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It is hard enough to be gay when your parents do not support it and act differently towards you. I used to be extremely close with my parents, until I told them I was a lesbian. They changed the way they acted, they don't treat me the same and it is absolutely ridiculous. I am still the same person, why do they not see that? Now on top of struggling with my parents not supporting me, my girlfriend of 3 years lives in England. So as if it weren't hard enough we now have to deal with trying to get a visa to live together. In my country they don't see same sex marriage, there are no visas for it. So even though my girlfriend wants to come live here with me she can't. Love is love. There is no difference if it is a woman and a woman, or a man and a man. We should have the right to be able to apply for a same sex visa. I will most likely end up going to live in England and leaving my country because England has same sex visas and their country supports it a lot better then my own. I personally think the situation is bullshit. Were all people who cares what the gender is of the person we love. Its love and it's not right to deny rights for loving someone of the same sex.
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People who are gay in Istanbul are being beat by the police, and the Turkish PM is encouraging this brutality. Please help!!!
Why is President Obama supporting this?
My work and activities with different local and international organisations raised my awareness about people’s rights, especially gay (homosexual) rights. There is no law that prohibits gay practice in Sierra Leone. Our politicians do not do a thing to promote gay rights.
The very few, like me, who are brave enough to advocate for gay right expose ourselves to persecutions, threats, attacks, provocations and ridicule.
I became embolden in the fight for gay rights when David Cameron, the British prime minister issued a statement at a world summit to let African leaders support gay rights or risk losing funds from the UK Government. I realised that the advocacy for gay rights has reached international proportions. I intensified my gay rights activities but came under more pressure from people who hate gays.
Sierra Leone Lesbian and Gay Association (SLLAGA) who was brutally raped and murdered in her office on the 28/29 September 2004. She had spent time in Southern Africa as a refugee from hostilities in Seirra Leone where she used her time to learn how to ‘mobilise in a hostile environment’ This is what she did on her return home, setting up SLLAGA.
Fanny Ann made a submission to the UN Committee on Human rights at the Geneva meeting in April 2004 which discussed the Brazilian Resolution, which would have acknowledged sexual orientation as a legitimate human right. In her presentation she highlighted the violence and state-sponsored oppression that lesbian and gay people face in many parts of Africa. She concluded:
I now realised why people and groups that try to advocate gay rights quickly abandon their programs and activities.
There are many vigilante religious fundamentalists so be very careful.
ПОЖАЛУЙСТА РЕПОСТ!Дамы и Господа! 11 июня стал самым позорным днем в истории России в целом и госдумы в частности! Именно в этот день был окончательно одобрен сегрегационный законопроект о запрете гей-пропаганды. Если этот закон не будет аннулирован-он поломает судьбы многим. 7 июня на сайте Белого Дома США мной была создана петиция о внесении в список Магнитского основных лоббистов этого законопроекта. (Мизулиной, Баталиной, Железняка). Пожалуйста, подпишите и помогите стать этому документу более известным!Ladies and Gentlemen! July 11, Russia was finally passed the infamous segregation law against LGBT people. I created a petition on the website of the White House USA with request to add in Magnitsky list main creators of this law.Help this document to become more well-known!http://wh.gov/llJ16
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i m 27 years old gay from Pakistan..i belong to a Muslim family and gay marriages and relations are illegal and not accepted here..i can not tell my family about my sexual orientation and they will force me to marry a girl one day...i don't want to ruin a girl's life because i m gay and i can't give love to a girl or my wife which she deserves....if anyone has solution of my problem..tell me please....add me on facebook www.facebook.com/fahadalihere
ABDOULAYE DIAGNE
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I A? A MUSLIM AND I HAVE DECIDED TO BE GAY SINCE 2007 BUT I IN ?AURITANIA NOBODY CAN TALK ABOUT GAY I WAS IN THE POLICE STATION MORE THAN 7 TIMES I LOST MY JOB SINCE 5MONTHS I WANT TO GO WHERE I CAN BE FREE TO TELL PEOPLE THAT I AM A GAY PLEASE HELP TO FIND A SOLUTION THANKS my contact 00222241571196
abdoulayediagne47@yahoo.com ABDOULAYE DIAGNE
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Злонамерени действия на служители от Министерство на образованието, младежта и науката в Република България, на Регионален инспекторат по образованието София – град и Министерство на вътрешните работи на Република България по време на управлението на партия ГЕРБ 2010-2013 г.
УВАЖАЕМИ ДАМИ И ГОСПОДА,
Сдружение ГЛБТ „ИДЕЯ-БГ” е организация имаща за цел да защитава правата на хора с различна сексуална ориентация, да спазва и опазва демократичните процеси в Република България. Да извършва контрол и информира властите за извършени нарушения.
За съжаление от 2010 г. насам се забелязва сериозно увеличаване на нарушения спрямо правата на хора с различна сексуална ориентация. Такива действия има и срещу граждани, които подкрепят тези членове или групи от обществото ни.
В доклад на международната неправителствена организация за защита на човешките права „Амнести Интернешънъл” се сочи, че България се възприема като страна с висок процент на дискриминация на малцинства, лош стандарт в затворите и хомофобия. Нашата организация е убедена в истинността на тези факти (можем да ги подкрепим с конкретни случаи).
Най-фрапиращ е случая срещу член на нашата организация и защитаващ го директор – работодател на потърпевшия, започнал от началото на 2010 год. и продължаващ до този момент. През месец юли 2010 год. Министерство на образованието, младежта и науката провежда конкурс за директори. За едно от столичните училища участват Христо Светославов Птухин и Верка Николова Русинова. От този момент нататък започват и техните проблеми. Председателят на комисията по конкурса г-н Лазар Додев след събеседването с Христо Птухин пред цялата комисия му задава въпроса дали го познава. Птухин в момента не успява да се досети за какво му се задава този въпрос. В последствие разбира, че някой се е опитал да го дискредитира, като му е приписал интимни отношения с г-н Додев. След спечелването на конкурса от г-жа Верка Русинова, която е назначена за директор на Първо помощно
училище – София, г-жа Латинка Борисова Ковачева тогава експерт „Интегрирано обучение и специални училища в Регионалния инспекторат по образование София – град, я кани на разговор при началника на РИО София - град Ваня Фердинандова Кастрева. Същата уведомява директор Верка Русинова, че нейния служител, старши учител Христо Птухин е хомосексуалист и има досие в СДВР. Г-жа Кастрева изисква от директор Верка Русинова да уволни незабавно старши учителя Христо Птухин. Русинова отказва с претекста, че няма законово основание за такова действие. Ваня Кастрева и отговаря, че ако Птухин не си отиде то Русинова ще си отиде.
