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Canadá veta participação de países que praticam homofobia

in: http://www.advivo.com.br/blog/luisnassif/canada-veta-participacao-de-paises-que-praticam-homofobia

Canadá veta participantes ugandenses, por homofobia, em conferência

Dirigindo-se aos delegados da 127ª Conferência da União Interparlamentar, em Quebec, dia 23/10, a porta-voz do Parlamento de Uganda, Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga, informou que autoridades canadenses recusaram visto de entrada para a maioria dos parlamentares ugandenses, que iriam participar do evento, por estes terem aprovado uma lei criminalizando o casamento LGBT em seu país. Acrescentou que mesmo os dois deles que obtiveram o visto foram impedidos de fazer apresentações em plenária pelos organizadores da conferência.

Seguindo a orientação anti-homofóbica, as autoridades canadenses também negaram vistos de entrada para delegados de Mali e da Síria. No início da semana, o Ministro das Relações Exteriores, John Baird, já havia criticado a posição sobre direitos humanos tanto de Uganda quanto do Irã, sendo acusado por representantes dos dois países de arrogantemente querer interferir em seus assuntos internos.

Baird citou o histórico de violência homofóbica de Uganda e, em particular, o assassinato do ativista David Kato em 2011. Um mês antes, o Ministro da Justiça canadense Jason Kenney igualmente já havia dito que seu país estava determinado a promover os direitos LGBT em nível internacional. Como em outros aspectos, altamente civilizado, o Canadá deixa claro que a violência cometida contra grupos sociais não pode ser considerada mera questão de diferenças culturais e que deve ser combatida por todos os países democráticos do planeta até seu desaparecimento.

http://www.advivo.com.br/blog/luisnassif/canada-veta-participacao-de-paises-que-praticam-homofobia

What does an LGBT family look like?

in: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/msnbc/49570012#49570012


Jennifer Chrisler of the Family Equality Council joins MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts to discuss.

Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Transgender Woman Stoned to Death in Brazil

in: http://www.advocate.com/politics/transgender/2012/10/26/transgender-woman-stoned-death-brazil

Madona, a transgender woman recently murdered in Brazil 

 

 

A transgender woman in Brazil has died after being stoned by a group of attackers last week, reports Gay Star News.

The woman, who was born Amos Chagas Lima and went by the name of Madona, was pelted with cobblestones by her assailants October 19 in Aracaju, the capital of the state of the Brazilian state of Sergipe. She was admitted to a hospital and died four days later of severe head injuries. No suspects have been arrested.

Madona, who was a well-known and well-liked figure in Aracaju nightlife, is among many transgender people who have been targets of violence in Brazil, activists say.

“Trans people are the smallest and most vulnerable part of the LGBT Brazilian communities, making up a mere 10th, yet we suffer from the highest incidence of violence and murder,” Keila Simpson, president of the National Council to Combat Discrimination, told Gay Star News. “Since January we have had over 100 transgender people murdered here — that means over 10 people murdered every month. … People here in Brazil think that if they don’t like someone, like a trans person, they have a right to murder. Murders occur because they go often unpunished — simply put: Homophobic and transphobic hate is not a criminal offence.”

 

http://www.advocate.com/politics/transgender/2012/10/26/transgender-woman-stoned-death-brazil

77% dos brasileiros são a favor da criminalização da homofobia

in: http://www.tribunahoje.com/noticia/44053/brasil/2012/10/25/77-dos-brasileiros-so-a-favor-da-criminalizaco-da-homofobia.html

O Senado Federal está debatendo a reforma do Código Penal Brasileiro. Para alimentar os senadores com a opinião da sociedade em torno dos pontos mais importantes e contribuir com a discussão, o DataSenado realizou uma pesquisa nacional por telefone com 1.232 cidadãos de 119 municípios, incluindo todas as capitais. A margem de erro é de 3%.

Um dos tópicos da pesquisa tratava sobre a necessidade de se criminalizar atitudes e comportamentos fundados no preconceito e na discriminação contra as pessoas.

