Homosexuels et lesbiennes dans l’Europe nazie : les déportés oubliés

Insigne et matricule de Josef Kohout, déporté homosexuel autrichien. (Coll. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington DC))
L’OBS : Le Mémorial de la Shoah, à Paris, éclaire le sort des gays et lesbiennes, victimes de la répression nazie. Le musée retrace les multiples aspects de la persécution, en s’appuyant sur des parcours de vie saisissants, des documents et des témoignages inédits. Retour sur une page d’Histoire méconnue.

C’est une première en France. Après plusieurs mois de minutieuse récolte de documents et de témoignages inédits, le Mémorial de la Shoah, revient sur la persécution des populations homosexuelles sous le Troisième Reich.

L’exposition s’inscrit dans le temps long. « Il faut comprendre que la période nazie n’est pas une parenthèse incompréhensible mais qu’elle s’inscrit dans une longue histoire de répression de l’homosexualité en Europe » explique Florence Tamagne, commissaire de l’exposition. Le parcours débute à l’aube des premières revendications politiques des homosexuels, incarnées par le militant Magnus Hirschfeld, qui meurt en exil à Nice, en 1935. Leur bête noire : le paragraphe 175 du Code pénal allemand, introduit en 1871 et qui condamnera les homosexuels jusqu’en 1994. » | Par Paul Lonceint | dimanche 27 juin 2021

Mitch Lowe, Co-founder of Netflix: “American Series Are So Predictable”

MONACO TRIBUNE: We talked to the co-founder of Netflix about European cinema, the future of the industry, and why he thinks the Monaco Streaming Festival is a sign of the times.

The industry had come a long way since Netflix was mailing DVDs to its clients. Yet, twenty years later, Mitch Lowe is still at the forefront of innovation. “I think this is a period of Renaissance for the arts,” he says when we meet before the start of the Monaco Streaming Film Festival, of which he is the co-director. The festival is dedicated entirely to streamed content – a first for the industry. “Because the tools to create art, media, literature are all so easily accessible.”

A high-school dropout, after leaving Netflix Mitch Lowe continued his run as a film start-up founder, developing the likes of Redbox and MoviePass, a movie theatre subscription service. » | Francesca German | Sunday, July 11, 2021

Michael Bublé : Haven't Met You Yet

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Kurt Westergaard, Danish Cartoonist behind Muhammad Cartoon, Dies Aged 86

Kurt Westergaard has died aged 86. The Danish cartoonist’s depictions of the prophet Muhammad sparked protests across the Muslim world. Photograph: Peter Endig/EPA
THE GUARDIAN: Westergaard was known for drawing a caricature of the prophet Muhammad which sparked outrage around the Muslim world

Danish artist Kurt Westergaard, known for drawing a caricature of the prophet Muhammad that sparked outrage around the Muslim world, has died at the age 86, his family told Danish media on Sunday.

Westergaard died in his sleep after a long period of ill health, his family told newspaper Berlingske.

The illustrator was behind 12 drawings published by conservative daily newspaper Jyllands-Posten in 2005 under the headline The Face of Mohammed, one of which sparked particular anger. Islamic tradition says no image of the prophet should be produced or shown.

The anger escalated into anti-Danish violence across the Muslim world in 2006 in which dozens died, with Danish embassies attacked, including the one in Damascus which was burned down. » | Staff and agencies | Monday, July 19, 2021

The Danish cartoonist who survived an axe attack »

Guto Harri Quits GB News as Nigel Farage Is Given Prime-Time Show

GB News presenter Guto Harri taking the knee. He formally resigned on Sunday. Photograph: GB News
THE GUARDIAN: Former BBC journalist vents anger at rightwing channel for suspending him after taking a knee on air

Guto Harri has quit GB News after he was suspended for taking the knee during a discussion about racism towards black footballers.

The former BBC news journalist had been taken off air by the rightwing news channel, but there was talk of him returning at some point.

On Sunday he vented his anger at the channel, describing it as “rapidly becoming an absurd parody of what it proclaimed to be”. At the same time it emerged that the former Ukip leader Nigel Farage was being hired by GB News to host a nightly prime-time show.

