But that didn’t stop the song from reaching #2 last week on Billboard. Katy Perry’s single, “I Kissed A Girl” (not the same as the 90’s pop/rock hit) apparently set off a few crazies from the Concerned Women of America:
The song, performed by Katy Perry, is called I Kissed a Girl. The lyrics speak of kissing a girl “just to try it,” adding that the “experimental game” is “just human nature.” In addition, the singer is hopeful that her boyfriend does not mind she is experimenting with a lesbian relationship.
Wendy Wright of Concerned Women for America takes issue with the song luring girls into sexual experimentation. “… [E]ven if they have a boyfriend and consider themselves heterosexual, [the singer entices them] to just try a lesbian experience,” she maintains. “It’s really intended to mess girls up.” Wright argues that the song works to break down a girl’s sense of morality concerning lesbianism, and also works to get girls to be less critical of homosexuality.
Via Joe.my.god.
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To many, it was the next inevitable step in civil rights progress:
“This is the last frontier,” said gay Los Angeles Councilman Bill Rosendahl, who attended the wedding. “Women got the right to vote, black people got the right to vote, now gay people can get married.”
While to a handful of protestors, it was the worst thing since Brokeback Mountain:
Outside City Hall, about 1,000 people waited for the couple to emerge. Some cheered, others booed. One man waved a sign that said “Homo Sex Is a Threat to National Security.”
Congratulations to the newlyweds and those who have waited too long for their day, including Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin, whom we posted about earlier. They were first in line in San Francisco to be married, after more than half a century together.
Excerpts and images taken from “Gay marriages begin as California ruling takes effect” at Latimes.com
Just two days after his daughter Katherine came out publicly, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick marched in Boston’s Gay Pride Parade this past Saturday.
Here’s an AP quote via Towleroad:
“On Saturday, the Patrick family was greeted with boisterous cheers and applause as they marched to the end of the route in City Hall Plaza. ‘It’s been a nice day,’ Patrick said after the parade. The Patricks marched with friends in front of a group from the AIDS Action Committee and behind a float carrying male dancers clad in bikini bottoms.
Thousands lined the parade route, which began in the South End and included all manner of gay pride groups, from car clubs, to softball teams, to union workers.
Several spectators expressed their support for Katherine Patrick. ‘I think she’s represents a generation of us out there, and to see her parents supporting her in such a public way, I think that allows all of our parents the permission to do the same,’ said Hannah Karpman, 29, of Boston.”
From nytimes.com. This article looks into the way that women respond to visual stimuli and how it supports the argument that their sexualities are generally more fluid than binary:
Dr. Chivers, a research fellow at the Center for Addiction and Mental Health at the University of Toronto, says she has data to support this assertion. She recently published results of a study in which she showed people video clips of naked men and women in various sexual and nonsexual situations and measured their genital arousal.
Heterosexual women, Dr. Chivers and her colleagues found, were no more excited by athletic naked men doing yoga or tossing stones into the ocean than they were by the control footage: long pans of the snowcapped Himalayas. When straight women viewed a video of a naked woman doing calisthenics, on the other hand, their blood flow increased significantly.
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