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...doctor's voice dropped a notch when an office worker in a brown suit settled in close by. The medic shifted a battered fedora over his eyes. "I am the gay doctor," the physician whispered to me, making sure nobody around heard. He talked about the gay and lesbian couples who go to his office to avoid ridicule in public hospitals. "They know they can trust me, and trust is a big issue," he said. "There is the stigma of being gay, but also the stigma of being [HIV] positive. They are such hidden communities. Nobody wants to deal with...
...stem the anti-gay tide. Said Sylvia Tamale, dean of law: "Today it is homosexuals under attack. Tomorrow it will be another minority." In the meantime, the country's gay community cowers. "In Uganda people take us to be sinners," says Grace, the leader of a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender youth group, who preferred not to give her surname. "They consider us as a destroyed person. Most of [our members] say, 'I don't know what I am doing in this world. Everybody hates me.' We have to keep on consoling them...
Jarrett T. Barrios ’90, president of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, criticized what he regarded as pervasive homophobia in a lecture yesterday at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts...
...musicians on the Internet. Soon, Muslim bands from across the U.S. and Canada decided to put together a tour in a green-spray-painted school bus. Among the performers were the Kominas, a Boston group fronted by Pakistani Americans, and Secret Trial Five, a Vancouver band fronted by a lesbian, Sena Hussain. (See pictures of Ramadan...
...driven by performance and it’s going on on different levels in all kinds of different places,” he says. “Burlesque is tapping into a gay performance culture, it’s tapping into a male performance culture... a lesbian performance culture. It’s tapping into performance art... and pin-up culture. It’s going in a lot of different ways, but the anchor is that they revolve around the body, the performed body, and the sexuality around the performed body...