By Sunday afternoon it became clear that Harri had formally quit the channel. In his resignation letter, seen by the Guardian, he writes that he signed up “in good faith and with genuine enthusiasm”. » | Mark Brown | Sunday, July 18, 2021

Katie Hopkins to Be Deported from Australia ‘Imminently’ after Visa Cancelled

Katie Hopkins will be deported and her Australian visa has been cancelled after she boasted about breaching hotel quarantine conditions. She travelled to Sydney to appear in Big Brother VIP. Photograph: Neil Mockford/Alex Huckle/GC Images
THE GUARDIAN: Minister Karen Andrews says British far-right commentator entered country with support of NSW government to appear on Seven Network’s Big Brother VIP

The Australian government has cancelled Katie Hopkins’ visa after the far-right commentator boasted about breaching hotel quarantine conditions.

The cancellation was announced by the home affairs minister, Karen Andrews, on Monday – and follows a decision by Endemol Shine Australia to cancel her contract to appear on Seven Network’s Big Brother VIP. Hopkins will now be required to leave the country.

Hopkins, 46, broadcast a live video from what she claimed was a Sydney hotel room on Saturday morning, describing Covid-19 lockdowns as “the greatest hoax in human history” while joking about elaborate plans to breach quarantine rules. In the Instagram video, which is no longer available to view, she said she was trying to “frighten” security guards by answering her hotel door naked and maskless.

Guardian Australia understands Hopkins is likely to leave the country on a flight departing Sydney mid-afternoon on Monday. » | Paul Karp | Monday, July 19, 2021

Léonard de Vinci : la manière moderne | ARTE

Nov 3, 2019 • Les dernières recherches établissent que Léonard de Vinci retravaillait inlassablement ses toiles, parfois pendant des années. Ce documentaire explore le processus créatif du maître de la Renaissance. Une plongée inédite dans une oeuvre fascinante de modernité.

Fils illégitime d'un notaire et d'une paysanne, Léonard est né le 14 avril 1452 à Vinci, un village de Toscane. Il a 12 ans lorsque ses dons pour le dessin lui valent d'être placé par son père dans l'atelier de Verrocchio, à Florence. Dès lors, le jeune artiste n'aura de cesse de combler ses lacunes académiques par l'observation méticuleuse de la nature et du vivant. Ce sont ensuite l'étude de la lumière puis celle du mouvement qui aiguisent son insatiable curiosité, lumière et mouvement qu'il n'arrêtera pas de chercher à capter dans son travail de peintre. Pourtant, lorsque l'on se penche sur les tableaux laissés par l'artiste, leur petit nombre – moins d'une vingtaine selon les experts – est frappant en comparaison des quelque 6 000 pages de notes et croquis de ses carnets parvenus jusqu'à nous. Processus créatif Ses activités d'ingénieur, d'inventeur de machines, d'anatomiste, de poète, de botaniste ou de concepteur de fêtes, à Milan ou à la cour de François Ier, où il a vécu ses trois dernières années jusqu'à sa mort, en 1519, ont longtemps laissé penser que la peinture fut pour Léonard de Vinci une activité de second plan, et que plusieurs de ses tableaux sont restés inachevés a alimenté cette thèse. Mais les dernières recherches historiographiques et scientifiques démentent cette croyance, établissant au contraire que l'artiste retravaillait inlassablement ses toiles, parfois pendant des années comme ce fut le cas pour La Joconde, dont il ne s'est jamais séparé. Déroulant le fil de sa vie et décryptant de manière pédagogique le processus créatif du peintre, Sandra Paugam et Flore Kosinetz nous convient à une plongée inédite dans une œuvre unique, dont la modernité ne cesse de fasciner. L'exposition que le musée du Louvre consacre à Léonard de Vinci se tient du 24 octobre 2019 au 24 février 2020.

Léonard de Vinci : la manière moderne – Documentaire de Sandra Paugam (France, 2018, 52mn)

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The Pandemic Has a New Epicenter: Indonesia

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The suffering that ravaged places like India and Brazil — with deaths soaring, hospitals overwhelmed and oxygen running out — has reached Southeast Asia.

