Margaret Cho: First Woman to Appear in Gay Adult Mag

Margaret has been a culture for many years. She has raised the of Asian-Americans and women in , and has been a tireless for rights.

Tonight, is guesting on E!’s Chelsea Lately to spread the word about her latest first: premier female cover model for the newest issue of magazine Unzipped. See video from the shoot below.

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There’s no pride in bashing gays, Bishop

If you’re reading, , I really didn’t want to have another at you about your trenchant and sometimes views about what constitutes Christian . As to the rest of you reading this, I’m sorry if it looks as if whenever Dr Michael -, who retires as Bishop of Rochester in September, makes a public statement I an attack on him. Believe me, the routine is tiresome for me, too.

But his comments in yesterday’s Sunday , which he is expected to repeat today, that should “repent and be changed” cannot pass unchallenged. Or rather, they should not go challenged only by rights , such as , who you would expect to be somewhat antipathetic to the expressed view.

Because Dr - is wrong in the eyes of a broad of kind and tolerant of differing , and of the Christian , other and no at all. Badly, badly wrong.

I say that I didn’t want to have another fight with him because such fights polarise , and we’re at our best when we’re talking. I went to a private recently, to which Dr - was also invited. He didn’t show. The seat next to me went empty. I do hope he didn’t bottle it; it’s important that don’t just inhabit comfort zones with who share their views.

Dr -’s are the Fellowship of Confessing (Foca), who this week will try to get the over going again, while denying that they are doing any such thing. Had he turned up to our , I would have asked him why he and Foca are so convinced that they know the mind of better than those who disagree with them and that their interpretation of is with absolute certainty the one and only true one.

When I write about the Church and , inevitably I receive messages that read simply “Romans 1:26-27″ or “1 Corinthians 6:9″, as if that settles something. We can argue until we’re at the pearly gates. But the essential difference between Dr - and me is this: I accept, disappointing as I would find it in my fiery furnace, that he might be right. By contrast, he and his cannot accept that I might be right, claim that I can’t be a proper Christian, and some of them go so far as to suggest that I’ll burn in for all .

And there’s the real problem: it’s an issue of intolerance. has long been characterised by a broad . But my of Dr - and his , that they are with whom I happen vehemently to disagree, doesn’t seem to be reciprocated.

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Hindu guru claims homosexuality can be ‘cured’ by yoga

The world’s most popular guru, “Baba” , has claimed can be “cured” by yoga in a to ’s .

The guru whose yoga programmes are watched by an estimated 85 million throughout the world, made the claim in an appeal to the overturn a ruling last week which legalised .

He has warned he will if the ruling is not struck down and said all of ’s main regarded acts as sins.

In his , he argued that was a and that sufferers could seek a cure.

“It can be treated like any other . Such tendencies can be treated by yoga, pranayam and other ,” he said.

Pranayam are a series of which include hyperventilation, a slow release of breath while chanting “Om”.

His have said there are particular which also help prevent sexual urges.

The overturning of ’s law criminalising was welcomed by ’s community and by , including several leading designers and .

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Condemnation for bishop who called for gay people to ‘repent’ Independent

The Bishop of Rochester has been accused of pandering to hate and after calling on to repent. Michael - provoked among when he urged to stick to instead of being swayed by “culture and trends”.

While calling for the “traditional teaching” of the to be upheld, the Bishop said of : “We want them to repent and be changed.”

His were published just hours after more than , including the ’s wife, Sarah, took part in the parade in .

, of the and Christian Movement, condemned Dr - for making comments that she said would encourage .

“It feeds to the more fundamental individuals who are looking to have their opinions ratified and speak hatefully and behave hatefully,” she said.

“His comments are likely to cause more of a within the . He’s saying their [ and ] is a . It’s not. It’s a gift from . made us all.”

She added: “He is telling ‘You have to repent’ for something they have no over. It’s like asking someone to repent because they have blue eyes.”