A discriminação contra os homossexuais foi um dos pontos abordados. A pesquisa indicou que 77% dos entrevistados concordam com a criminalização da homofobia, ou seja, que as pessoas que destratarem os homossexuais por conta de sua orientação sexual sejam punidas.

A proposta foi mais defendida entre os cidadãos com idade entre 30 e 39 anos. Destes, 83% são a favor da criminalização.

Um avanço e tanto para o Brasil, contar com o aval da maioria da sociedade. Bom saber que nem todos pensam como o pastor Silas Malafaia, que acredita que os gays estão buscando superproteção e privilégios com leis específicas para eles.

Agora, resta esperar que a reforma do código realmente vingue e que toda essa discussão seja colocada em prática.

http://www.tribunahoje.com/noticia/44053/brasil/2012/10/25/77-dos-brasileiros-so-a-favor-da-criminalizaco-da-homofobia.html

After 42 years, North Vancouver school bullying victim gets closure

in: http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/After+years+North+Vancouver+school+bullying+victim+gets+closure/7428096/story.html

 Robin Tomlin shows off an altered copy of his 1970 Argyle secondary yearbook at a press conference Friday. Tomlin was at the school to receive an official apology from the school district, more than four decades after a homophobic slur appeared next to his photo in the annual.

Photograph by: Mike Wakefield, North Shore News

After 42 years, Robin Tomlin feels as if he finally has closure on a pattern of bullying that tormented him in high school.

Shortly after 9:30 a.m. on Monday, Supt. John Lewis from the North Vancouver school district apologized to Tomlin face to face in the principal’s office at Argyle secondary for allowing the word “fag” to be printed next to Tomlin’s name in his 1970 high school yearbook.

“They just said how sorry they were and how it slipped through the cracks and they’ll institute remedies so that it won’t happen again,” Tomlin said.

Tomlin said he was satisfied with the apology.

“It’s closure,” he said by phone later. “I got a message to the school board to leave their doors open for kids in trouble instead of locking them like they did to me.”

Tomlin started his campaign to get the wrong addressed four years ago. Initially, the school district agreed to reprint the yearbook page with a revised entry chosen by Tomlin. As well, a copy would be provided to the North Vancouver museum and archives. But the district declined to say it was sorry in person — until Monday.

After getting the apology, Tomlin talked to the social justice class at Sutherland secondary school in North Vancouver, where he had been invited to speak.

He talked to them about bullying and the difference between when he was a teenager and today.

“We got the cyber-bullying now,” said Tomlin, 60. “It’s worse than ever because you don’t see it in the school — it’s outside.”

Tomlin, who has terminal liver disease, said he’s been surprised by all the support and coverage his story has received.

He thought it would either be shunned or ignored.

When he was in Grade 12, Tomlin was regularly taunted by what he described as a group of jocks.

He was quoted saying in a previous story that they would shove him and often say: “ ‘You little faggot, get out of the way.’ ”

He was so scared of his tormentors he never went to his high school graduation.

Tomlin said when he was a teenager, he was too scared to ask his friends for help. Today, that is no longer the case. Later Monday afternoon, friends arranged a “graduation ceremony” for him with a cap and gown in front of Argyle. Afterwards, everyone adjourned to the grad party at a local pub. Tomlin said he hasn’t been contacted by the yearbook editor about how the slur was printed. None of the jocks have contacted him either. Asked if that bothered him, Tomlin said: “I hope it bothers them — it doesn’t bother me.”

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/After+years+North+Vancouver+school+bullying+victim+gets+closure/7428096/story.html

Festival de cinema LGBT exibe mais de 130 produções para São Paulo e no Rio de Janeiro

in: http://rollingstone.com.br/noticia/festival-de-cinema-glbt-traz-mais-de-130-producoes-para-sao-paulo-e-rio-de-janeiro/


Em 2012, o já tradicional Festival Mix Brasil de Cultura da Diversidade faz sua vigésima ediçao 


 

Divulgação

Em sua 20ª edição, o já tradicional Festival Mix Brasil de Cultura da Diversidade exibe em salas de São Paulo e do Rio de Janeiros mais de 130 produções, curtas e longas, ligadas à temática LGBT.

