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Bermuda a Hot Bed of Homophobia?

April 18, 2007

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Apparently Rosie O’Donnell and her Toys-R-Us, er, “R Family” cruise company thinks it is. And who are we to disagree. Our only understanding of Bermuda is that it’s where NYC mayor Bloomberg has a house. It’s near North Carolina but it’s considered the Caribbean, and it’s expensive.

Anyway, a summer cruise for gay and lesbian families organized by Rosie has cut Bermuda from its planned itinerary because of possible protests by church groups in the British island territory.

Now if only the gay-gay-gay cruises like RSVP would be as staunch in their gay pride to not visit St. Maarten, the site of vicious gay bashings. But the gay boys are partying too hard to care, apparently.

O'Donnell's charter company said it would replace the Bermuda stop with two other ports of call in Florida. It will also stop at a private island in the Bahamas. The tour is scheduled to leave New York in July on a ship owned by Miami-based Norwegian Cruise Line.


The charter company, R Family Vacations, said on its Web site that it wanted to avoid the type of protests that greeted passengers when one of its cruises stopped in Nassau, Bahamas, in 2004.

In the statement, the company said Bermuda's prime minister had assured them they would be welcome as tourists and they had also received hundreds of supportive e-mails from people who live in the wealthy British enclave.

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Comments

Joan K. wrote:

Who are these church groups afraid of anyway? I just don't understand the whole thing, who cares if it a gay cruise or not, we are all human beings, we should start treating each other that way. PEACE

posted at April 18, 2007 07:50 PM

Shooter wrote:

Rosie,
I supported you for a long time. But you are an embarrasment to the gay community. I would never say that you should not speak your mind. I cringe, however, when you do. You are bright, but uninformed. Your penchant for saying whatever is on your mind is causing a nightmare for myself and my friends who try to engage the opposition on a cerebral level. There is a time to be outspoken, and a time to just shut up. For every step you might have moved our cause forward, you have in fact moved us three steps back. For a guy that has been on the front line of the Gay Movement for 3 decades, I cannot help but be ashamed of were you, who has been out for what two years?, has taken us. All the best, Shooter

posted at April 19, 2007 05:47 AM

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