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Film recommendations: Queering your festive viewing

17Dec

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Film recommendations: Queering your festive viewing

For so long, the Christmas cheesy film has been very straight, very white, usually revolving around 2.2 children. But finally things are changing and here are some ideas for some festive queer in your seasonal viewing. At last, same-sex stories are hitting the mainstream and this is something we need to celebrate. The Prom is an over-the-top song-and-dance cheese-a-thon (yup, cracking out the multi-hyphenates for this one!). A troupe of self-obsessed Broadway has-beens are looking for a new project to give them a social media boost – and decide to help teenager Emma. The school prom in her small town in Indiana has been cancelled by the PTA because they don’t want her to take her girlfriend – prom must be mixed sex couples, or it isn’t happening at all. It’s a musical extravaganza, fron...

French MP Clément Beaune comes out publicly and announces a trip to Poland.

16Dec

By RaffaNo Comments

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French MP Clément Beaune comes out publicly and announces a trip to Poland.

The French MP for European Affairs, Clément Beaune has decided to publicly come out on the eve of a trip to one of the so-called "LGBT-free zones" in Poland. An almost unexpected action by this French MP who said: "I'm gay. I have no problems in revealing it", which happened just a little before his trip to Poland, a very homophobic easter European country. The initiative is also linked to its commitment to defending the rights of the LGBT+ community in the rest of Europe. The message was given to an LGBT+ French magazine, Le Têtu. The minister explained that his homosexuality has never been an obstacle in his political career, and he announced his next visit to one of the Polish municipalities that have declared themselves "LGBT-free". "I wouldn't want people to say I'm fighting 'L...

Hungary bans same-sex couples from adopting children

16Dec

By RaffaNo Comments

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Hungary bans same-sex couples from adopting children

Victor Orban and his homophobic group of MPs are continuing the ferocious and hatred campaign agains Hungarian LGBT+ population. The legislation put forward by Prime Minister Viktor Orban's right-wing government says only married couples can adopt, with some exceptions for single relatives of the child who is going to be adopted. Until this law, even if same-sex marriage is illegal in Hungary, adoption has been possible if one partner applied on their own. This is such a dark moment for human rights, and not only in Hungary. From now on single people will require special approval from the government to adopt. In the same amendment approved on Tuesday family is defined as "based on marriage and the parent-child relation. The mother is a woman, the father a man". B...

Anti-LGBT+ Lithuanian MP appears on cam with a naked man during on-line official meeting

3Dec

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Anti-LGBT+ Lithuanian MP appears on cam with a naked man during on-line official meeting

A naked young man flashes behind Lithuanian MP Petras Gražulis during a conference call of the parliament’s Culture Committee. The conference was being streamed live on YouTube and around the end of minute 13, Mr. Gražulis turns on his camera and a half naked man can be seen behind him for a few seconds before the cam gets turned off again. https://youtu.be/j5c6ADXuMjs MP Petras Gražulis is very well known for his strong and homophobic Anti-LGBT+ politics and positions in Lithuania. Vytautas Juozapaitis, chairman of the committee, said that his could influence and put the integrity of the Parliament in serious risk. He also added: "It’s probably the responsibility of every member of parliament to ensure that no other people appear in their home environment. [...] I did not notice...

József Szajer – Hungarian MEP – quits after fleeing a gay orgy in Brussels

2Dec

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József Szajer – Hungarian MEP – quits after fleeing a gay orgy in Brussels

An Hungarian MEP belonging to the leading party with Viktor Orban resigned from his role yesterday after police caught him, other politicians and diplomats in an illegal party in Brussels on Friday 27th November 2020. József Szajer used to be one of the most powerful MEPs in Hungarian leading party - Fidesz - and on Friday he was stopped by police after reports of a house party violating lockdown rules. The party turned out to be a private drug-based event that ended up in a gay orgy. This is what is reported to have happened that night BBC reports that at around 9.00 pm local time police were alerted by some neighbours complaining bout noises and potential lockdown breaches in an apartment located on Rue des Pierres in the centre of the Belgian capital. Getting in to the flat,...

