Reading the Right Wing: Trans Acceptance Will Lead to Robot Army
This week’s greatest hits include Alex Jones’s assertion that acceptance of transgender people will lead to implantation of computer chips in humans.
www.advocate.com/media/2017/8/09/reading-right-wing-trans-acceptance-will-lead-robot-army
Gay Russian Journalist Threatened with ‘Death Sentence’ Deportation Gets Temporary Reprieve
Russian journalist Khudoberdy Nurmatov won a temporary reprieve from a Moscow appeals court today as he sought to block his impending deportation to his native Uzbekistan, where human rights groups said he faced a near-“death sentence.”
Nurmatov, who is openly gay and writes under the pen name Ali Feruz, has worked for the investigative Novaya Gazeta newspaper since 2011, reporting on hate crimes, migrant worker rights, and LGBT discrimination. The newspaper has garnered much international attention of late for exposing mass human rights violations against gay men in in the Russian republic of Chechnya earlier this year.
Nurmatov is currently undocumented, having fled Uzbekistan, where he was tortured for being gay, and has had multiple bids for asylum in Russia denied. He was arrested last week en route to work and threatened with deportation. The European Court of Human Rights intervened on Friday, issuing a preliminary injunction against Nurmatov’s deportation, but it had remained to be seen whether Russia would abide by the decision.
The imminent expulsion of the journalist, Khudoberdy Nurmatov, to Uzbekistan, ranked by rights groups as one of the most repressive countries in the world and where homosexuality is illegal, has attracted international criticism and appeals to Russia to halt it. On Friday, the European Court of Human Rights ordered an emergency stay on Nurmatov’s deportation.
The judge at the Moscow City Court today responded to that order, ruling that no deportation will take place until Nurmatov’s case has been examined by the European Court.
Nurmatov will now likely remain in a migrant detention center until the European Court ruling, one of his lawyers said. That could take between a year and 18 months, the lawyer, Tatiana Glushkova, told ABC News by phone.
Amnesty International (AI) has raised concerns that Russian courts are colluding with Uzbekistan’s notorious security services to deport hundreds of people to the Asian country, where sex between men is a criminal offence with a maximum sentence of three years in prison.
The deportation order is “as close to a death sentence as it can be”, AI’s Europe and Central Asia deputy director, Denis Krivosheev, told the site.
Nurmatov had previously said “I’d rather kill myself” and said he’d face a “long, slow death” if deported. Russia has claimed that the case is simply about migration violations, but it now appears that Nurmatov may have until September to issue a fresh asylum application.
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Gay Russian Journalist Threatened with ‘Death Sentence’ Deportation Gets Temporary Reprieve
NCLR, GLAD File Suit Against Trans Military Ban
Other groups are preparing lawsuits as well.
www.advocate.com/military/2017/8/09/nclr-glad-file-suit-against-trans-military-ban
Alice on the way to the 1st rainbow psychefestival on Venus…
kirliancamera posted a photo:
mobile pic by Angelo Bergamini
Aaron Carter prepares to relaunch his career at a gay bar
The show is nearly sold out.
Post-Emo Rapper/Singer Lil Peep Comes Out as Bisexual
Rapper Lil Peep has come out as bisexual on Twitter.
Peep tweeted “yes I’m bisexual” on Tuesday, followed up with “who wants a kiss?”
yes I’m bi sexual
— GOTH ANGEL SINNER (@Lilpeep) August 8, 2017
who wants a kiss
— GOTH ANGEL SINNER (@Lilpeep) August 8, 2017
Pitchfork’s Steven Horowitz profiled Peep in January:
Image is paramount to Peep, born Gustav Åhr. When he’s not pairing Katy Perry T-shirts and hockey jerseys with fluorescent magenta jeans, he’s performing shirtless, exposing a stomach tattoo bearing the word “LOVE” with a sad face imprinted in the “O.” He flaunts his relationship with Layla, recently showing up in a tweeted photo with his face planted in her bare ass. (The caption: “fine dining.”) He now has more followers on Instagram (112,000) than on SoundCloud (82,000), where he posted his first song just a year ago.
“It’s like professional wrestling—everyone has to be a character,” says Peep. “If you’re not a fun enough character, then no one’s gonna f**k with you because you don’t have enough sh*t that’s different.”
Peep is a big personality, but he’s not a clown; he’s not just another RiFF RAFF. He’s the fresh-faced avatar of post-emo angst that’s not quite rap or rock. Instead, it falls into a grey area full of with spidery guitars, 808 drums, and wall-of-sound production. It’s been described as the “new emo” and “emo trap,” raw and stinging and a direct confluence of his influences—Gucci Mane, Crystal Castles, Panic! at the Disco.
Here’s his latest video, “The Brightside”, from his forthcoming album Come Over When You’re Sober.
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Campaign Underway to Save Rainbow Lifeguard Tower in Venice, California
A campaign is underway to save the Venice Pride rainbow lifeguard tower in California, which seems like a great idea.
Writes Colin Campbell at Change.org, where you can sign a petition:
Located at Brooks Ave. on Bill Rosendahl Memorial Beach in Venice, CA the Venice Pride Flag Lifeguard Tower has become a beloved destination for locals and tourists alike. In nine weeks thousands have flocked to photograph the dramatic tower and broadcast its powerful message of equality and inclusion to millions across the globe.
On September 8th the rainbow-colored tower is set to be erased… forever. At a time when so much of what the LGBT community and its allies fought for is under attack, the L.A. County Board of Supervisors should save the Venice Pride Flag Lifeguard Tower by designating it a permanent public art project.
Funded by Venice Pride, a local non-profit dedicated to saving LGBT lives, and Dunn-Edwards Paints, the tower serves as an important visual reminder that Los Angeles will always welcome people no matter whether they are gay, straight, lesbian, bi, transgender, queer or questioning.
Watch the campaign video:
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Campaign Underway to Save Rainbow Lifeguard Tower in Venice, California
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