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“I am disgusted and appalled by Tracy Morgan’s homophobic rant. The devastating repercussions of hate-filled language manifest in very real ways for today’s LGBTQ youth. I’ve known Tracy for two years, spent many long hours with him on set, and I want to believe that this behavior is not at the core of who he is. I’m incredibly disappointed by …

“The violent imagery of Tracy’s rant was disturbing to me at a time when homophobic hate crimes continue to be a life-threatening issue for the GLBT Community. It also doesn’t line up with the Tracy Morgan I know, who is not a hateful man and is generally much too sleepy and self-centered to ever hurt another person. I hope for …

GLAAD tweeted back: “Language about stabbing kids for being gay isn’t ‘foul.’ It’s dangerous.”

UPDATE: Morgan has apologized via this brief statement: “I want to apologize to my fans and the gay & lesbian community for my choice of words at my recent stand-up act in Nashville. I’m not a hateful person and don’t condone any kind of violence against others. While I am an equal opportunity jokester, and my friends know what is …

Blabbeando blogger Andres Duque has transcribed NY Sen. Ruben Diaz’ appearance on Pura Politica, some of which I excerpted here yesterday. In the below clip, host Juan Manuel Benitez plays a 2009 interview segment in which Diaz compares being gay to having sex with animals, a position Diaz then defends. Start at around 6:00.

Igor Volsky at Think Progress reports the words of Rev. Ariel Torres Ortega of Radio Visión Cristiana, who spoke at Sen. Ruben Diaz’ hate rally in the Bronx yesterday. Ortega’s speech was being translated into English from the podium, hence the odd wording below. “Committing sexual acts between man and man. And receiving the retribution of the things that they …

Pastor James White of Arizona’s Alpha & Omega Ministries has posted a vicious response attacking Minnesota state Rep. Steve Simon, who last week asked “How many more gay people does God have to create before we accept that he wants them around?” White says that gay people will stop at nothing to get at the defenseless children of Christians. You’ll …

The UK Guardian reports: As the video shows, the rhetoric of the protesters became increasingly venomous toward the families and children who came to attend the ICNA Relief fundraising dinner. Protesters shouted invective statements such as “Go home terrorist,” “Muhammad is a pervert, Muhammad is a child molester,” “Go home and beat your wife, she needs a good beating,” at …

“The purpose is not just to prevent Massachusetts people coming down. It’s also to put a big letter of shame on the behavior. We don’t want them here. We don’t want them marrying. If you’re going to do it in San Francisco, it’s your own business. Bet it will pass with over 60 percent. The public in my opinion knows …

In a joint move with the National Hispanic Coalition, GLAAD announced today that it is filing an FCC complaint against the Spanish-language show, Jose Luis sin Censura, which routinely features anti-LGBT hate speech and has encouraged audience members to attack gay guests on the program. In over twenty episodes that aired between June 18 and December 7, 2010, the program …

An anti-gay Islamist group is accused of peppering East London with stickers declaring the area to be a “gay-free zone.” The stickers include the warning: “Fear Allah.” Pictures of the stickers were sent in by a local resident, who said he tried to remove them. He told PinkNews.co.uk: “Tower Hamlets council won praise from Stonewall for its LGBT friendliness, but …

On Tuesday, American Family Association radio host Bryan Fischer announced that Native Americans were “morally disqualified from sovereign control of American soil” because they had rejected attempts to convert them to Christianity. That may have finally been just a little too extreme for Fischer’s bosses at the AFA. Right Wing Watch reports: The Native American Rights Fund said Fischer’s comments …

Two British men have been charged with violating a new law against inciting anti-gay hatred. Razwan Javed, 30, and Kabir Ahmed, 27, were accused of handing out leaflets called ‘The Death Penalty?’ outside a Derby mosque. It reportedly said that gay people should be executed and the pair are also accused of pushing it through letterboxes. The pair were reportedly …

Yesterday Ugandan LGBT activist David Kato was bludgeoned to death in his home just weeks after his photo was emblazoned on the cover of a local newspaper with the accompanying headline “HANG THEM!” The newspaper articles and Kato’s murder came after months of international outrage over Uganda’s proposed and still-pending “kill gays” bill, legislation that orders the death penalty for …

Florida’s Pastor Terry Jones has been banned from entering Britain over his unfulfilled plan to burn Korans in protest of the mosque proposed to be built near the former site of the World Trade Center. Speaking after the UK’s Home Office announced it would not allow him to enter the UK, he insisted he was not against Muslims or Islam, …

In 2005 former male prostitute and Christian “ex-gay” activist Bill Whatcott, the Canadian version of James Hartline, was found to have violated Saskatchewan’s hate speech law after he stuffed residential mailboxes with pamphlets describing gay men as “filthy pedophiles” and “sodomites.” Last year Whatcott successfully appealed his conviction. Yesterday Canada’s Supreme Court agreed to hear Whatcott’s challenge to the very …

(Via – Right Wing Watch)

Pink News reports that as part of the BBC’s story on the birth of Elton John’s son, the network took an “opposing view” from a Christianist who has publicly endorsed Uganda’s plan to execute homosexuals. With the introduction “not everyone is pleased to see such a high profile same sex couple start to raise a surrogate child”, Mr Mzimba proceeded …

Good As You tips us to the latest musical entry from one of God’s Gentle People™ who uses images from Porno Pete’s site to illustrate his tune about “Filthy Faggots” who are all going to die from bleeding rectums. Or something. (Hey, yours truly is Filthy Faggot #1! Whee!) Wanna bet Porno Pete doesn’t disavow this usage of his material? …