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“Why I Stay Closeted in Asia”
You’re young enough to ditch town, burn bridges, start life anew, and move to San Francisco, but Asia still holds your parents hostage.
Read “Why I Stay Closeted in Asia“ by Connor Ke Muo here. (BuzzFeed)
– Nicely written personal account from a student’s duality: his open life in the country of his studies versus his closeted life back home.
Grey Sunday: stuck at home and bored out of your mind?
If you don’t know what to do this Sunday and since it’s grayish outside and rather on the colder side for a summer Sunday… here’s one suggestion:
I know some of the older members of Queer University Basel might already have seen this documentary since we posted it on the QUB Facebook Page a long time ago. But for all the others, and if you wish to see it again, here is an interesting documentary film about two identical twins and their story when, growing up, one realized he was transgender while the other realized he was gay. The film tells about the strain on their relationship, but also on their family, and shows from their individual perspectives how much they’ve accomplished and where they are now. How their family radically transformed and what their relationships have become over time. It’s a tale of transformation, from a rather conservative background to a deeply needed more progressive environment. A tale of lives, narrated by the protagonists, documented trough family videos and photos, and the accounts of all family members.
The american pastor who worked on spreading anti-gay hate in Russia and Uganda
Yesterday the website of ‘The New Yorker‘ published a brief news blog article about the work of American pastor Scott Lively and the small success Ugandan LGBT rights activists recently had when the U.S. justice ruled against Mr. Lively’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit that the Ugandan activists filed in the U.S. against him. Lively is known for his anti-gay activism. He co-authored the mendacious (according to scholars) book “The Pink Swastika“, a book about the role of homosexuals in the Nazi Party (Excerpt from the preface of the book’s 4th Edition: “[…] homosexuals as the true inventors of Nazism and the guiding force behind many Nazi atrocities.”). He is also known for his involvement in the “ex-gay movement” and founded the religious group “Abiding Truth Ministries“, a group considered by the nonprofit civil rights organization Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group.
In the blog article, The New Yorker mention Mr. Lively’s known involvement, by means of advocacy tours through Russian cities and letters addressed to russian officials, in passing of anti-gay bills in many Russian cities and his probable contribution to Russia’s recent law against LGBT “propaganda”.
A short contribution to bring to mind the pernicious advocacy of hate by certain individuals, operating not only in their own country but abroad, wherever they feel their discourse will resonate best. As a reminder, if the laws resulting from Mr. Lively’s and others’ hate advocacy in Uganda are passed, this will mean government enforced killing or life imprisonment of LGBT persons in Uganda (read about the ‘Kill the Gays’ bill here, here and here)
Other articles about Mr. Lively’s public statements: Right to sodomy is destroying human rights, Noah’s Flood caused by songs for homosexual weddings, Scott Lively pushes claim that Obama is gay.
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