On May 2010, two articles published in Kosmo and Harian Metro, blatantly attack and discriminate against the queer community. This will continue if we do not speak up against it. A memorandum to SUHAKAM on the ill representation and discrimination of the queer community in the media has been drafted and is published below. The [...]
Even an innocent human rights conference, a meeting of concerned and compassionate people just trying to gain a dignified existence for themselves and other LGBTs in Asia, is a target for fundamentalist violence. You may have read about the homophobic attacks on the participants at the ILGA Asia conference in Surabaya, Indonesia. It doesn’t help [...]
So I just sent a message inviting people to attend Pink Triangle Foundation’s Fabulous Gala Dinner on the 12th December. If you didn’t know, PT Foundation is a community-based, voluntary non-profit making organisation providing HIV/AIDS education, prevention, care and support programmes, sexuality awareness and empowerment programmes for vulnerable communities in Malaysia mainly drug users, sex [...]
National Coming Out Day is an internationally-observed civil awareness day for coming out and discussion about gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) issues. It is observed by members of the LGBT communities and friends on October 11 in the US or October 12 in the United Kingdom. Having had a few discussions with friends lately [...]
This is an excerpt from “Taking Stock”, an interview with Seksualiti Merdeka organisers, Pang Khee Teik and Jerome Kugan for The Edge Malaysia. Seksualiti Merdeka is the annual sexuality rights festival this year held Aug 12-16, 2009. Pangs’s comments about how not knowing your rights actually contributes to the sense of fear and helplessness and [...]
A few well written and well-researched stories came out over the weekend in Starmag which talk about transgenderism and transsexualism from some very personal points of view. This particular story, “My journey” is about a female-to-male trans, a topic which is even less known/talked about than male-to-female transsexuality, in society at large let alone our [...]
SUARAM (Suara Rakyat Malaysia), a leading NGO defending human rights in this country, has come out with a statement in response to the unethical and homophobic article that journalist Sarah Zulkifli wrote in the Harian Metro last month about our PRIDE party. This is an important step forward for the LGBT community in regards to [...]
Sshh or ‘Same-sex holding hands’ is the new silent revolution. Dave Watkins, a gay man living in the UK was so sick of the hatred and ignorance he had experienced throughout his life, once even violence, that he decided that getting angry was not the answer and started A Day in Hand. With his vision, [...]
This article was first published in The Nutgraph on 3rd September, 2008 – It is worth re-visiting now. Sexual wrongs and rights – By Alina Rastam – “OF the plethora of absurd and disturbing events that have marred the political landscape this year, one of the most significant must surely be the charge of sodomy [...]