Featured, Funnies, Homophobia, LGBTs, media, Plucked
The effing show: Homo is where the heart is –
Background: The effing show is one of three digital tv programs produced by Popfolio Sdn Bhd. Their charter is to engage with young Malaysians to help create a far more democratic media space. Rather than being reduced to mere consumers, we’d like to see young Malaysians create their own media experience. We do this by [...]
Featured, Podcast, Transgender
Ongline #394 Finding Cathy
Voice Comment: (920) iPhone-1 :: download file :: listen on iPhone :: Duration: 42:22 | 25.3MB | Mono | My listener, turned friend, share her story of being a transgender woman. I have had some other transgender women on Ongline before. But they are usually at the later part of the transition process. I thought it [...]
Call for Action, Featured, LGBTs, News
The Schism of Seksualiti
Seksualiti Merdeka is an annual sexuality rights festival held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia featuring a programme of talks, workshops, theatre and music performances organised by a coalition of Malaysian NGOs, artists and individuals. According to the organisers, the purpose of the festival, which has been organised annually since 2008, is not to change the minds [...]
Announcement, Call for Action, Featured, LGBTs
ILGA Asia urges Malaysia to reinstate Seksualiti Merdeka Festival
It is with Great Sadness that we read about the Malaysian Police Ban of the Seksualiti Merdeka Festival planned to be held in Malaysia from the 9th to the 13th of November. Malaysia claims to be “Truly Asia” but the banning of the festival by the Malaysian authorities proves otherwise. Asia is about diversity, and [...]
Critique, Featured, LGBTs, media, Religion
Malaysia’s Anti Gay Camp
PRI’s the World’s talks about the Malaysian anti gay camp where effeminate young boys are encouraged to enroll in masculinity training camp as a premptive attempt to prevent them from growing up gay or transexual. 66 13-17 year old boys are currently engaged in such a camp right now. These kids were picked by their [...]
Critique, Family, LGBTs, Life, Queer Science, Religion
Muslim Views on Artificial Reproductive Technologies and Its Impact On My Baby Quest
Posted on 09 March 2012
In doing the due diligence for starting a family with my partner, I was curious to find out what Islam stance on infertility processes such as IVF or artificial insemination. What I found is rather abysmal. A 1980 Sunni fatwa came out shortly after the first test tube baby, Louisa Brown, was born in 1978, [...] Continue Reading
Uncategorized
The Call
Posted on 24 January 2012
Hello? Hey, son! About time we talked, don’t you think? About what, dad? You, my dear son, you. It’s been a while. Yeah, sure has. We missed you. Dad, you know how much I hated that small town where we lived. The feelings were pretty mutual back then. Come on, son. You know it [...] Continue Reading
Fiction
Defying Gravity
Posted on 19 December 2011
He stood at the very edge of the precipice, staring down at the waves crashing against the rocky cliff wall. The salty breeze ran its fingers through his hair, giving him tousled and windswept appearance. Drops of sea spray trickled down his bare chest, which heaved as he took a deep breath. Above, the [...] Continue Reading
Lesbian, LGBTs, media, Uncategorized
Movie Review: Circumstances (Sharayet)
Posted on 24 September 2011
Circumstance (Sharayet), a 2011 Sundance Audience Award winner, gives its audience a remarkable insight to life in Tehran. The sweet sexy lesbian relationship between the two main teenage protagonists (Atafeh played by Nikohl Boosheri and Shireen played by Sarah Kazemy) becomes almost second fiddle to the fascinating world that writer-producer-director Maryam Keshavarz navigates us through. [...] Continue Reading
Announcement, Call for Action, LGBTs
Violence Is Not Our Culture – Art Competition
Posted on 29 August 2011
Violence, stigma and discrimination against those who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersexed or queer (LGBTIQ) has for too long been justified in the name of culture and religion. In Malaysia, the situation is no different. There are LGBTIQ youth who contemplate suicide because of judgment and rejection from society. There are LGBTIQ youth who [...] Continue Reading
Lesbian, LGBTs, Love and Relationships, News
Lesbian Marriage in Batu Pahat
Posted on 29 August 2011
Source: KL world & Sinchew Daily. Full Article in Mandarin On 7/30/2011, “Thomas”, 29 years old, and Apple, 27 had the distinction of being the first Malaysian lesbian couple to have their marriage publicized in two Malaysian newspapers, Sinchew Daily and The Star. According to Sinchew, they were married in full traditional Chinese wedding ceremony [...] Continue Reading
Critique, Fiction, Lesbian
Book Review: Thirteen Hours
Posted on 21 January 2011
Boy, if there was ever fiction that a lesbian needs during a bed death rut or simply in need of some juicing up, Thirteen Hours by Meghan O’Brien is the book I’d recommend to my good friends. Disclaimer: Just know that I do not make any money endorsing the books that I review. If I [...] Continue Reading
Videos
McDonalds launches new campaign with gay ad
Posted on 31 May 2010
McDonalds has launched a new “Come as you are” campaign in France. This ad features a closeted, loving young man grabbing a burger with his father. It’s a good step forward for the fast food chain — the dialogue will resonate with those who have kept false pretences around their parents (or are still doing [...] Continue Reading
Critique, LGBTs, News, TDoR, Transphobia
“The Star” Gives Professional Reporting Lesson — HM, Learn Something.
Posted on 15 April 2010
Cross-posted from Yuki’s Box Of Chocolates. Yesterday, I featured a post on the biased and childish reporting from Harian Metro, which includes name-calling trans woman, “pondan”, 9 times, and tried to brush trans people with negative stereotypes. It is universally understood by everyone in the civilized world that morality and character has nothing to do [...] Continue Reading
Critique, LGBTs, Life, media, News
Penulis Harian Metro Kejam.
Posted on 14 April 2010
Cross-posted from Yuki’s Box Of Chocolates. Try not to press here. Tabloid news. Do not give them more hits than they deserve. But I will bring to your attention this article that does nothing but attempt to again demonize an entire transsexual community and brushing them with stereotypes. I shall substitute every mention of “pondan” [...] Continue Reading
Culture, Gay
The Faggiest Vampire
Posted on 14 April 2010
With eye-catching book titles such as the above, Carlton Mellick III’s books may not always be available on our shores — that is, if anyone at customs caught what the title means — but that really shouldn’t stop you from trying to get your hands on a copy. Certainly, other titles by the author like [...] Continue Reading
Gay, Videos
Sam Sparro — Black and Gold
Posted on 13 April 2010
“Cause if you’re not really here, then the stars don’t even matter. Now i’m filled to the top with fear, that it’s all just a bunch of matter” Australian musician, openly gay, and singing to some very sexy beats — Sam Sparro had a hit song with “Black and Gold”. You can watch the snazzy [...] Continue Reading
Homophobia, LGBTs, media, News, Transphobia
Ignorant Filmakers Sanctioned To Draw First Blood On Trans People.
Posted on 31 March 2010
Cross-posted from Yuki’s Box Of Chocolates: I do apologize for not writing much these days, as I have quite a number of things on my mind. However, something propped up last week in my-email that I feel needs to be addressed. Slightly reversing the decision by the Information, Communications and Culture Ministry last year that [...] Continue Reading
Call for Action
Malaysian Forum 2010 NYC: Harapan
Posted on 25 March 2010
For more information: http://www.malaysiaforum.org/nmf/ Come join many other Malaysians from around the US to talk about Malaysia, and the harapan we can have for our country. Join group discussions, and take part in the forum that will be broadcast live from KL. We’ll also be having a live Local Forum on ‘active citizenship’ and what [...] Continue Reading
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