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	<title>Itch and be Merry &#187; Queer</title>
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		<title>Faggy Foo</title>
		<link>http://www.itchmerry.com/2007/12/645.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MRKisThatKid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Queer]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gay Gamer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Homophobia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;t really much I can add that hasn&#8217;t already been said, but I&#8217;ve just now been reminded of it whilst playing WoW.  This has literally just been uttered [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The other day <a href="http://gaygamer.net/2007/11/disturbing_video_shows_player.html">gaygamer received a video</a> in which gay xbox live had compiled footage of homophobic abuse they had endured over a 24 hour period.</p>
<p>There isn&#8217;t really much I can add that hasn&#8217;t already been said, but I&#8217;ve just now been reminded of it whilst playing WoW.  This has literally just been uttered in the guild chat&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>[Zugaluga]: i was pissed of in bg<br />
[Ellebasi]: ?<br />
[Zugaluga]: and called them gay<br />
[Ellebasi]: -.-<br />
[Zugaluga]: lots of times xD<br />
[Ellebasi]: -.-<br />
[Zugaluga]: like; &#8220;Are your mains allys? Cuz you guys plays like fags&#8221;<br />
[Zugaluga]: xD</p></blockquote>
<p><img src="http://www.itchmerry.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/pfftgay.png" alt="pfftgay.png" align="left" />Unfortutely this is pretty typical in Wow &#8220;gay&#8221; is probably the most frequently used derogatary term used in the game and you generally can&#8217;t escape a session without seeing or hearing it at least a dozon of times.</p>
<p>It can be quite depressing depending on whether or not I&#8217;m feeling thick-skinned at that moment.</p>
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		<title>Hate the hater</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 09:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MRKisThatKid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Queer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gaming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hate-Crime]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gaygamer was DoS&#8217;d last weekend.
 Bit late with this one, but i&#8217;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&#8217;t going to stop and eventually they started noticing [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://gaygamer.net/">Gaygamer</a> was DoS&#8217;d last weekend.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.itchmerry.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/gglogocrop.png" title="gglogocrop.png" alt="gglogocrop.png" align="left" /> Bit late with this one, but i&#8217;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&#8217;t going to stop and eventually they started noticing hate filled rants on their forum.</p>
<p>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?</p>
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		<title>Your list is gay</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 19:20:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MRKisThatKid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not sure how it came about but I was reading a list of gay people on Wikipedia yesterday.  Disappointingly there weren&#8217;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&#8217;t read jPod.
Most of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Not sure how it came about but I was reading a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gay,_lesbian_or_bisexual_people">list of gay people on Wikipedia</a> yesterday.  Disappointingly there weren&#8217;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&#8217;t read jPod.<br />
<img title="Sir Ian McKellan has a friend" alt="Sir Ian McKellan has a friend" id="image383" src="http://www.itchmerry.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/kellenfrnd.png" />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&#8217;t actually all that many people gay who I admire.  There&#8217;s Stephen Fry and Coupland and that&#8217;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 &#8220;The Liar&#8221; was the first book I actually enjoyed reading and it made me sob loads.  Ian McKellan is always being bothered by pink things.</p>
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		<title>Very cilvilised</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2005 11:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MRKisThatKid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first set of civil partnership ceremonies for gay couples in the UK are being held in Northern Ireland.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/&#8230;
Well that&#8217;s lovely, and how nice that the first are in northern
ireland, that&#8217;s pretty cool. Now all I need is someone to have a civil
partnership with. Yeah I going to keep saying &#8216;civil partnership&#8217; until
it sounds normal. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>The first set of civil partnership ceremonies for gay couples in the UK are being held in Northern Ireland.</p>
<p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4540226.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/&#8230;</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Well that&#8217;s lovely, and how nice that the first are in northern<br />
ireland, that&#8217;s pretty cool. Now all I need is someone to have a civil<br />
partnership with. Yeah I going to keep saying &#8216;civil partnership&#8217; until<br />
it sounds normal. I&#8217;d love to know what the vows are like.</p>
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		<title>Dead gay mans shoes</title>
		<link>http://www.itchmerry.com/2005/11/dead_gay_mans_shoes.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2005 11:20:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MRKisThatKid</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Church]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Vatican has published long-awaited guidelines which reaffirm that active homosexuals and &#8220;supporters of gay culture&#8221; may not become priests.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/&#8230;
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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>The Vatican has published long-awaited guidelines which reaffirm that active homosexuals and &#8220;supporters of gay culture&#8221; may not become priests.</p>
<p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4480588.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/&#8230;</a></p></blockquote>
<p>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&#8217;s just a re-wording of the same old bigoted dogma.  They&#8217;ve worded it ambiguously so that on first hearing it it sounds like a more modern, open stance but really it isn&#8217;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&#8217;m just relieved that the church no longer holds any powers, nor even any position of authority.</p>
<p>So in the end i&#8217;m having a miserable day after-all, I&#8217;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.</p>
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