BEKASI, Indonesia — By the thousands, they sleep in hallways, tents and cars, gasping for air as they wait for beds in overcrowded hospitals that may not have oxygen to give them. Others see hospitals as hopeless, even dangerous, and take their chances at home.

Wherever they lie, as Covid-19 steals their breath away, their families engage in a frantic, daily hunt for scarce supplies of life-giving oxygen.

Indonesia has become the new epicenter of the pandemic, surpassing India and Brazil to become the country with the world’s highest count of new infections. The surge is part of a wave across Southeast Asia, where vaccination rates are low but countries had until recently contained the virus relatively well. Vietnam, Malaysia, Myanmar and Thailand are also facing their largest outbreaks yet and have imposed new restrictions, including lockdowns and stay-at-home orders. » | By Fira Abdurachman, Richard C. Paddock and Muktita Suhartono | Saturday, July 17, 2021

Far Right Online: The Rise of "Extreme" Gamers | The Economist

Jul 16, 2021 • In America, the intelligence services deem far-right extremism a greater domestic threat than Islamist terrorism. The pandemic has exacerbated the spread of white supremacism and neo-Nazism.

Cardinal Matteo Zuppi: Celibacy Does Not Mean Living without Affection

Jul 16, 2021 • The Cardinal shares his vocation story, from initially rejecting the priesthood to eventually being named Cardinal by Pope Francis.

Kann man Gott beweisen? | Philosophie | Bleisch & Bossart | Spezial | SRF Kultur

Jul 18, 2021 • Was ist Gott? Wenn gläubige Menschen von Gotteserfahrungen berichten, dann sind das individuelle Glaubenszeugnisse. Die können mitunter sehr beeindruckend wirken. Solche Gotteserfahrungen überzeugen aber keinen Atheisten. Denn eine subjektive Gotteserfahrung ist noch lange kein Beweis.

Yves Bossart greift das «Theodizee-Problem» auf und geht der grossen Frage nach: «Was ist Gott?». Dabei liefert euch unser Sternstunden-Moderator eine Zusammenfassung der drei wichtigen Gottesbeweise: des «kosmologischen Gottesbeweises», des «ontologischen Gottesbeweises» und des «teleologischen Gottesbeweises».


Diese Sendung ist eine große Freude für mich und wird sicherlich eine große Freude sein für die, die Schweizerdeutsch (Schwyzertüütsch) verstehen. Viel Vergnügen beim Zuhören und Zuschauen! Übrigens kann ich Schweizerdeutsch verstehen, weil ich vor etlichen Jahren mein Hochdeutsch in der Schweiz gelernt habe. Ja, stellen Sie sich das einmal vor! Hochdeutsch in der Schweiz zu lernen! Ich glaube, daß ich es mit Zuversicht sagen kann, daß es mir gelungen ist. Oder wie Frau Merkel es wahrscheinlich ausdrücken würde, „ich habe es geschafft“!

Ich muß mich wirklich bei etlichen sehr netten und hilfsbereiten Schweizern bedanken und einen speziellen Dank gebe ich der wunderbaren Zeitung, der Neuen Zürcher Zeitung, meiner damals abonnierten Zeitung, und wovon ich so viel gelernt habe. Das waren schöne Zeiten! – © Mark

Floods in Europe Kill Nearly 200 with Over 1,000 Still Missing | DW News

L'actrice espagnole Pilar Bardem, mère de Javier Bardem, est décédée à 82 ans

L'actrice avait remporté un Goya pour son rôle dans Personne ne parlera de nous quand nous serons mortes, de Agustín Díaz Yane. Mercury Films
LE FIGARO : DISPARITION - Fille d'acteurs et sœur du cinéaste Juan Antonio Bardem, la comédienne avait reçu un Goya pour son rôle dans Personne ne parlera de nous quand nous serons mortes.

L'actrice espagnole Pilar Bardem, mère de Javier Bardem, est décédée samedi à l'âge de 82 ans, ont annoncé ses enfants dans un communiqué publié sur les réseaux sociaux.«Nous voulons partager la nouvelle que Pilar Bardem, notre mère, notre exemple, est décédée. Elle est partie en paix, sans souffrance et entourée de l'amour de sa famille», ont écrit ses enfants Carlos, Monica et Javier dans un message publié samedi soir sur le compte Twitter de Carlos.

