Students at Kentucky’s Murray State University engaged in “live homosexual acts” in public on Friday to raise “awareness about the lifestyle of gay members of the Murray State campus,” according to a campus newspaper.

The live outdoor acts consisted of studying, reading, and talking — behind a sign that starkly advertised “live homosexual acts.”

Antigay and ex-gay activists were strangely uninterested in taking pictures of real gay people engaging in real homosexual activities. Here was a prime opportunity for Fred Phelps and Peter LaBarbera to hold up No Studying, No Talking, and No Sexual Honesty signs – and they missed it entirely.

Hat tip: QueerTwoCents, InterstateQ

Between 1933 and 1945, approximately 50,000 gay Germans were incarcerated and as many as 10,000 were slaughtered in the concentration camps.

But that horrible fact has been declared politically inconvenient by the religious right, and so Kentucky’s General Assembly has removed mention of gay victims from a new law making additional Holocaust-education curriculum materials available to eighth-graders. (Read More)