From The Times May 22, 2010 Jacqui Goddard in Miami and Jonathan Clayton in Nairobi When he arrived at Kampala’s Hotel Triangle for a three-day conference, the Rev Kapya Kaoma knew that he would not like what he heard. The clue was in the event’s title — “Exposing the truth behind homosexuality and the homosexual [...]

Friday June 11 & Saturday June 12; 8:30 pm Exit Theater Café 156 Eddy Street, SF (betw. Mason & Taylor) Tickets at the door: $10 – 25 (cash only) Whether it’s learning and claiming the word Lesbian in defining your desires, coming out to accepting, incredulous, or disparaging parents, or the hilarious trials of finding [...]

By Elle Flanders May 11, 2010 Since this article was written, the federal government has cancelled $397,500 in support for Pride Toronto. The hysteria created around the inclusion of a group called Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA) in the Toronto Pride Parade this year can be justly attributed to the ongoing Brand Israel campaign backed [...]

Paediatricians have erred by suggesting that ‘nicking’ female genitalia should be allowed as a cultural compromise At the end of last month, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) issued a revised policy statement on female genital mutilation (FGM) called “ritual genital cutting of female minors,” suggesting that the federal and state law in the US [...]

Nadia Dropkin, New York University
The Forty-One informants of Bareed Mistajil, A Textual Ethnography of Queer Women and Transgender Persons in Lebanon