Latest News Roundup - April 2010
Friday, April 30, 2010

Keep "useful provisions" of Uganda's anti-gay bill: committee

A Ugandan Cabinet committee tasked with amending the proposed anti-gay bill has recommended keeping the bill's "useful provisions," reports Uganda's Daily Monitor.

The committee also recommended ditching the bill's official name, the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, because the title is "stigmatizing." Really? Call it whatever you want, it's still an anti-gay bill.   

More from Uganda's Daily Monitor:

In their recommendations, the committee argued that the title of the bill, Anti-Homosexuality, is stigmatizing and appears to be targeting a particular group of people. They therefore want the "useful provisions of the proposed law" incorporated into the Sexual Offences Act.

The Committee, however, agreed that promotion of homosexuality should be criminalized. "The law should provide that all the parties: publishers, printers, distributors of any materials that promote homosexuality should all be liable to have committed an offence," the minutes read in part. (read more at the Daily Monitor

Unacceptable. As you may recall, in March, Canadian MPs not only condemned the anti-gay bill, but they also unanimously called for the full decriminalization of homosexuality in Uganda

It's unclear when the recommendations will move forward. The Daily Monitor reports that "No minister was willing to disclose when Cabinet would sit to consider the committee's recommendations." 

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni

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Thursday, April 29, 2010

Watch: Blake McGrath's first music video, "The Night"

Mississauga-born Blake McGrath just released his first music video, "The Night." Check it out below:

 
Tightly choreographed dance sequences? Check. Gritty industrial warehouse setting? Check. McGrath's abs on full display? Check, check, check! 
 

In 2009, the So You Think You Can Dance judge and choreographer spoke to fab magazine about his debut album, his bisexuality and working with pop divas like Britney, Janet and Mariah. Speaking about his music ambitions, McGrath said he wants "to push buttons and get reactions out of people. I'm trying to go for a boy Lady Gaga vibe." 

What do you think of the song and video?

 

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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Ryan Reynolds comes out on top in fab's gay sex survey

Hunky Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds is the celebrity with whom fab readers most want to get it on, according to the magazine's gay sex survey.

No big surprise there. Homegrown Reynolds is smokin' hot, and thankfully, he likes to show it off, as he did in The Proposal

Perhaps more surprising is the mixed verdict on Brad Pitt. Many readers chose Pitt as their fave and least fave celebrity dream fuck. fab blames Pitt's "new hobo beard." 

More survey result highlights from fab:

  • Ninety percent of respondents think of themselves as "gay," but only two percent consider themselves to be "LGBTTIQQ2SA." That unwieldy acronym is less popular – by more than half – than the word "faggot."
  • Sixty-two percent of respondents report having "average" sized penises and 79 percent say they're happy with what they're packing, but 41 percent say the "average" cock is six inches long and that the "perfect" cock is eight.
  • Thirty percent of respondents say the face is the most attractive part of a man's body. Twenty-one percent are interested only in what's in his pants.

Check out the full results over at fabmagazine.com, including informative charts such as this one!

fabTV videgrapher Ryan Carter, along with his panel of sexperts, take a look at the survey results. Watch below:

 


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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Apple's latest anti-sex censorship: gay New York iPhone app

This is so creepy.

Apple has reportedly rejected, for a second time, an iPhone app guide to gay New York.

Gawker has more:

"The company objected to images that show too much skin, and to a caricature of former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. The problem here is that it's awfully hard to assemble an authentic guide to "Gay New York" when Apple objects to content as innocuous as a well-muscled guy in a thong or an unflattering drawing of a politician." (read more at Gawker)

Just in case you haven't been keeping tabs, Apple rejected a Pulitzer-prize winning cartoonist's app in December because it "ridicules public figures." In February, they deleted thousands of "overtly sexual" apps. Even gay iPhone app Grindr has been forced to censor its users, to comply with Apple's strict policies on "objectionable content."

In early April, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said that the company has a "moral responsibility" to keep porn off the iPhone. How can we make this any clearer... NO, YOU DON'T! 

 

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Tuesday, April 27, 2010

OMG, Pride Toronto, please don't take the bait

In the department of ridiculous, headline-grabbing ultimatums, city councillor and mayoral candidate Giorgio Mammoliti has given Queers Against Israeli Apartheid 24 hours to withdraw from the Pride Toronto parade or else he'll introduce a motion over at city hall to yank Pride's municipal funding. The ultimatum, launched in the Toronto Sun via columnist Sue-Ann Levy, is supported by fellow councillor and mayoral candidate Rob Ford and opposed by Joe Pantalone.


In the piece, George Smitherman also weighs in. He's not calling on the city to do anything... but apparently he thinks Pride Toronto should move to ban QuAIA all on their own. Yes, even after the big censorship battle. My, my. I know what I'll be doing at work tomorrow.

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