Speaking before the annual Indian Psychiatric Society meeting, prominent psychiatrist and last year’s president Dr. Indira Sharma labeled homosexuality ‘unnatural.’ The comment, which she reiterated on Monday, created a firestorm in a country still under attack from a major High Court decision which reinstated the ban on same-gender sex. According to the Times of India, Sharma unapologetically decried the…
Dr. Umar A. Johnson, a certified school psychologist and recognized authority on the connection between learning disabilities among black youth and educational achievement, was uninvited by the Portland Public School Authority (PPSA) after his views on homosexuality were discovered in a series of disturbing YouTube videos. The PPSA District chief equity and diversity officer, Lolenzo Poe admits…
A thesis being funded by the Academy of Finland and to be argued Jan. 24 at the Department of History of the European University in Florence, Italy suggests that men engaged in same-sex relations far more frequently and with far less reluctance than originally thought. According to a thesis by Sandra Hagman, “Finnish men were…
Today the White House issued the following statement by Jen Psaki, spokesperson on U.S. concern with the passage of the Ugandan anti-homosexuality legislation: We are deeply concerned by the Ugandan Parliament’s passage of anti-homosexuality legislation. As Americans, we believe that people everywhere deserve to live in freedom and equality – and that no one should face…
World War II British code-breaker Alan Turing, who was subjected to chemical castration for homosexual activity, has been pardoned by the Queen. The royal pardon, under the Royal Prerogative of Mercy, is effective today and comes nearly 60 years after Turing committed suicide. Turing’s code-breaking work is considered by many to have helped change the…
J. James debut novel, Denial, Deceit, Discovery is the heart-rending story based on true events in the life of Jack Ellis; a young Catholic man deep in denial of his own homosexuality. Receiving excellent reviews, the novel is written in the style of a personal memoir with James telling the complex, engaging and moving coming…
In a move that is being widely criticized by international Human Rights Groups, members of the Gulf Cooperation Countries – Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates – are working on a test that they argue can detect a person’s sexuality. If all goes according to plan, these six nations will…
Lebanon has censored a French film depicting homosexuality and a local short film about the tradition of temporary marriage among some Shiite Muslims, film festival organizers said Thursday. The Beirut International Film Festival said it had been informed by officials that L’inconnu du lac (Stranger by the Lake), a thriller by Alain Guiraudie about two men who…
Riding a wave of Russian homophobia, neighboring Kazakhstan, the world’s largest landlocked country by land area, plans to introduce legislation in September that would shutter gay clubs, bar protests from the LGBT community and prevent what officials are calling the propagandization of alternative lifestyles. Member of the Majilis (the lower chamber of the parliament) Aldan…
MOSCOW– Russia’s Interior Ministry confirmed today that the country’s controversial anti-gay law will be enforced during the Sochi 2014 Olympics. Ria Novosti reports that confusion has reigned over how the country intends to act during the February 7-23 Winter Games after President Vladimir Putin signed legislation in June that bans the promotion of homosexuality to…
