2012 Retrospective

The Editor looks back at the year 2012 in Polari and how it has explored the LGBT subculture. Part 2: Queer Year.

Bill Passes Judiciary Committee.

An historic bill, introduced by Senator Ted Lieu, passed the judiciary committee in the California Senate last week. It aims to regulate the ex-gay movement’s conversion therapy practices.
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“Under the guise of a California license, some therapists are taking advantage of vulnerable people by pushing dangerous sexual orientation-change efforts. These bogus efforts have led in some cases to patients later committing suicide.”

The Ad That Ran in Country Life.

The Coalition for Marriage, an organisation that resists any attempts to make marriage rights equal, ran an ad in the magazine Country Life, and a virtual storm ensued.

“Country Life ran an ad in which Coalition for Marriage claimed that 70% of people did not want the definition of marriage changed, which is based not on a recognised poll, but on one they had commissioned. And there was a backlash on Facebook and Twitter.”