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Tait Hughes Geijer
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33 Teeth, a Short about Length
Eddie is a hormonal 14-year-old boy living alone with his mother in the suburbs. One day after school, he accidentally spies on his attractive older neighbour, Chad, stepping out of the shower and measuring his manhood with a comb.
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Tempera Thursday *1
The Duality Series by body-paint artist Brandon McGill attempts to explore the chemistry between two painted bodies.
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Love is All You Need?
Unique lives intertwine and collide in a world confronted by controversy and forbidden love. This world is very much like our own: filled with family gatherings at church, children playing in the yard, and college frat parties. Except these families are led by same-sex couples, and homosexuality is the expectation. To be heterosexual is to be shunned and ridiculed because it means you are different. In this world, to be gay is right and to be straight is wrong.
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Kids have Anti-Gay Day
Students at a Pennsylvania high school allegedly staged a protest of the Day of Silence, which included intimidation and physical harassment of LGBT students and a ‘lynch list’.
The Day of Silence, an annual event that raises awareness of LGBT bullying, produced a loud backlash from students at a Pennsylvania high school. A group of students at McGuffey High School allegedly organized an “Anti-Gay Day” in response to the peaceful protest coordinated by the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network.
A local news station reports that the clique encouraged others who were antigay to wear flannel and write “Anti-Gay” on their hands Thursday, the day preceding the Day of Silence. But the backlash did not end with sartorial choices. Participants also targeted LGBT students, hanging posters on their lockers and physically harrassing them in the hallways of their school.
“There was pushing, posters hung on homosexual students’ lockers. Teachers were having to run out and take them down,” Zoe Johnson, a student at McGuffey High School, told the news station. “It hurts me to see how rude and cruel, and some of these people were my friends before this started,” she added.
The antigay group promoted the event on social media, posting a photo of the flannel-clad participants. “Anti-Gay Day” was to be the first of a planned week-long series of antigay events, which would use clothing to signal their animosity toward their LGBT peers. “Flannel anti-gay day only a few of many tomorrow is red day,” a student wrote in the caption.
Nationwide, animosity toward the Day of Silence has been encouraged by groups like Focus on the Family and the Illinois Family Institute, which organized antigay events like the Day of Dialogue as well as walkouts in protest of GLSEN’s “homosexuality-affirming dogma.” GLSEN reports that 56 percent of LGBT students felt unsafe at school due to their their sexual orientation. In addition, 38 percent felt unsafe because of their gender expression.
Administrators at the McGuffey School District are investigating the incident. Dr. Erica Kolat, the superintendent, released a statement saying that the school “will follow our Student Code of Conduct, and file legal citations, as warranted. We will resolve to ensure that all children can grow and learn in a safe, supportive environment free from discrimination.” However, some students do not feel safe returning to the school.
“It’s sad to me. It’s a high school. We should feel safe here. We don’t, and it’s starting to get worse,” Johnson said. Among the reasons for this fear was a “lynch list” circulating around the school, with a growing list of names.
via Advocate
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Periodical Political Post *10
Queer News
- Nicaragua makes same-sex marriage, adoption illegal
- US president calls for end to LGBT ‘conversion therapy’
- Chilean president signs civil unions bill into law
- Bullied transgender teen dies in apparent suicide
- Vietnam may soon recognize transgender people
Other News
- France about to become next surveillance state
- The FBI lied, sent innocent people to their death
- Leak reveals Germany as heart of US drone war
- 76 people made 41% of donations to UK parties
- US cops kill more people in month of March 2015
than police in the UK did over the last 100 years
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Boys (and Teachers) Beware!
A US high school has indefinitely suspended one of their teachers after he showed his class a film warning boys of ‘predatory homosexuals’.
Simons, a history teacher at the school, was suspended weeks before he was due to retire for showing a law enforcement class the film Boys Beware; it warns students to avoid strangers ‘because they might be homosexual’.
Made by Sid Davis Productions with assistance from Inglewood Police in California, the film was a social guidance film depicting gay men as sexual predators, prowling around high schools on the lookout for underage boys. One of the film’s scenarios shows a boy named Jimmy being lured in by a man named Ralph.
‘I’m not against homosexuality,’ Simons told KCTV. Simons said three days after showing the film, he was told by school officials that two students had complained; the school then suspended him from teaching.
Simons argued he had been using the film to highlight how attitudes towards homosexuality have changed. Why the students would report him in this case remains unclear.
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Femboy Friday *4
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Gaming in Color
“Diversity in games is a huge problem that the industry knows about, and is going to have to do something about,” says game developer Naomi Clark in the trailer for Gaming in Color, a documentary film about queer and genderqueer players and creators in the world of video games.
Created by Midboss, the company behind the GaymerX convention, the film deals with the harassment faced by LGBT gamers, the importance of representing them within games themselves, and the shifts already taking place within gaming and game development communities. “There are a lot of gamer and game designers who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or genderqueer who are really seeking to reinvent games,” says Clark.
