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Taste the Rainbow, Bitches!

Bad joke from a colleague:

Q: What does a gay drive-by shooting look like?
A: A bunch of guys in a pink Ford Focus throwing Skittles out the window, screaming “Taste the rainbow, bitches!”

There’s been an awful lot in the press lately about the relationship between the Obama administration and gays (specifically, that there really isn’t one).

Andy [...]

Two More Youths to be Executed in Iran …

… and the queer blogosphere is abuzz with the possibility that the sentence might be for consensual homosexual activity.

Regardless of whether or not this is true — it’s hard to tell in Iran what someone’s true crime is — let’s take a look at the punishment: the executions will be carried out by [...]

No Homos Here, Neither …

Two men have received the first round of their allotted 7,000 lashes for the crime of sodomy in the city of Baaha, in southwestern Saudi Arabia, the Australian News Network reports. Andy Towle picked up the story and ran it this morning — you can even see my comment there, right before the discussion [...]

There’s no Ketchup in Australia, either …

According to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, there are no homosexuals in Iran, and anyone who says otherwise — such as the state run news agency who reported on the hanging of two teenaged boys charged with homosexual conduct — is lying about it.

Interestingly, when Ahmadinejad made this comment to a (probably mostly heterosexual) audience at [...]

Love: So What?

Here’s an interesting video clip out of Egypt, of all places (probably NSFW) called الحب: وماله؟ (Love: So What?).

The captions read: Love: So What? / Love before marriage / is not a shame. / Love, Egypt!

Pretty daring stuff, given its intended audience…