Looking, HBO’s new half-hour dramedy about three gay men looking for love and sex in San Francisco, is written by the somewhat unknown Michael Lannan but directed by Andrew Haigh, who was responsible for Weekend, one of the most lauded gay films since Brokeback Mountain. Weekend was a naturalistic, emotionally and physically raw examination of…
dvd of the week Based on the famed 1976 Formula 1 competition between James Hunt (Chris Hemsworth) and Niki Lauda (Daniel Brühl), Rush traces the two very different men from their early days driving lesser Formula 3 cars to the pinnacle of car racing, the Formula One World Championship. Hunt was a gorgeous blond British…
LOS ANGELES, — Dr. Rizi Timane, minister, social worker, and outspoken advocate for the LGBT community, has issued the following statement on Nigeria’s criminalization of gay marriages and civil unions: I grew up in Nigeria. In Lagos, to be exact. And I have known since I was eight years old that I am transgender. I was born as a…
In the latest Multiple Exposure video, LGBTI rights defender Clare Byarugaba explains the context and potential consequences of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill in Uganda. 20 Dec. 2013, the Ugandan Parliament passed the “Anti-Homosexuality Bill”, which currently awaits the signature of the President to become law. Multiple Exposure is a new monthly video magazine broadcast. Every month, three different 10…
NEW YORK, – The United Nations Human Rights Office today called on the president of Uganda to refrain from signing the Anti-Homosexuality Bill into law, and urged the country to ensure the protection of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people from violence and discrimination. “LGBT individuals in Uganda are a vulnerable and marginalized minority,…
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…
NEW DELHI — At a time when queer rights are being debated vociferously in the media, Shaleen Rakesh, a poet based in New Delhi, India is set to release his first collection of queer poetry The Lion and the Antler in January 2014. Rakesh lives with the memory of creation and destruction, as forces he has…
Below is a proclamation signed by President Obama regarding Human Rights Day and Human Rights Week, 2013. HUMAN RIGHTS DAY AND HUMAN RIGHTS WEEK, 2013 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Six and a half decades ago, delegates from around the world convened to adopt the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, rejecting…
Lili Taylor, Mackenzie Crook, Michael Irby, Karl Urban, Michael Ealy and Minka Kelly in Almost Human dvr this: Fox, Sunday, Nov. 17, 8 p.m. Possibly, the most anticipated new show of the fall is about a future in which every Los Angeles police officer is teamed up with an android. Detective John Kennex (Star Trek’s…
