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“Prime Minister Stephen Harper delivered a tough message to African leaders at the G8 summit in Japan on Monday, warning that Africa’s tolerance of Robert Mugabe’s regime in Zimbabwe hurts the entire continent’s credibility.”
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“To millions of US wrestling fans, Kofi Kingston is the first Jamaican wrestler in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). But his real identity is very different – because to his family and friends, he is Kofi Sarkodie-Mensah from Ghana.”
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“The American Muslim Teenager’s Handbook is beginning to gain momentum. It was put together by a mother and her teenage daughter and son in an effort to combat misconceptions about Muslims following 9/11.”
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“G0YS recognize that the prominent facets of the “gay-male” community tend to embrace every gender-bending act, fetish & affectation; –And include those things in the general specter of the image that “gay” projects publicly.”
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of
queerunity wrote:
thanks for linking to us!
Posted 08 Jul 2008 at 10:01 am ¶
gatamala wrote:
wow! Interesting discussion on g0ys. I don’t really know if I SHOULD be commenting on something I don’t know about, but it seems odd to have an identity based on bashing others or what you are NOT.
Identity politics, diversity, “representatives”….everybody has the issues layered in so many ways.
Posted 08 Jul 2008 at 11:20 am ¶
Shawna wrote:
thanks for the pingback.
Posted 08 Jul 2008 at 11:39 am ¶
dodgerdodger wrote:
I’m afraid I can’t even begin to take ‘g0y’ seriously, for the simple reason that I keep reading ‘goy.’ Non-Jewish is a new category?
But to be less shallow about it, this looks to me like another manifestation of the pushback against ‘mainstream’ gay identity by those who feel left at the margins: masculine guys, guys who don’t like anal sex, guys who are uncomfortable with sexual behavior automatically defining their political affiliations. And while they don’t seem to feature in the G0Y manifesto, gay men of color also play a part in that pushback.
The G0Y identity appears to be constructed based on the devaluation of women and the stigmatization of non-standard sex practices–which makes it pretty obviously problematic for your average progressive. But the underlying concern shouldn’t be ignored. The systematized insistence of the mainstream queer community on every single gay guy subverting gender with his every waking moment excludes plenty of men who have sex with men. A white-privileging racial standard of beauty and behavior doesn’t help either. I think both of these tendencies make the entire fight for the humanization of queer people in the eyes of society more difficult.
Posted 08 Jul 2008 at 1:14 pm ¶
Lea wrote:
Many queer communities struggle to be as diverse and inclusive as they can be. Yes, there is a certain queer cultural benchmark, or rather several, but there are ways for a queer man to do his own thing and find his place in a queer community without belittling others.
There’s a difference between feeling masculine and arguing that effeminacy is inferior. It troubles me that so many people feel that the only way to pursue their individual tastes is to nationalistically put down everyone else’s preferences. I just don’t understand it.
Posted 09 Jul 2008 at 5:07 am ¶
Josh wrote:
I’m with dodgerdodger. Everything else aside, these folks need a new name for themselves, because “goy” is taken, and it’s too distracting.
Posted 10 Jul 2008 at 1:26 pm ¶