Archive for February 28th, 2006
Border Crossings Erase Identities
5:51 pm By Maegan La Mala · Immigration · Comments Off
28 Feb 2006
They came in search of a better life for themselves and their families. They came with dreams of jobs and being able to send something back to those they left behind. Since 1993 at least 1,000 of them have ended up in unmarked graves along the U.S.-Mexican border. They are those “illegals” you hear Lou Dobbs screaming about everyday on his television program. According to Katarina Rodríguez of Human Rights Coalition/Indigenous Alliance without Borders:
The situation is getting steadily worse, every year there are more dead migrants, and they are very difficult to identify, as sometimes only their bones are found.
Alejandro Fernández: a “real man”
4:41 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities|GLBT|Music · 2 Comments
28 Feb 2006
Don’t go calling him gay. Apparently “El Potrillo” Alejandro Fernández has been the target of criticism and speculation lately regarding his sexual orientation because he and his father engage in kisses on the mouth as a show of affection. Alejandro counters:
“Esta es una costumbre familiar y no nos interesan las críticas. Yo a mis hijos también los beso en la boca, tal y como me lo enseñó mi padre, y eso no significa nada sobre nuestras tendencias sexuales, por el contrario, somos muy hombrecitos“, expresó el artista en rueda de prensa.
It’s pretty lame that he’s basically saying he’s a “real man” as opposed to a “gay man”, who aren’t considered “hombres”. Lame because I liked him and thought he’d be beyond the typical of Mexican machismo BS of gay men are “locas”. I guess guys who kiss their dad on the mouth…we’ll, they’re just chest-beating machos who can do that.
As for the speculation, how ridiculous is it to think that a man is gay because he kisses his dad? I mean do gay men make out with their fathers? Ugh.
Via / AZ Central and Ticias
Latino techno? You’re kidding!
1:32 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Media|Music|Newspapers · 4 Comments
28 Feb 2006
As evidence of the fact that mainstream media continues to see Latinos as retrograde, this snippet from a very “surprised” article about the Latino techno movement:
Electronic and Latin music would seem to reside at polar ends of the music spectrum. One is precise, the other passionate. One is the brutalist Bauhaus beats of Kraftwerk, the other is the languid romanticism of the Buena Vista Social Club.
Why Buena Vista Social Club? Why is that the quintessential “Latin music”?
La Hermana de Eva
9:14 am By Maegan La Mala · Celebrities|Chismes|TV · Comments Off
28 Feb 2006
Add this to the celeb with a cause file except for Eva Longoria, it’s also personal. The Desperate Housewife star recently spoke out against disabled prejudice citing the example of her 37-year-old sister Elizabeth, who was born with Down’s Syndrome. Longoria said:
People think that if you are mentally retarded then it’s a great shame and you can’t play any part in life. I would like to educate people because that just isn’t true. It is never about what Elizabeth can’t do, it is about what she can do.
Via / Female First
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