Archive | April 2010

Sikh Times Article: Gay Professor’s Students Filmed Him Having Sex With Another Man & He May Have Committed Suicide!

A gay professor at India’s Aligarh Muslim University has been found dead after his students and a television crew broke into his home and filmed him having sex with a man.

Srinivas Ramchander Siras, professor of modern languages, was found dead on 7 April at his home.

Police believe he may have committed suicide, although the results of a post mortem examination were inconclusive.

He was suspended from his job and asked to leave his college apartment after the sting, in which he was filmed having sex with a rickshaw puller.

The 62-year-old was reinstated after a high court revoked the university’s decision.

The Indian Express reported it had spoken to Siras on Monday evening after the suspension was lifted.

“I want to go to America; I want to teach them Marathi. Not the literature, the language. America is the only place where I will be free to be gay, he was quoted as saying.

Gay rights campaigners have accused the university of driving him to his death.

Last year, the Delhi high court ruled that gay sex could not longer be criminalised.

Prince Manvendra Singh, India’s first openly gay royal, accused those who filmed Siras of killing him.

“I would rate this as a murder. These people need to be taken to task. What right did they have to attack his privacy? It was private, consensual sex and these students and television people got him to commit suicide,” he said to the media.

Poem: The Other Man By Orville Lloyd Douglas.

He is not included  in the family photographs from the previous birthday parties, Christmas celebrations , or New Years Eve  bashes.

He wishes that one day he will have the magnificent wedding, the smash of glasses after the ceremony, the sweet kiss.

He imagines that the words, the potent sentences, the promises, will materialize into veracity.

He lives in the shadows of deceit.

He sucks your husband’s nine-inch cock on your bed while you are at work.

He works hard taking his stiff, hard, dick, all the way to the  back of his throat.

He carefully smothers the enormous hairy balls with love and tastes the succulent honey.

He knows he has done a good job when the nectar explodes and splashes on to his face.

He watches as your husband sighs and says he loves you.

He knows he doesn’t really mean it because love is supposed to have an element of reciprocity.

He wants to prove he can suck cock better than the oral sex champion Monica Lewinsky.

He wonders who sucks cock better the wife or him?

He fucks your spouse spread eagle on the mattress every Tuesday and Thursday at 4:00pm.

He watches Oprah after the sex,  it isn’t afterglow it’s just a part of the ritual.

He kisses his muscles, soaks him in the bubble bath while he complains about you.

He dreams that one day he will divorce the bitch and move from the suburbs to the city.

He rubs his back praying that one day he will leave this woman for him.

He knows he will never win because he lives in chains.

He doesn’t exist in reality just in the mind this so-called sovereignty.

He returns every Tuesday and Thursday because he is a masochist.

He wants to be punished to relive this tragedy every single week.

He doesn’t want to give up sucking the nine-inch cock every Tuesday and Thursday at 4:00pm.

He cannot live without plunging his dick into his sweet tight ass. Why does his ass have to be so beautiful?

He cries to his friends telling them his beloved will never leave her.

He realizes his life is so boring without this spark.

He knows this addiction is worst than being an alcoholic or a drug addict.

He is cognizant that at least with addicts they have an epiphany that something just isn’t right.

He wants the feelings to stop like a light switch, but he won’t allow this to happen.

He  just can’t  stop cold turkey.

He reiterates this saga every Tuesday and Thursday at 4:00pm knowing this is as good as it gets for him.

Guardian UK Article: Black Female Writer Slams The Racism In The White Female Feminist Movement!

I’m not a feminist (and there is no but)

As a black woman, I felt the white feminism movement was not created for people like me. So I embraced womanism

Chloe Angyal is correct when she asserts that most young American women believe in equal rights. However, for some women, eschewing the label of feminist is not about avoiding being called “ugly” or an “angry extremist”. For some women, avoiding the label of feminist comes from a place of self-love and balance.

Feminism is the form of women’s organisation that is prioritised both in the media and academia, but many black women have turned to womanism in an attempt to counter the ways in which the combined oppressions of race and gender affect our lives. Womanism is not just feminism for women from minorities; it is based in our spirituality, honouring our foremothers and a desire to support both men and women. While womanism at its heart is pro-woman, it is also about understanding the communal value of all people of colour.

I’m not a feminist (and there is no but), because my life experiences lead me to believe that feminism was not created for women like me. The name of the first feminist hero mentioned by my professor in my first women’s study lecture was Simone de Beauvoir, and the trend of focusing on white women would continue throughout my education. Inclusivity to the women’s studies department that I was a part of meant using the work of bell hooks occasionally. However, she quickly became an additive, thrown in to give the appearance of intersectionality. I would have to scour the library and online journals to learn names like Patricia-Hill Collins, Audre Lorde and the woman who would become my inspiration, Alice Walker. And so I followed indexes and bibliographies, desperate to read journeys that mirrored my own.

