I thought lesbians didn’t get crushes on men, but apparently, they do
The chief of the Malta Gay Rights Movement, Gabi Calleja, has given this year’s Gay Exiles Soldier Award (do they also have a Gay Exiles Fireman Award and a Gay Exiles NYC Cop Award, to complete the fetish list?) to – WHAT A SURPRISE – her man-crush, Joseph Muscat.
You know, this is when I wish I worked for something like Private Eye, because there is such a lot you could do with something like this.
Look at that photograph. Of Muscat and Calleja both in their ill-fitting suits, it really is hard to tell which one of them is the butch woman. So quite frankly, I’m not surprised that Ms Calleja has the hots for the PM.
Gay Exiles Soldier Award? Joseph Muscat? COME ON.
And he received it accompanied by Cyrus Engerer. Why – because he’s gay? Is that the kind of small-minded backwater tokenism and ghettoisation that Ms Calleja thinks furthers the interests of gay people?
“PRIME MINISTER, THAT LESBIAN FROM THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT IS COMING OVER TO GIVE YOU A GAY AWARD LATER ON TODAY. SHALL I RING CYRUS?”
I wouldn’t have given a Gay Prize to somebody who promotes and champions a man who sent out his ex boyfriend’s naked sex pictures, to embarrass him with the fact that he’s…gay.
Last year, Ms Calleja gave the Gay Exiles Soldier Award to Evarist Bartolo, another male Labour politician who looks like a very butch woman in drag – one of those masculine nuns I remember. All he needs is a black headdress and the crimplene outfit to match.
Do we detect a pattern here?
Note to the prime minister’s advisers: do not allow him to be photographed standing next to Gabi Calleja. Odious comparisons will inevitably be made. They look like a butch couple, and I am only half joking.
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From the Times : “The award was presented by the social group Gay Exiles, which represents Maltese who had to leave their families to live in foreign countries with their loved ones, who happened to be of the same sex.”
I thought the Exiles name came from the Cyrus Engerer connection.
Well, Gabi Calleja is butch. I wouldn’t exactly call Joseph Muscat butch. He doesn’t even have a butch walk, he waddles like he has to hold a piece of toilet paper between his legs.
With that image in my mind, no, definitely not butch.
[Daphne – You misunderstand me. He looks like a butch woman, not like a butch man. That’s the only form of masculinity he has.]
Gay Exiles Soldier Award?
One TV was staffed mainly by gay men engaged by Jason Micallef, who have now left for new jobs on the public payroll, in various ministries and the Office of the Prime Minister.
Cyrus Engerer, Kenneth Zammit Tabona and Felix Busuttil look very happy. But where are Natius Farrugia, Anthony Zammit, Jason and Ronnie?
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130618/local/civil-unions.474416
Not to be outdone by Barack Obama and his Nobel Peace Prize.
The perfect caption photo competition – mejjet biex nghid x’ghaddej minn mohh Mrs Muscat.
Kieku jaghmlu wahda tajba!
The Malta Gay Rights Movement are sucking up to the Prime Minister despite the fact that he is offering them a second class piece of legislation called Civil Partnerships.
It is called a civil partnership and not a marriage because it is inferior in terms of rights and obligations to a marriage.
And yet the LGBT community seems happy to accept sexual apartheid. I don’t get it!
Isn’t it obvious why the (exiled?) LGBT group prefer Labour over a PN government? As a lobby group they can’t be more attention-seeking than that.
Who cares about good governance or the economy when all they’re after is recognition? If they have a persecution complex wouldn’t they run to the one (potential) ‘source’ offering them a better sense of security?
As has been widely commented elsewhere elections have to do much more than just politics. In their case it’s more like psychological insecurity.
Supporting gay rights? Gabi should know better. I’m sure she’s well aware of how little Muscat gives a damn about gay rights.
And is that Michelle clapping for her husband who finally got to be a soldier, albeit only in her dreams?
If I can make an educated guess, I’d say that next year the Gay Exiles Soldiers Award will go to Suor Manwela Mallia.
After the PM and Maria l-Maws, can’t think of another cabinet member who looks so much like a butch woman.
Very good point, Daphne. I really missed it. Cyrus is promoting gay rights, when he himself did something so essentially homophobic and spiteful.
This island is turning to an absurd state.
Actually Mrs. Muscat looks like she is trying to find out whose is the biggest, Gabi’s or her husband’s.
Being part of the LGBT in Malta feels like going naked in Afghanistan pleading soldiers to kill you.
LGBT’s attitude, especially Gabi’s, these last two years have shown that they need to understand the meaning of the word lobby. And now we are faced with the situation that a second class legislation is good enough and we give credit to the PM. Oh come on Gaby just wake up!
First of all there is no need to be proud to be gay, as this is just a direct way for stigma and you are putting it on yourself.
And secondly, self pity does not work with others, only with the self. So please check your egos and move on.
Fight for rights but stop pushing people to come out. I for one am happy as I am. I don’t need to be proud of anything except the successes I might be having with my own merit and sacrifice, and not because I happen to be gay. So I’m gay. So what?
Oh, this Soldier symbolism again! How many different faces it has … but the same mentality prevails.
The first time I was exposed to it was a young child becoming a ‘Soldier of Christ’ (Suldat ta’ Kristu).
Some time later it was a legion of Soldiers of Steel (Suldati tal-Azzar) in a completely different (and opposite) context.
Then again, the same Soldiers of Steel clamoured for the total abolition of Toy Soldiers, toy guns, toy armoured tanks, etc.
And now it’s the (re)turn of Gay Exile Soldiers to make the news again!
Don’t you all think that, irrespective of the sources of the symbolism, it’s the same old ‘besieged’ mentality?