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Iceland to get world’s first lesbian prime minister - The F-Word
by Jess McCabe // 28 January 2009, 10:48 Johanna Sigurðardottir looks set to become the first ever LGBT head of government, after Iceland's coalition government collapsed . She's currently minister for social affairs. The Huffington Post has an interesting piece about how utterly unbothered the people of Iceland are about this fact, by Icelandic journalist Iris Erlingsdottir. She reports :
On the censorship of ‘Gay Imperialism’ and Out of Place : x:talk
Posted on | October 17, 2009 | 33 Comments We have recently witnessed the umpteenth attempt to silence voices that denounce paternalistic, neo-imperialist politics and argue against Islamophobic positions and homonationalist activism. On 7th September 2009, the book Out of Place: Interrogating Silences in Queerness/Raciality (2008) edited by Adi Kunstman & Esperanza Miyake, was declared out of print by its publisher, Raw Nerve .Drs. Rao and Jacob, in their editorial ‘Homosexuality and India’ in the Indian Journal of Psychiatry (2012), question unethical and unwarranted attempts at conversion therapy and call for physicians to provide medical service with compassion and respect for human dignity for all people irrespective of their sexual orientation.
orinam.net - Campaign for Open Minds
A gay Toronto couple was detained for 28 days in Dubai for carrying the prescription arthritis drug Celebrex, which is banned in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Rocky Sharma and Stephen Macleod, who have been together for 10 years, were stopped upon arrival in Dubai on Aug 2, where they planned to spend the day before returning to Toronto from a vacation in India. Macleod had a bottle of the prescription arthritis medication Celebrex in his suitcase. They were told Celebrex is a controlled substance in UAE and, even though they did not present themselves to border officials as a couple, both partners were detained. “I think they thought we were gay and we would have some party drugs with us,” says Sharma, who is now safely back at home with his partner.
Nightmare in Dubai for Toronto gay couple
Bareed Mista3jil (Express Mail) - new book presents stories from
Bareed Mista3jil's cover and a corresponding video as seen on www.meemgroup.org. ©Meem BEIRUT, June 2, 2009 (MENASSAT) - A standing room only crowd was on hand at Masrah al Medina (City Theater) in west Beirut last Saturday (May 30) for a reading of stories from the newly published book Bareed Mista3jil (Express Mail) – the first-ever book published in Lebanon featuring narratives written by a diverse cross-section of Lebanon’s LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer) community. Bareed Mista3jil features 41 stories in Arabic and English, each one originating from interviews with some 150 lesbians and transgenders from various regions of Lebanon. A working group from Beirut’s LGBTQ community recorded the interviews, between 2007 and 2008. Writers then transformed the interviews into story form and published them only after interviewees had a final vetting.