В началото на 2011 г. се засилват атаките срещу директор Верка Русинова. От нея се изисква да отстрани от работа нашият член. Провеждани са събирания в МОМН, на които директорката е канена. На тези срещи са присъствали още представители на Синдиката на българските учители към КНСБ, тогава зам. министър Милена Дамянова, Пенка Иванова – директор на Дирекция „Достъп до образование и подкрепа на развитието” от МОМН, както и представител на СДВР от дирекция „Детска престъпност”. Полицаят най-обстойно е представил всички данни за старши учителя Христо Птухин, които били съхранявани в СДВР, независимо от факта, че сме изискали от министър Цветан Цветанов след лична среща с него и с писмо да бъдат унищожени досиетата на хората с различна сексуална ориентация от масивите на полицията. Представителя на СДВР е настоявал члена на нашата организация г-н Христо Птухин да бъде уволнен, защото бил „опасен”. След като директора на Първо помощно училище г-жа Верка Русинова на една от поредните срещи отказва да го уволни е заплашена, че ще бъде отстранена, като я уволнят дисциплинарно и на нейно място ще бъде назначен друг директор, който да извърши този акт. Тъй като не помагат заплахите, през месец септември се изпраща проверка от МОМН и на базата на същата се иска дисциплинарно уволнение на директорката г-жа Верка Русинова. Тя се разболява и излиза в отпуск по болест. На нейно място е назначена за временно изпълняващ длъжността директор Латинка Борисова Ковачева. На 20 февруари 2012г. същата вика полиция от СДВР дирекция „Детска престъпност”. Девет човека начело с Виолета Аланджийска (директор на дирекция „Детска престъпност“ - СДВР) нахлуват в часа по география воден от старши учителя г-н Птухин, без да представят заповед и без да присъства временно изпълняващия длъжността директор на училището Латинка Ковачева. Учителя е отстранен от бюрото, на което има настолен служебен компютър, и една жена от полицаите започва да търси в компютъра, без да даде обяснение какво. Това действие трае около час и половина. През това време учениците, които са с умствени увреждания, предимно момчета, са разпитвани от полицаите - без присъствие на педагог, психолог или родител. На разпитите не е присъствала и временно изпълняващия длъжността директор на училището г-жа Латинка Ковачева, което е грубо нарушение на законовите разпоредби. Учениците са разпитвани дали г-н Птухин им прожектирал порно, пускал ли им е такова на компютъра, знаят ли къде живее, идвали ли са му на гости, опипвал ли ги е, дали ги е бил или заплашвал. На всички въпроси децата са отговорили отрицателно. Докато трае проверката на полицията на нашият член г-н Христо Птухин му е прилошало и сам е извикал „Бърза помощ“ на тел. 112. След идването на „Бърза помощ“ го откарват в УМБАЛ „Царица Йоана”. По същото време временно изпълняващия длъжността директор Латинка Ковачева провежда неправомерно Общо събрание, на което предлага мястото, на което е назначен старши учителя Христо Птухин, да бъде преобразувано на такова за бременни или за инвалиди. За това той не е и уведомен. През следващите дни в медиите се пускат заглавия и статии, в които г-н Птухин е представен като гей и педофил, уронват му авторитета и достойнството. Училището се посещава от журналисти от в. „Телеграф” и „Монитор”. Временно изпълняващата длъжността директор Латинка Ковачева вместо да се погрижи да успокои децата и да ги закриля, дава с охота интервюта. Многократно е молена от г-н Христо Птухин да спре допускането на журналисти в сградата и да обърне внимание върху провеждането на учебния процес, но отговорите и са били: да си влиза в час, да не се занимава с неща, които не са негова работа. По телевизиите ТВ7 в Новините и предаването „Бодилник”, по БТВ Action и БТВ Новините са излъчени репортажи с участието на директора на дирекция „Детска престъпност” Виолета Аланджийска, която го нарича гей, педофил и престъпник.
Г-н Министър-Председател, от всички тези действия срещу старши учителя Христо Птухин достигаме до извода, че през цялото време се е се целяло неговото дискредитиране, оклеветяване и унижаване пред обществото. Набеждават го за да бъде отстранен от работа и в бъдеще същият да не може да бъде преподавател в системата на образование.
Същевременно здравословното състояние на г-н Птухин се влошава и той излиза в болнични от 27 февруари 2012г. В деня на неговото излизане в отпуск по болест временно изпълняващия длъжността директор Латинка Ковачева обявява мястото му в сайта на РИО за свободно и при завръщането му на работа пред всички колеги връчва заповед за освобождаването му. Неговото място е заето от студент по това време, който е с 100% инвалидност. Този човек е неправоспособен съгласно Инструкция № 2 от 29.07.1994 г. за изискванията за заемане на длъжността “учител” или “възпитател” съобразно придобитото образование, професионална квалификация и правоспособност.
С тези действия, ние членовете на ГЛБТ „ИДЕЯ-БГ” се убедихме, че старши учителя Христо Птухин е преследван и дискриминиран от служителите на МОМН - зам. министър Милена Дамянова, Пенка Иванова - директор на дирекция „Достъп до образование и подкрепа на развитието” - МОМН, Ваня Фердинандова Кастрева - началник на РИО София-град, временно изпълняващ длъжността директор Латинка Борисова Ковачева и от Виолета Тодорова Аланджийска - директор на дирекция „Детска престъпност” при СДВР.
Дами и господа, за съжаление сговористите от МОМН и РИО подкрепящи политиката на партия ГЕРБ не спират до тук. След отстраняването на нашия член Христо Птухин е издадена заповед за дисциплинарно уволнение на човека, който е защитавал законно от преследване старшия учител, директора на Първо помощно училище „Проф. дпн Георги Ангушев” – гр. София, Верка Николова Русинова. Един честен и достоен човек попада под ударите на хора, узурпирали властта в образованието, смятащи се за незаменими и извършващи „лов на вещици”. Ето защо, се обръщаме към Вас с искрена молба за следното:
1. Изискваме от новия министър на образованието на Република България г-жа Анелия Клисарска да анулира заповедта за дисциплинарно уволнение на директор Верка Николова Русинова и да я възстанови на предишната и длъжност в Първо помощно училище „Проф. дпн Георги Ангушев” – гр. София.
2. Да бъде отменена заповедта за отстраняване от работа, като Старши учител и и да се възстанови на работа г-н Христо Светославов Птухин.
3. Поради хомофобско отношение и омраза към учители с различна полова ориентация и подкрепящите ги хора преследвани заради това ние изискваме отстраняването от длъжност на началник на РИО Сфия-град, Ваня Фердинандова Кастрева.
4. Настояваме министър Цветелин Йовчев да отстрани от длъжност директор на дирекция „Детска престъпност” при СДВР Виолета Аланджийска за хомофобия и злоупотреба със служебна информация.
