| Editor's anal Blog - This week Endemol (the TV production company responsible for Big Brother) has been down anal to Scarlet offices looking for experts - they were suitably impressed so expect to see me on TV talking about things you shouldn't put in your coochie on Channel 5 very soon...
Talking of Big Brother, we've also been interviewing a certain ex-housemate about her passion for sex toys for Scarlet's next exclusive which, I promise, will be all over the tabloids when it comes out on September 22nd - we've even managed to get an ex-Changing Rooms designer stripping in the same article (and I'm not talking about wallpaper). So all in all, it's been an exciting week - God only knows what the next one will bring...
Sarah, Editor of Scarlet Magazine
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Everyone who’s popped into the Scarlet office this week has surmised that there must be some truth to the notion that masturbation makes you go blind. This is because as editor of Scarlet I have to do an awful lot of ‘research’ with sex toys, and I have also become partially blind. I’ve even had to wear an eye patch!
If you don’t believe me just read Jonathan Gornall’s column in today’s Times (Times2 supplement, page 15). Fortunately this ailment is (a) temporary and (b) nothing to do with masturbation (though it did happen in bed and that’s all I’m saying).
Another thing that Gornall mentions is that our Cliterature is perhaps more appealing to men than women. I would love to know Cliterature readers’ thoughts on this, so please drop me a line at Letters@ScarletMagazine.co.uk and have your say.
Sarah, Editor of Scarlet Magazine |
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| Commentary: ass fuck The GOP, cock sucking Marriage Bans, and Blacks…Let’s Not Go Down This Road Again - You know it’s an election year when gays become the topic of conversation at the White House.
Not satisfied with dividing the entire country over immigration reform, for extra added blow jobs insurance, President Bush has decided to bring up the issue of banning marriage for lesbians and gays…again.
In his weekly Presidential gay anal address, the President reconfirmed his commitment to banning marriage for gays in America. ass parade Citing that “marriage blow jobs is the most enduring and important human institution, honored and encouraged in all cultures and by every religious faith,” he went on to say that, “an amendment to the Constitution is necessary because activist courts have left our Nation with no
other choice.”
We’ve been down this road before and it wasn’t pretty.
In 2004, thirteen states, including Ohio, Mississippi, Georgia and Michigan, passed amendments to their constitution defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman. The Black leadership allowed right wing conservatives to come in and message directly to African Americans on gay marriage and supporting the re-election of President Bush because he would protect America’s morals. Seemingly, Black pastors allowed their congregations to be bought with faith-based money in the guise of
protecting the institution of marriage.
And where did all of that get us? Absolutely nowhere.
There is still a disproportionately number of Black Americans that are still unemployed, disenfranchised, uneducated and uninsured.Two years assparade ago, the Black leadership failed African Americans by not exposing Bush’s political pandering for what it was. Choosing instead to focus on the war on terrorism, the economy, education, healthcare and affirmative action, they didn't see gay marriage as an issue they were ready to tackle.
We simply cannot afford to have that attitude today.
Like in 2004, but even more so today, there is simply too much at stake for us to be bamboozled into taking up an agenda that is not our own or in our best interests.
Look lesbian sex around you.
Are lesbians and gays the cause of the gang violence that is suffocating your neighborhoods? Are gays the reason why you can’t afford decent health care? Are gays the reason that ass fuck your child’s school is under funded and that the minimum anal sex wage hasn’t been raised?
No.
Just like you, gays are trying to make it day to day and provide for their families. Black gays who tend to live where Blacks live in general and have the same economic characteristics as their heterosexual assparade counterparts, are dealing with the same issues that most Blacks are.
We cannot afford to alienate anal any part of our community going into the 2008 Presidential election. We need every person at the table, heterosexual and gay.
We are going to have to get over our homophobia as a community. We all have a relative, co-worker, ass parade or friend who identifies as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.
And no matter how you feel personally about gays, at the end of the day, they are not the source of what’s wrong with this country, President Bush and his right wing conservatives are.
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus, the Black Church and our traditional Black institutions like the NAACP are going to play a crucial role in exactly how far the GOP is able to sink its tentacles into our communities. If they continue to be silent on this issue and still see it as a non-issue while the rest of the country uses our votes to further their political agenda, then we are doomed to see a repeat of four years ago.
You don’t have to support equal rights for gays to not support the GOP’s bigoted agenda. It just means that this time around, we aren’t falling for the old divide and conquer scheme.
Marriage bans, like immigration, continue to be one of those issues that GOP political strategists love to pull out their cloaks when all else fails. As Blacks, we know firsthand who stands to benefit the most from our community being divided, and it’s not us.