I sat in seminars where I became the “token black woman” when they deemed it necessary to actually consider something outside of the white woman as monolithic representative. Despite feminism supposedly being a movement to end women’s oppression, women’s studies seminars and lectures are where I learned to recite “Ain’t I a Woman” out loud to protest the assumptions about my race and my culture. It is where I learned that the sisterhood and camaraderie lasts only as long as you don’t insist on interrogating oppression from multiple sites.

Just as the primary and high school education system includes black history month as an additive in a faux attempt at inclusivity, so too are the works of black women occasionally intermingled within women’s studies curriculum. Including the works of black women occasionally in a women’s studies program is not inclusive; it simply mirrors all of the previous modes of pedagogy that marginalises students of colour, while reifying white hegemony. In fact, the very existence of separate classes dealing with the works of black women, indigenous women and Latina women signify a failure to fully integrate the work of women of colour in all academic endeavours. Despite protestations, the ghettoisation of the work of women of colour too often frames white womanhood as the monolithic norm.

Today, feminism has moved out of the academy. The conversations that occur in the feminist blogosphere serve as modern-day consciousness raising sessions, as they formulate new theory and supposedly make room for voices that have previously been silenced. The internet has been constructed as the great equaliser, yet blogs which are largely run by white women like Feministe, Feministing, Pandagon and Bitch PhD dominate the blogosphere, thus replicating the very same hierarchy that academia has been perpetuating for a very long time.

Blogs run by traditionally marginalised women do not attract the same attention by the media. When feminists are pulled from the internet for interviews, it is routinely the same white feminist voices representing the broad perspectives that are visible on the internet. Unlike academia, where the power dynamic between professor and student does not allow for radical confrontation, marginalised women have forcefully made themselves heard through a series of boycotts, as well as critical essays confronting feminists of privilege regarding race, ableism and transphobia.

Despite repeated calls for change, the dynamics remains the same because the powerful blogs maintain the ability to silence and effectively ignore the critique of marginalised women simply based in size and clout. Though the different strata of women’s organising often finds itself fighting the same issues, differences in race, class, ability, and cisgender status continue to divide activism, making it impossible for real ally work to occur. How can you claim the label of those who would oppress you to see their goals realised, even when commonality exists in some areas? Not owning the feminist label is not always about equivocation; for some women, it represents truly loving oneself in the face of bigotry.

CD Review: Usher’s Sixth Release Raymond Vs Raymond Is A Solid Album!

Everyone knows I love Usher!  I feel like I have grown up with Usher. It is nice to see Usher evolving, growing, changing.

According to media reports, Usher finally fired his mother she is no longer his manager.  It was a tough decision for Usher to fire his mom but the man is thirty one years old.

He wants to be independent and he demonstrates his growth on “Raymond Vs Raymond”. Usher is now living his life on his own terms and his mother has to accept this fact.

One example of Usher’s maturity. is the song “Mars Vs Venus”, it explores the differences between men and women.

Although some critics hated Usher’s 2008 “Here I Stand”, I love that album.

The most important fact about Usher is, that he is an incredible singer. For instance, Usher’ s phrasing, pitch, tone, and vocal range is very impressive. I believe Usher is the most talented male vocalist of his generation.

Of course, I immediately bought his sixth album Raymond Vs Raymond.  I  admit, Usher’s best album was 2004 “Confessions”.

However, how can Usher possibly top “Confessions” that album old 20 million copies worldwide?

On “Raymond Vs Raymond”,  it appears Usher he is conflicted about his identity. Inside the album jacket, there is a picture of Usher being a responsible black man spending time with children.

However, at the back of the sleeve of the album, there is a  photograph of Usher and a half-naked young  black woman.

It seems Usher doesn’t know what direction he wants to take his career?

Usher is in his thirties now, he realizes he has to become more mature and reach an older demographic market. The problem is, Usher is cognizant that the young kids are the target audience he still wants to reach.

Some of the tracks feel a bit “forced” because he wants to reach young people. For example, the song “Monstar” feels contrived it doesn’t sound authentic.

The fact remains, the music industry is marketed towards the teenagers and the early 20 somethings.

Since Usher is thirty-one, some people may feel the lyrical content is a bit “immature.”

Another point to consider is, can’t a thirty-one year old straight man enjoy sex? Usher certainly isn’t old, he has a right to have casual sex .

The tracks  “Hey Daddy” (Daddy’s Home),  “guilty”, “OMG”, “Lil Freak”, and  “She Don’t Know” Usher is confident in expressing his masculinity.

I love Usher because he’s not afraid to demonstrate he is vulnerable and that he has feelings. So many male singers try to hide their true emotions and Usher doesn’t do this.  On the song “papers”, he discusses his divorce from his cougar ex-wife Tameka Foster.

On the songs “Okay” and  “There Goes My Baby”  Usher illustrates on these  sweet ballads that can be  a sensitive and tender lover.

