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''Sweden: LGBTQ Paradise?
I’m from Singapore, one of the 70 countries in the world that have laws against gay sex. So it’s really kind of awesome coming to Sweden and seeing how progressive it is.
This is (by ILGA’s own ranking) the most gay-friendly country in Europe. It decriminalised gay sex in 1944, and became the very first nation to stop classifying homosexuality as an illness in 1979. Anti-discrimination was enacted in 1987, same-sex partnerships have been legal since 1995, and same-sex marriage has been A-OK since 2009. (Trans folks have been able to legally change their sex since 1972 – another world first for Sweden.)
What really impresses me, however, is the fact that the Swedish government’s paid for over 200 of us activists and scholars to fly in for the conference. As a result, this is the very first ILGA World Conference with such high representation from Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the Caribbean. So this isn’t just a nation that believes in LGBT rights for its own people – it’s a place that cares about furthering these ideals across the world.
But there’s a tiny problem here. Some of us bloggers and delegates are just so bloody amazed by Sweden that we despair of our own countries. Is it even possible for us to get to this stage of liberation? Or is it something about the Nordic climate, the DNA of these people, a heritage of Vikings, Nobel Prize ceremonies and lesbian queens? (Seriously, if you haven’t heard of Queen Christina, go read about her. I’ll wait.)
Still, I’ve talked a little to my Swedish colleagues here – Lawen Mohtadi, Karin Lenke, Mahshid Rasti, Deidre Palacios – and what they’ve told me about their country is inspiring. Basically, all the progress they’ve witnessed in their lives has happened because people fought for it.
Deidre, for instance, told me about the 1979 medical declassification of homosexuality. The National Board of Health and Welfare agreed because LGBTQ activists camped out at its office in protest. Hundreds of people – including Swedish gay novelist-activist Jonas Gardell – refused to work: if homosexuality was a sickness, then they could bloody well call in sick.
Lawen recalled the day in 1994 it was announced that civil partnerships would be legal: she was a teenager in a supermarket with her mother, and the headlines in the newspaper caught their eyes. The heroes of this movement were two lesbian celebrities called Eva and Efva (how Biblical!): the pop singer Eva Dahlgren and the jewellery maker Efva Attling. They were the ones who convinced parliament and the people that their love should be recognized by the state. As a result, by 2009, the upgrade to full marriage rights wasn’t even controversial.
Mahshid revealed how struggles for freedom of speech still continue. In 1998, famed lesbian photographer Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin had to battle growing waves of religious homophobia when she exhibited her stunning photo series Ecce Homo, which combined LGBTQ imagery with Christian iconography. (Many of her works hang in the RFLS office, including a huge image from her later series, In Hate We Trust.)
And Karin explained how there are still battles being fought for Swedish LGBTQ rights. Transgender people still have to be sterilised before they are allowed to legally reassign their gender. (It was announced that this law would be overturned in February, but no further action has been taken.) HIV+ persons can be prosecuted for not letting sexual partners know about their status, regardless of virus levels, whether safer sex is practiced, and whether the virus is actually transmitted or not. And even though queer people are legally allowed to apply for refugee status on grounds of LGBTQ persecution, the Swedish immigration authorities make this almost impossible.
The truth is, this country isn’t a queer utopia. I’m told that gay and trans kids are still sometimes thrown out of their homes; that crude gay jokes are still laughed at on national TV. But there’s been so much progress in this country, all within a single person’s lifetime.
Just imagine the life of a gay man born in Sweden in 1926. When he turned 18 in 1944, he gained the legal right to make love. When he turned 53 in 1979, he won respect as a mentally healthy person. And at the grand old age of 83 in 2009, he was able to marry his partner.
That sequence of events may sound slow to some of you, but I’m from Asia: I think of history in terms of thousands of years, not financial quarters. And remember, history is speeding up. In the last 20 years, we’ve all witnessed dramatic changes in LGBTQ rights in South Africa, Argentina, the United States. These are times of change, and we are agents of that change.
