Warm Sands. Virgin Active gyms. Royal-ish grounds. The number of places men are supposedly cruising for sex will, if the veracity of news reports are to be believed, soon outnumber the world’s safe zones. But that’s all a big crock of sensationalism! Can you believe local media might have a hand in overselling how often dudes are getting arrested for toe-tapping in the woods?
Qnotes reveals how “one Charlotte news station helped to perpetuate the myth of gay men as sexual predators.” As if we needed an assist from the local news, who I already blame for letting me get wet when there was only supposed to be sunshine.

The historic, cultural prejudice and bigotry against gay men — often painting them as sick and mentally ill, as the 1958 Inglewood film does — made a Feb. 22 news report by WBTV’s Steve Crump all the more damaging. Armed with nothing more than anonymous online postings from a hook-up website, Crump took to southwest Charlotte’s James Boyce Park to interview concerned parents and community members. “Officers with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department are looking into a troubling new hot spot for anonymous sex,” Crump reported in his story, entitled “Internet site links Charlotte to gay sex” on WBTV’s website. “Police say men are meeting up for intimate encounters at a neighborhood park popular with children.”

[…] Following their initial report, WBTV aired another story after County Commissioner James publicly questioned how recreation officials were dealing with “sexual predators” and the “moral scourge” in Mecklenburg County parks. James claimed the parks had become home to “homos-xual infestations” and that the police still “arrest about 250 homos-xuals a year.”

250?! That sounds like a lot more than the zero arrests police in Northern California have made on gay public park cruisers. But wait a second. Do public records back up the myth that gay men are just walking up and down dirt paths and hanging out next to oaks and maples?

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD) crime data tracking back to Jan. 1, 2011 showed no reported incidents or calls for service related to public indecency or other sex-related crimes within a half-mile of the Boyce Park area. In fact, records dating back to Jan. 1, 2009, showed only three calls for service for indecent exposure, though there were no reported incidents or arrests for the same.

[…] Following WBTV’s report, qnotes decided to do what Crump and his colleagues chose not to. We immediately undertook an investigation of arrests and charges for solicitation of a crime against nature and requested information from CMPD for all of 2010 and 2011 through the end of February. According to CMPD’s Rob Tufano, a total of 325 people were charged in 2010 and 2011 with soliciting a crime against nature. Of the total, only 69 were men. Forty-seven men were arrested and charged, and the remainder were issued citations. qnotes further requested the public synopsis for each of the 47 case numbers provided to us by CMPD officials. After reviewing each, an obvious trend became clear. The majority (32 of 47) of cases were related to prostitution or narcotics activity, including several specifically linked to CMPD-led prostitution and narcotics investigations.

Only 15 cases involved men charged with a non-prostitution-, non-drug-related solicitation of a crime against nature. Five occurred at the Charlotte-Douglas Airport overlook on Old Dowd Rd., another five at an interstate rest area, three at Kilborne Park in east Charlotte, one at a hotel or motel and one on N. Tryon St.

Though to be fair, with all those Borders stores closing, your neighborhood sex fiends might be making their way to the parks in bigger numbers this spring. Or, you know, everyone has moved on to Grindr and no longer needs tree cover to complete the deed.

READ THE WHOLE STORY AT Q-NOTES

Legendary DJ Mister Cee has backed everyone from Notorious B.I.G. to Big Daddy Kane on the wheels of steel, but now he’s in the spotlight on serious charges. The WQHT Hot 97 personality was arrested for lewd sexual conduct last week following an incident where NYPD officers happened upon the 44-year-old receiving fellatio from another man inside a parked vehicle.

Cee, whose real name has been widely reported as both Calvin Laburn and Calvin Lebrun, was reportedly engaged in the sexual act with an unnamed 20-year-old. After policemen happened upon the exchange last Wednesday at 4:05PM, they brought Mister Cee into Manhattan’s 1st Precinct and booked him on the charges. While it was confirmed that Cee was arrested on charges last week, Hot 97 colleague Funkmaster Flex stated that the rumors are untrue.

“Earlier this evening, a rumor went viral through multiple social media platforms stating that Mr. Cee was arrested for committing a lewd act,” wrote Flex via his website. “Please be advised this rumor is not true. Stating false allegations about somebody and presenting it as valid information is unethical. Please continue to listen to Mr. Cee everyday at noon Monday through Friday on Hot 97 and Hot97.com.”

Since then, however, a spokesperson for the NYPD has confirmed the arrest to the media.

Mr. Cee made a name for himself beginning in the late ’80s after appearing on Big Daddy Kane’s classic debut ‘Long Live the Kane.’ Since then, he helped launch Notorious B.I.G.’s career and served as Associate Executive Producer on the fallen rapper’s 1994 debut ‘Ready to Die.’ He currently can be heard spinning on New York City’s Hot 97 radio station for his daily ‘Throwback at Noon’ show.

The most astounding finding from the newly discovered lead codices is that Jesus Christ was unambiguously and openly gay. He and his disciples formed a same-sex coterie, bound by feelings of love and mutual support. There are recorded instances of same-sex activity – the “beloved disciple” plays a significant role – and there is affirmation of the joys of friendship and of living and loving together.
A whole new complexion is given to that rather puzzling passage where Jesus exhorts his followers to break family ties: “If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.” (Luke 14, 26). It seems clear now that this is less a negative repudiation of family and more a positive exhortation to join in affirmation of a gay lifestyle and love.

Via Queerty:

Funny: Gay Jesus will survive by pmppm

There is at least one new parable, that of the two young men. There are clear echoes of the relationship between David and Jonathan, for Jesus speaks of one young man having his soul “knit with the soul” of the other, and loving him “as his own soul”. Intriguing is evidence that the Catholics might be closer to the truth about the status of Mary, the mother of Jesus, than are the Protestants. She has a much bigger role in the life of Jesus than many hitherto expected, with Jesus frequently returning home and making much of her.

Conversely, there is at least one incident when Jesus quarrels violently with Joseph, who shows great hostility and makes wild claims about “manliness”. Before, one might have thought that, given Mary’s virginity, Joseph’s attitude was reflecting the ambiguities of his status in the family; but now it seems more probable that we have here a classic example of the Freudian triangle: over-possessive mother, hostile father, gay son.

Why have we known so little about all of this before? A newly discovered Pauline epistle, appropriately to the Athenians, suggests a major Platonic influence, particularly of the Republic. The classically educated Paul, who was himself gay, saw that same-sex activity was inimical to the success of Christianity in the highly homophobic societies in which he lived. Hence, same-sex affections and activity were concealed, to be known to and practised by only the leaders in secret – the guardians of Christianity as one might say. Obviously, this is a tradition that has flourished and lasted. It is not by chance that John Henry Newman is being made a saint.

Finally, the most important news is that nothing in the newly discovered codices challenges in any way the essential message of Christianity. Jesus was the messiah; he died on the cross for our sins; and through his death and resurrection made possible our eternal salvation. Our overriding obligation is to love God and we do this by loving our neighbours as ourselves. Christianity will never be the same again. Christianity will go on completely unchanged.