Canal gay tendrá serie policial con agente del Fbi lesbiana

Un cruce de "Twin Peaks" con la película "El Silencio de los corderos" con una agente del FBI que es lesbiana: ese es el tema de una serie que está siendo desarrollada para el canal gay Here!.

Elizabeth Keener, que personifica a Dawn Denbo "The L Word", va a ser la policía en la nueva serie.
Kenner será una agente del FBI que va a trabajar encubierta en un misterioso pueblo y rápido se descubre liada en las vidas de los habitantes de la ciudad.
Además de actuar, Elizabeth va a ayudar a desarrollar la serie. Nada como interpretar un nuevo personaje después de dar tanta vida a Dawn en "The L Word".

Fuente: Pizquita.com

«Por la visibilidad lésbica», lema del Orgullo LGBT Madrid 2008

Durante el 20mo. Encuentro Estatal LGBT en Gandia (Valencia) se ha determinado por unanimidad el lema de la próxima manifestación estatal del Orgullo, que se llevará a cabo en Madrid el 5 de julio próximo. "Por la visibilidad lésbica" será la cabecera de este 2008, en reconocimiento de la lucha de las mujeres lesbianas y como empuje para su necesario empoderamiento. Un gesto solidario que tiene especial relevancia en el Año de la Visibilidad Lésbica en España.

Carmen Hernández, coordinadora del Área de Políticas Lésbicas de la Federación Estatal de Lesbianas, Gays, Transexuales y Bisexuales de España (FELGTB), ha mostrado su satisfacción por el apoyo unánime mostrado por los 47 colectivos españoles de lesbianas, gays, transexuales y bisexuales presentes. «Tenemos que conquistar, como mujeres lesbianas, los espacios que tanto nos ha costado conquistar como presuntas heterosexuales», aseguró Hernández y añadió: «cualquier ayuda para empoderarnos y hacernos caminar hacia la visibilidad es una gran noticia. Y ésta es histórica. Nuestras compañeras y compañeros han mostrado unánimemente su apoyo para hacer frente a nuestra principal problemática: la invisibilidad. Pero nos toca a las lesbianas dar el paso vital para dejarla atrás. Y lo vamos a conseguir».

Por su parte, Antonio Poveda, presidente de la FELGTB, ha recordado que las mujeres lesbianas han luchado desde siempre en el feminismo, dentro del movimiento LGBT, y por las corrientes más progresistas de nuestra sociedad, «y su generosidad ha de ser por fin reconocida por todos y todas».

Fuente: AGMagazine

MTV VJ Ruby Rose: 'I came out at 12'

MTV Australia VJ Ruby Rose has told of her frustrations with being hounded about her sexuality, and revealed she came out as a lesbian at the tender age of 12.In a live blog with The Daily Telegraph's readers today, Rose candidly spoken about the public controversy surrounding her sexual orientation, after her recent lip-lock with Veronicas twin Jess Origliasso.Rose declared to bloggers she was a lesbian and not bisexual, contrary to some news and gossip reports.Rose also stressed she was just "friends" with Origliasso, and just wanted to be recognised for her hard work as a music TV presenter.Read about how the story first broke here.Rose also told of how she first came out to her parents about being a lesbian at the tender age of 12.In a video interview after her blog with The Daily Telegraph, Rose also admitted she gets sick of being in the lime light at times.

From: SHOWBIZ NEWS

Atkinson downed vodka for lesbian scenes

Gemma Atkinson has claimed that she downed shots of vodka before filming lesbian scenes in her big screen debut.The I'm A Celebrity... star said she was so nervous about shooting the same-sex love scenes that director Duncan Ward offered her and co-star Jaime Winstone alcohol.She told The Sun: "I’d literally just met her and had to have sex with her. The director came up to us with a bottle of vodka and said do what you need to do."Atkinson, who is currently dating footballer Marcus Bent, will make her movie debut in Boogie Woogie later this year.The film also stars Heather Graham, Gillian Anderson, Christopher Lee, Alfie Allen and Joanna Lumley.

