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  First U.S. Lesbian Governor
Posted by: CellarDweller - 09-17-2022, 07:08 PM - Forum: Gay-News - No Replies

First U.S. Lesbian Governor

Maura Healey, currently the attorney general of Massachusetts, easily won the Democratic nomination for governor in Tuesday’s primary, making her one of two lesbian candidates who could make history in November by being elected governors.

As of 9 p.m. local time, Healey was leading Sonia Chang-Díaz 84 percent to 16 percent, and the Associated Press had called the race for her. Chang-Díaz, a state senator, ended her campaign in June but was still on the ballot.

The Republican primary has not been called yet. The two competitors are Geoff Diehl, a former Massachusetts legislator who has Donald Trump’s endorsement, and Chris Doughty, a businessman who is more moderate. The incumbent, moderate Republican Charlie Baker, is not seeking reelection.

Healey is likely to win in November, but Massachusetts, although heavily Democratic, has sometimes elected Republican governors in the past few decades, including Baker, Mitt Romney, and William Weld. “Whether Healey faces Diehl or Doughty, the attorney general will be the prohibitive favorite in the general election,” The Sun of Lowell, Mass., reports.

In 2014, Healey became the first out member of the LGBTQ+ community to be elected attorney general of any state. As AG, she has led lawsuits against opioid makers, the Trump administration, and oil companies. She was previously a civil rights lawyer in the AG’s office, where she fought the Defense of Marriage Act.


https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/9...-governors

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  Fundraising Event Leaves Florida Over "Don't Say Gay"
Posted by: CellarDweller - 09-17-2022, 07:06 PM - Forum: Gay-News - No Replies

Fundraising Event Leaves Florida Over "Don't Say Gay"

A video game charity fundraiser announced Thursday that it would not hold its next event in Florida because of a state law that limits classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity, also citing a "disregard" for Covid safety in the state.

In a statement posted to its website, Games Done Quick, also known as "GDQ," said Florida's Parental Rights in Education law, colloquially known as "Don't Say Gay," is part of an "increased aggression" directed at LGBTQ people by the state. GDQ did not specify the city in Florida or the venue that had been the originally planned destination for the event.

"While we would love to return in-person, we’ve determined that to provide a safe and welcoming event to all it was best that we move away from our originally planned location in Florida," the statement reads.

Additionally, GDQ said state laws that do not require either event attendees or employees to be vaccinated against Covid, coupled with the anti-LGBTQ attitudes, led organizers to say they "do not believe it is a safe place for our community at this time." GDQ has prominently featured LGBTQ gamers during past events.

NBC News has reached out to GDQ for further comment on the decision to pull out of Florida.


https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-...-rcna47026

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  #cnn fox are blind on ccp infight,Exaggerating xi li's strength
Posted by: ericsoo6464 - 08-19-2022, 11:01 AM - Forum: World-News-Forum - No Replies

#cnn fox are blind on ccp infight,Exaggerating xi li's strength ,vilifying United States One-sided .

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  #high tech embargos, like EDA software, ccp can not bear. joe don need threaten xi
Posted by: ericsoo6464 - 08-17-2022, 04:55 AM - Forum: World-News-Forum - No Replies

#high tech embargos,  like EDA software, ccp can not bear.  joe don need threaten xili more often

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  Students Protest "Don't Say Gay" Bill
Posted by: CellarDweller - 03-04-2022, 05:22 PM - Forum: Gay-News - Replies (2)

Thousands of Florida Students Walkout to Protest ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill


By Jacob Ogles - March 03 2022


Students across Florida have organized class walkouts on Thursday to protest the proposed “don’t say gay” bill under consideration by the Florida Legislature after an image spread on social media calling for students and schools to participate in the statewide action.

A student at Colonial High School in Orlando, Dariel Cruz Rodriguez, shared footage from a protest held at the school. In it, a female student takes to the microphone to denounce the legislation, that would limit discussion of gender identity and sexual orientation in Florida schools that aren’t deemed as “age appropriate” by the state.

“Schools are a safe space away from home, especially for LGBTQ+ students who don’t receive that kind of support at home,” she said. “Gender identity is not taboo. It’s not something we should ignore or take away from our primary schools.”

And that’s not the only place protests are occurring.

https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/3/03/...fVacYrV7sM

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  The Situation in Ukraine (and How to Help)
Posted by: InbetweenDreams - 03-01-2022, 12:15 AM - Forum: World-News-Forum - Replies (7)

I think it is without question that the actions of Putin are horrendous and I wish there was something more that can be done (that wouldn't result in nuclear war) like establishing a no fly zone. So, what's the next best thing we can do? Afterall, weapons and anti-tank missiles are effective but a lot of people have been displaced, a lot of people are in need of basic things, food, water, blood, an so on.

There are many organizations that are taking donations that aren't listed here. Some information about these organizations I pulled from this article. Some of the links show information about donating with crypto currency and likewise I have no way to know the validity of the addresses listed.

