An Evening with Richard O'Brien - Part 3 of 5 - Captioned. Paris Is Burning. Lambda nordica. Epic Gallery: 150 Years Of Lesbians And Other Lady-Loving-Ladies. Click here for more posts from “the herstory issue” // “the way we were” I really threw myself into Herstory Month, in June, eating every accessible herstory archive on the internet and spending hours in the library, accumulating massive stacks of borrowed books which I stored at the foot of my bed.
Lambda nordica. Jack Halberstam: Queers Create Better Models of Success. Posted on 01.
Feb, 2012 by Sinclair Sexsmith in Interviews “…we’re living with one model of success and failure and one model alone. And that model is, that to make money and to advance professionally is what it means to be successful, and everything else is failure. Lesbian in the city. Welcome back, Academic Feminists!
Our back-to-school edition features an interview with two scholars, Maria Rodó-de-Zárate and Jen Gieseking, whose work explores the production of lesbian space and identify, though from opposite sides of the pond. Maria is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Department of Geography of the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, where her work examines the uses and experiences of young people in public space from an intersectional approach. Jen is a Ph.D. Candidate in the environmental psychology program at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), and you can read more about her research at her website. *Special note on the format of this interview: since both interviews exceeded the space allowed for here, what is presented here is a condensed version the email interview and excerpts from our Skype conversation.
Queer theory. Queer theory focuses on "mismatches" between sex, gender and desire.
Queer has been associated most prominently with bisexual, lesbian and gay subjects, but its analytic framework also includes such topics as cross-dressing, intersex, gender ambiguity and gender-corrective surgery. Thunderclap. Gender Fierce — Genderfork. How the WHO medical manual is used to stigmatize sexual variation.
I have spent some time looking at the American DSM manual.
The American psychiatric manual say a lot about how some psychiatrist try to draw the line between different types of cross-gender identification. The fetishists (crossdreamers), on the other hand, are wearing "clothes of the opposite sex principally to obtain sexual excitement and to create the appearance of a person of the opposite sex. " There is no "should" Male Affection: A Photographic History Tour. Are US evangelicals exporting anti-gay views? - Inside Story: US 2012. Several weeks ago Barack Obama embraced gay marriage – the first sitting US president to support gay rights.
His call for equal rights for the gay community has also become a rallying cry for the religious right to galvanise support against him. The US National Organization for Marriage released a statement saying it would work "ceaselessly to preserve traditional marriage". Conservative religious groups have played a major role in US politics for decades. They have also been seeking influence in other countries. A report released this week by the progressive group, Political Research Associates, says that several Christian evangelicals have been lobbying for homophobic laws and policies in Africa.
Naming the evangelical leaders the report says they were "fanning the flames of the culture wars over homosexuality and abortion by backing prominent African campaigners and political leaders". Burundi, Malawi and Nigeria all have anti-gay laws. Russia : Don't Go There. We Will Not Be Silenced - AllOut.org. Gay Teens In Iraq Horrifically Stoned To Death By Religious Fanatics (GRAPHIC IMAGES) Gay Pride In Split, Croatia: A Story Of Firsts. Portal:LGBT.
Science/research. Trans. Same Sex Marriage. DADT. Organizations/NGOs. Crisis Hotline. GLBT Media Representation. News sites & Blogs. Rachel Maddow: U.S. ties to Ugandan anti-gay bill. Uganda anti-gay bill 'shelved by parliament' 13 May 2011Last updated at 15:29 MP David Bahati said the bill had sparked debate Uganda's parliament has adjourned without debating a controversial bill which includes the death penalty for some homosexual acts.
It had been reported that a vote could be held on Friday. The Anti-Homosexuality Bill has been condemned by Western leaders and human rights groups, some of whom are celebrating victory. The bill, first introduced in 2009, could still be brought up when the new parliament meets later this year. Uganda is a largely conservative society and many people condemn homosexuality both as un-African and un-Christian. But in recent years, some gay rights groups have been set up in the country. Ghana refuses to grant gays' rights despite aid threat. Michele Bachmann Has No Comment On the Teen Suicide Epidemic in Her Own Backyard. I kind of wish that Michele Bachmann was less of a "joke" based on things like this.
Because, while she seems a joke for good reason, it's easy to sort of forget that she represents a fairly large, at least a significantly big, group of people who believe in an ancient Bronze Age fairy tale that tells them that gay people and, really, anyone who deviates from their small idea of the norm, are, politically and otherwise, condemnable people. The Teen Suicide Epidemic in Michele Bachmann's District.