From: SHOWBIZ NEWS

THE LESBIAN IN OLD GREECE

John Addington Symonds (1840-1893) was a pioneer in the field of gay rights, and the first historian of male homosexuality. When in 1858 he read the dialogues of Plato (and Fedro The Symposium) realized that there had been a noble homosexuality, but the manifestations of
homosexuality he had known in his teens, and then found that in his adult life, he seemed Unworthy. In 1873 he wrote his booklet "A Problem in the Ethics of the Greeks", and made ten copies printed privately in 1883. In 1897 it expanded and published as Appendix of the book
Investment Sexual Havelock Ellis, and included a section, the nineteenth about homosexuality in women of Ancient Greece. The text that follows is, consequently, one of the first modern
writings where lesbianism is not a medical issue or a perversion. Investment sex among Greek women offers more difficulties than those
found in the study of paedophilia. This is not to the absence of the phenomenon, but the fact that the passions Homosexual women were never
integrated into the social system, never became educational agents and the military. The Greeks accepted the fact that some women are congenital indifferent to the male sex, and feel their own appetite for sex. This is evident from the myth of Aristophanes in the Symposium Plato, who expressed in comic form his theory of sexual differentiation. There were originally humans three sexes: men, the offspring of the sun, women, the offspring of the earth; hermaphrodite, the progeny of the moon. They were round with two faces, four hands, four feet, and two sets of reproductive organs each. For the third sex (hermaphrodite or mole) a set of reproductive organs was Male, the other female. Zeus, because of the insolence and vigour of these primitive human creatures, cut into halves. Since that time half of each class have always struggled to unite with their corresponding halves, and have found some satisfaction in the congress carnal men With men, women with women, and (in the case of creatures moles or hermaphrodites) men and women to one another. Philosophically, then, the homosexual passion of a woman by woman, or man by man, was placed at exactly the same height as the passion heterosexual sex by its opposite. The logic of the Greeks admitted that the woman was homosexual equal rights with men homosexual, and that both have the same freedom naturally heterosexual individuals of any kind. Although this was the position taken by philosophers, passion lesbian, as the Greeks used to call it, was never the same penalty social love of boys. It is significant that the Greek mythology does not offer legends goddesses parallel to those who devoted paedophilia among male deities. Furthermore, we have no recorded examples, insofar as I can remember, noble friendships between women who up to political and historical prominence. There are no analogies in women for Harmodio and Aristogitón, and for Cratino Aristodemo.

It is true that poets Sappho and lesbian gave the passion of women a prominent place in Greek literature. But Women eolias not found a glorious tradition that meant the male doricos. If the homosexual love between women took the form of an institution at a time when Eolia, this fact failed to sink deep roots in the soil of the nation. The Greeks later, but tolerant, contemplated rather as an eccentricity of nature, or as a vice, rather than an honorable emotion and socially
useful. The status of women in the former Hélade sufficiently explains this result. There was no Opportunity in the harem or zenana to raise homosexual passion to the same moral and spiritual efficiency obtained in the camp, the arena, and schools of philosophers. Therefore, while Greeks used ennobled love of the boys left that love lesbian continue the same course of degeneration that follows in a similar moderns. For check what is the type of lesbian love the way he assumed in modern Europe, we have only dialogues that compare with the stories of Luciano Parisians of Catulle Mendès or Guy de Maupassant. The woman who seduces the girl to the loving is, in the words of the girl,"hipermale", "androgina." The Megila of Luciano insists that the call Megilo. The girl is a vehicle weaker complacent, submissive to sexual activity virago, and has been selected from the class of ingénues prostitutes. There is an important passage in loves Luciano evidence that the Greeks felt an abhorrence of the investment sex among women similar to that felt by its modern manifestation between boys. Caricles, which supports the cause of heterosexual passion normal argues this way: "If you grant homosexual love among men by justice you must give the same thing to women, you have to punish the carnal relationship between them; monstrous instruments lust be allowed to make their sexual congress can take place; that obscene word, tríbade, how rarely offends our ears will be present everywhere, and Filena spread orgies androginas our harems. " What were these monstrous lust instruments can be deduced from the
sixth Herodas of mime, where one of them is described in detail. Filena can, perhaps, be the poet of an obscene book on the refinements sensual, which alludes Ateneo (Deipnosofistas viii, 335). It is also possible that Filena has become the designation of a lesbian lover, a tríbade. During periods of the late Greek literature, as I have shown elsewhere, certain fixed masks of comedy Attic (corresponding to the masks of the Commedia dell 'Arte Italian) created types of character under conventional names: thus, example, pork became a cobbler remendón, Myrtala a prostitute ordinary, and possibly Filena became the name of an inverted lesbian. The intent of this research is to demonstrate parental that while love for the boys in Greece won its moralizing, and reached the high position of a social function recognized, love of women by women remained without development and without honor, the same level as they are both forms of passion in the modern European world.