5. Изискваме да се предприемат действия, с които да се прекрати дискриминирането на хора с различна сексуална ориентация или с различна партийна принадлежност, както и преследването на техните поддръжници в Република България. Настояваме Народното събрание да внесе промени в НК, с които да се инкриминира хомофобията и действията и последствията свързани с нея, като бъде налагано наказание подобно за престъпление срещу личността.
6. Ако държавните органи не изпълнят нашите искания ще бъдем принудени с всички законни средства да изразим своя протест включително сезиране на международни организации в ЕС и ООН за правата на човека и изискване спрямо Република България да бъдат наложени санкции.
12.06.2013г. Председател на ЛГБТ „ИДЕЯ-БГ”
София / Христо Петров /
I've never contemplated suicide, and I could not imagine what must be the person to at least think, not what to make. But here today, these thoughts have visited. I do not plan on doing. Went to the Internet, has introduced a search engine something like "painless suicide methods", and all awake. How I was just thinking about it?
And I thought about this after .... damn how stupid. It has started after love, well, this is one of the components. In the present I fell only 3 months ago, that's for sure of this, I understand that, because that is completely stopped thinking about myself, but about him. I do not care what we do and where we are. If he's around and I feel him, I'm too happy. I and the kitchen is a bomb worse one that fell on the Hirasimu, but learned to cook for him (though is not very much, but, damn it, I'm trying). The fact that this guy is bi and when meeting he once told me that he wants relationship only with a girl, he needs a traditional family. It happened that for 3 months, we live together, but soon I will have to move, and of course I do not wish. Having decided that during the time of cohabitation has changed something for him to me, I raised this topic. And that's all ....... He recalled that mentioned it, and he would still be of opposite-sex family. Next, feelings, mine, I can not describe them. I do not want to part with him, really, even for a couple of hours, and the fact that soon will be the end,not happy end, then his wife, children ..................... Here we go again tears come. And then there's this whole situation with gomofobomi, homophobic laws, murders of gays. I and my whole life as a groundhog peeking out of burrow, and quickly home, preferably in the city by taxi to move around. I can not describe what I feel.
I m ali from Islamabad but now i live in America. i m a gay and i like homosexuality.
I m very thankful to US Govt and US ambassador and paticularly my best friend farooq ahmed guide me for US shelter visa.Now share our homosexual friend for how you can get US shelter visa,You 1St of all create homosexual club and register internationally homosexual organization then apply (US international homosexual program).
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Chris Taylor
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I want you all to know this
in Canda, on your little demographics
you have "No Data" for a number of your statistics.
This is by design.
The Canadian gov't learned with its genocide of the First Nations that keeping records and statistics is a barrier to social cleansing.
That is why there is no data.
Intersex and Transgender people are being systematically tortured and softkilled using gov't "policies".
لم يعد يهمني فإذا الله خلقني كذلك فله حكمته و إذا كان مرضٌ نفسي فإني حاولت كثيراً و لم يتغير شيء فقد تقربت من الرّب و تعلمت ديني و تعرفت على الأشخاص و عززتُ حياتي الإجتماعية و لكن لم يحدث شيء . بدأت بتقبل نفسي و تقبل الأخرين . نعم أنا شابٌ مثليّ جنسياً يختلف ميولي عن الكثيرين . و لكنني إنسان خُلقتُ من طين مثلكم ، و ترعرعتُ بعائلة لبنانية مثلكم ، و لدي أخلاق عالية و محترمة ، و لدي دين أُأمن به ، و لدي وطن أعشقه . و لكن عند معرفتهم الحقيقة ينسون تلك الأشياء ، و يبدأو بالسؤال " آخُلِقت كذلك ؟ أم هو مرض ؟ هل تعلم بأن ذلك حرامٌ أم لا؟ أتعرف أن هذا ينافي عاداتنا و مجتمعنا ؟ " و لا يصمتون و يبدأو بالنصيحة المؤذية و المساعدة الكاذبة ، فهم لا يهتمون إلا بالسمعة و المظاهر ، و يخافون من كلام الناس ، و ينسوا من أنا و يتناسون مشاعري المحطمة و أفكاري المتهدمة . كم أكره ذلك الشعور ! كم أتمنى الإفتخار بميولي الجنسي و لكن سوف يحكم عليّ بالإعدام و سوف أُطرد من البيت و يهجرني الجميع ماعدا بعض الأصدقاء الذين يريدون لي راحة البال . كم أكره أراء الناس عني فلستم من سيحاسبوني بل الله إن أخطأت . فالجميع يسألوني إن كان هناك حبيبة أو عشيقة و ينتظرون ليلة رفافي بعروس من أجمل النساء من أفضل الطباخين و من أذكى العباقرة في التعامل مع الرجال . و إن كان جوابي لا يوجد حبيبة بل حبيب سأرى نيران جهنم في عيونهم و غضب الملأكة بقلوبهم و نعرات الشيطان على أفواههم و يبدأ الصراخ و النهيق . و أن كان في جيوبهم سكين لطعونني به و أن كان في حوزتهم مسدس لداسوا على زنَد الموت و أطلقوا رصاصة نهايتي .
I have tried to meet some LGBTI community member's to help the work we have started in northern Nigeria in spite of the anti gay bill yet there has not been a voice that want to help us I mean from Nigeria.
LGBTI should not be of a parochial interest. blizprince@yahoo.com
GAY RIGHTS ADVOCACY IN SIERRA LEONE
My work and activities with different local and international organisations raised my awareness about people’s rights, especially gay (homosexual) rights. There is no law that prohibits gay practice in Sierra Leone. Our politicians do not do a thing to promote gay rights.
The very few, like me, who are brave enough to advocate for gay right expose ourselves to persecutions, threats, attacks, provocations and ridicule.
I became embolden in the fight for gay rights when David Cameron, the British prime minister issued a statement at a world summit to let African leaders support gay rights or risk losing funds from the UK Government. I realised that the advocacy for gay rights has reached international proportions. I intensified my gay rights activities but came under more pressure from people who hate gays.
I now realised why people and groups that try to advocate gay rights quickly abandon their programs and activities.
My work and activities with different local and international organisations raised my awareness about people’s rights, especially gay (homosexual) rights. There is no law that prohibits gay practice in Sierra Leone. Our politicians do not do a thing to promote gay rights.
The very few, like me, who are brave enough to advocate for gay right expose ourselves to persecutions, threats, attacks, provocations and ridicule.
A few weeks ago in Croatia an initiative called ''In the name of the family'' launched a petition for a referendum to amend the Croatian Constitution so that it would define marriage as a union between a man and a woman. To achieve this, they had to collect ca. 450,000 signatures (10% of the electorate). They have collected more than 700,000...
Gay people have never had it easy in my country, which is mostly Catholic and extremely homophobic. Now I'm afraid they don't stand a chance. Although this is only an online petition and it won't affect the referendum at all, please sign and share this to show the Croatian LGBTQ community that there are still people in this world who believe in love, tolerance and human rights.
