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What Fidel Castro’s Death Means for LGBT Rights in Cuba and More, in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…n Rights Council’s report with the independent expert position intact. The Sri Lanka Guardian noted that Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Mongolia, Thailand, Vietnam, Turkey and the Korean Republic were among the countries voting to sustain the independent expert position. And, as the AFK Insider reports, South Africa’s government, which had criticized the independent expert position, ultimately voted against the African Group’s effort to kill it. But as Reut…

BYU Honor Code Used to Harass Black Atheletes

By Joanna Brooks

…rential status accorded to BYU athletes as well as the potential for honor code enforcement abuse. Twenty years ago, when I worked for the independent BYU student newspaper Student Review, we regularly ran exposés on honor code enforcement abuses of students whose differences—anything from protesting the Iraq War, to having a tattoo, to being black—made them vulnerable in a community that placed a high priority on conformity. In 1994, the Student…

World Congress of Families Blessed By Georgian Orthodox Patriarch and George W. Bush; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ti-LGBT lobby in Italy are plotting to force a referendum” on the new law. Sri Lanka: Group With Record of Hostility to Religious Minorities Threatens to Attack Pride Celebration A far-right group has threatened that it will attack a pride celebration scheduled to be held in Colombo in June. The Tamil Guardian posted translations of Facebook posts from the group Sinhale: “How many fags do we have here in Colombo? NGOs are obtaining a good dowry fr…

The Dark Side of BYU’s Honor Code

By Joanna Brooks

…student, it was possible to make an anonymous third-party referral.) Honor Code enforcement on campus has been used to bait and target gays and liberals and (as Sanders remembered from her own experience) to shut down student anti-war protests. Clerical leaders serving BYU student congregations have been expected to report content from private confession and counseling interactions to University authorities, impacting the ability for young people…

Buddhism And Politics in Myanmar: An Author Interview

By Matthew Walton

…ntity and Difference, Ananda Abeysekara’s book on Buddhism and politics in Sri Lanka. I’m continually impressed with how effectively he holds onto a framing that sees the very categories whose solidity we usually assume (religion, Buddhism, monk, etc) as only ever coming into view at particular moments, usually moments in which their centrality, resonance or very definition are being contested. It’s incredibly challenging to consistently incorpora…

LGBT Victories at Olympics, Struggles in Brazil; Catholic Bishops Organizing Anti-Marriage Equality Protests in Mexico; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…brations, adding Montreal to earlier appearances in Toronto and Vancouver. Sri Lanka: Challenges for gender-nonconforming people Human Rights Watch issued a report on discrimination and abuse faced by people who challenge gender norms. Myanmar: Activists urge inclusion of LGBT people under legislation on violence against women The Myanmar Times examines ongoing conversations about protecting LGBT people under a draft law on the prevention of viole…

How a Mormon Spring Break Ritual Came to Include a Whole Lot of “Hare Krishna, Hare Rama”

By Spencer Dew

…tional costume, or language—all things the kids dancing on the lawn of the Sri Sri Radha Krishna Temple will likely encounter first hand in the course of their global mission work. To Mormon participants, then, the Festival is less “a revival” than “a rock concert with spiritual influences.” It is not understood to be “transformative” in the cosmic, metaphysical manner Das believes it to be, but merely in the social sense of bridging distance betw…

Win For ‘Natural Family’ Crowd at UN Human Rights Council…

By Peter Montgomery

…aring in a case brought by human rights activist Maurice Tomlinson against TV stations that refused in 2012 to run a 30-second ad calling for respect for the human rights of LGBTI people. Sri Lanka: Equality group releases pride video EQUAL GROUND released “Nothing But Pride,” a music video that encourages people to be “proud and gay.”…

2023 in Review: Year One Without Roe, GOP Code Red, SCOTUS Gone Wild… and a Ray of Hope

By Annika Brockschmidt

…polls are to be trusted, Trump is their guy. Not despite, but probably because of, what he says—be it promises of “retribution,” plans to use the military to quell protests on the day of his inauguration, or his dictatorial fantasies. As 2023 comes to an end, the stakes in US politics are higher than ever, with 2024 dawning as a critical juncture determining whether or not the country will slip into authoritarian rule—so it’s particularly devastat…

When Religion Kills: The Narco-Traffickers of the Borderlands

By Luis Leon

…ticularly in its absolute theism, but their model is communitarian, and focused on obedience. The opening of the Code makes it clear that it is meant to be recited. In fact, according to the Mexican press, initiation is marked by an elaborate ritual involving flagellation. There the initiate is made to swear by the code, including its provision of death if the pledge is broken—a caveat that is repeated several times throughout the recitation. Amon…