U.S. Tax Dollars Will Sponsor a Gay Film Festival in…Bulgaria
- Posted on May 27, 2011 at 3:52pm by
Billy Hallowell
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Here in America, Schools are closing, firehouses are shuttering and millions of citizens are out of work. Yet, on Thursday, the U.S. Embassy in Bulgaria announced that it would be using your tax dollars to underwrite a gay film festival and “an after-show party.”
The publicly-funded embassy has partnered up with its German, French, British and Swiss counterparts to explore the “different issues and challenges which members of the LGBT community face in today’s world.” An official press release from the embassy reads as follows:
The U.S. Embassy joins the British, German, French, and Swiss Embassies in announcing the start of the Sofia Pride International Film Series in honor of Gay and Lesbian Pride Month, which is celebrated each year in June. The series features one movie selected by each of the five sponsoring embassies, and aims to promote acceptance of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) rights in Bulgaria by examining the different issues and challenges which members of the LGBT community face in today’s world. All films will include Bulgarian subtitles.
The U.S. Embassy has decided to show “Milk,” the popular film about America’s first openly gay elected official. The Daily Caller posted the official event flyer here. Here’s a preview of the other films that will be shown:
The Germans will show “Sascha,” a gay teen who struggles with his place in German society, the French will show “Comme les autres,” a movie that tackles a gay man’s journey to becoming a father. The Swiss film, “Katzenball,” will focus on the life of a gay woman, while the British flick, “Beautiful Thing,“ will delve into the story of a ”working class teen infatuated with his male classmate.”
With all of the problems our nation currently has, it‘s curious that we’d be spending taxpayer monies to sponsor a gay film festival (let alone any film festival) in a foreign land.
(h/t The Daily Caller)
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Comments (189)
4stmichael
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 4:30pmHere in America, Schools are closing, firehouses are shuttering and millions of citizens are out of work.
Report Post »YET
U.S. Tax Dollars Will Sponsor a Gay Film Festival in…Bulgaria
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Reckless, Irresponsible, Insane!!!!!
Bhaub
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 4:27pm“(let alone any film festival)”
Oh no, not a FILM FESTIVAL. Are those only for communists? Or for Hitler?!
Ugh, you guys are so angry about everything. The embassy is joining other countries in a supportive film festival. It’s diplomacy, so it’s money well-spent raising awareness in other countries. Isn’t that what America does? Help other people no matter what? We democracied all over the middle east, after all. Time for some more of our good deeds!
Report Post »Cold War Vet
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 9:16pm@ BHAUB
Report Post »Don’t try to wow us with your great sense of ethics. We have seen you in action, and we know that you don’t have any. Go away, troll.
Bhaub
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 10:31pmNumber of times I’ve advocated beating a person because of their sexuality: 0
Number of times Blazers have…? Quite a lot.
Sorry, sir, but you’re not on the moral high ground. Jesus would be ashamed of The Blaze.
Report Post »Obama_Sham
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 11:41pm@BHAUB
Number of times you’ve demonstrated tunnel vision… Quite a lot…
awizard
Posted on May 28, 2011 at 11:20am@ BHAUB
Who’s talking about “beating” anyone ?… I must of missed those posts … Supporting a gay film festival, or any film festival is not the job of the federal government. Oh, and “diplomacy”, despite the current myth and MSM promotion gay is not an accepted life style in this world, another reason for the fed’s to not be involved. Yes, I’m angry at this, I pay taxes and don’t want them used for this sort of nonsense.
“We democratized( I fixed your spelling genius) all over the middle east, after all” … “WE” did not “democratize” anything in the middle east. Israel is the only “Stable” democracy in the region and they did it themselves, iraq is a mess, iran is not a democracy, the rest are going up in smoke right now.
Jesus would be ashamed of promoting a gay lifestyle …
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 4:26pmWhy aren‘t all American’s standing up and screaming there heads off.. our tax money is WHAT?? Fire every idiot in Washington who okayed this!
Report Post »ThoreauHD
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 4:24pmWell, at least it’s not called meat.
Report Post »CaptDick
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 4:22pmTHIS IS CLEARLY a critical foreign policy effort. Everyone rally round the rainbow flag and smile for the photo op! BTW I really loved the half million for the shrimp on a treadmill thing. A big patriotic thanks to the NSF!
Report Post »temple62
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 4:21pmIt appears that both the Republicans and Democrats missed the Fall 2008 message – and Obama the poster child entitlement baby never will get the message!
Report Post »GulfPeg
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 4:21pmThey are killing the goose that laid the golden egg.
