A marcha Pride de Lisboa este ano lá se concretizou. O que ficou e o que saltou para os media, portanto para a comunidade em geral?A maioria limitou-se a “Marcha Gay”. Direitos Gay (por este gay entenda-se LG). Entrevistas a falar dos direitos e discriminações sofridas por gays. Casamento gay.
Isto num ano em que mais uma mulher transexual (Luna) foi assassinada, e precisamente em Lisboa. E nem uma palavra sobre isto foi dita ou saiu nos media. Este ano ouve uma Marcha LGB.
T? Só apareceram em fotos e video reportagens como figurantes gays. Até os poucos que falaram, fizeram-no como gays, não como transgéneros (daí se pode observar como o transgenderismo não tem necessariamente a ver com identidade de género).
Os meus parabéns por uma Marcha LGB bem sucedida, com a comunidade transgénero e transexual bem remetida para o anonimato e para papéis de “freaks” para diversão geral. Com a falta crónica de activismo existente em Portugal e nestas comunidades em especial, diria até que tivémos o que merecemos.
Entretanto, aproxima-se o fim-de-semana e a consequente Marcha Pride da cidade do Porto. Que este ano tem causado alguma polémica por ter umas linhas escritas sobre o “poliamor”. De que resultou a não participação na marcha de algumas associações, LG e apoiantes.
Efectivamente, sendo a marcha uma forma de luta contra a discriminação sofrida pelas pessoas LG, e a reivindicação das mesmas de direitos humanos fundamentais que lhes são negados precisamente por serem LG, não me parece que uma luta pelo “poliamor” entre neste quadro.
O “poliamor” será uma reivindicação (se bem que pelo menos eu não entenda bem o que reivindicam) não ligada aos circulos LG, nem B nem T. E isto porque qualquer pessoa pode ser poliamorosa. O poliamor não tem a ver nem com direitos necessários devido à discriminação sofrida pelas pessoas com uma determinada orientação sexual, nem tem a ver com direitos necessários por pessoas discriminadas pela identidade de género.
Ou seja, qualquer pessoa, hetero, homo, bi ou trans, poderá ser poliamorosa. Logo, não terá lugar numa marcha específica. Terá, sim, lugar numa marcha pelos direitos sexuais de toda uma população, por exemplo, reivindicando o direito de se ser poliamoroso. E aí sim, qualquer pessoa hetero, homo, bi ou trans poderá associar-se a essa marcha. Tal como qualquer associação LGBT.
Mas não numa marcha específica. Aí, as associações ou grupos do poliamor entrarão, tal como fizeram na Marcha Pride de Lisboa, como apoiantes de uma causa. Mas não com reivindicações.
Convenhamos que, o facto de se mencionar o poliamor na Marcha, não me parece razão suficiente per si para que associações e apoiantes se recusem a entrar na marcha. Que não assinem o manifesto, tudo bem. Agora que não participem parece-me extremamente excessivo. Enfim...
Também há pouco tempo, um candidato a presidente da JS anunciou publicamente o seu apoio às reivindicações LGBT. Uma atitude a louvar, pois nestes assuntos qualquer apoio é sempre bem vindo. No entanto há algumas coisas que me fazem “torcer o nariz”.
Em primeiro lugar, é preciso não esquecer que a JS é, teoricamente, o PS. Será o do futuro, digamos. E foi precisamente esse PS que se recusou terminantemente a incluir a identidade de género no Artº 13º da Constituição Portuguesa, quando da inclusão da orientação sexual.
Depois, e por exemplo, nas reuniões efectuadas pelo Bloco de Esquerda sobre transexualidade, não se viu nenhum representante da sua candidatura. Considerando que a discriminação deverá sempre ser um assunto mais importante que uma militância partidária, não percebo o porquê da sua não participação. Ainda por cima tendo sido estas acções abertas ao público. Quem se interessasse pelo assunto poderia ter aparecido.
Finalmente faz a afirmação de querer uma lei de identidade de género e até agora não vi nenhuma acção para ouvir precisamente as pessoas transexuais. Nem apareceu nas reuniões da ILGA, nem nas do Bloco de Esquerda, e nada fez até agora para ouvir as várias correntes existentes dentro da comunidade transexual. Fará tenção de emitir uma lei de identidade de género sem consultar precisamente as pessoas transexuais? Bem, vamos ver o que nos trará o futuro. Do mal o menos, já fez uma declaração de intenções. Portanto, se fôr eleito, depois se verá. Até lá, temos sempre o Bloco de Esquerda que pelo menos não se fica pelas intenções, vai-se mexendo.
[EU]
Council of Europe to step up efforts for LGBT rights
Campaigners have hailed as a "very important development" a decision by the Council of Europe to step up efforts to protect the human rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans people.
[UK]
Foreign Office minister condemns violence at Pride events
The Minister for Europe at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Jim Murphy, has condemned the violence at Gay Pride events.
