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Gallery: National Equality March 2009, Washington D.C.

The biggest LGBT rights rally in America since the commencement of Obama’s administration. Read more on CNN. Enjoy the photos! Yours truly at the White House. Say, Malaysians, when are you going to speak up?

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Events, Featured

Seksualiti Merdeka 2009 — programme

Dust off those schedules, people, Seksualiti Merdeka is coming your way! The theme for the second year is “Our Bodies, Our Rights”. Do we have the right to privacy? Do we have the right to our own bodies? Do we all deserve to be treated equally regardless of our sexuality? Yes, yes and yes. It should not matter [...]

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Bisexual, Culture, Family, Featured, Gay, LGBTs, Lesbian, Plucked, Queer, Queer Science, Transgender

Boy or Girl? X: A Fabulous Child’s Story by Lois Gould

This wonderful story on the social construction of gender is a MUST-READ for everyone. A Fabulous Child’s Story by Lois Gould Once upon a time, a baby named X was born. This baby was named X so that nobody could tell whether it was a boy or a girl. Its parents could tell, of course, but they couldn’t [...]

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Featured, Fiction, Transgender

In the future, you too can be a beautiful man-elf.

Mangas and animes, with their various examples of gender-bending friendliness (and awful stereotypes), can sometimes be your best resort in a book or dvd store. You know, one of those days when you’d like a romantic comedy, and it’d be kinda nice if the story was about (in my case) two girls and their happy [...]

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Critique, Featured, Lesbian, Plucked

Of Penal Code 377, Lesbian Sex and Patriarchy

There are countless ironies in life. The fact that our religious institutions are more concerned with persecuting lovers than haters, for example. Or the fact that as a society, we are more comfortable with the idea of men holding guns than holding hands. To the list, I want to add: the fact that our society’s patriarchal, [...]

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Uncategorized

Meditations on Genderfucking and the Role of Consensual Fucking

Posted on 19 February 2010

"As queer theory begins questioning the institution of marriage, single-partnered romantic relationships, family structure, and reproductive sex, let us still make room for conscious consent." Continue Reading

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Gay, LGBTs, News, media

Malaysian man fails to overturn sodomy ban, 60-year jail term to stay

Posted on 30 January 2010

A Malaysian man has failed in a bid to overturn a ban on sodomy, after a court ruled that the law criminalising the act was constitutional, his lawyer said Tuesday. A Malaysian man has failed in a bid to overturn a ban on sodomy, after a court ruled that the law criminalising the act was constitutional, [...] Continue Reading

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Announcement, Gay, News, Queer Science

Petition: Official Apology for Alan Turing

Posted on 18 August 2009

There’s currently a petition calling for an official posthumous apology from the British government to Alan Turing, often considered as the father of modern computer science. From the official petition on the British Prime Minister’s website: Alan Turing was the greatest computer scientist ever born in Britain. He laid the foundations of computing, helped break the Nazi [...] Continue Reading

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Call for Action, Videos

The Picture of Dorian Gray / dealing with Harian Metro

Posted on 15 August 2009

Oscar Wilde’s only published novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, is due for a film adaptation. Dorian Gray will be released in September, 2009. Wilde’s sexuality has been much discussed —he was definitely not heterosexual, and the hedenostic protagonist of his creation, Dorian Gray, follows suit. For those unfamiliar with this story, here is a brief recap; [...] Continue Reading

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Critique, LGBTs, Lesbian, News, media

Harian Metro strikes again!

Posted on 13 August 2009

I guess being labeled "sesat", "songsang", and "maksiat" is what we queers have to get used to in Malaysia. Really, it's not as bad as arbitrary arrests, unexplained deaths, and authoritarian rule. Besides, it's only little miss Sarah Zukifli who thinks so - I bet many of us are laughing (and cringing) at her desperate claim to "religion + conservative values + eastern tradition" axis of power used so frequently to otherize those just different from Sarah Zukifli. Continue Reading

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Videos

Interview with Jac SM Kee

Posted on 13 August 2009

This year, with the theme “Our Bodies, Our Rights”, the festival is focusing on issues that affect everyone, such as privacy, moral policing and human rights. We speak with co-organiser and feminist activist Jac SM Kee to find out more. Jac SM Kee is is a feminist writer, activist, poet and occasional painter. She has written [...] Continue Reading

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Coming Out, Culture, LGBTs, Queer

“Everytime we fuck, we win.”

Posted on 11 August 2009

Being queer is not about a right to privacy; it is about the freedom to be public, to just be who we are. Continue Reading

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Ex-Gay Myth, LGBTs

Programs to change gays to straights don’t work, report says

Posted on 07 August 2009

In a follow-up to an article posted on Tilted World by Yuki Choe, these news pieces are also a response toward ex-gay ministries and their stand that being LGBTQ is a defect in a person's morality and spirituality, ex-gay ministries such as Malaysia and Singapore's Real Love Ministry and Pursuing Love Under Christ. Continue Reading

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Arts, Videos

Poetics from Youtube

Posted on 05 August 2009

I don’t know about you, but Youtube is a wonderful source of procrastination for me. Each time I can’t get work done, I head there and preload videos as an incentive to meet (or miss) my deadlines. Lately, I’ve been on a binge of poetry videos, and I thought I’d mix some up here to share [...] Continue Reading

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Call for Action, Coming Out

Sayoni launches preliminary version of Coming Out Guide

Posted on 03 August 2009

Sayoni presents the first ever Coming Out Guide in Singapore. Please provide your feedback on the guide. This preliminary version of the guide was launched on 1 August, at the opening of IndigNation 2009, Singapore’s pride season. From Launch of Coming Out Guide (preliminary version) While I haven’t read the entire pdf, I did manage to go through [...] Continue Reading

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LGBTs, Life, Queer, media

Commentary: Gay is not the new black

Posted on 03 August 2009

Bars such as The Prop House, or Bulldogs in Atlanta, Georgia, exist because a large number of gay blacks -- particularly those who date other blacks, and live in the black community -- do not feel a part of the larger gay movement. There are Gay Pride celebrations, and then there are Black Gay Prides. Continue Reading

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LGBTs, Life

Episcopal Church Picks Gay Priests for Promotion

Posted on 03 August 2009

By THE NEW YORK TIMES Published: August 2, 2009 Only weeks after the Episcopal Church ended a de facto moratorium on promoting gay men and lesbians into the church hierarchy, church leaders in Los Angeles nominated two openly gay priests as assistant bishops on Sunday. The move came a day after a church search committee in Minnesota announced [...] Continue Reading

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LGBTs, Pictures

Equal Love: a rally of thousands

Posted on 03 August 2009

On the 1st of August 2009, I was amongst thousands of supporters at the National Day of Action for Same Sex Marriage rally in Fed Square, Melbourne. This day of action is part of a nationwide campaign, Equal Love, which is in its fifth year of pressuring the government into legalising same sex marriages. In 2008, [...] Continue Reading

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Events

KLPRIDE 2009 [Updated]

Posted on 16 July 2009

Party coming up next month, organised by Rainbow Nite and theKLword. It’s a pride party for everyone, and also a pre-Mini O party (the Mini O party is 14th August, a week after KL Pride). The Mini O is a party that leaves an impression, so this associated party could be a blast too: KLPRIDE 2009 [...] Continue Reading

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