It was still just those damned students all those years ago. And the porn. Did he have to start with that? Sex education, it appears, was just the beginning: That is why sex films were no longer allowed on airplanes because violence would break out among the small community of passengers. And there was porn in the seminaries: Seeing a former pope reduced to this is just sad. There is no reflection at all on his own culpability in handling all the sex-abuse cases under John Paul II; there is just an easy, knee-jerk attempt to blame his old enemies for them.

And then, as so often with Benedict, something happens, and the anger and bitterness and lashing out cedes to a suddenly beautiful statement of the truth of Christianity:. The Lord has initiated a narrative of love with us and wants to subsume all creation in it. The counterforce against evil, which threatens us and the whole world, can ultimately only consist in our entering into this love.

It is the real counterforce against evil … A world without God can only be a world without meaning. For where, then, does everything that is come from?

In any case, it has no spiritual purpose. It is somehow simply there and has neither any goal nor any sense. Then there are no standards of good or evil. Then only what is stronger than the other can assert itself. Power is then the only principle. Truth does not count, it actually does not exist. Been boning up on some Nietzsche, I see. But Benedict is and always has been this strange combination: It makes me want to yell at him and revere him at the same time. A couple of observations about the impact of the trans revolution within the gay and lesbian world.

Last week saw a historic first: She thinks sports requires a compromise: But the point is: It is perfectly possible to protect transgender and gay people from discrimination without redefining gender for the entire species. Why not make that practical case rather than risk splitting your own coalition over critical gender theory? Then another trivial little thing. In the trans era, Grindr is for straight men now! Brian Smith explains: The year-old personal trainer from Northern California is only interested in meeting trans women.

And Grindr, it appears, is a more efficient way of doing this than Tinder.

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And so you actually find the following now on a hookup and dating app for gay men: Some of these dudes are straight with a thing for women with dicks, some are just into women and trans women fit into that, others may be self-hating and want to sleep with men but cannot own it, and so find transwomen the next best option — and, well, the human sexual psyche is a deep and strange thing and I begrudge no one their particular predilection.

But it does change the vibe a bit, no? As one Reddit commenter put it: A different but similar phenomenon can be found in the newfound popularity of gay bars for straight women. There were always gay-friendly women around but this influx is new and sometimes overwhelming. But at least they come to hang with the gays. Trans-loving straight dudes want to keep us at bay on Grindr. Well, we asked for it, I suppose. See you next Friday. From a Wall Street Journal report on Friday: Foreign powers including the U.

Haftar accepted the recent Saudi offer of funds, according to the senior Saudi advisers, who said the money was intended for buying the loyalty of tribal leaders, recruiting and paying fighters, and other military purposes. Considering the havoc those governments have wrought in Yemen and the increasing recklessness of Saudi foreign policy under Mohammed bin Salman, it is not surprising that the Saudis encouraged Haftar in his ill-considered gamble.

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Bryan Pirolli. A marcher at the Pride parade in Paris.

When sexual liberation began to hit, Rue Sainte Anne became home to the original gay scene with some of the best nightclubs of the s and s. While few of these venues remain, replaced largely by Japanese restaurants, you can still visit the sauna TiL'T and the nearby Club There are few lesbian bars in Paris today, though in the early s lesbian couples often congregated around Montmartre and Montparnasse. In one popular ladies-only nightclub, Le Monocle, women would dress up in tuxedos alongside other women sporting traditionally feminine garb. It was a sort of golden era of lesbian nightlife that Paris hasn't seen in the past decades.

Rosa Bonheur. While we're in the Marais Check out the aptly named Legay Choc bakeries in the Marais which are stocked with penis-shaped edibles.

If it's not bread, it's the galette des rois, a raspberry tart, or a brioche in the shape of men's privates. How's that for pride? After marriage was legalized for all couples in France in early , there were still plenty of protests from conservatives. None, perhaps, were as shocking as that of year-old Dominique Venner. Inside the Notre Dame Cathedral.

In May , he entered the popular tourist attraction of the Notre Dame cathedral, left a letter on the altar, and shot himself dead in front of shocked visitors. In the 19th century, gay men were arrested for indecent exposure in the many public urinals installed during the s.

A vespasienne in , left, and the last one left today, right.

Today, just one such urinal still exists in Paris, down on Boulevard Arago in the 13th arrondissement. It's less of a scene these days though. Drag shows may not be huge in Paris's gay bars, but head to the nearly year-old Cabaret Michou in Montmartre for some true kitsch. It's not quite on the level of Ru Paul's Drag Race, but it's still entertaining drag, if you speak French.

The owner, openly gay octogenarian Michou, is still very much a part of the establishment. You'll know him by his signature blue glasses. For example, King Henri III in the s was allegedly more interested in his male entourage than his own wife. And the Chevalier d'Eon was a famous transvestite who worked as a spy and diplomat in the s under Louis XV.

The current ambassador to Rome is a gay man, as is the assistant mayor of Paris, Bruno Julliard. You may hear lesbians referred to as a gousse garlic clove , but that might be a bit dated.

Much of the gay slang is now found on online dating sites. Voltaire would be proud. In global lesbian lingo, the word "femme" a lesbian with particularly feminine attributes actually derives from the French for "woman". Today, the Marais in the third arrondissement is the centre of gay life in Paris, but it only became so fairly recently. Rue des Archives during Pride The first gay bar opened there in , and today, the oldest existing bar, the Duplex, which opened in , is still a popular watering hole.