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Gay
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Europe’s First Transsexual MP Takes Her Seat In Parliament
09 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Yesterday was a big day for European politics, with Poland welcoming their first transsexual woman ever into its parliament. Anna Grodzka was born a man but underwent a sex change. She was also joined by Robert Biedron – the country’s first openly gay man to be elected to office.
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Conan O’Brien Presides Over Late Night Television’s First Gay Marriage
07 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Conan O’Brien returned to New York last week for the first time since his falling out with the NBC – not only to rub his recent success in his former employers’ collective faces, but also to preside over the first same-sex marriage performed on late-night television. Because I guess that’s worth making a big deal over.
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UCT Ikeys Rugby Captain Invites Gay Players To Join Club [VIDEO]
11 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
It Gets Better is a viral video campaign begun in the States in response to a horrific string of teenage suicides last year. Watch this video of Nick Fenton-Wells, the captain of the Ikey Tigers at the University of Cape Town, urging gay players not to be afraid to get involved in sports at UCT.
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Google Gets Its Gaydar On
30 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Is there anything Google can’t do? Between mapping the world (and the moon), interior designing the internet or digitizing every part of your work life, Google seems to have it all covered, and now US netizens can even access a Google application that makes a best guess at someone’s sexual preference.
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Clint Comes Out Guns Blazing For Gay Marriage
16 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Hollywood veteran Clint Eastwood is notoriously inscrutable about a lot of topics. This time however, Dirty Harry came out firing for gay marriage, or, to be specific, against those opposed to same-sex nuptials.
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Do You Bert, Take Ernie?
12 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
With all the hoo-hah surrounding gay marriage being legalised in New York state in July, a petition has been started online to get long-time muppet ‘bro’s’ Bert and Ernie from Sesame Street to the marriage altar.
A couple of thousand people have indicated their desire to see the two hitched after a forty year TV bromance. Cue the religious right nearly exploding with fury… but a deeper question troubles this writer.
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Insert Poop Joke Here, And It’s Vatican Toilet Paper
11 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
A company called Renova has released a special edition, perfumed toilet paper in the colours of the Vatican flag to ‘honour’ Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Spain next week. Moisturizer, paper towels and black toilet paper are among the other holy cosmetics the company has produced.
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Sao Paolo Judge Approves Brazil’s First Gay Marriage
29 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
After New York, every subsequent gay marriage approval is going to seem less exciting, but this is still a thing. Judge Fernando Henrique Pinto ruled that two men could convert their civil union into a full marriage, a right that’s been lobbeyed for since the Supreme Court recognized same-sex civil unions in May, but stopped short of approving marriage.
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Wedding Crashed By Groom’s Boyfriend [VIDEO]
17 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Sometimes, the truth really is stranger than fiction. This video – filmed at a wedding in China – features a bride, her groom, and… his boyfriend. The latter basically rocked up to crash the wedding. And crash it he does. High-pitched screeching from all involved ensues, until the groom is forced to make a decision. I promise you won’t be able to guess how it ends!
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Facebook Thinks Photos Of Dudes Kissing Is Bad, Apparently
18 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Richard Metzger, television host and author, recently received an email from Facebook letting him know that a photo of his had been taken down for violating “Facebook’s Statement of Rights and Responsibilities,” which prohibits “nudity, or any kind of graphic or sexually suggestive content.” The photo in question was of two men kissing.
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Oh Honey, This Is How You DO NOT Get The Gay Vote
17 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Chris Rock reckons that all of us have at least one gay uncle. If that is the case, the ACDP and FF+, might have just lost a lot of votes in the upcoming elections. A motion for Parliament to congratulate South Africa’s new Mr. Gay World winner, Francois Nel, has been blocked by these two parties. Gaga is not going to be happy about this.
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How Gay Is Your Favourite Band?
08 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
“And you can tell everybody, he is your boyfriend.” See what I did there? Kids today can’t actually remember a time when Elton John still pretended to be straight. But times have changed, and this list of the Top 50 Gay Male Musicians includes members of Vampire Weekend, Bloc Party, and Sigur Rós.
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Spud Milton Pens Open Letter To Judge Edwin Cameron
16 Jan 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
By now you will be well aware of the letter Constitutional Court Justice Edwin Cameron sent to Ross Garland, the producer of Spud the Movie, based on John van de Ruit’s highly successful novel, Spud. Well, would you believe it, Spud, the actual character from the book, has hit back, with some words of his […]
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