All Posts Tagged With: "homosexuality"

Transsexuals in Kuwait: Criminals or victims?

By Hassan A. Bari – Kuwait Times The term ‘transsexual’ (third gender or she-male as they are locally known) is often mistaken for homosexuality in the Arab world and is considered highly sinful in Islam. This is why most Arab transsexuals, especially men, prefer keeping a low profile. In some Arab countries, they can face [...]

17Apr2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transsexuals in Kuwait: Criminals or victims?

By Hassan A. Bari – Kuwait Times The term ‘transsexual’ (third gender or she-male as they are locally known) is often mistaken for homosexuality in the Arab world and is considered highly sinful in Islam. This is why most Arab transsexuals, especially men, prefer keeping a low profile. In some Arab countries, they can face [...]

16Apr2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

‘I am a boy’ insists child born a girl

By EILEEN ZAFFIRO – Dayton Beach News Journal. DAYTONA BEACH — There’s a wiry little 7-year-old in Deltona who can name an impressive number of Major League baseball players, NFL bruisers and NBA stars. The second-grader also loves reading astronomy books and watching “Jeopardy,” and is a political junkie particularly smitten with President Obama. Maybe [...]

16Mar2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transgender men seek end to Guyana dress code laws

GEORGETOWN (Reuters) – A group of transgender men in Guyana have asked the country’s Supreme Court to strike down laws that leave them open to arrest following a police crackdown on male cross-dressers. Police in the tiny South American country, where both homosexuality and transgender dress have been illegal for decades, detained and briefly held [...]

23Feb2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Gays, lesbians face discrimination in sharia Aceh

Hotli Simanjuntak , The Jakarta Post Growing up, Faisal was not really aware that he had a different sexual orientation from his friends, but as an adult he is very conscious of his sexuality and the discrimination he suffers as a result. Faisal lives in Aceh, the only province in Indonesia that has Islamic sharia [...]

21Jan2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Often shunned by family, Oregon’s gay Latinos fight for respect

By Gosia Wozniacka, The Oregonian When 16-year-old Edna Vazquez of Colima, Mexico, fell in love with a young woman, her parents ran her out of the house. They sent Vazquez to live with relatives in Oregon, hoping a separation from her girlfriend would save their only daughter and the family honor. At first, Vazquez — [...]

18Jan2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Homosexuals being used as ‘scapegoats’ by flawed governments

By Daniel Howden – New Zealand Herald A whispering campaign is under way in Uganda’s capital, Kampala, accusing Paul Semugoma, a doctor, of being a predatory homosexual, actively recruiting younger men into his “vice” with the help of foreign conspirators. His home and business addresses have been published online and he has received a string [...]

11Jan2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

Gay in Uganda, and Feeling Hunted

By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN – The New York Times KAMPALA, Uganda — Isolation, insults, threats and violence: this is what Uganda’s mostly closeted gay community has dealt with for years. But now that Ugandan politicians are threatening to pass a new anti-homosexuality bill that would sentence some homosexuals (serial offenders, those who are H.I.V. positive and [...]

4Jan2010 | | 0 comments | Continued

State Senate Bill 572 is pushing the gay agenda in public schools

The Californian Religion isn’t allowed in public schools, but homosexuality is? State Senate Bill 572 is being crammed down our throats. To allow this bill would mean that our children in public schools would be forced to celebrate the alternative lifestyle chosen by Harvey Milk. It would teach the bisexual and transexual agenda to children [...]

29Aug2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

It’s easy to get a sex change in Iran

Gender reassignment is a way to deal with homosexuality in a place where gays are executed Hanna Rosin – The Star The poster for Be Like Others, a documentary that aired on HBO this week, looks like a CD cover for a glam-rock band. One gay-looking Adonis sits on the arm of a red leather [...]

27Jun2009 | | 0 comments | Continued