Right after reading ur post guys, i was inspired sharing my same sex relationship experience. By the way before we get this started, i am tasha from las pi単as city but born and raised in quezon city.i actualy came fr a very conventional type of family not until the day it already became absurd to me.well my very first and remarkable experience was during my college days. The day i met this girl ann melody now known as 'andy'. I find her weird the first day i met her she was so quiet and aloof from d group but i admit thar her brains blow me off cuz she is a genious. So there i considered her much of the nerdy type. Until 1day, i was so depressed of wtsgoin on with my family. I jst dnt kno exactly how to describe how affected i am during those ttime. Then there she was andy was so consistent lifting my spirit its as if im always for counselling. Crazy thoughts plays insyd my head suicide is like the best thing to do by that time. Andy became my bestest friend. We spend r breaktyms on the lagoon talking out of thiz world ideas. Until shr started to care for me that much she srnds me bk home safely and waits for me before r class begins. Then one afternoon she confessed something that completely changed my life...she said she loved me... And guess wt she even diatinguishrd that she jst dnt lyk me but again she has absolutely falln in love with me. My initial reaction was.so stupid. I said wr cn nvr be cuz wer both shes. She jst simply implied ilovryou and i dnt care if this is nt within d so called social norm. I was about to cry wen she said that. Cuz at d bk of my head i already loved her but i jst cnt confess bec of there r alot of factors to consider. She asked me if we can unwind for awhile maybe bec of my reaction she might have felt my confusion,doubts and fears. Until i camebk to my senses and i replied bk...'yes' i cud definitely be ur gf bt with an exemption there shall be no commitment...andy was perplexed by thr condition i set..
Charles A
(user currently living in UNITED KINGDOM)
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Information just received states that Nigerian house of representative has passed a bill banning gay activities in the country with a maximum jail term of up to 14years in prison.
If this is signed into by the president,it will further make life miserable for some of us that believes in this as a way of life.
Who will come to our aid to rescue from this inhuman,most wicked law and most senseless law?
shakil
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on 30/05/2013
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Hi, I am Shakil, 27 years old, but i still could not shared with what i am what i want because i belong to muslim family and i know i am Muslim, belong to country where its not allowed to man can Love man.. But here in Pakistan gays are just used for sex needs..
But i feel i don't know why i do love man. i want to live my life i have right to live because i feel what i want.
how i am writhing nobody knows so why i follow them.???
i want to break all the rule just i need a life partner.
I love and like guys who are elder than me, who like old things, old music, old but good ideas. I don't believe in figure and dicks or such type of things, i just like who loves me and cares me whoever is he.
if you have seen Syed's and Chris (Gay) Love Story same like that i need boyfriend or Lover, well he is not financially well but i will compromise and try to fulfill my and his needs.
i have downloaded Movie Beautiful Thing which is gay movie but still i could not have watched, well its story is about two boys who are disappointed from their lives but when they meet together they change their lives....
so i am waiting for an angel who comes and change my life forever.
I am Social Worker, working with Non Governmental Organization NGO, i love to work for Child Protection so i am working with Child Protection NGO as Project Coordinator. WE have established two Functional Literacy and Life Skills Centers for Child Labor where 200 hundred workers 07 to 13 years old are being facilitated... even i am sick of our Chairman but still for children i work.. before working here i had worked with International Rescue Committee IRC as Protection Officer since 08 December 2010 to 31 December 2011, and my previous experience is working with Save the Children as Community Mobilizer..
If you will understand this Poem you will realized how i am suffering and what i feel...
If My Suffering Found a Tongue
My suffering is a song unsung
My soul a speck without a seal
If my surfing found a tongue
My name and sign it would reveal
If of my soul I found the sign
I would perceive the world’s design
If this secret were in my reach
My silence would acquire speech
Sway over all created things
And the empire of both worlds be mine
hello ,, i'm gay and i live in Saudi Arabia ,, i hate living in saudi Arabia because all of them are ignorant fucks. they misunderstood gay with bi , they think that we decide to be gays and it's a choice and we can change it ... anyway i really really need some gay friends here
not to made out with , just it feels so good for me to find a gay best friend that i can trust and understands me :'( hit me up with my twitter account to talk and stuff , i'd love to have some extra friends :D https://twitter.com/s3od22217645
steven
(user currently living in CANADA)
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on 28/05/2013
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IM 25 GAY AND I GREW UP IN THE ANTI GAY BAHAMAS. USUALLY I CAN BE QUITE POIGNANT WHEN TRYING TO GET MY POINT ACROSS BUT RIGHT NOW IM MAD, NOT MAD FURIOUS!!! GAY MARRIAGE, GAY RIGHTS, WHY ARE WE BEGGING FOR RIGHTS THAT WE WERE BORN WITH, WE LET SOCIETY TAKE FROM US AND WE HAVE NO RECOURSE....IM SICK AND TIRED OF IT. 200,000 FRENCH PROTESTING GAY MARRIAGE, U.S SUPREME COURT CANT DECIDE. SO GAY MEN AND WOMEN ALL ACROSS THE GLOBE LISTEN UP PLEASE CAUSE HERES WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN IF WE'RE TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY.
1. IF YOU LIVE IN A HOMOPHOBIC COUNTRY, LEAVE!!! DONT HOLD ALLEGIANCE TO A COUNTRY THAT COULDN'T CARE IF YOU WERE DEAD OR ALIVE.
2.DONT GET INVOLVED WITH PEOPLE LIVING ON THE DOWN LOW- IF THEY WANT TO HAVE SEX LET THEM FIND ANOTHER PERSON ON THE DL TO DO IT WITH. DONT LET THESE INDECISIVE FOOLS BELITTLE YOUR WORTH JUST TO GET OFF.
IF YOUR LOCAL POLITICIAN DOESNT SUPPORT THE GAYS DONT VOTE FOR THEM.
IF YOUR IN THE CLOSET COME OUT, EACH DAY SOME KID TAKES THEIR LIFE BECAUSE WE FEEL BEING GAY HAS TO BE HIDDEN AWAY UNTIL THE TIME IS RIGHT, THE TIMES ALWAYS RIGHT ITS JUST THOSE SMALL MINDED PEOPLE WHO AREN'T EDUCATED ENOUGH.
BOYCOTT MOVIES,TV, BUYING MUSIC, WATCHING SPORTING EVENTS AND PAYING TO SEE THEM UNTIL WE SEE GAYS AND LESBIANS HONESTLY REPRESENTED MORE IN THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY.
BOYCOTT VISITING ANY COUNTRY THAT DOESNT SUPPORT YOUR RIGHTS.
PETITION LEGISLATION BE PASSED THAT MEN OR WOMEN WHO CANT PROCREATE NOT BE ALLOWED TO MARRY.
