Posts tagged Chile
Periodical Political Post *164
May 14th
Queer News
- Italian PM blocks gay unions plan from own equality minister
- Hong Kong transgender woman wins right to marry partner
- Ukrainian parliament drops proposed gay anti-discrimination bill
- People protest against homophobia in Chile and Cuba
- Nintendo disables same-sex marriage in popular game
Other News
- US engaged in torture after 9/11, independent review finds
- Porn’s negative effect on teenagers exaggerated, study says
- Canada says science has no value if it doesn’t benefit economy
- Physicist Stephen Hawking joins academic boycott of Israel
- Swaziland makes it illegal for witches to fly broomstick above 150m
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Aug 6th
Queer News
- U.S. fast food chain might donate $30 million to anti-gay groups
- Liberian Senate moves to criminalize same-sex marriage
- Anti-gay hate crimes in Chile now punishable by new law
- Demonstrators hold Vietnam’s 1st gay pride parade in Hanoi
- Teenage Lesbian attacked “just for being gay” in Kentucky
Other News
- French President made good on pledge of 75% income tax for the rich
- American "Anti-Occupy" law makes protesting easier in China than in U.S.
- Texas about to execute inmate who’s on the mental level of a 7-year-old
- In China, the rich & powerful hire body doubles to do their prison time
- NASA rover Curiosity makes historic Mars landing, beams back photos
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May 11th
Queer News
- New socialist French president Hollande expected to legalise gay marriage
- Argentina makes sex-reassignment surgery legal right in landmark trans law
- Chile votes to pass anti-hate-crime law in wake of gay man’s brutal murder
- After no pride march in 2011 this year 2500 march for queer rights in Tokyo
- Map of North Carolina shows link between education & stance on gay marriage
- American gymnast and Olympic hopeful Josh Dixon comes out as gay
Other News
- New research suggests some people might be born as homophobes
- UK provider forced to use anti child-porn tech to censor file-sharing sites
- U.S. wants to save military budget by cutting food stamps & medicaid money
- Highly religious people less likely to be moved by compassion than atheists
- Pentagon didn’t support The Avengers because America wasn’t heroes’ boss
- Religious sites more likely to infect computers with viruses than porn sites
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Periodical Political Post *96
Mar 31st
Queer News
- Chile ponders hate crime legislation as thousands attend gay man’s funeral
- Proving your homosexuality to the Turkish army is a humiliating ordeal
- Malta’s government to propose civil partnerships for same-sex couples
- National anti-gay “propaganda” bill now submitted to Russian parliament
- Law allowing gay couples to adopt is rejected in Slovenian referendum
- German trans kid committed to mental institution against mother’s will
- Anti-Gay activists looking for unintelligent celebrities to advance their cause
Other News
- U.S. makes it easier to use “anti-terror” surveillance data against non-terrorists
- UK internet providers forced to hand over 9,000 user details of porn pirates
- U.S. House kills law preventing employers from demanding Facebook passwords
- America’s rich get even richer while gap between them and the rest widens
- Woman demanding care at a hospital is arrested for trespassing, dies in jail
- Study says compared to other groups, conservatives distrust science most
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Jul 17th
Queer News
- Irish Government announces plans for more transgender rights
- Chile’s president about to introduce civil unions bill
- Two candidates for U.S. presidency pledge to outlaw gayness & porn
- HBO first TV network to hire actual trans actor for trans role
- North Carolina Pizza Hut kicks man out for wearing a dress
- India’s health minister says being gay is a disease
- Atlanta fires six cops for lying, not for illegally harassing queers
- Jamaican police claims gays cause 80-90% of all crime on the island
Other News
- U.S. internet providers to slow down web access for copyright violators
- UK copyright lobby holds meetings with gov’t to discuss web-censorship regime
- New Zealand’s Three Strikes law was pushed, bought and paid for by the U.S.
- Want to guess which story Murdoch’s Fox News don’t want to report on?
- Meanwhile it turns out Murdoch had heavy influence on UK politics
- Apple’s mail service secretly blocks some outgoing messages based on content
- In Belarus a one-armed man was arrested… for clapping
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Feb 10th
Santiago, Chile, in 1986. Luchito is 13 years old and feels deeply attracted to Manuel, a 16-year-old neighbour. Luchito masturbates whilst watching the window of an adjacent building where Manuel is enjoying a sexual encounter with a neighbourhood girl. The window becomes an erotic stage that arouses Luchito’s curiosity – but this has catastrophic consequences for Manuel.
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Real Live Hentai in Chile?
Mar 30th
Chile’s disaffected ‘Pokemones’ don’t care much about politics. They’re too busy having sex – says Newsweek.
The teens call their public orgies ponceo. On a typical Friday afternoon in the Chilean capital of Santiago, hundreds gather in a leafy urban park for a few hours of sexual experimentation. Surrounded by passing strollers, they trade partners multiple times — mostly engaging in anonymous rounds of oral sex. When the party is over, no contact information is exchanged. Same-gender interactions are commonplace, as the lines between hetero- and homosexuality are blurred, partly by the alcohol and drugs consumed, but also by shifting social mores held by Chilean youth, in contrast to their conservative parents. “Ponceo is about having fun,” says Natalia Fernandez, a 15-year-old with pink hair and a pierced chin. “This time I had seven partners.
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