Before returning to the fun stuff!

Okay, so, remember how two weeks ago I spoke about that father stuck in India with his twin sons?

Well, finally the Jerusalem District Attorney told ...Judge... Phillip Marcus that there is no legal obstacle to the paternity test Goldberg needs in order to bring his sons to Israel and for them to become citizens:

Meanwhile, the Rainbow Families group - an umbrella organization for gay families - held a demonstration in support of Goldberg in Tel Aviv yesterday. The demonstrators called upon Interior Minister Eli Yishai to allow the twins to come to Israel.

Of course it took the Prime Minister to actually kick things up. It's not as though the state actually gives a shit.

Yeah, Happy IDAHO, Goldbergs!


Yesterday there was a Pride Parade for the first time in Rishon Lezion, which is a city south of Tel-Aviv, there the IDAHO events in Israel kicked off. Not that I can find any news about what went on there of course - it had a hard time coming together and since all I have are a few accounts, apparently there were only a couple hundred people who weren't cops.

Lovely.

It's especially lovely to read that over the weekend at Eilat's annual Gay Pride and Village Events three gay men were attacked.
Of course, it's "unclear" as to what motivated the attack.

My ass.

And lest we forget institutionalised homophobia, transphobia, lesbophbia, biphobia and a general queerphobia:

"The flamboyance of the homosexuals borders on the disgusting. It's an issue not only of aesthetics, but of decency. They propagandize minors in order to increase their own political clout. To glorify a disability and turn it into an ideal is a distortion of morality and human nature."... ""It is human nature to be attracted to the opposite sex,"..." "True, there are thousands of teens whose nature endowed them with the opposite inclination. But this is no cause for celebration or for pride, just as to be proud, just as it is no cause for discrimination against them .... It is a fraud to think that the purpose here is just to protect these thousands of teens in distress. There is a political, extra-parliamentary system aimed at delegitimizing the institution of the traditional family in favor of immediate, available sexual gratification. Many naive [individuals] have surrendered to the verbal brutality of the [gay] 'community,' and in exchange for the protection of thousands of teens, tens of thousands more have ended up confused,"

This is a comment made by a teacher named Yair Becker, as quoted in Ha'aretz article in which he also states:

"I don't have a problem with the Web sites that deal with education and homosexuality, but rather with the fact that a religious student who is directed to the site by a teacher could be exposed to material that goes beyond what the teacher intended."

It's not personal of course.
Except when it is:

"Just as I'm not supposed to tell my students what I like in bed, no student of mine should tell me about his sexual orientation."

And that's how mainline Israel looks today.

Gays have to prove themselves to be human enough to be parents. Gays can't walk down the street while recognisable as gay. Gays should be invisible and not share the fact that they are, who they are, it makes the straights uncomfortable.

A couple of weeks ago I was in class, a class called "Critically Queer", yes, named after Judith Butler's mass of the same name and I lost it. I almost never cut people off when they speak. I am polite and raise my hand and wait my turn.
But when a fucking stupid privileged inconsiderate ass-hole says that gays need to show they are capable of "mature" (see: real) relationships, then the "mainstream" would accept them.

I think y'all can imagine what happened next.

Beyond the fact that I ripped her argument to fucking shreds, I went on a tirade that it's not for the "mainstream" (whatever the fuck that is) to decide what's acceptable and what it not. I am human, or I am not. I am acceptable, or I not. There are no conditions to be put upon my and my friends humanity.

I was so fucking angry and I had to walk around campus for a while, the lecturer said my comments were good but that he feared for my health - when I get red in the face, I feel as though the top of my head opens up and lava comes spewing out - sorry for the image, but I do get hot with rage.
It didn't help that I later decided to get into a fight with Zionists who called me a self-hating Jew. But that's a story for another day.

Believe me, the fact that there are gay journalists, gay movie makes, gay authors, gay actors, gay uni professors and the fact that the Association for LGBT Rights in Israel won the President's Volunteer award, really, but really doesn't mean things are fine and fucking dandy.

Things fucking suck!

Also, I use "gay" for a reason, as there is barely any Lesbian visibility, Bisexul and Trans identities can be safely considered non-existent in "mainstream" conciousness.

Queers are the radical leftist anti-zionist whack-jobs. They don't represent anyone.

Oh, Palestinian LGBT's? Hah! They're lucky to be living in Israel, the ones with Israeli citizenship of course. Queer oasis.
The ones in Gaza and the West Bank... they don't even have tongues with which to articulate their distress.

Damn right I'm fucking red in the face!

Signal Boost!

Bah! I got this a week or so ago from Joy hirself, I hope I'm not too late!

Palestine Solidarity Activist and Blogger Joy in Palestine is writing a graphic novel about hir experiences in the village of at-Tuwani in the West Bank.

The project is called at-Tuwani, a Graphic Novel

All the information is available at the website linked above, but under the cut I've put all the info you need to know about Joy and how to donate to help hir cause: ( Cut for Length )

Please spread the word along!