Tag: homosexuality

The young men, aged 20 and 23, each received 83 lashes from a rattan cane. As a large group of bystanders cheered and booed, two young men convicted of engaging in gay sex were caned 83 times each Tuesday in the Aceh province of Indonesia. Thousands gathered in front of a mosque to watch the brutal beatings, which were carried out by men wearing dark robes and hoods. Abdul Gani Isa, a member of the Acehnese clerics' council, told the crowd...

"Asking youth to accept negative experiences as the only coping strategy potentially exacerbates stress," claims researchers at the University of Arizona. The It Gets Better projects was launched by Dan Savage and Terry Miller in 2010, in response to a chilling number of suicides by LGBT teens facing bullying. Sine then, it’s added more than 50,000 videos from people of all walks of life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IcVyvg2Qlo But a new study suggests imagining a better future may not be an ideal coping mechanism for...

It appears the Russian media are not taking the results of the French election well... A Russian newspaper has accused the new President of France, Emmanuel Macron, as a ‘gay psychopath’. Komsomolskaya Pravda, a tabloid, plastered a image of Macron on the cover of a gay magazine as ‘evidence’ of his homosexuality. The headline was ‘Coming Out’. The picture, on Garçon, was photoshopped. Obviously not having read the magazine itself, the article said: ‘For gays, this expression means “out of the shadows”, to recognise you’re...

'The Holocaust teaches us what can happen when state-sponsored, group-targeted violence is allowed to go unchecked' The US Holocaust Memorial Museum says it is ‘deeply concerned’ over reports that gay men are being targeted for arrest, torture, and, in some cases, murder in Chechnya. ‘The Holocaust teaches us what can happen when state-sponsored, group-targeted violence is allowed to go unchecked,’ Museum Director Sara J. Bloomfield said in a statement Friday (28 April). ‘The reports about the targeting of LGBT persons in Chechnya...

He tells us his story from hospital A gay 40-year-old in Namibia set himself alight during a row after finding his boyfriend with a woman. Kasera (name changed) is a gay man but his partner of five years Dandu (name changed), aged 32, does not identify as gay. I found Kasera sitting in hospital with bandages covering his head, arms and part of his face. He told me: ‘I have been in hospital since the 14 April. ‘On that particular day I had been...

It is compulsory for all men to complete two years of military services in South Korea, whose military law bans homosexuality. The head of South Korea’s army allegedly launched a secret investigation to find out which soldiers were gay. The Military Human Rights Center for Korea (MHRCK) claimed General Jang Jun-kyu authorised the ‘track-down process’ through social media and dating apps. His investigation has resulted in 20 soldiers facing charges under military anti-homosexuality laws. South Korea’s army chief is facing calls to resign...

And no, it's not because they're really, ridiculously good looking Filipino power couple Francis Libiran and Christian Mark Jacobs got married last week and their wedding photos have caused a huge controversy. https://www.instagram.com/p/BRuXeICF3ZH/ Libiran is one of the Philippines leading fashion designers who wed his longtime boyfriend Jacobs in a stunning ceremony on Borocay Island last week. American born Jacobs works as the President and Chief Operating Officer of Libiran’s bridal label. The couple met in Paris and are very loved-up after their nuptials. ‘I...

You can't make this stuff up. A conservative Christian preacher claims that a special "anointed" cake help to save a man by curing his homosexuality. Pastor Lance Wallnau was in a Periscope session, responding to a woman who wanted to stop her son from being gay, when the story of the 'special' cake came up. Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: That message prompted Wallnau to recall an incident he heard about recently in which a gay bar owner was supposedly delivered...

Mormon church releases positive LGBTI video in same week they condemn homosexuality in members' magazine Two pieces of media on homosexuality was released by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints this week, one for outsiders and one for members. Published on the Mormon and Gay website, a page used to promote the Book of Mormon to LGBTI people, is a new video. It shows Xian Mackintosh, a 24-year-old guy born in a big family in Utah who got up the...

He was the world's first openly gay prince and now he's using his influence to help LGBTI people A prince who was the first in an Indian royal family to come out has called on the government to scrap the law criminalizing homosexuality. Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil created a media storm when he came out in 2006 and has since used his platform to champion LGBTI issues. In a recent visit as the key guest of the Nagpur pride march, Gohlil said...

A third of British people believe that homosexuality is a choice, new research suggests. A poll by YouGov found that 31 percent of people from the UK believe homosexuality is a choice, despite scientific evidence suggesting otherwise. Around half (49%) said people were born gay or lesbian and 17 percent weren’t sure one way or the other. Three percent think people become gay based on how they are raised. A similar study in the United States three years ago found that two-fifths of...

'Wouldn't it be wonderful if all our letters could be published in the future in a more enlightened time' Two young men dared to confess their love during a time when homosexuality was illegal. While stationed as an anti-aircraft bomber, Gilbert Bradley exchanged heartfelt letters with his lover, Gordon Bowsher. During this time, men in the armed forces who were caught having gay sex could be shot. The letters remained a secret until Bradley’s death in 2008, when a house clearance company found...

Quite a lot, it turns out. It’s hard not to feel like America is getting gayer: It isn’t just the plethora of LGBT characters on TV, or the apparent boom in straight girls living for RuPaul’s Drag Race. There’s a persistent feeling that the citizenry as a whole are more accepting of the homos among them. Even here in the heart of the South—where I’ve been living for the past six months—folks seem mostly curious when I tell them I...

He was speaking at the launch of LGBT History Month Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is being slammed for saying ‘people have chosen to be gay’ at a LGBT event. The leader of the opposition made a speech at the LGBT History Month launch at parliament yesterday that saw many politicians, activists and other members of the LGBTI community join together. Towards the end of a 10 minute speech, Corbyn referred to the lives of people who suffered abuse by homophobic laws like...