Wayne Besen - Author, Activist, Columnist, Public Speaker

Friday, March 17, 2006

Atlanta's gay newspaper, Southern Voice, wrote an interesting article naming the 10 worst places for gay people to live on earth. Although, five of my ex-boyfriends voted, my apartment, mercifully, didn't make the list.

In Uganda, one gets up to life imprisonment for homosexual sex. If you want to stop a person from sodomizing, you send them to prison??? That's like punishing the boy with his hand in the cookie jar by sentencing him to work at Famous Amos.

Have you ever noticed that the places that treat gay and lesbian people the worst are shitboxes that no one in their right mind would want to visit? The very economic, social, political and cultural health of a nation is always dependent on how the government treats its gay citizens. Even in America, the states that have the most anti-gay laws are all backwards and boring.

6 Comments:

Hmmmm...Uganda has some beautiful parks.

Drive across the Democratic Republic of the Congo (not on the list) and you'll be BEGGING to get to Uganda.

And for kicks, here's a story about women (from the DRC) bonding in the Congolese rivers from another blogger.
posted by Anonymous, at 3/17/2006 12:07 PM

Wayne, you are absolutely correct. Homophobic locales tend to be backward in all other respects, too. The so-called "American Family Association" is in Tupelo, Mississippi, isn't it?
posted by Chris L., at 3/17/2006 12:07 PM

Hmmm, Wayne, I'm not certain I like the idea that being sent to prison for sodomy is like being sent to a playground. I seem to recall a judge or lawyer in a case in the 80's or 90's arguing that a gay person should receive some vicious type of punishment other than prison, because sending a gay person to prison would be more like sending him to a candy shop.
posted by Anonymous, at 3/17/2006 12:37 PM

Given our current state of affairs - under King George - the US has zilch-O credibility when it comes to Human Rights worldwide.

We must demand that our government clean up its own act and *Lead by Example* by exercising a uniform and consistent Foreign Policy.

Who can take us seriously when our own POTUS/VPOTUS and Congress give a thumbs up to Torture and toss people in prison without due process of law?
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Paul in Houston
posted by Anonymous, at 3/17/2006 1:34 PM

Nothing terribly enlightening or intersting there. Also, not very uprtodate. Things are beginning to change in India and in Poland.

Actually, SoVo should have included Atlanta on that list. Glad I left.
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