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November 14, 2004 - 5:00am -- nolympics
Analysis & Polemic
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Justin Gerber writes

This is an excerpt from my 14,000 word Manifesto at GayNation.INFO

GAY NATION

Love, Freedom, Democracy And Human Potential


Preamble

When I finished the emotional crusade of creating this Manifesto, which is based
on quite a few years of nightmarish experience, I was still unsure that the
united states is the best choice for the City on the Hill. City on the Hill
is a modification of a cult reference, to mean a state/country acting as a vanguard
base for planetary Anarchy and The Second Epoch of Homo Sapiens: The Real California
Dream. When I came out in the late 1970’s, in los angeles, there was a
magic ether. We were becoming supermen because we were coming out. I had Gay
license plates on my car. But I did not find any other supermen. The closet
was still the most popular self-destruction, closely associated with the most
pathetic supplication/capitulation to every fascism imaginable and beyond. And
it continues: “HIV stops with me” makes me wanna puke. We can only
escape the cesspool by reaching for the stars. The netherlands promises marriage
certificates for Faggots and Dykes. And the dutch promise to be pro-Gay in general.
But the pictures of amsterdam Gay pride that I saw were vapid and pathetic,
even by american standards. My part dutch grandmother from missouri could have
organized a more radical event. It seems that Party Capital of Europe is a euphemism
for Faggots Too Cowardly to Climb Out of the Sewer (Closet). Perhaps dutch faggots
do not measure up to challenging queen what’s-her-swastika. It is the
Anarchist responsibility of those nominally free to liberate those still in
chains. Freedom in the closet is a delusion. If you do not believe in yourself,
if your society does not follow your instinct and passion, then you are a slave.

October 7, 2004 - 10:56am -- nolympics
Analysis & Polemic
Sex

Sally Ramage Dabydeen writes

"Trafficking of Women and Children for Prostitution".

This article is a critical analysis of this transnational organised crime. It explores the problem through the business entity and illustrates how this could be researched so that its real extent is measured for the sake of history. The writer explains how traditional forensic techniques can be used to gather the evidence necessary to assess it rationally and to develop strategies and techniques to bring restitution to these women and to eventually eradicate it from the face of the earth.

Introduction
Trafficking of women and children is part of organised crime activity in which these women are transported from Africa, South America, Asia, Middle East and Eastern Europe to Western Europe and North America to be used as prostitutes and for child pornography, slave labour, automobiles couriers, body parts couriers, fauna and flora couriers, for thieving of nuclear material , drugs couriers , arms couriers, even ordinary thieving as pick-pocketing for gangs as part of transnational organised crime

September 26, 2004 - 11:49pm -- Stenglander
News
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Anonymous Comrade writes, "The Department of Defense authorized Stars and Stripes is reporting that US troops stationed in Germany are grumbling over a proposed change to the Uniform Code of Military Justice:"

Troops Say Proposed UCMJ Change Unfair in Prostitution-Legal Germany

Jessica Inigo, Stars and Stripes

RHEIN-MAIN AIR BASE, Germany — Troops stationed in Germany are seeing red over the Pentagon’s proposal to add an anti-prostitution charge to the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and it’s not just the glow from the local red light district.

Military personnel and their families on Rhein Main Air Base, only minutes from one of the largest red light districts in the world, are angered by the Department of Defense announcement to change the UCMJ. Those interviewed largely agree that Germany is not the place to enforce such a law.

July 29, 2004 - 1:14pm -- jim
News
Sex

US Court Upholds Alabama Sex Toy Ban

Jay Reeves, Associated Press

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A federal appeals court Wednesday upheld a 1998 state law banning the sale of sex toys in Alabama, ruling the Constitution doesn't include a right to sexual privacy.


In a 2-1 decision, a three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the state has a right to police the sale of devices including electronic vibrators and other products meant to stimulate the sex organs.

July 1, 2004 - 1:24am -- jim
Sex

"Sex Pros Get Ready for GOP"

Jose Martinez, New York Daily News

With thousands of Republicans set to invade the city this
summer, high-priced escorts and strippers are preparing for one grand
old party.


Agencies are flying in extra call girls from around the globe
to meet the expected demand during the Aug. 30-Sept. 2 gathering at
Madison Square Garden. "We have girls from London, Seattle, California,
all coming in for that week," said a madam at a Manhattan escort
service. "It's the week everyone wants to work." "It's going to be
big," agreed one operator at a midtown escort service.

June 11, 2004 - 11:35am -- hydrarchist
Analysis & Polemic
Sex

Berg Katse writes "From the archives: The best, most appropriate, and mysteriously prophetic comment about the late Ronald Reagan was made by J.G. Ballard in 1967, an innocent time when the idea of a lousy B-movie actors running for political office was still considered an utterly ridiculous idea

[At the 1980 Republican Convention in San Francisco a copy of the Reagan text, minus its title and the running sideheads, and furnished with the seal of the Republican Party, was distributed by some puckish pro-situationists to the RNC delegates. It was accepted for what it resembled: a psychological position paper on the candidate's subliminal appeal, commissioned by some maverick think-tank.]

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WHY I WANT TO FUCK RONALD REAGAN [1967] by JG Ballard [excerpt from "The Atrocity Exhibition" ]

RONALD REAGAN AND THE CONCEPTUAL AUTO DISASTER. Numerous studies have been conducted upon patients in terminal paresis (GPI), placing Reagan in a series of simulated auto crashes, e.g. multiple pileups, head-on collisions, motorcade attacks (fantasies of Presidential assassinations remained a continuing preoccupation, subject showing a marked polymorphic fixation on windshields and rear trunk assemblies). Powerful erotic fantasies of an anal-sadistic surrounded the image of the Presidential contender.

April 3, 2004 - 5:02pm -- jim
Reviews
Sex

"Yoni Speak"

Sauma Roy, OutLookIndia


A play on women's sexuality. Is it about empowerment or another socialite
affair?

"Obviously Madras has no vaginas. If Madras has no vaginas it must be full
of assholes." — Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal, director-actress, on "The Vagina Monologues" being
banned in Chennai.

Each side seems to be going for the shock and awe approach, in this latest
battleground in the battle of the sexes.

February 27, 2004 - 11:00am -- jim
News
Sex

New York area readers may find this interesting:


Amy Fisher

February 25, 2004 - 8:38am -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
Sex

"A Breast That Changed the World"

Barbara Sumner Burstyn, dissidentvoice.org

In my living room in New Zealand, half-way through last
week's episode of the banal, overhyped The Osbournes,
it dawned on me what was so weird: you could hear every
word. Watch the same show in the US and you need to
lip-read your way round the almost continuous beeping-
out of bad words.


The same day I read yet another attack on Janet
Jackson. Across America her supposedly sexually
explicit breast baring has unleashed a torrent of moral
effluvia. Book-ended with the "outrage, anger,
embarrassment and serious injury" Super Bowl viewers
were said to have suffered was the so-called scandal
being fanned round John Kerry, the Democratic
presidential hopeful with the allegedly sleazy past.

February 22, 2004 - 1:39pm -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
Sex

"An Open Letter About Emergency Contraception"

Katha Pollitt and Jennifer Baumgardner, The Nation


The one thing that activists on every side of the abortion debate
agree on is that we should reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies.
There are 3 million unintended pregnancies each year in the United
States; around 1.4 million of them end in abortion.

Yet the best tool for reducing unwanted pregnancies has only been
used by 2 percent of all adult women in the United States and only 11
percent of us know enough about it to be able to use it. No, we
aren't talking about abstinence--we mean something that works!

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