Anti-gay marriage and hateful citizens, unite! A fake Rolling Stone based in Africa has been dishing out "one of the most vile and hateful anti-gay screeds," ever! And the real Rolling Stone, which got its start here in San Francisco, is none too thrilled.
The realRolling Stone issued this statement on their site today:
A new newspaper out of Uganda bearing the name Rolling Stone has published one of the most vile and hateful anti-gay screeds we have ever read. The article printed the addresses and photos of 100 homosexuals in the country, calling for them to be hanged. Not only are we not affiliated in any way with the Ugandan paper, we have demanded they cease using our name as a title. But there is a larger issue at stake: Homosexuality is still a crime in much of Africa, often punishable by life in prison. “Half the world’s countries that criminalize homosexual conduct do so because they cling to Victorian morality and colonial laws,” says Scott Long of Human Rights Watch. “Getting rid of these unjust remnants of the British empire is long overdue.”
This is what, say, your average bully or Tea Party sect member might decry as an example of Rolling Stone's intolerance of another person's point of view, intolerance of another person's right to hate freely no matter the cost. Or whatever gibberish. Anyway, kudos to you, real Rolling Stone.
In related queer news, the fine (and we do mean fine) folks at Google came out with their own "It Gets Better" campaign against teen suicide. It features LBGT Google employees talking about their nerdy gay no-so-halcyon days. Check it out over at Valleywag.