Hong Kong’s top court granted a transgender woman the right to marry her boyfriend Monday in a watershed ruling that falls short of allowing same-sex marriage. The surprise decision only covers the right of a transgender person who was born male to marry a man, and for one who was born female to marry a [...]
Richard Burger is the blogger behind Peking Duck, a record of his thoughts on China since 2003, when he first wrote about being in Beijing during SARS. Burger is also the author of Behind the Red Door: Sex in China, published by Earnshaw Books this week. He answered questions from Danwei by email about his new book. Why [...]
It was a rainy day in Central Park in the summer of ’92 when we attempted to send Michael Santulli’s ashes aloft over Strawberry Fields in white, helium-filled balloons. But it was one of those requests that Michael hadn’t thought through in those hazy, painful last days of his life, and someone probably should have [...]
Over the weekend, there was a kerfuffle about whether Keynesian economics ignores the longrun implications of its policies. The Harvard historian Niall Ferguson asserted that this was the case and said that it resulted from the British economist John Maynard Keynes’s homosexuality. Ferguson said that those without children, as is the case with most gay [...]
An actor of telenovelas and a theatre producer form perhaps the most public homosexual partner of Mexico, protagonists in a fight known to everyone by founding a family and exercise their rights from the nation's capital approved gay marriage. Felipe Nájera and Jaime Morales was content to live your love in [...]
In Puerto Rico, members of Parliament have an historic opportunity to put an end to discrimination against lesbians, gays and bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) who live on the island through two bills they need to discuss this week, Amnesty International said Tuesday, may 7, 2013. « [...]
The 1987 New York Post headline — THE MAN WHO GAVE US AIDS — was arguably one of the most influential of all time. “Patient Zero” — a promiscuous gay Canadian flight attendant — had spread AIDS from coast to coast. The story sparked sensational media coverage, drove a book onto the bestseller lists, pushed [...]
The State of Rondonia bordering Bolivia, is for the moment the last jurisdiction Brazilian to allow marriage between people of the same sex. There are already 10 States (11 if we have to Rio de Janeiro, a State in which certain limitations persist) and the Federal District. The truth is that, despite prevailing in broad sectors homophobia and transphobia [...]
With its gay bars and same-sex couples publicly displaying affection, the Tanjong Pagar district offers a glimpse of a Singapore whose outlook contrasts with its more conservative image. Located in the city’s central business area, it is also home to offices and government buildings. Its bars come to life at night, part of a gay [...]
For the worshipers of cinema, premiere in July a national film that promises high technical quality and good laughs. Directed by Lucia Murat, "the memory that tell me" shows stories during the period of the military dictatorship and leash drama, humor and a touch of terrorism within a hostile environment. The chemistry looks good, it is [...]
Vietnam may become the first country in Asia to legalise gay marriage, after it has received the backing of senior figures within the government. Earlier this month, local media reported the country’s Deputy Health Minister as recommending gay marriage be legalised, during a speech reviewing marriage and family law. Nguyen Viet Tien cited research on [...]
If it were not a matter so serious, some arguments of the homophobic come to be so funny for pilgrims: "hate the fags. I can't stand them because I pay my taxes", said a 53 year old man who ate in 2011 with his wife in a Madrid restaurant. In the table of to the side, a [...]
It's a terrible but necessary vision. "Pink Nude" by Giovanni Coda about the Nazi atrocities inflicted on the homosexual community, inspired by the life of Pierre Seel and his autobiography co-written with Jean Le Bitoux (French). The Narrator follows the words of Seel, images – in a stunning black and white – [...]
If his doctors are right, the boy with HIV and leukemia may have made history on Tuesday. But chances are, the boy himself will remember it as the day he spoke with Julius Erving. Right around noon, Dr. John Wagner gave his young patient an autographed basketball from the legendary hall-of-famer, “Dr. J,” just before [...]