, the rights , said he was “shocked” at the level of anti- voiced by the bishop. “ is a social and , just like . , even in the guise of , has no place in a compassionate, ,” he said. “I call on the bishop to repent his . His goes against Christ’s gospel of and compassion.”

accused the Bishop of Rochester of being “selective” about which parts of the he upheld. “When he calls for the of all the banks, and credit card companies because of what it says in the about usury, then I’ll take him seriously,” he said. “Until then, unless he can say anything good, he should shut up.”

In his comments, made to a Sunday newspaper, the bishop said should be welcomed into the Church but that a person’s sexual could only be correctly expressed in a union within . His remarks reopened the row over that has for years threatened to tear the Church apart.

He made them on the of today’s official of the Fellowship of Confessing at Westminster Central Hall in where he is expected to speak in support of the organisation. The UK branch of the Fellowship is regarded by many within the movement as an to create a church within a church with the of heading off moves to ease rules on . Dr - is to step down in the autumn and he is expected to play an important part in the Fellowship’s activities.

The Very Rev Colin Slee, the of Southwark and a prominent liberal, was so alarmed by the the impending departure of Dr - from the See of Rochester that he described it as “clearly a move towards a sectarian alternative church intentionally designed to create turbulence in the Communion”.

Chris Sugden, of the Fellowship, said a message from the will be read out during the ceremony but a Buckingham Palace called it nothing more than a “standard response” to the many requests made to the monarch each year. “It isn’t endorsing anyone’s point of view,” she said.

Zeal of the convert: The Bishop of Rochester

*Michael - has been one of the most vocal and controversial of of the past and has rarely been afraid to speak out.

He was a leading to become when George Carey stood down but has found himself at with , the .

The issue of has been one of the biggest causes of friction between Dr -, the Bishop of Rochester, and the of the Church.

In 2008 the rift was so marked that he boycotted the , a meeting of held once a , because of the row over . He is part of an evangelical wing urging the Church to stick to a traditional interpretation of the scriptures regarded by , especially on the issues of and women , as backward.

This year he announced he would step down as Bishop of Rochester in September to allow him time to concentrate on representing the Church in parts of the world where are a minority or oppressed.

Born in Pakistan to Catholic , he converted at the age of 20 and holds dual British and Pakistani nationality. Appointed the 106th Bishop of Rochester in 1994, he was the first non-white in the . Since then he has been a frequent critic of the rise of in Britain.

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U&K Police sound alarm as anti-gay attacks rise

Senior police are “exceptionally concerned” about a recent spate of of men as figures reveal that attacks are escalating.

say anti- has surged, and statistics reveal a 9% rise in and transphobic offences to 1,372 in the year to . police recorded a 63% rise in crime. Detective , of the Metropolitan police, who headed a recent operation against that to 292 arrests, said: “ cannot be considered a thing of the past, it’s on the increase.”

A confidential for ’s advisory group, seen by the Observer, says nine “” have been recorded in the force’s area since March 2008, compared with five incidents from 2001 to 2005. Recent cases include the of Daryl Phillips, 39, stabbed two weeks ago in , north , after arriving from Trinidad to escape , and of Gerry , 59, knifed when he answered the door in Bromley, south . His , Chris , 56, was also stabbed.

The new chief of police, Peter , has expressed “alarm” about the of such offences, from 327 to 533 in the year to 2008. , author of The Divorcee, said appears to be growing in both the number of incidents reported and in severity.

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Moscow’s mayor tried to crush the city’s gay pride parade. In doing so, he did the cause of gay rights in Russia a huge service Russian gay rights …

Russian gay rights are toasting ’s mayor, Yuri Luzhkov, after he ordered the banning and of last Saturday’s Slavic gay pride parade in the – just hours before the was staged in the city.

“Luzhkov has done more than anyone to publicise rights in Russia,” beamed Alekseev, the parade organiser, as we chatted on following his release from nearly 24 hours of :

By stopping the parade he has provoked of our fight against . The Russian media has been full of reports about issues for the last week. This has hugely increased public awareness and understanding of .

Slowly, we are eroding . Through this media , we are helping to normalise . After our successive in since 2006, are less shocked about . We have a long way to go, but gradually we are winning , especially among younger Russians.

