LGBTQ Rights

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  Interview

  Engagement or Disengagement?
  A Conversation About Manifesta 10 with Joanna Warsza

  June 26, 2014 - 

  Nato Thompson speaks with Joanna Warsza, curator of Manifesta 10’s public program, about how artists invited to the roving European biennial are responding to the political situation in Russia.  More

  By Nato Thompson

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  Op-Ed

  We’re Here, We’re Qwerty, and I’m Not Sure I Want to Get Used To It

  June 23, 2014 - 

  The musician JD Samson (of Le Tigre and MEN) proposes we celebrate Pride Month with a commitment to commemorate and support diverse struggles across the LGBTQI community, joining together for interpersonal, intersectional discussions instead of divisive online debates.  More

  By JD Samson

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  Photo Gallery

  United at the Margins: Sochi’s LGBTQ Community

  February 17, 2014 - 

  As international attention focuses on Sochi, host city for a Winter Olympics that has been protested due to Russia’s recent law punishing “gay propaganda,” Olya Ivanova photographs the local gay and lesbian scene and Katya Kazbek comments on the community’s varied perspectives on LGBTQ politics.  More

  By Olya Ivanova and Katya Kazbek

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  Photo Gallery

  Living in Fear: Gay and Persecuted in Uganda

  December 3, 2013 - 

  Photographs capture sorrow, anger and glimpses of hope in Uganda, where pastors and politicians alike have inveighed against same-sex relations, leading many gays and lesbians to experience eviction, job loss, estrangement and assault.  More

  By Bénédicte Desrus and Jocelyn Edwards

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  Video

  Flags and Punishment: State-Sponsored Homophobia

  December 2, 2013 - 

  More than a third of the world’s countries prohibit same-sex relations, with punishments ranging from monetary fines to lifetime imprisonment with hard labor, forced psychiatric treatment, whippings and even death by public stoning.  More

  By Jim Hodges, Encke King and Carlos Marques da Cruz