So let’s use this country as our inspiration. Give us a few decades to tip the planet, and our homes might become just as queer-friendly as Sweden – and with much better weather in the winter months.
P.S Some corrections have been made to the list of current LGBT activist causes in Sweden, thanks to Karin Lenke.'' (x)
''my swedish friend urged me to watch this tv series where some really religious guy meets an extremely gay guy and (i assume) ends up falling in love with him… and the series is called “never dry tears without gloves”
and he says “everyone who watches it cries at the end, we all do, no need to be afraid”. my wife and her family all sat down to watch this together on tv and all liked it.
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De älskar varandra så mycket. De är så unga. Ändå ska de dö, en efter en. Filmatiseringen av Jonas Gardells berättelse om Rasmus som 1982 flyttar till Stockholm och kastar sig ut i gay-Stockholms nöjesliv ? och om Benjamin som är med i Jehovas Vittnen och en dag knackar på hos Paul, en av varmaste, roligaste och bitchigaste bögar som Gud har skapat.'' (x)
''Kära vänner! Hjälp oss att få ut hivpreventiv information till ungdomar under 2014 med två enkla tryck! 1. Ladda ner låten Dom som försvann på Itunes och bidra med 9 kronor. 2. Tryck "Gilla" under videon på Youtube och få antalet "gilla" att överstiga antalet "ogilla" och visa att du står för kärlek mellan alla oavsett sexualitet och att du beundrar arbetet som alla volontärer runt galan osjälviskt lägger ner under hela året innan själva gala-dagen. Stor kram från gala-centralen. OBS. DELA GÄRNA DENNA LÄNK.'' - WORLD AIDS DAY GALAN
Porny Reputation | BLIND GOSSIP
Porny Reputation
When you are a young star, you want to be cool, but you have to keep it clean. If your image gets tarnished, you could watch your reputation disappear overnight.
So what do you do if you are one of the biggest young stars in the world… and suddenly a video tape surfaces? It’s a p*rn tape. And the person in it looks a lot like you.
Well, this tape almost gave his team a collective heart attack! But we have some good news. It’s not him. We repeat: It’s not him! Yes, the guy in it looks like him, but he is actually an experienced p*rn actor and not the young star. The p*rn star even took on a pseudonym to sound like the young star.
So what is his team going to do about it? Nothing. They aren’t even going to address it because that would just bring more attention to the video and the lookalike porn actor, and they don’t want the word “p*rn” anywhere near this star and his reputation.
As for the thought that this p*rn tape might actually help the star look more studly, just know that wouldn’t happen in this case. Because it’s a gay p*rn tape.
It’s Harry Styles of One Direction! Source: BlindGossip.com
There was this gay p*rn tape that made the rounds earlier this year with a young guy in it who looked a lot like Harry Styles from One Direction.
Of course, the 1D fandom freaked out, thinking that the most popular member of their favorite group might have dabbled in gay porn. The horror!
It was not Harry Styles in the tape! Just a young guy who looks like him in certain positions (e.g. naked and lying on his back).
Coincidentally, the p*rn actor’s moniker is… Jack Styles! We found out that he has been working under this name since 2009 (before 1D became popular), so he didn’t actually name himself after Harry Styles.
Did you catch the clues? “One of the biggest stars” = One Direction. “Heart attack” = 1D song from their second album Take Me Home.
This performer – who is currently on tour – has sunk to a new low by engaging in fraud during a Meet & Greet.
A “Meet and Greet” is a an important revenue component of the music tour. Fans pay a huge amount of money (usually several multiples of the price of a concert ticket) to meet the celebrity in person before the concert begins.
The typical M&G is 45 seconds long. It’s just enough time for the fan and celebrity to shake hands or hug, to exchange a few words, and to have their photo taken by the tour photographer. Depending on the tour, their M&G package might also include a T-shirt or a signed poster or a gift bag. At $500 a pop (sometimes more), the celebrity could earn a cool $50,000 for a one hour M&G.
Most young performers – like Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato, Miley Cyrus, One Direction, and Taylor Swift – are very kind and personal and engaging during the M&G.