We ought to give Luzhkov an award. His violation of our right to has given us a remarkable platform, with day-after-day of publicity about human rights. It is the equivalent of about 200m roubles (£4m pounds) in free advertising.

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Moscow’s mayor tried to crush the city’s gay pride parade. In doing so, he did the cause of gay rights in Russia a huge service Russian gay rights …

Russian gay rights are toasting ’s mayor, Yuri Luzhkov, after he ordered the banning and of last Saturday’s Slavic gay pride parade in the – just hours before the was staged in the city.

“Luzhkov has done more than anyone to publicise rights in Russia,” beamed Alekseev, the parade organiser, as we chatted on following his release from nearly 24 hours of :

By stopping the parade he has provoked of our fight against . The Russian media has been full of reports about issues for the last week. This has hugely increased public awareness and understanding of .

Slowly, we are eroding . Through this media , we are helping to normalise . After our successive in since 2006, are less shocked about . We have a long way to go, but gradually we are winning , especially among younger Russians.

We ought to give Luzhkov an award. His violation of our right to has given us a remarkable platform, with day-after-day of publicity about human rights. It is the equivalent of about 200m roubles (£4m pounds) in free advertising.

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Gay protest broken up in Moscow

Police in have broken up a by rights in , staged to coincide with the final of the .

Some 30 had gathered near a university in defiance of a ban on their march and many were dragged away by police when they shouted .

British rights , , was among those detained.

A counter- by nationalist and religious was allowed to go elsewhere in the .

The rights group had been and chanting demanding and condemning the treatment of and in .

At least 20 were arrested as police moved in to disperse the .

As he was being taken away by police, Mr Tatchell shouted: “This shows the Russian are not free.”

Speaking from a , he later told the : “The way the police violently broke up our peaceful is an indication of a drift toward that is affecting all Russians.”

‘Satanic’

The organiser of the gathering and leading , Alexeyev, was also detained at the event, which took place in the south-west of the city.

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Gay Pride in Moscow: Report from a Chicago Activist

Andy , from the Liberation Network in Chicago, in last night. courtesy Glay Liberation Network.

