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Saturday, August 23
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Source: Jakarta Post , AsiaMedia In a country where mainstream religions condemn homosexuality as ungodly, a few have attempt to quietly overcome the obstacles placed before them. Ade Kusumaningrum, an out lesbian film publicist, told Jakarta Post that even though Indonesia is now more free, it had become more repressive against sexual minorities. "Just look at some bylaws in several regions. They actually criminalize homosexuality," she said. In 2002, the South Sulawesi administration became the first to pass an anti-prostitution bylaw that criminalizes homosexuality. Two years later...
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Tuesday, May 27
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Source: Reuters , Arab News , Khaleej Times , The National Lt Gen Dahi Khalfan Tamim, the Dubai police chief, suggested yesterday that co-ed schooling could be the cause of cross-dressing. photo: Stephen Lock, The National DUBAI -- Calling it part of an "awareness campaign", police in Dubai have arrested several men and women for cross-dressing. Police claim the arrests are part of a campaign aimed mostly at young people to preserve the social values of the cosmopolitan Gulf Arab trade and tourism hub, newspapers reported on Monday. Police said most of those recently arrested were male...
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Thursday, January 17
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Source: compiled by seaQwa's Qnews from reports by Radio New Zealand and New Zealand Herald The New Zealand Human Rights Commission today released what it says is a world-first inquiry into discrimination against transgender people. The report, which has taken about 18 months to complete, is based on public consultation and 200 submissions to the commission. Commission spokesperson, Joy Liddicoat, says four out of five submissions have highlighted discrimination as an issue, ranging from physical and verbal abuse, to transgender people not being served in shops and missing out on jobs. Other...
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Thursday, January 17
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Source: Globe and Mail , USA Today Bisexuality is not a phase or a period of experimentation that inevitably leads toward same-sex partnerships, new research has found. Being bisexual is a distinct orientation, not a temporary stage, says the study by Lisa Diamond, an associate professor of psychology and gender studies at the University of Utah. It is being published next week in the January issue of Developmental Psychology , a journal of the American Psychological Association. Diamond conducted face-to-face interviews around New York state in 1995, when the women (who identified themselves as...
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Wednesday, January 16
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Source: China Daily Three gay Chinese tell China Daily of the challenges they face, and their hopes for a day when they will no longer be judged. A 33 year old man who has now lived with his partner for six years tells the paper's reporter of his first visit to a gay bar: "I was shocked to see so many people there. It seemed like a totally different world, where people all looked so relaxed, chatting and smiling." Another of the stories: Name: Tong Ge Age: 57 Occupation: Writer and independent researcher Tong Ge was married to a woman for more than 20 years, and has raised a son....
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Wednesday, December 26
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Source: Intelligence Report, SPLCenter.org by Casey Sanchez Scott Harrison desperately tried to change his sexual orientation in various "ex-gay" ministries for eight years, three of them as a ministry leader in Southern California. Most of his experience with ex-gay groups -- Christian organizations that see homosexuality as a choice that can be changed with proper therapy -- was with Living Waters and Desert Stream, two curricula of a national ex-gay network that has more than 80 branches today. When Harrison joined in 1982, he felt ex-gay ministers were then a band of compassionate...
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Thursday, December 20
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Source: international.ibox.bg 80% of Bulgarians have negative attitude to homosexual people, says data of ‘Skala' agency survey. The research, which examined the discriminative adjustments of Bulgarian nation, was conducted on September 10-30, this year, Darik Radio informed. 53% of the inquired Bulgarians have extremely negative attitude towards gays. 17% declared that can freely communicate with person homosexually orientated. Most clearly are expressed the prejudices to transsexuals, most weakly to gay women, shows the research. Almost half of the inquired would not work with homosexuals...