DONT PRAISE CELEBRITIES WHO COME OUT OF THE CLOSET MID WAY THROUGH THEIR CAREER, IF THEY WERENT BRAVE ENOUGH TO TELL THE TRUTH FROM THE START WHY ARE WE COMMENDING THEM FOR MISLEADING US.
GIVE UP RELIGION IT ONLY DIVIDES US FURTHER. LET YOUR BELIEFS BE YOUR OWN, WORSHIP YOUR DIVINITY IN SOLITUDE INSTEAD OF WEARING RELIGION LIKE A BOY SCOUTS BADGE.
THERE ARE GAYS AND LESBIANS WHO STAND UP TO BE COUNTED AND THEN THERE ARE THOSE WHO CHOOSE TO BURY THIER HEADS IN SAND FOR FEAR OF BEING REALIZED. IF EVERY OPENLY OUT GAY AND LESBIAN PERSON JOINED IN THIS EFFORT AND TOOK IT SERIOUSLY WE WOULD BE A FORCE TO RECKON WITH BUT IF THOSE OF YOU OUT THERE STILL LIVING IN THE SHADOWS DONT WANT TO SPEND THE REST OF YOUR LIFE TRYING TO PLEASE EVERYBODY BUT TRULY YOURSELF, HAVING TO PRETEND TO BE SOMETHING YOUR'E NOT, TO CONSTANTLY NOT HAVE TO WORRY WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF YOUR FAMILY DISOWNED YOU WOULD JOIN US WE WOULD BE AN UNSTOPPABLE TITAN OUR WORDS WOULD HAVE MEANING AND WE COULD DEMAND AND SEE CHANGE HAPPEN IMMEDIATELY INSTEAD OF HAVING TO WAIT A GENERATION FOR BASIC HUMAN DIGNITIES TO BE UPHELD AND RESPECTED.
BLACKS USE TO BE CONSIDERED SUB-HUMAN TO CAUCASIANS BUT THINGS CHANGE WITH TIME. CHANGE IS SOMETHING THATS INEVITABLE YOU HAVE TO SWALLOW THAT FACT OR DIE CHOKING..I JUST HOPE IT DOESNT TAKE THE DEATH OF MANY GAYS AND LESBIANS BEFORE WE SEE OUR EMANCIPATION. YOU'LL HAVE TO FORGIVE ME IF I DONT POST MY EMAIL, ALTHOUGH I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR RESPONSES I CAN DO WITHOUT TAKING THE CHANCE OF OFFENDING SOME RIGHT WING/LEFT WING LIBERAL IDIOT AND BEING HUNTED DOWN. KNOW IT SOUNDS PARANOID BUT THEY CAN HATE US JUST FOR EXISTING I BELIEVE THOSE BASTARDS CAPABLE OF ANYTHING.....
ITS A HUMAN ISSUE NOT A POLITICAL ONE. WAKE THE HELL UP MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS UNDER THE RAINBOW SUN. WERE A STRONG MAJORITY LETS START ACTING LIKE ONE INSTEAD OF A BUNCH OF SCARED WHINING FAGS. much love.
Helge
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on 26/05/2013
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Yes -I've been exposed to terrible discrimination and violence in Norway !In fact for several years.Even if this goes way back (2- 3-4-5-decades), IT has ruined much of my life.Violence from gangs in the street, from police, from the educational system etc etc. IT WAS HELL !!!
Kate Hunt, a high school student in Florida, USA, faces prison – all because her girlfriend's anti-gay parents were angry that their daughter was dating another young woman. They went to police just two days after Kaitlyn's 18th birthday, claiming she had assaulted a minor.
If Kate is found guilty of "sexual battery" she could face 15 years in prison. But this isn't about a crime – this is about a consenting, high school romance between teenagers little more than two years apart in age. Please sign here to tell Florida Assistant State Attorney Brian Workman to drop the charges.
Please help!! My country Georgia is under severe homophobic backlash, there is a hunt on LGBT people here after IDAHO day on may 17th, the government is NOT doing anything to protect us, LGBT community people are afraid to go out into the street because they are being attacked for the way they look, there have been over 20 cases of attacks on women and men with severe consequences!!! Please join out protest near the embassy in Berlin and pass this on to those who could join you too, for more information please visit: https://www.facebook.com/notes/zaal-andronikashvili/pressemitteilung-gegen-die-homophoben-ausschreitungen-und-f%C3%BCr-einen-s%C3%A4kularen-un/10151495475028773
Protecting Transgender Rights in Hong Kong: Equal Marriage Rights
This morning Hong Kong took a giant leap forward in protecting transgender rights in a judgment of the Court of Final Appeal which will allow a trans* woman to marry her partner. In a judgment that some Irish politicians could do well to take note of the Court concluded that in multicultural jurisdiction such as Hong Kong, the nature of marriage as a social institution had undergone many alterations in that the importance of procreation as an essential constituent “has much diminished”. In a 4-1 running, the Court held that it is “contrary to principle to focus merely on biological features fixed at the time of birth and regarded as immutable” and held in favour of the Appellant.
Full Article: http://humanrights.ie/gender-sexuality-and-the-law/protecting-transgender-rights-in-hong-kong-equal-marriage-rights/
(user currently living in PAKISTAN)
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on 20/05/2013
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Im A.A living in Faisalabad Pakistan . im a transsexual . i came to know my identity in the age of 24 that what im actually . Since my childhood i used to wear female clothes i always ditched on wearing female clothes n makeup . My brother n my parents were always against it but i don't know why i used to wear all that despite knowing that I'll get smaked. my attitude n my feelings were all like females ... i always preferred to play with my girl class mates n my boy class mates always used to tease me on that ... they used to call me by different name which made me ashamed like they called me Hijra (transgender) etc it made me let v down when they called me by such names in public . it made me depressed . they want to exploit me sexually . all these attitudes made me so hurting . i was trying to make me a masculine . because my mates had objection on my walking n talking styles . i used to do practice in speaking like mens n walking like mens but despite of my lot of hard work i couldn't made myself a man . i faced a lot of criticism . when i been little elder all humiliating behavior increased day by day . i tried suicide twice but i survived . all my issues are hurting me my female attitude my sexuality my gender identity . i went to a psychiatrist for help i asked him to make me a male he gave me male hormone therapy it created medical complications but couldn't change my attitude n sexuality . my studies were disturbed . then i know about my issues with the help of my friend that it called transsexuality . then i meet Dr in islamabad he is v v kind n expert in his profession he guided me in all ways . he did my psychological evaluation n suggest me sexual reassignment surgery . when my parents came to know that im going to have surgery they throw me away from their home . now im living in v bad conditions i just trying to complete my study to get a good job . i want to say all readers please think before treating us in such humiliating n inhumane way. and i would like to advise transsexuals please hide ur identity till u got completed ur studies .
