User talk:Benjiboi

I have been banned,Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Arbitration enforcement/Archive19#A day and a half later unjustly and without due process, IMHO, and will be generally unavailable for other work until I can clear my name. I look forward to returning once this ban has been lifted and will resume my work at that time. If you have any questions or queeries I will do my best to respond.

To avoid wikistress from what I see as homophobia and transphobia on wikipedia I often take breaks.

I will reply on this page unless you request otherwise
Please watch this page if you comment

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“ It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain. ”

—Francis Maude

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Picture of the day

An oblique shock is a shock wave that, unlike a normal shock, is inclined with respect to the direction of incoming air. It occurs when a supersonic flow encounters a corner that effectively turns the flow into itself and compresses. This photograph shows an oblique shock at the nose of a Northrop T-38 Talon aircraft, made visible through Schlieren photography.Photograph credit: NASA & US Air Force (J.T. Heineck, Ed Schairer, Maj. Jonathan Orso, Maj. Jeremy Vanderhal)

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Note - access date format 2008-06-16

Living Memory LGBT History Timeline from Trans perspective

A possible resource. Transgender Aging Network has launched a project - Living Memory LGBT History Timeline to assist with aging LGBT folks "It is impossible to tell without asking someone precisely which public events shaped their lives, but knowing what was likely reported in newspapers and discussed at dinner parties during a person’s lifetime may help you understand how their worldview was shaped. To offer insight into the concerns, lifestyles, and belief sets of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people who are now 50 and older, the Transgender Aging Network has constructed the following timeline showing how old they would have been when there were critical events or changes in the lives of LGBT people." Starting with the 1920s the events list can be cross-referenced with current GLBT timelines and used as a possible stepping stone to aid Trans projects and awareness. The PDF version is here [3] Html via Google is here [4]

Feminists for Life potential material

LGBT Random Picture

Starting draft page

User:Benjiboi/LGBT image quest for current pile.

LGBT Random Picture for user pages

Use {{Portal:LGBT/Pics}} or alternatively <center>{{Portal:LGBT/Pics}}</center> if you want it centered on userspace.Benjiboi

Transgeneration source

8 page interview Benjiboi 2 other interviews linked on same page. Benjiboi

Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence operation Spanner link

refs date of benefit event Benjiboi

Kellan

Kellan event in 2007[5]Benjiboi

Build stub for Michael A. Gilbert per Transexual article edit request from 89.182.0.102

The term 'cross-dresser' is not exactly defined in the relevant literature. Michael A. Gilbert, professor at the Department of Philosophy, York University, Toronto, and an avowed cross-dresser himself, offers this definition Benjiboi

Sisters controversy section ideas

...because Catholicism and American politics has a vast influence on American culture or history of (discrimination, ?,?) or even the more unique and universal appearance of dress the Sisters ...

Need to find refs of criticism from within LGBT community. Benjiboi

verbiage

James Martin, S.J. the U.S. entertainment industry is of "two minds" about the Catholic Church. He argues that,

On the one hand, film and television producers seem to find Catholicism irresistible. There are a number of reasons for this. First, more than any other Christian denomination, the Catholic Church is supremely visual, and therefore attractive to producers and directors concerned with the visual image. Vestments, monstrances, statues, crucifixes - to say nothing of the symbols of the sacraments - are all things that more "word oriented" Christian denominations have foregone. The Catholic Church, therefore, lends itself perfectly to the visual media of film and television. You can be sure that any movie about the Second Coming or Satan or demonic possession or, for that matter, any sort of irruption of the transcendent into everyday life, will choose the Catholic Church as its venue.Benjiboi

Image:Fruit machine.jpg

Move from commons to WP as not considered free content but fair use. Benjiboi

William A. Donohue

review mass deletions by Mamaljulo (sp?) and restore as appropriate if no one else has. Benjiboi

Media Matters refs all have sources listed, source originals as well. Benjiboi

"Chicken and Bulls" Extortion Scam

See this. Seems worthy of an article but loads of research, possibly userfy and build. Benjiboi

User:Benjiboi/Dykes On Bikes

Compare to current and clean-off what is used already. Benjiboi

Bear (gay slang)

Maybe you can do something with this. I looked at it and tried to figure out how to incorporate it but it was too confusing for me. Of note is that the line is manufactured by American Apparel. ALLSTARecho

Gold mine! I'm digging through a bio right now but we'll deal with that soonly. Benjiboi

Gays and YouTube

• Coalition Building in Advocate.