Remarks to discuss
1 - Symonds The hypothesis is that the dignified and elevated homosexual love is an evolution from the ignoble way, and genital evil occurring spontaneously in societies (and that is for him the way that homosexuality is developed in the nineteenth century Europe). These developments occurred in Old Greece among men because culture gave educational functions and its military homosexuality, but was not among women because their homosexuality was not socially useful.

2 - The naive was a literary type created by the French literature of the nineteenth century: a woman soft, dreamer, weak character,faith
something stupid, helpless and easily dominable for some more character strong. The literary types referred to the girl Symonds are sensitive,
loving woman a formidable and virile male.

3 - The mime is a form of popular Greek theater; originated in the sixth century BC. The actors wore masks, sang, danced, did acrobatics and juggling, and placed on stage little works language, obscene gestures and clothes (large rear and falos exaggerated) with topics (the reasons are popular gluttony, beatings, robberies, deceit and sex, including adultery and adventures were short,improvised, and women could act. From Herodas, who lived in Alexandria in the first half of the third century before Christ, survived six little works, no longer a hundred lines.

From: ESPEJO Magazine

Diversia Radio, the first radio LGBT Colombia

Since February this year, Colombia had the first radio which provides for the community of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Transgéneros (LGBT) in the country and Latin America.
The technological evolution of the Internet and steady growth of users of this medium, have facilitated the birth of new alternatives in the media. Radio Diversia born as a proposal for a community discriminated against by many and needs to establish a socio-cultural space, expression and entertainment.
"Fito", a Chilean who settled in Colombia several years ago, an activist with years of experience in working with the gay community in Chile and Colombia, which is part of the project in less than a month has generated all sorts of comments and mobilized thousands of people to visit www.radiodiversia.com
"Foster" is a Colombian native of the area esmeraldera of western Boyacá, who started in radio Gay with a program called "CG Colombia Connection" in a station of this kind "Argentina Gay Radio." With the magazine, listeners Colombians were located in the second hearing of this station argentina.
The two creators of the radio LGBT Colombia, hope to establish a space that will be heard across the country, with a team composed of fifteen journalists and activists volunteers of different ages and of course composed of Lesbians, Gays and Bisexuals, which will make the dial a real novelty in line with many surprises.
Fito and Foster argue that Diversia Radio will be a space of expression, information and entertainment to a community, which did not have a radio platform itself.
With this initiative, they want to raise awareness of "the human side of the LGBT people, their feelings and demonstrate that they are part of society and that the image is handled is totally contrary to the prejudices and stigmas that launch them, which is born from the disinformation, hatred and ignorance. "
The Internet has become an important tool in the very near future to completely absorb the mainstream media, in countries like the United States, people have switched to other communication systems such as radio and satellite radio via the Internet , which makes Diversia Radio in a way that points to the radio of the future by being a more personalized radio and dogmas that exceeds established by conventional radio.
Radio Diversia, radio came to be leader of its kind, not only in Colombia but also internationally recognized as one of the most important on the planet with an excellent programming, supported by a team composed of nearly twenty-five persons in major cities throughout Colombia and several correspondents elsewhere in the world.
Tune into Radio Diversia www.radiodiversia.com or simply by clicking on the button in the main menu RM Radio Robin Magazine.

