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Be Yr Own Queero brings you the best in LGBTQ activism, politics and culture by focusing on the personal stories of queer individuals. We feel that it's important to have strong and supportive queer communities and we are creating those communities where they do not exist. Please feel free to share your thoughts and comments with us. read more
Wilmington NC has a gay community?
A current list of what’s “out” there in Wilmington for you.
How to be a Responsible Queer Person [5 part series]
Kevi Sparrow breaks it down for us
Questioning Maleness
Dominick Montalto explores the construction of homosexual identity
How does gender define you?
or does it?
Positive Queer Role Models
mk Eagle discusses the importance of positive queero role models
episode 1
Celebrate queer artists next weekend in Brooklyn! The G Shmee is very proud to be part of such an inspiring and collaborative show produced by some Brooklyn Queeros. Nov 13-15, 8pm with a 2pm show on Nov 15. @ the The Bushwick Starr. $12, $8 for kids.
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Trailer for the Documentary “Boy I Am”
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“Original Plumbing is the premier magazine dedicated to the sexuality and culture of FTM trans guys.”
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Thousands march in Taipei for gay marriage
Thousands of people from Taiwan’s LGBT community marched through the streets of Taipei on Saturday to demand recognition of same-sex marriage and equal rights. The island’s seventh annual Gay Pride Parade, with an estimated turnout of 25,000, also attracted supporters from neighbouring Hong Kong, Japan and South East Asian countries.
“We urge the government to better protect gay human rights including same-sex unions so we can have the same legal rights as heterosexual couples” said chief organiser Tung Chu-chu.
word.
(AFP)
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On Sunday afternoon local Palestinian and Jewish LGBT\queer activists held a protest against promoting LGBT tourism to Israel in front of the Tel Aviv gay center. The protesters intercepted a group of travel agents and other guests attending a conference that took place inside the gay center. The conference was organized by various Israeli institutes and International Gay and Lesbian Travel Association (IGLTA).
While entering, the guests went by the protesters, who were wearing T-shirts that read “QUEERS VISIT PALESTINE, NOT THE OCCUPIERS & OPPRESSORS”. Some of the protesters faces were covered with dirt, contrasting the concept of a “tourist attraction,” putting themselves on display, not as shining examples of gay Israeli privilege but as wounded dirty queers, embodying the ugly side of the occupation being masked by the gay tourism initiative.
Haneen, one of the protesters, said: “These conferences are trying to create an aesthetic facade that everything is rosy, when minutes from here there is poverty, exploitation, discrimination and occupation. We are against an event that bluntly denies and hides the dirt of our realities. It is our duty as queers not to overlook the oppression of others and to engage in their struggles.”
“At a time when Israel still holds Gaza under siege - controls, segregates and divides the West Bank - there is no place for a ‘business as usual’ attitude”, added Ayala Shani.
Yosef/a Mekyton: “Portraying Tel Aviv as safe and tolerant for LGBTQ people is done also by silencing the daily violence we experience in this city and strive to oppose.”
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Until I got this assignment, I had only heard a few Gossip songs. Even more shameful, I didn’t even know Gossip was a queer group. So to some, I probably didn’t deserve the opportunity to talk with Hannah, the group’s drummer, but I did… and I’m damn glad of it. It was a really inspiring conversation - I love talking with people that turn the dreaming into DOING. Gossip churns out an awesome sound and is in the heart of a growing queer movement.
So listen to their music.
Go see their shows.
Join the movement of radical self-inclusion.
& read my article.
Please :)
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Across the United States, thousands of kids are kicked out of their homes each year for being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender . In some cases, homophobic families dump them on the streets like litter. In other homes, kids run away in fear of retribution or as a result of ridicule.
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Report: An Epidemic of Homelessness
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“Ben & Jerry’s is celebrating the legalization of same-sex marriage in Vermont by changing the name of one of their most popular ice cream flavors from Chubby Hubby to Hubby Hubby for the month of September.
The company released a statement, saying that they hoped the name change would raise awareness and cause other states to follow suit, but opponents of gay marriage weren’t thrilled at the idea of the flavor makeover.
‘It’s a bad idea, especially because I think they’re just doing it to rub it in that Vermont has legalized gay marriage,’ Brian Camenker of MassResistance.org told the Boston Herald.”
