Posts tagged China
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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World’s oldest “Porn” is bisexual
Feb 19th
One of the world’s earliest carvings conveying human sexuality shows bisexuality was normal, even over 3,000 years ago The Kangjiashimenji Petroglyphs, rock carvings found in a remote region in northwest China, show a fertility ritual.
Archaeologist Wang Binghua discovered the symbols in the late 1980s, but little has been written about them. In a new report from Mary Mycio, the carvings show 100 figures which abstractly depicts different ways of expressing sexuality.
While carvings have been found dating back over 20,000 years, these petroglyphs are probably the most explicit and intricate. Mycio writes: ‘The few scholars who have studied the petroglyphs think that the larger-than-life hourglass figures that begin the tableau symbolize females. They have stylized triangular torsos, shapely hips and legs, and they wear conical headdresses with wispy decorations. ‘Male images are smaller triangles with stick legs and bare heads. Ithyphallic is archeology-talk for “erect penis,” and nearly all of the males have one. ‘A third set of figures appear to be bisexual. Combining elements of males and females, they are ithyphallic but wear female headwear, a decoration on the chest, and sometimes a mask. They might be shamans. Read on…
+3Periodical Political Post *149
Jan 16th
Queer News
- European court says religion can’t justify LGBT discrimination
- Italian court says gay parents are as good as straight ones
- Study shows Chinese gay-tolerance over thousands of years
- Priests say gay marriage will lead to discrimination against them
- Anti-gay activist produced child porn of her own daughter
Other News
- Gun lobby makes shooting game for kids after blaming games for violence
- Inside the terror factory: FBI’s massive efforts to create fake terrorist plots
- UK Border Agency wants to keep using force on pregnant women & kids
- Japanese tsunami recovery fund used for controversial whale hunting
- Al Jazeera America, a test case for an open society and free speech
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Oct 25th
In Asia, female idol groups are a dime a dozen. These days it seems like anyone with a pretty face can throw on a skirt, get up on stage and call themselves the next Kara Generation 48. But it’s always nice when unique acts like Chinese idol unit Alice Weiniang Group are able to make it into the spotlight. You see, in addition to having style and looks, the members of Alice Weiniang Group have something no other Asian idol girl group does: a penis. That’s because all members of the 200-strong idol team are male. Weiniang literally means “fake lady,” or cross-dresser, so we might better refer to them as “Alice Cross-Dresser Group.”
The group was formed in October 2009 and is based in Wuhan, the provincial capital of Hubei in central China. The idea for an all-male cross-dressing idol group came to the founders, a group of college students in a Japanese anime club, when they were stuck having to perform a mixed-gender cosplay show at an anime convention while female members happened to be away. Several of the male members decided to play the females roles on stage and, to their surprise, the costumes were a huge hit with the crowd.
After that, they began organizing cross-dressing cosplay shows for money. While there were only about 20 members at the time of the group’s founding, their ranks have swelled to 200 over the past three years and now they even have their own choreography, make-up, stage and photography team. Most members are college students, but there are also a few working adults in the mix. In order to be admitted to the group, you must have a feminine face and long, slender legs, so it’s natural that most the guys are in their late-teens or early-twenties.
Alice now has a sizable Chinese fanbase and are frequently asked to perform at anime, comic and game conventions and cosplay festivals. Several of the boys have made modeling debuts and one of the most popular members, 20-year-old Haoge, is said to have nearly 14,000 followers on Chinese Twitter-like service, Sina Weibo.
Via RocketNews, submitted by Film Buff
+2Periodical Political Post *132
Oct 18th
Queer News
- Catholic Church spends more than $1 million against marriage equality
- First same-sex wedding goes ahead in China despite official hindrance
- Northern Ireland Health minister to challenge gay adoption ruling
- American teenager commits suicide following anti-gay bullying claims
- Moscow gay club attacked by masked thugs at Coming Out day party
Other News
- Tepco admits downplaying tsunami risk to avoid anti-nuclear sentiments
- Third party candidates not just not allowed at US debates, they’re arrested
- MasterCard is selling customers’ data just in time for the holidays
- US Rep., doctor on House Science Committee, says evolution is a lie
- Police tasers blind man mistaking his white stick for a samurai sword
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Sep 25th
Queer News
- British study suggests drug use seven times higher in gay community
- Philippines activists fear new cybercrime law will target trans people
- First gay Hong Kong lawmaker seeks same-sex marriage legalisation
- Serbia cancels Belgrade pride parade planned for October once again
- U.S. pundit says civil rights are for “blacks, not women, gays & homeless”
Other News
- Judge says no constitutional right to secret ballot for Americans
- Sony thinks it’s a good idea to track your DNA to prevent piracy
- Police kills a double amputee in a wheelchair for wielding a pen
- The drugs don’t work: a modern medical scandal in big pharma
- The mystery of the disappearing bees was apparently solved
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Mama Rainbow
Sep 8th
A new documentary by prolific LGBT filmmaker Fan Popo focusing on the growing numbers of out and proud mothers of gay children in China was released online this week on Queer Comrades.
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Aug 16th
Queer News
- Shooting in Baltimore leaves one gay man dead, another in a coma
- Guard shot at Christian anti-gay lobby group’s office in Washington
- Second phase of HIV vaccine trials starts in China with 150 volunteers
- Thousands march in Dublin, demand marriage equality in Ireland
- Reykjavik mayor wear drag & rides in Icelandic gay pride parade
Other News
- After British raiding threats, Ecuador grants asylum to Julian Assange
- U.S. Republican admits suppressing minority votes is Republican tactic
- Files reveal how Boy Scouts kicked out gays but covered child molesters
- Man gets killed while handcuffed in police car, cops say it was suicide
- Mutant Fukushima butterflies reveal effects of radiation after meltdown
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