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- In Africa, Moscow battles against LGBTQ rights, side by side with U.S. religious conservatives
The summary and the entire WSJ article can be read here.
The government of Russian President Vladimir Putin, African politicians and activists from the American religious right have been working side by side to push for anti-homosexuality laws in Africa, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Highlights of the Wall Street Journal article of Sept. 22 include:
- On Jan. 25, 2023, Vladlen Semivolos, the Russian ambassador to Uganda, met Speaker of Parliament Anita Among in her office and urged her to push for quick approval of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, which provides the death penalty for repeated consensual same-sex intimacy.
- In March 2023, Russia supplied $300,000 to Uganda to host lawmakers from across Africa for a conference on how to resist Western pressure on issues like gay and reproductive rights.
- On March 20, when Uganda’s parliament voted on the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, around a dozen Ugandan lawmakers joined the vote remotely from Moscow, where they were attending a conference of Russian and other African parliamentarians dubbed “Russia-Africa in a Multipolar World.”
- The Russian ambassador denies making that $300,000 transfer or pushing for passage of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill.
- An email announcing the $300,000 payment went to Sharon Slater, president of the anti-LGBTQ American advocacy group Family Watch International, one of the organizers of the Ugandan conference.
- Slater says she and Family Watch weren’t aware of any Russian funding for the conference and never had any involvement with the Russian government on any African issues.
- She spokes at a 2014 conference in Moscow that was organized by the anti-gay World Congress of Families.
- In her speech at the Uganda conference, Slater claimed that the U.N. and international aid groups are “after the children” and that they promote sex education that will “capture their hearts and minds to recruit them to their cause.”
- Slater says Family Watch has never supported anti-LGBTQ legislation in African countries and wasn’t “responsible for the treatment of homosexuals under African laws.”
- Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni says that Slater convinced him to remove a section of the bill that would have made it a crime simply to identify as LGBTQ.
- Attendees at the Ugandan conference included anti-gay legislators from Ghana who proposed the harsh anti-LGBTQ bill that Ghana’s parliament passed in February 2024 and that is currently awaiting action from the President and Supreme Court.
- 11th Circuit Rules In Favor Of Forced Trans Sterilization For Drivers Licenses In Alabamawww.erininthemorning.com 11th Circuit Rules In Favor Of Forced Trans Sterilization For Correct Drivers Licenses In Alabama
The decision is the latest in a series of court rulings from conservative courts rolling back transgender rights in the United States.
- Otherwise Lost: In Austin, a movement journalist named Kit O’Connell covers the trans community—and many others—as major outlets don’t.www.cjr.org Otherwise Lost
In Austin, a movement journalist named Kit O’Connell covers the trans community—and many others—as major outlets don’t.
> Knowing what or what not to do, and when, involves—as always, in journalism—judgment calls. “You end up in situations like, Can I as a nonbinary trans person report on the laws that are trying to make my existence illegal? Is that bias? Well, it is,” O’Connell said. “I’m biased against those laws. I don’t want to be driven out of Austin by the state government. So can I report on those things? I think I should report on those things. But certainly, some publications would have made the argument that I am too biased to report on them.” The stories O’Connell is most drawn to—local news that bobs between the giant, cresting waves of national headlines about marginalized people—have been arising with greater intensity, these days. In life, in work, in Austin, O’Connell is submerged.
- Thailand legalises equal marriage in historic moment for Southeast Asiawww.thepinknews.com Thailand legalises equal marriage in historic moment for Southeast Asia
Thailand has become the first Southeast Asian country to legalise same-sex marriage, with the first couples set to marry in January.
- Georgia’s parliament approves law curbing LGBTQ rightswww.aljazeera.com Georgia’s parliament approves law curbing LGBTQ rights
‘Family values’ bill is adopted despite being denounced by the president, rights groups and the European Union.
> ‘Family values’ bill is adopted despite being denounced by the president, rights groups and the European Union.
