IML Chicago Final Day: Who Is the New International Mr. Leather?

www.advocate.com/photography/2017/5/30/iml-chicago-final-day-who-new-international-mr-leather

Trump Attacks Germany in Tuesday Morning Tweet

Donald Trump lashed out at Germany in a Tuesday morning tweet response to Angela Merkel’s weekend remarks (directed at Trump) that Europe can no longer “fully depend on others.”

We have a MASSIVE trade deficit with Germany, plus they pay FAR LESS than they should on NATO & military. Very bad for U.S. This will change

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 30, 2017

Said Merkel on Sunday, commenting on the G7 summit:

“All I can say is that we Europeans must really take our destiny into our own hands. The times in which we can fully count on others are somewhat over, as I have experienced in the past few days. And that is why I can only say that we Europeans must really take our fate into our own hands — of course in friendship with the United States of America, in friendship with Great Britain and as good neighbors wherever that is possible also with other countries, even with Russia…But we have to know that we must fight for our future on our own, for our destiny as Europeans.”

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Trump Attacks Germany in Tuesday Morning Tweet

Amid the Scandals, Disastrous Trumpcare Still Looms

Don’t forget for a minute that Trump’s Obamacare repeal will specifically harm LGBTQ people, writes Daniel Ramos of One Colorado.

www.advocate.com/commentary/2017/5/30/amid-scandals-disastrous-trumpcare-still-looms

関根和弘: ありのままの自分で生きたい。体を変えても、過去の記憶は変えられないから（シリーズ：隣人たち）
SRS（性別適合手術）を受けて男女の枠に収まれば、今の社会では生きやすくなるかもしれません。でもSRSで体を変えても、過去の記憶は変えられないと思うんです。

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www.huffingtonpost.jp/kazuhiro-sekine/want-to-live-just-the-way-i-am_b_16875092.html

Indonesia’s West Java Police To Form Anti-Gay Task Force: Gays ‘Will Not Be Accepted in Society’

Police in Indonesia’s most populated providence of West Java on Tuesday announced plans to form a task force to investigate LGBT activity, mere days after authorities in the Aceh province publicly caned two gay men 83 times for homosexuality, Reuters reports. It was the first time Aceh officials have carried out such a punishment.

“I hope there are no followers in West Java, no gay or LGBT lifestyle or tradition,” West Java police chief Anton Charliyan (pictured) said. “If there’s anyone following it, they will face the law and heavy social sanctions. They will not be accepted in society.”

In response, LGBT activists in Indonesia hit back at his comments.

“Police have a mandate to follow the law. They are not the morals police,” said Yuli Rustinawati, chairperson of Arus Pelangi, an Indonesian LGBT activist organization.

On Wednesday, Reuters reports that Charliyan informed the media that the task force would include intelligence operatives and was especially interested in breaking up secret parties.

One such party was raided just this past Sunday in Jakarta’s Atlantis Gym and Sauna, leading to 141 arrests. Police claim that the sauna hosted an underground sex party known as “The Wild One.”

The raid led to widespread protests by activists, who claim that the police intentionally embarrassed the men by transporting and then photographing them nude before disseminating the photos on social media.

“The victims were stripped naked and transported in public transportation,” the statement, signed by 15 organizations, including the Community Legal Aid Institute, the Institute for Criminal Justice Reform and the LGBT rights group Arus Pelangi, said. “They were also naked while facing [police] interrogation.”

Jakarta police spokesman Prabowo Argo Yuwono said on Monday night that only 10 out of the 141 arrested were charged with violating pornography laws.

This isn’t the first raid LGBT Indonesian’s have fallen victim to, however.

On April 30, eight men were arrested for allegedly hosting a gay party, the Star Online, reports. 14 men were reportedly hosting the party in two hotel rooms in Indonesia’s second-biggest city, Surabaya. According to claims by Shinto Silitonga, Surabaya police’s head of detectives, some of the men were watching gay porn and engaging in “deviant sexual acts.”

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Indonesia’s West Java Police To Form Anti-Gay Task Force: Gays ‘Will Not Be Accepted in Society’

This Gay Couple Was Just Married By Joe Biden

A photo of Biden officiating is a reminder of the days when a vice president was an advocate for equality.

www.advocate.com/politics/2017/5/29/gay-couple-was-just-married-joe-biden