A
week after South Africa saw its first same-sex couple
married -- in their
game-ranger outfits (pictured above) -- an anti-gay Zimbabwe official has caused
a hailstorm of controversy when he taunted members of the South African
government, calling them
gay in front of 60 delegates.
Jumping on the gay marriage bandwagon, a soap opera in South Africa
wasted no time working a same-sex wedding episode into its storyline, though
they kept it out of a church and made the ceremony strictly secular, which the
pious men over at the Queerty blog took as a bit of a
slap:
"Heart-warming. Things would be different if we were producing, to be sure. First of all, we'd not only have a priest, but a leather daddy priest who spoke only in tongues. Then, instead of kissing, the men would fist each other as their respective families looked on in horror. The reception, of course, would be held in a dungeon of inequity and at least one character would be kidnapped by a meth-mad drag queen.
Good thing we don't work in television, huh?"
Um, that would be a "Yes."
Meanwhile, the Canadian Parliament voted to keep gay marriage intact. There's nothing inherently weird about that, it's just that every time I think about gay marriage in Canada my mind always goes to the country's royal anthem of 'God Save the Queen' and I think: there are no coincidences.
And finally, the BritishWeb site Pink News rags on 'American Idol' and 'Dreamgirls' debutante Jennifer Hudson for an anti-gay remark she made, but then forgives her. Pink News then goes on to get giddy about "straight celebs [splitting] while gay marriages thrive." I guess they forgot that it's splits-ville for Lance and Reichen and, oh yeah, Britain's about to usher in its first legal gay divorce.
Can gay versions of crazy-ass wedding toppers be far behind?
photo: apictureperfectwedding.com
4 comments:
BEING GAY, DOES NOT MAKE YOU STRANGE, IT MAKES THE WORLD THE WAY GOD MADE THE UNIVERSE.
I DID NOT CHOSE MY LIFE, GOD DID AND IF YOU DON'T BELIVE IN HUMAN BEINGS THEN WHO THE HELL MADE YOU.
LOVE EVERYONE, NOT JUST WHO YOU CHOSE TO LOVE. OUR GOD LOVES EVERYONE BECAUSE YOU ARE ONLY ALIVE BECAUSE GOD MADE YOU AND NOT YOU. GOD GAVE YOU A BRAIN, NOW USE IT FILLED WITH LOVE GOD GAVE YOU A BRAIN SO USE IT TO LOVE EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!.
Gay people r people 2, love is love and marriage is a bond not just between straights but same sex also....
It won't be long before the U.S. is the very last civilized nation on earth that treats its LGBT folk as second-class citizens. We were last in racial equity (i.e., the abolition of slavery), and next to last in women's suffrage. For all our talk about being the "land of the free," it always seems to shake out this way. Eventually, we'll change our ways out of embarrassment -- and a generation later, the event will be heralded as an act of heroism, conveniently forgetting the fact that nearly everyone beat us to it.
I'm proud to be an American, but pragmatic at the same time ...
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