Rick Mercer is a very successful CBC comedian. He is also openly gay. He also says that all gay people who are in the public eye should be open about their homosexuality. “I know gay cops, soldiers, athletes, cabinet ministers.” Mercer says gay teenagers need them as role models because gay teens are being bullied [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Gays’
SHOULD ALL GAY PEOPLE COME OUT?
October 28, 2011SHOULD GAYS FREQUENT STRAIGHT BARS?
August 31, 2011In his column in this morning’s Montreal Gazette, Mike Boone discusses a new group called Guerrilla Queer Bar takeover – one part party, one part social experiment and one part activism. On September 22 a group of non-heterosexuals will meet for an evening of gaiety at a drinking establishment that does not cater to either [...]
DID GAYS CAUSE THE SEX CRISIS IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH?
August 5, 2011Some years ago, when I was still in broadcasting, I got into an on-air discussion about the sex crisis in the Catholic church with a talk-show host in the United States. He stated dogmatically that all pedophiles were homosexual. I told him this was rubbish. We signed off in considerable anger. Recently the John Jay [...]
LETTER ON GAYS IN WEDNESDAY’S GAZETTE.
December 31, 2008Today I had the following letter published in the Montreal Gazette: It is difficult to understand why Pope Benedict would choose Christmas week to launch another broadside against the way gay people live. According to the Pope “saving” humanity from homosexual behaviour is as important as saving the rain forests. So what are homosexuals supposed [...]
