Canada's National Post reports on a course in gay parenting, the first of its kind for gay men who want to be fathers. It's called Daddies and Papas 2B and takes you through the steps of finding a surrogate mother, or whatever-the-method, and into the joys of diaper changing.
When it comes to bringing up kids I subscribe to the theory that you 'love 'em, leave 'em alone, and if they fuck up you slap the shit out of them' school of thought. You don't really need a course for that.
The Daddies and Pappas 2B course is sponsored by the LGBT Parenting Network, and they're also doing a similar course for lesbian mothers called Dykes Planning Tykes.
I've always been a supporter of gay couples adopting children. In fact, I think straight people should be banned from bringing up kids; they're entirely unsuitable for nurturing a young life. Saddam Hussein and George Bush both had straight parents and look how they fucked up!! O.J. Simpson, John Wayne Gacy, Adolf Hitler, and Celine Dion were all the ugly result of heterosexuals bringing up children.
Of course, the perfect gay parents would be drag queens. I wish I'd been raised by Ru Paul and Boy George; I'd be even more of a bitch than I am now. And I happen to believe that in this tough world we live in, being a complete bitch is a good thing.
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AP reports that 'a woman in central Thailand held a funeral for a monitor lizard believed to have been the reincarnation of her 12-year-old son, who died in a road accident nearly two years ago.'
'Jamlong Taengnian, 53, and her relatives gathered at the family's house on the outskirts of Bangkok for the ceremony following the death of the reptile … '
Jamlong's deceased son was called Charoen and over the years hundreds of people visited the lizard that possessed the boy's spirit and acquired good luck from it.
Aren't other cultures simply fascinating!! I totally believe this story because I've got a toaster that's the reincarnation of Elvis Presley. Every morning I hear it singing, 'As the snow flies, On a cold and gray Chicago mornin', A poor little baby child is born, In the ghetto …' Then I take my medication and it stops. It's almost creepy …
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It doesn't have a title yet, but it's being billed as the first all-gay horror film. No, not the first horrible gay film; that honor would go to Can't Stop the Music—not that the Village People were gay, mind you.
According to Fangoria.com the film stars Dylan Fergus, Bryan (The Real World) Kirkwood, Hank (Pumpkin) Harris, Matt Phillips and Andrew (Psycho Beach Party) Levitas and is directed by newcomer Paul Etheredge-Ouzts.
The producer is Steven (Circuit) Wolfe. Etheredge-Ouzts tells Fangoria the plot is: 'On Halloween morning in a West Hollywood park, two guys' makeout session is interrupted by a serial killer with a fondness for severed heads. Later that night, a group of gay kids celebrate the holiday with a visit to the site of the murders. Unfortunately ... the killer never left the murder scene. After a close encounter with the slasher in the woods, the friends escape to the West Hollywood Halloween Carnival. There, the guys search for the simple pleasures of youth—drugs, booze and boyfriends—unaware that the shadowy killer stalks them through the street party crowds … ' … etc, etc.
Oh dear, a serial killer who collects severed heads. Can't wait for that one to open in Milwaukee.