Yesterday, thousands of people marched in the streets of Cape Town during that city's annual gay pride parade. The participants called attention to the homophobia and oppression gays and lesbians face in Africa. As has been reported here in the past, a "kill the gays" bill has been introduced in Uganda and two men in Malawai were imprisoned last year for marrying in a symbolic wedding last.  ...

With this amazing 700 Club segment exposé about life on the down low, screencap queen Rich of FourFour offers up yet more evidence that homophobia is completely faggy! (Watch for the cameo by Divine at the end!) Thanks to Bobo for the tip! ...

Cooking up homophobia on "Big Brother Brasil," Marcelo Dourado needs to go, and you can make it happen. From meu amigo and co-blogger Kevin comes this call to arms: Attention to my American friends: There is a huge favor for... ...

On February 19th 2010, The Justin Campaign are launching an initiative, Football v Homophobia, to raise awareness of homophobia in amateur and professional football; to unite clubs, players and fans internationally by using the game of football to bring communities together in opposing hate and intolerance in the world’s favourite sport.The Justin Campaign believe that to tackle homophobia in football effectively a collective show of opposition needs to be made by all involved to get a message of zero tolerance across to the perpetrators of homophobic insults and abuse.They intend that Football v Homophobia on Feb 19th will become ...

Sarah Schulman joins Laura Flanders at the GRITtv studio to talk about homophobia in the family and more. Sarah Schulman, (Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences) notes that what she calls “familial homophobia” is a common experience that almost every gay person experiences. More importantly, she stresses that instead of dealing with this individually, [...] ...

  Several dozen Parisian activists held a kiss-in against homophobia for five minutes on rue Caumartin near the Printemps shopping center during the busy holiday shopping rush on Saturday afternoon. A similar demonstration was held in the city in September.Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...  ...

Drag queens in ads: would that provoke more sissyphobia from gay men than homophobia from heterosexuals? ...

In an interview with Fuse, Lady Gaga strikes out at homophobia in the music industry.Says Gaga: "I feel even just in the music industry that there's very public misogynistic and homophobic behavior. When I hear one of the most famous rappers in the world say something homophobic on the radio, I want people to yell at him. I don't have to say who because they know who they are. It's not just hip-hop, it's everywhere. It's wrong. I'm not trying to create and generate more hatred in the world...I just want to generate awareness. It's always wrong to hate ...

Carrie Prejean's breast enlargement surgery and sex video contradict her spoken morality. ...

Okay, so the PR people for the Upright Citizen's Brigade sent me this Saw parody clip this morning. Normally I wouldn't post something that is so painfully unfunny, but I am curious whether you think I'm overreacting by being slightly offended by it in addition to not LOLing? I don't know, it's just kind of like if you want to go ahead and make your casually homophobic parody sketches feel free to do so, but if you must do this could you keep the clips to yourself and your community of pubeless fratboys friends? Having your PR people send them ...

For the second time in as many days, the Mail publishes an opinion piece condemning homophobia (and this one actually mentions Jan Moir's column) in an attempt to repair its reputation... but still refuses to apologise or recognise that there was anything wrong with Jan Moir's column. It was just an "honest opinion."Obvious here is the desire for the Mail to separate it's own routine dehumanisation of gay people - not merely by columnists offering their "honest opinions" but by the newsdesk - from the people who act (violently) on the basis of those beliefs.We might tell you ...

An activist group released a slickly-produced and intentionally shocking video to YouTube this weekend in which one of the thousands of people who attended a Sept. 25 “Muslim Day of Prayer” in Washington, DC is prompted by a member of the activist group to say that he believes Islamic sharia law requires execution of homosexuals. “Sharia is the law of the Muslims, the constitution,” the man tells an activist for the group ACT! for America. The man responds “of course” when asked if he thinks sharia should be “the law of America.” The activist then leads ...

Activists staged a kiss-in to combat homophobia on Saturday in Forum des Halles, an underground shopping center in Paris. The action lasted approximately 5 minutes.Watch a video, AFTER THE JUMP...And for a small gallery of photos of participants, check out phillipe leroyer's flickr page.(image above phillipe leroyer) ...