Clay Cane – Journalist, Speaker

Ex-gay is begging for money in the name of Jesus

November 30th, 2008 by Clay Cane

The D-list ex-gay who once told me, “I am physically attracted to the spirit of Christ,” Charlene “You Follow Me?” Cothran, is now begging for coins—all under the name of God and prayers. Alicia Banks forwarded me Cothran’s holiday email to convert the gays because “preservation of the family is what Thanksgiving celebrates”—damn, are the gays now a threat to Native American genocide day?

Her former LGBT magazine, Venus, has fallen to pieces and Cothran needs serious dollars for The EVIDENCE Ministry, Inc. A new organization she probably conjured up while feeling her beaver swell as she obsessed about being “entangled with the bondage of lesbianism.” Her email read, “carefully lay the foundation for a loving ministry whose mission is to reach those who want to be free from homosexuality with the gospel of Jesus Christ, to offer tools to prevent homosexuality in today’s youth and to offer hope & spiritual healing to parents and family members of gays and lesbians.”

Well, Cothran is asking to folks to write a hefty check for this mission impossible. She says, “Our prayer is that God will send 100 people to make a one-time donation of $300 or more or to donate $30 a month for one year.” Sweet demonic, labia lips Jesus! Even Barack Obama started off asking for $5! Char is going right for the pocket and in these rough economic times. Well, I guess the only good thing about this is she will need some dollars to maintain that new perm and dye job.

Oh and where exactly will the money go? A radio program, hosted by Cothran herself… that should be a treat, hours of obsessing over lesbianism and inserting Jesus every time she needs to buy a new soft-butch pantsuit. Also, technical equipment to create a DVD teaching series—imagine the gems of wisdom that DVD will offer! Plus, Cothran and her “talented Board of Directors,” who are not named, want to launch a web site and prepare for mini conferences in 2010. Her hope is, “built on nothing less than Jesus’ blood and righteousness!”

This is kind of like those modeling agencies in New York City that are advertised in the back of The Village Voice — if they have to ask you for money, it isn’t legit.

PS. Don’t forget today is World AIDS Day. Ideas like reparative therapy, ex-gays, and begging for cash does nothing to help the battle against HIV/AIDS. If someone has convinced you that the supreme being views you as an abomination — why would you put on a condom to protect your life?

Check this out
Ex-Gay Aftermath
INTERVIEW WITH EX-GAY CHARLENE COTHRAN

SHARETHIS

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Listen to my KPFK Interview and a Thanksgiving Prayer

November 26th, 2008 by Clay Cane

Please click below to listen to yesterday’s interview on Beneath the Surface (KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles and 98.7 FM in Santa Barbara), a progressive, independent news and talk radio show in Los Angeles. Michael Slate is conducting the interview.

In the beginning of the interview, you hear William Burroughs’ “A Thanksgiving Prayer” — I was so moved by this prayer, I had to post it for the holiday season!

Thanks for the wild turkey and

the passenger pigeons, destined
to be shit out through wholesome

American guts.

Thanks for a continent to despoiland poison.

Thanks for Indians to provide a

modicum of challenge and

danger.

Thanks for vast herds of bison to

kill and skin leaving the

carcasses to rot.

Thanks for bounties on wolves
and coyotes.

Thanks for the American dream,

To vulgarize and to falsify until

the bare lies shine through.

Thanks for the KKK. For nigger-killin’ lawmen,

feelin’ their notches.

For decent church-goin’ women,

with their mean, pinched, bitter,

evil faces.

Thanks for “Kill a Queer for

Christ” stickers.

Thanks for laboratory AIDS.

Thanks for Prohibition and the

war against drugs.

Thanks for a country where

nobody’s allowed to mind his

own business.

Thanks for a nation of finks.

Yes, thanks for all the

memories– all right let’s see

your arms!

You always were a headache and

you always were a bore.

Thanks for the last and greatest

betrayal of the last and greatest

of human dreams.

SHARETHIS

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Seal on Advocate.com

November 25th, 2008 by Clay Cane

Check out my interview with Seal for Advocate.com. Also, thanks so much for submitting your questions, which I was able to squeeze in a few.

Seal candidly talks racism, his gay following, and Barack Obama… saying, “He’s not black,” — comparing Obama to Tiger “Don’t Call Me Black” Woods.

I love Seal – but did he miss all the Rev. Wright, black church radical/black Muslim radical, Acorn, paling around with terrorists rants from Clinton and McCain? Then again, the Brits are much more progressive so I am sure Seal sees it differently. I just think it’s odd when people say Obama isn’t black, if he wasn’t, some of the vile tactics he endured from McCain and Clinton surely wouldn’t have happen. Click below for the interview.

Advocate.com: The Soul of Seal

SHARETHIS

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Los Angeles Radio Interview

November 25th, 2008 by Clay Cane

Los Angeles Radio Interview

Today I will be a guest on Beneath the Surface, a progressive, independent news and talk radio show in Los Angeles.

Beneath the Surface airs today from 5 to 6 p.m. Pacific time (8 to 9 p.m. Eastern time) on KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles and 98.7 FM in Santa Barbara. The show is hosted by Michael Slate and if you are not in Los Angeles, you can tune in on the Internet at http://www.kpfk.org/ to listen live.

I’ll be discussing my op-ed piece for Advocate.com, “An Unpopular Opinion: Blacks, gays, and Prop. 8.”

Tune in if you can!

SHARETHIS

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Advocate.com: An Unpopular Opinion

November 20th, 2008 by Clay Cane

I know this might be an unpopular opinion. I know many people in the black gay community, and especially the black heterosexual community, might not want to hear the points in my online exclusive for Advocate.com “An Unpopular Opinion: Blacks, Gays, and Prop. 8.” However, I also know there are people who want a point of view from the other side.

First, I admire and respect Jasmyne Cannick for her activism — she makes no apologies. Nonetheless, I think it’s okay to disagree in the black gay community. So, after reading her piece in the LA Times, I felt like it was important to explain the other side, who might not feel like Cannick — and I’m sure there is another side who doesn’t agree with me or Cannick. Thankfully, the black gay community isn’t a monolith.

Click below for the link.

SHARETHIS

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