Pink Sauce

Gays Observe Holocaust Memorial Day Spain Tells Pope To Stay Out Of Gay Marriage Debate Now this is all getting ridiculous: Gay SpongeBob Flap Intensifies Gay Road Is Too Gay Do those people have nothing more important with their lives than to focus on such trivialities? Or is it a sign that common sense is finally winning and that nutters are only clutching at straws these days?

"It is wrong to invoke the love of God in order that one person's 'values' might diminish another's value. Those who claim that homosexual people threaten to dismantle the value of heterosexual marriage would do well to remember that if anyone destroys marriage, it is married people, not gays and lesbians." Right Rev. Dr. Peter Short, Moderator of the United Church of Canada Canada's Two Biggest Faiths Battle Over Gay Marriage

It is now official: we have just embarked on another four years of madness. Despite what we hear on the radio, there does not seem to be many signs that things are going to change, let alone improve! No expense spared at inauguration "[...] our duties are defined not by the words I use, but by the history we have seen together." Key quotes: President Bush's speech Considering the mess we are in, one tend to wonder though... Second Term Begins Amid Anti-Gay Amendment Concerns

"Moral Indignation permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue." A quote I have just found here . I have been reading "Geisha"'s blog for a couple of months now and although our experiences are probably as different from each other as they can possibly be, I love her stuff...

When I first heard about Matthew Bourne’s all male version of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, I was in my late teens, living in a small town very, very far from London with only a bunker of a bar, a couple of cruising grounds and a "gay friendly" Sunday night in a club as excuses for a gay scene. Over the years, this show took on almost a legendary aura for me, so when I heard that it was being revived for its tenth anniversary, I knew I would have to go and see it. That was about a year ago, but on Saturday evening the big night finally came… Swan Lake is one of the major ballets in the classical repertoire. This, combined with a generally held idea that ballet is a little stuffy and stiff necked, might prove a little daunting for some. But if this is your opinion of ballet, Bourne’s version is bound to make you change your mind. There is Tchaikovsky’s music of course; always light and sweet to the ear with the added pleasure of some very famous tunes. The show has the usual sig...

Pentagon reveals rejected chemical weapons Pentagon Sought 'Gay' Bomb US military pondered love not war Edited 27/01/05

Had a bit of a shock earlier. I was checking who had visited this page on my tracking service's page when I noticed a strange looking URL. Here is how it looked: http://www.whitelabel.org/wp/wikiproxy.php?url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4173453.stm I clicked on it out of curiosity and find myself on the BBC News website, looking at a page treating of young Harry's recent foibles. The astonishing thing and the source of the aforementioned shock was that a link to this, my blog, sorry: MY blog, was in a prominent position on this page. Here is the picture to prove it: Now, if you go to the BBC News page , the list of "blogs about this article" does not show. Turns out that wikiproxy (appearing in the first part of the above URL) is some sort of software created for the BBC to ad links to its webpages. I am still not sure how this works to be honest but it is nice to think that somewhere in another dimension my blog, sorry MY blog, is listed on the BBC's ...

Don't you just love that? The "founding father" of the (now) fag-hating GOP was probably one of us!!! A Republican hero, but was Abe Lincoln gay? or Conservatives Rail Against Book Claim Lincoln Was Gay

I would like to come back on yesterday's post . While the controversy shows no sign of abating and with a few lone (and not very articulate) voices trying to come to the Prince's rescue, I think that the whole thing has now passed the question of whether he needs to apologise himself or not. It seems pretty clear now that he won't, after having released that statement. What I think is important is to try and understand what led to him wearing this costume. I hear most of his defenders (and some of his detractors) calling him "a boy". Either they are trying to minimise the affair or they are being incredibly patronising towards their protégé. As I pointed out yesterday, he is now 20 years old. He is an adult, presumably capable of making his own considered decisions and required to face up with their consequences. He is not any 20 year old either, who can go and make a fool of himself with limited repercussions: He is, whether he wants it or not, a leading fig...

Terrible story I know, but Mr and Mrs Gay trying to adopt Christian Blewitt?! Sorry. *hangs head*

This morning as I was getting ready to go to work, I was listening, as usual, to the excellent Today Programme on the just as excellent BBC Radio4. *grovels* There was a report on how children in Care Homes are causing great nuisance in certain communities (in West Sussex I think it was); theft and all sort of disorderly conducts having become a popular form of entertainment amongst those youths. Over a period of three months (if I recollect correctly), the police had been called over 300 times to look for missing "residents" of the local homes. The example was sited of a missing teenage girl turning up at a police station to get a lift back to her home, insisting, when being told it might not be quite as easy as she thought, that the police had to drive her home due to their Duty of Care! It seems however that misdemeanour by young people is not limited to any specific strata of society. Much higher indeed on the social ladder, we got this morning a clear example of this....

