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  • Gay Leaders Swing Brickbats Over Study On Switch Hitters
    12 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Wayne Besen
    Certainly no one is suggesting the "B" come out of the GLBT movement, but a new study by a group of researchers in Chicago and Toronto questions how widespread bisexuality is in men and shows a need for more comprehensive studies to examine the topic.
    The controversial experiment recruited 101 young men from ads placed in gay and alternative newspapers, with 33 identifying as bisexual, 30 as heterosexual and 38 as gay. The psychologists had the men rate their desires from (…)

  • Criticizing Patriot Act Lands Manlin Chee, Asian American Lawyer, in Jail
    12 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Having spent almost three decades offering legal service to immigrants, Chinese American immigration attorney Manlin Chee is now getting used to serving time instead.
    Chee had been a nationally recognized lawyer for her work with immigrants, some of it pro bono, and much of it for Muslims, but things soured for her soon after she appeared on a panel discussing the PATRIOT Act in March 2003.
    The public forum at the main library in Greensboro, North Carolina was televised and attracted a (…)

  • The Reality Of This Barbaric Bombing
    12 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Reality Of This Barbaric Bombing Robert Fisk July 8, 2005 [last updated 14:32] From The Independent “If you bomb our cities,” Osama bin Laden said in one of his recent video tapes, “we will bomb yours.” There you go, as they say. It was crystal clear Britain would be a target ever since Tony Blair decided to join George Bush’s “war on terror” and his invasion of Iraq. We had, as they say, been warned. The G8 summit was obviously chosen, well in advance, as Attack Day.
    And it’s no (…)

  • Crying ’anti-Americanism’: Fox News speaks up for the poor, downtrodden white male
    11 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "Special interest groups" is a phrase that conservative pundits use to describe various advocacy groups that, when added all together, constitute the majority of Americans.
    Though it may be unintentional, it’s a classic example of divide-and-conquer.
    African-American advocacy groups? No, special interest groups, coded language that really means "those minorities are trying to impose their narrow and selfish agenda on the majority, which is obviously wrong because in a democracy, majority (…)

  • Queer Activists Attacked by Western Australian police
    10 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by pink_blocka
    Peaceful Queer Activists Attacked by Western Australian police: On Friday 8th July a queer rights action protesting the Howard governments attacks on student and trade unions and calling on the government to repeal all homophobic laws - in particular the same-sex marriage ban - was brutality attacked by police...
    150 student and queer rights activists rallied at the end of a successful national student Queer Collaborations Conference held over a week at Perth’s University (…)

  • Visibility Is Victory
    2 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Wayne Besen
    A few weeks ago, I wrote a controversial column, "Losing the Battle", which sounded the alarm that the GLBT movement is going backwards. This remains indisputably true on a political level, as our sworn enemies are increasingly sworn into office. Each morning we rise, we live the long nightmare of George W. Bush, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-TN., and House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-TX.
    Nonetheless, I still remain hopeful as our community progresses in this most (…)

  • A Compromise that Leaves Gay People In a Compromised Position
    31 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Wayne Besen
    For the good of the country, it was wise for Senators to strike a compromise on the filibuster of judicial nominees. They temporarily averted a catastrophe and avoided setting a dangerous precedent. However, it is clear by the statements of many leading right wing Senators that this may be more of a transitory deferral than a true deal. The real test will come when Bush eventually nominates an extremist to the Supreme Court.
    Here is a snapshot of how the GLBT Community and (…)

  • Blood In The Water
    8 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Wayne Besen
    "The blood is in the water."
    With these Soprano-like words, the right wing’s most fearsome sharks circled Magellan Health Services. Like Microsoft, only a week earlier, the ruthless killing machines quickly devoured the nation’s leading behavioral health company. Magellan was easy prey and surrendered to the savage attack so quickly, the Jaws music barely hit its first note.
    Let me explain.
    In March, Dr. Warren Throckmorton, who recently produced a video on ex-gays (…)

  • WOID #XIII-2. Review: Beginning of the End for the End of the Beginning?
    25 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Perry Anderson, "Dégringolade." London Review of Books, September 2, 2004 http://www.lrb.co.uk/v26/n17/ande01.html
    Perry Anderson, "Union Sucrée." London Review of Books, September 23, 2004 http://www.lrb.co.uk/v26/n18/ande01.html
    Perry Anderson, La pensée tiède. Un regard critique sur la pensée française, with a response by Pierre Nora. Paris: Seuil, 2005 Symposium: "The End of French History? Perry Anderson Dissects ’Neo-Liberal’ France" With Michael Christofferson, Eric Fassin, (…)

  • National Analytical Study on Racist Violence and Crime
    19 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    RAXEN Focal Point for ITALY
    de Annamaria Rivera Collaboration: Paola Andrisani
    EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
    The present report, like the former Analytical Study on discrimination and racist violence (2000-2002) is based on the theoretical supposition that “races” do not exist but rather human groups which are “racialised”, that is, socially considered and treated as “races”1.
    In our opinion, racism is part of a process of social classification so that some groups (migrants, refugees, minority (…)