L’ultima di Giovanardi sugli omosessuali: ai microfoni de La Zanzara su Radio 24, afferma che se nell’esercito “ci sono degli omosessuali dichiarati devono essere messi in camerate separate. E’ una questione di buonsenso: se avessi due o tre persone che non solo sono gay ma vogliono praticare in maniera attiva la loro omosessualità, avrei qualche imbarazzo a essere in una camerata con loro”.
Nonostante il mondo sia vario mi risulta difficile credere che qualcuno possa trarre piacere nel far sesso in presenza di Giovanardi senza essere a sua volta in imbarazzo ma andiamo avanti: “Nell’esercito è inopportuno dichiarare di essere omosessuale – conclude il senatore Pdl – Non bisogna ostentare le proprie preferenze sessuali, di qualsiasi tipo siano”.
Ma Giovanardi non è del partito dell’Amore, dove il padre/padrone ha a dir poco ostentato in modo triviale e boccaccesco la sua ipersessualità pur essendo Presidente del Consiglio?
Gennaro Migliore della segreteria nazionale di Sinistra Ecologia Libertà afferma che Giovanardi sia un caso clinico. Parlando di clinica vorrei ribadire alcune cose.Nel 1973 la American Psychiatric Association, preso atto dell’assenza di prove scientifiche che giustificassero la catalogazione dell’omosessualità come patologia psichiatrica, l’ha cancellata dall’elenco delle malattie mentali, il Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. L’ordine degli Psicologi dell’Emilia Romagna ha redatto un comunicato su questo tema prendendo una posizione chiara nei confronti delle cosiddette Terapie Riparative: “Modelli terapeutici che, contro ogni evidenza scientifica, patologizzano l’omosessualità pretendono di“curarla”. Anche la La PAHO (Pan American Health Organization), la più antica organizzazione della sanità pubblica nel mondo, ha redatto un report che condanna le terapie riparative.
La scienza con il DSM-IV e l’ICD-10 (i principali manuali diagnostici cui noi psicologi, psicoterapeuti e psichiatri dobbiamo riferirci durante la diagnosi ), non classifica l’omosessualità come malattia ed evidenzia l’inefficacia di terapie volte a modificare l’orientamento sessuale dell’individuo, segnalando invece la necessità di aiutare e curare il malessere di coloro che soffrono per il proprio orientamento sessuale.
Ma perché si parla di sofferenza? Qualcuno si è attaccato pretestuosamente alla definizione di “omosessualità egodistonica” presente nell’IC10 ma come afferma un comunicato di Arcilesbica nazionale : “La non accettazione di se stesse da parte di lesbiche e gay è frutto di un’omofobia interiorizzata che nasce in contesti culturali e sociali avversi, omofobi, discriminanti. Anche la medicina ci dice dunque che società omofobe producono cittadine e cittadini infelici, ci dice che l’omofobia produce danni reali, concreti, misurabili nella vita delle persone”.
Come psicologa mi sento quindi in dovere di tranquillizzare il senatore Giovanardi: non mi pare che nel mondo gay egli sia un’icona appetibile e che qualcuno sia interessato a lui in questo senso, non credo che egli possa contribuire con le sue asserzioni senza nessuna base clinica alle prese di posizione nette del mondo scientifico.
Vorrei inoltre informare il senatore Giovanardi che nel suo report la Paho fa una serie di raccomandazioni ai governi e ai professionisti:
1) Chi offre “terapie riparative” o di “conversione” dovrebbe essere denunciato e condannato con sanzioni adeguate.
2) Le istituzioni pubbliche responsabili della formazione degli operatori sanitari dovrebbero comprendere corsi sulla sessualità umana e la salute sessuale nei loro programmi.
3) Le associazioni professionali dovrebbero divulgare i documenti e le risoluzioni da parte delle istituzioni nazionali e internazionali.
4) Nei media, l’omofobia in una qualsiasi delle sue manifestazioni dovrebbe essere esposta come un problema di salute pubblica e una minaccia alla dignità umana e dei diritti umani.
Giovanardi diffonde omofobia, dovrebbe attenersi alla scienza e non alla superstizione bigotta, come chiedono buon senso e responsabilità.
“American history is really a war, a civil war that never ends. It’s not always fought on the battle field; it’s fought in congress and in our presidential campaigns. It’s really a battle between those who want to extend freedom, opportunity and rights - and those who want to restrict them. It’s taken a long time, it’s been a brutal struggle for women’s rights, African American rights, for gay rights – but in the end, the people who fight to enlarge our liberty [historically] tend to win the argument.” —
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Last week someone in the comments called me — hang on, I’m going to look it up because I want to get it right — a “Self-righteous Lesbian. Devoted to improving Glee with her rapacious standards of heterophobia and misandry. A woman on a mission.” And while the heterophobia and misandry thing is all wrong, the other part is right. I am a self-righteous lesbian, and I am a woman on a mission. And I’m not going to apologize for either of those things. Sometimes I’m preachy and always I want what I want, because what I want is: Queer visibility. When I started writing for AfterEllen, there was barely enough lesbian pop culture news to fill a weekly column. We went an entire year without a major lesbian character on broadcast TV. I’m talking like five years ago, that was the reality. Not one single major lesbian character. And gay guys weren’t all that present on broadcast TV either.
Here’s what we know about queer representation on TV: It changes everything. It changes things for straight people who have never met a gay person in their lives. It humanizes us. It opens the door for us into the living rooms of “mainstream” America and we sit down with these people who don’t know us and we have dinner with these people who don’t know us and we make them laugh and we make them cry and they come away knowing that there’s one kind of folks.