beka
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on 18/05/2013
Halo my name is Beka and I'm a Gay from Georgia. Countries where we do not recognize gay couples are not going to beat the pressure. Nobody helps us, and no one understands us: ((In this country we are just trash it apply to us. Did not provide protection against any sun As you know today was the day of the fight against homohobias. As many of us have joined in the action but unfortunately They did not give us the right to a crowd of people who hate us, and ironically. Gay Go from Georgia, you are not logged Shame on you This was preceded by the clergy to the people They were told to go to Georgia, leaving Georgia Thousands of people came to us and we are only 50 of us They threatened to kill us and burn thousands of horrible things like rape and so on swearing They threatened to kill us and burn thousands of horrible things like rape and so on swearing I'm afraid of the future because they do not know what happens to me or my boyfriend when I go outside I do not know what to tell you about it. Unfortunately, no one shares our interests Unfortunately we can not afford and do not provide protection against the LGBT Organization These evil people who laughed at us and threatening us Today I was really scared so he came to us on A country can not remain nor I, nor my boyfriend. Because they are actually dangerous I am gay and like using an external application requesting asylum in any country with my boyfriend Please can you tell us will help us do I call on all organizations which explore gay issues Maybe tomorrow will be too late to help us survive Learn what happened today in Georgia How They treat gay couples I asked my boyfriend along with me as a gay asylum Please can you tell us not to give up: ((This will be plunged into misery. Do not treat us the way the society Having plunged into misery The footage is probably covered the whole world I am ashamed that I live in Georgia with my boyfriend, and I do not know what to expect from these evil people from tomorrow Please help me with my problem Thank you in advance from a 22-year-old Beka Georgia. Here is a video on how to treat us, we gays Residents of Georgia
Hello! My Name is Victoria Jones, but people who love me call me V.v., and I am 20 years old. I am going into my third year at Azusa Pacific University, but in order for me to register for the Fall Semester (where I will be a Resident Advisor), I need to pay the school an outstanding balance of $19,280.00. The reason why this has just arisen is because for my first three semesters, my mother paid for school. But at the beginning of this year, I just came out to her as being a lesbian. She cut me off. I work over 35 hours weekly now, but sustaining myself AND paying off my balance is actually impossible. I am asking that you good people PLEASE help me. APU is my life, and if I can’t go back, I don’t know what I will do.
Thank you so much!!!
I have a page where you can donate funds. Anything counts!!
https://www.youcaring.com/lgbtquniversity
Добрый день! Я не гей и никогда им не буду. Но я уважаю выбор другого человека,для меня главное в людях это их доброта и отзывчивость, способность к сопереживанию, их гуманизм то есть все то, что заложено в каждом из нас как искра Божественного дара делающего нас отличными от животных. Поэтому я противник любой формы тоталитаризма и мракобесия. И ещё- я против любых проявлений гомофобии. Но с приходом к власти тирана Путина в нашей стране стала планомерно и безжалостно уничтожаться демократия. Конституция РФ принятая в демократической России давно уже перестала существовать. В стране правят бал всевозможные праворадикальные организации, мракобесы-фанатики из разных тоталитарных сект, фашисты всех мастей, бандиты и экстремисты из всевозможных прокремлевских организаций.Страшно даже подумать в какое болото толкает страну кучка воров узурпировавшая власть в стране, как планомерно и безжалостно зомбируют безумные Кремлевские кукловоды молодежь, каждый день изобретая все новых и новых врагов против которых направляют агрессию молодежи. Так тиран и его клика сбивают градус гражданского протеста ,натравляя людей против тех кто неугоден режиму, или против любого кого диктатору ,просто, не жаль. Было отвратительно видеть кривляние и ложь тирана в Амстердаме ,когда он цинично врал всему миру, что права человека (в том числе и лиц нетрадиционной ориентации) в нашей стране никто не нарушает. Все это гнусная и подлая ложь! В нашей стране за годы Путинской авторитарной диктатуры люди давно забыли о любых правах человека. Тем более те кого правящая в стране автократия и фанатики из религиозных организаций давно приговорили к тотальному уничтожению. Аналог этому может быть только в истории фашисткой Германии ,в те годы когда бесноватый фюрер превратил в прах миллионы человек. Сегодня даже самые легковерные и наивные граждане начинаю понимать, что власти в нашей стране не просто подражают Третьему Рейху ,они копируют его. Так в стране официально возродились ультраправые организации фашистов. Мало этого их курируют и опекают власти нашей страны, их защищают наши «правоохранительные» органы. Обеспечивая им полную безнаказанность и самую широкую свободу действий. А теперь моя история. Я живу в самом сердце Свердловской области в городе Нижний Тагил. Однажды мне попалось на глаза омерзительное видео, унижающее человеческое достоинство с элементами насилия над человеком. Самое потрясающие было, что этот материал был размещен на федеральном областном канале. Там был показаны противоправные действия организации «Оккупай-Педофиляй» города Каменск-Уральский в отношение молодого (18 лет) юноши. При этом его называли то педофилом,то гомосексуалистом. Проводил операцию известный фашист Максим Марцинкевич. Все члены организации так же являются фашистами и экстремистами. Я написал открытое письмо губернатору Свердловской области Куйвашеву.Е.В. и попросил его пресечь преступную деятельность этой организации. Так как её члены устраивают самосуд, занимаются самоуправством, бьют и,видимо,грабят «подозреваемых» в педофилии и гомосексуализме. Разместил письмо на сайте http://open-letter.ru/letter/97129/ сразу после публикации меня стали преследовать члены этой организации http://vk.com/occupykamensk Против меня устроили настоящую охоту .На сайте было объявлено,что любой кто расправится со мной получит значительную денежную награду, опубликованы мои контакты и адрес. Кроме этого начались телефонные звонки с угрозами, попытки напасть на меня на улице и .т.д. При этом все эти общественники ненавидят меня за ту критику ,что я высказал их движению. За мою смелость,за то,что выступил против них с открытым забралом,что в среде этих выродков непринято. Сегодня эта организация полностью переключилась на травлю гомосексуалистов. Их они избивают,грабят,унижают и все это делается при поддержки полиции Свердловской области. Так как я выступаю против любого насилия, за торжество демократии, за главенство закона над самосудом,то мне пришлось обратится в полицию. Однако сотрудники ГУВД по Свердловской области не только не обратили внимание на мои заявления, они принялись яростно защищать уголовников и подонков. Они категорически отказываются проводить любые проверки по фактам нарушений Конституции РФ ,по уголовным преступления против определенной социальной группы. Мне дают понять,что тот кто защищает гомосексуалистов и их права,сам не человек. И он так же находится вне закона. Поэтому преступление против меня оказываются безответными. Уголовное дело так и не возбудили,хотя я постоянно подвергаюсь опасности. Что тогда говорить о мифических правах гомосексуалистов в нашей стране,если даже я не гомосексуалист,а человек просто выступивший в защиту этих людей ,тут же стал вне закона. Сотрудники правоохранительных органов не просто не расследуют эти преступления, они ещё и угрожают мне лично, вынуждая меня отказаться от борьбы за права человека в этой стране, отказаться от защиты прав сексуальных меньшинств. Меня принуждают закрыть все мои сайты и больше никогда не писать подобных обращений. Губернатор Свердловской области мне не ответил. Думаю он так же поддерживает гомофобную истерию в нашей стране. Теперь я каждый день жду когда запылают печи концлагерей, в этой новой стране ,где правит клан олигархов и казнокрадов исповедующих идеологию фашизма. Кто хочет меня поддержать можете пройти на мой сайт http://vk.com/id207956775 И помните,что в стране убивают демократию.Поэтому нельзя им дать сделать всех нас покорными животными! Фашизм в России не пройдет!
