homophobia

Holy crap, is this the most casually homophobic article you’ve ever read or what?

When I read this piece by Ian O’Doherty yesterday morning, I shrugged my shoulders and just kinda assumed someone else would kick up a fuss about it. But that didn’t happen. Now I’m no fan of outrage, but last year Daily Mail columnist Jan Moir was widely pilloried for a column she wrote following the death of Stephen Gately. And truthfully, that article contained little more than a few massive logical non-sequiturs and some spiteful innuendo.

On Tuesday – coincidentally, the morning after RTE’s acclaimed Growing Up Gay documentary was screened – a columnist in our biggest selling daily newspaper branded gays “sexual deviants”, and clearly equated homosexuality with paedophilia and bestiality. Read the article after the jump. It’s about a thousand times more ignorant and offensive than anything Jan Moir wrote. Yet no one seems to have batted an eyelid: Read the rest of this entry »

THIS IS FUNNY

Congratulations to Cork hurling goalkeeper, and three time All-Ireland winner, Donal Og Cusack for coming out in an interview today with one of the Sunday tabloids. The revelation won’t have come as much of a shock to 99.99% of hurling fans, but fair play to him nonetheless for having the guts to speak out.

Kudos also to Cusack’s father who, upon first learning about his son’s sexual orientation, responded with one of the funniest, and most dyed-in-the-wool GAA comebacks I’ve ever heard: Read the rest of this entry »