Kesaria Abramidze, a trans model, was murdered the day after the bill passed. Even if the president vetos it, this law already has a body count.
- 'I’m the proudest bisexual you’ve ever met, so why do I still doubt that I’m queer enough?'www.gaytimes.com 'I’m the proudest bisexual you’ve ever met, so why do I still doubt that I’m queer enough?'
For Bisexual Awareness Week, Just Like Us ambassador Alice Pillin reflects on her journey with her bisexuality.
> I’m a proud bisexual and I adore our queer culture, so why do I still doubt that I’m allowed to take up this space? > > I remember the day I came out to my mum. Standing at the end of her bed one grey and drizzly evening, I used a sudden surge of confidence to tell her that I am bisexual. Initially, she didn’t understand. How could I like more than one gender if at that time I had a boyfriend? I did my best to answer her questions, and fortunately, she accepted me.
> But I was still grappling with self-doubt, compounded by casual, maybe even unconscious, bi-erasure from those around me. My friends would joke that the worst thing I could do was end up with a man – I’d be betraying myself, and my attraction to men surely couldn’t be real. > > I laughed too, as a bead of sweat rolled down my face. I was an imposter. I wasn’t queer enough. Quick! Someone play Chappell Roan and cleanse me of my sins! Should I overcompensate and date a woman immediately? The pressure to prove myself at times felt overwhelming. I didn’t feel good enough for my own community.
- The inaugural Gender Liberation March linked the fights for reproductive and transgender rights19thnews.org The inaugural Gender Liberation March linked the fights for reproductive and transgender rights
Thousands marched in Washington, D.C., on Saturday to protest anti-LGBTQ+ legislation and the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
- Basically my Bi experience in a nutshellyoutube.com - YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
I'm a Bi dude and literally get so tongue tied sometimes I sound like Porkie Pig
- Exploring Online Scratch Cards in the USA: A Fun and Convenient Way to Play
In recent years, online scratch cards have gained immense popularity in the USA. These digital versions of the traditional scratch-off lottery tickets offer a fun, easy, and convenient way for players to try their luck from the comfort of their own homes. Whether you're a seasoned lottery player or someone looking for a quick and entertaining game, online scratch cards provide an exciting experience with the potential for instant wins.
What Are Online Scratch Cards?
Online scratch cards https://plnkgame2.com are essentially digital versions of the physical scratch-off tickets that many people are familiar with. Instead of purchasing a card from a store and using a coin to scratch off the surface, players can now access these games through various online platforms. The concept remains the same: you "scratch" the card (virtually, of course) to reveal symbols or numbers, and if you match the required combination, you win a prize.
The beauty of online scratch cards is that they are simple to play and offer instant results. There's no need to wait for a drawing or a specific event to find out if you've won. With just a few clicks, you can scratch off the virtual card and see if you're a winner.
Why Play Online Scratch Cards?
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Tips for Playing Online Scratch Cards
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- Hungary PM Orbán's Roman Catholic 'star priest', a flag-bearer of political Christianity who has frequently been slamming the LGBTQ community, is reportedly gaydailynewshungary.com Pro-Orbán Roman Catholic priest, a flag-bearer of political Christianity participating in gay parties? - UPDATED - Daily News Hungary
Why is it problematic if a Roman Catholic priest is gay, takes part in gay parties, or maintains an intimate relationship with men?
cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/2723041
> Archived link > > According to the Hungarian media outlet Válasz Online, Father Gergő Bese, the “star priest” of the Orbán regime, there were a series of documents proving that Mr Bese participated in gay parties and maintained intimate relationships with other men. > > Things like that are, of course, part of private life, and should remain so. However, the case of Gergő Bese is different. He is one of the flag-bearers of Orbán’s political Christianity, a strong protector of Fidesz from critics from inside the church, an influencer regularly publishing pro-government writings, a public figure, and it seems a financial beneficiary of the Orbán cabinet. > > Moreover, he kept slamming the LGBTQ movement, supporting and authenticating the government’s campaign by wearing a cassock. > > He blessed PM Orbán’s office in Buda Castle’s Carmelite Monastery and the government-close Megafon Centre. He campaigned for the government during the 2022 general elections, writing that those voting for the opposition choose tuition fees in schools, unbearable payments in social institutes and the lockdown of village temples. > > He slammed Hungarian singer Gabi Tóth because of her divorce and the drag queens performing at the 2024 Paris Olympics’ opening ceremony. Bese wrote about the LGBTQ ideology and its aim to conquer the world and how difficult it was for a kid living in a single-parent family to find an identity. That is when LGBTQ propaganda can find and “change” them, he argued. > > He slammed the demonstration of church school teachers, Péter Magyar, whom he called the Judas of Fidesz, accepting the 30 pieces of silver. > > In the last six years, Bese and his family received HUF 41 million (EUR 101 thousand) from a civil fund supporting almost only the Fidesz-close NGOs. Even though the two NGOs applying are officially led by Bese’s mother and sibling, his email address and phone number were given under the contact details. Apart from the subvention, they received more than HUF 60 million (EUR 152 thousand) through different programmes from the Hungarian Prime Minister’s Office, the Cultural Ministry and the Bethlen Gábor Fund. Moreover, he is renting the Regina Hungarorum in Medjugorje. > > The Archbishop of Kalocsa-Kecskemét suspended Bese today.
- How Project 2025 targets the very existence of trans and queer people in the U.S. -- (video, 4 min)invidious.privacyredirect.com How Project 2025 targets the very existence of trans and queer Americans
Project 2025 is shot through with anti-trans ideas and draconian proposals to crack down on, not only the rights, but even the mention of LGBTQ people. The conservative blueprint for the next Republican presidency lays out a plan that equates trans identity with pornography in a calculated attempt t...
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Project 2025 is shot through with anti-trans ideas and draconian proposals to crack down on, not only the rights, but even the mention of LGBTQ people.
The conservative blueprint for the next Republican presidency lays out a plan that equates trans identity with pornography in a calculated attempt to classify anyone who is not straight and cis-gender as obscene, dangerous, and ultimately, illegal. The tactic falls right in line with the authors’ fixation on anything that might threaten the conservative image of what the American family should be.
- How safe is Edinburgh for LGBTQ+ people?
I [18NB] am starting uni in Edinburgh, Scotland tomorrow. Since I'll be living a good distance away from home, I was thinking of buying some pride merch and stuff.
However, it has crossed my mind that safety could be an issue. I wouldn't have thought that Edinburgh would have issues, but I think it's best to ask Lemmy: On the whole, is Edinburgh a safe place to be myself?
- Will & Harper | Official Trailer | Netflix
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"Will Ferrell and his close friend, former head writer at SNL, Harper Steele embark on a cross-country road trip together after Harper comes out as a trans woman. Watch Will & Harper on September 27 on Netflix." (from the YouTube description)
- A Trans Woman in Taiwan Won Legal Recognition After Four Years in Courtwww.them.us A Trans Woman in Taiwan Won Legal Recognition After Four Years in Court
After filing a lawsuit in 2020, Lisbeth Wu can finally change her legal gender without undergoing surgery.
- Why we need more trans visibility in footballwww.gaytimes.com Why we need more trans visibility in football
Sports journalist Grace Robertson explains what a powerful conversation, a game of footy and trans acceptance all have in common.
- U.S.: Republicans Are Sneaking Anti-Trans Amendments Into Beneficial Billswww.them.us Republicans Are Sneaking Anti-Trans Amendments Into Beneficial Bills
For years, lawmakers have been rewriting state legislation meant to benefit students, veterans, and beyond — but it’s starting to backfire.