RADIO PROGRAMMING DIVERSIA
The programming of Radio Diversia officially beginning from the day Tuesday February 18 from 8 am will be represented by three teams in three different work schedules that allow the listener of the radio station to be connected with live programming from 5 days week, on Saturdays and Sundays is still in the scheduling adjustments.
Lift From: Monday through Friday from 8 to 11 hours of the morning Colombia
Program format magazine where different topics were addressed seen from the eyes of LGBT, music cross over, guests live now, discussion forums, messages, calls live.
A good way to get up radio listening in a different way.
Paradise Garage: Monday through Friday from 3 to 6 pm hour Colombia
The space Diversia Youth Radio, an approach fun, spontaneous and fresh, led by 5 gay youth who through their life experiences will delight listeners who can not find a real option other stations: technology, current affairs, music youth , messages and all the joy of this team brave who dare to broadcasters.
Diversia Night: Monday to Friday from 6 to 12 midnight hour Colombia
Block Night of the station that will include programming within a wide range of topics and ways of seeing life from a perspective LGBT, sex, rock, electronics, block lesbian and more, allow the listener that after a long time of the day, can be accompanied on a well-deserved rest.
Much happiness, sparkle, hot topics, the nights in Diversia promise to be wild!
Rock Zone: Wednesday from 9 to 10 pm hour Colombia.
Prime space specializing in all genres in the history of rock that is born to please everyone and all the listeners who like this genre and all subgenera rhythm largest in the history of music. With a look completely different and directed by the only organization of gay rockers Colombia (Bogota Neo Queers Rockers).
Undoubtedly will burst your ears each week

From: www.genteelite.com

Expulsada de una hermandad por lesbiana

El Obispado de Ciudad Real ha obligado a la Hermandad de la Virgen de la Encarnación de Abenójar a expulsar a una de sus miembros por haberse casado con otra mujer.

Casarse con una persona del mismo sexo supone un escándalo público. Es lo que cree el Obispado de Ciudad Real, que ha obligado a la Hermandad de la Virgen de la Encarnación de Abenójar a expulsar a María Rey Santos, de 54 años, por la única razón de ser lesbiana y de haber formalizado con un matrimonio una relación de pareja de más de 17 años de duración.

"No he incumplido ninguna norma de los estatutos de la hermandad y es un decisión totalmente injusta", explicó ayer la propia María en conversación telefónica. Su expulsión se produjo el pasado agosto, publicó ayer La Tribuna de Ciudad Real. Cinco meses antes, en febrero, María se casó con la que ha sido su pareja durante 17 años. Fue entonces cuando el cura de Abenójar, una localidad de unos 1.600 habitantes, le comunicó que no podía seguir siendo vicepresidenta de la hermandad porque estaba casada con una mujer.

"Yo no le hice caso porque además había sido elegida por votación en listas abiertas en la hermandad, incluso después de casarme", señala la mujer. Pero en agosto llegó la carta del obispado: o se iba o se disolvía la hermandad. María ha recurrido su expulsión y está a la espera a que se resuelva el asunto. Mientras tanto, hoy acudirá a la romería de la Encarnación, como cada año. "Me siento muy apoyada por los vecinos, aunque defraudada" por la Iglesia, dice.

