight enough for mall-wear with that tough guy pose? Until he wasn’t, until someone figured out that man with the switchblade is the man with a bull-whip up his ass and comes with a heritage of marvelous portraiture Urban Outfitters would definitely never put on a t-shirt? Was he then quietly hidden?”

Did Art Stealing, Santorum-supporting, Gay Hating, Urban Outfitters CEO License A T-Shirt Featuring Robert Mapplethorpe For His Store? - “The [Mapplethorpe] Foundation reps were not aware of the shirt’s sudden disappearance, but it was gone, simultaneously, everywhere. Circumstances taken into the account, yes, this seemed to have happened suspiciously fast. Hidden amidst the boobs, blunts and OBEY, had Mapplethorpe been passing as straight enough for mall-wear with that tough guy pose? Until he wasn’t, until someone figured out that man with the switchblade is the man with a bull-whip up his ass and comes with a heritage of marvelous portraiture Urban Outfitters would definitely never put on a t-shirt? Was he then quietly hidden?”

John Updike’s Homophobic Book Review

David Haglund (Slate) revisits the controversy over John Updike’s homophobic review of Alan Hollinghurst’s novel The Spell. “Updike didn’t just express discomfort at the Hollinghurst’s precise, physically detailed observations about gay sex,” Haglund notes, “he actually wrote a kind of brief against gay love as a compelling novelistic subject.”

Smithsonian Air-Clearing Forum on 'Hide/Seek' Exhibition Is Anything But

“…expect a two-day exercise in misdirection, generalized obfuscation and CYA posturing…Not on the agenda: the organized protest, based on anti-gay animus from conservative Christians, that led to the censorship”

Developing Stories About The David Wojnarowicz Smithsonian Censorship Scandal - Was Smithsonian Chief G. Wayne Clough’s hasty decision to remove a video by openly gay artist David Wojnarowicz from the “Hide/Seek” show at the National Portrait Gallery following protests by Republicans and conservative Christian groups influenced by a previous run in with anti-gay religious groups and Republicans at Georgia Tech?There’s a growing consensus that Clough should resign from his position, The Washington Post notes Clough’s lack of leadership and his continued silence on the topic. Tyler Green points to the growing growing second scandal in the Wojnarowicz censorship ordeal.A Canadian artist, AA Bronson is seeking to have one of his works withdrawn in protest from a National Portrait Gallery show. The work in question is Mr. Bronson’s “Felix, June 5, 1994,” showing the corpse of Mr. Bronson’s partner shortly after he passed away of AIDS. The National Portrait Gallery is refusing. Art Fag City explores What AA Bronson Can Gain From A Smithsonian Shit-In.Hyperallergic explores the Wojnarowicz scandal and the idea that a call for censorship breeds demand and dialogue.

Developing Stories About The David Wojnarowicz Smithsonian Censorship Scandal - Was Smithsonian Chief G. Wayne Clough’s hasty decision to remove a video by openly gay artist David Wojnarowicz from the “Hide/Seek” show at the National Portrait Gallery following protests by Republicans and conservative Christian groups influenced by a previous run in with anti-gay religious groups and Republicans at Georgia Tech?

There’s a growing consensus that Clough should resign from his position, The Washington Post notes Clough’s lack of leadership and his continued silence on the topic. Tyler Green points to the growing growing second scandal in the Wojnarowicz censorship ordeal.

A Canadian artist, AA Bronson is seeking to have one of his works withdrawn in protest from a National Portrait Gallery show. The work in question is Mr. Bronson’s “Felix, June 5, 1994,” showing the corpse of Mr. Bronson’s partner shortly after he passed away of AIDS. The National Portrait Gallery is refusing. Art Fag City explores What AA Bronson Can Gain From A Smithsonian Shit-In.

Hyperallergic explores the Wojnarowicz scandal and the idea that a call for censorship breeds demand and dialogue.

The Twinkle Takeover: Gay (and Gay-Seeming) Boys on the TV and at the Mall

I have a hard time with the term “Twinkle”, it’s creepy as fuck,  and media visibility does not equal liberation for young queers. It’s still dangerous to be gay in the U.S.. no matter what so called “beacons” of hope you are finding in stereotypes.

Myth Of The 'Gay Lifestyle' Justifies Bias

LZ Granderson, senior writer and columnist for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com comments on the mythology of a gay lifestyle: “The truth is the only thing all gay people have in common — you know, besides being gay — is that we face continuous rhetorical, social and legal attacks for simply existing, thus potentially making something as mundane as bringing a date to a work function a fight-or-flee situation”

Homophobic Orson Scott Card to write comic adaption of Bioware’s LGBT-Friendly Dragon Age: Origins

Queersupe reports that IDW Publishing and EA Comics, tap outspoken Mormon Orson Scott Card to write a comic version of the very gay-friendly Dragon Age: Origins RPG from Bioware. Strange choice considering that Card is also an outspoken homophobe and bigot.

Another Homophobic Easter Egg in Modern Warfare 2 - During the early stages of the game’s campaign mode, an interchange between two US soldiers takes place, where one soldier asks if another is still gay, the second soldier responds, “No ammo, no armour” making the soldier laugh and respond with; “Ha ha ha! That’s why I’m a cold-blooded carnivorous warrior bro” I say, it’s not cool and not at all necessary, but I guess if you want realism, you got it with Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 except in real time that exchange wouldn’t be nearly as cerebral, and every other word would be pussy or fuck.

Another Homophobic Easter Egg in Modern Warfare 2 - During the early stages of the game’s campaign mode, an interchange between two US soldiers takes place, where one soldier asks if another is still gay, the second soldier responds, “No ammo, no armour” making the soldier laugh and respond with; “Ha ha ha! That’s why I’m a cold-blooded carnivorous warrior bro” I say, it’s not cool and not at all necessary, but I guess if you want realism, you got it with Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 except in real time that exchange wouldn’t be nearly as cerebral, and every other word would be pussy or fuck.