Archivo etiqueta «Homosexualidad»
By Frank Mugisha, the 2011 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award laureate and the executive director of Sexual Minorities Uganda (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 23/12/11):
When Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced this month that the United States would use diplomacy to encourage respect for gay rights around the world, my heart leapt. I knew her words — “gay people are born into, and belong to, every society in the world”— to be true, but in my country they are too often ignored.
The right to marry whom we love is far from our minds. Across Africa, the … Seguir leyendo
By Sarah Schulman, a professor of humanities at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 23/11/11):
“In dreams begin responsibilities,” wrote Yeats in 1914. These words resonate with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people who have witnessed dramatic shifts in our relationship to power. After generations of sacrifice and organization, gay people in parts of the world have won protection from discrimination and relationship recognition. But these changes have given rise to a nefarious phenomenon: the co-opting of white gay people by anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim political forces in Western Europe and Israel.… Seguir leyendo
Por Luis Antonio de Villena, escritor y colaborador de El Mundo (EL MUNDO,30/06/11):
Nadie puede dudar de que el colectivo LGTB (lesbianas, gays, bisexuales y transexuales) ha logrado avances de justicia y reconocimiento que hace apenas 30 años parecían casi impensables… Detrás está (y eso conmemora el famoso y no siempre bien entendido Día del Orgullo Gay) la revuelta de los homosexuales neoyorquinos en Stonewall, cuando volvían del funeral por Judy Garland. Pero digámoslo mejor, detrás está la fuerza de un gran colectivo de hombres y mujeres con una sexualidad distinta a la mayoritaria, que deciden no seguir siendo ofendidos … Seguir leyendo
By Nathan Cox, an infantry captain in the Marine Corps (THE WASHINGTON POST, 16/12/10):
I am an active-duty U.S. Marine Corps infantry officer. I have deployed twice to Iraq and once to Afghanistan and have commanded infantry Marines in combat.
On Tuesday, Gen. James Amos, commandant of the Marine Corps, said he believes repealing “don’t ask, don’t tell” and allowing gay and lesbian Marines to serve openly could “cost Marines’ lives” because of the “mistakes and inattention or distractions” that might ensue. I am not homosexual. And in this instance, I must respectfully disagree with my commandant.
The commandant … Seguir leyendo
By Tammy S. Schultz, director of national security and joint warfare at the U.S. Marine Corps War College. The views expressed here are her own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Marine Corps University (THE WASHINGTON POST, 22/11/10):
After 17 years, “don’t ask, don’t tell” may finally be on its way out. Even if the Senate resists the latest efforts to end the policy, it appears that most members of the military – from the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on down – support the law’s repeal.
But there’s one part of the military where … Seguir leyendo
By Navanethem Pillay, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights (THE WASHINGTON POST, 23/10/10):
Seth Walsh walked into the garden of his family’s home in Tehachapi, Calif., last month and hanged himself. He was just 13. Before making the tragic decision to end his life, however, he had endured years of homophobic taunting and abuse from his peers at school and in his neighborhood. He is one of six teenage boys in the United States known to have committed suicide in September after suffering at the hands of homophobic bullies.
In the past few weeks there has … Seguir leyendo
By Walter Dellinger, a lawyer and the head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel from 1993 to 1996 (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 21/10/10):
A federal appeals court on Wednesday granted the Obama administration’s emergency request for a stay against a lower court order lifting the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy barring openly gay service members.
The decision will strike some people as odd, since popular belief holds that the president, who has said he opposes the law, can make the policy go away by simply letting the lower court order stand. In fact, the administration is … Seguir leyendo
Por Juan Goytisolo, escritor (EL PAÍS, 05/10/10):
Cuando era un muchacho, en el colegio de los frailes en donde fui adoctrinado, memorizábamos la lista de los actos que “claman venganza a Dios”. En el segundo puesto de aquel palmarés de la infamia figuraba el “pecado impuro contra naturaleza”, simbolizado en el fuego divino que arrasó a las ciudades malditas a orillas del Mar Muerto.
Hoy, este tipo de fábulas hacen reír a quienes sabemos que dicha venganza diezmaría las filas del clero y que, privada de infinidad de sus hijos, la pobre Iglesia no podría levantar cabeza después de … Seguir leyendo
By Dan Littauer, a freelance editor and writer (THE GUARDIAN, 07/07/10):
It’s Pride season in Europe and the Americas. It’s a time to celebrate the huge achievements that have and are being made in terms of LGBT rights across this part of world. In Syria, however, things have taken a recent turn for the worse.
Since late March, police have conducted a series of raids on private parties and meeting places, and more than 25 men have been arrested. The arrests are shrouded in secrecy but some information has leaked out.
At the Gay Middle East news website (GME) … Seguir leyendo
By John M. Shalilashvili, a retired Army general, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1993 to 1997 (THE WASHINGTON POST, 22/05/10):
Defense Secretary Robert Gates wrote a letter last month urging Congress to delay legislation that would end the “don’t ask, don’t tell” ban on gay men and lesbians serving openly in the military until after Dec. 1, when the results of a 10-month Pentagon working-group review are due. While the request is reasonable, it is the military that will pay the highest price if Congress does not act now.
“Don’t ask, don’t tell” is both a … Seguir leyendo
By Nikolai Alekseev, the head of the Russian LGBT Human Rights Project and head of Moscow Pride Organizing Committee (THE GUARDIAN, 14/05/10):
The centre of Minsk, capital of Belarus, is blocked for at least 15 minutes, then four cars with the Belarusian national flag as licence plates sweep past. A young guy next to me is calling his mum to tell her that he is so excited and just saw with his own eyes the bulletproof car of Alexander Lukashenko, sometimes described as Europe’s last dictator.
Just over a week ago, the Belarusian leader was sent a … Seguir leyendo
By Desmond Tutu, archbishop emeritus of Cape Town, South Africa. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 (THE WASHINGTON POST, 12/03/10):
Hate has no place in the house of God. No one should be excluded from our love, our compassion or our concern because of race or gender, faith or ethnicity — or because of their sexual orientation. Nor should anyone be excluded from health care on any of these grounds. In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial … Seguir leyendo
By David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey, partners in the Washington law firm of Baker & Hostetler; they served in the Justice Department under presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush (THE WASHINGTON POST, 13/02/10):
When the Pentagon’s top brass announced last week that they no longer believe military unit cohesion suffers from the presence of openly gay men or women in the ranks, they effectively transformed a policy question into a legal one, to which the answer is clear: Congress can no longer mandate discrimination in the armed forces on the basis of sexual orientation.
In … Seguir leyendo
By Eric Lax, the author of the forthcoming Faith, Interrupted: A Spiritual Journey (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 08/02/10):
The election, two months ago, of the Rev. Mary Glasspool, a priest who has been in a committed relationship with another woman for more than 20 years, as a suffragan (assistant) bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, has brought added turmoil to the Episcopal Church in the United States and to the worldwide Anglican Communion. There has been sporadic schism since the regular ordination of women as priests in 1977 and especially since the election of the Rev. Gene … Seguir leyendo
THE WASHINGTON POST, 07/02/10:
The Post asked pollsters and others to explain the politics of changing the ban on gays serving openly. Below are responses from Scott Keeter, Ed Rogers, Dan Schnur, Michael Buonocore, Douglas E. Schoen and Sue Fulton.
By Scott Keeter, Director of survey research at the Pew Research Center.
Support for allowing gays to serve openly in the military has been stable for several years and is significantly higher in many polls than it was when President Bill Clinton raised the issue in the 1990s. When the Pew Research Center asked about this issue last March… Seguir leyendo