Posts tagged Portugal
Periodical Political Post *150
Jan 23rd
Queer News
- English House of Commons ready for marriage equality vote
- Canada moving to end lifetime blood donation ban on gay men
- UK phone operators censor satire, feminism and homosexuality
- Portugal’s parliament unanimously passes trans hate crime law
- Australia drafts law to ban homophobic abuse in sports
Other News
- “Terrorists” in Mali were trained by US military for $600 million
- Russian monitors: US election failed to meet democratic standards
- How the Vatican built a secret property empire with fascist money
- Peter Tatchell: UK should look at lowering the age of consent to 14
- Ex-US presidential candidate: Don’t restrict guns, just pray for help
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Why Gay Marriage Matters
Oct 12th
When she turned 38 last month, Brenda Frota Johnson got a sweet surprise: a formal “happy birthday” from her longtime partner’s mother. It wasn’t a gift or even a card, just a succinct text message, but even so, it had no precedent over the 10 years that she and her partner, Isabel Advirta, 39, had been making a life and a home here together.
Why this birthday? The two women share a theory. “Brenda’s now officially a part of the family,” Advirta said recently as they watched their 3-year-old daughter, Salomé, play in a leafy Lisbon park. Johnson agreed. “It’s because we’re married,” she said. That legal blessing — that loftiest of imprimaturs — has changed little between them but a lot around them. Read on…
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Jun 8th
Queer News
- 3 million celebrate world’s biggest Gay Pride in Sao Paulo
- Sweden is named Europe’s most gay-friendly country
- Shortest & first successful Gay Pride held in Moscow
- Lesbians are first gay couple getting married in Portugal
- Gay couple jailed in Malawi after getting engaged pardoned
- Kids of lesbians have fewer behavioural problems, study suggests
- Chinese elementary school tries to toughen up ‘sissy’ boys
Other News
- British pre-teens convicted for “rape” & labelled sex offenders
- Autistic US boy charged as terrorist for drawing stick-figure
- Boy picked up by police for not wearing bike helmet, held for 2 years
- US conducted illegal torture research on detainees
- How to vote in the Russian parliament (role model USA?)
Top Story
- CIA wanted to create a Saddam Teen Sex Tape
In 2003 when the Iraqi invasion was being planned, the CIA came up with the plan to produce a video showing Saddam Hussein having sex with a teenage boy. “It would look like it was taken by a hidden camera,” said a former CIA official. “Very grainy, like it was a secret videotaping of a sex session.” Hussein wasn’t the only one who was going get tagged as a paedophile. Apparently a tape was made of Osama bin Laden, played by one of the agency’s “darker-skinned” employee, sitting around a campfire talking about all of the boys he slept with.
Both plans eventually went nowhere. Mainly because they might have turned the stomachs of our blue haired ladies, but would have fallen flat overseas. A former agency official with experience in the Middle East commented:
“Saddam playing with boys would have no resonance in the Middle East — nobody cares. Trying to mount such a campaign would show a total misunderstanding of the target. We always mistake our own taboos as universal when, in fact, they are just our taboos.”
0Periodical Political Post *53
May 23rd
Queer News
- Portugal’s president ratifying law which allows gay marriage
- Denmark approves equal adoption rights for gays
- Ban on gay anthology by US school challenged
- Skinheads attack Slovakia’s first gay pride parade
- Lithuania’s first gay pride march draws protests
- Moscow pride banned as protesters say they will march anyway
- Australian minister quits after being filmed at gay sex club
Other News
- No trial needed for life imprisonment in USA
- US troops executing prisoners in Afghanistan, journalist says
- Travellers to be searched for porn in Australia
- Airport body scanners apparently do show every detail
- Catholic church punishing nun for allowing life saving abortion
- Facebook caught sharing secret data with advertisers
- More immigrants means less crime according to stats
German News
- Österreich bestraft angenommene Jugendpornografie
- Deutsche Muslime fordern Schwulen-Schutz im Grundgesetz
- Elite-Internat feuert Lehrer wegen Homosexualität
- CDU & FDP weiterhin für Internet-Zensur
Top Story
- School Spy Program used on US Students contains Hacker friendly Security Hole
A controversial remote administration program that a Pennsylvania school district installed on student-issued laptops contains a security hole that put the students at risk of being spied on by people outside the school, according to a security firm that examined the software. The LANrev program contains a vulnerability that would allow someone using the same network as one of the students to install malware on the laptop that could remotely control the computer. An intruder would be able to steal data from the computer or control the laptop webcam to snap surreptitious pictures. The vulnerability was discovered by researchers at Leviathan Security Group, who began examining the program after customers who saw media coverage of the Pennsylvania case expressed concern that the program might be exposing their employee computers to intrusion from outsiders. The same software is used by many businesses to monitor and maintain their employee laptops.
The Lower Merion School District in Pennsylvania is embroiled in a lawsuit and FBI criminal investigation over use of the LANrev software. The cases involve allegations that administrators spied on students through the software installed on 2,300 school-issued Macbooks. Read on…
0Periodical Political Post *42
Jan 13th
- Americans’ role seen in push of mediaeval gay-execution bill in Uganda
- Portugal legalising gay marriage but not adoption by same-sex couples
- New Jersey Senate defeats same-sex marriage bill, supporters will go to court
- Special ID cards for young transsexuals in Sweden proposed
- British man prevented from donating blood to dying mother because he’s gay
- New Zealand cyber spies win new powers, can monitor whole online life
- Australian child porn filters will be used to block & censor video games
- Iraq invasion violated international law, Dutch inquiry finds
- Google stops censoring search results in China after getting attacked by hackers
- Taser thinks killing people is not enough, wants to stop kids from sexting
- Sherlock Holmes sequel under threat by US copyright holder for homosexual hints
Sweet Irony Special: Northern Ireland’s first minister steps down after his wife, an evangelical Christian who made a series of offensive comments about homosexuality, was caught with her own little Leviticus-style abomination: An affair with a 19 year old teenager who now is being sought as a cover model by a gay magazine 
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Jul 3rd
- India overturns 150 years old colonial law, allows same-gender sex
- Opinion poll shows 61% of Brits support full gay marriage rights
- After drug decriminalization: Drug related deaths & HIV cases drop
- UK government bans former anti-terror chief’s tell-all book
- Canadian government : You have no expectation of privacy on the Internet
- Bayern öffnet Standesämter für gleichgeschlechtliche Ehe
- 40 Jahre nach Stonewall: Berliner Polizei durchsucht Schwulenbar beim CSD
- Europarat will Deutsche Netzzensur für ganz Europa empfehlen
- Westdeutschland hat seine eigene Stasi-Vergangenheit
- GEMA will Gebühren für Konzerte um 600% (!) erhöhen
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