Voices of Children Foundation - https://voices.org.ua/en/

Razom For Ukraine - https://razomforukraine.org/

Care.org - https://www.care.org/

Sunflower of Peace - https://www.sunflowerofpeace.com/

Come Back Alive Foundation - https://savelife.in.ua/en/donate/

If you are in the region you can donate blood, https://zaborona.com/en/how-to-help-the-...end-money/

Currently, I do not know if those of us abroad can donate blood for the efforts in Ukraine. I do know that blood can be transported overseas (it's a little bit of logistics involved) but I don't know if the American Red Cross is sending blood to Ukraine (the US is also low on blood supply according the Red Cross).

That all being said, if you have information to share please do so.

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  LGBT Colombians embracing visibility
Posted by: CellarDweller - 02-10-2022, 09:31 PM - Forum: Gay-News - Replies (1)

‘It gives me joy’: the LGBT Colombians embracing visibility in town with a legacy of abuse

In a mountain town near the north coast of Colombia, three drag queens strike poses in the blazing sun. Wearing extravagant Caribbean carnival costumes, they place each high heeled step carefully to avoid puddles. Neighbours come out to take photos and cheer.

This impromptu show has unique significance in the streets of El Carmen de Bolívar, representing the remarkable resurgence of a community once brutally victimised by homophobic armed groups.

For nearly 30 years, the town and surrounding region of Montes de Maria were infamous for violence perpetrated against LGBTQ+ individuals, targeted at one time or another over the country’s long civil war by rightwing paramilitaries, leftwing guerrillas, government soldiers and the police.

In the 1990s, paramilitaries formed in response to leftist activism and insurgency throughout Colombia. They took over El Carmen de Bolívar – a geographically strategic town of approximately 70,000 people with a history of leftwing activism and violently repressed those they viewed as proxy guerrilla supporters.



https://www.theguardian.com/global-devel...y-of-abuse

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  Namibian court rules against gay couples
Posted by: CellarDweller - 01-20-2022, 04:35 PM - Forum: World-News-Forum - Replies (7)

Namibian court rules against gay couples seeking legal recognition

Namibia's High Court on Thursday ruled against two gay couples fighting for their marriages to be recognised under domestic law, with the judge saying that while she agreedwith the couples' position, she was powerless to change the situation.

The ruling centered on the cases of partners Daniel Digashu and Johan Potgieter and a second couple, Anette Seiler-Lilles and Anita Seiler-Lilles. Digashu, a South African, and German-born Anita had applications for a work permit and permanent residency respectively denied based on their same-sex marital status.

Namibia's legal system does not recognise same-sex marriages and criminalises sexual conduct among non-heterosexual couples, though the law is seldom enforced. Both couples secured their legal partnerships outside of Namibia, where they now live together.


https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/nam...022-01-20/

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  Dismissed From Navy
Posted by: CellarDweller - 01-20-2022, 04:32 PM - Forum: Gay-News - No Replies

'I was dismissed from the Navy for being gay'

One former Royal Navy medic who was dismissed from the military for being gay in 1982 told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland that the experience left him suicidal.

Chris Ferguson, from Edinburgh, said LGBT servicemen and women were treated "disgracefully", and has called for them to receive reparations.  He said up until 1995, "we had gay men in prison for being gay".



Chris, now 61, had been in the navy as a medic for three years, and was studying with the army as well, when he was told the special investigation branch "were coming to investigate me".

"I knew immediately what it was - it was terrifying," he said.


https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-60053929

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  Don’t Overlook Austria’s Gay Prison Drama ‘Great Freedom’ in the International Oscar
Posted by: andy - 01-19-2022, 04:21 PM - Forum: Gay-Movies - No Replies

"Transit" and "Undine" star Franz Rogowski gives yet another career-topping performance as a gay man living out his life in prison in post-World War II Germany.

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“Great Freedom”

In most stories, the liberation of the concentration camps is the beginning of the end of a nightmare. But Austrian film “Great Freedom” shows that the truth wasn’t as simple for everyone. In many cases, LGBTQ+ concentration camp inmates were simply transferred to prison cells.

That’s the most inhuman scandal explored in director Sebastian Meise’s Cannes Un Certain Regard winner: Germany’s Paragraph 175, a provision of a German criminal code that reigned from 1871 to (shockingly) early 1994, criminalizing all homosexual acts between men. The story is told through the eyes and heavy, wearied soul of the fictional Hans Hoffmann, who is repeatedly imprisoned over decades in post-World War II Germany for being gay. He’s played by Franz Rogowski, the muse of German director Christian Petzold (“Undine,” “Transit”) and one of the most striking actors working in European cinema and beyond.

Over the course of his imprisonment, Hans forms a deep but often volatile bond with longtime cellmate Viktor (played by fellow Austrian actor Georg Friedrich), at turns platonic, romantic, sexual, and parasitic as Hans slowly resigns himself to the belief that life won’t change and his may perhaps even be best lived out within the drab, crumbling walls of the dank prison.

Meise and co-writer Thomas Reider spoke to real men affected by the Paragraph while researching the film — and eventually shot it in an actual prison in eastern Germany, forgoing recreating the cells on a studio. This devastating movie is now Austria’s submission for the Best International Feature Academy Award, and last month landed on the shortlist of 15.

