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Gay art exhibit censored after protests

logointern2 — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 13:00:15 +0000

A gay exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Portraiture Gallery in Washington has raised ire amongst conservative circles, as a video in the exhibit features a shot of a crucifix crawling with(...)

Withers: Apple wants to be Big Brother

James Withers — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:51:32 +0000

If you have an iPad (hate you), try not to look at anything remotely related to gay sex. It offends our Apple overlords.

The behemoth has stepped in the censorship waters by originally(...)

Ruby-Sachs: Jersey Shore Gay Slurs

ERubySachs — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:05:08 +0000

I never thought of the characters on Jersey Shore as particularly gay-friendly individuals. Given the number of bar fights they get into, I wouldn’t want to run into any of them, even if I had(...)

Censorship in Turkey

logointern2 — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:07:44 +0000

Turkey’s English Daily Newspaper, the Hurriyet, reported earlier this week that two of the nation’s largest gay and lesbian internet communities, hadigayri.com and gabile.com, have been shut(...)

Lithuania president slams anti-gay censorship bill

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:00:43 +0000

(Stockholm) Lithuania’s new president on Thursday criticized a censorship bill passed by lawmakers in the Baltic country that aims to keep information about homosexuality away from(...)

Atwood boycotts book fest over gay censorship

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:16:28 +0000

(Dubai) Author Margaret Atwood has pulled out of an international Dubai literary festival after organizers banned a forthcoming novel by a British author because it contains references to(...)

Catholic Group Denounces Homoerotic Religious Art

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 05:00:53 +0000

(New York City) A Roman Catholic watchdog group is protesting a student art exhibition in which religious symbols including a crucifix and rosary are depicted in sexually explicit paintings. “I have the sneaking suspicion that these paintings made the cut precisely because they were an assault on Catholic sensibilities,” Bill Donahue, president of the Catholic [...]