Report Post »republic2011
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 4:21pmHow do we stop this insanity? I don’t want my tax dollars going to this!!!
Report Post »don young
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 4:21pmLets find out who votes for all this stuped things they do with our money and vote them out of office know matter who they are because they sure don,t care about us
Report Post »donh2
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 4:16pmThe fact that this crap is still going on even after the Republican’s have control of Congress is a significant scandal. No wonder Bill Clinton gives Paul Ryan a warm approving pat on the back. Our leadership has been bought off.
Report Post »awizard
Posted on May 28, 2011 at 10:50amSon, you need to get out more(no offense intended), the Repub’s control the House of Representatives. The dem’s control the Senate and the Executive office … Which means obama picks his Ambassadors and the reid and co. approves them … Which means all we can do is cut appropriations in the budget … Which would be changed before passage ’cause I don‘t think they’ll shut down the government over this issue.
@capecodsully
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 4:12pm
How about US tax dollars go to sponsor a Christian film festival instead?
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Report Post »They can’t do That … that would be promoting a particular “Life style” while excluding other “Life styles” … And that would be “Discriminatory” … And the Government can’t do That!.. … oh wait … hmmm …
stereojoe
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 4:16pm*Cuss Word* *Cuss Word* *Cuss Word*
How do we stop this? Who is authorizing this kind of spending?
Damn our Government! They are betraying us!
Report Post »calnaughtonjr
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 5:24pmI am with you. If this is the function of an embassy let’s not have an embassy. Where can we find out what the size of the staff is and what it costs to keep them there? Then to your point, how do we close the thing down?
Report Post »capecodsully
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 4:12pmHow about US tax dollars go to sponsor a Christian film festival instead?
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 4:29pmHOW about funding FEMA so the decimated areas in the south –Alabama,Mississippi.MISSOURI can rebuild?
Whoops I forgot—-USA has to send MONEY to Egypt to help with their REVOLUTION
Excuse me I have to go have a lobotomy now………..
Report Post »ByrdsofMisssouri
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 4:46pmYes, Joplin had a very bad week, 126 dead, still 200 unaccounted for. But I suppose it is much more important that deviants feel better about themselves. Oh yes, and social security and medicare is going broke , but that is ok too. Support our allies and cut off funding to all others especially those that hate us. I hope everybody remembers this come 2012.
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 4:10pmWhat do you expect from the LGBigoT community.
Report Post »publicuss
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 4:06pmHoly pinko commie fruitcakes BatMan!
Report Post »Hiswill
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 4:04pmWhen will they turn off the tap? They say there is no place to cut spending and this little diddy shows up.
Report Post »WASTE, WASTE AND MORE WASTE!
welovetheUSA
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 4:02pmFor God’s sake……….Hollywood needs a hard lesson in what it means to be an American….stop buying their movies, period.
Report Post »nomorelawyers
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 5:07pmStop going to the movies if you dont like supporting insane people, is it really that hard not to go see a movie…. Find a new hobbie in life… I stoped going to movies 12 years ago and havent missed a thing…. infact i learned how to play my guitar in my spare time…..
Report Post »fitsgibbons
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 4:01pmNo one is going to be civil about this subject. I’ve posted before with my post being deleted. Sorry fudge packers.
Report Post »Eric_The_Red_State
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 4:01pmI just get physically ill when I see things like this.
Makes me almost want to just ……. quit.
I feel like I am working all day long – 15 hours a day – to find out there is a monkey in my house setting fire to my money.
And the monkey is protected by the SPOCMBM – (Society of Prevention Of Cruelty to Money Burning Monkeys)
Report Post »Spinolio
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 4:00pmVote out the thieves and make them pay of it.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 3:59pmFire ALL the Embassy staff .!!! Time to start over in all branches of government.
TEA!
Report Post »tierrah
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 4:45pm@Cat: I’d rather go in with a super-sized fire hose and douse them all before pressuring them out of office … will clean up as we get the job done all in one step!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 4:55pmLOL .. gonna need to funigate!
Report Post »Lost in the Flyover
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 3:58pmhaha and the left wonders why the right is upset. and won’t allow for tax increases…. this is why!
Report Post »fitsgibbons
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 3:57pmSupported by the FUDGE packers of America union. Sorry I’m just wondering when all this insanity is going to end.
