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Costa Rica legalises same sex marriages.

13May

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Costa Rica legalises same sex marriages.

A long battle for same sex couples’ rights that is finally leading to a historical moment in the life of this country. In August, 2018, the Supreme Court of Costa Rica ruled that it was unconstitutional not to allow same-sex couples to get married, setting a time of 18 months for the legislature to make real changes and approve a law that would allow these couple to finally get married. As Q Cosa Rica said int this article, the country’s Civil Registry will begin processing registrations on 26th May. Luis Guillermo Chinchilla, senior civil officer of the Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones (TSE), to which the Civil Registry is attached, assured that the necessary changes have been made: “The Civil Registry has made significant efforts in adjusting all the computer systems in civil regi...

South Korea sees a peak of homophobia during a new cluster of Coronavirus cases

13May

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South Korea sees a peak of homophobia during a new cluster of Coronavirus cases

South Korean LGBT+ community has been in the target of newspapers and media that accuses the community to be guilty for the spread of coronavirus in the country. As te Guardian reported in this article, almost 100 new cases of Covid-19 have been linked to bars and clubs in Itaewon, the city's underground gay district in South Korea. But the newspapers and media got too far now: they revealed personal information of a gay man in the city who tested positive to Coronavirus, putting his life in big danger. South Korea is a country where speaking about sexuality and sex remains a real taboo and where pornography is banned. Some politicians have tried to ease the tension and this increasing homophobia, but they have never publicly acknowledged the LGBT+ community. Last Saturday 9th May, ...

Brazil: the Supreme Court ends blood donation restrictions for Gay people

11May

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Brazil: the Supreme Court ends blood donation restrictions for Gay people

It took four years but Brazil has a new ruling when it comes to blood donations. This is a historic win for the LGBT+ community in Brazil which has experienced tremendous restrictions when it came to blood donations. The new ruling comes out after that last 8th May, 7 of 11 justices voted for banning the law that did not allow men who’ve had sex with other men within the previous twelve months to donate blood. The voting against this unconstitutional rule - that was imposing restrictions on the simple basis of sexual orientations - happened at the Supreme Federal Cours in Brasilia, as the Guardian reported in this article. Supreme Court Minister - Edson Fachin - wrote on his vote: “Instead of the state enabling these people to promote good by donating blood, it unduly restrict...

Amal Fashanu says that 5 famous footballers in the UK will shortly come out as gay.

11May

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Amal Fashanu says that 5 famous footballers in the UK will shortly come out as gay.

And they are all recognisable names. Amal - Justin Fashanu’s niece - runs a charity where 5 famous footballers are being counselled at the moment, about their homosexuality and their "living in the closet". This is what we can read in her interview to The Sun. She said: “No one wants to be the first. In their minds these guys are trapped, ashamed. They think society won’t accept it so instead they live their lives in secret. It’s sad that this has to happen. But they would be a trailblazer.” Her uncle Justin (the first openly gay UK footballer) committed suicide in 1998 after being accused of sexual assault of a 17-year-old boy – an accusation that was never proven true, and her dad admitted feeling “guilty every day” after he payed his brother not to come-out. Amal also added: “...

Bogotá to lift gender-based lockdown rules.

11May

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Bogotá to lift gender-based lockdown rules.

These rules fuelled violence against the transgender community. Claudia Lopez major of the Colombian city of Bogotá - openly lesbian and married to her wife Angélica Lozano Correa - said that the above mentioned rules will be lifted as of tomorrow following the great number of acts of violence against trans people in the city since they have been applied. This is what we can read on The NYC Times. We had already spoken about the case in Panama in this article and a similar situation happened in Peru where those rules have already been lifted for the same motivation. When Major Caludia Lopez introduced the restrictions, she had assured the trans community that they should go out on the day corresponding to their gender identity and not be forced to go out on the day corresponding t...