“ The biggest breakthrough came when gay folks volunteered in droves to help organize and register people for the CNN/YouTube debate held last July at the Citadel in Charleston. "I bet 75% of the people who were manning (the registration) process were members of the community," says Warren Redman-Gress, the current executive director of AFFA. ”

Benjiboi

• Drama, intrigue, and fighting. Now this is reality TV.: Hillary, Mitt, Barack, and a unique cast of others battle it out on the campaign trail By Joanna Weiss, Boston Globe Staff / January 22, 2008.

“ November's CNN/YouTube Republican debate drew 4.5 million viewers, making it the top-rated debate in cable history. ”

• A One-Way Ticket to Disaster DAVE ITZKOFF, New York Times, December 30, 2007.

“ 'We live in a society where there are virtually no repercussions,' said Ms. Min of Us Weekly. The repeat offenders who most often populate our gossip, she said, know full well they can 'get arrested one day, walk a red carpet the next, and still have as many photographers shouting their names and wanting their pictures.'

Still, some celebrity journalists believe that while the explosion of instantaneous news media outlets has made these personalities more accountable for their transgressions, the offenses themselves haven’t necessarily grown more offensive over time.

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• Internet Sensation From Kentucky WSAZ News Dec 29, 2007, Reporter: Amanda Barren. About Sledd. Benjiboi

James Kilfedder

Closeted homophobe or severely misunderstood?

See also: Peter Tatchell § OutRage.21

• Belfast Telegraph

• this one sums his homosexuality as open secret
• this editorial in ScotsGay - "Nevertheless, Outrage has been far too kind to those gay clerics and MPs like Kilfedder who have used their power to oppress us." (ties in age of consent campaign)

• Kilfedder gets letter etc. Benjiboi

Buttock augmentation

refs and EL's deleted; research and restore article in case of notability strike. Benjiboi

and again here. Benjiboi

Men_who_have_sex_with_men

[6] ref and restore these deletions. Benjiboi

ref help on Swish (slang)

convert Harvards into cite. Benjiboi

Allen R. Schindler, Jr.

convert six refs to cite template. Any other refs avail? Benjiboi

Refs converted by SatyrTN, check for more refs as well. Benjiboi

Chris Crocker (Internet celebrity) new article

here Benjiboi

There's an interview on there somewhere as well. Benjiboi

New Crocker

article. Banjiboi

flup

[7] ensure added. Banjiboi

More Sanchez nonsense. Banjeboi 04:17, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Talk:Stonewall riots

Correct Judy Garland info, refs on talk. Banjiboi

done. Banjeboi 02:07, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

police raid

I though this existed already. build one. Banjiboi

Talk:Homosexuality in animals re:penetrative sex

per talk request add content specifically addressing penetrative sex. Banjiboi

Homosexuality in animals re:homophobia

This may be of assistance to you? - ✰ALLST☆R✰ ^echo

Thanks, will look to adding it once I'm back. Banjeboi

“ One thing that does seem to be exclusive to humans is homophobia.

"It's a very interesting question as to why anybody ever cares," Mann said. "There are different theories about why people find it threatening.

"Some think it disrupts male bonds, like you're not playing for the right team. The funny thing is that people say homosexuality is unnatural, that non-humans don't engage in homosexual behavior, but that's not true. Then they'll say it's base and animalistic."

Humans' resistance to the idea of homosexuality extends even to research on the behavior in animals.

Scientists who study the topic are often accused of trying to forward an agenda, and their work can come under greater scrutiny than that of their colleagues who study other topics, Mann said

"It's kind of a shame because I think that probably is a reason why people don't look at it more," Mann said. "That's probably why we haven't gotten further. You would think we'd know more than we do by now."

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Add to article if not already there. Banjeboi

Talk:Down-low (slang)

issue re:source noted in talk. asap Banjiboi

feh, article a bigger mess now, leave it for others to clean. Banjeboi 20:35, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

find new flickr image

Per this. Banjiboi

Talk:Dyke (slang)

add archive, clean-up talk. Banjiboi

Harvey Milk

If needed, explanation in shift of how Jones/Temple were seen before/after mardrs and suicide.[8] Banjeboi

Excellent book from a legal perspective covering Jones connection and plenty of trial details.[9] Banjeboi