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Monday, December 10
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Source: ScienceDaily and Chicago Sun-Times A new study is providing insights into the genetics of homosexuality -- at least in fruit flies. Researchers have discovered a gene involved in homosexual behavior in the tiny flies. They also found a way to turn homosexuality on and off with drugs. Humans have a similar gene. But it's unclear what effect, if any, the gene has on homosexual behavior in people, said biologist David Featherstone of the University of Illinois at Chicago. Featherstone and colleagues described their findings in the journal Nature Neuroscience. The team led by Featherstone...
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Tuesday, November 20
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Source: Virtue Online by Albert Mohler The moral landscape of the culture usually shifts slowly, with barely perceptible changes that accumulate over a long period of years. This is not the case in our own times, for the pace of moral change now defies the imagination. This is especially true when it comes to the issues related to sexuality in general and homosexuality in particular. The pace of moral change is now accelerated to the point that it is clearly visible and undeniable. Evidence for this is found in a recent article by reporter Alison Lobron published in The Boston Globe Magazine. Entitled...
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Sunday, November 11
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Source: Boston Globe RUSSELL PECK CAME OUT OF THE CLOSET BY ACCIDENT. IT HAPPENED at camp the summer after his freshman year at Concord-Carlisle High School: One day Peck heard several female friends giggling over an attractive older boy, and the next thing he knew, he had joined the conversation. "The girls were talking about how cute he was. I said something like 'Yeah, he is so cute,'" Peck remembers. "It just kind of came out, and I was really startled by it." But his friends were neither startled nor uncomfortable. "They didn't miss a beat," says Peck...
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Thursday, November 08
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Source: ScienceDaily (Nov. 8, 2007) — Is sexual orientation something people are born with - like the colour of their skin and eyes - or a matter of choice? Canadian scientists have uncovered new evidence which shows genetics has a role to play in determining whether an individual is homosexual or heterosexual. The research was conducted by Dr. Sandra Witelson, a neuroscientist in the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster University, and colleagues at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto who studied the brains of healthy, right-handed, 18- to 35-year-old homosexual and heterosexual...
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Monday, November 05
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Source: TransGriot.blogspot.com by Monica Roberts Why does the transgender community hate HRC? It’s a question I get frequently asked in GLBT settings. Considering the recent GLBT family feud erupting over ENDA, it's an appropriate one to ask as well. Before I get started trying to shed light on it, I need to point out in the name of journalistic integrity that I was the Lobby Chair for the National Transgender Advocacy Coalition (NTAC) from 1999-2002. The roots of the animosity start after Stonewall. In an effort to appear more 'mainstream' to the straight community, Jim Fouratt and...
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Sunday, November 04
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Source: Los Angeles Times by Gregory Rodriguez Last Tuesday, the New York Times ran a front-page story on the diminishing allure of gay enclaves in the United States. The next day, the San Francisco Chronicle published a Page 1 story explaining how same-sex couples in California are a lot more socioeconomically and ethnically diverse -- read: less white and less wealthy -- than you might believe. The Williams Institute at UCLA Law School will release a report today by demographer Gary Gates that all but poses the question: Is gay the new straight? Gates' research on U.S. Census data drives...
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Sunday, November 04
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Source: Generation Q A Transgender psychotherapist in Sydney has taken a gay association to an equal opportunities tribunal, claiming that she was discriminated against when she was refused entry to a lesbian event, reported the Sydney Morning Herald. Tracie O'Keefe has claimed that she was denied aninvitation to a South Australian event organised by lesbian support group Sappho's Party. The group has a policy of excluding transgender people from its workshops, camps and social events because it only supports lesbians who were born female. The matter was part-heard last month by the South...
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Sunday, November 04
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Source: Denver Post As part of occasional series that examines broad themes about being gay in America, Denver Post writer Lisa Kennedy profiles a Colorado African American minister whose world changed when he came out to his congregation. It's a story that reflects tensions occurring in churches throughout the world. The Rev. Benjamin Reynolds Denver Post photo by Kathryn Scott Osler "Hello, little brothers and sisters," Rev. Ben says, taking a seat before a knot of children. Doors thrown open, the hexagon-shaped Boulder sanctuary grows warmer. The pastor's floor-length cassock...