In the U.S., Republicans are using bills that benefit the majority to push an anti-trans agenda
Lawmakers in the U.S. have repeatedly made last-ditch efforts to pass anti-trans laws during the eleventh hour of their legislative session in recent years, notably in Alabama and Kentucky, where the bills were eventually signed into law. This year, Republican lawmakers across several states tried their hand at it again, derailing governance as usual on the waning days of legislative sessions by attempting to replace routine legislation with anti-LGBTQ+ bills or stonewalling the process of passing other bills to push anti-LGBTQ+ efforts, advocates say.
This year, though, the ground has begun to shift. In March, during the last three weeks of Georgia’s legislative session, Republicans made a contortionistic effort to ram policies targeting transgender students into bills originally written to support all students in the state. Their target: a bill creating mental health screenings and other resources for student-athletes.
That bill was reengineered into legislation to ban sex education below 6th grade, bar trans students from playing on sports teams that match their gender identity, prohibit trans students from using restrooms that match their gender identity, and allow parents to be alerted about every library book that their child checks out.
- How anti-trans policies in Project 2025 could impact all families in the U.S.19thnews.org How anti-trans policies in Project 2025 could impact all families
The vision for Trump’s second term in the White House purports to protect families — but its anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric is centered in exclusion.
The vision for Trump’s second term in the White House purports to protect families — but its anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric is centered in exclusion.
The U.S. Republicans' Project 2025 equates being transgender — or adopting “transgender ideology” — to pornography and declares that it should be outlawed. Under this plan, the federal government would enforce sex discrimination laws on the “biological binary meaning of sex,” and educators and public librarians who spread the concept of being transgender would be registered as sex offenders. The plan says that children should be “raised by their biological fathers and mothers who conceive them,” unless those biological parents are found unfit by a court.
These ideas have drawn national attention for their far-reaching scope, but they didn’t appear out of thin air. They all have roots in anti-LGBTQ+ state legislation that conservative lobbying groups and think tanks have supported for years, like the law that took effect in Kentucky. Contributors to Project 2025 include senior staff from Alliance Defending Freedom, whose lawyers have helped write anti-transgender legislation in a number of states and defended those laws in court. Members of the conservative groups Family Research Council and the American Principles Project, which have similarly pushed anti-LGBTQ+ bills and anti-trans rhetoric, have served on the Project 2025 advisory board.
- Death threats, legal risk and backlogs weigh on clinicians treating trans minorswww.nbcnews.com Death threats, legal risk and backlogs weigh on clinicians treating trans minors
The rise in transgender health care bans is putting providers in the crosshairs.
Dr. Kade Goepferd, medical director of Children’s Minnesota Hospital’s Gender Health Program, like many providers who treat transgender youths, has received death threats. Goepferd said the growing waitlist, which has expanded due to surrounding states' bans on gender-affirming care, is more concerning. The program has seen a 30% increase in calls, leading to a waitlist of at least a year. NBC News found that clinicians in states like Connecticut and California are similarly overwhelmed by the influx of out-of-state patients. Legal risks and logistical challenges, such as insurance denials, are straining providers. Shield laws are "a tenuous protection," according to Dr. Molly McClain of the University of New Mexico’s Deseo clinic. A "majority of gender-affirming care providers NBC News interviewed had received threats, ranging from angry calls and emails to arson."
- Blue and red states were putting period products in schools — then came the anti-trans backlash19thnews.org Blue and red states were putting period products in schools — then came the anti-trans backlash
For years, bills that put tampons and pads in school bathrooms were gaining traction across states. But the rise of anti-trans legislation has made a health issue political.
- 'A victory': Canada halts planned deportation of bisexual man to Kenyawww.coastreporter.net 'A victory': Canada halts planned deportation of bisexual man to Kenya
TORONTO — A bisexual man in Canada has been granted one-year temporary residency just a day before his scheduled deportation to Kenya — an outcome his supporters call "a victory for migrant and queer justice.
