Madonna Made You Queer & Gays Bankroll the Westboro Baptist Church

It was a full day of crazy even by American Family Association Radio standards last week, when former hate group president and Fox News contributor Sandy Rios hosted noted ex-gays Christopher Doyle and Chuck Peters on the "Sandy Rios in the Morning" show. In the segment with Doyle and Peters, the pair of self-proclaimed "ex-gay advocates" expounded on the old theory of how an absent or weak father and over-bearing strong mother are the tools used to turn boys queer.


"That’s why I believe a lot of gay-identified men really worship these celebrities, these strong women, like Madonna or Cher or Lady Gaga" said Peters. "Because these women are strong women, like the mom that I grew up with, that are very opinionated, have a chip on their shoulder, wear the pants in the family, and these are the women that I wanted to be like or I wanted to identify with because I didn’t have a man in the house who wore the pants, who would teach me how to be a man." Full story here via Edge!

Russian Official Targets Pro-Gay Artists with Visa Investigation Against Lady Gaga, Madonna

Anti-gay lawmaker Vitaly Milonov appears to be sending a message to performing artists coming to Russia: speak out in favor of gay rights and be investigated. Milonov appears to have triggered an investigation into visits to the country by Lady Gaga and Madonna, both of whom made spectacles of Russia's anti-gay laws during their performances.
The Guardian reports:

The office of Russia's prosecutor general has issued a statement confirming that neither singer obtained an appropriate visa prior to performing there last year. Madonna, who played in August 2012, and Gaga, who appeared in December, travelled under cultural-exchange visas. These documents "do not grant their bearers the right to engage in any commercial activity," authorities said. According to the Russian legal information agency, prosecutors are now considering asking Russia's foreign ministry or federal migration service to press charges.

As any foreigner who has visited Moscow will know, Russian immigration can be extremely complicated. But Gaga and Madonna's mistakes weren't just discovered by accident: prosecutors launched their investigation only after being contacted by one of the singers' most outspoken enemies.

The man in question was Vitaly Milonov, who serves in St Petersburg's municipal legislature and authored St Petersburg's law banning gay "propaganda" – a model for recent legislation passed by the Duma.