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On uppity lesbians.

Posted by xJane on March 12th, 2010 at 2:54 pm · 5 Comments

For some reason, usually when I hear about homophobic bigots being homophobically bigoted, they’re doing it against gay men. I have my own theories about why lesbians fly under the radar (girl-on-girl appeals het men, the mere existence of lesbians doesn’t threaten men and who cares if it threatens women, &c.), but no more. The news has been alight this week with homophobes cracking down on gay women.

There’s the incredibly brave Mississippi high school senior whose school cancelled prom for the whole school rather than let two women dance together or worse, let one wear a tuxedo (horrors). The administration is hoping that a private *ahem* party will hold an invitation-only prom-replacement to which teh lesbians will not be invited. I am so impressed by these teens’ courage—it is directly proportional to the depths to which the homophobes sink.

And there’s Washington DC’s Catholic Cadre who [stays classy and has] kicked a preschooler out of school because his parents are *gasp* the same gender. Outrage comes from an unlikely source: Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly (who’s Catholic?! …yeah, okay that explains a lot, akshly.) demands to know if adulterous or divorced parents’ children will be expelled. The hilariously closeted Vatican shill spokesman sputters a bit and has no real reply except the underlying assumed “I’m scared of my own sexuality and so am scared of others’, too”. [h/t Jana]

*sigh* I feel like it’s going to get worse before it gets better (does this count, yet?). But I still feel, deep inside me that it will get better.

Tags: Gay Rights and Queer Issues

5 responses so far ↓

  • 1 John // Mar 12, 2010 at 4:18 pm

    I just watched the O’Reilly interview. It’s the one time I’ve actually cheered Bill on.

    That said, I’m curious. Why is the priest “closeted”? I’m only going there because I know there are people who assume that because I don’t display stereotypical straight male characteristics, that my stated sexual orientation is in question.

  • 2 xJane // Mar 12, 2010 at 4:24 pm

    It’s true, I don’t know his sexual orientation, only that he’s chosen to [publicly] give up sex. He scans as gay. Not all priests do, but a surprising number do. That doesn’t mean that he is gay, but given the distressing number of conservative homophobes who have come out as self-loathing, I find myself questioning those who scan as gay and speak out violently against homosexuality.

  • 3 Molly // Mar 14, 2010 at 7:50 am

    fwiw, JoeMyGod said the priest “sets my gaydar ping-diddly-inging.”

    http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2010/03/fox-news-on-catholic-schools-expulsion.html

  • 4 Elaine // Mar 14, 2010 at 3:23 pm

    In reference to the child that was booted from a Catholic school because both his parents are the same gender: The same thing happened here in Fresno a while ago (sorry; I don’t have a link), when a child was removed from school because his/her (can’t recall which) parent was a lesbian. The even more ridiculous thing about it was that the parent in question was very active in the school, did all kinds of fundraising and volunteering, and so forth. Was, in short, of great benefit to the school. But once they found out she was a lesbian, none of that mattered.

    It sucks.

  • 5 angryyoungwoman // Mar 14, 2010 at 11:32 pm

    I am very bothered that a child was not allowed to go to a school because his parents were gay. That’s horrible.

    It does kind of seem a spotlight week for lesbians.

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