- Anti-Trans School Board Candidates Backed by DeSantis Get Crushed in Floridatruthout.org Anti-Trans School Board Candidates Backed by DeSantis Get Crushed in Florida
Many candidates who lost their races were associated with Moms For Liberty and campaigned on anti-LGBTQ platforms.
- Sphen the penguin, one half of gay 'power couple', dies age 11www.bbc.com Sphen the penguin, one half of gay 'power couple', dies age 11
Sphen and his partner Magic shot to global stardom in 2018 when they fell in love at a Sydney aquarium.
A queer icon has passed :(
- 'Throughout all days and nights, forever’: Could an 11th century contract prove the existence of same-sex marriage in medieval Spain?theconversation.com ‘Throughout all days and nights, forever’: Could an 11th century contract prove the existence of same-sex marriage in medieval Spain?
A property agreement between two men, signed in 1061, includes heartfelt declarations of lifelong trust and faithfulness.
In 1061, two men in Spain, Pedro Díaz and Munio Vandilaz, signed a legal agreement which many researchers say is a factual, non-literary example of a recognised same-sex union during the the Medieval period.
Although the task of interpreting the original document is not easy, what is certain is that the Middle Ages are far from the dark, backwards and savage era that some continue to imagine. It is important to remember that in the the Middle Ages there was even homoerotic literature, a fact that reveals a certain permissive attitude and recognition of loving and sexual relations between people of the same sex.
- PinkNews refuses to cover trans issues on the basis it jeopardises ad revenue and is "contentious".lucyfromnaarm.com PinkNews refuses to cover trans issues on the basis it jeopardises ad revenue and is "contentious".
While Transgender lives in the UK and US are at risk, PinkNews abandons its transgender readers.
- video on how "biological sex" is a social construct
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- !!!PSA!!!
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- Normativity is so annoying. A (smol) rant
So, I'll start with heteronormativity Is annoying. Like whya re any 2 people of opposite genders evoected to be interested in each other romantically, do cishets not know what friendship is?
To cisnormativity I don't really have that much to say apart from please stop being transphobic
Monogamy normativity also pisses me off to no end. No idea how to write this down but waow, stop having love < s and just do polyamoury in your fiction. The option is right fucking there
The cishets(tm) are strange and confusing, why am I so angry lol
- is it so much to ask?
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- The Cass Report: The Strange Report Fueling the War on Trans Kidswww.nytimes.com Opinion | The Strange Report Fueling the War on Trans Kids
For all its claims to science, the Cass report is fundamentally a subjective, political document.
> Social conservatives welcomed the [Cass] report. But it has also been heralded in some liberal quarters in Britain, where even the Labour Party has supported its conclusions, and around the world as a model of open-minded rationalism, of well-intentioned — progressive, even — unbiased scientific inquiry attempting to provide information in young people’s best interests. This, they declare, is what following the science and the evidence looks like. > > But is it? In an effort to evaluate the Cass report’s findings and recommendations, I spent the months since it was released poring over the document, researching the history of transgender medicine and interviewing experts in gender-affirming care as well as epidemiologists and research scientists about the role of scientific evidence in determining care standards. What I have come to realize is that this report, for all its claims of impartiality, is fundamentally a subjective, political document.
- Busting the myths around transition regret and detransitionxtramagazine.com Busting the myths around transition regret and detransition | Xtra Magazine
How many people regret their decision to receive gender-affirming care? Do people who detransition always regret their transitions?
- 'T4T' isn't just about dating, it's about community carewww.gaytimes.com 'T4T' isn't just about dating, it's about community care - GAY TIMES
First emerging from Craigslist personals in the early aughts, 'T4T has transcended hookup culture to describe intra-communal solidarity and support.
- How Trans Autistic People Are Using Joy as Political Resistancewww.them.us How Trans Autistic People Are Using Joy as Political Resistance
Trans people are three to six times more likely to be diagnosed as autistic. The 19th interviewed six people about how finding joy as a trans person and autistic person are intertwined.
