#anti-gay law

[trilzmedia]

Police probe woman over sodomy claims

Police probe woman over sodomy claims

Police are investigating a woman, who posted an audio that went viral on social media claiming that her husband had sodomised their children.Police say they suspect the woman is fabricating information to taint the image of her partner with whom she is battling a divorce case in court. In the viral audio, the woman severally alleges that the husband sexually abused their two children, but the…

[suncatstudiosyt]

!!⚠️ HUGE ALERT ON KOSA ⚠️!!

KOSA is being voted in Senate this Thursday!!! Call now! Sign everything you can now!!

[menalez]

homosexuality has no race nor religion (not to mention that not every palestinian is a religious muslim... even if they were, why should ppl support war crimes against them regardless?). the same way u will come across 'gay christians' u will come across 'gay muslims', the same way u will come across 'christian allies' u will come across 'muslim allies'. the same way u will come across religious muslim homophobes, u will find christian ones:

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Elsie Carson-Holt at LGBTQ Nation:

The Bulgarian parliament passed a law banning “propaganda [of] non-traditional sexual orientation and/or gender identity other than the biological one” in schools across the country yesterday, as the country falls in line with Russia’s push against LGBTQ+ existing in public. The ban comes via changes to the 2020 Pre-school and School Education Act. It was proposed by the pro-Russia Vazrazhdane Party and passed 159 votes to 22 out of the 240-person parliament, Politico reports. It was condemned by LGBTQ+ rights advocates who protested in the country’s capital of Sofia and chanted, “Shame on you.” The gay rights group Deystvie said that “Bulgaria is following in Russia’s footsteps.”

Bulgaria follows Russia’s lead by passing an anti-LGBTQ+ law banning nontraditional sexual orientation and/or gender identity in schools.

[hadesoftheladies]

the funny thing about people in the oppressor class is that they are so ignorant and entitled they genuinely believe that the oppressed are privileged in some way

a white person will complain about how “black people have all the jobs and they have a special privilege now because everyone hates the poor white man”

a man will say that he wishes he were a woman so “I can just cook and clean and let my guy bring home the bacon and stay with kids and not go to war and be given free drinks at the club”

and a straight person will say “you gays are so lucky that everything caters to you nowadays, I get so bullied for being straight because it’s ‘vanilla’”

they say this with no critical analysis of the nature of these systems in the first place, and they show they have no actual grasp on the real lived experiences that these people go through everyday. they’ll bring up shallow, niche scenarios that they themselves or a friend of a friend witnessed and run with that to the point of delusion saying “see? I told you these guys weren’t oppressed! It was us all along!”

racism still abounds in even more degrading levels today (blackness and “Asian girl” are now a porn categories that are accepted as morally okay, we’ve seen black kids shot for no reason and the white shooter gets more funding for the court case than the victims family), misogyny has reached astronomical heights on the internet alone (don’t even get me started on how lockdowns had women getting murdered by their husbands in faster rates and how predatory behavior in younger boys has become more prevalent, abortion rights are almost nonexistent nowadays), and gay people are still getting murdered brutally, in fact their rights are being revoked and in other countries, the judicial punishment is getting harsher.

you’re so privileged you don’t even know what privilege means because you’ve never had to fight for it and never lived without it

these people are so inhuman to you that you think their suffering is fun and you want the “experience” of it

fuck off sincerely

[uncanny-tranny]

Gay marriage happened in my generation where I live, and I'm just... so baffled at how quickly people have forgotten how much the anti-gay marriage "arguments" overlap with and mirror the current anti-trans "arguments."

It honestly feels like we're on a merry-go-round where everybody celebrates progressiveness while also finding the next group to spew the same "reasonings" over. Progress truly won't happen until we destroy this merry-go-round.

[commiepinkofag]

Russian Supreme Court To Hear Justice Ministry Lawsuit Calling For LGBT Movement To Be Designated 'Extremist'

The Russian Supreme Court will hear a lawsuit filed by the Justice Ministry calling for the "international LGBT movement" to be designated "extremist" and its activities in Russia banned. The lawsuit will be heard on November 30, according to the Justice Ministry's website. The lawsuit, filed on November 17, alleges that "signs and manifestations of an extreme nature" had been identified in the "activities of the LGBT movement operating on the territory of the Russian Federation." The activities, the ministry added, included "the incitement of social and religious hatred" that it said violate Russia's Law on Countering Extremist Activity. The ministry did not define what it considered the "international LGBT movement" to be in its lawsuit. More >

📷 | Arrests of queer activists at a May Day demonstration in 2017 in St. Petersburg

UPDATE:

Russia's Supreme Court upholds the "International LGBT Movement" as an "extremist organization"

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Adam Zivo

Published: Nov 30, 2023

Given the chance, Hamas would murder every LGBTQ person in the world

Amid renewed conflict in Gaza, a startling number of queer progressives are romanticizing Palestinians and playing down their hatred towards LGBTQ people. This whitewashing is wrong, no matter how legitimate Palestinian calls for self-determination may be.

