Posts tagged lgbtq

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It’s not easy being a teenager. And it’s not easy being an ethnic minority teen. But what about being a gay ethnic minority teen?
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Another great article by Marten Weber.
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The book is dedicated to exposing hierarchies wherever they exist,” said Ms. Sycamore of Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? The book was born, she said, out of frustrations with the “gay male” sex scene that she inhabits, and the hierarchies within it: internet cruising, sexual commoditization, and assimilationist culture.
Emerson Whitney: Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? A Flaming New Anthology
Oh, I want to check out this book. :)
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In that context, “gay” meant “white,” and everybody else was kind of visiting. If it was a sitcom, the opening would be like, “Welcome to the Gay World! Here are your main characters, and the special guests! The black guy! The Asian person! The drag queen!
Like many 13-year-olds, Brittany knew seventh grade was a living hell. But what she didn’t know was that she was caught in the crossfire of a culture war being waged by local evangelicals inspired by their high-profile congressional representative Michele Bachmann, who graduated from Anoka High School and, until recently, was a member of one of the most conservative churches in the area. When Christian activists who considered gays an abomination forced a measure through the school board forbidding the discussion of homosexuality in the district’s public schools, kids like Brittany were unknowingly thrust into the heart of a clash that was about to become intertwined with tragedy.
(Source: synecdoche)
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India’s Health Minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad, angered the gay community and gay rights activists with his comments at a HIV/AIDS conference in New Delhi. Netizens condemned his take on homosexuality as “unnatural” and a “disease” that had come from the West. In December the Indian Union Communications and IT Minister Kapil Sibal asked Internet giants such as Facebook, Google and Yahoo to pre-screen derogatory, defamatory and inflammatory content about political leaders and religion and filter if objectionable. His words got a huge backlash from the netizens.