Only 5 percent of men wear condoms and there are 2.5
million new H.I.V. infections a year.
Now an influential player in global health, the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation, is getting into the game. The foundation just
finished collecting applications for what it calls a Grand Challenge: to
to talk to him/her about current LGBT life in Tibet. Needless to
say, their identity will be kept completely anonymous--as I always do in
countries where being gay is dangerous.
Please contact me if you know anyone there: mic...@globalgayz.com
With many thanks.
Richard Ammon
Please forgive if this is a repeat posting (from September):
India’s 1st survey on gay love and sex busts myth.
Over 25% say they don’t have anal sex, debunking perception that the act
defines gay sex.
Sri Lanka begins ‘systematic targeting’ of gays.
Buddhist monk arrested for alleged gay pedophilia, transgender schoolboy
entrapped in smear campaign.
http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/sri-lanka-begins-%E2%80%98systematic-targeting%E2%80%99-gays070913
Two girls have been caught after they ran away from their homes to get
married in the first-case of same-sex marriage in the eastern Indian
state of Bihar.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2013/10/21/india-runaway-lesbian-couple-caught-by-police-in-bihar/
Gay Men and Looking Good
“In this town it’s all about being hot. “
This is what I hear from gay men in my psychotherapy practice.
So what’s wrong about hotness.? What’s not to like?
What worries me is when a ‘”hotness culture” moves beyond just being
an appreciation of beauty and sex and desire,
This should push a few buttons.
Mixing spirituality with sexuality, as it should be:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/05/orthodox-calendar-priests-gay_n_4214872.html#slide=more324051
he new head of the World Psychiatric Association has come out as gay and
demanded action to stop homosexuality being treated as an illness.
Professor Dinesh Bhugra’s decision to talk about his sexuality is an
historic step forward for a profession with a history of abusing
lesbian, gay and
Police in the Indian city of Pune distributed roses to LGBTI pride marchers
last Sunday to show them they have nothing to fear from them as long as
they obey the law - See more at:
http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/indian-cops-give-flowers-pune-lgbti-pride-marchers011213#sthash.UPc6hBAu.dpuf
They can be seen at the forefront of any gay- parade or gay movement.
Where closeted gay men still fear to step out, they form a large chunk
of these parades. Due to their colourful dresses and loud behavior, they often
attract the eye of the media. ‘They’ being the transgender
community.
This is one of the most serious setbacks against civil progress in modern
times. Old world justices in India refuse to see the changing cultural paradigm
in their own country. The original law that criminalizes same-sex intimacy came
from Britain more than 150 years ago; the world has moved
; Renee Richards
Johnny Weir; Richard Ammon (Gay Games)
...and thousands more who openly participate in the
Gay Games and Out Games...
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2013/12/18/obama-wont-attend-russian-winter-olympics-but-will-send-gay-inclusive-delegation/
Watch this wonderful report:
http://www.queerty.com/watch-meet-jack-andraka-gay-boy-wonder-who-invented-award-winning-cancer-test-20131015/
(and, not that it matters, this brilliant kid happens to be gay)
Hugs
RA
A guru has told gay men if they do not want to be arrested under the new gay
sex ban in India, then they should come to him for yoga classes to be ‘cured’.
Baba Ramdev, a spiritual leader known for popularizing yoga, has said he would
be able to ‘cure’ gay people in a matter of days.
‘I invite
BANGALORE – Now that the Supreme Court has ruled that the Indian law against
homosexuality cannot be overturned except
by Parliament, gay sex is illegal once again, making it that much harder for
young gay, lesbian and transgender Indians to identify themselves
as such.This makes the staff of Q
In a series of new studies, published this fall in the journal Science, the
Nedergaard lab may at last be
shedding light on just what it is that would be important enough. Sleep, it
turns out, may play a crucial role in our brain’s physiological
maintenance. As your body sleeps, your brain is
I suggest GayBombay and Gay_Bombay join together as one group instead of
readers having to sort through two news listings. Are we not all one family?!
From GlobalGayz.com
A commentary by Minal Hajratwala published in Time Magazine about LGBT
community regrouping
after the Supremes voted down human rights, fairness, decency and science in
favor of their own personal bias and ignorance about human sexuality; thinking
that's on the level with
Police Violence In India Drives A Gay Couple To The U.S.
