On the 13th of February 2015 a movie based on a true story about an outed LGBTI person in Kampala was premiered registering a good attendance. Members from the Ugandan lgbti community and the allies graced the occasion. Based on a true story, Vida a gay man and an employee of one of the leading advertising firms in the city faces one of the hardest moments of his lifetime when his name and photo appear in a newspaper tabloid among other gays and lesbians with the paper calling for hanging these lgbti people. Read More
Unearthed Letter From Freud Reveals His Thoughts On Gay People
In 1935, Sigmund Freud penned a response to a mother who had asked him for help with her gay son. Despite the broader perceptions of homosexuality at the time, Freud took a different approach, telling the woman it's "nothing to be ashamed of."
"I gather from your letter that your son is a homosexual. I am most impressed by the fact that you do not mention this term for yourself in your information about him. May I question you why you avoid it?" he wrote. "Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation; it cannot be classified as an illness; we consider it to be a variation of the sexual function, produced by a certain arrest of sexual development. Many highly respectable individuals of ancient and modern times have been homosexuals, several of the greatest men among them." Read More
Apple unveils racially diverse emoji in 5 skin tones and same-sex couples
Apple is adding racially diverse emoji to its OS X desktop operating system.
The software's emoji keyboard will include characters in five skin tones based on the Fitzpatrick scale, a recognised standard used by dermatologists that moves the icons away from previously much-derided racial stereotypes. Read More
Samira Wiley Won An LGBT Visibility Award And Her Speech Is Truly Beautiful
Out gay Orange is the New Black actress Samira Wiley received the Visibility Award at the 2015 Human Rights Campaign North Carolina Gala last weekend And she gave a BEAUTIFUL speech.
Wiley spoke about kids growing up in intolerant families, her own positive family experience, and what it means to her to be proudly and visibly gay.
“As I sit and I listen to these stories pour out of people, my first thought is often how little we must think of ourselves, to only accept tolerance,” she said.
"What about acceptance? What about celebration, and love, and embracing difference, rather than merely tolerating it? What might happen if we raise the bar higher?" Read More
Jamaican music branded as ‘Hate Music’
Amid continuous cancellations of shows for several of dancehall and reggae’s top international acts, J-FLAG’s (The Jamaica Forum of Lesbians, All-Sexuals and Gays) executive director, Dane Lewis, is inviting reggae and dancehall artists and their management team to an open discussion on the issues faced by the entertainment industry where homophobic music is concerned.
Recently, artist manager Copeland Forbes expressed that the state of the industry has been consistently deteriorating due to songs that have been produced and performed over the years which call for discrimination and violence against gays and lesbians. In the article, Forbes stated, “You (artists) don’t need to address them (homosexuals) because a lot of them are in the record companies and you are shaking their hands and you don’t even know. Leave that alone, homosexuality existed before you and it will be here when you’re gone. You don’t need to bring that inna yuh music.” Read More
Orebro HK, Swedish Hockey Team, Shows LGBT Support In The Coolest Way & Gives Everyone A Reason To Celebrate Sports
For one Swedish hockey team, simply winning a game isn't enough — they need to really get their fans in on the celebratory action as well. Goalie Julius Hudacek of Örebro HK, based in Örebro, Sweden, has made it a habit after every victory to give the team's supporters a warm show of thanks by taking to the ice once more and treating them to a hilarious display of athletic buffoonery (past activities have included playing leap-frog, juggling, cross-country skiing, and dressing up as Santa and letting a teammate drag him around the ice).
But it seems that both goalie and team have outdone themselves this time: on Saturday, Hudacek and the Örebro squad donned rainbow-striped jerseys for their game against the Frölunda Hockey Club and celebrated their win afterward by dancing to the Village People's "YMCA," in support of the region's LGBT Pride Night. Read More
Cannibalism A-OK But Gay Kiss Too Much For “Walking Dead” Fans
US: The Fosters Makes History With a Teenage Kiss
A kiss between two 13-year-old male characters on the ABC Family show The Fosters is making waves for reportedly being the youngest same-sex kiss in American television history. “This storyline is important in so many ways,” said actor MacIntosh. “It’s been eye-opening about how many kids struggle with feeling ‘OK’ about questioning their sexuality.”
There was conversation nationally on social media in reaction to Jude and Connor’s exchange, with hashtags like #Jonner and #JonnerKiss trending on Twitter shortly after the kiss was aired Monday night. Read More
South Korea's First Lesbian Kiss On-Screen Has Taken The Country By Surprise
South Korean TV dramas are renowned for featuring complex, tragic love stories, but viewers of the series Seonam Girls High School Investigators were in for an unprecedented act of romance when South Korea’s first-ever on-screen TV lesbian kiss sparked debate about portrayals of sexuality in a country that, in spite of its growing modernization, still holds dear to deep-seated values of propriety and traditionalism. Read More
Colombia: What It's Like to Be LGBT
Two new clips from a French documentary film called The World According to Homophobes aim to shine a light on the experience of LGBT Colombians. Read and Watch more
India: Snapdeal has just been taken to court for selling vibrators
A Delhi lawyer has just taken e-commerce giant Snapdeal to court for selling sex accessories because he wants to test the limits of India’s anti-homosexuality law. Suhaas Joshi, an advocate at India’s Supreme Court, has filed a complaint for abetting gay sex and for exhibiting obscene products.
Joshi’s complaint, explains that products—such as anal lubes and massagers that are shaped like the male phallus—violate the section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, along with other acts such as section 292, 292 A, 293 and 294 which prohibit obscenity in public.
Section 377 is the controversial anti-gay Indian law that criminalises any intercourse that is “against the order of nature.” The Delhi high court had earlier decriminalised the act, but India’s Supreme Court subsequently overturned the decision and has left it to the Indian parliament to take a decision on repealing section 377. Read More
Egypt: TV journalist faces trial over raid on 'gay' bathhouse
An Egyptian TV journalist will face trial for defamation and spreading false news after she orchestrated a raid on an alleged gay bathhouse in Cairo.
Mona Iraqi tipped off police before entering 'the den of male sex' on the night of 7 December. She filmed as 33 men were arrested and paraded naked out of the bathhouse. The footage was then broadcast on al-Qahira wal Nas news and made international headlines.
Twenty-six men, including the bathhouse owner and four employees, were tried for debauchery but cleared due to lack of evidence after undergoing humiliating anal exams. Read More