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February 7th 2005
US MILITARY BUILDS GAY WEAPON
The US military investigated building a
"gay bomb", which would make enemy soldiers "sexually irresistible" to each
other, government papers say.
Other weapons that never saw the light of day
include one to make soldiers obvious by their bad breath.
The US defence department considered various
non-lethal chemicals meant to disrupt enemy discipline and morale.
The 1994 plans were for a six-year project costing
$7.5m, but they were never pursued.
The US Air Force Wright Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio,
sought Pentagon funding for research into what it called "harassing,
annoying and 'bad guy'-identifying chemicals".
The plans were obtained under the US Freedom of
Information by the Sunshine Project, a group which monitors research into
chemical and biological weapons.
'Who? Me?'
The plan for a so-called "love bomb" envisaged an
aphrodisiac chemical that would provoke widespread homosexual behaviour
among troops, causing what the military called a "distasteful but completely
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February 8th 2005
New Genetics Study Undermines Gay Gene Theory
GROVE CITY, PA, February 10,
2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A study to be published in the March 2005 issue of
the journal Human Genetics, and available online now, undermines the
commonly promoted view that homosexual orientation is determined by genetic
factors.
The study’s lead author, Brian Mustanski from the University of Illinois in
Chicago, said in a UIC news release that "There is no one 'gay' gene. Sexual
orientation is a complex trait, so it's not surprising that we found several
DNA regions involved in its expression."
However, a thorough examination of the report by professors Warren
Thockmorton and Ray Durwood of Grove City College reveals no statistically
significant findings for any of these DNA regions.
The analysis by the Grove City College PhD’s says of the study, “The authors
describe in the article three non-X chromosomal ‘new regions of genetic
interest’ (7q36, 8p12, and 10q26). In the authors’ view, a noteworthy aspect
of the study as follows: ‘Our strongest finding was on 7q36 with a combined
mlod score of 3.45 and equal distribution from maternal and paternal allele
transmission. This score falls just short of Lander and Kruglyak's (1995)
criteria for genomewide significance.’ They go on to say ‘two additional
regions (8p12 and 10q26) approached the criteria for suggestive linkage’ -
again pointing out that neither was statistically significant.”
Thus, even the author’s “strongest finding” was not statistically
significant by widely accepted scientific criteria.
Thockmorton and Durwood conclude: “In summary, the Mustanski study finds no
significant relationship between DNA regions and self-reported sexual
orientation. Available evidence suggests that genes may be expressed via the
interaction of temperament with certain environments. Practically, then, at
present, one cannot know with any degree of certainty that a gene or
combination of genes will distinguish why one man is homosexual and another
is not.”
jhw
February 9th 2005
By SUN ONLINE REPORTER
A GERMAN zoo has shipped four
female penguins from Sweden after discovering that six of its male birds
were gay.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005062478,00.html
Keepers at the Bremerhaven Zoo brought in the four girl penguins after it
emerged that the males had paired off in a bid to breed babies.
It is notoriously difficult to tell the sex of penguins, and zoo
officials had been baffled why their six had not produced any offspring.
But in case the gay penguins show no interest, the zoo has also flown in
two male penguins, "so that the ladies don’t miss out altogether," zoo
director Heike Kueck said.
February 10th 2005
Educator Charged With Watching Gay Porn At School
POSTED: 7:49 am CST February 10, 2005
UPDATED: 7:52 am CST February 10, 2005
HOUSTON -- Police are searching
for a Houston-area charter school educator accused of watching gay porn in
class, Local 2 reported Wednesday.
Investigators said Roger Ward, a social studies teacher at the Raul
Yzaguirre School For Success, reportedly watched pornography while
students were in the classroom.
Students told police they caught their teacher looking at the videos
after he would assign them work to do in class.
The Harris County district attorney charged Ward with display of
harmful material to a minor Wednesday. He faces up to two years behind
bars if convicted.
Local 2 reported Ward was also fired from a Houston Independent School
District school for sexual comments he allegedly made in front of students
and staff but no criminal charges were ever filed.
Houston police said they confiscated the computer Ward used to look at
the pornography.
Investigators said although other people might have had access to the
computer during the day, investigators said they can prove it was Ward who
downloaded the images and streaming video by the time of day those images
were viewed.
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February 11th 2005
Berlin cheers gay porn documentary
By Erik Kirschbaum
BERLIN (Reuters) - A documentary about the lives of aging porn actors
that throws a harrowing spotlight on the gay film industry in Los Angeles
has opened the Panorama section of the Berlin Film Festival to an
enthusiastic reception.
One of many films at this year's Berlinale examining sex and pornography,
"Cycles of Porn - Sex/Life in L.A. Part 2" by German filmmaker Jochen Hick
takes its audience on a riveting journey into the world of low-budget sex
films.
It tracks a group of young gay actors hoping for stardom in their
industry who live together in an apartment filled with omniscient Internet
web cameras and contrasts their wide-eyed ambitions with three men now
retired from making porn films.
A follow-up project to his heralded 1997 documentary "Sex/Life in L.A."
that had a 15-fold return on its $30,000 (16,000 pounds) budget, Hick said
he was hopeful "Cycles of Porn" would find even more buyers, including
television networks in Europe.
"We found that gay actors do it more for the adventure or to do something
really wild because it's ridiculous how little they get paid," said Hick.
"By contrast, I think there are very, very few women doing porn films for
fun."
The Berlinale, one of the world's leading film festivals after Cannes and
Venice, has made the vastly profitable pornography industry one of the major
themes this year.
A documentary "Inside Deep Throat" about the 1972 film "Deep Throat" that
shocked many and is estimated to have grossed $600 million after costing
$25,000 to make will be screened in the Panorama section on Sunday.
Hick won the Berlinale's "Teddy" gay film award in 2003 for his
documentary "The World of Rural Queers" that portrayed the isolated lives of
four gay men in rural southwestern Germany.
MOMENTS OF HUMOUR
Hick, who got half of his $80,000 budget for "Cycles of Porn" from German
state film board subsidies, said segments of explicit gay sex scenes may
shock some viewers but that hardly anyone has walked out of screenings.
Viewers cheered on Friday.
Women and heterosexuals have especially praised it, he said. He has a
less explicit version for public television buyers.
"People say that once they're into the film they love it," Hick said.
"Women have told me they love this film."
Not without its moments of humour, as when actors are momentarily unable
to perform as required, the film shows actors collecting their modest $150
per film paychecks. It illuminates a world where drug abuse is prevalent and
men die young.
"The percentage of those doing drugs is huge," Hick said. "You feel sorry
for the poor film actors, but then you think 'My god, you are old enough to
decide what you're doing'."
While Cole Tucker, a hard-bodied former porn star in his mid-40s, has
found a new career in real estate, Kevin Kramer toils as a clerk renting
videos rather than starring in them.
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