[UK]
UK: Petition Response [Number 10]
The Government's response
[UK]
Public Statement on the Incident at the women's toilet at Pride involving a Trans woman [Pride London]
We at Pride deeply regret this incident happened and are doing everything within our power to remedy the situation. As the Appointed Director to handle this issue I am concerned that a lot of misinformation has been circulating with regard to this.
So let me clear some of this up
The Directors of Pride London have said that they deeply regret that some trans people were asked to use a disabled toilet at the festivities in Trafalgar Square.
[UK]
A community safety organisation and a gay rights group have joined forces to devise a new training programme that aims to raise awareness around sexual orientation and gender identity issues in Welsh schools.
[Spain]
Transsexual refused army entry for 'total lack of male genitalia'
28 year old Aitor GR, a transexual from a small village in Jaén province, has had his application to join the Spanish armed forces turned down after doctors discovered he had neither penis nor testicles during a routine medical last February.
Homem transexual é impedido de servir exército espanhol
O exército da Espanha alega que há ausência de pênis e testículos, itens que constam na lista de exclusão para aspirantes. Aitor, o homem transex negado pelo exército, almeja servir ao Exército desde criança e, para tal já havia estudado educação física e administração.
[India]
Transgender to play lead in Tamil film
Excerpt: Barring a few exceptions, transsexuals have always been shown in poor light in Indian films. But the heroine of Paal is an intellectual, director of a short-film who is smitten by the love bug but facing a dilemma in revealing her identity to her lover.
In Paal, Karpaga dons the role of an intellectual who is in love but faces a dilemma in revealing her identity to her lover. (TOI Photo)
Transgender in lead role!
Karpaga makes her debut as heroine in a Tamil film Paal. In the same league as so many youngsters making debuts, what is special about Karpaga? Well, Karpaga is the first transgender in the country to play the lead role in mainstream cinema.
[Spain]
Transsexual refused army entry for 'total lack of male genitalia'
28 year old Aitor GR, a transexual from a small village in Jaén province, has had his application to join the Spanish armed forces turned down after doctors discovered he had neither penis nor testicles during a routine medical last February.
Homem transexual é impedido de servir exército espanhol
O exército da Espanha alega que há ausência de pênis e testículos, itens que constam na lista de exclusão para aspirantes. Aitor, o homem transex negado pelo exército, almeja servir ao Exército desde criança e, para tal já havia estudado educação física e administração.
Transgender to play lead in Tamil film
Excerpt: Barring a few exceptions, transsexuals have always been shown in poor light in Indian films. But the heroine of Paal is an intellectual, director of a short-film who is smitten by the love bug but facing a dilemma in revealing her identity to her lover.
In Paal, Karpaga dons the role of an intellectual who is in love but faces a dilemma in revealing her identity to her lover. (TOI Photo)
Transgender in lead role!
Karpaga makes her debut as heroine in a Tamil film Paal. In the same league as so many youngsters making debuts, what is special about Karpaga? Well, Karpaga is the first transgender in the country to play the lead role in mainstream cinema.
Karpaga is the first transgender in India to don the leading role in a mainstream movie. She makes her debut as a heroine in a Tamil film Paal, to be directed by D. Sivakumar.
The name of the film is 'Paal' and is directed by D. Sivakumar. The movie's mission is to show facts of life keeping in mind that every single individual has a right to peaceful life immaterial of gender – male, female or transsexual.
[India]
New job-training program aims to improve lot of India's eunuchs
Following the example of India's 18th-century Mughal rulers, who used castrated men or hermaphrodites to guard their harems, the government of the eastern state of Bihar plans to post eunuchs as guards in girls dormitories, colleges and hospitals.
[Thailand]
Thai transvestite elected village head 'man'
Choochat Dulayapraphatsorn, 46, defeated three other more traditionally male candidates in the election for chief of Tai Ban Mai village in Samut Prakan province, 30 kilometres north of Bangkok, the Bangkok Post reported.
Although a self-confessed cross-dresser who goes by the name "Jae Kob" or "Sister Kob" when in drag, Choochat said he had won the election because of his long record of community service including crime prevention, catching pythons that have slipped in to people's houses and vaccinating pet dogs against rabies.
[USA] [Blog/Commentary]
Congress comes out to the Transgender Community - Part 4
"Final testimonies and Summary of the Hearings"
[USA] [Commentary]
Phallus in Wonderland
Male pregnancy and a la carte sex changes.
Activists: Trans man's pregnancy did little to help cause
The "media circus" surrounding Thomas Beatie, the pregnant trans man who gave birth to a girl on June 29, has done little to help the transgender community in its effort to gain equal workplace and health care rights, according to an article in Salon.
[CA,USA] [Commentary]
Who will boycott the HRC dinner?
The Human Rights Campaign, a national LGBT lobbying group, is holding its gala dinner in San Francisco July 26th, and the event is creating a political furor.
