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A correction
A correction to yesterday’s post about Razan Ghazzawi. In a photo caption, I included Bassam Al-Ahmad among the staffers and associates of the Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM)...
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Why I am not proud
This comes to me by way of Maya Mikdashi and the folks at Jadaliyya: It’s a float from 2011′s San Francisco Pride. It shows a dungeonmaster dominating Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. There’s a whip involved, but...
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The rape of the jock: A-jad, manhood, and “Iran 180″
At Electronic Intifada, Benjamin Doherty excellently investigated the megaweird San Francisco Pride crèche of Ahmadinejad being sodomized by a nuclear warhead. To summarize what he’s found: something...
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Resources for the unbelievers, on aid conditionality and LGBT rights
Aid received per capita across the global South, 2007: From wphr.org I’ve been working desultorily (a beautiful word: say it slowly: it seems to capture being lazy but just alive enough to claim you’re...
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Out of here
In the unlikely event that anyone’s been wondering, I am on vacation. To demonstrate this unlikely assertion, here’s evidence: in the pink We have that healthy natural glow from gorging on Chick Fil-A.
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Uganda Pride 2012: Hillary, Kony, drones, and the police
Uganda Pride 2012 participant. All Pride images courtesy of David Robinson On Saturday, August 4, Ugandan activists tried — and, on the whole, succeeded in — staging the country’s first ever LGBTI...
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Vietnam: Marriage, authoritarianism, and social control
Dykes on bikes, Hanoi style: © AFP Hanoi held its first LGBT Pride on August 5, a march-cum-ride that went from the National Stadium to a downtown park. Dozens of cyclists decorated with balloons and...
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More guns, no butter in Africa: US strategy, dictatorships, and buying off...
I love a man in uniform: Museveni (R) ogles Maj. Gen. David Hogg of US Army Africa Command (AFRICOM), at Kampala military summit, May 2012 I hope African human rights activists, including LGBTI...
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Thunder on the left
Last month Karma Chavez of WORT FM in Wisconsin did an hour-long interview with me about various things LGBT and global: Iraq, Iran, homonationalism, neocolonialism, ethical activism, Peter Tatchell,...
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Cairo diary, December 2012: Walls, women, rape, fear
Tenting tonight in the old campground: In Midan Tahrir, November 27 © Scott Long I was detained at the airport coming into Cairo this time. When the woman at the control desk swiped my passport through...
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Bradley Manning, Bayard Rustin, and the perversion of Pride
Can I join? That eminent critic and activist Edward Said was given, from time to time, to quoting Hugh of St. Victor, a twelfth-century mystic: The person who finds his homeland sweet is a tender...
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VOTE on SF Pride! Do you want a) an anti-war whistleblower, or b) a pro-war,...
The God’s honest truth is, I forgot that the Bradley Manning fiasco isn’t the first time I have been irritated by San Francisco Pride. A year ago I wrote about this really remarkable float that...
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Hillel Neuer: Liar. Mona Seif: Hero.
Mona Seif, Tahrir Square: © Matthew Cassel, justimage.org I know Mona Seif only slightly. She’s one of the few human rights activists in Egypt (or anywhere) whom almost everybody likes. She’s utterly...
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Some more terrorists for Hillel Neuer to hand over to the authorities: Myself...
I’ll start with this tweet. This was one of the first things Maikel Nabil Sanad tweeted after release from almost a year in military jails. Maikel Nabil is a heroic campaigner against the Egyptian...
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A clarification: What international human rights activists really do
International human rights activists as they see themselves In my first post on Mona Seif, I objected to an e-mail that Ken Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, sent to the New York Times....
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Poems of the day
Mr Bleaney, by John William Waters Two poems by Gottfried Benn: People Met I have met people who, asked what their names were, Apologetically, as if they had no right to claim one’s attention Even with...
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Jamie Kirchick loves racist Rod Liddle: The style is the man
Diminutive neoconservative Jamie Kirchick has tweeted that the author of this diatribe “is the best writer in the English language,” citing the prose here as evidence. The writer, Roderick E. L....
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In Brigham’s
Harvard Square in the early 1980s. Brigham’s would have been on the right. This was a little over thirty years ago, in my second year at Harvard. I was nineteen, and I was depressed. My great aunt, a...
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Eric Ohena Lembembe: Not again, or never again?
They found Eric Ohena Lembembe’s body four days ago. He had a title and he had attracted praise before, and more has accrued to him now that it does no good. He was executive director of the...
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Aluta continua: On loving Mandela
This is just part of an extremely neat infographic on Mandela’s life, created for his ninety-fifth birthday; the full chart is available at http://www.bestmswprograms.com/nelson-mandela/ Back in 1990,...
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