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Le mariage pour tous au Viêt Nam?
Even longtime gay-rights activists are stunned by the Justice Ministry’s proposal to include same-sex couples in its overhaul of the country’s marriage law. No one knows what form it will take or whether it will survive long enough to be debated before the National Assembly next year, but supporters say the fact that it’s even being considered is a victory in a region where simply being gay can result in… →
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L’enfer sur terre
In the years after the invasion, the security situation deteriorated for everyone in the country. But for sexual minorities, Iraq became hell on earth. By 2007, political and religious groups backed by militiamen launched what we believe was an organised, co-ordinated campaign to hunt, arrest, torture and kill everyone they perceived as gay. These radical groups deny sexual minorities the right to life. They target everyone who does not conform… →
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La prostitution militaire masculine à Paris
« Hôtels garnis : garçons de joie », fruit d’une patiente recherche iconographique et historique, nous plonge dans les entrailles du Paris des amours entre hommes. Il y avait mille entrées pour vous donner envie de lire cet ouvrage magnifique. Nous avons opté pour les prostitués militaires. (…) Quelques hôtels de la ville étaient connus pour recevoir des prostitués masculins et, dans certains d’entre eux, la clien tèle était essentiellement composée de militaires :… →
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Peur, culpabilité et sérotriage
And yet, I’ve turned down guys who are open about their positive status. I watched the onset of AIDS in the ’80s through the confused eyes of a child. I had it drilled into me that this was a disease to stay far, far away from. I also know better than to sleep with someone who announces himself as HIV positive. Or knew. Now I’m not exactly sure what to… →
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La haine à l’état pur
Alors sachez ceci: de la perspective muette de tous les jeunes de 15 ans pétrifiés et placardisés (après tout moi aussi j’en ai été un), vos motivations pour vous ranger derrière Chick-fil-A ne font aucune différence, absolument aucune. La seule chose qu’ils voient, c’est votre haine à l’état pur. Que le 1er août 2012 reste dans les mémoires comme une journée d’infamie et de honte nationale. Ce jour-là, dans tout… →
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Evan Darling
Evan Darling has always loved cars, but he entered professional racing in 2007 with a larger goal in mind: he wanted to be a role model for gay teens. When he came out to his parents at age 18, in 1986, they reacted so badly he had to move out. But since then, he’d gone on to build a successful career as a mechanic and landscaper, and he wanted to… →
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How badly do you want it ?
Bruce Labruce jette une lumière différente sur une histoire sidérante dans une discussion en deux parties avec l’artiste trans* torontoise Nina Arsenault sur le tueur présumé Luka Magnotta. In our conversations you also had some interesting ideas about the sad, recent death of porn star Erik Rhodes, who appeared in my movie L.A. Zombie. How do you think this relates to the Magnotta story with regard to the porn world?… →
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Anderson and Gloria
Anderson Cooper reçoit sa mère, Gloria Vanderbilt, dans son talk show. Où on comprend qu’il n’y avait aucune chance que cet homme soit hétéro. Concerant l’émission, je n’apprécie pas forcément le style, mais il faut avouer qu’il est bon pour la mise en scène, en tout cas. Sinon, visiblement, Gloria aurait inventé le « designer’s jeans », le jeans de créateur. Mais ne faut-il pas être un créateur, pour cela? Just bitching. →
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Don du sang, homos et VIH : De l’eau au moulin
Selon nos informations, le cabinet de la ministre de la Santé, qui s’est prononcé en faveur de l’ouverture du don du sang aux homosexuels, n’était pas très chaud de voir sortir ces chiffres à la veille de la Marche des fiertés. Cette étude apporte de l’eau au moulin de ceux qui justifient l’exclusion permanente des gays du don du sang en raison d’une forte présence du VIH parmi eux. » La… →
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Erik Rhodes et sa séropositivité
Further, there is something to the argument that the discomfort I felt — and that many, many others felt — is rooted in stigma and for that reason alone should be challenged. If Colt had said Rhodes had hepatitis C, how would we have felt? Probably less uncomfortable. How about if it was cancer or diabetes? Probably even less uncomfortable. But that’s all about personal ethics, not journalistic ethics. We… →
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Ellen and the definition of success
» 16 May 2009, Ellen DeGeneres addresses Tulane University’s graduating ‘Katrina Class’. This woman →
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Together
Pride Toronto and Google+ present « Together, » a series of films by award-winning director Jeff Feuerzeig, with music performed by Stephin Merritt of The Magnetic Fields. » http://bit.ly/PrideFilms. C’est beau. →
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Carmen Carrera et visibilité trans*
Carmen Carrera, candidat de la saison 3 de Rupaul Drag Race, a fait son coming-out trans* au début de cette année. Cet extrait de What Would You Do de ABC finit heureusement mieux que ce que pouvait laisser craindre les premières minutes. →
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La science du Gaydar
Should you trust your gaydar in everyday life? Probably not. In our experiments, average gaydar judgment accuracy was only in the 60 percent range. This demonstrates gaydar ability — which is far from judgment proficiency. But is gaydar real? Absolutely. » The Science of Gaydar’, SundayReview, The New York Times. →
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« Smash » : The walk of shame
Since I wrote that passionate defense of the NBC series, I’ve tumbled out of bed, grabbed my purse, and taken a long walk of shame. Because—to switch metaphors mid-stream, the way Smash does with plots—since its delightful pilot, the show has taken a nosedive so deep I’m surprised my ears haven’t popped. All the caveats I noted but dismissed in my earlier review have become the definingly awful features of… →
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Mec hétéro blanc : Le plus bas niveau de difficulté
So, the challenge: how to get across the ideas bound up in the word privilege, in a way that your average straight white man will get, without freaking out about it? (…) Okay: In the role playing game known as The Real World, Straight White Male is the lowest difficulty setting there is. » Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is, John Scalzi, Whatever. Genius. Si tu es… →
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Donna Summer et le sida
Though known as a gay icon, Summer’s born-again-Christian status began alienating the diva from her gay fans, and in the mid-1980s, a false report that she’d called AIDS the wrath of God on gay people began circulating widely, an allegation she has flatly denied since. According to Jet Magazine, in 1989, she wrote to the New York chapter of ACT UP calling the entire thing a terrible misunderstanding. » Donna… →
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Les droits des gays aux USA, état par état
» Gay rights in the US, state by state. Une infographie intelligente du Guardian, qui se personnalise si vous vous connectez avec vos identifiants Facebook, pour vous montrer les lois de là où habitent vos amis (américains). →
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Momies
De temps en temps, je ressors les cadavres de mes anciens amours. Pas littéralement, hein. Mais je pense à ces hommes. Je les ramène à la surface de ma mémoire, je les berce, je réécoute la musique qu’ils portent. Je danse un peu avec eux, je verse une larme. Mais ça ne colle plus, évidemment. →
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Keep them out of gay bars
Ladies, we don’t mind going to your bachelorette parties, because we love and support you as friends even if we find it a little insulting (and genitally incorrect) that you keep calling us « one of the girls. » However, if we don’t know you, we have no interest in being at your party. That means keep them out of gay bars. We know you want to look at strippers, but you… →