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

By Peter Montgomery

…equality. The Panamanian Alliance for Life and the Family and the Evangelical Alliance of Panama argued against the idea that restricting marriage to a man and a woman is unconstitutional. La Prensa quotes a lawyer for the Panamanian Alliance for Life and the Family saying that marriage equality proponents are trying to “implant” a U.S. theory into Panama. The attorney for the Evangelical Alliance made a similar argument, saying that marriage equa…

Turkish Police Move Against Activists Who Defied Pride Ban; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…wn in recent years, was a criminal offence until 1993 and classed as a mental illness until 1999. The Russian Justice Ministry said in a statement it did not agree with the court and pledged to appeal the ruling within three months. It said the law was solely designed “to defend morality and children’s health” and did not amount to a ban or public condemnation of homosexuality. Human rights defenders say the contested law has been broadly applied…

#NamaSlay, Or How Black Women Are Using Trap Yoga as a Mode of Spiritual Resistance

By Anita Little

…fice. Asia Jones, creator of trap yoga She began practicing vinyasa yoga while still a college student in 2010, and became a certified instructor in 2014. Feeling out of place as the only black girl in the yoga studios she visited, Jones would often sit on her deck at home and play artists like Migos or Kendrick Lamar as she did her asanas. It became a sacred, personal time where she was able to replenish her spirit. She wanted to share this feeli…

When a Pride March Means Owning the Shame of Racial and Economic Injustice

By Peter Laarman

…d’s powerful gay white men doing a whole lot of sustained resisting when their unacknowledged core values—white supremacy and the rule of wealth—align so comfortably with those of the Trumpians….

Pride Month & Prejudice; ‘Worrisome Time’ For LGBT People; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…on of forces in opposition to that progress.” On Wednesday, ARC International will sponsor a side event at the Human Rights Council on extra-judicial killings based on sexuality and gender. In a story whose existence seems like some kind of cultural milestone, the New York Times reported on California-born Pakistanti-American Ali Mushtaq competing in the International Mr. Leather competition. The Times’ Erik Piepenburg called Mushtaq’s presence “a…

Meeting on the Bridge: Fr. James Martin’s Ministry to LGBT Catholics Becomes a Book

By Kaya Oakes

…struggle in the church between women and LGBT people? It’s an interesting parallel. I always look to the work of feminist theologians to help me understand how Scriptures are interpreted through a patriarchal lens, with an eye to pushing women out, or down, or excluded. That spirit, which I imbibed during my graduate theology studies, has really helped me to appreciate the way that the church can subjugate people, intentionally or unintentionally…

A Pence Presidency Would Give Margaret Atwood’s Dystopian Vision a Run for its Money

By Diane Winston

…a Hollywood movie, and one of its central characters, played by Robert Duvall, always stuck with me. Robert Duvall as the Commander, in the 1990 movie adaptation of “The Handmaid’s Tale.” Duvall’s “Commander” is a calm, square-jawed man with an air of quiet authority. He doesn’t seem like a despot, but he is an architect of a puritanical society that shutters schools, restricts women, executes “non-conformists,” and mandates 24/7 surveillance of…

Global Anti-Gay Forces Plot Against ‘Satanic’ Equality Movement

By Peter Montgomery

…ion headed by the Bishop of Tamassos presented a petition to the Presidential Palace earlier on Saturday voicing opposition to legislative changes. Some 50 people belonging to a fringe religious group organised a counter march in Nicosia and there were scuffles with police when they tried to approach the place where the gay pride was due to end. UK: Church Bans Clergy from Far-Right Parties; Witness Store Owner Refuses Gay Couples “The Church of E…

Blankets, Booties, and Jesus: Spiritual War on the Uterus in Rick Perry’s Texas

By Sarah Posner

…contrary to God’s will, but that it will cause them untold harm, from mental health problems to breast cancer, infertility, and even death. While medical evidence says otherwise, such falsehoods have been codified into law in Texas. Its 2003 “right to know” law, never challenged in court, requires doctors to “inform” women seeking abortions of a supposed link between abortion and a higher risk of breast cancer and future infertility, in addition…

Global LGBT Recap: World Vision Caves, World Congress of Families Vamps, God Weeps

By Peter Montgomery

…by gays and lesbians. Marriages and civil unions held in other countries will also be recognized. A representative of the Equality Rights Group said he hoped that Spain’s ongoing assertion of sovereignty over Gibraltar would not prevent the country from recognizing the civil unions, since Spain itself has adopted marriage equality. European Parliament Video on Lingering LGBT Prejudice The European Parliament released a video presenting the result…