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

By Peter Montgomery

…e lower. India and United Kingdom: 50 years after decriminalization in UK, India hangs onto colonial era law At The Times of India, Vikram Doctor notes that the United Kingdom’s parliament voted to decriminalize homosexuality in 1967, asking why India “still hangs on to this colonial legacy” fifty years later. His piece includes history about the anti-sodomy law in the U.K. and the “morass of misuse, malice and misery” that it engendered, includin…

Indonesian Clerics Issue Anti-Gay Fatwa; Anti-Civil Union Peruvian Lawmaker Cites Hitler; Is Christianity more ‘un-African’ than Homosexuality?; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…lish and liberally quoting the Bible can dare indict anything for being un-African.” In a report from South Sudan, the Guardian’s Antony Loewenstein reports on the anti-gay agenda often connected to evangelical churches’ missionary work. He cites American evangelist Franklin Graham as an example: Samaritan’s Purse, run by Franklin Graham, son of the Christian evangelist Billy Graham, has a large presence in Africa and been active in Sudan since 19…

The Dark Side of BYU’s Honor Code

By Joanna Brooks

…reating serious backlash among BYU students and faculty. Since then, Honor Code enforcement has been conducted through referrals—even third party referrals—of suspect students to a campus Honor Code office, a system of enforcement that has created significant opportunities for abuse. (When I was a BYU 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 libe…

After Mumbai: Winning the Global War on Terror

By Mark Woodward

…to “Indianize” the war against America. The Deccan Plateau is a region in south central India with a large Muslim minority population, located hundreds of miles from Mumbai. It is impossible to assess the accuracy of these claims. As of Sunday morning, CNN and Channel News Asia have provided background information and stories of human tragedy, but no clear indication of who actually carried out the attack. The fact that the Indian government has…

The Fire Next Time: Tibetan Protests Spread

By Megan Sweas

…executive director of Students for a Free Tibet, who regularly travels to India for nonviolence trainings. In India, “their action is a little bit more spontaneous.” A New Revolution The March 10 National Uprising Day protest in Delhi was bigger than ever this year. Tempa Tsering, the official representative of the Dalai Lama, says more than 1,000 gathered in front of the United Nations’ office to mark the anniversary of the 1959 rebellion in Tib…

Inside Outsourced: Come See Where Your Jobs Went

By Haroon Moghul

… I think it helps that the film production community is more familiar with India and Indian culture than, say, 20 years ago. People have filmed there or have been invited to visit by friends or have been exposed to its culture through Bollywood or the music scene. So the knowledge of India reflected in the show is coming from a more realistic place, and the show can play with stereotypes Americans have of Indians in an honest way. Of course, there…

Broadcast Officials in China Censor Gay TV Characters

By Peter Montgomery

…the law, while completely missing the fundamental message. I am happy the South African Church is now accepting and welcoming everyone including us homosexuals. However, I will not rest until all of Africa, and the entire world has followed in their Christian footsteps, and shown love and acceptance to LGBTI people everywhere. Human rights lawyer Walter Atoh has written an open letter to the president of Cameroon, Paul Biya, urging him to take ac…

Trans Protections in India and Malta; Death-by-Stoning Law in Brunei; Church-State Divides on Marriage

By Peter Montgomery

…exual activity,” which could be the lead in to overturn Section 377 of the Indian Penal code that still criminalizes consensual same-sex conduct, a remnant from an 1860 British Colonial Era law that exists in many constitutions across the Commonwealth countries even today. Malta: Civil Union & Adoption Law, Trans Protections in Constitution This week the parliament of Malta passed, and President Marie Louise Coleiro Preca signed into law, a civil…

Religion, AIDS, & Africa, After Obama

By John Blevins

…n an African country. At the same time I was at a conference in Cape Town, South Africa, sponsored by the African Religious Health Assets Program (ARHAP), an interdisciplinary group of scholars and practitioners in the social sciences, public health, and religious studies, that explores the role of religion in addressing the challenges facing contemporary African cultures. In one presentation, a speaker referenced the Accra speech, focusing on one…

LGBT’s, Opponents Prep for Vatican Synod; UN Rights Council Adopts LGBT Resolution; Brazil’s Evangelicals Eye Presidency; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Montenegro, Peru, Philippines, South Korea, South Africa, Macedonia, the U.K., Venezuela and Vietnam voted for the proposal. Algeria, Botswana, Cote d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Gabon, Indonesia, Kenya, Kuwait, Maldives, Morocco, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates opposed it. Burkina Faso, China, Congo, India, Kazakhstan, Namibia and Sierra Leone abstained. The U.N. Human Rights Council before the fin…