Petition for the lives of Hamzeh and Loghman: two young gay men who are in love and who risk the death sentence in Iran. .. continue reading ..

Prinz Harry, eine der königlichen Witzfiguren aus den Königreich der großen Briten und Nordiren, lässt, ganz der Großpapa, immer mal wieder dumme Sprüche los. In 2006 (das dazugehörige Video wurde erst jetzt zu Geld gemacht):

Prince Harry, a serving Army officer, apologised earlier this week after a Sunday tabloid revealed footage of him taken in 2006 while in training in which he questioned whether a fellow soldier was feeling “gay” or “a bit queer on the side” following an exhausting task.

Darauf empört sich Ben Summerskill, neuerdings von der Queen mit einer hübschen Anstecknadel versehen:

Ben Summerskill, chief executive of gay equality organisation Stonewall, has expressed upset at Prince Harry’s comments and drawn attention to the damaging effect that these derogatory comments can have in the long-run. .. continue reading ..

The Guardian berichtet:

A gay version of the Bible, in which God says it is better to be gay than straight, is to be published by an American film producer.

New Mexico-based Revision Studios will publish The Princess Diana Bible – so named because of Diana’s “many good works”, it says – online at princessdianabible.com in spring 2009. A preview of Genesis is already available, in which instead of creating Adam and Eve, God creates Aida and Eve.

“And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Aida, and she slept: and he took one of her ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; and the rib, which the Lord God had taken from woman, made he another woman, and brought her unto the first. And Aida said, ‘This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of me. Therefore shall a woman leave her mother, and shall cleave unto her wife: and they shall be one flesh.’ And they were both naked, the woman and her wife, and were not ashamed.”

Mit einigem Entsetzten stellt sich mir die Frage: .. continue reading ..

Der kleine Prince, alt gewordener Quieker aus den USA, hat ein Interview gegeben (braucht er wieder mal Geld?).  Er verkündet (Zeugen Jehovas sind ja immer Verkünder, seit sieben Jahren ist Prince Vertreter dieser Glaubensvariante):

So here’s how it is: you’ve got the Republicans, and basically they want to live according to this.” He pointed to a Bible. “But there’s the problem of interpretation, and you’ve got some churches, some people, basically doing things and saying it comes from here, but it doesn’t. And then on the opposite end of the spectrum you’ve got blue, you’ve got the Democrats, and they’re, like, ‘You can do whatever you want.’ Gay marriage, whatever. But neither of them is right.” .. continue reading ..

Die Not des Gordon Brown muss groß sein. Er holt Peter Mandelson zurück an den Londoner Kabinettstisch.

Einfach nur schön…

A Tale of Two Homecoming Princes