Hypoxia, or altitude sickness, reduces the amount of oxygen in the brain causing a variety of symptoms including mental confusion. Many in the LGBT community suffer from advocacy hypoxia, a condition that I define as one who has reached a certain level within the advocacy community that causes altitude sickness, creating mental confusion. Let me…
WASHINGTON –– The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), has sent a letter to President Barack Obama urging his administration to take immediate steps to hold the Ugandan government accountable for the enactment of state-sponsored homophobia and transphobia earlier this year. Following Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signing into law the Anti-Homosexuality Act in February, the administration initiated…
SINGAPORE — Pink Dot SG, Singapore’s gay rights movement, has launched a campaign to promote sexual tolerance ahead of an event it is holding next month in the conservative city state, reports GayAsiaNews.com. Mumbrella.asia first reported the launch of a short film featuring people talking about their sexuality and what “freedom to love” means to…
Asia’s and India’s biggest LGBT film festival has turned to social media and crowd funding to raise finances, reports GayAsiaNews.com. Organizers of Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival said this was done to give audiences a feeling of ownership and deepen their engagement with the festival. This will be its fifth edition and it is…
DUBLIN, Ireland – Front Line Defenders, together with the Irish LGBTI organization Gay and Lesbian Equality Network (GLEN), will host a live Google Hangout Forum with leading LGBTI rights defenders from India, Russia, Uganda and Peru Friday 16 May at 3 PM (Dublin) / 10 AM (New York). The forum will discuss recent legislative efforts…
With marriage equality at some point becoming the law of the land, and although conservative Christians and other social conservatives are aware that this is the case, they still rail against it even though the vigor is lost. Time to change what social conservatives focus on in their culture wars. And, it’s trans people that…
The United Nations Free & Equal campaign has released the first-ever Bollywood music video for gay rights, featuring Bollywood star and Miss India winner Celina Jaitly. With a glamorous set and lively tunes, the video showcases how important family acceptance is in India, and Asia in general, and how mindsets are changing all across the…
SAN DIEGO – Scott Peters received the endorsement of NARAL Pro-Choice America today, one of the nation’s most prominent advocates for women’s health care. “We are proud to endorse Representative Scott Peters in his campaign for re-election in California’s 52nd Congressional District. In the midst of the most aggressive anti-choice Congress in decades, women need…
TOKYO — From GayAsiaNews comes a story about Japan’s first lady, who has not only taken part in the annual Tokyo gay parade but gone on to write about equality and anti-gay discrimination on her Facebook page. Akie Abe wore a white suite and stood on a float with a drag queen, as some 3,000…
The phrase “throw down the gauntlet” means to issue a challenge. In medieval times, a knight would throw his metal glove, the gauntlet, to the ground to issue a challenge to another knight. If the knight accepted the challenge, he would “take up the gauntlet.” Well I am throwing down the gauntlet this political season….
