March 2012
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February 2012
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St. Petersburg Bans 'Homosexual, Pedophile...
St. Petersburg’s Legislative Assembly passed on Wednesday a law penalizing the propaganda of homosexuality and pedophilia among minors.
© RIA Novosti. Andrei Stenin
13:54 29/02/2012
ST. PETERSBURG, February 29 (RIA Novosti)
St. Petersburg’s Legislative Assembly passed on Wednesday a law penalizing the dissemination of material promoting homosexuality and pedophilia among...
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Harvard asked to overturn gay expulsions of 1920
by Stephen Gray 28 February 2012, 5:29pm
The Secret Court of 1920 was only discovered in 2002 (Photo: Chensiyuan)
Harvard University is being called on to formally reverse the results of a secret investigation which saw several students expelled in 1920 for being gay.
A protest is scheduled for Wednesday when Lady Gaga will visit the institution in Cambridge, Massachusetts...
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Stand up to homophobic bullying by wearing pink...
Pink Shirt Day is an inspired act of subversion. Confronting violence with a non-violent act of solidarity for those who are bullied and, in too many instances, unable to defend themselves. Brilliant.
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012
BY ANDREA HOUSTON - Plan on wearing pink tomorrow (Feb. 29) to stand in solidarity against bullying and homophobia for the 5th Annual Pink Shirt Day.
Pink Shirt...
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The Dangers of Being a Girly Boy
Logan Lynn
Singer, songwriter, blogger, and LGBT activist
Posted: 02/28/2012 3:05 pm
Can you guess which one is me?
A recent study led by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health has found that one in 10 children faces an elevated risk of sexual, physical, and psychological abuse due to gender nonconformity (meaning kids whose interests, pretend play,...
Concerned for Conservation: An open letter to... →
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Dear Tumblr,
We are writing to ask you to consider adding a ‘Conservation’ or ‘Environment’ featured tag.
We’re not outright asking. We know that featured tags are those that have a certain amount of traffic, but please consider the following:
1. The field of conservation is...
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REPORT: Antiquated Family Policies Hurt LGBT...
By Guest Blogger on Feb 28, 2012 at 1:16 pm
Our guest bloggers are Jerome Hunt and Aisha C. Moodie-Mills.
Today, a coalition of public policy and family advocacy organizations released “LGBT Families of Color: Facts at a Glance,” which sheds light on the disparate impact of outdated laws and family policies on LGBT families of color and their children. The publication explores the...
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Northern Cyprus faces legal challenge to gay ban
A legal challenge has been lodged at the European Court of Human Rights to repeal laws criminalising homosexuality in Northern Cyprus
28 February 2012 | By Dan Littauer
Campaigners have launched a legal challenge at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).
North Cyprus still fully enforces homophobic British Colonial Laws, where Articles 171 and 173 punishes ‘unnatural...
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Whitewashing Gay History
A long read but well worth the time.
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Liberals applaud themselves for championing gay marriage. But there are ghosts at the weddings.
By Frank Rich
Published Feb 26, 2012
(Photo: Jin Lee/Bloomberg/Getty Images)
When the news came last June that the New York State Senate had voted to legalize same-sex marriage, I was at a dinner party that felt like New Year’s Eve, only with ...
Trans teens turn to YouTube →
iragray:
AKA Salon writers learn how to use search engines.
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Mr Gay World Ethiopia forced to flee
Fears for safety of Mr Gay World’s black African contestants, as Zimbabwean pulls out and Ethiopia’s entry flees country
28 February 2012 | By Matthew Jenkin
The Mr Gay World contestant from Ethiopia is now a refugee after receiving death threats.
The global male beauty pageant, which is this year held in Johannesburg, from 4 to 8 April, was last week celebrating...
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Gay Sex Legal, Says India Government
Posted: 02/28/2012 6:09 am
NEW DELHI (AP) — The Indian government Tuesday clarified to the Supreme Court that it accepts a recent ruling legalizing gay sex in the country.
A lawyer told the Supreme Court that the government would not challenge a 2009 order by the Delhi High Court striking down a colonial-era law that made gay sex a crime.
