What is a natural part of an artificial addition, what? The new commercial for a beverage manufacturer plays with traditional gender images. Members of the transgender community have come from Cola campaign before the head. A young woman with curly hair, high cheekbones, jewellery and plenty Make-Up leaves the stage with great applause. She are located in the mask behind the scenes [...]
The highly influential and respected Grand Council of Customary Villages (MUDP) plans to launch continuous campaigns to eliminate discrimination against people with HIV/AIDS across Bali. The campaigns, slated to start in July, will first target 450 out of the total 1,500 customary villages on the island. MUDP is an umbrella organization for nearly 1,500 customary [...]
A pink cupboard door opens and two young women stumble out of the closet, still fumbling with hot-pant zippers and tempramental skirts, and walk away in opposite directions. What were they up to inside? Well, they weren’t playing Backgammon that’s for sure. From slyly scooting out of the boy’s hostel to ending up in a [...]
Multiple complaints about a Get It On! safe sex ad have been dismissed by the Advertising Standards Authority, which points out that simply showing two gay men in an ad is not offensive. The ad is part of the Love Your Condom campaign and shows two men sitting next to each other on a couch [...]
"We are looking for the hottest gay Prince of Cologne" is in big letters on posters and ads that are currently visible in the Cologne scene - that sounds about what the most party-goers do night after night in the bars, saunas and chat rooms of the scene too. Behind this action is the Cologne guilds brewery: the [...]
A gay high school student in Steinbach, Man., has been given approval to put up posters promoting his gay-straight alliance group after a month of being forbidden to do so. Evan Wiens, 17, set up the group last month but was initially stopped from promoting it in school hallways. “I put them up [Monday], they [...]
More than most other products, condoms seem to arouse people’s creative ingenuity. There are glow-in-the-dark condoms, Scotch whiskey-flavored McCondoms, dinosaur-shaped condoms and condoms printed with ruler measurements (presumably for men who feel they have something to prove). And now, a bacon condom. It was only a matter of time. J & D’s Foods, whose corporate [...]
The Austrian far-right party FPÖ feels offended, because the youth wing of the Green Party had distributed a satirical newspaper with a "gay Jesus". FPÖ General Secretary Harald Vilimsky said on Tuesday that the Greens proved "extremely tasteless remarks that they have a firm anchoring in the extreme corner". The reason was the satirical newspaper "Why!" the young Greens in the Western Province of Vorarlberg. You [...]
A study published in the US has shown HIV is the biggest health concern for gay and bisexual men. Researchers from Hunter College interviewed more than 650 gay and bisexual men at clubs, gay bars and saunas around New York City. They were asked to rank how HIV, smoking, body image, mental health and substance [...]
This week, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases that will determine the fate of same-sex marriage in America. The court’s decision won’t come for months, but regardless of how the justices rule, David Von Drehle’s new cover story chronicles how, thanks to a massive shift in public opinion, gay marriage went [...]
A controversial advert will be put back on air after concerns raised by various parties are addressed, the Aids control council has said. The National Aids Control Council (NACC) on Wednesday said it had temporarily pulled out the Weka Condom Mpangoni advert after it caused uproar recently. “We only discontinued it when various stakeholders expressed [...]
The representation of sexuality and safer sex in public health campaigns is fascinating given our simultaneous cultural obsession with yet pathologization of sexual behavior. Safer sex campaigns and materials not only seek to increase prevention behaviors but also produce a range of social meanings surrounding gender, bodies, and desire. Most are produced by organizations that [...]
Transport bosses were right to ban a Christian group’s bus advert suggesting gay people could be helped to change their sexuality, it has been ruled. The High Court ruled Transport for London’s process in introducing the ban “was procedurally unfair”. But it ruled TfL was acting lawfully in banning the Core Issues Trust’s proposed advert [...]
According to recent HIV statistics, the 78,8% of HIV transmissions are related to unprotected intercourses. New researches show that HIV transmission increased among Italian woman in recent years. What better time to talk to women than the International Women’s Day? On March 8th, Italian HIV awareness charity Sieropositivo decided to print QR codes on toilet paper [...]
Two transgender Jamaicans, Whitney and Tiana Miller, have joined J-FLAG’s We Are Jamaicanscampaign, which seeks to encourage respect and understanding for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people. We Are Jamaicans is a participatory video campaign (http://www.youtube.com/user/equalityJA), which was launched on January 17, 2013 by J-FLAG to raise awareness about LGBT identity and community. We cannot effectively [...]
