U.S. Sodomy Ruling Ripples to India
Ripples from the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic ruling in a Texas sodomy law case have made it all the way to India, where activists are fighting a colonial-era ban…More
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A Tale of Two Eastern European Cities
RECENT gay rights activism in much of Eastern Europe has been driven by the desire to become eligible for membership in the European Union (EU), which imposes a list…More
Building a GLBT Literary Tradition in Russia
When I mentioned to a friend recently that I was writing an article for The Gay & Lesbian Review, the Moscow writer—who keeps his sexual orientation hidden from his…More
The Philippines: Make Way for the Baklas
Baklas are effeminate men who dress in women’s garb and consider themselves in every way to be female.
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When India’s Prince Gohil Came Out
In 2013, the Supreme Court of India ruled against the decriminalization of homosexual relationships as decided by the Delhi high court in July 2009. … Consequently, homosexual relationships are again punishable in India with up to ten years’ imprisonment.
MoreA South African Justice Speaks Out
SOUTH AFRICAN Constitutional Court Justice Edwin Cameron is a leading activist on gay rights and HIV/AIDS whom the late Nelson Mandela called a “new hero for South Africa.”
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The China Closet
Beijing Comrades is set against a backdrop of cultural and political upheaval in China during the late 1980s and early ’90s.
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Short Reviews
Reviews of David Bowie’s album Blackstar, and the books: Batty Bwoy and Making a Scene: Lesbians and Community across Canada, 1964-84.
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Cruising China
Tiantian Zheng is a straight Chinese woman who teaches anthropology at SUNY-Cortland and went back to China over the course of three years to gather data about gay men in a provincial city on the coast northeast of Beijing …
MoreSilencing Israeli Activists Accomplishes Nothing
AT THE JANUARY 2016 Creating Change conference, held in Chicago, hundreds of pro-Palestinian, anti-Israeli activists shut down a reception for Israeli LGBT activists and their American supporters. Apparently the…More