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Soccer and the Sublime in the Shadow of Apartheid

By Preston Davis

…n so I can live like a white one.” This year the tournament takes place in South Africa. It’s imagined to be that country’s global moment of redemption to overshadow the long shadow of apartheid. President Zuma sees 2010 as South Africa’s most significant year since 1994, the year apartheid ended. This could be the case. A tilted economy remains in South Africa (as in the entire globalized economy), setting in unreasonable and unnecessary sufferin…

Global LGBT Recap: Promise and Peril in the New Year

By Peter Montgomery

…la Nation Joe Morgan of Gay Star News reported on New Year’s Day that some South African activists are concerned that the legacy of Nelson Mandela, which included the groundbreaking inclusion of sexual orientation in the Constitution, could be at risk in his absence. President Jacob Zuma, as well as several other representatives in South Africa, have made homophobic comments in the past. ‘When I was growing up, an ungqingili [a gay] would not have…

Church=State in Putin’s Orthodox Empire?; Evangelical-Orthodox Anti-Gay Alliance; Malaysian Court Protects Transwomen; Catholicism (Still) Declining in Latin America; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…. But who is to decide what constitutes a “vice against nature”? The Portuguese legislators had been too coy to mention gay sex explicitly, and so a meaningless clause entered the statute books, which no court could act upon. This year, the Penal Code was rewritten. The new Penal Code sweeps away a great deal of the musty colonial legacy, including the mention of “vices against nature”. Now not even the most contorted of arguments could claim that…

Religious Traditionalists Resist Marriage Equality, Artist Questions What Is “Un-African” & More in This Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…partners: Marriage equality is legal in 22 countries, including Argentina, South Africa and the United States. Germany is not one of them. But now members of the junior governing Social Democratic Party (SPD) are pushing to change that. They are calling on their coalition partners, the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) and Christian Social Union (CSU), to go along with a change of law that would grant same-sex couples the right to get married…

Global LGBT Recap:Culture War Exports, Mob Violence and Kidnapping as Weapon of Homophobia

By Peter Montgomery

…ian Africa, tools like contextual Bible study, developed in post-apartheid South Africa, provide new ways to read the Bible and what it has to say about sexuality and other central issues in the lives of African Christians. These new readings of old texts encourage Christians to accept LGBT people as God’s children. Even so, progressive African Christians are fighting an uphill battle. The voices of strident homophobic leaders in Africa have been…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…nce.” At Huffington Post last week, Fareen Walji with Urgent Action Fund – Africa reviewed LGBT-related developments, good and bad, from Africa this year. Walji concludes, “My hope is that whilst we work to advocate against each new piece of legislation that criminalizes love in Africa, we also celebrate in the spaces where transgender people are seen just as people, and LGBQTI citizens are afforded the same rights to live their lives in the way t…

Why The Book of Mormon (the Musical) is Awesomely Lame

By Jared Farmer

…outdated reference to a folk-belief about “virgin-cleansing” that began in South Africa). One of the musical’s running gags—a young female convert believes she can use a typewriter to send text-messages—is simply groundless. East Africans are among the most adept users of cell phones in the world. The plot twists at the end raise questions about the racial politics of the show. Only a threat of American violence saves the villagers from the tyrann…

Is Mitt’s Mormonism Responsible for South Carolina Loss?

By Joanna Brooks

…for Rick Santorum, and 21% for Ron Paul. It is also worthy of note that in South Carolina Mitt Romney actually improved his share of self-identified Protestant voters. In 2008, Romney won about 13% of South Carolina Protestants; in 2012, that number grew to 27%. Certainly, data shows that anti-Mormon sentiment played a role in Romney’s fortunes, but here are five other takeaways from South Carolina data: 1. Anti-Mormon sentiment may be fading amo…

A Comedy Writer Confronts ‘Mind-Shredding Evil’ in Uganda

By Frederick Clarkson

…year published a fascinating account of his experiences under the radar in Africa called Tall Grass, after the elephant grass which hides not just rebel child soldiers but all the mysteries in Africa. What do you make of Kony’s claim to be a religious leader and how he carries himself in this role? Kony shows many signs of brain damage, or at least advanced mental illness, so I wouldn’t authorize any grants to his church at this time. But if you c…

Pope and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Declare Shared View of Marriage & Family; Government & Muslim Officials Ramp Up Anti-LGBT Rhetoric in Indonesia; Australian Religious Leaders Ask Parliament to Act on Marriage Equality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…severely limit organizing by them and other human rights advocates. Formal registration as a group is already forbidden to L.G.B.T.I. organizations. In this campaign to suffocate the civic space for L.G.B.T.I. groups, the Uganda Registration Bureau explained its refusal to register the leading umbrella group, Sexual Minority Uganda, or SMUG, by declaring that the name itself “offends the law.“ The bureau labeled the group “undesirable,” explaining…