The order was appealed by conservative...
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Vandana Shiva: Create Food Democracy, Occupy our...
via GLobal Crop Diversity Trust
The biggest corporate takeover on the planet is the hijacking of the food system, the cost of which has had huge and irreversible consequences for the Earth and people everywhere.
From the seed to the farm to the store to your table, corporations are seeking total control over biodiversity, land, and water. They are seeking control over how food is grown,...
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Woman lived as a man for 41 years because parents...
Such uneccessary shame and sadness to this woman’s story, based on ignorance and fear. And I take issue with the word hermaphrodite although the article does go on to explain intersex in somewhat better terms.
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Caroline Kinsey, 42, was born with both male and female sex organs but was raised as a boy
She didn’t find out she had Disorder of Sex Development until she was 19
She...
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Gay classified as mental disorder
Why am I not surprised Alberta hasn’t updated their codes? Or that there are Alberta doctors who would even consider billing under such a code?
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Alberta docs use outdated code
By Karen Kleiss, Postmedia NewsFebruary 27, 2011
Alberta doctors continue to bill the province for treating homosexuality as a mental disorder akin to bestiality and pedophilia, despite assurances ...
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Absolutely Positive: The ABSOLUTELY POSITIVE... →
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Absolutely Positive is a dramatic short film that follows four characters, all from different walks of life, as they get tested for HIV. From Anthony Williams of Second Glance Productions, Absolutely Positive shows the events of why the characters decide to get tested, the thoughts that run…
This looks like a really interesting short film, please have a look at...
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Trans festival brings Sparkle to Manchester
Sparkle festival hits Canal Street in the northern English city again in July for a weekend of fun and live entertainment
27 February 2012 | By Joe Morgan
Transgender people from all over Britain are looking forward to fun-filled weekend festival of live entertainment in Manchester in July.
British transgender charity Sparkle is organizing the event in the LGBT heart of...
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Zimbabwe: Gay rights out of constitution
By Staff Reporter 26/02/2012 12:28:00
The final draft constitution, earmarked to replace the Lancaster House Constitution, will criminalise homosexuality and ban same-sex marriages according to the views of the majority of Zimbabweans, it has emerged.
In an interview, Constitution Select Committee (Copac) co-chair Mr Edward Mkhosi (MDC) said Zimbabwe had unequivocally affirmed ...
Trader Joes is pushed into Fair Trade agreement:... →
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On Thursday, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers announced it had signed a Fair Food Agreement with Trader Joe’s, a significant step forward its efforts to bring fairness and accountability to the food industry. “We are truly happy today to welcome Trader Joe’s aboard the Fair Food Program,” CIW’s Gerardo Reyes said in a joint statement issued by CIW and Trader...
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Lady Gaga And Johnny Depp Back Harvey Weinstein's...
February 26th, 2012 2:15pm EST
Stars including Lady Gaga and Johnny Depp have thrown their support behind movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s campaign to have his movie Bully awarded a lower age rating. The Weinstein Company boss was left fuming this week after American censors gave the documentary film a restrictive R rating, meaning younger kids won’t be able to see it...
Extreme poverty in US has more than doubled since... →
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A policy brief recently issued by the National Poverty Center (NPC) reveals that the number of households in the US living on less than $2 a day per person has increased by 130 percent since 1996, from 636,000 to some 1.46 million today.
This means that some 4 million people in “the richest country on earth” (according to US capitalism’s apologists) are surviving on less than...
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USMC Homecoming
(via joemygod)
From the Facebook page Gay Marines, where this photo has garnered over 650 comments in twelve hours. Not all of the messages are friendly, but most are. UPDATE: Stogiebear found us this link.
“To everyone who has responded in a positive way. My partner and I want to say thank you. Dalan, the giant in the photo, can’t believe how many shares and likes we have...
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Help Wanted: LGBT Families To Adopt
by Michael Talon on February 26, 2012
Britain has certainly moved forward over the last few years, accepting that our families have amazingly loving homes and have the same ability to provide support to children as heterosexually coupled families.
