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Truths behind the gay torture images from Russia
Abuse of an “Uzbek waiter”: From Mikhail Solovyov’s page at vk.com, http://vk.com/id162104250 Russia now is a story told in pictures, still and moving. Everybody knows about Putin’s anti-gay law,...
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Stoli and sympathy, and the new LGBT public sphere: What to do about Russia
The eternal question It’s good to go beyond oneself. The world is so full of borders that moral value accrues simply to those moments when thought exerts itself to cross them. In that sense, the...
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The killing days
August 16: Old woman, wounded by birdshot at Rabaa El-Adawiya, collapsed on hospital floor. From @SharifKaddous We took a walk after the first massacre. This was August 14, Wednesday, and they had...
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Orwell on the Nile: Citizens and lepers
Sawt el-Umma, August 18: “Egypt is all Sisi” Cairo lurched to life Sunday, looking ghastly, like Dick Cheney rising up cadaverous and pale each time the Secret Service shocks his heart back into...
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Living in truth: Chelsea Manning in prison
Chelsea Manning in happier days, in male drag Little more than a week after the brutal liquidation of the brave Cameroonian gay activist Eric Ohena Lembembe this July, a trans* woman was killed in...
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The emergency of everyday life: What activists who care about the Russia...
This town’s not big enough for Johnny Weir and me: Life-size wax figure of Stalin sits in his former dacha in Sochi One thing that literature would be greatly the better for Would be a more restricted...
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Peter Tatchell begs Hillel Neuer to sue me
Catherine Brennan with iconic refutation of gender theory. Don’t worry: There are dicks everywhere. About six weeks ago, Samantha Allen, a trans* activist and scholar in the US, published an incisive...
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The flight into Egypt
Joseph Tissot, The Flight into Egypt, ca. 1886-1894 None of this will make sense. You can’t make things make sense in Cairo these days. The curfew and the stir-craziness prevent it. If you speak...
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Resources about Syria
An image distributed by the opposition Shaam News Network, August 23, 2013, shows a relative mourning a family member killed during an alleged chemical attack in the eastern Ghouta area on the...
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Syria, Cameron’s crackup, and the virtual world of humanitarian war
A man carries a wounded child away from an anti-Assad demonstration after regime forces opened fire, Syria, 2011 The night air is full of hypotheticals these weeks, and reality feels like a far-off...
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In Dream Park: A day without Adorno
Spill Water ride at Dream Park: This was really fun (self not in picture) Yesterday, with four good friends, I went to Dream Park. Doesn’t that sound like the beginning of Pilgrim’s Progress? If you...
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Nikolai Alekseev speaks: “I’ve been called a faggot on every corner, and I...
“They are trying to seize power in Russia,” and my little LGBT organization is the first target: Russian edition of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, 1992 Nikolai Alekseev, the activist who has for...
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Promoting homosexuality versus promoting one homosexual: Putin, Nikolai...
Brokeback Moscow: Everything is fine here in Marlboro country Vladimir Putin dabbled in the promotion of homosexuality this morning. After all, he can get away with it. In an interview published by AP,...
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Ireland and damaged belonging: From Magdalene Laundries to Cupcake Scrub
Still from The Magdalene Sisters, a 2002 film on Ireland’s Magdalene laundries “It is true,” he said, “that you cannot commit a crime and that the right arm of the law cannot lay its finger on you...
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Decision on Guyana’s dress code: Teheran on the Caribbean
My Wardrobe, My Right: Trailer for documentary on the dress-code law, made by SASOD (Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination), Guyana Around 8:30 on the night of February 6, 2009, two young...
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Sunila Abeysekera, witness: 1952-2013
The last time I saw Sunila Abeysekera was almost three years ago, over breakfast on one of her very occasional visits to New York. Some people, myself included, were trying to talk her into applying...
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Austin Ruse wants to take away your children: C-FAM’s fake “family values”
Austin Ruse at the United Nations: Don’t confuse that thing behind me with a halo In Geneva, lobbying the UN largely means sitting at a round glass table in an enormous coffee bar called the Serpent....
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“Queer quislings”: Johnny Weir, and getting Russia wrong
A conspiracy of infamy so black that, when it is finally exposed, its principals shall be forever deserving of the maledictions of all honest men: BAD GAYS WALK AMONG US, and we must root them out....
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Sex work and the Senate: Swedish meatballs
Ny spännande möbel från IKEA! Med IKEAs nya PERVERS ställning kan man hotta upp sitt sexförhållande. Go ahead, translate that. There was a time when “the Swedish model” meant either some girl who was...
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Top guns: Last words on Johnny Weir
Don’t ask, do sell: Michael Lucas and his gay brigade of faithful soldiers, from ad for his tours of Israel Yesterday morning I got a message from a friend: “Do check Jamie Kirchick’s Twitter feed.” I...
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