A BBC news alert from last night: " US intelligence officials say the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq is over, without any arms stockpiles found. For more details: " http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4169107.stm So they were still looking then?!

Have a look at this interesting website found on this blog entry ... I suggest you particularly have a look at the shop... but the rest is worth checking out. I supsect there are some hidden gems in the Pastor's Mailbag section... The article on the Tsunami is also a nice piece of satire :O)

Hurray! The BBC did the right thing this week-end and did broadcast Jerry Springer, the Opera despite pressure from Bible Wielders of all sorts (see this ). It turns out that the campaign back fired with record audiences watching the show. If you had been able to see what was happening in my room on Saturday afternoon, you would probably have been quite entertained. I was listening to Any Answers? on Radio4; a call-in show where people react to the opinions of four guest panellists expressed on Any Questions?. The broadcast of the opera took up a major chunk of the show. I was fuming at the level of stupidity of some of the comments while clapping and cheering when someone was defending the BBC's decision. How sad?! First we heard the most fantastic allegations about there being thousands of swear words (the real estimation saying, I think, about 400), in the show. This is forgetting that the show is only two odd hours long. Using one's brains for half a second shows ...

The nice thing about the weather in this country is that it seems so often to be in tune with my frame of mind. It certainly was today... Here is a poem I wrote in 2002, which might give you a clue or two (Translation provided). Enjoy. Je marche dans les rues de cette immense ville Ses lumières autour, indifférentes, brillent. Le vent balaie les feuilles et les emporte au loin Je frissonne et mes mains sont fermées en un poing. Brouillés par la buée qui me remplis les yeux, Des visages apparaissent puis s'effacent peu à peu. J'aimerai les toucher, qu'ils me donnent de l'espoir, Mais leurs yeux sont fermés: Ils restent sans me voir. Et me voici soudain dans un carré de vie, L'éclat d'une fenêtre ouverte sur la nuit, Un sourire éclatant et remplit de chaleur Qui m'enveloppe entier et me caresse le cœur. Au moins pour quelques temps, j'espérais me chauffer Et trouver réconfort, sympathie, amitié. Hélas trop rapidement le volet se refe...

To get home after work I have the choice of two buses; No 12 and No 171. Both will take me to about 2 minutes walk from where I live but for some reason I prefer to catch 171. I was therefore quite happy tonight, when after about 5 min of waiting, I saw a 171 appear at the horizon. I got on board, find myself a free seat on the upper deck, whipped out the book I am currently reading ( Santaland Diaries by David Sedaris) and readied myself for enjoying the next 20 minutes or so, far from the madding crowd, as on many other evenings. Alas! It wasn't to be. A few hundred metres down the road, I was pulled out of my story by a male voice on my right singing its own version of Amazing Grace. You meet those people from time to time in London, most of the time some decrepit rasta singing reggae; they sing out loud and you are never really sure why they are doing it: is it that the light missing on certain floors or do they expect to be discovered by a producer and start a career? I was ...

Just sent an email of support to the BBC for broadcasting Jerry Springer, the Opera this Saturday. Telling them that not everyone out there is blinkered and biggoted!!! Please do the same. The full story . I went to see the show a few weeks ago and while it is far from perfect, I thought it was quite funny (I think I found particularly funny as someone who got a religious up-bringing). Have the people complaining about this got nothing better to do with their lives? If they don't like it, why do they just not watch it? The show is not making any serious point and is certainly not a tirade against Christianity. Perhaps those people are not happy because the Klu Klux Klan is being ridiculed?

First post of the year and it is turning ugly already! Happy New Year! I have already alluded here to my queasyness with all things religious and more particularly with proselites. With the tsunami happening on Christmas Day, I was expecting to hear some religious nutter claiming that this was a punishment from god inflicted on some perverts or others (what with one of the places destroyed being called Phuket (which just happen to be a popular gay resort it seems)? I did not have to wait for long... Check this out. Yesterday, I came across this blog ; this nice young (but my canonic standards) gay man has been in contact by email with the infamous Phelps gang. Those people are hell bent (pun intended) on making the life of the family of Matthew Shepard ... well... hell. Here and here are the posts relating to those emails. Who these people think they are to take the high moral ground so; I don't know. They must be perfect indeed! What makes them so important that they ...