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 4:04pmIs that a gun in your pocket? Or are you just happy to see me? -Mae West
Report Post »StevenL1955
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 3:56pmLets let the system collaspe, make the liberals move and start over, this one isn’t working anymore
Report Post »nomorelawyers
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 4:54pmIt looks like the only why this sort of wasted money will ever stop is when we stop paying our taxes. I can tell u it feels good knowing i dont support stinky little winnies, nop not me…. Talk is cheap, if you dont like it stop supporting it… let the system break
Report Post »Obama Bin Lying
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 3:54pm“U.S. Tax Dollars Will Sponsor a Gay Film Festival in…Bulgaria”…….Of course they do
Report Post »DagneyT
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 4:02pmRaise taxes to pay for such as this? Gimme a break!
Report Post »vennoye
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 10:08pmHave you ever noticed that a lot of the citizens of different countries are pretty much alike……..just want a job, support their families, and live their lives. Then look at all their governments………THEY ARE ALL CORRUPT!! We are just finding out how bad ours is………it was this way before Obama, he just Super Sized It!!
Report Post »gdbhusker
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 3:54pmwhat crap!!!!!
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 4:00pmSponsered by Lubriderm
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 4:01pmWhy can’t Hollywierdos fork out the money for this ?
Report Post »CatB
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 4:01pmHappily I can’t find a job .. living off my savings generates no federal taxes …
Report Post »Uncurable wound
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 4:02pmOh Great another pooper popper parade.
Report Post »God cursed sodomites!
cheezwhiz
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 4:05pmI‘m sure this ’festival‘ will get full frontal coverage on the ’bend forward’ network
Report Post »oldasdirt
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 4:10pmUS Tax dollars,,Feel the rainbow.
Report Post »If this money has not been spent yet,they better put it back .
LOOKING_BOTH_WAYS
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 4:11pmI will donate if they keep um all in Bulgaria
Just kidding … this is an outrage
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 4:17pmIt is things like this that makes the world hate the USA and what we “export” to them. I agree with the comments of the disgusting waste of our money……but does anyone think Bulgaria wants this filth or thinks that is the best use of our money in their country???
Report Post »fflsuun
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 4:19pmPretty much everything Sean Penn is a part of is “Crap!” This is also embarrassing
Report Post »for our country!
PA PATRIOT
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 4:20pmy
Report Post »101
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 4:21pmMore subsidies should go to growing corn, free canned whole kernel corn to gays!
Report Post »mikem1969
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 4:29pmMore wasted taxpayer funds. this is stupid or gay to put it properly. These self serving ingrates deserve nothing from the taxpayers.
Report Post »crackerone
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 4:30pmBrought to you by Lean Forward!
Report Post »Creestof
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 4:32pmLike I have always said…if you go through, from top to bottom, and cut out this nonsense first…cutting the more sensitive programs in our budget would be a lot easier and a lot less painful.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 4:41pmNothing will really shock me anymore when it comes to the out of touch members of DC; and the blasted administration of traitors incorporated.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 4:43pmI didn’t know Bwaney Fwank made a film.
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 4:47pmafter seeing all the waste, tredmill shrimp comes to mind…does this surprise anyone…I tell you what…the ****’s agenda is really coming on strong…from our own public schools and across the world …apparently. Its still GROSS!
Report Post »avenger
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 4:49pmwhere is hitler when we need him…
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 4:52pmWho is the Embassador to Bulgaria? Shoot that person an email. It’s the Embassy that is sponsoring showing the film, MILK and the Ben Dover party afterwards.
Report Post »AzDebi
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 4:53pmWhat?
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 5:12pmsounds kinda quee_r to me…
Report Post »BOMUSTGO
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 5:31pmI want my money back,plus a four year refund because of what Obumbler has done to this Country.
Report Post »staythecourse
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 5:40pmIt’s no wonder they call us “The Great Satan”.
Report Post »GODSAMERICA
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 5:48pmWhy do I get the feeling that there are an unprecedented number of closet homosexuals in obama’s government.
Report Post »NeoFan
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 6:56pmVote for Newt Gingrich and he will put a stop to this by giving them 20 billion dollars more for a much bigger festival.
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 7:43pmI ‘m a heterosexual Christian who has a job and pays taxes and really offended about this….ACLU are you listening, I want you to take this case and do your screwy (no pun intended) legal manipulations and get this stopped. Threaten to sue and drag this out in court forever so they will have to pay enormous legal fees to defend this crap. I have got to be in the minority so you MUST take this case and push it all the way. For that matter, I an offended by the existence of San Francisco and would like that city to be disbanded and no longer part of the United States.
Report Post »harmonies
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 8:56pmWell, of course we are supporting it. Why wouldn’t we? This is America we support every cause, group, research, art, etc. in the world. By the way I am a white 48 year old woman, married to the same man for 30 years. Is there a handout for me?
