Tag Archives: hate speech

Pam’s House Blend contributor Autumn Sandeen and fellow trans-advocate Kim Pearson will appear on Sacramento’s KRXQ radio station this Thursday after the station’s hosts apologized for saying last week that they would beat transgender behavior out of their kids. The station suffered a massive pull-back in advertiser support after trans and gay bloggers took their outrage to the media. The …

Radio host Michael Savage says he’s going to sue UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith for defamation after she included him on list of persons banned from visiting the country. UK tabloid Daily Mail: Michael Savage, who has up to 10 million listeners, branded Home Secretary Jacqui Smith a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘witch’ after being named alongside hate preachers and a …

In what British tabloids are describing with headlines like “Gay Hate Jokes Get Banned”, the attempt to decriminalize anti-gay speech in the UK has failed. The government has defeated an amendment in the House of Commons that would have created a defence of “free speech” in a bill that is designed to criminalise incitement of hatred in relation to sexual …

Relevant to my earlier post today about hate speech laws in the UK, today Northern Ireland member of Parliament Iris Robinson escaped charges for calling homosexuality an abomination. The case has festered for nearly a year as LGBT groups lobbied for Robinson to be charged. The Public Prosecution Service (PPS) in Northern Ireland confirmed today it was not proceeding with …

In 2008 it became a crime in England and Wales to incite hatred on the grounds of sexual orientation. Under the law, the hateful action must be threatening, not merely insulting or abusive. Now the House of Lords is considering widening that law to cover less than physically threatening speech. Rowan Atkinson, the man most of us know as Mr. …

(Via Rebecca Armendariz @ Washington Blade)

A columnist in Canada’s gay magazine Xtra has come out in support of a move by MP Keith Martin to remove the provision against hate speech from the Canada Human Rights Act. Brenda Cossman: [T]he best way to get your opinions about offensive speech into the paper is to bring a human rights complaint trying to censor the offensive speech. …

The British government has announced new rules that will bar those spreading “extremism, hatred, and violence” from entering the UK, including religious leaders and musicians who preach hatred against homosexuals. The new measures include a “name and shame” tactic of sharing the list of those banned with other countries. Under the new system, any foreign citizen whose arrival here is …

Independent candidate for the Canadian parliament David Popescu told a high school debate audience yesterday that he recommended that gays be executed. Canadian authorities are investigating and may charge Popescu with a hate crime. David Popescu was invited to participate in a federal candidates’ discussion at Sudbury Secondary School on Tuesday. He made the comment after a student asked his …

The ACLU has taken on the case of gay men who were called “faggots” by the employees of a Kentucky McDonald’s. Ryan Marlatt, Teddy Eggers, and three other friends had stopped for lunch at the McDonald’s restaurant on July 26, 2008, while visiting Louisville for the weekend. While they waited for their food to be prepared, an employee behind the …

Wow, that little Sally Kern clip tossed out by the Victory Fund last week really took off on the intrawebs with the video getting over 400,000 views in just a few days. Kern told her fellow Oklahoma legislators that she’s already received more than 5000 emails including a few death threats. A state lawmaker who declared that homosexuality is a …

Britain will consider making it illegal to incite violence against gays. Gay hate speech is already outlawed in Canada and France. American Christianists have been using examples of hate speech prosecutions in those countries to mobilize their side against all LGBT rights advancements in the U.S., claiming that soon Christians in the U.S. could be sent to jail for condemning …

Luisa Fernanda, a television personality on Miami’s popular Spanish-language Cotorreando show, has been fired by the station’s parent company, Telemundo, for inadvertently using a disparaging slang word for gay men. Fernanda, who is Mexican, did not know that in Cuban Spanish the word for grouper, “cherna”, is considered a pejorative term for a gay man. Telemundo fired Fernanda on June …

Blogs are buzzing this morning after a gay couple in the Fort Lauderdale airport heard the following intercom announcement at the baggage carousel: “‘A man who lies with another man as he would a woman is subject to death.” The announcement, which came at 12:45am, was repeated several minutes later. I wrote to a friend who runs one of the …

An 18 year old girl is suing her former school district in California for violating her right to free speech when they disciplined her in 2002 for saying “That’s so gay!”, when classmates teased her for being Mormon by asking if she had ten moms. The Santa Rosa School District had adopted a strict hate speech policy after two students …

Thanks to an avalanche of complaints from good folks like you, gentle reader, Google has deleted Kill Batty Man, the Jamaica-based anti-gay blog that spurned so much discussion here last Friday. Some of you forwarded me copies of your passionate emails to Google and I salute your work. Well done, Google, for making the call.

KeyWord Ministries lost its last bid to repost its anti-gay billboard in Staten Island yesterday, when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the case. The signs, which went up briefly in 2000, quoted everybody’s favorite Leviticus passage in four different ways, and were removed by the sign company after the borough ruled that the sign was “essentially hate speech”, …