
Visit Pride48.com to get the detailed schedule. Also visit the same site for the live even this weekend. There will also be a chat room. You can also use the hash tag #pride48 in Twitter to interact with the shows.
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 [...]
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, [...]
For those who missed the screening of the short film, Article 8, about the LGBTIQ community in Kuala Lumpur, head on over and check it out. Above is a screencap of Article 8 (click image to go to the page). A short film about the LGBTIQ community in KL which featured the likes of Shannon Shah, Juelie [...]
Speech delivered at the Malaysian Bar Council, Bar Council Human Rights Public Speaking Competition 2008 finals (1st prize), 12 Dec 2008: Good evening everyone. In this country, I’m the minority of minorities. Firstly, I’m a female. Secondly, I’m a Chinese and thirdly, I’m an agnostic. I’m glad to let you know that, throughout the 19 years of my life [...]
Posted on 01 July 2009
Many thanks to one of our readers, Padawan, for contributing this article. I got a little bit nutty this afternoon, nutty in a sense that I actually considered telling my mom that I am gay. I do not know what got into me this afternoon, but it never quite struck me before this that I should actually consider letting [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 25 June 2009
Great talk on self by Sarah Jones in one of the TED talk series. Her characters just blew me away. One of them talked about dealing with her daughter coming out. Check the video out Continue Reading
Posted on 18 June 2009
Good and shiny things to find in your inbox. A message from a friend, Sharanya, who is currently based in India and involved in Chennai’s first pride parade! Hi everyone, First of all — a big thank you to you all for your support! This is just to remind you about the event on Saturday, June 20th at [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 17 June 2009
(photo from White House Official Photostream on Flickr) This article is from NY Times: U.S. to Extend Its Job Benefits to Gay Partners President Obama will sign a presidential memorandum Wednesday to extend benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees, administration officials said Tuesday evening, but he will stop short of pledging full health insurance benefits. Mr. Obama [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 14 June 2009
I’d like to invite all of you to join a group of GLBTQ & friendly podcasters who are teaming up for a 48-hour live streaming radio marathon for Pride Month. I will be joining one or possibly more sessions. I am planning to take calls on Skype and phone calls. More information to follow, once the [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 12 June 2009
Thai students covering the Wonder Girls dance for the song Nobody. Apparently, this song was popular in Korea when my friend visited. You can see the five of them are having a lot of fun with this: It’s hard to imagine this dance happening in my school, we had embedded Western definitions of masculinity within ourselves. [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 06 June 2009
Hilarous yet educational! Enjoy. Love the bit on how the female stumped tail macaque has been observed to have the trademark “ejaculation” facial expression ONLY from mounting another female About this talk “Bonk” author Mary Roach delves into obscure scientific research, some of it centuries old, to make 10 surprising claims about sexual climax, ranging from the [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 04 June 2009
Congratulations to New Hampshire for becoming the 6th US state to legalize same-sex marriage. The other states include Vermont, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts & Connecticut. As disheartening as California Supreme Court’s decision to uphold Prop 8, the silver lining in this debacle is that more and more states are legalize same-sex marriage and/or recognizing domestic partnership. It’s [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 04 June 2009
R&B music usually falls outside my radar. Still, I am a bit familiar with “Single Ladies”, a video by Beyonce. Or rather, its effect of making certain famous lads don leotards and high heels to gyrate for the camera. The first, and quite infamous, video that I discovered belongs to SNL, where you have Beyonce leading [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 04 June 2009
Jakarta [3 June 2009]. On 9-13 August 2009, Bali will host the 9th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP) – the biggest congress on HIV and AIDS in the region. Approximately 3,000 delegates from 51 Asian and 14 Pacific countries are expected to attend this congress. The theme [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 02 June 2009
THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release June 1, 2009 LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENDER PRIDE MONTH, 2009 - – - – - – - BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Forty years ago, patrons and supporters of the Stonewall Inn in New York City resisted police harassment that had become all too [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 01 June 2009
Join PT Foundation and the Annexe Gallery for this film screening as a few human rights lawyers and film critic Benjamin McKay talk to us about blackmails on homosexuals, our legal rights and the decriminalisation of laws that target homosexuals. "Victim" (1961) is the first English movie to use the word "homosexual" and shocked the public. Closeted gay actor and British heartthrob Dirk Bogarde put his career at risk when he played a married lawyer being blackmailed for his homosexuality in a movie that gave dignity to the lives of homosexual men living with the threat of blackmail. Continue Reading
Posted on 31 May 2009
Pang Khee Teik, Arts Programs Director of the Annexe, is calling for all interested Malaysians - queer or not or neither - to be a part of the organizing committee or to provide suggestions for this year's Seksualiti Merdeka! Continue Reading