Usher is not afraid to show his emotions and declare his love for women, unlike some male singers.

I like Usher because he is so “normal” black man. Usher is an intelligent, good-looking, hardworking ,black man and I respect Usher so much. Usher is presenting a positive image of black masculinity in pop culture. He loves his two sons, he’s dedicated to them.

South African Article: White Supremacist Eugene Terreblanche Accused Of Homosexual Advances In The 1980s.

ET faced gay rumours before

Jerusha Sukhdeo

Pietermaritzburg – Allegations that the murder of Eugene Terre’Blanche might have been linked to a sexual advance are not the first time the AWB leader was accused of molesting a young man.

While the murder was initially attributed to wage disputes, a defence lawyer confirmed allegations of sexual offence would form part of the trial.

“My instructions from my client are that there was some sodomy going on and it sparked the murder of Mr Terre’Blanche,” the lawyer said.

In the 1980s, Terre’Blanche was accused of sexually assaulting a teenage member of the AWB, who said he awoke after a night of heavy partying to find Terre’Blanche on top of him, trying to molest him.

These allegations have led to speculation that Terre’Blanche was a latent homosexual – described as a sexual attraction to the same sex without overt action.

According to a local psychologist, blatant homophobia – which Terre’Blanche often displayed – is often a sign of its existence.

Cover for gay tendencies

The psychologist said Terre’Blanche’s “macho world of uniforms and horses”, could have been a cover for latent homosexual tendencies.

According to studies, men with denied homosexual inclinations often display them under the influence of alcohol.

Renowned German psychoanalyst Karl Abraham once said “the homosexual components which have been repressed and sublimated … become unmistakably evident under the influence of alcohol”.

Police spokesperson Captain Adele Myburgh confirmed Terre’Blanche and the two accused bought a bottle of vodka and about 30 ciders on the morning of the murder.

Police sources said the investigation includes the possibility that Terre’Blanche was engaging in sex with the 15-year-old accused.

Reports of a condom at the murder scene have been rubbished by some officials and confirmed by others. General Jan Mabula, head of the Hawks in the North West, said he saw no condom at the scene, but confirmed the Hawks are “looking into everything that has been alleged”.

Relationship with boy

Rumours of an inappropriate relationship between Terre’Blanche and a young boy have also surfaced.

A young boy allegedly stayed with Terre’Blanche on his farm. AWB leaders have said the boy slept in Terre’Blanche’s arms because he came from a troubled home and Terre’Blanche merely “took pity” on him.
However, psychologist Anne Lupton warned that the co-accused are under immense strain and “are at the mercy of enormous pressures from very different political spheres”, which would make “bulldozing” through these “coercive influences” very difficult.

Lupton also said “a person raised in a home where coercion was the mode of persuasion, continues to coerce (such as rape and directed anger).

One could so easily ask if both Terre’Blanche and the older attacker were not perhaps drawn to one another because these dynamics were familiar”.

Daily Telegraph Article: South African White Supremacist Eugene Terreblanche May Have Been A Closeted Homosexual?

Police investigate homosexual link in Terreblanche killing

South African police are investigating whether there was a link between homosexual sex and the murder of far-Right leader Eugene Terreblanche at him farm.

Sebastien Berger In Johannesburg
Published: 9:25PM BST 11 Apr 2010

Eugene Terreblanche at an AWB meeting in South Africa in the  1980s.

Police had earlier said a pay dispute led to the killing of Eugene Terreblanche. Photo: Sipa Press/Rex Features

Puna Moroko, the lawyer for Chris Mahlangu, 28, the elder of two people accused of the killing, said that “something shocking happened on that day”.

A police spokesman confirmed that was among possibilities being investigated. Police had earlier said a pay dispute had led to the killing of Mr Terreblanche, on the political margins since his efforts to preserve apartheid in the early 1990s.

“We are not going to focus on one thing,” said Musa Zondi of the Hawks investigative unit, adding that a sexual link was among the many accusations being made over the case.

“We will investigate all pertinent facts that have a bearing on the matter,” he said.

General Jan Mabula, head of the Hawks in the North West Province, said the suspects’ clothes were to be examined as part of checks into whether there was a sexual link.

Mr Terreblanche, the leader of the Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB), was hacked and battered to death on April 3 and found with his trousers pulled down after a murder that has showed up the racial strains in South Africa

Mr Terreblanche, 69, was married with a daughter and the idea that he might have been homosexual – and in a physical relationship with a black person – stands contrary to everything he espoused during his life.

He was a member of the Afrikaner Protestant Church, a conservative Christian group which had to lift a ban on Africans entering its premises to allow black journalists to cover his funeral on Friday.

His Afrikaner Resistance Movement reacted with fury to the allegations. Its new leader Steyn van Ronge described them as “unbelievable and completely untrue”.