Party for the Rights

Bromosexuales dentro del armario

noreply@blogger.com (Juan L. Iglesias) — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 10:32:00 PDT

Escribe el magistrado De Domingo Martínez en La Opinión de Murcia acerca de fútbol y conceptos vertidos, según él, en la radiofonía de la madrugada post-clásico: …volví a escuchar la radio, y descubrí un nuevo concepto que ignoraba, el de 'bromosexual', que los comentaristas lo aplicaban presuntamente a tres jugadores del Madrid. Luego...

Astronomy

noreply@blogger.com (Juan L. Iglesias) — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:24:00 PDT

Homophobos is the name of the moon eternally orbiting planet Religion. Etiquetas de Technorati: Religion,Quotes

Informed Comment: The Great Reagan Pyramid Scheme Comes Crashing Down

noreply@blogger.com (Juan L. Iglesias) — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:39:00 PDT

Says Juan Cole in his Informed Comment: The Republican Party that Nixon invented melded the moneyed classes of the Northeast with the white evangelicals of the South. This odd couple went on to simultaneously steal from and oppress the rest of us. The moneyed classes were happy to let the New Puritans impose their stringent morality, since they...

Globalize This!

noreply@blogger.com (Juan L. Iglesias) — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:56:00 PDT

Do you think it's worth of opening your feed reader to awake at words like these: "Uganda's controversial ethics and integrity minister who last month called for the wearing of miniskirts to be made illegal said Saturday he believed civilization was being threatened by gays."? Wait a minute, apart of the miniskirt thingy, where else have one...

Wall Street and Testosterone.

noreply@blogger.com (Juan L. Iglesias) — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:50:00 PDT

If yesterday the solution to financial crisis seemed to be placing a ban on all ungodly behaviors and manners of the world, and instead of a bailout Wall Street needed more Bibles, today we woke up with the announcement that higher levels of testosterone lead to riskier investments. Once again, science proves to divorce from religion.

Forget the Bailout, or How to Really Deal with Financial Crisis.

noreply@blogger.com (Juan L. Iglesias) — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:20:00 PDT

Via Gay News Blog, this week's tidbit of hilarious humor: Reputed Financial Advisor Michael Heath proposes the following measures to deal with financial crisis: Heath goes on to list policy changes that would make God “crack a smile,” including: End abortion rights and defund non-profit groups supporting it, amend state constitutions to ban...

Abdellah Taïa interviewed

noreply@blogger.com (Juan L. Iglesias) — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:10:00 PDT

Today's online number of Publico presents an interview with Abdellah Taïa, Moroccan writer born in Sale in 1973, and the first one in coming out of the closet via Tel Quel magazine in January 2006. Abdellah has been pictured in Tel Quel's front page. Over his picture there was an only word: "Homosexual". The interview, in Spanish language,...

I now pronounce you husband and SUV

noreply@blogger.com (Juan L. Iglesias) — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:14:00 PDT

We bears (and gays) have been hearing fundamentalist Christians arguing against gay marriage for a while. One of the reasons they usually point out is that "marriage can only take place between a man and a woman" and if we allow other genres to marry, such would lead to a weird what's next, as in "humans marrying their pets" et al. Another...

Couching on Bears.

noreply@blogger.com (Juan L. Iglesias) — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 11:29:00 PDT

Yes, we're somehow back after some months of silence, there's gonna be major changes in this blog and there'll be people who'll take the most part of such changes, but before publishing the introductory post, I couldn't help wonder thru this picture of Mrs. Palin. I'm frankly worried not only because of the awful decorative taste she's showing...

Everybody knew

noreply@blogger.com (Juan L. Iglesias) — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:34:00 PDT

No breaking news that Michael Stipe came out a few days ago. REM, and Michael, are one of the greatest, and everybody's celebrating this coming out, and cheering, and everybody's full of superb intentions and against homophobia and all that. And REM's new album, Accelerate, is coming out very soon too. Also Alejandro Amenabar came out shortly...

Gaytanamo

noreply@blogger.com (Juan L. Iglesias) — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 05:42:00 PDT

Sally Kern (left picture), an Oklahoma State Rep., warned her constituents that gays are taking over and have become more dangerous to the American way of life than terrorists. The lawmaker made the remarks in a speech to a small gathering but did not know they were being recorded. On Monday, Kern said her comments were edited and taken out of...

The Spanish Larry Craig

noreply@blogger.com (Juan L. Iglesias) — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:10:00 PDT

Though "Larry Craig" wouldn't define well this Spanish politician and Tax Office clerk. Javier Rodrigo de Santos, formerly vice major in Palma de Mallorca, spent the amount of 50,804 Euro in gay relax services, disguised as "Public Relations Consulting" from the public budget of Palma Townhall. It couldn't be otherwise, the man is known to have...

