Gay memorial in Berlin

Because not only Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, gays too, this piece of news is most welcomed:

A multi-media memorial to the thousands of gay men who died in Nazi concentration camps should be ready in a matter of months.

Read the full article in Pink News.

Crimes against nature in North Carolina

While Sir Ian McKellen is busy fighting Singapore sodomy laws which turned out to be just anti-gay sex laws because sodomy and oral sex are now allowed for heterosexual couples, in North Carolina, United States of America, a guy aged 19 is being charged with "crimes against nature" for practising oral sex with a fellow tennis High School team mate, who allegedly got awake after Mr. Bivens stated to perform the fellatio. Over here in Spain we really do hope this is not a sample of the Freedom that America wants to shed the world with. Well, maybe not all Spaniards, I'm sure that the Catholic hierarchy, former prime minister Mr. Aznar and other ultrarightists, ultracatholic and neofrancoists will be delighted with morality laws.

Technorati tags: Abominations and Deadly Sins, Anti-gay laws, Crimes against nature

Remember Madeleine?

McCanns' close friends say husband and wife will stay in Portugal "to fight for clearing their name", after being suspected in their little daughter's disappearing. Let's make a point clear: when they got suspected, they can't simply leave the country. Do you remember the Madeleine McCann's hype all over the internet and the world? Interviews with presidents, ministers, the Pope, the "Find Madeleine" campaign, a solidarity fund amounting around 1,5 million euro... Yet last month, Portuguese Police started a line of investigation tending to what now BBC understands to be "that the police put it to Mrs McCann that she was somehow responsible for the accidental death of Madeleine inside the apartment" then "that with the help of her husband she then hid the body temporarily and then moved it later using the couple's hire car."

Neighbors of the McCanns in Portimão started wondering whether the media circus ignited by the family was the adequate framework for the Police to be allowed to work properly, but also have doubts about all the hype. Whether the McCanns be temporary suspects and get cleared innocent, or the fact be they eventually get guilty, I can't help thinking of Canary Islands disappearing of Jeremy, just to name one among the many cases which never got any hype, or even ongoing press attention.

Technorati tags: McCann, Madeleine, Child disappearances