Née à Séville en 1939, Pilar Bardem était la fille d'un couple d'acteurs et la sœur du célèbre cinéaste Juan Antonio Bardem. Ses trois enfants se sont également consacrés à la profession d'acteur, atteignant, dans le cas de Javier, une renommée internationale avec l'Oscar pour son rôle dans No Country for Old Man [sic] des frères Coen. » | Par Le Figaro avec AFP | dimanche 18 juillet 2021

About Pilar Bardem in English fromm Wikipedia: Pilar Bardem »

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The Guardian View on Boris Johnson’s Covid Experts: Sadly On Tap, Not On Top

THE GUARDIAN: Scientists cannot shield the prime minister from the fallout of an unethical policy that will see rising deaths

This week Boris Johnson presented the UK with his plan to lift all of England’s Covid restrictions on Monday. He was flanked by Chris Whitty, the chief medical officer, and Sir Patrick Vallance, the government’s chief scientific adviser. Both men were there to show that Mr Johnson is following the science. To many experts, it seemed that the scientists were following the prime minister. Many suspect that their presence was political insurance rather than real reassurance.

Such doubts are not unreasonable. England will be the first country in the world to end all constraints in the face of exponentially rising Covid-19 cases. Some experts say this is an unethical strategy of “herd immunity by mass infection”. It is hard to disagree. Other nations in the UK face pressure to follow suit. This policy will lead to more Covid cases, more hospitalisations and more deaths. The NHS risks being overwhelmed. Prof Whitty says the move is demanded by the roadmap out of lockdown. This has been defunct since vaccination rates began freefalling. Doubts persist over a shortage of vaccine stocks, which may explain a reluctance to jab the over-12s. The plan presumed no variants of concern, yet by May we had the highly transmissible Delta variant. Its designation ought to have caused more than just a month’s pause for thought. » | Editorial | Friday, July 16, 2021

Dozens Arrested in Los Angeles as Anti-trans Protest Outside Spa Turns Violent

THE GUARDIAN: Wi Spa, a Koreatown business with a trans-inclusive policy, has become the target of a rightwing media storm

Dozens of people have been arrested in Los Angeles following a chaotic and at times violent demonstration by anti-transgender protesters who targeted a Koreatown spa that has a trans-inclusive policy allowing trans women to use women’s facilities.

Saturday marked the second weekend of violent protests this month in the streets around Wi Spa, a neighborhood business that has found itself at the heart of a right-wing media storm over an alleged incident in which a customer filmed herself complaining about a trans woman in the women’s area of the spa.

The far-right protesters called for a boycott of Wi Spa and chanted baseless claims about paedophilia, as women carrying signs reading “protect female spaces” and “It’s worse in women’s shelters” marched alongside men wearing helmets and masks that covered their faces. » | Lois Beckett and Sam Levin in Los Angeles | Sunday, July 18, 2021

GB News Turns to Nigel Farage as Its Saviour after Ratings Freefall

Nigel Farage has already been a guest on the newly launched TV channel GB News. Its main host, Andrew Neil, is currently off air. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA
THE OBSERVER: TV station also hit by internal dispute over its direction after Guto Harri dropped for ‘taking the knee’

Nigel Farage is to take centre stage at GB News in a victory for the rightwing faction at the beleaguered television channel. The former leader of Ukip is to host a nightly primetime show from Monday as part of a reboot of programming designed to attract more viewers.

The new channel is facing plummeting viewing figures and a split in management between those angling to keep broader-based regional news coverage and those planning to boost coverage of the “culture wars”.

And, if a bigger helping of Farage is not enough to entice audiences, another famous potential saviour could be on hand soon. Piers Morgan, who left Good Morning Britain in March, may step into a high-profile role on the new TV channel. Morgan, 56, is in protracted negotiations with management but must first deal with his contractual ties to ITV.

Farage made his announcement on Twitter on Saturday, urging his followers to “be there or be square”. Farage said he would not be taking the knee “for anyone”, a reference to the controversy that sparked last week’s viewer boycott. » | Vanessa Thorpe | Saturday, July 17, 2021

Tender, Gay Kiss of the Day

Queer kiss of the day courtesy of Queerty.