Com o tema “Diversidade Sexual”, o festival tem a curadoria de João Federici e André Fischer e promove, além de exibições de filmes, encontros de música, teatro e literatura.

Nos cinemas, as produções chegam de países como Coreia do Sul, França, Inglaterra, Indonésia, Grécia, Uganda, Turquia, Paquistão, Suécia, Cuba e, claro, Brasil. O escolhido para abrir o festival nas duas cidades é o longa No Caminho das Dunas, do diretor belga Bavo Defurne.

O diretor e o ator Thomas Coumans estará no Brasil para participar das duas exibições de estreia do longa, que conta a história de Pim, interpretado por Ben Van den Heuvek, um garoto que desde pequeno nutre uma paixão pelo amigo Gino (Nathan Damen). Outros 20 convidados estrangeiros também virão para o festival.

Mais um destaque da programação é Meu Nome é Kuchu, uma coprodução dos Estados Unidos e Uganda, premiada como Melhor Documentário no Festival de Cinema de Berlin. O longa é um brutal retrato da situação dos homossexuais no país africado, onde uma lei pretendia punir o homossexualismo com morte.

20º Festival Mix Brasil de Cultura da Diversidade

São Paulo
De 8 a 18 de novembro
Rio de Janeiro
De 22 de novembro a 1o de dezembro

Mais informações e programação no site oficial .



http://rollingstone.com.br/noticia/festival-de-cinema-glbt-traz-mais-de-130-producoes-para-sao-paulo-e-rio-de-janeiro/

Former US Olympic skater Matt Savoie marries partner in Massachusetts

in: http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/former-us-olympic-skater-matt-savoie-marries-partner-massachusetts221012


He was teammate of Johnny Weir at 2006 Winter Olympics


 

He may not be as famous as Johnny Weir but Matt Savoie does have a few things in common with the popular ice skating star: both have represented the US in the Olympics and both got married this year to their male partners.

Savoie, 32, married attorney Brian Boyle earlier this month in Massachusetts while Weir married Victor Voronov last January in New York City.

'One thing that even our officiant talked about in our ceremony, and that Brian and I have experienced in this process, is that it’s really wonderful to be in a state that recognizes marriage between gay couples, to be able to be understood as a couple in the same way that our parents understood each other and understand other married couples,' Savoie tells Ice Network. 'That validation is hard to describe. It’s very important to us. We’re really proud to live in a state that supports it.'

It was back in 2006 that Savoie reached both the pinnacle then the end of his skating career.

He won the bronze medal at the US Championships that year which earned him a spot on the Olympic team, along with Weir, to compete in Turin, Italy.

Savoie finished seventh in the Olympics and retired from the sport that year. He had deferred his acceptance into the law school at Cornell University a year earlier in able to compete in the Olympics.

The skater met Boyle in law school and they both graduated in 2009. They became engaged last November.

'We had a really lovely ceremony,' he said. 'Everyone was participating in the ceremony in some way. It was wonderful to have them there.'

http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/former-us-olympic-skater-matt-savoie-marries-partner-massachusetts221012

Taiwan Pride promos

in: http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/taiwan-pride-promos221012

The organizers of Saturday’s Taiwan Pride have released heartwarming promotional videos

Taiwan Pride, the biggest pride march in Asia, is on Saturday (27 October) with 50,000 people expected to march through the streets of Taipei. The organizers have released another two promotional videos, in addition to this one released earlier this month.

Do you, Andy… shows Andy, a cute Taiwanese guy, about to propose to his boyfriend of ‘four years eight months and ten days’ before his parents walk into the restaurant, throwing him entirely. The foursome end up eating together and in the end, after much awkwardness on Andy’s part, his parents let him know they accept him and his boyfriend Jeffrey.

