The Week In Gay: Heterosexual Pride, DADT and why homosexual jokes just aren’t funny

by Cupcake

The Most Cake’s weekly round-up of lesbian-ish/gay lady/queer grrrl news from around the world…

Massachusetts is for lovers:

A lesbian athletic director at a Catholic School married her partner and was subsequently forced out of her job after 12 years of teaching. Students protested and were generally way more enlightened than their teachers must be. Watch this video, it is full of hope!

“Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” no longer asking:
A federal judge in the great gay state of California has ruled the US armed forces’ ban on out gay service members to be unconstitutional! Legalese ensues, but it’s still good news since this whole debate has been going on for far too long and has included the most blatant homophobia.

Heterosexual pride:
One hundred straight and narrow people assembled last weekend to march along the route of the Budapest Pride parade, which took place earlier this month. Their objective was to demonstrate popular resistance to the use of public spaces for gay events. It was undoubtedly much less fun than actual Pride. Autostraddle has compiled a list of other straight pride parades that take place every day, including “weddings” and “most days of the year”.
(via Joe.My.God.)

Christian values in Bulgaria:
An anti-equality mayor and prosecutor in Pazarzhik have been awarded orders by the Orthodox bishop of Plovdiv for their “defence” of Christian values. The two officials had issued a ban on public displays of homosexuality in their city.
(via Joe.My.God.)

This week in homophobic jokes:
Montanan Tea Party President gets fired for making jokes on Facebook about Matt Shepard, and Australian swimming Olympian loses her car and her sponsorship deal after using the F word in a tweet.
(via Box Turtle Bulletin)