BTA GOES GAY!

GAY - BISEXUAL - STRAIGHT - MEN ONLY

Following a series of anti-gay attacks including bullets and harmful gas, Russia’s largest gay club, Central Station, closes. The Moscow club’s former owner, Andrei Lichinsky, requests asylum in the USA. At MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Catholic priest Brian Coelho stops giving last rites to heart attack patient Ronald Plishka after he learns he is gay. Says Plishka, “I just saw red. I cursed at a priest. I called him a hypocrite. As he was leaving – I can’t repeat what I said, but it was bad… I’m thinking I’m going to rot in hell now.” A small mercy in Jamaica as a judge rules that teens thrown out of their homes for being gay may now live in the public sewers. Prior to the ruling, police routinely evicted the homeless youth from seeking shelter in the sewers. How humanitarian. The US branch of the Christian charity World Vision begins hiring Christians who are in same-sex marriages. A Scottish court orders Emma Green to pay hundreds of pounds in compensation to her son Scott, 21, after she punched him in the face when he came out to her at a family gathering. Westboro Baptist Church founder and rabid anti-gay crusader, “Reverend” Fred Phelps, dies at 84. A New York satanic temple performs a ritual to turn Phelps gay in the afterlife. RIP, homo. The New York Times reports on the decline of the word homosexual, saying scholars predict it will soon be extinct. The piece quotes Yale professor, George Chauncey, “‘Homosexual’ has the ring of ‘colored’, in the way your grandmother might have used that term.” Four men in Nigeria are whipped after being convicted by an Islamic court of having gay sex. Equality for all as same-sex couples legally marry in England and Wales.

Former Olympic ice skater Johnny Weir files for divorce from husband Victor Voronov. Allegations of porn star sexting, fighting for custody of crocodile purses, an abducted Japanese dog and all manner of gay drama ensues.

Western Australian Greens Senator Scott Ludlam asks PM Tony Abbott for the country back in a parliamentary speech that goes viral. “Western Australians are a generous and welcoming lot, but if you arrive and start talking proudly about your attempts to bankrupt the renewable energy sector; if you show up waving your homophobia in people’s faces and start boasting about your ever-more insidious attacks on the trade union movement and all working people, you can expect a very different kind of welcome.”

Cash proud! For Mardi Gras, Sydney ANZ bank branches bedazzle their cash dispensing gAyTMs.

Signing with the Brooklyn Nets, basketballer Jason Collins becomes the first openly gay professional player in a major US sport.