The second video Be Yourself shows ordinary Taiwanese people going about their daily business with the message ‘be proud, be happy, be counted, be yourself’ to a catchy soundtrack.

Taiwan has one of the best LGBT rights records in Asia. The first Pride march was in 2003, the same year same-sex marriage legislation was proposed but not passed. This year, two gay men fought to have their union legally recognized by the state and a lesbian couple married in a non-legal binding Buddhist ceremony in August.

If you’re heading to Taipei for Pride, find out what else to do there here.

Watch Do you, Andy… here:

Watch Be Yourself here:

http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/taiwan-pride-promos221012

Homossexualidade impediu ator de ser Superman nos cinemas

in: http://www.bonde.com.br/?id_bonde=1-1--71-20121021

 

O ator Matt Bomer, que estrela o seriado norte-americano White Collar, só não conseguiu ser o protagonista do Superman nos cinemas por ser homossexual. A declaração bombástica foi proferida pela escritora Jackie Collins durante o lançamento de seu mais novo romance, o livro The Power Trip.

Em entrevista à Gaydar Radio, ela afirmou que é "quase impossível" para atores LGBT se destacarem em Hollywood. As informações são do Portal Vírgula.

"Matt Bomer... tinha tudo para ser Supermam. Ele nunca havia saído do armário, mas as pessoas sabiam que ele era gay. Durante a exibição de sua fita, na audição, alguém entrou e relevou seu segredo. Alguém que não gostava dele. Então disseram: 'Não, não, nós não podemos contratá-lo'", contou Jackie Collins na entrevista. "A razão de não poderem contratá-lo era por causa de sua sexualidade, ele era gay", finalizou. (com informações do Portal Vírgula)

http://www.bonde.com.br/?id_bonde=1-1--71-20121021

World Health Organization: Trans people aren't sick!

in: https://www.change.org/en-CA/petitions/world-health-organization-trans-people-aren-t-sick

by Jenna Talackova

Vancouver, Canada

I'm not sick. In fact I’m great! I'm a women that had to undergo transgender medical procedures to become who I really am on in the inside.

But the World Health Organization (WHO) insists that I, and millions of other trans people are sick. The WHO actually considers transsexualism to be a mental disorder.

Since facing and overcoming discrimination for being a transgender woman back in March - when I was kicked out of and then re-admitted to the Miss Universe Pageant - I've been working to fight the stigma and discrimination facing people like me.

Join me in signing this petition and ask the World Health Organization to stop considering transsexual people mentally ill.

This also doesn't mean trans people shouldn't be included in the health system and provided with treatments, however, this has nothing to do with us being classified as mentally ill.

The WHO is definitely willing to reconsider their choices, and they're actually in the process of revising the list right now. If we all speak up I'm sure we can make a difference.

Please sign this petition at:

Change.org|Online Petition Form

 https://www.change.org/en-CA/petitions/world-health-organization-trans-people-aren-t-sick

We’re not mad or sick, trans people tell doctors

in: http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/we%E2%80%99re-not-mad-or-sick-trans-people-tell-doctors201012


Today (20 October) is International Day of Action for Trans Depathologization – a day when transgender people tell the medical world to stop treating them as if they were ill or crazy

Depathologization. Sounds complicated: it’s not. For behind the fancy ideological word lies a stark reality. This is a campaign about power, and control and respect.

Who, in the end, will dictate the futures that trans people may choose for themselves? Will support for the transgender community always to be predicated on the basic, insulting premise that, at some level, we’re all a little bit mad? Or will, finally, the medical profession wake up to the fact the world has moved on – and it is no longer up to them to define and limit the trans experience?

On the one side this is about professional self-interest: a group of mainly white, male, middle-aged, middle-class psych professionals who claim that no-one but they can fully understand trans-ness – and therefore it is up to them to decide who shall receive ‘treatment’, who shall be cast into the outer darkness. On the other, like the perennial underdogs in a Hollywood movie are a growing number of trans folk who have looked around, seen what the medics are offering and declared ‘we’re not going to take this any more’.