Since the early 2000s, radical queer activists have fervently advocated for Palestinian rights under the assumption that, as both communities oppose the capitalist West, “queer liberation” cannot be disentangled from “anti-imperialism.”

This has never made much sense. Strategically aligning against a shared enemy does not necessarily make two groups friends. There are obvious tensions between Palestinians and the LGBTQ community that cannot be ignored — mainly the fact that most Palestinians, along with their political leaders, hate gay and trans people and many want them dead.

In a 2019 poll conducted by the BBC, only five per cent of Palestinians in the West Bank approved of homosexuality — which was the lowest rate within the Middle East and North Africa. Gazans are generally excluded from this research, but local Islamic law mandates death or 10 years of imprisonment for homosexuality.

LGBTQ people face such dire threats to their safety in Gaza and the West Bank that hundreds have fled to Israel as refugees. When interviewed by the United Nations, escapees have recounted harrowing torture and death threats from both family members and Palestinian security forces. Yet even abroad, these people are not safe. Last year, Ahmad Abu Marhia, a 25-year-old gay man living under asylum in Israel, was kidnapped and then beheaded in the West Bank just two months before he was scheduled to immigrate to Canada.

Despite this, activists throughout the West have paraded signs bearing the message “Queers for Palestine” — a slogan that some have ridiculed as the equivalent of “Chickens for KFC.” Earlier this month a banner was hung in the University of British Columbia reading: “Trans liberation can’t happen without Palestinian liberation.”

It’s unclear why LGBTQ rights are in any way dependent on Palestinian self-determination — activist explanations here tend to be vague and muddled at best.

Is the argument that no disadvantaged social group can be free until all are? If that’s the case, then why is this logic rarely, if ever, applied to antisemitism? And if all disadvantaged groups need support, then why should any LGBTQ person, who has limited resources and time, prioritize the Palestinians over the many other communities fighting for rights and attention in the world today?

While LGBTQ people have no special obligation to support Palestinians, there is nothing wrong with defending Palestinians’ fundamental rights despite their rampant homophobia — the validity of these rights is not conditional on moral perfection, after all. If a gay man can support Afghan and Iranian women, or Uyghur Muslims, all of whom have their own prejudices, then Palestinians can be reasonably supported as well.

Deciding what social causes to support is a deeply personal choice for anyone — some LGBTQ people prioritize Palestinians, and others don’t. Each option is understandable, but which path one chooses to take should, ideally, be based on accurate information.

Rather than allow this, though, the queer left uses misleading arguments to inflate support for the Palestinian cause — firstly, by fabricating an artificial obligation to Palestinian liberation, and, secondly, by playing down the severity of Palestinian homophobia (and, by extension, Islamic homophobia).

Queer leftists are quick to argue that the Qur’an’s language on homosexuality is ambiguous, while ignoring the fact that the hadiths, which are the canonical teachings of the Prophet Muhammad, explicitly prohibit homosexuality. Muslim-majority countries do not pass discriminatory legislation arbitrarily — they work off mainstream interpretations of Shariah law.

Some queer leftists try to exonerate Palestinians of any moral responsibility for their homophobia by blaming western colonialism. To make this argument, they typically fixate on the fact that legal prohibitions on homosexuality were first introduced into the region by the British in 1936.

But the British ruled this part of the Middle East for only 30 years (from 1918 to 1948) and implemented sodomy laws for barely more than a decade. Palestinians have had 75 years to improve their attitudes and laws, but haven’t done so and show no desire for change — even though the Israelis, who also inherited these laws, were able to shed this baggage decades ago.

To blame contemporary Palestinian homophobia on a relatively brief, long-dead period of colonial rule is inane and patronizing. It implies that the Palestinians have no moral agency; that their beliefs and institutions are simply dictated by western policy choices; and that they are incapable of being held to the same ethical standards as Europeans.

Another minimization strategy is to argue that Islamic homophobia is not much worse than what is experienced in the West. For example, world-famous drag queen Katya Zamolodchikova (an Irish-American who cosplays as a Soviet citizen) recently claimed on X that anti-LGBTQ violence in Gaza is comparable to that in Scotland or Massachusetts. The post went viral and was liked over 140,000 times.

