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Pakistan’s gay couple dreams of marrying in South Africa- country's first gay couple to openly announce plans of marriage
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Russian Lawmakers Propose Legislation To Criminalize Coming Out As Gay
Things keep getting worse for LGBT people in Russia.
Two years after the country banned so-called “gay propaganda,” some Russian lawmakers want to amend the prohibition by making the act of coming out a crime.
Under the proposed amendment, those with “non-traditional sexual orientation” could be fined for “demonstrating [their] own expressed sexual preferences in public places,” Newsweek reports. If they were to do so in schools, cultural establishments or government buildings, they could face up to 15 days in jail.
The two Communist lawmakers behind the proposal, Ivan Nikitchuk and Nikolay Arefievay, say the 2013 gay propaganda ban doesn’t go far enough:
“I believe that the problem we have raised is one of the most pressing and topical issues as it addresses the social ills of our society and deals with the moral education of the next generation,” Nikitchuk told Izvestia. “In the biological sense, not reproducing is the same as death and in that sense homosexuality is a lethal threat for the whole of humankind.”
“I think that the problem is acute and urgent because it concerns the social diseases of our society and the moral upbringing of the younger generation. Unfortunately, the mechanism suggested in the 2013 law ‘On the protection of children against the information that harms their health and development’ has proved to be ineffective and this prompted us to develop new measures.”
In an explanation attached to the amendment, Nikitchuk and Arefievay cite stricter laws against homosexuality in the Soviet Union and in ancient times. From the English-language news channel RT:
“In Athens during the classical period homosexuals had to report their vice to the people’s assembly and got stripped of their civil rights. Those who tried to conceal it were either exiled or executed. The laws of Ancient Sparta were even stricter – there were no reports, anyone who got caught was executed,” read the explanations attached to the bill.
In fact, public opposition to homosexuality has increased in Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union. In a recent poll, 37 percent said LGBT people should be “isolated from society,” an increase from 28 percent who thought this in 1989, Newsweek reports. Twenty-one percent said they wanted to “liquidate” LGBT people.
However, the infamous author of the original gay propaganda ban, Vitaly Milonov, opposes the amendment, according to RT. Milonov says coming out is already prohibited under his gay propaganda ban. One Russian gay activist, Maria Bast, said she doesn’t believe the amendment will pass because Russia is trying to restore relations with the European Union.
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Russian Lawmakers Propose Legislation To Criminalize Coming Out As Gay
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Open Question: Does This Make Me A Homophobic (LGBT)?
I am a 25 year old woman and am lesbian but i dont actually like any LGBT actors, does that make me a homophobe?
Here is my top 10 favourite actors
Marlon Brando
Robert De Niro
Al Pacino
Humphrey Bogart
Max Von Sydow
Dustin Hoffman
Michael Caine
Clark Gable
Patrick Stewart
Sean Connery
I like film
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15 Years After Coming Out, I Met The Gay Uncle I Never Knew
Having a gay relative has got to be every young gay guy’s dream, although I had no clue that I had gay uncle that has been living in San Francisco since 1988. Which is a bummer; I can only imagine how great it would have been to know that I had a queer uncle in the gayest city in the world.
Complicated family dynamics prevented me from even knowing of his existence until five years ago, and this New Yorker wasn’t able to make the cross-country trek to meet him… until now.
After completing my media studies at Columbia University this year, I was selected to participate in the National Gay and Lesbian Journalists Association’s Student Connect Program in San Francisco. I decided to use the opportunity to produce a video that would document the meeting.
I approached the day with trepidation.
This is what happened.
Rob Smith is a multimedia journalist and author of Closets, Combat and Coming Out: Coming of Age as a Gay Man in the ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Army. He lives in New York City.
This piece was produced with the support and guidance of the NLGJA Connect Program. For more information and to see samples of other work produced during the convention, visit the website.
Rob Smith
So I'm probably more attracted to men than women for the first time in my life… what do I do now? [M21]
It happened after trying mdma – I felt genuine sexual attraction to men. I thought it would be temporary but it wasn’t. Im a student and every seminar I’ve been to ever since that night, I’ve eyed up the guys in the room. Problem is that all my freinds have known me for years as straight old dave – I don’t want to dress differently or talk differently now that I’m not straight anymore.
I saw a guy last night at a house party and he had earrings and his lips were very pink (it seems I’m more attracted to these sorts of people that ‘look’ gay) and I wanted to flirt with him. I went over and he seemed somewhat interested, but I had no idea what to do. Would it have been right to presume that he’s gay just because of the way he was dressed? Even if I did try something on, I’ve been into women my entire life and never really considered what it would be like to be gay.
Sorry, you guys must get this a lot but I’m extremely confused. I know prejudice against gay men is basically non existent in 21st century britain but I can’t help but feel that if pepole see me suddenly ‘turning’ gay at an age when I should understand my sexualities they’ll think I’m cringingly desperate.
Is there some kind of ‘becoming non-straight’ starter kit?
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Gus Kenworthy is a Shirtless ‘Mean Girls’ Slut Mouse for Halloween – Duh!
Olympic freeskier Gus Kenworthy, who came out of the closet this week in a brave, emotional and revealing ESPN interview, immediately cementing himself as the gay world’s imaginary boyfriend for a week, is still giving.
Last night he posted a photo to social media from a Halloween party where he was wandering around without a shirt and offered up a completely reasonable explanation (not that he needed one) for his get-up.
Writes Kenworthy:
“Halloween costume party at @theeveryhostess & @wowjeremym‘s house tonight! *Insert applicable Mean Girls quote here: ‘Halloween is the one night a year when a girl can dress like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it. The hardcore girls just wear lingerie and some form of animal ears… I’m a mouse. Duh!’”
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Gus Kenworthy is a Shirtless ‘Mean Girls’ Slut Mouse for Halloween – Duh!
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