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Latino Book Month Monday May 5th Pick : Loving in the War Years: Lo Que Nunca Paso por sus Labios
As promised, in honor of Latino Books Month, I am choosing books by Latinos from my own bookshelf that I think are must reads. Today's book has changed lives. Cherrie Moraga's book Loving in the War Years: Lo Que Nunca... Read more »
Is Ronaldo Being Extorted By Brazilian Sex Workers?
Seems famous people paying for sex is the media story of the moment, with the men involved being made the center of the story and the women/sex workers involved being pushed further into the margins at best, demonized at worst.... Read more »
Colombian Lesbian Students Not Wanted at Their School
The following video should horrify you. It shows two young Colombian women, returning to register at their high school after a court ordered that they be allowed to go back to school. The student body is gathered outside, screaming: "We... Read more »
Colombian School Principal : No Pal to Two Lesbian Students
The following video and story via / Blabbeando horrified me. It shows Colombian high schoolers returning to school after a court decided that the two teenage girls were wrongly expelled for being lesbians. When the girls went back to register,... Read more »
Services in NYC for GLBT Immigrants
Just like immigrant women face the double hurdles of sexism and racism, gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender immigrants face the anti-immigrant fervor, homophobia, and transphobia that has become too commonplace in the U.S. Often this comes from within the families... Read more »
Ecuadorian Modelo/Assemblymember Wants to Save the Environment but Not Rape Victims or GLBT People
Trying to show she's more than just a pretty face, Rosanna Queirolo, won a seat on the Ecuadorian National Assembly on a platform promising to protect the environment and to provide a bridge to the Ecuadorian immigrant community in the... Read more »
Super Tuesday: Obama to SF Mayor...Stay Away!
It's Super Tuesday and here in San Francisco, media is abuzz with the candidate's recent lightning fast visits to our state, and more locally, our mayor's hearty endorsement of Hillary Clinton. Early this morning as polls opened, local news showed... Read more »
Gay Website is...Homophobic?
Here's one I wish was a joke. Spain's AmbienteG reports that a prominent gay web site in Chile, GayChile, is actually aligned with homophobic evangelical fundamentalists:Gaychile has gone from being the premiere [LGBT] site in Chile dedicated to defending [the... Read more »
Puerto Rico OKs Gay Marriage Ban Referendum
Opponents of rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people in Puerto Rico have pushed for a referendum to ban gay marriage on the island, and the government is letting it happen.Puerto Rico's governor said Wednesday he would not block... Read more »
Cuba May Legalize Same-Sex Unions
As hinted at last month, the Cuban government has announced -- via Raul Castro's daughter -- that it's looking into the possibility of legalizing same-sex unions in the island nation. "The topic of homosexuality has to be touched on the... Read more »
Bolivian Constitution Bans Gay Marriage
There was much uproar in Bolivia late last month when it was announced that a new constitution was approved in that country. Among the amendments to the document was a stipulation that seemed to go unnoticed until now; one that... Read more »
Uruguay OKs Civil Unions
Uruguay took a massive step towards equality yesterday when it became the first Latin American country to legalize same sex civil unions.The Congress passed legislation creating a civil union registry for same-sex and unmarried heterosexual couples. The measure had previously... Read more »
Castro's Niece: "The revolution was homophobic"
Mariela Castro, the director of Cuba's National Center for Sex Education -- who just happens to be Fidel Castro's niece and Raul's daughter -- says that homophobia in the island nation has got to stop, and that state-sanctioned homophobia in... Read more »
Argentina: First gender reassigment on a minor
Nati, a 17 year-old from Cordoba, Argentina, never felt like a boy. In her own words she described her feelings towards gender as being "7 Up trapped in Coke bottle". But as of this week, Nati is no longer trapped,... Read more »
Gay tourists get 5-star treatment in Buenos Aires
Putting its economic crisis of a few years ago behind it, Argentina's capital, Buenos Aires, is donning a new chic face: the luxury gay destination in South America. While Brazil topped the list for gay travelers to el sur for... Read more »
Dominican Cardinal Calls Gays Maricones
Leave it to a Catholic leader in the Dominican Republic to turn waht was to be an interview about if political figures should disclose where they get their earnings to a diatribe about the GLBT community. Dominican Republic Cardinal Jesús... Read more »
NYPD Targets Queer POC
I, sadly, wasn't surprised when I heard that Queer, mostly people of color activists, were attacked and arrested by the New York City Police DepartmentOn the night of Wednesday, September 26, officers from the 9th Precinct of the New York... Read more »
Gay World Cup? Who Knew??!!!
El futbol, or soccer, as lamentable it is known here in the U.S. is a super macho realm, no matter if it's actually being played or watched. Men gather together, sweat, swear, cheer, drink. It's male bonding at its best/worst.... Read more »
In spite of strides, Mexico still discriminatory
While many outsiders consider the strides being made towards a more progressive society in Mexico's capital -- among them the legalization of civil unions for gay couples -- and on the national level, a national study shows that if the... Read more »
Journalist suggests Hugo Chavez come out of the closet
A Spanish journalist and member of Spain's Royal Language Academy has written an editorial piece suggesting that, in light of rumors that Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez is gay, he should come out of the closet. Luis Maria Anson, ex-director of... Read more »
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