The last time I checked, gay people are not beheaded or routinely tortured in the West. While some anti-LGTBQ violence exists, only very coddled westerners can delude themselves into believing that this is similar to what occurs in Gaza, the West Bank or the rest of the Islamic world.

Some queer leftists also nonsensically claim that criticizing Palestinian homophobia “erases the existence of queer Palestinians” — but absolutely no one, except maybe Hamas, is saying that LGBTQ Palestinians don’t exist. Calling attention to social prejudice actually spotlights victims who would otherwise be forgotten. This should be glaringly obvious.

The queer left’s tendency to romanticize Palestinians and ignore their homophobia may seem strange at first, but it becomes intelligible when one remembers that this crowd often subscribes to a strain of “anti-imperialism” that interprets the world through a simplistic and reflexively anti-western framework.

This framework divides the world into a simple binary: oppressors (who are unambiguously evil) and the oppressed (who are morally pure). “Anti-imperialists” assume that: i) communities that oppose the West overwhelmingly fall into the “oppressed” class; ii) members of this class tend to have similar political and social priorities; and iii) political violence committed by the oppressed automatically counts as morally justified “resistance.”

Of course, the world does not actually conform to this framework, because global conflicts are far more nuanced than anti-imperialists are willing to admit. There is no black-and-white divide between good and evil, and no grand coalition of victims — real life is too diverse and fractured for such a simplistic narrative.

Yet false simplicity provides comfort to many queer activists, because it conceals the uncomfortable compromises that come with political life. Many progressives feel anxious about their own privileged positions in the world, and, as a result, often resort to performative righteousness to assuage these insecurities. The dynamics here are not much different from what is sometimes seen among the devoutly religious — the presence of doubt, compromise and moral greyness is psychologically unacceptable.

In the context of the Palestinians, this fundamentally selfish need for black-and-white thinking leads the queer left to minimize homophobia that, in any other context, would be unacceptable. It encourages the romanticization of Hamas, a terrorist organization that would, if given the chance, murder every LGBTQ person in the world.

If queer leftists wish to ensconce themselves in fairytales, then that’s their prerogative — but other LGBTQ people are justified in taking a skeptical approach, which, yes, can include support for Palestinians’ self-determination that uncomfortably co-exists with clear-eyed recognition of the very ugly parts of Palestinian culture.

[driftwooddestiel]

“this is for those of you who like to dance, and i mean ALL of you who like to dance [performing the song up until the pause before the main chorus] i’m on the dance floor … and nobody should feel afraid to be on that dance floor. nobody at all. this is a song about, uhh, two men, dancing on the dance floor. it’s a song about love, and it’s a song about love that should be free. and a song about love that should never be punished.”

— alex kapranos right before & during the performance of michael in moscow, 2018

not a lyric change but something i thought was sweet

[trilzmedia]

Anti-gay law will be passed at whatever cost, says Speaker

Anti-gay law will be passed at whatever cost, says Speaker #TRilzNews #LGBTQ #AntiGayLaw

What you need to know: Speaker Among says the law is meant to shield Uganda’s culture and its sovereignty. Speaker of Parliament Anita Among has stated that the Anti-Homosexuality Bill, 2023 will be tabled and expeditiously processed at ‘whatever cost’. Ms Among made the remarks after the architect of the Bill, Mr Asuman Basalirwa, was unable to table the Bill for first reading on Tuesday…

[tomorrowusa]

Putin's Russia is part of an Axis of Homophobia which includes Iran, Orbán's Hungary, the GOP in the US, Uganda, Afghanistan, and others.

The resistance of many Republicans to giving aid to Ukraine may partly be because they see Putin as a kindred spirit.

Of course a loss for Putin would also mean a major defeat for hatred against the LGBTQ+ community. Putin is currently the most high profile homophobe on Earth.

Russia outlaws all LGBTQ+ groups & people as “extremist” threats

While not perfect, Ukraine has a more tolerant attitude and has Pride parades and LGBTQ members of its armed forces. An early victim of Russia's terrorist war against Ukraine was Elya Shchemur – a Kharkiv Pride activist who was killed in the Russian bombardment of Ukraine's second largest city.

Perhaps Putin fears that a NATO Ukraine might turn Russia gay. 🏳️‍🌈

[bgbrry]

YES. beloved mutual. you want to watch intervieq w the vampire for assad zaman alone please it will be worth it to see him in his full glory in s2

peer into his bright brown orbs

this is like if a gay angel was whispering advice in my ear.

[frenchgremlim1808]

Asu-naro during pride month

"Where homosexuals can truly Love each other till the end"