Press Release to ILGA from LGBTI Uganda
The month of May started on a tough note concerning LGBT rights for gay Ugandans. Two groups of athletes registered to participate in Gay Sports in France and Germany were denied visas in spite of fulfilling all requirements established by both embassies.
LGBTI Uganda had registered a women’s volley ball team to compete in the Saaleperlen Games in Leipzig, Germany, between the 15th -20th May 2013. Out of the 8 applicants; including a Badminton Team for men, only 3 persons were granted visas! These included two men, for Badminton, and 1 woman, the captain, for the Volley Ball Women’s team.
This was a great shock to the 5 women who had spent weeks under intense training. The team immediately hired a lawyer to help with the appeal process, since the games were about 2 weeks away. To the team’s surprise, the embassy insisted the appeal process would last 4 weeks, a time frame which wouldn’t allow them participate in the games and a workshop organized for them on: How to Survive in an Extremely Homophobic Environment.
As expected, the organizers too where not impressed by the decision. But to their further surprise, most of their protest emails got no feedback except one that made it categorically clear that the embassy ‘deals with applicants, not third parties’. Protest letters to the German Foreign Affairs ministry were met with excuses too; all authority, with regards to visas is handled by local embassies.
In earlier correspondences between the organizers and the LGBTI Uganda team, one of the organizers noted that there could be some local staff at the German embassy that were opposed to Gay Rights and that the team should exercise the necessary precautions. Unfortunately, the team didn’t take the caution seriously until a senior native employee at the German embassy called some of the female players and preached to them for several minutes begging them “in God’s name to repent”. At the end of their submission, another called one of the two male players and told him that the team was not “presentable enough”.
The reasons given for the denial of visas were:
1. Lack of sufficient proof of means to sustain themselves while in Germany.
2. Lack of proof that the team would leave Germany upon completion of the games.
3. Lack of sufficient attachment to their country to enable them return home etc….
But team LGBTI Uganda has been to Sweden, Netherlands and in several parts of Uganda. This team had gotten a local sponsor for the German games who offered to buy return air tickets and 200 Euros per participant in pocket money. The organizers in Leipzig too, sent letters confirming the availability of meals and full accommodation for the team. Besides, every team member had health travel insurance worth the required 30,000 Euros.
Then, with the help of the team’s lawyer, affidavits were sworn by all athletes pledging to leave Germany upon the end of the games. And family photos were attached together with properties, birth certificates of dependants, personal bank statements etc…
Up to today, however, there is no word on the fate of the 5 female volley ball players from the German Embassy in Kampala. Why is this so? We are sure they are waiting for the mandatory 4 weeks to expire.
On the side of the French Embassy, all three LGBTI Uganda athletes were turned down. The same reasons were given like the Germans. Yet even after proving that 2 of the 3 were student finalists who couldn’t just abandon their studies, the embassy remained adamant. Even when the remaining athlete proved that he had a stable job with a very good remuneration package and assets, the answer was a resounding no!
The 3 had been registered by LBTI Uganda to participate in Mountain Biking and Squash in the Tournoi International de Paris 2013 happening between 14th -20th May 2013 in Paris. The organizers gave full proof of accommodation and meals, and the participants equally proved their capacity to attend, return home and continue with their life here in Uganda. The team’s sponsor too accepted to offer air tickets and ample pocket money on condition that LGBTI Uganda guaranteed participants would honor their obligations.
It’s a pity that the German and French Embassies have turned their backs on gay Ugandans despite of the fact that they are in full knowledge of the high levels of homophobia in this country. The teams strongly believe, that in sports, they would interact with their like; exchange ideas and draw support from one another. The teams believe that participating in these sports would be a huge blow to homophobia in Uganda. The teams strongly believe that sports would defeat hate with love, condemnation with compassion, discrimination with understanding.
And while the teams remain in the depths of the dark corners of homophobia itself; they remain strong in spirit and forever indebted to the organizers in France, like Antoine Le Blanc and Hubert Quarantel-Colombani together with Matthias Lendner of Germany. Thank you for all your efforts.
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my name is MR Y i live in yemen in a city called Abyen .. from a good famliy a good trip aswell ... this is part of what i faced and still facing in yemen..when i was seventeen i felt in love with a handsom guy who was four years older than i .. I didnt care about any thing but to have his attention then after some time we started to talking and sitting in hidden places yallies .. just to make sure that no one will see him sitting or talking to me .. it didnt bother me the fact he is ashamed of me no. not at all couse i was just in love with the guy .. i saw in him what was missing in my life to be loved ... On day i decided to finally give him what he always asked me for (spending a nigth) it was magical i felt my heart would stop . just if i knew that i put my trust and my life i the hand of a non worthy one becouse the second time we met at his house he made to of his friend hide in a room white we doing xxx in the next one the so they rape me the three of them tried to scream but i couldnt couse people will find out that i am a gay but the three wouldnot and wont be punished becouse the are simply muscular than me and they dont act like girl .... after the bit me they took a photoes of me and the started to publish it ... people spite in my face threw stones and curs me but i swear i can deal with them but i cant deal with my mother tears disapointment and humilation .... ..................... then religouse people tryed to hunt me down to punish me , so my mother helped me to escape and since that day i didnt call her that was four years ago and still hidding from my brothers and family fearing only to killed not knowing or feeling two things ..to be free .... and respected ........
sorry my english not that great .......thanx
Hi, I'm Korean, and I'm a high school student.
I want to work for LGBT someday.
I don't categorize myself as something.
I mean, I don't feel myself is a boy, nor a girl.
Also, I'm attracted to anybody whether they are.
Though they are gay, lesbian, TG, whatever, I think I can love all of them if I like them.
Is there any person same like me?
In Korea(South), there's some people who want to support LGBTs, but only few of them does.
At my school, ethics teacher said homosexual is not a disease, but a sin. He said it can be cured and explained it by exampling drug addiction...
In korea, A gay man in the army killed himself because of other soldier's violence.
In korea, the town goverment rejected a banner which was about LGBT's right.
