Each week queerguru takes a brief look at some of the big things that make us smile and get a real ‘high five’ aka the ice cream emoji, and at the other end of the scale, those things that have really pissed us off and get a very big thumbs downs aka the famous ‘poop’ emoji.
This week’s 
include :
The Kellogg Foundation : for proving why they really are Special K by pulling a $1.5 million conference out of Asheville, North Carolina over the anti-LGBT law, making it the biggest economic hit to that city so far.
The Isle of Man Manx Legislative Council for finally passing a law to allow same sex marriage. This small island off the UK coast is a ‘crown dependency’ and maintains autonomy from the mainland on certain issues. (Incidentally they also didn’t ban corporal punishment i.e. birching bare buttocks, until 1993!)
The Belfast Azlans for becoming N. Ireland’s first predominantly gay rugby club . Getting into a scrum with these hot looking players means that you can work out your frustration with the fact that this is now the ONLY part of the UK where same-sex marriage is still not legal thanks to the entrenched resistance of the governing protestant Democratic Unionist Party
Former Senator Harris Wofford aged 90, a widower after his wife of 48 years died, has announced his marriage to his boyfriend Matthew Charlton aged 40 who he met on a beach 15 years. Young love never grows old.
Harvey Fierstein for reviving his role in Hairspray The Musical for a live TV performance, starring alongside the equally fabulous Jennifer Hudson.
Colombia for becoming the 23rd Country in the world to legalize same-sex marriages …. and to Faroe Islands for just announcing they are doing the same thing.
Target : for allowing us to choose which bathrooms we can pee in their stores and not caving in when the right-wing American Family Association claimed they will make their 1 million members take their poop elsewhere.
Scott Gill for keeping his cool when his husband the singer John Barrowman was making a video in their swimming pool and he accidentally went pubic with his privates
Satanists who got really pissed when Senator Ted Cruz was labelled one of them ‘It grows tedious when pedophile priests and loathsome politicians are conveniently dismissed as Satanic, even as they spew biblical verse and prostrate themselves before the cross, recruiting the Christian faithful. Satanists will have nothing to do with any of them.” Good for them
This weeks 
include:
R.I.P. Xulhaz Mannan the editor of Bangladesh’s only LGBT newspaper was hacked to death. John Kirby a State Dept said “He was a staunch defender of LGBT rights. He was brutally, viciously murdered in his own home and that’s just atrocious and barbaric.”
Ex-CIA director Porter Goss, former House majority leader Tom DeLay and three other former Republican congressmen who still publicly supported the former House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert a convicted child molester. Goss wrote to the Judge who was trying Hastert “Perhaps, the Speakers greatest gift to the House was trust.” Really ?
Family Dollar Store for not firing the cashier in their New Orleans Store who was caught in video refusing to serve a customer because she was gay. Even when we pay $1 we still expect to be treated with respect.
Log Cabin Republicans for backing Donald Trump. This group of gay Republicans …..in itself an oxymoron …. have chosen to get into bed with Trump and justify it by saying that ‘He will be the most gay-friendly Republican nominee for president ever’ . Is there no hope at all for this lot?
Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore who still refuses to recognize the legality of same-sex marriage in his State and has banned probate judges from issuing licences, and now rants and raves calling everyone disparaging names because a complaint was filed with the Judicial Independent Commission that he is is failing to uphold the law of the land.
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