Tag Archives: homosexuality

Bathhouse Art

A new book about Michelangelo speculates that his inspiration for all the nude male figures in the Sistine Chapel’s Last Judgment mural came from his frequent visits to Rome’s gay bathhouses and brothels. Elena Lazzarini, a researcher from Pisa University, believes the enormous fresco is replete with homosexual imagery, including a man being dragged into Damnation by his testicles and …

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SAUDI ARABIA: Man Sentenced To 500 Lashes And 5 Years In Prison For Gay Sex

A Saudi court has sentenced a man accused of having gay sex to 500 lashes and five years in prison. The 27 year-old man, who was arrested by the kingdom’s religious police, was also convicted of publishing photos on the internet and on mobile phones of himself wearing women’s underwear, the newspaper reported without giving his name. The court fined …

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New Survey: 8% Gay, 7% Lesbian

In what they are calling the “largest nationally representative study of sexual and sexual-health behaviors ever fielded,” a just-released survey commissioned by Indiana University says that 8% of adult American men self-identify as gay or bisexual, with 7% of women identifying as lesbian or bisexual. Those numbers are almost triple the percentages claimed by some anti-gay groups. ABC News takes …

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The Homosexual Menace

The follow-up to The Perils Of Lesbianity. (Tipped by JMG reader Dana)

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NEW STUDY: Gay Men Remember Faces Better Than Straight Men Do

According to a study conducted by Toronto’s York University, gay men are more adept at remembering faces than straight men. Because we use our brains like women do. The study, published in the journal, Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition, examined the influence of gender, sexual orientation and whether we’re right-or-left-handed on our ability to recognize faces. It found …

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HomoQuotable – Mark Simpson

“After a decade or so of metrosexuality a tipping point seems to have been reached. Men’s self-loving bi-sensuality and appreciation of male beauty, awakened and increasingly normalised by our mediated world, seems to be here to stay. Even in the God-fearing USA. And might now, if it’s in the mood and treated right, choose to be consummated rather than just …

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The Condemned

French journalist Philippe Castetbon contacted men living in countries where homosexuality is against the law and asked them to provide a “self-portrait and a personal text, words of fear and anger.” Castetbon has turned their responses into a book, Les Condamnés.

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CA Assembly Ends Search For “Gay Cure”

By unanimous vote, the California Assembly has repealed the archaic law requiring research into a “cure” for homosexuality. Part of a decades-old state law that characterized homosexuality as a sexual deviation that must be cured is no longer on the books. The law was written in 1950 and classifies gay people as sexual deviants. It requires the state to conduct …

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Everywhere But Here

The percentage of people saying homosexuality is “never justifiable” is diving in all the countries surveyed. Including here, until starting around 2000, thanks to Karl Rove and the Bush II years. Still, I suppose we should at least by heartened by the overall change since the survey began. (Via – Andrew Sullivan)

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New UN President Ali Abdussalam Treki Calls Homosexuality “Not Acceptable”

The just-installed Libyan president of the United Nations, Ali Abdusalam Treki, told reporters at a press conference that he considers homosexuality to be “not really acceptable” after being asked about the recent UN resolution calling for its global decriminalization. Treki said: “That matter is very sensitive, very touchy. As a Muslim, I am not in favour of it . . …

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Is Your Hair Gay?

The Guardian UK has picked up on a 2004 study into how hair whorls on men may predict sexual orientation. Old news, to be sure, but still fascinating. It seems that about four times as many gay men have a counter-clockwise whorl as the general public. (I’m sure a lot of British moms ran to check their boys’ heads after …

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Moderate Muslim Scholars: Homosexuality Is Natural And From God

At a conference on Islam held in Indonesia, moderate Muslim scholars issued a statement calling homosexuality normal and created by God. Moderate Muslim scholars said there were no reasons to reject homosexuals under Islam, and that the condemnation of homosexuals and homosexuality by mainstream ulema and many other Muslims was based on narrow-minded interpretations of Islamic teachings. Siti Musdah Mulia …

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How To Never Be Wrong About Gays

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HomoQuotable – Dan Savage

“Boys are ‘made homosexual,’ [Pat] Robertson says, ‘because of a coach or a guidance counselor or some other male figure… abused them.’ As a thought experiment let’s concede the point: homosexuals are made, not born (with the exception of the few of us with ‘biological problems’). Who do you suppose is making homosexuals out of kids from fundamentalist Christian homes? …

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More Lies From World Net Daily

Via World Net Daily: A publication from the American Psychological Association includes an admission that there is no “gay” gene, according to a doctor who has written about the issue on the website of National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality. A. Dean Byrd, the past president of NARTH, confirmed that the statement from the American Psychological Association came …

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