Joshalot has unearthed an all too brief video clip from 1995 of Matthew Shepard and his then boyfriend being interviewed by filmmaker Tim Kirkman for a documentary titled Dear Jesse, a work that examined differences and similarities between the openly gay director and the notorious homophobe Jesse Helms, the five-term Republican Senator from North Carolina who fathered the kind of violent political rhetoric now familiar. Shepard was at the time an undergraduate at Catawba College, in Salisbury, North Carolina, a college, as Shepard mentions that was and is conservative owing in part to its connection to the United Church of Christ.
Last week I posted about Truro, Nova Scotia, and plans by the city council to close a central park, an effort led in large part by Mayor Bill Mills, who insists that the area is provincially well known as being a “rendezvous” for gay men. Monday, the Truro Daily News reports that resident Darryl Moir, openly gay, has filed a formal complaint against Mills, and wants the mayor charged with committing a hate crime.
ABC News on efforts to eliminate homosexuality not only in Uganda, but in Africa as a whole, with countries like Burundi, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Sudan seeking to implement measures that would make being gay an offense punishable by prison or death.
The Miami Herald reports on Buju Banton, currently in a Miami federal detention centre awaiting an appearance in court on conspiracy drug charges, a number of supporters of the viciously homophobic Jamaican reggae artist stunningly suggesting that the arrest of Banton is a conspiracy plotted by an unnamed gay group.
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