I don't want to go back alone (2010) - short gay themed

I've read an interesting quote that came up at the end of a movie that I watched half a year ago. The quote said,
"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."
What do you guys think of this quote?

It's not a secret I enjoy watching the BBC's soap opera, "Eastenders". I've mentioned the ongoing relationship between Christian Clarke and Syed Masood in previous threads. Despite great advances in the law in the UK, cultural attitudes have yet to catch up. A recent episode which showed them together in bed brought in a "flood" of complaints (whatever constitutes a flood).

The full Guardian article is here, but this was the interesting conclusion

Quote:...the explicitness of a romantic scene is too often dependent on which genders are in it. A man eating a woman's face will go undetected, but if it happens to be another man, the BBC must brace itself. It's like maths for homophobes. One heterosexual heavy petting equals one gay peck. Or is it a cuddle? A brisk handshake? The EastEnders characters in question were simply holding each other in bed, but for some an act otherwise seen as harmless, romantic even, was seen as harmful and perverse. It wasn't, it was said, an appropriate image for children. In contrast to the naturalness of straight relationships, it was something it needed to protect the innocent from.


These are not their children's thoughts of course but entirely their own. They, who deem noticing the existence of homosexuality as damaging, when it is in averting their child's gaze that they cause harm. Some of their children will be straight and left (at best) battling the confused ignorance their parent's special brand of "censorship come outrage" have bestowed them with. Others will be gay and, sunken within the tragedy of an unaccepting home, will be deprived the smallest escape of another world, of seeing a part of themselves on screen and knowing they are OK.


The snob may dismiss mainstream television as drivel but the power of it should not be. What we see on screen has an effect, and the more popular and widespread the programme, the greater this is. The complainers are right. What their children see does matter. This is the very reason the BBC should keep its nerve and refuse to pander to them.

... but then we suspected that all along didn't we!

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8772014

A sample of men were classified according to the degree of their antipathy to homosexuality and subjected to gay male, lesbian and straight porn. The homophobes displayed arousal to the gay male porn while the non-homophobes displayed no arousal.

On Saturday afternoon, 300 marchers in the first Croatian pride to be held in Split were being besieged by a crowd of 10,000 protesters, who eventually brought Split Pride to an end. Europe still has its dark places. more

The crazies are still out there - but you all knew that, anyway. Dr. George Rekers, who was a leading "ex-gay therapist" with NARTH before he got caught with someone he met on RentBoy.com, has ruined many lives. His experimental "therapy", dubbed the "sissy boy experiment", is still being cited as "proof" that homosexuality can be headed off. If you have time, do have a look at the video. Stay angry.

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/US/06/07/sis...index.html

Condolences to Kirk Murphy's family who have recently discovered the cost of the treatment Kirk received in childhood.

Lemonade Mouth is a Disney Channel Original Movie about this band that a group of kinds form while in detention. I know that the minute you read it has something to do with Disney Channel, most of you will close this thread - you know, always the assumptions that DCOMs are childish bullshit about love filled with dumb songs. I would say that that's only High School Musical.

So, I haven't actually seen Lemonade Mouth yet, I'm doing that tonight. Everyone says the movie totally ROCKS because it is amazingly mature and focuses very little on love. It's mostly about being hear and expressing yourself and just...standing up and proud, you know. The soundtrack is beautiful! SO moving!

I just decided to make a thread about it. Here are a few of the most inspiring songs:

Quote:Homophobic attacks in London's Soho and the gay-friendly borough of Westminster increased last year, according to the Met Police.

New figures released by Scotland Yard revealed that anti-gay hate crime increased by 26 per cent, from 117 to 148 incidents, from April 2010 to April 2011.

Soho is famously regarded as the queer area of the capital.

The figure contradicts the capital's overall hate crime stats, which saw incidents fall by 0.1 per cent and total crime dropping 0.5 per cent across the 32 London boroughs.

This seems to be a recurring theme. I look forward to not reporting this one year.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev may have fired Yury Luzhkov as mayor of Moscow, but Luzhkov's homophobic spirit lives on. While the rest of us were thinking of more positive activities for IDAHO this year Moscow was banning gay pride - crass timing. As ever the bold activist Nicolai Alekseev has vowed to appeal directly to the Kremlin and continue the struggle. I'm sure we all wish him and other human rights activists in Russia the very best.

http://ukgaynews.org.uk/Archive/11/May/1702.htm