World AIDS Day – HIV treatments, vaccine and Covid-19 Pandemic.

1Dec

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World AIDS Day – HIV treatments, vaccine and Covid-19 Pandemic.

Covid-19 Pandemic has put all HIV patients in serious risks and slowed down all testings and treatments. According to UNAIDS: The lockdowns and border closures imposed to stop COVID-19 are impacting both the production of antiretroviral medicines and their distribution, potentially leading to increases in their cost and to supply issues. Recent modelling has estimated that a six-month complete disruption in HIV treatment could lead to more than 500,000 additional deaths from AIDS-related illnesses. If services to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV were similarly halted for six months, the estimated increases in new child HIV infections would be 162% in Malawi, 139% in Uganda, 106% in Zimbabwe and 83% in Mozambique. The global experience of tackling HIV can help info...

Senhit: a Eurovision star fighting to improve Women’s lives

30Nov

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Senhit: a Eurovision star fighting to improve Women’s lives

This second lock-down for Covid-19 around the world has shown very worrying numbers when it comes to Domestic violence. This is why Senhit - famous Eurovision start from Italy (representing San Marino) - has decided to act against these cases of violence and to do so she has started a cooperation with Pangea, an Italian non-profit organisation that works internationally. The idea was born from the artistic duo Senhit formed together with Luca Tommassini - the internationally famous Italian dancer and choreographer - victim of domestic violence when he was only a child. In a video posted on Instagram Senhit said: "Staying locked at home is difficult for everyone, but in these months of isolation those who live in situations of violence have little chance of escape. In Italy alone, th...

Joe Biden promises new strengths to LGBT+ rights.

30Nov

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Joe Biden promises new strengths to LGBT+ rights.

President-elect Joe Biden says he will get rid of Trump’s anti-LGBT+ actions as soon as he will effectively be in charge from January 2021. Nest US president is promising big changes to make up to some of the damages done by Trump, especially when it comes to LGBT+ rights around the states: the ban on Transgender Military Personnel and Trump’s ‘freedom to discriminate’ initiatives will be apparently erased as of January 2021. According to Associated Press, Biden will confirm Obama’s rules barring anti-LGBT+ discrimination for Federal Contractors, he will then create high-level positions on LGBT+ rights in all federal agencies and will act on schools too. Nicolas Talbott, a transgender man who started a legal action over Trump’s military ban, told the Press: “I look forward to be...

Chopin’s homosexuality hidden for many years.

27Nov

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Chopin’s homosexuality hidden for many years.

Frédéric Chopin was gay, but his homosexuality has been longly hidden or passed over in silence: both when he was alive and after his death by his biographers. This is what the journalist and musician Moritz Weber demonstrates on the basis of the private letters of the Polish composer, in a two-hour radio investigation aired on the Swiss public broadcaster SRF titled "Chopin's men". It would not be the first time that the gay or bisexual orientation of some artists, writers and historical figures has been omitted: it started with Sappho, especially if these artists lived in times when homosexuality was considered a perversion or a disease. Weber explains: “Chopin deliberately separated his inner feelings from what he showed on the outside. He paid close attention to the way he ap...

UK: Transgender teenager takes legal action over the years-long wait faced by young people requesting appointments with NHS specialists

23Nov

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UK: Transgender teenager takes legal action over the years-long wait faced by young people requesting appointments with NHS specialists

The UK is not facing easy times due to the Pandemic caused by Coronavirus, the Brexit which is approaching in less than 40 days and the NHS which is fighting not to collapse under the hit of Covid-19 cases. There is one thing, though, that is not depending on the obove situation, and for which the NHS will have to provide some explanations: their waiting times both for transgender adults and children that have waiting times of years! NHS waiting time is 18 weeks, but some patients have to wait over 193 weeks only to get to their initial appointment. Things are harder for teen-trans, as there is only one clinic for young people seeking transition in the entire country of her Majesty Elizabeth II. Reece, a 14-year-old-boy, has started a legal action with the support of legal activi...