It’s good news this week for gay couples wishing to marry with both Mexico City and Washington DC passing laws that allow gay marriage. Although these marriages are now legally recognised, homophobia still abounds in these cities, gay and lesbians are still discriminated against, and people worry of the possibility that these laws will soon ...
Apparently there is an increasing trend in lesbianism in UAE schools and parents and counsellors are working hard to try to tackle the issue. I know I should be used to this by now, but the UAE continues to astound me with how backward it is around sexuality and how discriminatory and ostracising the society ...
Mack, Morning Quickie
Two men have been arrested in Malawi for putting up posters supporting gay rights. The Centre for the Development of People has recently been formed “to fight for the rights of homosexuals and other minorities.” This case comes soon after a gay couple in Malawi were arrested for “unnatural acts and gross indecency” when they attempted ...
The Pope has declared that the UK’s attempt at equality, in the form of the UK Equality Bill, “violates natural law”. Churches in the UK worry that they would be forced to hire gay and transsexual people. Because of the Pope’s declaration against equality, protests are being planned for his visit to the UK later ...
President Obama is going to change the US Military’s current policy of “don’t ask, don’t tell” regarding gay people. This change will allow people to serve while openly identifying as gay, whereas currently they are discharged from service if they acknowledge their sexuality. The controversial policy has been criticized for years by the gay community. ...
John Burnside’s novel A Summer of Drowning takes us into the mind of Liv, a woman remembering the strange,...
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. ~...
Are you a couple? Aren’t you? Maybe it’s just complicated. Thanks to xkcd.
This week I had a meltdown. In its wake, the remains of a Very Nice and Thoughtful Man who...
If you are breastfeeding your child, they are less than six months old, they only eat breastmilk (no other...
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… Actually, some time in the 1980s in a flat...
Dear Madame X, I have been on a few dates with a guy I met online. He is really...
Achmat Dangor’s novel Bitter Fruit begins in post-apartheid South Africa, when Silas spots the police lieutenant who raped Lydia...
