“We have an abundance of rape and violence against women in this country and on this Earth, though it’s almost never treated as a civil rights or human rights issue, or a crisis, or even a pattern. Violence doesn’t have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me
Category Archives: Profiles
Profile in Courage: Let’s Walk Uganda Founder Champions Queer Ugandans’ Rights
The high number of Ugandan asylum seekers citing sexual orientation as grounds for seeking asylum reflects the harsh reality faced by LGBTQ+ individuals in Uganda. The Ugandan government’s history of persecution and discrimination against the LGBTQ+ community has forced many to flee in search of safety and acceptance.- Edward Mutebi, Founder of Let’s Walk Uganda
Caribbean Focus: Living in Jamaica as a Young, Queer Man
“By Hays’ reasoning, penetrating a rectum with a penis is a violation of how God meant humans to function. However, penetrating a human body with a sword, a common way to kill people in biblical times, is acceptable. Apparently human bodies were designed to be penetrated by metal implements, but not by flesh.”
― Hector Avalos
Excellently Draped: Content Creator Leads the Charge in Traditional Indian Garment Revolution
“I need to see more males wearing dresses, tights, stomach-outs, short pants, etc. Break the systematic masculinity …a piece by piece, boys.” ― Mitta Xinindlu
Legacy of Genocide: Queer Suffering During Khmer Rouge’s Reign of Terror
“The West’s post-Holocaust pledge that genocide would never again be tolerated proved to be hollow, and for all the fine sentiments inspired by the memory of Auschwitz, the problem remains that denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good.”
― Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
Living Nightmare: Former Shanghai Resident Arrested in Turkey for “Looking Gay”
As thousands take to the streets of Istanbul and Izmir in defiance, they risk facing tear gas and rubber bullets. The authorities should allow LGBTI Pride Marches in Türkiye to go ahead safely and without interference.
– Nils Muižnieks, Amnesty International’s Europe Director.
All Press is Good Press: Prominent Asian Public Figures and Their Impact on Queer Discourse
“In these our cowardly times, we deny the grandeur of the Universal, and assert and glorify our local Bigotries, and so we cannot agree on much. In these our degenerate times, men bent on nothing but vainglory and personal gain- hollow, bombastic men for whom nothing is off-limits if it advances their petty cause- will claim to be great leaders and benefactors, acting in the common good, and calling all who oppose them liars, envious, little people, stupid people, stiff, and, in a precise reversal of the truth, dishonest and corrupt.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Golden House
Art of Authenticity: Indian Painter and Photographer Shares His Coming Out Journey and Artistic Inspiration
In the Christian West, homosexuality traditionally has been
viewed as a sin. This breeds a kind of religious homophobia
that cannot be dealt with by simple worldly tools. The
Vatican’s homophobia goes to such an extent that, as pointed
out earlier, it once stated that the world had to be saved from
homosexuality, just as its rain forests needed to be saved:
failure to save the world from either the one or the other
would lead to its destruction. A sin must be atoned for, or
expiated, without which the sinner remains guilty for life, and
upon death goes to hell. This is how the culture of the West
becomes a ‘guilt culture’. The orthodox are shocked by the fact
that the world has become so ‘degenerate’ today that it argues
for same-sex marriage and upholds homosexuality even in
its most perverse forms. – R. Raj Rao
Brick by Brick – Scholar Dismantling Misconcemtpions about Queer China
The story of Queer Comrades brings together several interrelated issues
central to this book: community media, queer activism and an increasingly politicized queer identity, represented by the term tongzhi used in the Chinese name of the webcast. Literally ‘comrade’, tongzhi is one of the most popular terms to refer to sexual minorities in China today. Despite the numerous other terms that circulate in China, including tongxinglian (homosexual) and ku’er (queer), tongzhi is the most widely accepted term for self-identification by queer people in early 21st century China. – Queer Comrades: Gay Identity and Tongzhi Activism
in Postsocialist China – Dr. Hongwei Bao
What Pride Month Means to Me
It seems for as long as I have been alive, my body and I have oscillated from an uneasy truce to in-and-out war. At the very start, according to my mother, there was the battle to just keep the developing organism that would eventually be me in her womb as I threatened to miscarry severally.Continue reading “What Pride Month Means to Me”
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