Via a wonderful little piece on the semantics behind our love lives, our pal Jim Burroway has informed us that today is the 140th birthday of the term "homosexuality": Today In History: The Love That Dares Not Speak Its Name Gets A Name [Box Turtle Bulletin] In lieu of presents, the term is asking that everyone give it the gift of shutting the f**k up about its supposedly controversial existence. ...

Those of you who have read Towleroad for a while may remember the story of 16-year-old Zach Stark, the teenager who made headlines back in June 2005 when he announced on his MySpace blog that he had told his parents he was gay and they were sending him to the Christian fundamentalist "ex-gay" therapy "Love in Action" camp in Memphis, Tennessee. Zach's story was followed closely that year through his release at the end of July. For the first time, in some pre-release footage from the feature-length documentary This Is What Love In Action Looks Like we hear from ...

On his church’s website today Rev. Ken Hutcherson posted the following: Tuesday, 29 April 2008 Praise for the Day of Silence outcome! Whether they blame me or credit me, the fact of the matter is over 600 students, almost half the student body at Mt. Si were kept home by their parents on the Day of Silence. The school officials must realize they have some very unhappy parents. Last night I met with the NAACP. Please pray for wisdom for them as they discuss what their move will be in response to the Mt. Si ...

In the Box Turtle Bulletin’s The Heterosexual Agenda: Exposing The Myths, Jim Burroway satirically illustrates how heterosexual militant activists are destroying society. Here’s yet another example. Josef Fritzl locked his 18 year old daughter in the basement so he could continue having sex with her… in 1984. She, and the children he subsequently fathered, have been there since. Upstairs, his wife never noticed. Which all goes to show just why you can’t trust heterosexuals with marriage or children. ...

On Box Turtle Bulletin I had a very brief argument with someone named David who could not believe that a fundamentalist crackpot once told me on Usenet that the Golden Rule gave him the right to harass gay people.  David assured me that he had argued with them over on BeliefNet over the course [...] ...