Fuente: Publico.es

BIRTH WOMEN IN INDIA

In India, the many organizations working to eliminate systematic discrimination to which women are subjected in this country, also commemorate this day and will no doubt echo of the great walls of intolerance with which face their efforts in defending women's rights: centuries of tradition and religion and demolition of harassment against female, that have placed women at the bottom of the social ladder. Hinduism, the main religion, and which has great influence even among the non-Hindu population, and Manu Code (Code of Moral Period of Hinduism and Puranico Epic) basis of morality popular today, make explicit statements on the position of subordination Women must play from men, depriving it of complete independence and dignity as a person throughout his life. India is one of the few countries in the world where the population of women is lower than that of men (929 females per 1000 males) and where life expectancy is lower for women. Perhaps because of the discrimination they face even before he was born (in the upper classes are practiced today selective abortions based on the sex of the fetus), and that will continue throughout their lives. A gender discrimination, we must add the discrimination of class, caste, ethnicity and age. Born in a family environment and socio-cultural and economic conditions which are not conducive to their development as individuals, the discrepancy between the rights of men and women, is backed by the Indian Constitution, we must unite bias of the government, the absence of women in Parliament and in the bodies and councils making decisions that affect their lives .. Women occupy a secondary position in the family and society. From his childhood, receive poor food, the less care and attention relatives (there are instances in which do not get a name), poor health care and less education than male family members. Because of the culture of subsistence, are out of school at a very young age rather than her brothers, to work and help their families economically or to assist in tasks such as collecting firewood, water, cooking and caring for her younger siblings) . Girls also drop out of school when they are on duty with married men chosen by their families without their will, feelings and aspirations (weddings childhood in many cases are conducted to ensure the virginity of girls and to protect them from possible abuses and sexual assault). What usually is a serious trauma to the girls, who also lost family link, because you have to go and live with the family of her husband, so he was quite effective and economic investment that has fallen on the girl, and that she did not receive anything, as women, in most cases, are not involved in the family inheritance. Once deprived of their childhood and into adulthood launched a brutal, women perform the tasks harder and with greater health risk; responsibilities of reproduction, the sexual division of labor and a shortage of education and training, hindering access to wage labor of women by restricting their ability to work at the informal market in a position of inferiority, prostitution, and other work that the company does not want to assume. This situation is common to all social groups, but its consequences are devastating for poor women, which constitute the overwhelming majority of Indian women, for whom the lack of health facilities, health, food and education make it almost impossible that they can meet their basic needs and ensure the dignity they deserve as human beings. Poor women tend to reduce their food intake and to forgo health care and education. Many families end up selling their daughters or marry for money. Among males are common cases of alcoholism by the lack of resources to address the situation of poverty, which translates into violence and sexual abuse against women who have to bear the brunt of the livelihood of the family (usually be large because of the refusal of men to contraception). Beneath the cheerful and multiple colors of their sharees, their bodies and minds are punished by an equally diverse array of forms of discrimination: sex, employment, health, educational, legal, political and social, must disappear from India and all those countries not yet come to realize that there is no development without the full integration and development of women in society.

From: "Proud to be a woman" by Liv Kalske

Una conversación de radio de lo más interesante

Ok, esta conversación radial la encontre de casualidad en internet, y me pareció tan fabulosa que quiero compartirla con todas. Disfrutemosla :=)


LOCUTORA: A continuación, nuestro habitual espacio "El consultorio sexual de la doctora Miralles".

CONTROL CARACTERÍSTICA CONSULTORIO

DOCTORA: Amigas, amigos, una vez más con ustedes y con un tema pendiente: la homosexualidad. Una orientación sexual diferente. Algunos dicen que representan un 10 por ciento de la población… O un 15… o un 20 por ciento... Me han llegado muchas preguntas. Escuchen ésta, por ejemplo:

HOMBRE: Doctora Miralles, acláreme una cosa: ¿el homosexual nace o se hace?

DOCTORA: Pues le diré, amigo mío, que todavía la ciencia no tiene una respuesta definitiva. Lo más probable es que sea una mezcla de causas psicológicas, genéticas, culturales… Ahora bien, tenga el origen que tenga, la homosexualidad es una forma de vivir tan natural, tan digna como la heterosexual.

EFECTO TELÉFONO

DOCTORA: ¿Aló?

