In studies: sad teens

Lots of teens go  through sad times. Personally, as a teen, I was a humanoid creature carved from a pure depression-aloy, so I know what I'm talking about. A new study (conducted by out of work psychiatrists, I presume), suggests teens should be periodically tested for depression, by a psychiatrist who may or may not be short on cash at the moment:

It's a change from the group's 2002 report concluding there wasn't enough evidence to support or oppose screening for teens. The task force, though, says there's still insufficient proof about the benefits and harms of screening children 7 to 11 years old.

Depression strikes about 1 out of 20 teens, and it's been linked to lower grades, more physical illness and drug use, as well as early pregnancy. 

If you know any sad teens, get them tested. Also, the Smashing Pumpkins helps.

News: you can use

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-Interesting bit of pondering on college basketball and the 'phobia, yo. [365]

-More gay marriage, more Vermont. [wcax]

-Gay bars maybe having to be less aggressively homo-y? [metroweekly]

-Maybe some progress in the presbyterian church involving clergy and you know what. [dallasnews]

-More discussion on Don't Ask-Don't Tell, and about it's future (summary: it will probably be repealed within a few years). [towleroad]

-Apparently there is a 'gay media' as well as a mafia. [ontop]

-Miami allows flags (not a typo). [upi]

-Take a Xanax and read about 'pride' in Russia. [ontop]

-Okay, okay. You know how the new Bruno movie is 'too faggy' for cineplexes? Here is the right-wing-y, conservative version of the outrage about how gay Bruno is. Take two xanax and read this article. [beliefnet]

-Jeez, these Brits are really serious about homophobia in their schools. It must be worse than it sounds. [bbc]

News and a trailer

Today, instead of a topless dude, we will present the trailer for the upcoming film Where the Wild Things Are, which looks good. [if it doesn't work, it's not for lack of trying, and here's the link anyway] Following, some less-depressing-than-usual news involving current events and gay people:

-New York senator formerly opposed to marriage betwixt the similarly-genitaled, has changed his mind. [ap]

-Barney Frank says Antonin Scalia is a hater. [bostonglobe]

-I will stop hating on John McCain's daughter for the time being. [towleroad]

-NBC is loving the attention having gay characters on your show affords you. It's a spoiler though. [afterelton]

-More gay confusion in college. [posttribune]

-Ugh. This dude is suing Microsoft for what is essentially taunting due to sexuality. Read it, y'all. (Warning: he looks like Jim Dangle). [telegraph]

more shirtless dudes later

In the news: we kinda already talked about this...

...and the pictured dude kind of doesn't really have anything to do with it, but half the point of this is pictures to look at. Ooh, words:

"The Vermont Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved a bill Friday that would allow same-sex marriage in the state. This vote came after a week of hearings on the issue. Vermont currently allows civil unions, but the current bill would expand benefits offered to same-sex couples.

The bill will now move to the state Senate. Even if the legislation passes in both houses of the state legislature, supporters are concerned that Republican Governor Jim Douglas would veto the measure. A spokeswoman for the Governor told the New York Times that "Governor Douglas believes that this legislation is a distraction from the important work the legislature should be doing to get our economy back on track."" [ms]

in the news: the usual, augmented with some random dude showing his trail for no reason. such is life

-Some loser did some dumb shit. [bbc]

-Pretty interesting case about a man denied asylum in the US (he was attacked in his native Brazil), who is gay, and 'married' to an American, but that does not matter, because he is gay. [nyt]

-Couple more Tales of Gay Marriage. [wcax] [business journal]

-LeAnn Rimes: "My husband sucks cocks." [abc]

-It's cool to hate gays in Africa, but Bono's not gonna tell y'all that, is he?? [allafrica]

-Talk of my fave fantasy: nazigays. [popmatters]

-People complaining about the pope, which is pointless. Can you guess why it's pointless? [news24]

-Sports fans can be homophobic, and often are. [outsports]

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In the news: St Patricks Day

Why are there so many fucking holidays?? Honestly, I mean, I get this one, heritage and all, but, y'all, I think we really should get rid of some of these things. I'm a 'hater', I guess, but we could probly chop 2 or 3 holidays off the calendar and still be okay with the universe, nay? This picture is pertinent to NOTHING. News:

-A teacher was fired because nobody likes gay people. [usa today]

-Hate crimes against you-know-whos seems to be increasing in Calif. [mercury news]

-Fight for adoption continues in Florida. [miami herald]

-I hate religion, but it's cool when someone who DOESN'T hate it is a cool person. [LGF]

-Marriage equality match in LA on Sunday. [my desert]

In the news: Oh, Monday

Here is a picture of someone prettier than not only me, but you as well. He is promoting some movie that also features Matthew Perry, who nobody deems necessary to trot out for photo-ops. Pic via here. News here:

-Vermont starts legislative talk on allowing same-sexytimes. [ap]

-There's a gay guy on American Idol, which totally RUINS it now. [reality tv]

-The show Kings (based on selections from best-selling children's book The Bible), also has a gay person, and this one is quite basically the villain, like most gays. [after elton]

-Let's see: basically, Michael Steele, the GOP chair, doesn't QUITE hate homos to agree which comforts his Repug clozzy co-horts. If there's two things the republican party hates, it's people who are intolerant of their core beliefs, and fggts. [queerty]

-West Virginians are worried about the Gay Ultimatum. [register herald]

-Discrimination in schools, blahblah. [press assoc.]