The country’s first ever National LGBT Adoption and Fostering Week kicked off this past week highlighting powerful...
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Civil union history in Queensland
Sixteen gay and lesbian couples make history with first civil unions in Queensland, Australia
26 February 2012 | By Jack Arthur Smith
Last Friday marked the first civil unions between same-sex couples in Queensland history after sixteen gay and lesbian partners tied the knot to the cheers and congratulations of friends, family and members of the public.
Flanked by supporters,...
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Finally, a smoking gun connecting livestock...
By Tom Laskawy
24 Feb 2012 7:41 AM
How does the livestock industry talk about antibiotics? Well, it depends on who’s doing the talking, but they all say some version of the same thing. Take the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association; they say there is “no conclusive scientific evidence indicating the judicious use of antibiotics in cattle herds leads to antimicrobial...
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Wives of gay men in China speak out about ‘tragic...
I find this article interesting as it is (originally) published in a Chinese paper and thus has at least tacit approval of the Chinese government. This suggests to me the Chinese government may be trying to create opportunities for more open discussions of sexuality. Or I am just overly hopeful…
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An online community called ‘Tong Qi’ is giving voice to the wives of gay men
24...
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Anoka-Hennepin Superintendent Confirms Role Of...
Better late than never.
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By Zack Ford on Feb 24, 2012 at 1:45 pm
Anoka-Hennepin Superintendent Dennis Carlson (AP Photo/Dawn Villella)
As recently as three weeks ago, the superintendent of Anoka-Hennepin School District, Dennis Carlson, was still denying that bullying or the school’s anti-LGBT environment had anything to do with the multiple student suicides that took place over the...
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Protesters storm paper over trans hate article
Angry readers picketed The Dominion Post in Wellington, New Zealand, after it printed a ‘dangerous’ article about trans parents
24 February 2012 | By Matthew Jenkin
Photo by Emily Haskell
Outraged protesters marched into the offices of a newspaper in Wellington, New Zealand, today, accusing the publication of transphobia.
The rally was organized by rights group The...
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Gay activists organize ban on St. Petersburg
February 24, 2012 Sergei Chernov
A new proposed bill targeting homosexuals has produced an outcry in the international community, but looks set to pass nevertheless.
A new bill introduced by St Petersburg’s authorities is expected to prevent homosexuals from “promoting sodomy, lesbianism, bi-sexuality and transgenderism to minors.” Source: ITAR-TASS
The tourist...
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Toby’s Act is Back—New Ontario Parliamentary Bill...
UPDATE — We can begin by signing this petition on change.org, brought to us by Queer Ontario.
by Christin Scarlett Milloy
Today in Ontario’s Provincial Parliament, at Queen’s Park in Toronto, MPP Cheri DiNovo has once again introduced Toby’s Act (Right to be Free from Discrimination and Harassment because of Gender Identity or Gender Expression). It was my privilege to be present at this...
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Gays flee as irate residents storm Likoni seminar
In an almost repeat attack on gay persons and MSMs (men who have sex with men) in Mtwapa Mombasa in March last year, a mob stormed a venue of a seminar of homosexuals, scattering the delegates.
The Daily Nation reported the story as follows:
‘About 30 participants scampered from the Likoni CDF Youth Empowerment and Library Centre through the back when about 100 youth led by...
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Moldova city bans 'gay propaganda'
Gay rights campaigners have slammed the city of Balti’s anti-gay law as ‘shameful’
24 February 2012 | By Matthew Jenkin
The decision by a city in Moldova to ban ‘homosexual propaganda’ has been branded ‘shameful’ by gay rights campaigners.
Balti’s City Council yesterday announced it would prohibit ‘aggressive propaganda of...
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BREAKING: Maryland Senate Passes Marriage Equality...
Today, the Maryland Senate passed marriage equality legislation with a vote of 25-22. Opponents proposed numerous amendments in an attempt to derail the bill, including several that failed in the House last week. Sen. Bryan Simonaire (R) even read the full text of the children’s book King & King on the floor, expressing concern that schools will teach that same-sex couples exist — one of...