(CNN) — The American Psychiatric Association announced this month approved changes in its official guide to classifying mental illnesses. Among the major announced changes to the manual, known as DSM-5, is that Asperger’s syndrome will now be included in the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder “to help more accurately and consistently diagnose children with autism,”…
(CNN) – A Cameroon appeals court upheld a sentence against a man convicted of homosexuality for texting his male friend to say, “I’m very much in love with you.” Roger Mbede, a university student, was arrested in March last year after the man who received the message tipped off authorities, Human Rights Watch said. A…
(CNN) – As the nation’s top court prepares to tackle the contentious issue of same-sex marriage, one of its most conservative justices defended past writings linking bans on homosexual sodomy to bans on sex with animals and murder. Speaking at Princeton Monday, Associate Justice Antonin Scalia said his previous comments, made in multiple Supreme Court…
Change is good. It might be uncomfortable, especially if you like the status quo, but it’s good. Without change, we’d still be traveling on horseback, wearing crinolines and communicating via letters. No change, no out-of-season vegetables or sushi restaurants. We’d live without TV and Internet, and die of diseases that are now curable. Change is…
(CNN) – Lawmakers in Uganda are preparing to vote on a new anti-homosexuality bill that proposes tough jail sentences for consensual same-sex behavior. Homosexual acts are already illegal in the East African nation, where most gays and lesbians face physical attacks and are treated as social outcasts, but the new bill proposes harsher penalties. Uganda‘s…
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA – The International Association of LGBTI Pride Organizers (InterPride) has condemned the Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill that the Ugandan government has committed to pass by the end of 2012. The bill will ensure that homosexuality is treated as a serious criminal offense and includes, but is not limited to introducing the death penalty…
Turner Classic Movies Since it’s one of those weird gay movies from before Stonewall that I haven’t seen, I’m DVRing Reflections in a Golden Eye, a movie about repressed homosexual (and heterosexual) desire starring Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor and directed by the great John Huston. Not considered Huston’s best movie by far (that would…
“Somewhere Over the Rainbow” is such a beautiful song. And it means so many things to so many people. It’s a song about looking for a promised land; it’s a song about longing for something better; it’s a song about hope. We have just completed our annual stewardship campaign and it was a reminder to…
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia – A deputy of the St. Petersburg city legislature has claimed in an interview that homosexuality can be ‘cured by fasting and prayer.’ Vitaly Milonov, the author of the St. Petersburg bill banning gay propaganda continued his anti-gay crusade in an interview on the popular Russian talk radio show Ekho Moskvy. According…
Malaysian Deputy Education Minister Mohd Puad Zarkashi said the government plans to go ahead with an effort to “prevent, overcome and correct symptoms of homosexuality in children,” but won’t – as it had planned to do prior to an international uproar in many western countries – publish a list of identifying characteristics for spotting potentially…