The film is now available through on a plethora of sources: iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, Playstation, Xbox and more.
via Boing Boing
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Periodical Political Post *11
Queer News
- Ireland first country to legalise marriage equality by vote
- Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden top gay happiness index
- India’s parliament passes landmark transgender rights bill
- Pastor who told gay teen to kill himself looked for sex on Grindr
- Executive director of anti-gay hate group sexually abused kids
Other News
- 94% of “terror plots” in US made up by Department of Justice
- Anti-immigrant violence & street battles spread in South Africa
- Black activist charged with lynching under archaic 1933 law
- Judge in California rules against abstinence-only sex education
- 33% of US 8th graders think Canada & France are dictatorships
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It got better
As a kid, transgender icon Janet Mock felt like her gender identity was policed by those around her. In a recent video for the “It Got Better” project, Mock explained what it was like to grow up as a gender-nonconforming child in Honolulu, Hawaii and Oakland, California, and discussed the obstacles she faced as she began to live authentically as a young trans girl.
Watch the video for some heartfelt advice for young trans people.
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Fap Friday *1
Photo by Helix Studios
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Periodical Political Post *12
Queer News
- El Salvador approves measure banning gay marriage
- New Zealand kids taught that gays await death & hell
- Poll: Americans value religious freedom over gay rights
- Swiss court: gay couple can’t both be fathers to their son
- Japan schools told to let trans kids wear uniform of choice
- Bullied trans teen commits suicide days after coming out
- Anti-gay politician caught sending nude pics to another man
- An orgasm a day keeps prostate cancer away, study says
- New UK culture secretary has history of opposing gay rights
- Leelah Alcorn’s mother threw away handwritten suicide note
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Avery’s Story
Meet Avery and her parents, Debi and Tom, who set a beautiful example of love and support. In their series Transgender Today, The New York Times profiled an incredible 7-year-old girl named Avery Jackson.
Like most kids her age, Avery is happy, active, and enjoys a wide range of interests, from Girl Scouts and gymnastics to “being a ninja.” In a video diary called “Avery Chat,” Avery admits she’s “just a normal girl.” However, she also explains what makes her different, and in the process, sets an example of tolerance and acceptance.
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Mirror Monday *7
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Cobra Club: A Dick Pic Game
If you’re into weird video games about sex that carry some form of social critique within, you might have heard of indie developer Robert Yang. Creator of games as Succulent (where you suck a phallic object while travelling through dimensions) and Stick Shift (about jerking off a gay car), Yang is the master of making games that while odd & sexual, carry an interesting and intellectual message.
Over the weekend, Yang released his newest free game, Cobra Club. So, what do you do in Cobra Club? You take a whole bunch of interactive dick pics, send them to people on a fake social media program and get sent other dicks to look at.
Set your dick length, level of erection, girth, ball size, ball bias, pose, lighting, filters, rotation, skin tone and zoom. Get that perfect dick pic and send it to every hot guy who wants it. Add some sparkle, turn off the safety limiters, see dicks as they were always meant to be seen.
While it may on the surface appear to be just a silly experience, Cobra Club has a real level of depth and social commentary hidden within it. You’ll have to dive quite far down the dick photography rabbit hole to find it, but the game makes some really interesting points about body image and online data security.
The photo above is there just for illustration and has nothing to do with the game ;) If you want to see actual screenshots check out this in-depth review here.
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Periodical Political Post *13
Queer News
- Mozambique is decriminalising homosexuality
- Greenland next to legalize same-sex marriage
- Germany has no plans for marriage equality
- Poland rejects gay civil unions for the fourth time
- Korea Pride organizers vow to defy police ban
Other News
- America’s unsettling child and youth homelessness
- FBI admits no cases cracked with Patriot Act snooping
- Florida schools are tracking kids online NSA-style
- The Red Cross got $500 million and… build 6 homes
- Eye protection soon mandatory for US porn actors?
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Tender Thursday *8
William Helburn, Coca-Cola advert taken in Central Park, 1956
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Kids discuss Caitlyn Jenner
A group of kids was presented with two photos — one of Bruce Jenner and one of Caitlyn Jenner — and then asked for their reactions, which ended up being refreshingly honest and supportive.
SheKnows made the video above as part of its Hatch initiative, which aims to teach kids about what they’re consuming online and engage with them about various social issues. The children discuss Caitlyn Jenner’s gender transition and although some are a bit confused at first, they end up being quite empathetic. One girl says, “Who she wants to be is who she should be.” Another adds: “It’s important for you to be yourself, because if you’re not yourself, who are you?”
Caitlyn Jenner
Caitlyn Jenner recently became one of the most high-profile cases of someone publicly coming out as transgender in America. Her story received a lot of media attention due to her celebrity status but some argue that considering her privileged position she might not be the right poster child for transgender equality.↧
Tempera Thursday *2
Click the picture for a NSFW shot
Bodypaint by Brandon McGill
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