-I spent like four hours scanning my computer for badware and vireeses. Sucks.

On the internet: Saturdays aren't really big news days

-Do you watch the Survivor? It's supposed to be some show where people walk around half-dressed, on an island, and they get to win money if they are not too irritating/a threat. Anyway, some photogenic gay person was on there, and was supposedly straight-acting, and maybe said some comments before the show would suggest he hates himself (ie. hates homos) but he got kicked off the show recently and SO doesn't hate gay people, just hates that it's so popular for OTHER PEOPLE to hate them/us/him/you. That's his picture right there, for the pervs in the club. [after elton]

-Ashton Kutcher is a hero. [gaywired]

-Here's a depressing story about gays in the military. [denverwestwordblog]

-No ghey marriage until everyone has a job, y'all. [msnbc]

-Here is a story about Harlow Cuadra and how he might be sentenced to death, in 2009, in America. Wanna play a drinking game? Read the article and drink a shot of bleach everytime the writer mentions gay porn for no reason. [timesleader]

In the news: heartwarming tales and lives in prison

So, the dude who totally killed that gay pornographer Mr. Bryan 'pedobro' Kocis is totally going to spend the rest of his life in prison. That's the bad news.

The good news is, that kid who totally got kicked off his wrestling team at one school, for manipulating his peen on camera, for moneys, is now the top wrestler in the fuckin country at his new school. That's the good news.

In the news: Does seeing shirtless people make you feel uncomfies? Cuz you're probly gay, bro

What the fuck is this guy's name again? Seriously, it's bugging the shit outta me.

BUT SERIOUSLY Sometimes I consider posting the news about homophobia in the US of Earth, but without all the pictures of shirtless guys all the time. But then, like, I wonder what's the point? News is informative so you have something to talk about with your progressive friends--shirtless dudes are informative to your nervous system, becuse the sight gives you a bit of a jolt, or, at least, that's the idea. You're supposed to release like endorphins or whatever that make you happy, even in small doses. This is the same theory as to why one might eat chocolate, I think. Anyway, this is a picture of Channing Tatum from that movie about fighting that's comin out. It's got stupid-ass Terrence Howard in it. News:

-The army recently fired a bunch of soldiers because they told people how awesome Les Miz was. [ap]

-That Harlow Cuadra, Brent Corrigan-related murder trial is supposed to see closing arguments today. [msnbc] UPDATE: guilty.

-There's a gay guy on American Idol (breathe...can I go on now?) and he might end up the winner, even though America basically hates fggts. They like being entertained, however. [dallas voice]

-In relation to the other news bit, people want Obama to end Don't Ask [via Don't Tell] already. [fox]

in the news: the news

Here is a story with the dude who will play Gambit in the next X-Men movie about how he doesn't think it's necessary to be all shirtless always. That's a picture of him right there--I feel like I kind of hate him, don't know why, y'all. Now for some news:

-More scientific people say what everyone knows about gay people. [msnbc]

-The census won't include homos, cuz that would be gross. [examiner]

-Hawaii, a giant beach-state, might not hold hands with the gays either. [msnbc]

There's a lot more news, but it's really fucking depressing. Google it or something?

In the news: Hate!

-Some HS kids in Pennsy were putting on a play involving gay themes and some protestors thought they should know that god hates fags. [wcax]

-Religion  seems to still be happening. This time with protestants trying to come to terms. [ocala]

-There's a lawsuit against a school who hates queers and homos. [dallas voice]

-Family Guy has a gay themed episode that my roommate DVR'd, that I'm gonna go watch in a minizzle. [ontop]

-There's a gay mardi gras in Aussie land. [ap]

-Hillz butters up the gays? [smart news]

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If you haven't been, you should watch the United States of Tara. It's a good show, all around. Not perfect, but it's good. They're trying.

In the news: Prop h8-erade

"Gordon Brown has condemned California's ban on gay marriage as "unacceptable" and warned people to be vigilant against all forms of discrimination.

The prime minister said the ban, backed in a referendum in the US state in November, would "undo" much of recent progress made in tackling prejudice.

California became the 28th US state to prohibit gay marriage, overturning an earlier court ruling legalising it.

Same-sex civil partnerships became law in the UK in 2005." [bbc]

-the New York Times talks about this shtuff too, you guys. [nyt]

-That Brent Corrigan case is still going on, but ending soon. Hence the picture. [msnbc]

In the News: Prop 8. Still.

