world outside my window...

THE WEEK
ACCORDING TO
GARÇON STUPIDE

• Brazil's first gay school opens its doors in March, funded and approved by São Paulo's government. Made in Brazil: "The idea is to provide a safe place for homosexual teenagers to express themselves, while also learning and promoting gay culture." Lovely.

• Gay Italian couple Francesco Zanardi and Manuel Incorvaia (right)are streaming their hunger strike live. The couple demand gay marriage rights.

• Italy opens first prison for transsexuals.

• Lithuanian Gay League granted permit to hold Baltic Pride 2010 rally in May.

• The Government of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia revises proposal for anti-discrimination legislation; sexual orientation no longer covered.

• Belgian Archbishop: homosexuality same as anorexia. If he'd been clever he'd have equated it with bulimia, what with all the gorging and gagging... Just a thought.

• Israel's top gay web site celebrates 10th birthday.

• Jamaican shopkeeper refuses to sell to people with HIV. An ignorant, ill-informed Jamaican? Well, I never!

• Uganda: Anti-gay bill proponent Pastor Martin Ssempa and his obsession with fetishistic gay sex (left).

• Uganda: Puritanism is deadly policy - US fed homophobia in Uganda must stop.

• So how about some Scat Porn and Prayer? The Huffington Post has more.

• Gay Malawi couple Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalangahave (right) - who have now been in jail for over a month - have once again been denied bail. This time, the judge claims it's for their own safety.

• Afghani men deny homosexuality, explain away anal gonorrhea.

• 346 No Executions: the campaign by human rights groups to end executions in Iran.

• Now I have lost hope: Gay Iranian threatened with imminent deportation from Norway faces certain death back home. UK Gay News reported again on Thursday 28th that he was "still at the asylum centre at Sandnessjøen".

• Being gay in China. Three different stories from gay Chinese men.

• Rob Smith, gay Iraq war veteran: Military Leader Memo: Your Gay Soldiers are No Longer Worthless. "Gay veterans aren't worthless. I'm not worthless. The blood I shed was the same as every other soldier's, the tears I cried were the same, the bullets that I dodged the same; the life that I risked is the same. I'm not worthless or perverted or sick, and neither is any other gay person in this world, veteran or not. I was a gay soldier."

• Still, every cloud has a silver lining: the upside of Don't Ask, Don't Tell...

• There's no such thing as monogamy! All gay couples are sluts and they're totally open about it. Apparently... Right, Jovonnie and Citybwoy - a very open couple?

• Jeremy Hooper at Good As You ain't thrilled about it: "It's astounding that anyone, especially a progressive from New York City's media world, would still have such an uninformed opinion about gay relationships as a whole."

• Dan Savage disagrees with Jeremy: "Gay male couples generally don't view monogamy as the defining characteristic of a loving, committed relationship."

• Gay glam scam!

• Oh, nice. Hate monger Buju Banton is to be honoured by the Grammys. But we're not taking it laying down (left)...

• And whilst Buju's locked up on drugs charges, quite probably taking it laying down (chuckle), another anti-gay fruitcake, Capleton, is touring California next month. He's named in the Dancehall Dossier alongside such luminaries as Bounty Killer and the aforementioned jail bitch. Capleton is scheduled to appear 15th February at the "Tribute to the Legends" festival in San Diego, the Downtown Brewing Company in San Luis Obispo on 17th February, the "Ragga Muffins 2010" festival at the Fox Theater in Oakland on 20th February, and at the same event in Long Beach on 21st February. Thanks to Sam Kestu for this information!

• Sold out: American network lies about available advertising spots; denies gay ad airtime.

• Are Manhunt's ads so ambiguous that straight women think they should sign on? Yes, actually.

• More pro-LGBT laws passed in 2009 than in '07 and '08 combined.

• Lambda Legal warns Atlanta Falcons fullback Ovie Mughelli: It is not defamatory to call someone gay. Author Taylor Siluwé writes: "Too many men believe being called 'gay' is like being spat on. And its high time we changed that idiotic perception."

• NFL player Eric Green accused of forcibly sodomising transgender woman.

• This is more like it. As one wag puts it, "The look....of love......is in.....your eyes ......"

• Here's another pregnant transgrender man for the mainstream media to parade as a Victorian freak show. The Pregnant Man! No you f**king twats, it's a pregant transgender man. But that's not such a good headline, is it?

• Gay identity refracted in multiple voices: Word Is Out, a 1977 documentary, interweaves the stories of 26 gay men and lesbians who speak openly about coming out, finding love and fighting prejudice.

• "Bi" any means necessary: A meditation on Malcolm Little AKA Detroit Red.

• What? WHAT? Has someone laced my drink? Is this real? It's the Westboro Baptist Church version of Lady Gaga's Poker Face. Your brain will melt. And yes, that is the World Trade Center in there.

• Gay versus pro-lifers. Let this guy loose on the Westboro loonies, please!

• Brighton reels in gay US tourists. (I used to visit a bucket-arsed Jamaican whore in Brighton. Then she moved to London to live amongst the other whores.)

• Church leaders are wrong on equality.

• Allow gay couples to marry in church, says Government minister.

• David Cameron makes a bid for the pink vote - despite his party's despicable record on gay issues.

• But here's the real, unvarnished Conservative view, from veteran Tory Ann Widdecombe: Gay laws are threat to free speech.

• Are public attitudes to homosexuality becoming more liberal? The British Social Attitudes survey found that 36 percent thought homosexual acts were "always" or "mostly" wrong, down from 62 percent in 1983.

