Junk Activism

Effectively snipping the cojones from “Brokeback Mountain” - a tale of two gay cowboys - Italian broadcasters censored and cut out all of the gay scenes from the movie, making it into an innocent story of two chummy cowboy buddies.

“Gay” controversy aside, I must say this movie sucked bad.  The scenery was great, the song “Wings” is incredible, but it must have been one of the most boring pieces of cinema I’ve ever had the displeasure of yawning through.

Italy, instead of cutting out the only controversy that made this movie interesting to begin with, can you add some action to it, please?  Or some comedy.  Maybe Adam Sandler shows up and sings us a song about sheep.   How about some ass kicking and gunslinging action scenes with John Wayne?  Maybe the Terminator shows up Or… that awesome white-house-exploding scene from Independence Day would’ve been perfect.

Then again, maybe all of Italian TV should be boring.

Is it a prerequisite to be gay to come up with hilarious protests?  Is there competition within the gay community to come up with this stuff?  This one should take the cake for this week.

San Francisco gay marriage supporters are encouraging same-sex marriage supporters to “call in gay to work” tomorrow, Wednesday December 10th. From the article:

Sean Hetherington, a West Hollywood comedian and personal trainer, dreamed up the idea with his boyfriend, Aaron Hartzler, after reading online that a few angry gay-rights activists were calling for a daylong strike to protest California voters’ passage last month of Proposition 8, which reversed this year’s state Supreme Court decision allowing gay marriage.

The couple thought it would be more effective and less divisive if people were asked to perform community service instead of staying home with their wallets shut. Dozens of nonprofit agencies, from the National Women’s Law Center in Washington to a Methodist church in Fresno collecting food for the homeless, have posted opportunities for volunteers on the couple’s Web site.

Although I’m not gay and am scratching my head at how this is anything other than cheeky and fun attention-getting, it’s noble that they’re proposing to do community service instead of holding hate signs.

I can’t wait to try out a “gay” excuse sometime.  Something so utterly disturbing they won’t want you in the office.  I propose this excuse:  “Sorry, I can’t make it to work.  I’m gay today.  It’s this condition where I’m profoundly attracted to members of the same sex.  Because of that, Satan is burning holes in my brain, I’ve oiled up my body, and my muscles are twitching.  I also find it hot to compulsively touch myself while staring at my ass in a mirror.  Typically, this is a “24 hour bug” and will probably be gone tomorrow.  I understand that this behavior is disturbing for most and it is probably best if I stay home today.”

Also from the article is our Junk Activism Organization of the Day: Colorado Queer Straight Alliance

Awesome.

Ah, my favorite Junk Activists of all time, the Westboro Baptist Church, has one again made the news. Their protests are always good times, but to say the least I’m pretty damn confused about the point of this one.

This time they’ve turned their attentions to Portland State University to spread their message of God-fueled hatred protest Portland’s gender neutral potties.

I always thought that the only reason we have seperate bathrooms to begin with is because each gender pisses on the seat in their own way and the other doesn’t want to deal with it….and maybe Portland doesn’t care who’s making a mess anymore.   Besides, don’t we all have “gender neutral” bathrooms in our homes?  It is sinful for a man to piss in a toilet instead of a urinal?  Is it wrong for a woman to piss where a man hath spilled thine urine?  Was that in the Book of Lavatory, Chapter 6, Verse 2?

All four of them show up to protest…well, we know “to get attention” is really why:

She [Libby Phelps],  seemed to be taking the melee in stride, even welcoming the counter-protests’ attention. “I love it! It’s awesome,” she said, with a kind of giddy glee. “This is my favorite part, I love it when people come and block my sign, it’s awesome. Cause it draws so much more attention over here, and so people come over and look and be like, oh what’s the big the big fuss over there? And they’ll come over and look.”

Um, yes, it’s so much fun to travel to Oregon to get blocked, laughed at, and publicly ridiculed by a large number of peaceful Portlanders.

To Westboro Church: Kudos you on the awesome scam you’ve organized to raise funds, travelling the country to perform rainbow-flag-stomping antics.  Is this from selling M&Ms in front of the grocery store or is it Church tithing?  There is an outlet for your kind.  It’s called Jerry Springer. A perfect place for those of us who respond to our lesser indulgences of ignorance and violence.  You’ll find the perfect concoction of trash to inspire fans and violence.  Important side Note: You can throw chairs at people, too.  And I hope they throw them back.  It will make me “LOL” and “WTF”.

And thanks for the link to my site.  Please send more visitors my way, I like the attention…you know what it’s like.

Something huge in the gay community has happened in the past couple weeks and it’s not in anyone’s trousers.

It was Proposition 8, which I wrote an opinion on this week.  To write this blog I pan over news feeds on protests around the world on a daily basis.  This has gotten more attention on the Internet than anything yet in the past two months except Thailand’s political troubles.

Gay protesting and plans for protests are sprouting up everywhere from L.A. to New York City to Austin to Lansing Michigan (who is now famous for their ‘Gay Fascists‘) to Salt Lake City and back to San Fran and Sacramento.  No matter where you go, it seems there is a gay ole time to be had.

Here are some links I found with some more clever, funny gay protest signs for your imagination to chew on:

Proposition 8 Protest Signs - Several here that are good and I haven’t seen before.

Top 10 Prop 8 Protest Signs - I question why there is a top 10 already, it looks like the protests are just getting started. But regardless, there are still some funny ones.

Cre8ive Prop 8 - “Focus on your OWN Family” made me laugh.

I’m sure there is more to come….

Found here

Even Marilyn Manson showed up.

“I’m glad my (heart) grandmas are married”