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Res publica   27.06.17  

Essere omosessuali in Russia oggi.
Le storie di chi cerca di sopravvivere alle purghe putiniane dei gulag ceceni.

Ali was taken into a room. "Their boss is sitting there, sprawled out," he continued. "He says, 'You take it up the ass.' I start denying everything." The boss asked Ali about another man, whom Ali knew to be gay. That morning, the man had called Ali and suggested that they meet. "I knew that if they tortured him he'd break and give everyone up," Ali told me. He said to the police that he knew the man only as a business client. "They started beating me. I kept saying that I don't know anything, I've never even heard that there were gays here in Chechnya."

The men took him down to a basement, where there was a large central room, with cells and small chambers around the perimeter. In one chamber, officers dunked prisoners' heads in a vat of ice water; in another, they attached clothespin-like clips wired to a large battery to earlobes or extremities. The cells held men and women, who screamed as they were beaten with fists and batons.

The jailers tortured Ali and then brought him back upstairs to face the boss, then back to the basement for more torture, then back up. Each time Ali was interrogated, the boss demanded that he admit that he was homosexual and give him the names of other gay men. Each time, Ali denied everything. He knew that his phone would yield no information.

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Un cortometraggio in Polari

Multimedia   21.08.15  

Putting on the dish è il corto diretto da Brian Fairbairn e Karl Eccleston recitato interamente in Polari, lo slang segreto usato da membri della comunità gay britannica sino agli anni '60 in modo da poter parlare insieme in pubblico senza timore di essere riconosciuti come omosessuali e arrestati.
Dopo la depenalizzazione del reato di omosessualità nel Regno Unito, nel 1967, il Polari è gradualmente caduto in disuso durante i successivi anni '70.

Il termine Polari è una storpiatura che deriva dall'italiano "parlare".

Of all the cultural forms that gay men have created and elaborated since coalescing into a social group around the late 19th century, Polari, a full-fledged gay English dialect with roots among circus folk, sailors, and prostitutes, has to be one of the most fascinating--not least since it has faded along with the need for discretion and secrecy. While some words remain in common use--zhush or zhoosh (to adjust or embellish something to make it more pleasing) and trade (highly masculine or straight-acting sex partners) come to mind—the richness that we know once defined Polari is difficult to capture in 2015.

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L'uomo che ha disegnato la bandiera arcobaleno

Geek   03.07.15  

Gilbert Baker è diventato un'icona dei diritti gay dopo aver realizzato nel 1978 la bandiera arcobaleno, diventata da subito simbolo dei movimenti LGBT in tutto il mondo.

Baker says the rainbow was an obvious choice for him. "Until we had a flag, the symbol for our movement was the pink triangle, which was put on us by Hitler and the Nazis," Baker says. "The triangle came from a very negative, terrible place. We needed something that expressed our beauty, our soul, our love -- that came from us and wasn't put on us."

"He came up with the idea of flag," says Cleve Jones, a longtime gay rights activist and Baker's roommate at the time. Jones remembers it as a very DIY affair. "There was a gay community center at 330 Grove Street, now long gone. We did it all by hand with big garbage barrels of dye to color the fabric and then we dragged it out onto the roof to dry."

They made two flags that day -- the rainbow flag and an American flag with rainbow stripes instead of red, white and blue -- and hung them in San Francisco's U.N. Plaza for a pride parade on June 25, 1978.

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Think gay

Res publica   30.10.14  

Il coming out di Tim Cook è un pezzo di letteratura sui diritti civili e allo stesso tempo è l'espressione più pura di quell'ispirazione che determina il successo di Apple. Think different.

I don't consider myself an activist, but I realize how much I've benefited from the sacrifice of others. So if hearing that the CEO of Apple is gay can help someone struggling to come to terms with who he or she is, or bring comfort to anyone who feels alone, or inspire people to insist on their equality, then it's worth the trade-off with my own privacy.

I'll admit that this wasn't an easy choice. Privacy remains important to me, and I’d like to hold on to a small amount of it. I've made Apple my life's work, and I will continue to spend virtually all of my waking time focused on being the best CEO I can be. That's what our employees deserve--and our customers, developers, shareholders, and supplier partners deserve it, too. Part of social progress is understanding that a person is not defined only by one's sexuality, race, or gender. I'm an engineer, an uncle, a nature lover, a fitness nut, a son of the South, a sports fanatic, and many other things. I hope that people will respect my desire to focus on the things I'm best suited for and the work that brings me joy.

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Golubye

Res publica   08.02.14  

Il lungo e drammatico reportage di Jeff Sharlett che ha visitato la Russia per raccontare il clima medievale di repressione, disprezzo, violenza e odio vissuto quotidianamente dalla comunità LGBT.

I went to Moscow and St. Petersburg for two weeks in November because the Olympics were coming to Russia, and for a brief moment it seemed possible that the outside world was interested in the unraveling of civil society in one of the most powerful countries on the globe. Books are being banned--Burroughs and Baudelaire and Huxley's Brave New World--immigrants hunted, journalists killed, a riot-grrrl band, Pussy Riot, imprisoned for almost two years for playing a "Punk Prayer" in a Moscow cathedral; blasphemy is now illegal. Civil society isn't just coming undone; it's imploding. I wanted to visit the bottom of the heap. The golubye. The blues, which in Russia is another word for queer--any way of being other than "Russian," which, under President Vladimir Putin, has become a kind of sexual orientation. I wanted to see what ordinary LGBT life was like in a nation whose leaders have decided that "homosexualism" is a threat to its "sexual sovereignty," that "genderless tolerance," in Putin's words, is a disease of the West that Russia will cure. The medicine is that of "traditional values," a phrase, ironically, imported from the West, grafted onto a deeply conformist strain of nationalism. In Russia, that means silence and violence, censorship, and in its shadow, much worse.

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