- Trans, nonbinary youth face inequities in foster care, justice system, homeless serviceswww.advocate.com Trans, nonbinary youth face inequities in foster care, justice system, homeless services
The new "Safe Havens II" report urges action to support these young people.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18587310
- Video on how we should make puberty about choice, and how choosing things for people isn't better
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- Short doc ‘It’s Okay’ explores Drag Story Hour through the eyes of kidswww.nbcnews.com Short doc ‘It’s Okay’ explores Drag Story Hour through the eyes of kids
Oscar-nominated director David France said the voices of children have been left out of the nationwide debate over drag reading events.
- saying that homophobes are just "secretly gay and trying to repress it" is homophobic itself
It is victim blaming, we are not the reason homophobia exists or that people become extremely homophobic. It is not oppressed people that cause their own oppression, we don’t in some way “deserve” it.
Some aspects of the identity of sexuality may be related to physical and things we cannot control, but at the end of the day it is an identity. If they do not see themselves as gay, they are not. It is not for you to assign an identity to someone, even someone you don’t like. Even if someone might identify as gay outside of these power structures, in here they aren’t. Even if they would be gay, they participate in our oppression because being straight is beneficial to them, not because they “are secretly gay”. If they did homophobia because they were “ashamed” it wouldn’t be helping so many of them get into positions of power
- Puberty must be a choice if we are to abolish oppression
yo, one thing about actually abolishing oppression towards us trans people: it requires not putting any specific puberty above another. All puberties are permanent, not just trans ones.
We have the ability to sit every person down before puberty and talk them through what it entails, and then let them choose what exactly they want to go through. Making it an explicit choice places trans and cis people into the same situation.
Even with zero medical barriers to transition once someone realizes they are trans, the social barrier of what you are "expected" to be is an issue, for multiple reasons. People who want to make big changes are often questioned and forced to prove that what they want is what they “actually want”, because it deviates from what is expected. People who deviate in smaller ways are punished in their own ways, with those deviations being treated as mistakes or failures, because another major role can't be easily assumed. They are pushed to drop everything that is not perfectly aligned with the role to not be constantly torn apart. We have the technology to provide agency, not allowing its use is oppression. The only way to abolish the hierarchy around puberty is to abolish expectations around puberty.
If you think a child doesn’t have the ability to decide what puberty they want to go through, forcing them into a random one isn’t better. If they can’t say no, then they definitely can’t say yes. People will always know themselves better than others do.
- Gay student says "Coach" Tim Walz protected him from homophobic bullieswww.lgbtqnation.com Gay student says "Coach" Tim Walz protected him from homophobic bullies - LGBTQ Nation
Kamala Harris highlighted Walz's past as a faculty advisor for his school's gay-straight alliance.
Headline undersells how he did this during the 90’s during the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell era. Was not nearly as socially or politically acceptable then as it is now in the US to do that.
And not just for one person, he was the facility adviser of a gay-straight alliance club
- Trying to reduce stigma, Mayo launches LGBTQ-focused breast cancer clinicwww.chicagotribune.com Trying to reduce stigma, Mayo launches LGBTQ-focused breast cancer clinic
People who identify as LGBTQ can face major disparities and stigma when it comes to cancer care, often resulting in later-stage diagnoses and poorer outcomes than other patients.
People who identify as LGBTQ can face major disparities and stigma when it comes to cancer care, often resulting in later-stage diagnoses and poorer outcomes than other patients.
Dr. Elizabeth Cathcart-Rake, an oncologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, is determined to change that.
This summer, Cathcart-Rake and a team at Mayo launched Rainbows, a cancer clinic tailored to meeting the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, gender-diverse and intersex patients. Rainbows will initially focus on supporting patients with breast cancer, with the goal of eventually expanding to include other types of tumors already treated at Mayo.