"The California Supreme Court, which last year declared the right of gays and lesbians to marry, appeared ready Thursday to uphold the voters' decision to overrule the court and restore the state's ban on same-sex marriage.  "There have been initiatives that have taken away rights from minorities by majority vote" and have been upheld by the courts, said Chief Justice Ronald George. "Isn't that the system we have to live with?"" [sfgate]

In the news, yall

-People who play videogames can be homophobic, and companies that make games can sometimes not give a shit. [reghardware]

-Australians maybe will fight against its ghey-haters. [pinknews (hate that name)]

-Obama is pretending to consider 'don't ask [via don't tell]' again, and how its dumb, especially if he's going to be sending everyone under 30 to Afgahnistan. [ap]

-Barry O also might get a gay intern to be all up in the White House, asking everybody if they saw Ugly Betty last night. [365]

-Three men arrested in connection to a hate crime at a bar. [dallas voice]

-Some student can't give blood at his college, in Montclair New Jersey, because he is a gay, and gays are twinks, with AIDS. [cw]

-Sean Penn thinks Cali should have a Harvey Milk Day, but Guvner Swarzenneger thinks that if Penn likes Harvey Milk Day so much, why doesn't he marry it? [e!]

-Sarah Silverman will get to keep her show, only now it has a gay step-father, who sponsors it. [reuters]

-Gay people want to get married or whatever? WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN? [afp]

picture via the cobrasnake

In the news: Buncha stuff

There's like a gay character in a video game or something. This matters, y'all. [examiner]

Some Khristians want the 'right to hate fggts' or something. Pretty sure you already have that right, buddy. [guardianUK]

"James O'Connor (19) one of the men accused of murdering gay Liverpool teen, Michael Causer, in an allegedly homophobic attack, yesterday pleaded guilty to murdering Causer, but as part of his plea insisted that the motive was not homophobia." I mean, honestly, when someone gets killed, the death is probably the bigger deal. [lgf-dot-org]

Iceland is set to appoint the first openly gay Prime Minister. Wait, wait, don't get excited--it's just a lesbian. (Kidding, love lesbians, for real). [ap]

"Thousands are expected in Denver for a gay-rights conference opening Wednesday.The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force says more than 2,000 people are expected at the downtown Denver conference that runs through the weekend." [slt]

"It didn't take long for Utah gay-rights advocates, uplifted after energetic rallies and supportive polls, to be brought down to earth. On day two of the 2009 Legislature, the first in a series of gay-rights bills -- seemingly the least controversial piece in the Common Ground Initiative -- died Tuesday in the Senate judiciary committee." [slt]

Gay people can't be homos in the army and someone made a doc about it. [afterElton]

New Mexico wants samesex gay fucking marriage to boys or something? Dunno, can't read, y'all. [ontop]

In the news: Gay scandals

Not sandals. Briefly, cuz it's bedtime, Portland, Ore's gay mayor had gay buttsex with a hot dude (pictured) and now he's going to hell, in court, and in the news. Gay people do sins and will be punished, the end. [unzipped]

New President Tomorrow

So somebody just told me we're getting a new preznit tomorrow--when did this happen? Think I was taking a napsies. I just read some news tho, so I'm up to speed. Did you know a gay bishop was up in Washingtone Deescee, but that part didn't air on teevee? Obama's team blames themselves. Whatever. New President, everybody! This one is black, like me, but might be morally opposed to how much I love penises (freakin love those things, guys!), so we'll see how this works out.

Breif News Things

- Prince Harry is awesome if you're gay because he kissed a boy or something (if you wear things on your head resembling towels, however, not so awesome perhaps?) [ap]

-"Every two or three days a person is killed in Brazil in violence connected with his or her sexuality, according to Brazil’s oldest gay rights association, Grupo Gay da Bahia (GGB). In Mexico, the reported figure is nearly two a week." [unaids]

-"Eleven people were charged today with chanting abuse at Portsmouth defender Sol Campbell during a Premiership match with Tottenham Hotspur last year.

The group, which includes two 15-year-olds and a 13-year-old, is alleged to have subjected the former England player to indecent chanting during the club's 2-0 home win against Spurs at Fratton Park in September." It's gay related, trust me. [guardian uk]

-Al Sharpton is supporting gay marriage (this is cool to me). [TRP]

-Rick Warren sucks, as always. [usnews]

2k9 homo-core news cycle

Happy New Year! The news isn't all bad this time:

People who are in the closet are prone to have less healthy sexual habits because they secretly hate homos (themselves). [aidsmap]

Cuba thinks they may be able to acheive social utopianism, let boys and girls marry each other. [mrzine]

A kid in Dallas was run over by a car. This isn't relevant to closetcasies, it just sucks. [pegasus news]

A man and a transgendered person (his lover I guess? too many words to read) got killed but they keep referring to the trans one as a bro, when she's kinda clearly a chick. Nitpicky? [huffpo]

A bunch of dykes and homos calling themselves a 'marching band' will be at Barack Hoosayne Obambamz swearing in parade, before being smited with lightening bolts by pastor Rick 'thunderfists' Warren. [msnbc]

We told you about that lesbian who was attacked and raped by a bunch of dudes? Apparently other people have heard of it too, including law enforcement officials. [mercury news]

"More than a dozen families filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging a new Arkansas law banning unmarried couples living together from becoming foster or adoptive parents." 'Unmarried couples' is code for 'gaysexualz', in case you missed the significance there. [fosters.com]