Hence today’s campaign, as well as a longer running, slower burning argument over the Diagnostic Standards Manual, the ‘bible’ of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), now in the process of formulating its fifth addition, in the teeth of fierce opposition from a trans community sick and tired of having their condition labeled a ‘disorder’.

The issue has its origins in the dim and distant past – not long after the psychiatric community decided that female masturbation was not a disorder after all, but some decades before they accorded the same courtesy to homosexuality. This was the point when the world first became aware that not everyone was happy with their gender presentation and advances in surgical techniques were, for the first time, allowing the possibility that something could be done about this.

But of course, the idea these individuals simply had a condition that could be overcome through help and support from the medical community was unthinkable. After all: allow patients to choose for themselves the best way to receive help and the next thing you know you’ll have women claiming that pregnancy is not a medical condition!

So trans-ness got dragged under the medical umbrella. The profession was not slow to kick off with a wide variety of wild and often contradictory theories about what trans was. Repressed homosexuality was one favourite. An obsession with the female form another.

Alongside the pathologization came the logical corollary. If it was a medical condition, requiring professional types to diagnose it, then only they could decide how best it should be treated. So began the weary drive towards protocols and process and rules and hurdles and gate-keepers, which has the net effect of slowing access to any sort of gender treatment as well as introducing scope for all manner of disrespect into the system.

If you’re female and 40-something and would like HRT to stave off the effects of the menopause, a single visit to your GP will usually suffice. If, on the other hand, you would like hormone treatment for gender dysphoria, the chances are that you will need to wait three to six months minimum: and that is only after you’ve managed to talk to a specialist, which could add a further year to your wait time, and after you’ve jumped through a series of hoops that include your gender presentation matching what they consider appropriate.

No wonder that levels of depression and attempted suicide within the trans community are high.

At the same time, the degree of anger on the part of many who have been forced through the medical system is palpable, as is contempt for a psych community, feathering its nest at the expense of trans men and women.

Of course, it is not that simple. It never is. Somewhere behind all this is the ‘charmed circle’ of sexuality, first described by Dr Gayle Reuben. This is the observation that psychiatry is essentially conservative when it comes to sex. Heteronormative to the nth degree. So, from Freud onward, psychiatry has a history of supporting a certain form of sex – mostly straight, non-kinky, non-commercial, ‘lights on’ stuff – and considering as disordered anything that fell outside those limits.

It may just be happy co-incidence for the profession that this ability to divide the world into sexual sheep and goats is good for their bank balances.

There is, too, a darker side to medicalization. For many of those who are movers and shakers in the APA in the field of gender dysphoria are also – now or in the past – active exponents of the idea that gender dysphoria is something that can be cured. That, too, is a pretty natural consequence of regarding it as ‘illness’. That, too, has added to suicide rates.

With all this questioning, it is no surprise that those most wedded to the idea of pathologization have begun to change their tune. The APA in particular have lately talked of listening and of engaging with the trans community. For some reason, few in the trans community trust this supposed olive branch, which has also many, many detractors in the wider academic world.

No. The broad thrust in medicine nowadays is toward understanding that many things that require ‘treatment’ are not illness, are not pathological. They are conditions which call for support and assistance. No more. Being trans is one of those.

Asking for transgender depathologization is as basic as asking that the medical profession begin to listen, begin to respect and, perhaps for the first time, begin to accept trans individuals as equal partners in their own treatment.

http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/we%E2%80%99re-not-mad-or-sick-trans-people-tell-doctors201012

Anne Hathaway irá doar dinheiro das suas fotos de casamento para instituição que apoia união gay

in: http://virgula.uol.com.br/

Anne Hathaway irá doar dinheiro das suas fotos de casamento para instituição que apoia união gay

A atriz Anne Hathaway, que teve suas fotos de casamento divulgadas por diversas revistas, aproveitou o dinheiro que recebeu para doar a algumas instituições, entre elas uma que apoia a união de pessoas do mesmo sexo. As informações são do site “Advocate”.