By Andy in
, May 14, 2009 ( Liberation Network) – After 14 hours of flights, last night I found myself in Eastern for the first , warmly greeted by and who, despite , are organizing their fourth annual event in this city. This year’s event is dubbed ‘Slavic ’, denoting the significant of from around the region.
The previous three years’ have gone forward despite bans from the and from neo- in and skinhead garb. This year the not only banned the event, but for good measure, approved the anti-’ application to hold their own event this past Tuesday.
That same day, our countered with their own unsanctioned action at the Department of Registration of Acts of Civil Status – an by two to get a license.
Leading Slavic Alekseev said the action was inspired in part by a February at a license bureau in Chicago. The action received widespread international press coverage, including from the .
As I shadowed Alekseev around the city last night, press coverage if anything seemed to build, with ’s two cell phones ringing incessantly and meetings with Finish and Slovenian held near midnight just outside of .
Slavic is slated for this Saturday, amidst the big ‘ Fest’ being hosted this year by . For those not familiar with what is, think times ten, with a of media coverage and that puts Chicago’s to .
While our specific plans for Saturday are necessarily secret at this time, the is to cause maximum embarrassment to the government if they to arrest us or allow the neo- to attack.
In response to ’ application for a permit this year, Vladmir Pronin told the Russian Interfax that parades in the capital are “unacceptable - parades shouldn’t be allowed”.
“No one will dare to do it, such ‘braveheart’ will be torn to shreds,” he added. “The West can say we’re bad guys, but our will see it is right. Our country is patriarchal, that’s [] sums it up… I positively agree with the Church, with the , , especially with [Mayor] Luzhkov, who are convinced that man and should each other. It is established by and .”
However, have vowed to move forward with this year’s event despite the ’s threats.
“Mr. Pronin already showed his incompetency last year when his services were unable to prevent us unveiling a banner directed against the Mayor, right opposite his office,” said Alekseev.
The main event successfully took place nearby at the monument to the famous Russian composer, Peter Tchkaivosky, while the and neo- were hoodwinked in to thinking that it would take place outside of Mayor Luzhkov’s office.
Today at the start of a rights conference at an east of the city, I was joined by British rights and from around and Belorussia ­ Minsk, Rostof, Sochi, Ufa, St. Petersburg, Krasnodar, Ekaterinbourg, Volgodonsk, Ryazan and of course .
As we gathered on a to go to the conference, Baev explained how a group of young from Ryazan, about 200 miles south of the capital, got involved in organizing this year’s Slavic :
“There is a very in the which prohibits so-called about homosexuality20and among minors. The law passed in 2006 and we had that said that is absolutely normal and we are proud of our situation. We picketed in front of schools in Ryazan and we were detained because it was illegal.”
Two were found guilty and fined 1500 roubles (about $45 US) each. Alekseev came to Ryazan to help in the campaign and in the appeal of their cases to the of .
Then, Sergey Yenin, 19, explained how he became involved in rights organizing in Belorussia :
“I felt myself to be from my early childhood, he explained.
“Last year I came to Minsk and there I got acquainted with some and I thought it would be great if I fought for my rights. There are a of who don’t fight for their rights, who don’t participate in such movements, and they just consume our achievements.
“For example, we fought for our club, our one club in Minsk. It was in danger of being closed [by the government], but it still exists, due to us.”
I asked Sergey if he had participated in Minsk before.
“Yes, of course. The most outstanding parade took place in 2001. But I didn’t participate because I was only 11 then. There were over 300 participating in this event and 300 watching. This was fabulous This was an historical moment in Belorussia.
“The last one took place in October of 2008. It was named Walk and it took place on the 11th of October 2008, the international day of coming out, and we organized a parade. It was a rather private, intimate event, there were fifty because we cannot organize such a public event because of our government.
“If we applied for an event, we would be denied.
“There is an action that takes place [each year] called Chernobyl Way, and all of the parties take place there, and our group participated last year and this year. Last year we raised the and there were a of bad comments about it, there were a of thre ats [of ]. There were such as Right Alliance, and they threaten us all of the time. This year we didn’t20raise our because the of the Belorussian National Front, the main party, they coordinated a call to us, do not raise your , not because we have anything against you, because our fight for clean air, free of radiation will turn into a fight for rights.”
I asked Sergey why he personally joined the 15 others for the ten hour from Belorussia to join this Saturday’s Slavic : “I [only] made the [to come] on May 12 because I was really very frightened about myself and my . I know that there is some information that is going to be canceled, and more than this, that are going to be beaten.
“Because this is my fight really.If I don’t go to the parade, who will go there? My reasons to come was to support my – and of course to support rights.”
SEE ALSO
Tatchell To Attend Moscow Gay Pride. Despite threats to bash and arrest the marchers, British will attend this Saturday’s parade – this year renamed Slavic to support the , , and () struggles in all Slavic countries, Russian and non-Russian. (UK News, May 11, 2009)
Gay Marriage Campaign Starts in Russia. will apply for a license in on May 12, it emerged this afternoon. The announcement was made today during a press conference for Slavic which is planned for later this month in . (UK News, May 5, 2009)

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Moscow warned to allow gay rights protest – or face Eurovision boycott

WHEN took the crown for the first time last year, the whole country basked in its musical , promising a show in for the 2009 finals that would eclipse everything that had gone before.

But only a before this weekend’s grand , things have turned ugly, with official and a threat over the entire event.

lready, one contestant has said he will walk out of the competition if flares at the proposed .

“If we get to the final and the is suppressed by force, I will refuse to get on that stage in ,” Gordon, the singer and songwriter from the De Toppers, told Dutch . “If my kind of are discriminated against in any way, then there is no reason for me to be here; I’ll be on the .”

Prominent British , who was assaulted and arrested at the in 2007, has added his weight to the campaign by announcing that he will attend Saturday’s march, despite a ban on him travelling to .

“I am joining the parade to show my support for the courageous Russian ,” said Mr Tatchell, who is the for the Green Party.

“All year round they arrest, and -bashing attacks. These are absolute . I salute them.” See

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