Archive for January 29th, 2008
Gay Website is…Homophobic?
3:18 pm By Maegan La Mala · Chile| GLBT| Internet · Comments Off
29 Jan 2008
Here’s one I wish was a joke. Spain’s AmbienteG reports that a prominent gay web site in Chile, GayChile, is actually aligned with homophobic evangelical fundamentalists:
Gaychile has gone from being the premiere [LGBT] site in Chile dedicated to defending [the community's] rights to being reported for mistreatment of the gay community. It seems that its creator, Víctor Jorquera, maintains a close relationship with the Biblical Missionary Church of Paraguay, a religious group which claims to be independent of any doctrine. The influence of this institution has made Jorquera not only renounce his own sexuality but also make homophobic comments.
What did he say? Apparently, among other things, he said “From something as miserable and shameful as being gay, I became a son of God.”
As of today, GayChile.com is still online, with news updated just this morning. I wonder if Jorquera is still making money off the traffic of his “shameful” readers who don’t know he’s turned the site into a trap where he hopes to “convert” people from their “lifestyle”.
Via / AmbienteG
Poll: Latino Leaders Favor Hillary
2:27 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · US Presidential Race 2008 · Comments Off
29 Jan 2008
According to a poll held by the National Institute for Latino Policy, Latino “opinion leaders” in the U.S. project that Latino voters will support the candidacy of Hillary Clinton for President of the United States. Who are these Latino opinion leaders? 689 people across the country polled between January 16th and 24th, 2008. This survey was administered through the Internet using a web survey service. Yet out of those same Latinos, only 43 percent said that they personally plan to vote for Clinton. More than a quarter (30 percent) indicated that they personally planned to vote for Obama.
Via / The National Institute for Latino Policy
‘Crash’ to Become a TV Show
1:28 pm By Maegan La Mala · Entertainment| Movies| TV| race · 1 Comment
29 Jan 2008
Remember Crash, that supposedly poignant film which purportedly made us all have a collective epiphany and own up to our own racism? Me neither (I liked it, saw it again, and hated it…weird). But you’ll have another chance to reflect on your bigotry with the new television series of the same premise:
Several producers of “Crash” have signed on to produce a 13-episode television series based on that Academy Award-winning film. This one-hour series will be the first original drama on Starz, which will produce it with Lionsgate. Production is expected to begin in the spring, with a premiere by the end of the year.
Starz? What is that?
Don Cheadle, a member of Crash’s (the film) original cast doesn’t have much hope either, saying “I don’t think you can do 13 episodes on that subject and keep people interested.”
Via / The New York Times
Sea Lion Massacre in the Galapagos
8:50 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Ecuador| Environment · 3 Comments
29 Jan 2008
Few people actually care when Latin American people get massacred but Latin American animals still get our sympathy. 53 sea lions, 13 pups, 25 youngsters, nine males and six females, were found with their heads smashed in on Pinta island, part of the Galapagos Islands, about 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador in the Pacific Ocean. Sometimes the sea lions are killed and mutilated. The skin are hunted for, and the teeth and genitals of the male animals are removed for use as a supposed aphrodisiac in Chinese medicine but their was none of that here, just someone who wanted to kill animals.
Via / BBC
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