• This would make a good workplace sitcom: Prominent gay writer leaves Daily Telegraph to join Daily Mail – and is given a desk next to Jan Moir.

• Are people waking up to the fact that the Conservatives are upper class toffs bent on maintaining their elite way of life?

• Tory prison ships.

• Chocolate wars! How the world eats its favourite sweets.

• An advert for reliable workers was rejected by Jobcentre Plus because it discriminated against unreliable people.

• Boys who look at porn grow up to be men who think sexual harassment is acceptable.

• Christians campaign against advertisements for extramarital dating service.

• Hear the rumble of Christian hypocrisy: The evangelist who says the Haiti earthquake is retribution for sin is at least true to his religion.

• Doctors are addicted to every drug under the sun. And how about the surgeon I know who does gay porn? Oh er, if scalpels could talk...

• TK Maxx puts on sale toddler's beloved home-made toy that she dropped in the store. I know times are hard, but still...

• Is the ICA going to close?

• Haiti: amputee generation.

• Haiti: Still, never mind, Scientology's here to solve all their problems. With the power of touch.

• The Big Picture: At work, part II, left (45 pictures).

• The Big Picture: Afghanistan, January 2010, right (42 pictures).

• American news anchor on Obama: "I forgot he was black". (Readers of ka-os|theory may wish to pay close attention to the attack directed against this blog in the comments accompanying the piece).

• Animal pictures of the week (26 pictures).

• Blobfish: world's most 'miserable looking' marine animal facing exinction.

• Get buried with your pet.

• Live pigs blown up in government terrorism experiments.

• Torture, brutality, cruelty on an industrial scale: inside New York's biggest diary farm. Watch if you tihkn you can stomach it - I couldn't.

• One man and his chicken love. On the New York subway.

• How about some bear versus cat action?

• Eat a pig, have more sex.

• You probably haven't heard, but Apple has unveiled its precious f**king iPad. Will solve global warming/stop domestic abuse/cure AIDS/anything really.

• The iPad will also save the press, apparently.

• Why I don't want an Apple iPad.

• MP3? It's so last decade. There's a new format around the corner.

• Should you stop using Internet Explorer?

• And if so, what are the alternatives? (Here at ka-os|theory, Google Chrome has become the favourite, although is Internet Explorer still has its uses...)

• The 3 Facebook settings every user should check now.

• Furniture made from roots.

• Tiny floating house.

• Paywalls: Rupert Murdoch and the New York Times are sleepwalking into oblivion by shutting the newspaper industry off from the openness of the web.

• The rise of vintage posters.

• Julian Beever's amazing pavement art (13 pictures).

• The Apple-Amazon ebook war begins: Amazon deletes Macmillan books.

• John Wyndham's Plan for Chaos; review.

• When fiction breaks down: why the world of work features in so few modern stories.

• Largest book in the world to go on display.

• J.D. Salinger, the literary recluse, is dead.

• Massive Attack: interview.

• JLS invade America!

• Michael Jackson doll to be launched. Should be fun with the kiddies.

• First posters for Dunno Y... Na Jaane Kyun, Bollywood's first explicitly gay film, emerge.

• Spartacus: Blood And Sand is the most explicit show ever.

• Gay favourite Ugly Betty cancelled. I never got it, myself.

• This week's Gays of Our Lives: the latest clips, news and spoilers in the world of soaps and dramas featuring your favorite (and not so favorite) gay characters. Right, One Life To Live.

• Banned for inciting racial hatred: the Dad's Army board game.

• Weather fail.

• Gee, this should be thoughtful and enlightening: Nelly is planning a male version of The View.

• Stag Homme Studios introduce new model, Brazilian beauty Apollo (immediate left). "He’s a looker, but I’d have preferred a non-thug scenario for a change of pace," writes JC Adams at Gay Porn Times. You and me both, mate.

• I've said it before and I'll say it again: basketball stars just ain't sexy. Case in point. Put it away love.

• Still, at least she's apologised.

• Some Randy Blue models make out. Is this a story? No. I just wanted to run the accompanying picture.

• An openly gay police officer whose appearance in an all-male bondage film led to his dismissal from his day job is now prepared to sue his former department for discrimination.

• In recession, adult actors turn to private meetings. Got a few bucks to spare? You can meet the likes of Zeb Atlas and Chris Rockway. What happens next? That's down to two consenting adults...

• If I can't have Brent Corrigan, NO ONE CAN!

• Fratboy butt cheek "destroyed" in hazing gone wrong. This stories got video (don't forget to come back here when you're done. Bunch of freaks).

• Eddie Black, the Treasure Island Media model, is dead.

• My God... Brazilian model Marlon Teixeira, and Clint Mauro feature in the A/X Spring/Summer 2010 campaign (right).

• A little Kerron Clement for you.

• Tattoos gone wrong!

• Helveticookies.

• We want male versions of these. STAT!

• Suitcases on wheels are a real pain.

• Miterudake For Lady, a Japanese DVD that consists of videos of men staring into the camera. To, er, help women (and men) overcome shyness. Hmm. What happened to just picturing the other person naked?

• Lastly, a word from Qaadir... Or is it Timaya? Hmm...

Issue 46 of World Outside My Window (The Week According To Garçon Stupide) covers the period 23-29 January 2010.

POSTSCRIPT
"You know, we might just as well not have bothered to come. The whole thing's been ridiculous."