In closing, I pose the following questions: Was the judge who presided over Loving v. Virginia, the landmark case that allowed whites and Blacks to get married, an activist judge? Were the courts being activists anal sex when it decided that Black children could go to school with their white counterparts? Was it activism extending the right to vote to Blacks? No. It was an attempt to try lesbian porn and right the wrongs this country had committed against a group of people. Sound familiar? |
| Gay & Lesbian: An Advertising Impasse - An African-American newspaper in Baltimore still won't run a controversial ad depicting anti-gay religious protestors, but the paper's representatives say the concern is about the images, not the pro-gay message.
The rejected ad from the National Black Justice Coalition (NBJC), which included a photo of protesters with a sign reading ''No Fags In King's Dream,'' was designed to bring attention to religion-based bigotry against gay people. As reported last week in Metro Weekly, the Afro American declined to run the ad in its Baltimore edition.
Representatives from NBJC, the only national organization advocating solely for GLBT African Americans, and the lesbian porn Afro American Newspapers company met Wednesday, May 24, to discuss the company's decision.
''When we got ready to push the envelope, they weren't prepared to do that,'' says H. Alexander Robinson, CEO and executive director of NBJC, who was at the meeting. ''When we got to that level...we saw some push back.''
The newspaper did run a version of the ad with text, but no photo. Susan Warshaw, the advertising manager for the Afro American Baltimore edition, who was also at the meeting, confirms that she and other senior staff within the company did have reservations about running NBJC's ad.
''We had a concern over the picture, that it might be offensive to some readers,'' she says. "But the message, we've always felt was very important.''
Though both sides were able to delve deeper into their firm positions about the advertisement, Robinson says the scope of the meeting went beyond the ad, allowing him to lobby for greater GLBT coverage in the company's papers, in whose pages NBJC has been advertising its message since founding in 2004.
''There was no relenting on the ad,'' says Robinson. ''[But] I would say that they were receptive to our message. I think it was a useful meeting. We talked about the special editions they have coming up -- profiling leaders, for example. We want to make sure some of those are gay and lesbian people."
Robinson says that although they remain unhappy with the decision to nix the ad, NBJC considers the Afro American's decision to meet with them a positive one.
"It's still a good relationship," he says.
Says Warshaw, ''We simply explained our position, and they explained theirs. Hopefully they understand the concern has never been with them or their message.... Our concern was with the photo, never with the message. The message has always been welcome here.''
The rejected ads are posted on the NBJC Web site at www.nbjcoalition.org.
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| Gay gay anal & Lesbian: CSW Special Community Award - Last night, I accepted the Christopher Street West L.A. Pride Special Community Award at a reception given my the Mayor of West Hollywood.
Other honorees included NAACP’s Alice Huffman, Phill Wilson, executive director of the Black AIDS Institute, and Ella Matthews, publisher of Lesbian News.
L.A. Pride will officially kick off on Friday, June 9th in the City of West Hollywood and continue through Sunday. I will be riding in the parade on Sunday with my good friend Marquita lesbian sex Thomas of Out and About (pictured). Also pictured friend Louisa.
For cock sucking more info on L.A. Pride, visit www.lapride.org. |
| Accordian Kings - We met Mel and Milo at the Miller Outdoor Theatre last night to hear the Accordian Kings. The line up featured:
C.J. Chenier & the Red Hot Louisiana Band Joel Guzman & Aztex featuring Sarah FoxCedryl Ballou & the Zydeco TrendsettersBrian Marshall & His Tex-Slavic Playboys
Bedtimes being what they are, we didn't get to hear all of them.
Pearl had fun dancing in the grass. She and Milo discussed their favorite trains from the Thomas stories. They ran up and down and up and down and up and down the only hill in Houston. There was a pond, but they didn't swim in it. It was a perfect event for toddlers--and for the rest of us as well.
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| Another Question - Is there a book (or song or video) that your kid loves that you hate?
My least favorite books that we own are the Barney books. I don't how or know why we have them in the house! Hand-me-downs, most likely. In my spare time (ha ha), I plan to confiscate them!
A close friend of mine once told me that Barney (the TV version) was the best form of birth control ever invented. However the effectiveness of this method is apparently short-lived because a year after she told me that, her husband got a vasectomy. porno
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| Baba Talks - I'm on a panel of women bloggers at The Menil Collection tomorrow (Tuesday) night at 7 p.m. The event is sponsored by the Women's Studies Department at the University of Houston. If you're interested and in the area, please join us.
The University of Houston
Friends of Women’s Studies
present
The 2005-2006 Living Archives
Series
Women
Who Blog
Panelists: Latisha Johnson-Wallace, Young
Negro Girl in America
Kyrie O’Connor, MeMo
Robin Reagler, The OTHER Mother
Anita Wadhwa, Outta My Butt
Moderator:
MaryScott Hagle, Community Manager, ParentsConnect.com
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
at 7:00 pm
Menil Collection, 1515 Sul Ross
Admission: $5 for the
general public, free for Friends of Women’s Studies and students. Join or
renew membership at the event. Reception
following.
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