The other day gaygamer received a video in which gay xbox live had compiled footage of homophobic abuse they had endured over a 24 hour period.

There isn’t really much I can add that hasn’t already been said, but I’ve just now been reminded of it whilst playing WoW. This has literally just been uttered in the guild chat…

[Zugaluga]: i was pissed of in bg
[Ellebasi]: ?
[Zugaluga]: and called them gay
[Ellebasi]: -.-
[Zugaluga]: lots of times xD
[Ellebasi]: -.-
[Zugaluga]: like; “Are your mains allys? Cuz you guys plays like fags”
[Zugaluga]: xD

Unfortutely this is pretty typical in Wow “gay” is probably the most frequently used derogatary term used in the game and you generally can’t escape a session without seeing or hearing it at least a dozon of times.

It can be quite depressing depending on whether or not I’m feeling thick-skinned at that moment.

Gaygamer was DoS’d last weekend.

Bit late with this one, but i’ve been busy OK!?  Apparently, at first it seemed like some silly kid doing some lousy DoS attack for kicks, flooding them with pings and all that, but after a while it was apparent they weren’t going to stop and eventually they started noticing hate filled rants on their forum.

I find this quite scary because I had rather hoped that the internet blogging community were quite a liberal bunch, but if a quirky gaming blog can receive homophobic attacks then nowhere is safe right?

Not sure how it came about but I was reading a list of gay people on Wikipedia yesterday. Disappointingly there weren’t many surprises, oh except that my favouritist author Douglas Coupland is a raving homosexual, but I should have probably seen that one coming. That reminds me, I still haven’t read jPod.
Most of the people in the list were complete unknowns to me I guess they may be well knowns of America mostly, I know for a fact there has got to be more out there, why are they so afraid? Tell you what though, I actually found it quite depressing because there aren’t actually all that many people gay who I admire. There’s Stephen Fry and Coupland and that’s about it. Speaking of Fry, when is he going to write a new novel, all he seems to do is Q.I. these days. He introduced me to reading, effectively, because his first novel “The Liar” was the first book I actually enjoyed reading and it made me sob loads. Ian McKellan is always being bothered by pink things.

The first set of civil partnership ceremonies for gay couples in the UK are being held in Northern Ireland.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/…

Well that’s lovely, and how nice that the first are in northern
ireland, that’s pretty cool. Now all I need is someone to have a civil
partnership with. Yeah I going to keep saying ‘civil partnership’ until
it sounds normal. I’d love to know what the vows are like.

The Vatican has published long-awaited guidelines which reaffirm that active homosexuals and “supporters of gay culture” may not become priests.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/…

When I awoke from a deep slumber to hear on the radio that the church had changed their position on gay priests I figured it may be a good day after all. But then the presenter continued to tell us that it’s just a re-wording of the same old bigoted dogma. They’ve worded it ambiguously so that on first hearing it it sounds like a more modern, open stance but really it isn’t. The more I read about it the more it sounds as though the church are suggesting that homosexuality is a disease that you have to be cured of first before you can be ordained. WTF?? I’m just relieved that the church no longer holds any powers, nor even any position of authority.

So in the end i’m having a miserable day after-all, I’ve run out of the non-drowsy anti-histamines so now like the walking undead, not alseep but not awake either. Ugh, maybe its my punishment.