2,000 men on gay cruise go to Muslim countries and get denied docking (travel)

[C C]

I take it that the liner or travel package normally goes on this same route with conventional passengers. But still rather irresponsible or greedy, that the travel agency didn't ahead of time warn and advise the planners of this excursion that it wouldn't work out. Or if they did, indeed crazy on the part of the organizers if they chose it, anyway.
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The Rubin Report (guests Ben Ferguson & Link Lauren)
https://youtu.be/Y_BVZBgW3DA

VIDEO EXCERPTS: About 2,000 homosexuals got on a boat, and they're taking this boat, and they start going to the Middle East. And I've been trying to explain to these people that Queers for Palestine is very different than Palestine for queers. They tried to get to Turkey, but it didn't work out. They tried to get to Egypt, but it didn't work out. Here's NBC.

For the second time this week, a gay cruise in the Mediterranean was denied entry. The Turkish government banned travelers from docking because of quote "moral standards". At least a thousand Americans are on board, including passengers from South Florida. Thomas Barker is from Miami. The 10-day trip was a gift to him from his husband.

"And so there are thousands of men who come to the ship to celebrate and to feel free to be who we are without any fear of homophobia or to be able to be ourselves in a public space."

But that freedom of expression was challenged when the ship tried docking in Turkey. The government unexpectedly denied the ship entry because of what they call moral standards.

All right. Now, I know one of our panelists here is gay, so I want to give you a chance first. Ben, talk to me about this.

[...] It's called Google. Like, just freaking Google it, guys. Like, if you're gay in the Middle East, they will throw you off of buildings in many countries. This is not hard to find out. If you're dumb enough to go on a cruise and go to these parts of the world and think they're going to let you in. ... And then feeling like you are somehow unfulfilled, I will tell you, you're an idiot.

[...] LINK LAUREN: I don't think these people are in Mensa because they moan and complain about gay rights here in the United States of America ... So now you're going to try to go to Turkey. You're trying to go to Egypt, and now you're stranded on a cruise ship. 2000 Gays and Patty Leone. This is like a Final Destination horror film. This would be my worst nightmare.

[...] But if you guys signed up to go on this cruise, you should have asked ChatGPT. Like Ben said, you could have asked Google. You could have done a modicum of research.

My hope is by the time these gays come home, they will have a sense of appreciation for the rights and liberties and freedoms we have in the United States of America. Because Gay Inc. and all of these folks like to cosplay like they're oppressed and cosplay like their victims every single day.

So maybe you'll come home like Brittney Griner when she was in that Russian prison. And now you'll stand for the national anthem and sing Yankee Doodle Dandy after being stranded on that cruise...

Gay cruise tries to dock in Muslim country ... https://youtu.be/Y_BVZBgW3DA

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Y_BVZBgW3DA

[Magical Realist]

About 2,000 homosexuals got on a boat

LOL Sounds like the opening line of a bad joke. You can always tell right away if this is going to be a value-neutral news story or a homophobic rant by the glaring use of the outdated term "homosexuals." As if we are still some kind of deviant perverts stuck in the 1970s. It can only go downhill from there, like nations have to be alerted about us as if we are all lepers or something. Not that I would ever take a gay cruise, but the whole concept seems only a very lucrative and revenue-generating goldmine for any ports of call. You just have to limit those to only cultures evolved past their own prehistoric religious bigotry. Why they'd want to dock in Turkey I have no idea, unless the on-board cinema for that cruise ship was showing "Midnight Express." lol

[Syne]

About 2,000 homosexuals got on a boat

LOL  Sounds like the opening line of a bad joke. You can always tell right away if this is going to be a value-neutral news story or a homophobic rant by the glaring use of the outdated term "homosexuals." As if we are still some kind of deviant perverts stuck in the 1970s. It can only go downhill from there, like nations have to be alerted about us as if we are all lepers or something. Not that I would ever take a gay cruise, but the whole concept seems only a very lucrative and revenue-generating goldmine for any ports of call. You just have to limit those to only cultures evolved past their own prehistoric religious bigotry. Why they'd want to dock in Turkey I have no idea, unless the on-board cinema for that cruise ship was showing "Midnight Express." lol

You do know that Dave Rubin is gay and married to a man, right? He's not allowed to use the term "homosexuals"? @_@

[Magical Realist]

He should probably update his terminology for LGBTQ then if he wants to be taken seriously, unless he is one of those self-hating homosexuals.

[C C]

Rubin has a parallel comedian career going back decades. Just like he facetiously implied that Ben Ferguson was gay (when he was actually referencing Link Lauren), it's more along that line in poking fun at the left-wing gay community's alleged support of Islamic culture (which, like Black Democrats, supposedly elitely postures itself as being the only authentic thought orientation for the population group).

[Syne]

He should probably update his terminology for LGBTQ then if he wants to be taken seriously, unless he is one of those self-hating homosexuals.

When did "homosexuals" become a slur? @_@
Isn't it a pretty neutral term that encompasses gays and lesbians?

[Magical Realist]

Google AI

"While not inherently a slur, "homosexual" is widely considered outdated, clinical, and offensive by LGBTQ+ communities. It reduces identities to medicalized terms. Major style guides, including the GLAAD Media Reference Guide and Associated Press, prefer "gay" or "lesbian" for people, and recommend avoiding "homosexual" as a noun."

[Syne]

Ah, so homosexuals are jumping on their own version of "use my pronouns" fragility. Got it.

[Magical Realist]

Ah, so homosexuals are jumping on their own version of "use my pronouns" fragility. Got it.

"Homosexual" isn't a pronoun. It's a deprecatory label.

[Syne]

Ah, so homosexuals are jumping on their own version of "use my pronouns" fragility. Got it.

"Homosexual" isn't a pronoun. It's a deprecatory label.

No one said "homosexual" was a pronoun. Literacy is amazing!
Trying to police the vocabulary of others to keep up with your ever-changing sensitivities is the same impetus as pronoun policing.