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Vatican Enlists Allies Against Gay Marriage; Iranian Gays Pushed to Change Gender; And More in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ance of, and legal protections for, LGBT people have lagged behind Western Europe. “Latvia enacted a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage in 2005, and very few gay men and lesbians in the country are open about their sexuality,” according to the Post. “A law that would confine sex education in schools to traditional opposite-sex marriage is making its way through Parliament.” The Washington Blade reports that Rinkēvičs’ announcement, made with…

Hey Hey, Ho Ho White Jesus Has to Go… But The Issue is More Complicated Than You Think

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…tion from a culturally specific depiction of Jesus as white within Western Europe, to the emergence of Jesus as a “white god” occurred during the period of Native American dispossession, African enslavement, and later during the era of colonization of Africa and Asia. The transformation of ancient and medieval color symbolism into racial discrimination and prejudice didn’t require graphic depictions of the divine, as David M. Goldenberg astutely a…

Is Bill Barr’s Belief in a Powerful President Actually Religious? A ‘High Papal’ Fable

By Ivan Strenski

…Holland also claims seven novels to his name, several TV documentaries, a number of radio broadcasts, a play or two, and a translation of Herodotus’s Histories, all the while holding down a staff position with The Guardian. Taken as a whole, Holland’s entire oeuvre seems a colossal myth-making enterprise geared to reintroducing the West to its own formation. Taken in itself, Dominion often maddeningly, sometimes entertainingly, rambles through tw…

Burma’s Spirit Festival, and More in This Week’s Global LGBT Roundup

By Peter Montgomery

…n, who has warned LGBT people against becoming “provocative,” and with any number of European populists who promise a return to a mythical “traditional” past. Gessen notes that a year ago she wrote that she believed Trump would target the LGBT community ”because its acceptance is the most clear and drastic social change in America of the last decade, so an antigay campaign would capture the desire to return to a time in which Trump’s constituency…

How to Prevent Ethnic Cleansing in Syria

By Haroon Moghul

…tinational states and empires; increasingly, these are a memory. While the European Union as a whole is stunningly diverse, each individual country tries to package itself as the realization of one people’s sovereignty. Estonia is for Estonians, and Austria is for Austrians. Most of the exceptions have been undone; Czechoslovakia is a thing of the past, and Yugoslavia’s implosion underlines the case. Belgium is destined to go down this road. Even…

Trump Order A ‘Death Sentence’ For Some LGBT Refugees? Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ting based on moral and religious reasons rather than on the legal issues. European Union: Parliament calls for recognition of adoptions without discrimination The European Parliament adopted a report on February 2 “demanding the automatic recognition of domestic adoption orders” – without discrimination on the basis of parents’ sexual orientation – across EU member states. Sudan: Mini-documentary on brutal realities of life for LGBT Sudanese Mesa…

Don’t Call it a Turkish Spring

By Haroon Moghul

…. I hate the adjective nearly as much as I am offended by the conceit that Europe is a continent—who can hold a straight face when told that an arbitrary line through the Urals constitutes the stuff difference is made of?—but I have to use it. Too much trampoline journalism. Bounce into Taksim and bounce out. Out of the Echo Chamber As early as the 1960s, religious Turks began to come out into the open. By the early 21st century, Erdogan, onetim…

Jesus, Santa, and Now Sound of Music‘s Mother Abbess?

By Shannen Dee Williams

…ntinue to serve) in the Americas and Africa, the presence of black nuns in European convents is not a recent phenomenon. In fact, one of the first documented black nuns in Europe was Louise Marie-Therese, the famed Black Nun of Moret, who took the religious habit in 1695 and remained at Benedictine abbey at Moret-sur-Loing in France until her death in 1732. Kidnapped off the coast of present-day Ghana and sold into Spanish slavery as a child aroun…

Global LGBT Recap: Asylum for Victims of Homophobia Exports; Orthodox Church Sees Anti-Gay Campaign Turned Toward Itself

By Peter Montgomery

…taff to work on the problems facing LGBT people in Russia, Uganda, Eastern Europe, and elsewhere. India: US Offers Asylum While Exporting Homophobia Speaking of aslyum, IndiaWest reported last week that an Indian gay couple who had been held for six months in Immigrations and Customs Enforcement detention facilities in El Paso, Texas, were granted asylum in December. Jagdish Kumar and Sukhwinder Sukhwinder left India in June 2012 and travelled by…

Global LGBT Recap: Religious Leaders Support Persecution as Countries Vie in Homophobia Olympics

By Peter Montgomery

…y another person.” Serbia and Kosovo: Record on LGBTI Rights Criticized by European Parliament Last week the European Parliament adopted resolutions condemning the treatment of LGBT people in Serbia and Kosovo. According to PinkNews, one report condemned Serbian authorities’ decision to ban a planned Belgrade Pride Parade last year for the third year in a row. The parade had been opposed by Christian Orthodox Patriarch Irinej, who said a “parade o…