Comments on: Gay men attacked on Ore. beach

By: DeAnimator

DeAnimator — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 05:39:59 +0000

No one cares because people aren’t afraid of the queer community. We’re a joke. We’ve become completely commodified. How many younger queers even remember what Stonewall WAS?!

Blacks did not get equal rights (though they are hardly treated as equals by American society) with just MLK. They needed Malcolm X too.

Next time you’re walking down the street with your partner and someone uses a slur, do something about it. Take their picture, put it online. Call them out. Do ANYTHING. If we don’t care, why should heterosexual society at large?

By: Ken

Ken — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:36:30 +0000

Hey anti-American Taliban. Just for the record, I’m not from Canada. Never even been there. So my words aren’t “holier-than-thou” in any way. I was just pointing out that AFTER gay marriage was allowed in Canada, the sky didn’t fall. Society didn’t collapse. What happened there is an exemplary tale for all those small-minded dimwits living in the US who are preventing that country from achieving greatness and becoming a true world leader. A leader in morlaity and not military might. In the area of human rights for all citizens, it is far, far behind many other western countries. It is not “the greatest”, nor a “world leader” in this context. And while hatred is so pervasive in US society, the country will never emerge from the quagmire it finds itself in.
And as for homophobic violence in Canada, well, that had nothing whatsoever to do with my post. Where did that come from? There is homophobic violence all over the world. Just as there is racial violence, culture violence, religious violence, gender violence, etc, etc, etc.

By: AntiAmericanTaliban

AntiAmericanTaliban — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 04:49:56 +0000

Ken,

I read just not long ago about a psycho chopping a man’s head off on a bus and cutting his body up into parts?

Also, funny thing is when I was in Toronto a few times, I had incidents. I heard a guy on a bike and a guy that almost hit him in a car, yelling obscenity and calling each other “FAGGOTS”

so you may wanna tone down the “greater than thou” I’m from Canada bit! Really.

You all didn’t get Marriage equality “LONG AGO” not like the Netherlands and Denmark. Even there they have their NUTS!

I also have friends from Vancouver that say the same thing that Kerry said.

Furthermore, with marriage equality in Canada, you all didn’t have your rights up for vote by the masses… Good thing for you because you would NOT have it if so, I can GUARANTY that! Most of Canada would have voted against it as well!

Nonetheless, America is backwater with the Religious Taliban the root of most of its backwardness!

By: DeGuyz in Mississippi

DeGuyz in Mississippi — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:51:56 +0000

As a native of Portland, i am aware of the hate that is in that state. I was cloaked so most didn’t have the mentality to realize I was gay. They need to raise the bar and start prosecuting on the federal levels. Sue the state for not enforcing federal hate crime laws and maybe they will get the point. I hope these guys are okay.

By: phillena

phillena — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:09:56 +0000

It is sad that in 2009 there is still so much hate going around. It disgusts me! They [homophobics] think that we are after theam and we are not. We just want to live our lives and be happy like everyone else. Geesh!!

I hope to God that they find the dirtbags that did this. That is wrong that they would assalut someone because of their sexual orientation. They deserved to be imprisoned!!!

They did to broadcast this nationaly because their is still naivity in the nation’s views on gaybashing. It happens and it NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED

By: Gray Coyote

Gray Coyote — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:39:29 +0000

Armed Gays Don’t Get Bashed.

By: Gray Coyote

Gray Coyote — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:38:52 +0000

Armed Guys Don’t Get Bashed.

By: Kris

Kris — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 04:17:17 +0000

I hope they do catch the “animals” that did this, but if it’s like everywhere, especially in the U.S.A., they’ll probably just get a smack on the hand and community service.

By: CHARLIE

CHARLIE — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:13:05 +0000

Ken Hi guy…Capital Punishment (Death Penalty) is “barbaric”? But 50 or 60 years in a cell with NO HOPE of ever getting out, every day the same routine, the result madness! Or, cruel and unusual punishment? Which BTW the Supremes have ruled the death penalty is not! I say “kill them all-god will know its own!” Care to step to the front Debby?

By: Roger

Roger — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:45:12 +0000

As with other beatings, murders, etc. that happen to minorities, every clergyperson, politician, and citizen who has ever uttered hate words against any minority is just as responsible for this one as the ignorant thugs who actually did the beating. You preach hate and of course the thugs are encouraged to more violence. Probably the most sad are the clergy spewing hate from the pulpit in the name of “Christian Regigion.” Hate is NOT a Christian trait! Thinking people know this—the easily led and ignorant don’t, and these brutal crimes are the result.