In korea, former president said that homosexuality is a disease.
And this is my first writing in here. I wish my English is better so I can explain all the things happening in here.
I'll right again soon.
Rex Ijomanta
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My name is Rex, male, 48 years, Nigerian. I am proudly and an unrepentant a bisexual by choice. Because of
my sexual orientation, my life is presently in danger. I am marked to killed or thrown into jail. Trouble started for me on the 3rd of September 2012 when an intruder barged in at a secluded location where I was having sexual intercourse with my male sex partner, and on noticing that we were both males the intruder raised an alarm that attracted a mob who descended on my sex partner and I, beating us mercilessly to a point where my partner slumped and died on the spot, while I sustained serious injuries. Following this incident, my landlord ejected me from my rented apartment and the Police declared me for legal prosecution for engaging in sexual intercourse with a fellow male. I evaded arrest by going into hiding. I have been in hiding since 8 - months now. Tii date the neighborhood vigilante group, some religious zealots as well as the Police are still searching all over town to get me to killed or thrown into jail. Being in hiding over these several months, I have not been able to work and earn money to sustain my family so much so that my children have dropped out of school for non-payment of school fees. I am highly devastated on all fronts, so also is my family. The Sexual Right Advocacy group ((IMH-Initiative), which I am a registered member here in Nigeria though aware of my plight does not run a human rights session to follow up such cases like mine. I have been made to understand that the Nigerian Penal Law imposes a 14 years imprisonment term for carnal sex outside the order of nature. I really need help. Please advice me or come to my aid in any way can. rex.ijomanta@gmail.com
Thank you.
The information contained in the world-wide homophobia is wrong. Homosexuality was decriminalised in 1977, along with the rest of Yugoslavia. This is a significant oversight of the author's part and should be fixed.
Madagascar has no law against homosexuality, however the age of consent for same-sex intercourse is different of that of heterosexual relations (21yrs vs 16yrs).
Despite this, homophobia is still very present in the general population which consist largely of low or non educated very poor people viewing homosexuality as a "fady", a "forbidden" state of things. At best it is ignored, shunned and not recognised, homosexuals are often married with children and have hidden intercourse. At worst it is despised and homosexuals are banned from society.
Police forces play a large role in this state of things as well, not paying attention to the fact that homosexuality is not against the law.
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I will be traveling to Kenya the first of June. As a cross-dresser )I am male, but dress as a woman)will I be harassed or arrested?
Thanks for your comments.
Hi, I just began blogging about my experience as a USA Olympic Style Boxer at http://ProBoxingFitness.Net the blog is for LGBTQ and allies.
The blog will soon offer postings that target the physical, mental, and emotional well being of it’s readers.
The content will specialize in general fitness, the Sport of Olympic Style Boxing, and the topic of “Winning In Life.”
Blog visitors benefit from free fitness tips, advice, and an opportunity to get their fitness or boxing related questions answered by a Licensed Coach at no cost and NO DISCRIMINATION.
ami
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I am a japanese girl.
Please help us!!
My country,especially japanese politicians(a lot of males)ignore LGBT.Recently,Prime Minister work out The policy of a "female notebook".This contents, the government informs teenager girls and young women of suitable age for pregnancy. The government will distributes it to all "women" . Many japanese politicians think a woman is an existence for bearing a child,and don't think those whose hurt and body do not correspond!!
Allied NATO Government is hiding millions of infectious NON HIV AIDS cases (like mine) under the "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)" ICD-code.
My case goes up through the White House, NIH, CDC, WHO, to the United Nations. I recently testified on a federal-level in Washington, DC, and have been published 12 times on 4 continents.
UK PROGRESSIVE published one of my letters about NON HIV AIDS. This topic has been censored from mainstream media since 1992 (i.e., circa Gulf War I).
I hope that you will support this humanitarian issue, and spread-the-news too (e.g., write a story, add to your e*Newsletter and/or post on Facebook/Twitter).
In the fight for humanity,
k
My life with NON HIV AIDS (including my federal testimony):
Amar
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Hello,
i am Amar, i am 23 years old i am a student fro Lahore (Pakistan) i found my sexual orientation is Gay.
when my family knows about my personality they refuse to accept me longer. now a days i am sick. i have no idea where i discuss my issues my life. In Pakistan i not found a proper setup where i can go and discuss my issues and get the solvency of that.
I see lot of the buddies they out from their houses due to their Gay sexuality. when families drop the child from the family he work a gay / Shemale / male sex worker but can,t run their study set up. i want to complete my study. also want to bees a normal life with my boyfriend. but in my own country i cannot do this. I need the help of international organization they work for LGBT rights. such organization help out me that s why i can complete my study. i also want to make a setup with the help of LGBT rights organization for those gay guys they want to get study but can,t do that by financial crises.
Please help me and lead to me successful direction.
I am a documentary filmmaker, gay, and have just completed a film called STRAIGHT LINE CURVE. It showcases seven successful gay men of the USA Southwest who do not fit the stereotypes often associated with homosexuality. Each man has a high profile and is fulfilled, optimistic, inspirational and proud.
I believe this film offers the world a wonderful and motivational look at the gay journey, which few people in the general populace knows exists...but it does! This 32-minute film is available on DVD.
Ed Breeding, Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA
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I'm gay from Egypt and I hate my life here and I am always thinking of suicide, I can not live here because I gay and touch upon the persecution of every day, but they do not understand I have no guilt I am gay has lost a future in Egypt because I did not I can not teamed in my studyin Egypt because of persecution in the school of my colleagues
Because they were calling me gay and was beating me and you hate to go to school and I live alone, without friends and I want out of this place, who reigns by ignorance, and I want to get freedom outside this country really I hate this place and wanted to help me Facebook
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A man was killed in Hungary because he was gay
A man was killed in Hungary because he was gay in last August. The trial of the murder was started yesterday in Debrecen, which is one of the greatest towns in Hungary, in the Eastern part of the country.
The most striking in the story is that there were no any politicians or well known persons in Hungary, who would say anything about this scandal, despite it was evident the homophobic motivation of the murdering. The murder told to the police that he was hate all the gays and that was why he wanted to kill as many gay men, as he could, but two days after the first case, he has been arrested.
Please find the whole story here: http://kaleidoscope.blog.hu/2013/04/30/a_man_was_killed_in_hungary_because_he_was_gay
I'm a openly homosexual male, currently studying to become a teacher (ages 16-19) in the city of Gothenburg, Sweden. I have been adviced by other students to not make my sexual orientation public in my profession.
I feel that teachers are seen as heterosexual until proven otherwise. Does that meen I need to go back into the closet as long as I'm a teacher? I want to be free to say things like: "I was discussing the topic of corrective eye surgery with my boyfriend last week and he told me that..." and not having it be a big deal (which it is as long as teachers are kept in the closet.