GAY TORTURE ANAL EXAMS STILL USED IN LEBANON
Despite a medical ban, it’s been revealed that a Lebanese doctor is still ‘testing’ gay men using discredited forced anal exams. While the Lebanese Order of Physicians outlawed the practice in 2012, a Beirut-based NGO documented in the latest edition of its newsletter five cases in which a doctor had conducted the tests. According to […]
TWO AND HALF MEN’S GAY MARRIAGE TWIST REVEALED
The final season of American sitcom Two and a Half Men is set to have a gay marriage twist that’s elicited some concern. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the show’s studio has revealed that the two main characters, Walden (Ashton Kutcher) and Alan (Jon Cryer), will get married in a ‘fake’ gay wedding. CBS Entertainment […]
EU COURT: TRANS PEOPLE CAN BE FORCED TO GET DIVORCED
In a blow to equality, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled that it is legal for governments to force married transgender people to divorce if they want to legally change their gender identity. Thursday’s verdict concerned the case of transgender Finnish citizen Heli Hämäläinen (currently legally registered as male), who has been happily […]
REVIEW: THE BEAUTY OF INCOMPLETE THINGS
“Honey, whenever there are young men who do not appreciate their beauty, and there are older men who do, there will be drama!” – Harvey Fierstein as a gay wedding florist in the 2000 TV film Common Ground. I quote (with a little license) this fabulous line of Fierstein’s character because it speaks volumes to […]
100 LEADING HIV/AIDS EXPERTS DIE IN MALAYSIAN PLANE CRASH
The global Aids community is in mourning. Around 100 passengers on the downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH 17 were travelling to the World Aids Conference in Australia, shaking organisers of the event and devastating their colleagues. The Guardian reported that those killed included World Health Organization staff, former International AIDS Society (IAS) president and leading scientist Joep Lange […]
‘GAY’ CHILDREN’S BOOKS TO BE MOVED TO ADULT SECTION
Singapore’s National Library Board (NLB) will no longer destroy children’s books about gay families but the books won’t stay in the children’s section. The NLB’s plans to remove and destroy the books from its public libraries were condemned by many parents and literary figures as an act of censorship. The board justified the controversial move because […]