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Tuesday, October 30
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Source: Baltimore Sun A transgender man can remain pastor of his United Methodist congregation in Charles Village, the international church's highest judicial body ruled today. In May, Bishop John R. Schol reassigned the Rev. Drew Phoenix, formerly the Rev. Ann Gordon, to St. John's United Methodist Church at St. Paul Street and 27th Street. Local clergy appealed the decision to the Judicial Council, which issued a ruling today that "a clergyperson's good standing cannot be terminated without administrative or judicial action having occurred and all fair process being accorded...
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Monday, October 29
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Source: UK Gay News BATH, England. October 29, 2007 – A study of former high-school American football players has found that more than a third said they had had sexual relations with other men. In his study of homosexuality among sportsmen in the United States, openly gay sociologist Dr Eric Anderson found that 19 in a sample of 47 had taken part in acts intended to sexually arouse other men, ranging from kissing to mutual masturbation and oral sex. The 47 men, aged 18-23, were all American football players who previously played at the high school (secondary school) level but had failed to be picked...
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Sunday, October 28
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Source: EW.com by Mark Harris Now she tells us? When I first heard that J.K. Rowling had revealed the homosexuality of Professor Albus Dumbledore, esteemed headmaster of Hogwarts, before a packed congregation of children and adults at Carnegie Hall on Oct. 19, my reaction was half appreciation, half annoyance. Ten years, seven books, 4,000 pages, and it never occurred to her to mention this before? At least she didn't make the gay character a fairy (or a troll), so we'll be spared those jokes, I thought. Rowling's announcement felt almost too strategic, a gotcha! she conveniently withheld...
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Sunday, October 28
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Source: Salt Lake Tribune (includes material from National Geographic ) Salt Lake City -- Biologists at the University of Utah have engineered worms that are attracted to worms of the same sex, bolstering evidence that sexual orientation may be hard-wired in the brain. A worm's sex is determined by chromosomes found in its DNA. If a worm is male, for instance, all the cells in the body -- including those in the brain -- will be male. The scientists weren't able to change the gender of worms. But they were able to fool their nerve cells into acting like those of the opposite gender by manipulating...
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Sunday, October 21
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Source: Online.ie A leading human rights campaigner today welcomed the revelation from Harry Potter author JK Rowling that Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts, is gay. But Peter Tatchell said the sexuality of the master wizard should have been made explicit in the hit series of children's books. Rowling outed Dumbledore, a central character in the books, while speaking to an audience of fans in New York last night. "Dumbledore is gay," the author said to a response of gasps and applause. Rowling then joked: "I would have told you earlier if I knew it would make you so happy...
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Sunday, October 21
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Source: Chicago Tribune WASHINGTON -- This fall, the single-stall bathrooms on American University's campus are getting a name change. In the next month and a half, signs that once designated the toilet for men or women will be replaced with the more general term "restroom." The change is more than cosmetic. It's part of a movement on university campuses that recognizes that not everyone fits neatly under the labels of male and female, and that some students or staff may feel uncomfortable using a men's or women's restroom. To accommodate them, an increasing number of...
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Monday, October 15
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Source: Associated Press via Google CHICAGO (AP) — Julio and Mauricio Cabrera are gay brothers who are convinced their sexual orientation is as deeply rooted as their Mexican ancestry. They are among 1,000 pairs of gay brothers taking part in the largest study to date seeking genes that may influence whether people are gay. The Cabreras hope the findings will help silence critics who say homosexuality is an immoral choice. If fresh evidence is found suggesting genes are involved, perhaps homosexuality will be viewed as no different than other genetic traits like height and hair color, said Julio...
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Wednesday, October 10
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NEW YORK (AP) A lesbian filed a civil rights lawsuit against a popular Greenwich Village restaurant Tuesday, claiming a bouncer chased her out of the women's bathroom and forced her to leave because she looked too masculine. Khadijah Farmer, who was...
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