And elections in Spain...

noreply@blogger.com (Juan L. Iglesias) — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:42:00 PDT

As most of you have already read in the news, Spain's election has been won by the Socialists. Headlines such as "Pro-gay Zapatero defeats conservatives" and the like appeared in most gay media. However, the Socialist party is not pro-gay, just pro-equality. My two cents (of Euro).

Everyday life best argument for gay marriage

noreply@blogger.com (Juan L. Iglesias) — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:39:00 PDT

A really interesting analysis on the SF Gate by C W Nevius, on how homosexual marriage will become accepted as normal. Here's the full text, which I mostly agree with. When defenders of the "sacred union of marriage" held a news conference last Tuesday after oral arguments on same-sex marriage at the state Supreme Court, they weren't facing a...

HIV and gay in Tunisia: A twin taboo

noreply@blogger.com (Juan L. Iglesias) — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:34:00 PDT

By Sonia Ounissi TUNIS, March 7 (Reuters Life!) - Homosexual men living with HIV/AIDS In the Arab world face a twin taboo, but Karim doesn't look like someone burdened by stigma. Smiling and self-assured, the healthy looking Tunisian says his peace of mind comes from accepting what he cannot change, living in the moment and taking care to present...

‘Gay is OK’ in Afghanistan

noreply@blogger.com (Juan L. Iglesias) — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:30:00 PDT

When American and British marines started returning from the war in Afghanistan in early 2002, they brought along with them curious stories about Afghanistan’s peasants who put on make-up and consistently followed them around or even sexually abused them. This was a very shocking experience for the soldiers. - They were more terrifying than the...

Ah, those Roman Catholics...

noreply@blogger.com (Juan L. Iglesias) — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:03:00 PST

While the Pope himself praised the anti-homosexual policies undertaken in the United States, the Spanish Episcopal Conference elected a new head yesterday. During the last years, the main Catholic hierarchy body in Spain had been headed by bishop Blazquez of Bilbao, who held conciliatory views on most social aspects of life, including dialogue...

Comedy in theaters and Knesset. And the Peanut Butter Jar.

noreply@blogger.com (Juan L. Iglesias) — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:26:00 PST

After some weeks of watching mostly drama and thriller movies, I was looking for a good comedy this weekend, just to relax from work, also from the political campaign in Spain (which has good points, for instance, as I'm following Spain's politicians I don't have time anymore to follow the candidates in the USA). The only movie I could find in...

Ego sum ecclesia

noreply@blogger.com (Juan L. Iglesias) — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:02:00 PST

Mariano Rajoy, the Popular Party candidate, opened last midnight the election campaign in Cadiz, in what he deemed a homage to the Spanish Constitution of 1812. For those not much versed in Constitutional Law, just remind that the article 12th of the Spanish Constitution of 1812 established that the One and Only Religion to be practiced in Spain...

Conversion therapy revealed

noreply@blogger.com (Juan L. Iglesias) — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 01:04:00 PST

Via Ex-gay watch, the Winnipeg Sun tells the story of an ex-gay minister eventually convicted of sexual assault on one of his patients. Copying from Ex-gay Watch... A young man is found by family to be sexually attracted to men and coerced through a fear of hell to seek “therapy” to go straight. This is the story that led a young Canadian man to...

Spain pre-election promises, promises, promises...

noreply@blogger.com (Juan L. Iglesias) — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:38:00 PST

With most eyes focused on the American campaign, I've just following, like most Spaniards, the moves of our pre-elections season. Eventually, the Popular Party leader Mariano Rajoy disclosed some amount of the changes to bring about on society: contract agreements for immigrants to "behave like Spaniards" and "fulfill the existing laws" (I had...

Social change in Spain

noreply@blogger.com (Juan L. Iglesias) — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:39:00 PST

EDGE Los Angeles publishes an interesting article about how Spanish society has evolved since Francisco Franco's death in 1975. Though I might not agree with some of the views of Cotarelo, it's clear that we're living in a much open place than we were under the omnipresent wings of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy. However, back in 2004 when, after...

Bollywood stars on homosexuality

noreply@blogger.com (Juan L. Iglesias) — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:18:00 PST

According to NewKerala.com, via Topix news, an increasing numbers of Indian movie stars are asserting their own position on changing the laws on homosexuality in India. Statements on the issue by some of the most renowned Bollywood stars are: Lillete Dubey: Of course, the laws pertaining to homosexuality should be revised. They are archaic and...

Gay memorial in Berlin

noreply@blogger.com (Juan L. Iglesias) — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 08:52:00 PST

Because not only Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, gays too, this piece of news is most welcomed: A multi-media memorial to the thousands of gay men who died in Nazi concentration camps should be ready in a matter of months. Read the full article in Pink News.

It's February First

noreply@blogger.com (Juan L. Iglesias) — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:50:00 PST

And it seems I can be back to blogging after a (much needed) forced break. In the meantime, the world doesn't seem to have changed a lot in regards to homosexuality and our issues. Churches worldwide continue their crusade against abomination with no less strength than ever. My friend NG sent me a brief note saying that the bishop of Tenerife...