Cropped haircuts and political idiocy – Pt. 2

11May

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Cropped haircuts and political idiocy – Pt. 2

Let’s break down the myth that the right Honourable Jeremy Corbyn is a friend of the community. Mr Corbyn has shared platforms with Islamic cleric Sheik Raed Salah, who has called for all homosexuals to be thrown off rooftops, political activist Abu Jaja who demanded that homosexuals have their throats slit from left to right, the three meetings with the Islamic government of Tunisia who have implemented homosexuality as a punishable crime, the multiple private gatherings with the ex leader of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who publicly hanged homosexuals while Corbyn was and still is on Iran’s payroll and last but not least a large donation to the Labour party by the world renown Holocaust denier David Irwin was gracefully accepted (you can imagine what his stance would be on homosexuality con...

Being Raped? I thought it was what normally “happened to gay men”.

10May

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Being Raped? I thought it was what normally “happened to gay men”.

Stonewall co-founder Michael Cashman candidly revealed that he had been raped so regularly while growing up that he thought it was just "what normally happened to gays". Speaking to The Guardian, Michael opened up on how his childhood in East London and his theatrical career both suffered from the trauma of continuing sexual violence. Cashman - who is now 69 - described how, at the age of 12, performing in "Oliver!", He was approached by a cast member who sexually took advantage of the young actor. "I wanted my mother to rescue me," Cashman said, but this has only been one of a long series of abuses that the former Eastenders star has endured in his life so far. The first abuse at 8 years of age. Sexual abuse marked his youth: at eight years of age Michael was sexually assaulted by a ...

Cropped haircuts and political idiocy – Pt.1

9May

By Roberta MooreNo Comments

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Cropped haircuts and political idiocy – Pt.1

So, if I don't look like that, does it mean I'm less lesbian than you? Today’s statement on what a lesbian must look like has been thwarted and dismembered by the ‘lesbian fashionistas’. Their statement does not cease at fashion but overlaps to what you should weigh and the requirement of lesbian behaviour. Dress codes change through time but the disputed distinctive lesbian look is today’s glorified symbol: Cropped haircuts, baggy clothes and bright or dark colours are acceptable. You cannot appear to symbolise femininity as the fight of lesbianism has shadowed the feminine ways of so many of us. To look, behave and to speak as a woman would be nothing more than traitorous and controversial to the movement. A minority of disregarded lesbians such as myself would class the lesbian moveme...

Indonesian Trans people forced to attend cruel exorcisms to be cured.

7May

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Indonesian Trans people forced to attend cruel exorcisms to be cured.

Indonesia is seeing an increase of intolerance towards the LGBT+ population, after undergoing a strong conservative shift in recent years. The country has a very peculiar situation that sees homosexuality technically legal in all but one province. LGBT+ people are considered to be sexual deviants where their homosexuality is thought to be the result of evil spirits’ possession, which can only be “cured” through horrifically cruel religious ceremonies of exorcism. The Bangkok Post published an interview where various victims of these exorcisms spoke about their experiences: For example, Andin, a 31-year-old transgender woman told the newspaper: “It’s traumatising – the horror of that memory stays in my head.” She had to go through years and years of abuses and violences of all k...

Two bodies found inside car of North Carolina lesbian couple who disappeared on 15th April

6May

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Two bodies found inside car of North Carolina lesbian couple who disappeared on 15th April

The car was discovered “deep in the woods and covered in vegetation”. On Monday, police officers in Wilmington (North Carolina) they discovered a gray Dodge Dart belonging to Paige Escalera, 25, that was last seen with her fiancée, Stephanie Mayorga, 27, on 15th April - at the time, police said that the two disappeared under “suspicious” circumstances. The car was found just after 3 p.m. outside the Watermark Marina with two unidentified bodies inside, Wilmington police said in the statement on Tuesday. The vehicle was found to be hidden “deep in the woods and covered in vegetation,” and authorities believe the car “may have been involved in an extremely high velocity crash.” Autopsies have already been scheduled but unfortunately it was not possible to recognise the two bodies insi...