Showing posts with label being gay. Show all posts
Showing posts with label being gay. Show all posts
Saturday, December 21, 2024
Yuval Noah Harari - Q&A On Being Gay
This is BRILLIANT! But it shouldn’t surprise anyone. Yuval Noah Harari is a brilliant man with a brilliant mind.
I am re-posting it soon after posting it the first time because it is a lesson which benighted people everywhere need to learn and understand. When it comes to homosexuality, most of the world is still in complete darkness. Ignorance and superstition abound. – © Mark Alexander
Thursday, December 19, 2024
Yuval Noah Harari - Q&A On Being Gay
This is BRILLIANT! But it shouldn’t surprise anyone. Yuval Noah Harari is a brilliant man with a brilliant mind. – Mark
Friday, August 09, 2024
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All Out with Jon Dean: Is It Now Cool for Young People to Be Gay?
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Maintenant je sais exactement !
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Yuval Noah Harari - Q&A on Being Gay
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
We Can’t Dissent Against 'New Gay Orthodoxy’, Says Christian Charity
Gay and lesbian rights activists are seeking to be the new “moral enforcers” and it is Christian religious conservatives who now need protection to be allowed to dissent against “the new orthodoxy”, it was claimed.
Core Issues Trust, a Christian charity, is challenging a ban on its London bus advertisement reading: “Not Gay! Ex-Gay, Post-Gay and Proud. Get over it!” It was a response to a bus poster campaign by gay rights group Stonewall carrying the message: “Some people are gay. Get over it!”
Paul Diamond, for the charity, told appeal judges that at the heart of the case was the “ironical” situation in modern British society where ancient Biblical scriptures, which played an important role in forming the nation’s morals, were now in danger of containing views which could no longer be expressed “in a land with a reputation for free speech”.
Mr Diamond said Christian scriptures only permitted sexual relationships between one man and one woman in marriage and people should be entitled to express that view. He said the case raised the question: “Is the belief that homosexuality is a sin worthy of respect in a democratic society?”
The charity accuses the Mayor of London Boris Johnson of unlawfully using his position as chairman of Transport for London (TfL) to obtain the ban in order to secure the gay vote and advance his 2012 re-election campaign. » | Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Saturday, May 29, 2010
THE GUARDIAN: President pardons pair 'on humanitarian grounds' after meeting UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon
A gay couple sentenced to serve 14 years in jail in Malawi have been pardoned after their country's president met Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary general.
Steven Monjeza, 26, and Tiwonge Chimbalanga, 20, were tried and found guilty of sodomy and indecency earlier this month in a move that sparked international condemnation.
But after talking with Ban today, Malawi's president, Bingu wa Mutharika, announced the pair would be freed.
"These boys committed a crime against our culture, our religion and our laws," he said after the meeting, at the southern African country's State House. "However, as the head of state, I hereby pardon them and therefore ask for their immediate release with no conditions.
"I have done this on humanitarian grounds, but this does not mean that I support this."
He added: "We don't condone marriages of this nature. It's unheard of in Malawi and it's illegal."
Ban praised the decision, but said: "It is unfortunate that laws criminalise people based on sexuality. Laws that criminalise sexuality should be repealed."
He is due to address Malawi's national assembly later and is expected to ask legislators to look at this.
Although the order was immediate, a prison spokesman told The Associated Press they had not received notification to release the pair by Saturday afternoon.
Earlier this week, a cousin of Chimbalanga, Maxwell Manda, said that he wanted to leave Malawi upon his release.
Joseph Amon from Human Rights Watch said the president was responding to the international outcry following the couple's conviction and sentence.
"I hope that other leaders of African countries with anti-gay laws see that this is just not acceptable in the international community," he said. >>> Amy Fallon | Saturday, May 29, 2010
THE GUARDIAN: My friend, President Mutharika, show compassion: In the spirit of your fight against Aids, free Monjeza and Chimbalanga – an open letter to the president of Malawi >>> Elton John | Saturday, May 29, 2010
THE TELEGRAPH: President Bingu wa Mutharika of Malawi has pardoned a homosexual couple who had been jailed for 14 years.
Mr wa Mutharika had been under international pressure to reconsider the convictions of Steven Monjeza, 26, and Tiwonge Chimbalanga, 20. They were arrested in December after they were united in a traditional wedding ceremony in the conservative southern African country, where homosexuality is illegal.
Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations Secretary General, met the Malawian president on Saturday in the capital Lilongwe.
Speaking shortly afterwards, Mr wa Mutharika said: "These boys committed a crime against our culture, our religion and our laws.
"However, as the head of state I hereby pardon them and therefore ask for their immediate release with no conditions." >>> | Saturday, May 29, 2010
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Friday, May 21, 2010
TIMES ONLINE: Two homosexual men have been sentenced to 14 years in prison with hard labour in Malawi for gross indecency and unnatural acts.
In a ruling that provoked international condemnation, Judge Nyakwawa Usiwa-Usiwa told the men, who were arrested after a public engagement ceremony, that he wanted to protect the public from “people like you”.
Steven Monjeza, 26, and Tiwonge Chimbalanga, 20, who have been in jail since December, were then driven away from the packed courthouse in the old colonial capital of Blantyre, jeered by a large crowd.
The British Government, Malawi’s largest donor, expressed “dismay” at the sentences, but has not withdrawn aid estimated at about £80 million a year. The US State Department said the verdict was “a step backwards in the protection of human rights in Malawi”.