But, very recently, one singer was too wasted to show up for his own Meet & Greet a couple of hours before his concert. So what did his management do? Cancel the M&G and refund the money to his fans?
Nope! They hired a body double for the M&G, stuck some sunglasses on him, and had him stand there pretending to be the star! Then they rushed the fans in and out in two to three seconds each before they could figure out that they had just paid hundreds of dollars… to have their photo taken with a complete nobody!
Yes, this performer is behaving very unprofessionally. But his management team is to blame for behaving both unprofessionally and illegally. Yes, illegally. By taking the fans’ money and promising them something that they haven’t delivered, they have committed multiple acts of fraud.
Singer: Justin Bieber
Manager: Scooter Braun
Pussy Riot-medlemmen Nadezjda Tolokonnikova, 23, har försvunnit.
Varken hennes advokat eller familj vet var hon är sedan fängelseflytten.
– Ingen vet någonting. Det finns inga bevis på att hon fortfarande lever, säger pappan Andrej Tolokonnikov tillBuzzfeed.
Nadezja Tolokonnikova, 23, förflyttades från kvinnofängelset i delrepubliken Mordvinien till en annan straffkoloni i grannregionen. Men sedan förflyttningen genomfördes har varken familjemedlemmar, hennes make eller advokat hört ett ljud från henne.
– Ingen vet någonting. Det finns inga bevis på att hon fortfarande lever, vi vet inte hur hon mår. Är hon sjuk? Har hon blivit misshandlad?, säger pappan Andrej Tolokonnikov till Buzzfeed.
Hungerstrejkade
Tolokonnikova förflyttades efter att hon hungerstrejkat för bättre villkor i fängelset. I ett öppet brev skrev hon att arbetsförhållandena i den ryska straffkolonin var slavliknande, och att internera tvingas jobba 17 timmar varje dag. De nekas pauser och får bara fyra timmars sömn om natten. Hon ska även ha fått ett dödshot från en anställd på fängelset.
Tolokonnikovas make Petja Verzilov har tillsammans med en grupp anhängare protesterat nära fängelset och fängelsesjukhuset.
– Vi tror att de flyttade henne till en stor stad för att gömma henne. Det verkar som de blev trötta på protesterna, säger Andrej Tolokonnikov.
Tolokonnikova ska ha setts senast den 24 oktober av en medpassagerare på det tåg hon förflyttades med, skriver Buzzfeed. Ingen hört eller sett något av henne sedan dess.
Familjen har enligt ryska fängelseföreskrifter rätt att informeras inom tio dagar om ankomsten till en ny straffkoloni. De tio dagarna har passerat.
Släpps i mars
Tolokonnikova är en av tre bandmedlemmar i punkkollektivet Pussy Riot som dömdes för "huliganism" till två års fängelse efter en Putin-kritisk konsert vid Frälsarkatedralen i Moskva förra året. I mars släpps hon fri.
Årets video: Girls' Generation, "I got a boy".
Årets Youtube-fenomen: "I knew you were trouble".
Årets innovation: DeStorm, "See me standing".
Årets respons: Lindsey Stirling & Pentatonix, "Radioactive".
Årets genombrott: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis.
En ny Tumblr, passande nog döpt till Selfies at Funerals, koncentrerar sig på att lägga upp bilder på personer som tar självporträtt. På begravningar.
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Always in my heart @Harry_Styles . Yours sincerely, Louis
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Larry Stylinson - Är namnet för romansen mellan Louis Tomlinson och Harry Styles från One Direction. One Direction var med i X-Factor 2010 där de kom på tredje plats. Namnet kom från början när flera fans märke att Louis och Harry var närmare än de andra killarna.(Liam,Niall och Zayn) Först var det ett 'bromance' namn, att de bara var jättenära vänner men sedan började vissa av fansen märka att det fanns mer under ytan. Och då splittrades fandomen i två delar de som såg deras kärlek och de som trodde på lögnerna. Larry shippers kallas vi som såg, trodde och stöttade deras kärlek.
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