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Polari Facts: On Anniversaries 0
Forty years ago the modern gay liberation movement was born in New York City. The Stonewall Riots are the seminal moment in … um, hang on, that is such a pejorative term for LGBT history … Anyway, what am I thinking, semantics, this early in the magazine? Let’s take a look at some factoids.
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Tagged: alan turing, chris smith, glaad, karl maria kerbetny, obama, polari, proposition 8, stonewall, stonewall riots, thomas jefferson
Polari Facts: Elizabeth II and her marriage to the throne of England 0
Polari Facts raises its virtual glass this month to celebrate marriage. The planning that has gone into this is nothing less than equal to Philip II’s Armada of 1588. In that spirit the following facts are about a great marriage that came to define the age in which it occurred.
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Polari Facts: Sci-Fi and homosexuality 0
The attractions of Sci-Fi to your average homosexual pull like a magnet. The outsider and the alternative society, perhaps. Who knows! The boys sure do love Dr Who, it would seem. Polari Facts has delved into the deep underbelly of Sci-Fi and reached the following conclusions.
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Tagged: buck rogers, c3-po, gay sci-fi nerds, r2-d2, spandex, star wars, wilma deering
Polari Facts: The FBI and homosexuality in the 1950s and ’60s 1
FBI Probes
The extent to which J Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI from 1935 to 1972, collected information on the sex lives of political figures to be used as leverage is legendary. In February 2009, The Washington Post published information it had obtained under the Freedom of Information Act documenting Hoover’s investigations into Jack Valenti, who was a presidential aide to Lyndon Johnson in the‘60s.
“Republican Party operatives reportedly were pursuing a parallel investigation with the help of a retired FBI agent, bureau files show. No proof was ever found, but the files, obtained by The Washington Post under the federal Freedom of Information Act, provide further insight into the conduct of the FBI under Hoover, Continue reading
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Tagged: clyde tolson, j edgar hoover, jack valenti, lyndon johnson, mattachine society, richard nixon, washington post
Polari Facts: On the Promotion of Heterosexuality 0
The American Family Association recently issued a challenge to PepsiCo to withdraw from what it calls the “political and culture war” represented by the “homosexual agenda”. (For more on what the “homosexual agenda” is, read this issue’s Rebel Scum feature.) Polari Facts decided to look into the standing of the companies the AFA have targeted, such as Pepsi, and one that has already backed down under AFA pressure, Walmart. Not to spoil the plot, but it turns out that the promotion of the “heterosexual agenda” all but defines their advertising strategies.
PepsiCo
PepsiCo, it turns out, have a solid history of promoting heterosexuality. Continue reading
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Tagged: american family association, culture wars, homosexual agenda, pepsico, walmart
Polari Facts: All About Gay Animals! 0
Gay Penguins
Gay male penguin couples have been reported at zoos in Germany, Japan and China. An attempt to turn the German penguins by tempting them with racy Swedish female penguins proved to be a flop.
Two chinstrap penguins at New York’s Central Park Zoo, Roy and Silo, became the subject of a children’s book, And Tango Makes Three, in 2005, after the two became a couple and raised a baby penguin. The usual hysteria about the promotion of “lifestyle choices” followed, the lesson of the penguins’ natural selection clearly having taught these protesters nothing. Continue reading
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Polari Facts: Civil Unions and Gay Marriage 0
UK
The Civil Partnership Act 2004 gives rights and responsibilities that are equal to that of marriage. Property rights, exemption on inheritance tax, social security and pension benefits are all equal. Parental rights, tenancy rights, and next-of-kin rights are also equal.
The Gender Recognition Act 2004 allows transsexuals to change their legal gender. To do so they must end any existing marriage, although under special provisions of the Civil Partnership Act, such couples are able to dissolve their marriage and enter into a civil partnership the same day.
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Tagged: civil marriage act, civil partnership act, doma, gender recognition act