HAHAHAHAHA!
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Hey, Queeros! Babe Useless is back! I disappeared for a while but I’ve got a little personal tale about hair for ya and then maybe I’ll go back to exposing yr eyes to the fabulous world of queer art. xoxo!
I’m not really sure exactly when I first shaved my legs and pits. I guess I was around thirteen or so. I did it because well that’s what all women do, right? In 8th grade I got into punk and riot grrrl which inevitably led me to feminism. When I was sixteen I stopped shaving. I also started identifying as bisexual that year. Sometimes I would even say I was “pansexual” or “omnisexual,” that I just didn’t care about gender. I’d never had a boyfriend or girlfriend at that point so I was a little clueless. The gay bomb didn’t hit me until I was nearly eighteen. Anyhow, I saw shaving as just another way that society forces women to be insecure about their bodies and spend lots of money “fixing” themselves. I loved my body hair. I totally embraced it. I flaunted it. I also started to love my period. I always got really upset when girls in school would talk about it in hushed voices like it was something to be ashamed of. I always made a point of talking about my period as loudly as I could. Once I even got suspended for a small act of protest regarding negative attitudes toward menstrual cycles… but that’s a story for another day.
I was a happy hairy lady until my second year of college. I started dating this girl who was a total hairophobe. She shaved her legs, armpits, arms, bikini line and trimmed her pubes. Like, every day. Then she insisted that I at least shave my legs, armpits and take care of my bush. I thought it was pretty stupid, but I liked her a lot so I figured why not. It’s just hair. I drew a bath, “borrowed” my roommate’s razor, and got to work. About halfway through the first leg I started freaking out. All this soft blondish hair was floating around me. Years of growing it out and I’m shaving it all off? What am I doing? This is so wrong. I drained the bath and tried to forget about what I’d just done. I think I may have even cried a little, but I’m not sure. The next day I sucked it up and shaved off the rest. It did look pretty stupid with patches of hair missing on one leg. I continued to shave and trim regularly for the entire year I was with her. After we broke up I went through periods of shaving and not shaving for a few years. Now I’m totally back on the hair wagon. Hopefully for good. I love my fuzziness.
Julia Roberts with hairy pits.
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A preview screening of the feature-length documentary RIOT ACTS:
Flaunting Gender Deviance in Music Performance
Sunday September 6th @
Glasslands
289 Kent Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11211
Screening begins at 7pm, followed by a brief Q&A.
Performances begin at 9:30, featuring Novice Theory (Brooklyn) and The
Degenerettes (Baltimore). The filmmakers will be in attendance.
RIOT ACTS is a transfabulous rockumentary representing the whole lives
of transgender and gender variant musicians, though a first-hand
perspective of the intersections between gender performance and stage
performance. This feature-length documentary highlights issues crucial
to interviewees such as songwriting, voice presentation, presenting a
body/bodies on stage, audiences, venues, the idea of the spectacle,
media representation, performing gender and notions about “drag,” and
the personal as political. The film culminates with the notions that
identities and bodies are undeniably political, and that the trans
experience isn’t always one of tragedy, but one of creativity and joy.
2009
Directed by Madsen Minax
Produced by Actor Slash Model
Running Time: 1 hour 12 minutes
Featuring
The Cliks
Coyote Grace
Jessica Xavier
The Shondes
Novice Theory
Systyr Act
The Degenerettes
Adhamh Roland
Ryka Aoki De La Cruz
Lipstick Conspiracy
Trannysaurus Sex
Katastrophe
Basic Fix
Piper McKenzie
Venus Demars
Tough Tough Skin
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theGshmee is flaunting her infidelity again. this time she had a chat with Amy Ray. about gender. politics. community. all that gooshy stuff. enjoy, thanks for reading.
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That’s Gay: Lady Kisses
“Bryan checks out a TV stunt guaranteed to be ratings gold: the lady lip-lock.That’s Gay is a recurring segment on the weekly television show infoMania. In each episode of That’s Gay, Bryan Safi explores gay issues and stereotypes as they are portrayed by the clueless media. For more Bryan visit http://current.com/groups/thats-gay/ and Current TV.”
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