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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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As part of my planning I started to look at 365gay.com. What I think everyone will not remember is that ages ago iomfats.org used to carry a gay wire news service on the home page. There were, in those days, some technical issues that meant we removed it. And I think it may well have been from this site.
I found myself substantially at odds with the editor in chief editorially (gosh doesn't that sound grand! I just mean I disagreed with her take on a story) a day or two ago, at http://timtrent.blogspot.com/2009/11/adam-lambert-kisses-keyboard-player.html where I think she got it hugely wrong, but that doesn't mean that the site carries poor news.
Today I saw something that horrified me: http://www.365gay.com/news/government-backed-chinese-gay-bar-stays-empty/ is the article. It speaks of a government sponsored gay bar in China. That sounds superb, a government sponsored gay bar. Progress in a previously antagonistic régime is to be thankful for.
But be careful.
Do some research to 1930s Germany about Jewish social clubs, clubs where Jews were encouraged, clubs where membership was prized, clubs sponsored or encouraged by the ruling power of the time. And why was that?
If you want to annihilate a group of people it makes your life far easier if you know where they are.
I'm putting these two articles in front of you for a reason.
I don't much care if you agree with my viewpoint on my blog, or Vanasco's. I don't much care if you agree with my take on the Chinese gay club or think I'm barking up the wrong tree. What I care about is whether you find this type of thing interesting. I care about it having value to add here. I care that it allows you to know about other things, that you might choose to care about.
That doesn't mean I want to patronise you by teaching you things. I have very little that I can teach you. It means that I want to be able to present stories like this for you to comment upon, for you to judge, for you to interest others in, and, most importantly, for you to ignore whenever you want to.
But I would like reactions to this post, please. or reactions to the stories, or comments, or anything, really. 
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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