Report Post »101
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 9:02pmWe should all demand a 100% refund for misuse of our tax dollars
Report Post »americansfightingforcommonsense
Posted on May 27, 2011 at 9:31pmYou said it!!!! This is a bunch of CRAP. Whoever OK’d this should be fired. Where is the Donald when you need him? Gay and Lesbians want to spread their message of disgusting lifestyles, then let them do it on their own dime, not the American tax payer’s. These progressives have got to go. Come on 2012. Hurry up and get here. We’ve got some house cleaning to do!!!
Report Post »jzs
Posted on May 28, 2011 at 2:46amFriends, I really don’t like asking you to think – your know, to use your brain – when you read thread introductions like this, but I feel I must as a patriot. Read the introduction again:
“Yet, on Thursday, the U.S. Embassy in Bulgaria announced that it would be using your tax dollars to underwrite a gay film festival and “an after-show party.”
And yet when you read the quote, it says only that, “The U.S. Embassy joins the British, German, French, and Swiss Embassies in announcing the start of the Sofia Pride International Film Series in honor of Gay and Lesbian Pride Month,“ So how many US tax dollars went into that ”announcement?” What, a hundred buck for the diplomat to make a few calls? And giving Bulgarians a copy of “Milk” what did that cost? $20 and shipping? Where is the all the cost the introduction implies? A couple of hundred buck maybe? There’s is a party, if you follow the link, but the US spending money on it.
This is a diversion. Republican governors are the one trying to cut teachers pay, firefighters pay and police pay. This website is become ever more like the National Enquirer, and increasingly appeals to an audience that will believe anything they read without any thought at all. People with no ability to evaluate what they read and accept it or reject it and, if they are not sure, to “do their research.”
Sorry people, you are the blind followers that dictators love.
Report Post »SavingtheRepublic.com
Posted on May 28, 2011 at 5:02am^______^______^
This has got to stop. This govt is completely out of control all foreign spending and aid must be frozen. Im telling you all none of this is ever going to change until every single politician is removed from office. NONE of them can be permitted to remain. I know ‘10 elections “showed them” but it really didnt. The weak candidates were removed thats all, the household names are still in power, McCaine, Boehner, Boxer, Waxman, Wasserman, Pelosi, Frank, Schumer etc etc etc both faces of the 2 faced progressive beast are still in play!
I mean how does it feel America to be a little yellow fuzzy ball? Yea that is what you are a tennis ball that these two “parties” keep hitting back and forth while they run us all into the ground while securing their nest eggs!
Report Post »Polwatcher
Posted on May 28, 2011 at 6:19amAnd the Repubs want to cut Social Security and Medicare so they have more money for this kind of stuff.
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on May 28, 2011 at 7:30amPretty gay.
Report Post »one yrs. food ration like Glenn says..
Posted on May 28, 2011 at 7:33amYes ,yes and will we ever see a blue eyed white mans month ?
Report Post »Christianforlife
Posted on May 28, 2011 at 9:38amI agree with cemoto78. Someone needs to stop this.
Report Post »BJColter Country Music Iconoclast
Posted on May 28, 2011 at 9:40amAs my sister says, “That whole is made for one thing, poop.” This is symptomatic of the multi pronged, well planned, worldwide movement to kick God, the Bible, and Western Government out of the world and replace it with a Bolshevik/Muslim brew of Antichrist bushwah. Here’s a great song I wrote about it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqdufoUASMc
Report Post »VerySeniorCitizen
Posted on May 28, 2011 at 3:58pmAccording to the headline this film festival with be:-
lighthearted
insouciant
flamboyant
convivial
frivolous
hilarious
sparkling
happy
gleeful
fun loving
etc..
Well, it does say it will be a GAY film festival!! This old world needs more ‘gaiety’.
Report Post »PatriotsLikeMe
Posted on May 28, 2011 at 7:54pmI’m all for Gay and Lesbian rights, my brother is gay and has been in a committed, monogamous relationship with his partner for over 27 years now while his three sisters all weathered divorces. However, I am OVER taxpayer dollars being spent on this kind of frivolity when our schools are under attack and public servants are having their wages cut or losing their jobs altogether. I work for a not-for-profit and have not had a raise in over 3 years. I count my blessings that I am even employed when so many of my neighbors, smarter and more capable than I, are without work. Stop spending money we don’t have you idiots. Period!!!!
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on May 31, 2011 at 8:38amLike he77 it will,.
Report Post »We need to wrute our Congressman and voice the outrage and take this money out of the bulgarian embassy pay.