MUJER: Escuche, doctora. Será muy natural y muy digna… pero yo tengo un amigo homosexual que sufre muchísimo por eso…

DOCTORA: Es que la homofobia, el rechazo a los homosexuales, ha sido una cosa terrible en la historia humana… ha durado siglos y todavía hoy persiste… Las religiones los han señalado como culpables… Los gobiernos fanáticos los han perseguido y castigado…

MUJER: ¿Usted le recomendaría a mi amigo que vaya a un psicólogo?

DOCTORA: Sí, claro, si está angustiado, que vaya. Pero no para que el psicólogo le cambie su orientación, porque eso no se cambia. El psicólogo lo que hará será ayudarle a aceptarse como homosexual.

EFECTO TELÉFONO

DOCTORA: ¿Sí, dime?

CHICA: Doctora, yo a veces sueño que tengo relaciones con otras chicas… ¿Eso significa que soy lesbiana?

DOCTORA: No. Los sueños tienen muchos significados… Tener fantasías sexuales con personas del mismo sexo no quiere decir homosexualidad… Por cierto, ¿qué edad tienes tú?

CHICA: 15 años, doctora.

DOCTORA: Es que a esa edad muchas veces no están las cosas claras… La orientación sexual se produce en la infancia, pero en la adolescencia se consolida.

CHICA: Doctora, ¿y si no fuera en sueños… sino en la realidad? ¿Usted me entiende?

DOCTORA: Me quieres decir que has tenido una relación con otra chica, ¿verdad?

CHICA: Sí, doctora…

DOCTORA: Pero eso no quiere decir que seas lesbiana. A lo mejor, sí, pero no necesariamente. A veces, un joven, o una joven como tú, tiene una conducta homosexual por miedo al sexo contrario… O por conocer algo nuevo… Pero esas experiencias no definen la orientación sexual de una persona.

CHICA: ¿Y qué hago, entonces, doctora, qué hago?

DOCTORA: Lo primero, no ponerte nerviosa. Y darle tiempo al tiempo… Ya verás cómo las cosas se te irán aclarando.

EFECTO TELÉFONO

CHICO: ¿Doctora?

DOCTORA: Sí, dime…

CHICO: Doctora, en mi caso… en mi caso yo sí soy homosexual. Gay.

DOCTORA: ¿Estás seguro?

CHICO: Claro, yo lo sé… lo sé porque lo siento… pero no me atrevo a decirlo, no me atrevo... ¿Qué me aconseja usted?

DOCTORA: Que salgas del closet, del armario. Ten confianza en ti mismo y habla con tu familia, con tus amigos. Tú tienes derecho a ser y a vivir feliz, sin esa angustia.

CHICO: ¿Y si mis amigos no me comprenden?

DOCTORA: Entonces, cambia de amigos. Si un amigo no te acepta como eres, no es un verdadero amigo, no merece tu amistad.

CHICO: Gracias, doctora, le mando un beso por radio.

DOCTORA: Y yo tomo ese beso y se los envío a ustedes, los homosexuales que me están escuchando. Ustedes son tan normales como todo el mundo. Tienen una orientación sexual diferente. ¿Cuál es el problema? No permitan que les humillen por eso, no crean las tonterías que dicen por ahí. Para ustedes, con muchísimo respeto y con todo mi cariño, van hoy mis mejores saludos. ¡Hasta la próxima!

Fuente: Adital

Saving The L Word

LOS ANGELES, CA – (March 10, 2008) – SHOWTIME has renewed the critically-acclaimed, groundbreaking lesbian drama THE L WORD® for a sixth and final season, it was announced today by Robert Greenblatt, SHOWTIME’s President of Entertainment. One of the network’s longest running series, THE L WORD® will culminate early next year in eight final episodes, marking the end of an era chronicling the lives of these iconic characters who have played a pivotal role in changing cultural perceptions of lesbians and the transgender community on and off screen. Production will resume in early summer.

From: a Showtime press release