Rogowski’s training as a dancer shows in his physical commitment to the role — gaining and losing pounds across a shoot that took place before and then during the pandemic — while conveying his character’s broken interior through a somber, low-key, unmannered performance that suggests an actor who just shows up to set and does his job without pageantry. Meise, in our interview below for the film, confirmed that to be true.

Mubi releases the movie March 4 at NYC’s Film Forum, followed by a national expansion. Academy voters shouldn’t miss the vital “Great Freedom,” which tells a story of which not many of us — including even the filmmaker before he embarked on the project — are aware. While Paragraph 175 was repealed just over 25 years ago, the nation didn’t start owning up to its actions until just a few years ago, issuing long-overdue apologies in hopes of redressing the continuing pang of systemic national guilt.

IndieWire: What was your knowledge of Paragraph 175, in terms of the criminalization of homosexuality in Germany?

Sebastian Meise: Actually, I didn’t know so much about it. We came across these reports of gay men who were liberated from concentration camps and directly put into prison by the Allies, or put into prisons to serve their remaining sentences. We read that — it was an article in some book about being gay in Hamburg — and I couldn’t really believe it. It sounded so bizarre. I discovered I have more knowledge about the queer history of the United States. I knew about the Stonewall riots. I was not aware of the dimension of the persecution. I did not know that there was a Paragraph like this. It was just not in our consciousness, in Austria and Germany. We never heard about this in school. I talked about this with the older generation, like with my father, for example. He didn’t know anything about it, and he grew up at this time. We talked about this with a younger generation of gay people; they also had no knowledge. So we started researching, and the story grew more and more.



The story is fictional, but you did talk to a lot of actual people in the process. How did you find these individuals?

There’s a gay museum in Berlin, the Archive of the Memory. They conducted a series of interviews with people with personal experience. So we met these people. What we did in Vienna, there’s an old gay café, and there’s always some older gay couples sitting in the back. We just went to them and talked to them. It turned out that everyone had experience with law enforcement back in the ‘60s. There was one very moving situation where one man, he was there with his long-life partner, he never told his partner he was in prison back in the ‘60s. It was such a taboo for them because in Austria and Germany, the state never acknowledged the fact that [being gay] had been a crime.

Since this wasn’t abolished until the mid-1990s, what do you feel is the position toward the Paragraph is in Germany now?

Many things have changed in terms of LGBT rights, of course, but it was only 2017 that they took the first steps concerning apologies and things like this. In Austria, it was only this year that the Minister of Justice made an apology and declared officially that this was against human rights.

You shot the film before and during the pandemic, in an actual prison. Tell me about that atmosphere as a filmmaker where the actors are sharing a real cell, they’re sleeping in their cells, they’re smoking in their cells, just as you see in the movie.

There was a big discussion if we should shoot the cells in a studio, and I am not so much a fan of studio work because it’s just clean, and shooting in a real location does something to the atmosphere. Of course, it was a film set. It was an empty prison, and we decorated it and painted the walls and all that. It was cold. It was not easy to shoot. We had to bring the lights up. The real place did something to the team, and this is what I like about filmmaking: to have an anchor in reality somehow.

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“Great Freedom”

How did you come to cast Franz Rogowski? We know him from the films of Christian Petzold and Michael Haneke. It sounds like you had him in mind writing it.

Halfway through the script, you see this film is going to happen one day probably, and you start to think about the cast. As a couple, [Franz Rogowski and Georg Friedrich] were in my mind immediately… We were writing the characters for them, without knowing if they would even take the parts. But they did. Thank god. They came quite late, but there was space to improvise. Not too much, because it was a tight schedule, but we tried to give them places where they can find themselves or find the relationship.

The film tracks Hans’ persecution over the decades, as he is repeatedly sent back to prison for “deviant practices.”

This came quite early in the writing process because we were looking to translate the life he is in. I always said this is a story about two people who are stigmatized for life. Hans cannot change himself. The minute he walks out of prison, he is persecuted again. We were trying to find a way to translate this. He’s trapped in a time loop, somehow. This chronological way of telling the story we thought could be the best [approach].

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“Great Freedom”

The way the film moves between time periods is fluid and seamless. Were there subtle modulations Franz would do in his performance, whether between the ‘40s, ‘50s, or ‘60s, to mark the passage of time or a world-weariness taking hold?

It’s really subtle, but he lost like 12 kilos, in shooting from one era to another. It’s not too obvious, but we were trying to find a way that makes it real somehow in addition to all the makeup stuff, which is always fake somehow. We were trying to find a way that, every time we come into another time with him, he’s in a completely different stage of his life. He has a completely different energy. In the ‘40s, he’s more like this animal, full of fear. In the ‘50s, he’s full of energy, and in the ‘60s, he’s more or less calmed down, and not believing that things will ever change.

He seems like the kind of actor who just shows up to set and is effortless about his approach. He doesn’t seem like he’s doing a lot of method or obsession between takes. What is his style?

He likes to talk a lot. He’s completely contrary to Georg. The great thing about [Franz], what I really love about him, he always tries to find a way not to act — but just be the character.

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