Bottoms up! Labour's getting itself a Sezzjoni tal-Pufti.
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November 4, 2009 at 2:27pm
Labour's gay activists drink a toast to the demolition of their closet and rush off to join LGBT Labour.
Excuse me, my dears, but I just can’t help myself.
Somebody’s written in to defend the proposed setting up of a gay ghetto in the Labour Party by insisting that policies on homosexuals (are there such things, and does he mean like policies on Jews and people in wheelchairs?) need to be worked out “from the bottom up”.
Now somebody’s going to write in to accuse me of marginalising lesbians.
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Ha ! Ha ! nahseb iktar somebody will write in to lecture you about not using derogatory terms like”pufti”. It will be entertaining to read, I’m sure.
Note to all fellow gays out there before everyone gets swept away by unwarranted excitement: setting up a network and actually passing legislation are two very different things. Furthermore there are far more important issues than “gay rights”, on which to choose who to put into Castille next time round.
I say this because, incredibly, I have already heard gay people say that they will vote PL because Joseph Muscat promised to introduce gay marriage. Did I miss something here?
Whilst there might be a serious will on Joseph’s side to counter discrimination based on sexuality, I question if creating a minority group within the PL structure is the right way to go.
I would have thought that a progressive movement would be seeking seamless social integration on all fronts, as opposed to creating a minority within its own structure.
I must however give credit to Joseph Muscat for being the first politician to finally realise and exploit the fact that sadly, very little effort in this camp could potentially win him very many votes in the next election
What’s wrong with a stout-hearted hands-on practice?
“…Now somebody’s going to write in to accuse me of marginalising lesbians.”
…and rightly so!
Anglu shall entrench it in the LP’s version of the Lesbian Treaty.
Your preoccupation with bottoms really does expose you for what you are. A bigoted columnist who is ready to use hate speech and any other device if it boosts readership or website ‘hits’.
[Daphne – Oooooh. Bitch.]
It’s interesting that there’s been recent research and study into profiling the typical ‘gay basher’ and hate speech proponent. It’s largely populated by those with a suppressed sexuality of their own who lash out at attributes they themselves deny.
[Daphne – That’s right. I’m a lesbian. You got it in one. You’d better give Maltastar a tinkle so that they can stop speculating about the men I’m supposed to having affairs with.]
So your coterie of brown nosed sycophants really does make a lot of sense. People with noses up each other bottoms really are terribly fixated with anality and arses. You and your admirers have a lot more in common with the proclivities of the gay community than you’d care to admit or even realise.
Hey Lukie! Relax. Let your gonads descend and untwist. You appear to be such a tight ass that you never have to fear being approached from the rear. Did your ‘research into research’ ever explain what the Bible meant with the command ‘Be fruitful and multiply’? How can that be?
God, a bible quoting a**hole! What a w****r! Care to explore your anal fixation, Harry dearie?
Hey little Lukie. Perhaps this will soothe your rattled nerves. Sign seen in a hospital in Northampton:
FAMILY PLANNING ADVICE
ENTER AT REAR
As Littlejohn says, ‘You couldn’t make it up’.
How’s it hanging, Lukie?
I hear ‘bell bottoms’ are on the ‘up’. Will the little gnome be wearing a pair next Sunday? Nice and tight across the ass, of course. A suitable welcome to his new ‘section’?
The New Labour Party: liberte, egalite, fraternite:
http://www.faschingskoenig.de/05/bilder/W5442.jpg
Didn’t know Jimi was a triplet.
No you’re not only marginalising lesbians…you’re also marginalising gay men who don’t do anal sex.
[Daphne – A relationship without sex is Just Friends. Most people grow out of heavy petting by the time they’re 16.]
I really think that by creating an ‘LGBT Section’ he is marginalizing them more, because he’s giving them a label. and what is discrimination, if not labelling others?
@ Daphne:
No you’re not only marginalising lesbians…you’re also marginalising gay men who don’t do anal sex.
[Daphne – A relationship without sex is Just Friends. Most people grow out of heavy petting by the time they’re 16.]
I am really lost for words.
By the way, the LGBT Labour structure will not earn Joseph Yogi Bear my vote. No way! Joseph, try harder, show us how progressive you are. FLOP FLOP…
I’m a lesbian who’s trapped in a man’s body. OK, not original; but it’s good for breaking the ice … or your nose.
You’re absolutely right in your logic. You either put yourself in the spotlight or you integrate seamlessly. Can’t have it both ways, baby. When someone calls and says, “How about lunch, Leonard?” the only question that may cross my mind is: “Do I want to spend a couple of hours with this asshole?” The rest is irrelevant.
Hey, they forgot the bisexual, and those who are not sure of their sexual orientation.
[Daphne – The B in LGBT stands for bisexual.]
What I had in mind is that bisexual is only in the acronym (like part of a package). It will not feature anywhere else.
Hehe… Took me three readings to get the “bottoms up” pun. Is it just me, or does stupidity flourish in winter?