Overview statements about San Francisco history.[10] Banjeboi

White night ref. [11] Banjeboi

Time 100 biography[12] Banjeboi

Typo fix on my user page

Thanks for fixing what was obviously a typo my user page [13] but please remember that it's generally considered bad form to edit other user's pages without their permission. I'd suggest you avoid typo fixing outside of the mainspace. Thanks Rjwilmsi 11:10, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Yes, it took me a minute to figure out if it was just being ironic - a mispelling on someone's page that usually fixes those. I should have left you a note hoping you didn't mind though, sorry about that. Banjeboi 01:37, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

WP:BOLDTITLE

According to the guideline: "If the topic of an article has no commonly accepted name, and the title is simply descriptive — like Electrical characteristics of dynamic loudspeakers, Effect of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans, or List of schools in Marlborough, New Zealand — the title does not need to appear verbatim in the main text; if it does happen to appear, it need not be boldface." Articles with the title "_______ as gay icon" qualify as "simply descriptive". I'm fairly sure that the spirit of this rule is to keep titles from having lots of distracting and really spaced out bold.-Wafulz (talk) 12:41, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Part of the answer is in that first sentence - "If the topic of an article has no commonly accepted name" - this article does. I see the rest as having some odd aversion to bolding titles on these three articles but am unclear why. The spirit of MOS is clearly to do so. My hopes is that an easy resolution will be found but for now I'm chalking it up to just a misunderstanding or misinterpreting of the MOS. If those who felt this way were doing the same on dozens of articles I think they would find themselves reverted in much the same way. Banjeboi 01:41, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

First, I disagree that "Madonna as gay icon" is a common name. Next, I see several reasons why such titles shouldn't be bolded: key words are no longer linked in the most logical area (the first appearance); having split up bold titles is very distracting and puts an awkward emphasis on certain words; and it simply looks sloppy.-Wafulz (talk) 02:51, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Well "____ as gay icon" seems to be the consensus for these articles although consensus can change. As for the rest it seem open to interpretation and style and for the Madonna article, at least, vast other improvements also need to take place. So I'm in no hurry to recruit a lede expert on something that's likely to change exponentially. If this is going to be a sticking point for some reason though it might be wise to do so. Banjeboi 20:15, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar for you

		Civility Award
		I award you this barnstar your civility and rationality in debating on the List of bisexual people talk page. Asarelah (talk) 19:40, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Thank you! I'm no Miss Manners but I think we should try to find out where others are coming from so we can learn from one another; and frankly that's what the project is all about. Banjeboi 20:14, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

You're welcome. Take care now. Asarelah (talk) 23:31, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

FYI

Not sure if you know about this or not.. ☆ 05:24, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

OMG. Thank you for letting me know. Banjeboi 13:39, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your kindness

Dear Benji,

Thank you for the beautiful poem and the kind words of sympathy you offered me. I am still in a shock stand, but reading the words of my Wikipedia family are giving me the strength to get through the days. The funeral is on Thursday, and I am certain it will be beautiful. Your kindness to me will never be forgotten.

With much love,

Jeffpw (talk) 07:12, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

That was beautiful and wonderfully supportive, Benji. — Becksguy (talk) 08:46, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

You are so very welcome, I'll do whatever I can to further offer support Losing love is never easy so I wish you all the peace possible as you journey on. Banjeboi 10:08, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

LOL

Sometimes, the vandalism that we revert does make me laugh. :) Have a nice day. --AliceJMarkham (talk) 13:00, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

Lol. Yes, I didn't want to encourage or agree with them on violating policy. I may still direct them to Trapped in the Closet (South Park), all about Cruise. Seems "I'm his Katie Holmes" to refer to being a beard is gaining some traction as well. Someday all the closet doors will open and even more people will be confused. Banjeboi 13:14, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

Leigh Bowery

Yikes, what a mess. Do a proper read and sort out sections. Banjeboi

• Early life
• Move to London
• Career
  • Club kids, three queens?
  • Fashion designer
  • Club promoter
  • Modeling
  • Minty
• Taboo musical

Also need section, maybe in London part, about lover/roomate. Banjeboi

Gay bathhouse needs refs - rush

needs refs - rush. Banjeboi

work up fair use for photo of Leigh & Trogan

former lovers, roomates, collaborators, etc Banjeboi

Glory hole

possible image here. Banjeboi

my page

Bear is Isac's ex-lover, and a personal friend for more than 20 years. He is new, but came here specially to add his condolences to this page. You're a good friend to guard my page, but he is on the up and up. Jeffpw (talk) 01:27, 2 July 2008 (UTC)