[FL, USA]
DeLand man receives life sentence in killing
He said he felt bad. He said he didn't do it. But the young man who shot and killed a cross-dressing man outside a club last summer didn't show enough remorse to impress a judge Monday when he was sentenced to life in prison.
[NY, USA]
NYC transgender shelter says director attacked
A priest who runs a shelter specializing in outreach to homeless transgender youths was beaten with construction equipment and paint cans by a group of teenagers in a possible hate crime, authorities said Tuesday.
Four Teens Arrested For Transgender Center Attack
Four teenaged boys were arrested for attacking the director and several residents of a transgender center in Astoria, Queens. NY1's Ruschell Boone filed the following report.
4 Teenagers Are Arrested in Attack at Gay Shelter
Four teenagers have been arrested on charges that they harassed and struck a priest who runs a Queens shelter for transgender and gay youth. Some of the shelter's residents were also attacked, officials said on Tuesday.
Four Queens thugs beat priest
Four punks spewing hateful language at a transgender woman outside a shelter for gay and transgender young people in Queens beat up a priest who attempted to thwart their tirade, police said.
[Blog/Commentary] An Ally, & a Priest
Another trans ally has been attacked defending a few trans teenagers, and right here in Queens, NY.
[India]
New job-training program aims to improve lot of India's eunuchs
Following the example of India's 18th-century Mughal rulers, who used castrated men or hermaphrodites to guard their harems, the government of the eastern state of Bihar plans to post eunuchs as guards in girls dormitories, colleges and hospitals.
[Thailand]
Thai transvestite elected village head 'man'
Choochat Dulayapraphatsorn, 46, defeated three other more traditionally male candidates in the election for chief of Tai Ban Mai village in Samut Prakan province, 30 kilometres north of Bangkok, the Bangkok Post reported.
Although a self-confessed cross-dresser who goes by the name "Jae Kob" or "Sister Kob" when in drag, Choochat said he had won the election because of his long record of community service including crime prevention, catching pythons that have slipped in to people's houses and vaccinating pet dogs against rabies.
[USA] [Blog/Commentary]
Congress comes out to the Transgender Community - Part 4
"Final testimonies and Summary of the Hearings"
[USA] [Commentary]
Phallus in Wonderland
Male pregnancy and a la carte sex changes.
Activists: Trans man's pregnancy did little to help cause
The "media circus" surrounding Thomas Beatie, the pregnant trans man who gave birth to a girl on June 29, has done little to help the transgender community in its effort to gain equal workplace and health care rights, according to an article in Salon.
[CA,USA] [Commentary]
Who will boycott the HRC dinner?
The Human Rights Campaign, a national LGBT lobbying group, is holding its gala dinner in San Francisco July 26th, and the event is creating a political furor.
[FL, USA]
DeLand man receives life sentence in killing
He said he felt bad. He said he didn't do it. But the young man who shot and killed a cross-dressing man outside a club last summer didn't show enough remorse to impress a judge Monday when he was sentenced to life in prison.
[NY, USA]
NYC transgender shelter says director attacked
A priest who runs a shelter specializing in outreach to homeless transgender youths was beaten with construction equipment and paint cans by a group of teenagers in a possible hate crime, authorities said Tuesday.
Four Teens Arrested For Transgender Center Attack
Four teenaged boys were arrested for attacking the director and several residents of a transgender center in Astoria, Queens. NY1's Ruschell Boone filed the following report.
4 Teenagers Are Arrested in Attack at Gay Shelter
Four teenagers have been arrested on charges that they harassed and struck a priest who runs a Queens shelter for transgender and gay youth. Some of the shelter's residents were also attacked, officials said on Tuesday.
Four Queens thugs beat priest
Four punks spewing hateful language at a transgender woman outside a shelter for gay and transgender young people in Queens beat up a priest who attempted to thwart their tirade, police said.
[Blog/Commentary] An Ally, & a Priest
Another trans ally has been attacked defending a few trans teenagers, and right here in Queens, NY.
[TN, USA]
Transgender murder victim laid to rest
A transgendered woman who was murdered in Memphis on July 1 was laid to rest yesterday, with her family and a state-wide advocacy group calling for justice.
[USA] [News/Television]
Situation Isn't 'Pretty' for Ryan Murphy Pilot
"Pretty/Handsome" seemed to have all the required elements for a buzzworthy pilot: Respected creator (Ryan Murphy), well-known star (Joseph Fiennes) and provocative premise (man decides to undergo a sex change).
None of those things, however, have been able to save it. The show appears to be dead after failing to find a TV home, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
[USA] [Blog/Commentary]
No sympathy for HRC
We Declare Independence from the Human Rights Campaign!
Next Saturday, July 12 @ noon, the San Francisco LGBT community will celebrate its Independence from the Human Rights Campaign by re-introducing the rainbow flag, created right here in San Francisco thirty years ago, as a symbol of LGBT liberation.
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