O objetivo da atriz é garantir que casais do mesmo sexo desfrutem de um casamento de conto de fadas como o dela.

Em 2008, ela chegou a declarar que estava do lado de todos os homossexuais: "Eu não me considero apenas um aliado para a comunidade LGBT, eu me considero sua família. Eu estou fazendo o que todos nós devemos fazer com nossas famílias - Eu estou amando, apoiando, e aceito completamente como você é.", disse.

Anne se casou em setembro deste ano com Adam Shulman, usando um vestido belíssimo desenhado pelo estilista Valentino. A cerimônia e a festa foram realizadas em Big Sur, na California, para 180 convidados.

Parece que enquanto algumas celebridades aproveitam a falta de privacidade para se darem bem e engordarem seus cofrinhos, Hathaway usa para uma boa causa.

Fofíssima, não? 

http://virgula.uol.com.br/

Teaser for new gay parenting film released

via: http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/teaser-new-gay-parenting-film-released181012


New film Invisible Parents hopes to raise support for the rights of same-sex parents

Invisible Parents

A behind the scenes trailer for a new documentary about same-sex parenting has been released on YouTube.

Invisible Parents is directed by Mike Buonaiuto, who also released a short feature film earlier in the year in support of same-sex marriage.

The teaser, available now online, features behind the scenes footage on the new film along with an interview with Buonaiuto.

The film is supported by organisations such as Pink Parenting and the Network of European LGBT Families Associations (NELFA).

Mike Buonaiuto says ‘In over 80% of Europe, the legal protection of same-sex couples and their children is not recognised in the eyes of the law.

‘With this project we’ve been able to build a team of professionals completely working on a voluntary basis. They believe that if you dedicate yourself to what you are passionate about and your talents, you can actually use those skills to make a difference.’

The whole campaign is designed to be shared on social media such as Facebook and Twitter.

The film is released on November 5th.

Watch the trailer below:

http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/teaser-new-gay-parenting-film-released181012

Major US sports leagues and celebs to go purple in show of support for LGBT youth

in: http://gaystarnews.com/article/major-us-sports-leagues-and-celebs-go-purple-show-support-lgbt-youth181012

 This week's Spirit Day to combat bullying getting unprecedented support

Just two years after the first Spirit Day took place, unprecedented support from the worlds of sports and entertainment is shaping up for the day to 'go purple' as a statement against LGBT bullying.

Observance of the day is on Friday (19 October) and participating will be the National Basketball Association (NBA) / Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA), the National Football League (NFL), the National Hockey League (NHL), Major League Baseball (MLB), Major League Soccer (MLS) and NASCAR's diversity program.

More than 100 celebrities have also pledged support including Ricky Martin, George Takei, Chely Wright, Andy Cohen, Cyndi Lauper, Cheyenne Jackson, Kathy Griffin, Bernadette Peters, Margaret Cho, Chaz Bono, Fran Drescher, Kathy Griffin and Judith Light, among others.

In addition, Viacom will turn its on-air logos purple with its MTV turning its high-definition screen in Times Square purple for the day. Comcast and NBCUniversal and The Sundance Channel will also participate.

Among the landmarks that will go purple: The 'Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas Sign' and several hotels on the Las Vegas strip, the Duke Energy Tower in Charlotte, the New York Stock Exchange, Thomson Reuters’ Times Square screen, the LAX Pylon Lights and the JFK traffic tower.

'From sports leagues to faith institutions to national monuments, schools and celebrities, millions of Americans will unite this week in an extraordinary show of support for LGBT youth and in a stand against bullying,' said Herndon Graddick, president of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation which is spearheading the day. 'At a time when 8 out of 10 LGBT youth report being harassed at school, it’s now more important than ever that we let every young person know that it’s okay to be who you are.'

  http://gaystarnews.com/article/major-us-sports-leagues-and-celebs-go-purple-show-support-lgbt-youth181012