The judge told the pair: “I will give you a scaring sentence so that the public will be protected from people like you, so that we are not tempted to emulate this horrendous example.”
The judge said the pair — whom he convicted on Tuesday — had shown no remorse. “We are sitting here to represent the Malawi society, which I do not believe is ready at this point in time to see its sons getting married to other sons, or conducting engagement ceremonies,” he said. >>> Jonathan Clayton | Friday, May 21, 2010
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Thursday, May 20, 2010
BBC: In Uganda, plans to introduce draconian new laws against homosexuality look likely to go ahead despite mass protests, a major petition, and condemnation from the international community.
The bill, which proposes the death penalty for so-called 'serial offenders', has already been described as 'odious' by President Obama.
A senior minister in Kampala has suggested that the death penalty could be replaced with life imprisonment.
John Simpson reports from Kampala. Watch BBC video here | John Simpson | Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
TIMES ONLINE: A court in Malawi yesterday convicted a gay couple of gross indecency and unnatural acts in a case that has highlighted the persecution of homosexuals in Africa and drawn international condemnation.
Steven Monjeza, 26, and Tiwonge Chimbalanga, 20, who will be sentenced tomorrow, face at least a decade behind bars. They were arrested in December after testing Malawi’s anti-gay laws with a public “engagement ceremony” before a wedding planned for this year.
The action outraged authorities in the deeply conservative country, one of the poorest in Africa. The men have been in prison ever since, despite an international campaign for their release and reports of maltreatment.
Judge Nyakwawa Usiwa-Usiwa, sitting in the old colonial capital of Blantyre, convicted both men of engaging in gay sex, which he said was “against the order of nature”. The couple’s lawyer argued that their actions had not victimised anyone.
“Unlike in a rape case, there was no complainant or victim in this case,” he said. “Here are two consenting adults doing their thing in private. Nobody will be threatened or offended if they are released into society.”
That argument fell on deaf ears in a country in which gays are now in hiding. Large crowds have jeered and pilloried the men on each occasion that they have been brought to court. At a previous court appearance Mr Chimbalanga, who was sick with malaria, was forced to return to the court room to mop up his vomit. >>> Jonathan Clayton, Johannesburg | Wednesday, May 19, 2010
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Friday, April 09, 2010
PINK NEWS: It often shocks people to hear this but talk to Iraqi gays who've made it out and they'll tell you – life was better under Saddam.
Baghdad played the role that Beirut does now as a sanctuary for Middle Eastern gay life with clubs which men from the Gulf and Saudi Arabia flocked to.
In sharp contrast, for the past six years Iraq has been the worst place in the entire world to be gay. Far, far worse than Uganda or even Iran. Hundreds of gays, lesbians and trans people have been hunted down and killed in the most vile ways imaginable – and imagination is the right word. Doctors have confirmed reports of men have had their anuses glued shut by militia forces and others have accused the government of being involved.
No one has been prosecuted and the Iraqi government has failed to do anything to stop it. So Iraqi gays have helped themselves. They have created safe houses, although many have been discovered and become a new killing field.
Many have fled but they have faced a cold wall of indifference and they have needed friends and luck to actually make it to sanctuary. >>> Paul Canning | Wednesday, March 24, 2010
TOPNEWS.in: Iraq turns a "blind eye" to torture, murder of gay men >>> Submitted by Sahil Nagpal | Monday, August 17, 2010
Sunday, March 28, 2010
THE OBSERVER: Changes to legislation will recognise growing trend for same-sex couples to become parents, say campaigners
Gay male couples will be able to use a fast-track route to become the legal parents of surrogate children from next week. On 6 April, changes to the law will permit two men to be named as parents on a child's birth certificate for the first time in British history.
The transition will take effect following the implementation of the final piece of the 2008 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act. This last section is aimed at helping same-sex and unmarried couples who seek to have surrogate children and will allow them to secure legal parenthood in a new, simplified manner. At present, only married, heterosexual couples can use this route.
"These changes bring the law up to date with the realities of modern 21st-century life and recognise that increasing numbers of same-sex and unmarried couples are having children together," said Natalie Gamble, of the fertility law firm Gamble and Ghevaert. >>> Robin McKie, science editor | Sunday, March 28, 2010
Monday, March 15, 2010
THE ADVOCATE: Changing attitudes and increased visibility of LGBT Americans are prompting more and more seniors to come out later in life, a process that is a new subject of study.
The Associated Press reports that people who work with older adults note the trend of seniors coming out, even if no definitive numbers are available. Outings by older stars such as Meredith Baxter, who came out last year at 62, and Richard Chamberlain, who came out in 2003 at 69, inspire some. Seniors Reborn, Coming Out Later in Life >>> Julie Bolcer | Monday, March 15, 2010
abcNEWS: Gray and gay: As acceptance grows, seniors step out of the closet and into a new identity
Those who work with seniors say they're seeing growth in the number of people in their 60s, 70s and 80s coming out of the closet as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender.
Social scientists have long noted that people are coming out younger and younger. They say there's a similar trend at the other end of the age spectrum.
Growing awareness and acceptance of varied sexualities and gender identities in the U.S. helps explain the shift.
Support groups and services have cropped up to help such seniors. >>> Matt Sedensky, Associated Press Writer, Miami | Monday, March 15, 2010
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