Salvaging what's left after the masses have had their feed
A Stealing Beauty panel discussion in London earlier this year explored how queer culture plunders dominant straight culture and uses it to create something new and vibrant. Film-maker and panelist Campbell Ex offers her observations.
Conor Montgomery has lived as a man for the past two and half years, but the Australian government is refusing to change his birth certificate unless he has life-threatening surgery. This is his story of liberation and fight for social justice.
Fitting into the mainstream establishment is not on trans queer activist and writer Mattilda Sycamore Bernstein’s agenda, and she is quite willing to forgo the ‘straight privilege’ that many in the queer community still seek. She spoke with Cath Davies.
Queer Muslims face institutional oppression in a variety of forms. Institutional religion and science in the homelands tends to pathologise them, the law to criminalise them, the media may see them as a curiosity or a monstrosity, and mainstream society ostracises them. Islam and Homosexuality is a two-volume collection espousing the scholarship of 20 researchers from around the world. Editor Dr Samar Habib introduces the work for The Scavenger.
Situational heterosexuality – the term used to describe the experience of gay and lesbian people in heterosexual partnerships – is the most misunderstood concept in the ‘ex-gay’ and Christian worlds, writes Anthony Venn-Brown.
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