Millions of gay Indians suddenly became criminals when the Indian Supreme Court
restored the country’s sodomy law in December. But the ruling actually helped
set one couple free.
When the ruling was issued, two men from northwest India
Ugandan Gay Activist Says: I am a gay Ugandan about to go home. This law will
tyrannize my life.
Frank Mugisha is a friend of GlobalGayz; he has been on a good-will and
fund-raising tour of the USA and is about to return home into the 'mouth of the
dragon'. Being gay he can be arrested and put
Anti-Gay Law Costs India $31 Billion
Anti-gay legislation and homophobia costs India $31 billion annually, according
to a new study from the World Bank. Between violence, job loss, discrimination,
and tourism, the exclusion of the LGBT community ultimately translates into
economic loss for the
as Richard
Ammon, a retired psychologist, continued to write for a local Orange County,
California gay magazine. After I had a dozen stories someone suggested I
publish a book, he said, but the Internet made a travel book quickly outdated
so I started a website--GlobalGayz.com. In 1999 the website
Male Sex Workers Targets of Violence: Study
By Sharadha Kalyanam
Published: 15th June 2014 09:56 AM
http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/bangalore/Male-Sex-Workers-Targets-of-Violence-Study/2014/06/15/article2281581.ece
BANGALORE: Sexual violence, which is believed to be a common
Criminalizing gays by misusing anti-gay sex law not acceptable, says Mumbai
chief of ruling party
The Mumbai chief of India’s ruling party, BJP,
says his party is now against the misuse of section 377 and will raise
the issue in Parliament
17 August 2014 | By Sylvia Tan
Regarding yesterday's UN vote approving non-discrimination policy among
members, the 'world's largest democracy' (by population) refused to vote yea or
nay on that resolution: India abstained from voting. This is shameful behavior.
In a country that has known the terror and war of
http://gayasianews.com/2014/08/18/internet-a-boon-for-gay-men-to-connect-in-small-indian-towns/
The internet is seen as a boon for gay men in small Indian towns to connect
with like minded people as well as arrange meetings in safe locations in a
country where same-sex relations are not only a
“People came out after the high court verdict in 2009 because they thought
everything was OK,” activist Anuja Parikh told NBC News. “Now that the Supreme
Court has taken a massive backwards step, the people who came out of the closet
are suddenly afraid because they can’t go back in.”
...But
Good news from India As the world turns, for better and worse, today's news is
for the better.
A openly trans man-to-woman has made history in India (and the world?) by
being elected mayor of the city of Raigarh in east-central, India (population
150,000). Before independence in 1948 Raigarh
Maintain vigilance for total health care. HIV is not the only disease that
threatens life: Swine Flu has killed hundreds so far.
Since Mid-December, More Than 700 Indians Have Died and 11,000 Others Infected
by Swine Flu - World News Report
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LOVE YOURSELF AND BE CAREFUL:
Dip in HIV among gay men sparks row over prevalence
| Sumitra DebRoy |
| May 18 2015 : The Times of India
(Mumbai)http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31804articlexml=Dip-in-HIV-among-gay-men-sparks-row-18052015002014
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NGOs Doubt
This is too wonderful. An Indian (India) mother helps shop for a groom for her
son!!
Indian mother places newspaper ad seeking husband for her son
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| Indian mother places newspaper ad seeking husband for he...In a first for
India, a newspaper carried a
or India. At least
it's not likely he will be murdered there. Any one have knowledge of an asylum
organization in India, or an organization that helps persecuted gays???
Thanks. Richard Ammon mic...@yahoo.com
I realize this could be a scam so I do not intend to send any money. :-)
I use the addresses for both Bombay groups.(Are you aware there are two
separate groups?)
gay_bombay@yahoogroups.com
gaybom...@yahoogroups.com
No trouble posting.BestRA
From: RV Viswanathan torontoind...@hotmail.com
To: mic...@yahoo.com mic...@yahoo.com
Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2015
Indian parents are so desperate to have straight children they are encouraging
cousins, brothers and even mothers to rape their children, an LBGT organisation
has warned
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/gay-teen-raped-mother-bid-5804678
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