Henry Rollins has
gone to bat for us homos in the past, he
now reveals why he is so gay-friendly...
While attending a military school, Rollins was struck with disgust as teacher’s open attacks on a gay student led to the boy attempting suicide. It stayed with him as a defining event and he has gone on to publicly lambast institutions and propagators of homophobia.He hosted the successful Wedrock concert to raise awareness of same-sex rights to marriage and has made his views on gay rights well known.While still strongly denying all rumours that he is gay, Rollins puts across the message for gay rights strongly and simply. “To me it’s just common sense. You come out of the womb and you’re something. You’re straight, you’re gay or you’re lucky,” he said.“You know what you are very soon in your life. So when someone says you can’t love that person, you can’t marry that person I’m like, ‘Really, fuck you!’ Boy, if I was gay I would kick your arse!”
In an update to our
previous story featuring a gay-sex extortion scheme involving a member of the Royal Family, the married
Viscount David Linley (pictured btm.), and his alleged blackmailers, Sean McGuigan and Ian Strachan (pictured top), the scandal that rocked the U.K is about to
go to trial....
LONDON, England (AP) -- Two men appeared in a London court Monday accused of trying to blackmail a member of Britain's royal family with sex and drug allegations. Ian Strachan, 30, and Sean McGuigan, 40, deny demanding £50,000 ($100,000; €65,000) "with menaces" from a male member of the royal family. The case reportedly centers on a video that shows a royal aide allegedly taking drugs and boasting of engaging in a sex act with the royal. A court order bars journalists from naming the alleged victim or any potential witnesses. Judge Jeremy Cooke has ruled that parts of the trial should be heard in private, with members of the public excluded from court. Buckingham Palace has refused to comment on the case, but British media have reported that the blackmail target was not a senior member of the royal family. Dressed in suits, Strachan and McGuigan sat in the dock at the Central Criminal Court as the hearing opened with jury selection. The jury is expected to be sworn in on Tuesday, followed by opening arguments from the prosecution. The two men have been in jail since they were arrested in a police sting operation at a London hotel on September 11. An undercover detective posing as a royal aide reportedly contacted the alleged blackmailers and arranged the meeting at the London Hilton. If convicted, the defendants face a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison. The trial is expected to last a month.
I have always loved Judge Judy, now I have another reason...
I just came across a
Larry King Live with Judge Judy from back in
October of '05 where she gives her opinion of gay marriage...
"Who is it hurting? You know, my grandmother used to say who is it hurting? So, I ask you, Larry, if you have two adults and they happen to both be of the same sex and they love each other and they want to set up a home with each other they have as much of a shot as heterogeneous couples do. Fifty-two percent of marriages end in divorce, you know. So if it works it works. If it doesn't, it doesn't. And if it's important for them to use the word marriage, rather than civil union or whatever other language that some people would prefer that they use I ask you it's not hurting me. It doesn't impact on my life. Why is there such a big fuss about it? Why are people so invested in it? I just don't get the negativity. I don't get it."
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