Forsi Joe Demicoli jigi b’xejn flok il-Kinks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha0O-Vt8pmY
We Maltese really do not have a sense of humour. I noticed this a long time ago. I think Daphne’s humour in this was fantastic and it made me laugh a lot and appreciate her intelligence in it. Some people take this short life too seriously. We are also unable to laugh at ourselves. I am not gay but have many friends who are and we do laugh at gay “things”. So what! A last note: in my experience Maltese society is more accepting of gays than some other European countries, and Maltese gays themselves acknowledge this.
Joe needs to be ANALysed…
A friend once tried to convince me that he had an infallible system for winning at roulette. When asked to explain, it turned out that it just consisted of doubling your bet every time you lost until you won – then you start again. I don’t think I need to explain the fallacy behind it.
This blog is starting to remind me of that story. After every damp squib that fails to take off, you try to up the ante – with even less effect.
Ashamed of your name, Luke?
How come you only ever put that kind of question to people who disagree with you – never to those who do?
Twanny, if you look back at my comments over time you will see that I regard it as cowardly for ANYone not to use his own name. Because of my personal connections I sometimes refrain from commenting, from using my own name – never.
Ghal darba naqbel mas-sinjura Caruana Galizia, jidher ovvju li din il-mossa m’hi xejn ghajr bzar fl-ghajnejn. Barra li hemm kwistjonijiet aktar fundamentali u vitali fix-xena politika.
Dear Daphne, you are at it again, confusing good journalism with sensationalism. Personally I take immense pride in the depiction of myself as a poofter. I hope the day will come when gay men in Malta do the same. You, too, are obviously made in Malta. You may be a Sliemiza, dear, but you are so bloody parochial. Do you need to be educated into why political parties have gay and lesbian groups. Does invisibility ring a bell?
As for dear Agatha, let me remind you of those two very prominent PN members who did the beats in the 1970s when the Maltese parliament was debating the decriminalisation of homosexuality. Do you not know their names? Sadly they are still alive for me to out them but they are old and the two old bastards will be outed one day. One of them used to take advantage of young men who consulted him. He had offices in Valletta. Another good Christian soldier.
[Daphne – I don’t need you to out them to me, Mr Chetcuti. I know who they are in the same I knew about prime minister Borg Olivier’s situation. And unlike you, I believe ‘outing’ people who don’t want to be outed in an act of spite and aggression against somebody who is harming no one except himself. In certain cases, you might be surprised to discover, they are not even concealing the fact from their immediate family. Why out somebody who is no longer in public life and who hasn’t been in public life for decades? I find ti fascinating that the people who shout about and threaten to out others are invariably homosexual themselves. You never get a heterosexual threatening to out somebody as homosexual. It’s the homosexuals who do this to each other. Now imagine the cries of protest from homosexuals if a heterosexual were to threaten to out ‘one of them’. People like you (bitter and angry homosexuals who use reverse psychology by calling themselves poofters, like anyone gives a damn what you do in bed or who you fancy) think that all heterosexuals are blind, stupid and unobservant, and that we don’t know who’s gay until you tell us. Well, guess what, sweetheart: we can usually tell if a member of the opposite sex is homosexual or bisexual, even if he or she comes with a spouse and children attached. We don’t need you to tell us – and this is not because we can’t work it out for ourselves, but because we really, really don’t care unless she’s/he’s being blackmailed by people who think as you do.]
It is not my position and it has never been my position to out people without a very good reason. Everyone has a right to privacy and that right extends to closeted homosexuals. However closeted homosexuals are to be outed when they take a public position against the interests of gay men and lesbians. For example, a closeted homosexual who does the beats and attends gay parties and thinks it his right to get off with the best looking young gay man and then turns around and votes against the decriminalisation of homosexuality deserves to be outed.
[Daphne – It’s a bit too late for that now, isn’t it, Joseph Carmel. I’ve begun to realise that Malta is a hell of a lot more tolerant place than Britain was up to recently. In the past four decades we have had as prime minister a man whose wife had a baby by a priest (while he was prime minister), a president who was a lesbian with two lovers which she kept in separate homes, one in Gozo and one in Malta, migrating between the two, a prime minister (Dom Mintoff) who had a series of prominent escapades, most notoriously with his brother’s wife, a prime minister who was a self-declared atheist who doesn’t believe in marriage (Alfred Sant) and whose own brief marriage had been annulled for this reason…I could go on, but the newsagent closes soon and I have to get out of the house.]
As for Dr George Borg Olivier, let me tell you up front that I had and have the greatest admiration for him. From what I hear he was quite gay friendly and by that I do not mean homosexual. I care little about any family turmoil he and others may have had. We all have skeletons in our cupboards.
[Daphne – You miss the point that his wasn’t a skeleton in the cupboard, but right out in the open, and it’s for that, not for anything else, that I respect him. he didn’t try to conceal things while pretending to be a saint. Not at all. He went to parties with his girlfriend and allowed his wife’s son to keep his surname and be part of the family.]
If dear Agatha had two girlfriends, that’s two more than I ever had. With all due respect to Agatha and her girlfriends, I can hardly say I am jealous.
Daphne…get a life!!!!! not everything that PL does is wrong and lgbt labour is a proof. it’s a disgrace that there are still people like you!!
This is a lame blog, give us all the gory details,