And it changes everything for gay people too. We are, all of us, born with an ancient need to stretch ourselves across the fictional universes of other people’s stories.
If they can be heroes, we can be heroes. If they can find love, we can find love. If they can crash and bleed and break and claw their way back to redemption, well, then, so can we. If a young gay boy can get thrown into a dumpster and crawl out and come out and sing his way into the most prestigious fine arts school in the country where he can banish his bullies with a song in his heart and a smile on his face, we can really believe that it gets better. And if a young gay girl can break through walls she spent a lifetime building, stare down her deepest, darkest fears, and find the courage to crack open her own heart, we can be brave enough to love out loud too.
When I call Glee out on its misogyny, on its double standard of gay/straight physical affection, on its unwillingness to commit to its character development and tell us their real truths, it’s not because I’m jaded and cynical and like the sound of my own angry voice. It’s because when Glee does it right, it does it better than anyone. It heals us on a soul-balm level.
I’ve written before about how constellations are nothing more than stories, the joining-up of unrelated points of light by people who wanted to make sense of the universe. When we look at the night sky, it’s not a jumble of glowing chaos. It’s Orion. It’s the Big Dipper. It’s Leo the Nemean Lion. And when we look at our own lives in the context of the stories we’ve been told, we’re not lost and alone and abandoned in a turbulent world without hope. We’re Blaine. We’re Brittany. We’re Santana. We’re Unique.
And when people who don’t know us — not really, not physically, not yet — try to work out whether or not we’re like them, the same thing is true: We are Kurt Hummel. We hurt and we love and we hope. Oh, we hope. And sometimes we do it looking fierce in one-sleeved woolen ponchos.
So, yes: I am a woman on a mission. And when Santana Lopez says “AfterEllen” out loud on Fox, five years after there were exactly zero lesbians on any major network, it only strengthens my resolve. It also makes me feel like the first time I went out on a date with another girl and she flicked her eyes up at me coyly over her beer and I was like, “Oh Jesus, she’s going to kiss me. Another girl is going to kiss me.” And she did kiss me, all gentle and firm and delicious and hops and jalapenos, and my heart ricocheted around in my chest like a pinball and my lungs forgot to do their job and all of my blood rushed to the surface of my skin, and I think what happened next was that I blacked out.
It’s like, Naya Rivera is saying “AfterEllen.” I see her lips going, “AfterEllen.” But it sounds to me very much like, “I love you.”
” — AfterEllen Glee “Diva” RecapMae Martin
“Which part of the vegetable represents the pork chop?” - Interesting take on the the oh so familiar topic.
> Guys, signal boost this and FAST. In only a couple of days, the governor of California will be asked to sign a law officially legalizing "anti-gay therapy" which teaches young homosexuals to hate themselves. Sign this and get this to his desk before anti-gay extremists get theirs to him first. Still need over 20,000 signatures, but if anyone can get that many fast, it's Tumblr. Pleeease spread this!
Signal boost
‘Anti gay therapy’ and garbage like it is one of the most disgusting and repulsive evils in the world and it MUST NOT become legal in california
People who want to ‘Cure’ homosexuality are the scum of the earth and it must NOT be allowed to be legal for these subhuman scumbags to try and force LGBTQ people to ‘become’ straight
‘Reparative therapy’, as they call it, is not even legal to psychiatrists because they declared it completely damaging and against any sort of good psychological therapy ALL OVER THE WORLD (if you only care about the U.S., the American Psychiatric Association condemned this type of ‘treatment’: “Ethical practitioners refrain from attempts to change individuals’ sexual orientation.”). The means of psychiatrists and psychologists is to help patients finding their own natural way, not in forcing them to do a 180 on who they are. This is completely damaging and it will make many people deny themselves and their own nature just because OTHER people feel more at ease this way.
Educate yourself.
(The title of the link is wrong though. The Government is trying to pass a law that makes Reparative therapy ILLEGAL. Governor Brown has yet to take a stand and has yet to sign the bill. This is why we should write to him to encourage him to do so.)
Immediately Judas went to Jesus and said, “Hail, Rabbi!” and
kissed Himgave him a very virile handshake.
L’ossessione di Giovanardi per i Gay
Every time some religious person says “It’s Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve” all I can think is that Adam and Eve were endgame in the bible and Adam and Steve just didn’t end up being canon and it’s like damn, if the biggest problem with homosexuality is that it’s a non-canon ship
believe me
we can work with that
“This truly is the civil rights issue of our generation. We all look back on when women finally got the right to vote and Civil Rights in the ’60s… Can you imagine the time when women couldn’t vote and black people had to use different bathrooms? What the hell was that? Forty years from now, we’ll look back and say “How was it possible that gay people weren’t extended the same rights we are? What the hell was that?” — Ben Gibbard (via musician-quotes)
“… I’d be devastated if my son grows up to be a hetero. I mean, I’d still love him … but as a parent you just envision a certain life for your child. I mean, if he’s straight, think of all the fabulous things he’s going to miss out on … When I think my son might never know the joys of having a quarter share on Fire Island and walking through Judy Garland Memorial Park on the way to the Meat Rack.” — Debra Messing, on Trevor Live Event with Eric McCormack on Monday. (via comingoutjournal)
A couple only have eyes for each other at a Beatles concert in Wigan, 13 October 1964.
on a scale of 1 to usa how free are you to marry your gay lover
OH WAIT
if all the gays are going to hell it’s going to be an extremely well decorated place and we’ll be able to chat with the majority of our favourite celebrities
