A drama about a transgender woman has won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
Chilean film A Fantastic Woman has taken home the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, its only nomination.
A Fantastic Woman’s director Sebastián Lelio, thanked star Daniela Vega when accepting the award.
He said: “I want to thank the cast of the film, especially the brilliant actor Francisco Reyes Morandé and the inspiration for this movie, Daniela Vega.
“This film was made by a lot of friends and artists. I share this with all of you tonight.”
(Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
28-year-old Vega has been receiving rave reviews for her central role in the film.
Vega’s character Marina has to deal with her partner’s death and his family’s subsequent transphobia, while simultaneously trying to find her identity without her beloved Orlando.
Screening in several film festivals internationally, A Fantastic Woman had been very well received, particularly for Vega’s performance.
The magazine said she deserved “so much more than political praise,” and was one of many publications heaping compliments on the actress.
(Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
The film has been praised both for Vega’s performance and the artistic merit of the film, but for also ensuring that a transgender character was played by a transgender actress.
After his win, director Lelio said that it was critically important that the main character in the film be played by a transgender actress.
He said: “I felt that, for me, it was [a] very instinctive and strong decision knowing that I was not going to make this film without a transgender actress in main role.
“That put [the] film in a different dimension because of everything that Daniela brought to the film.”
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After it was screened at the Berlin Film Festival, Variety called Vega’s performance “a multi-layered, emotionally polymorphous feat of acting.”
However, Vega herself missed out on a nomination for Best Actress.
As Vega took the stage at the 90th Academy Awards, she said: “Thank you for this moment. I want to invite you to open your hearts and your feelings to feel the reality, to feel love. Can you feel it?”
The cruise ship industry is facing pressure to relocate ships registered in Bermuda, after the territory abolished same-sex marriage.
Bermuda this year passed a law that replaces a ban on gay couples getting married, less than a year after they were allowed to marry for the first time.
The new law has caused chaos in the cruise ship industry, as a large number of ships are domiciled in the British overseas territory for financial reasons and are thus subject to its laws – meaning they can no longer carry out onboard same-sex weddings.
Carnival, a cruise ship conglomerate which operates 24 Bermuda-registered ships under subsidiaries Cunard, Princess and P&O Cruises, is now facing pressure to end the arrangement and move its registrations elsewhere.
Human rights lawyer Jamison Firestone, who is married to his same-sex partner, wrote in an open letter to Cunard: “Moving the ships is the only way possible to dissociate your company from a jurisdiction that has so dramatically flouted the values you profess to uphold, and to show support for your LGBTQ customers and those who support equal treatment for all.
“I therefore urge you to re-register your vessels in one of the many jurisdictions that do support the freedom to marry without discrimination.”
He added: “Bermuda’s new law applies to 24 ships that Cunard, Princess and P&O have registered in Bermuda. Same-sex couples may no longer marry on those ships and can only be offered the lesser status of domestic partnership.
“Carnival Corporation’s ships now contribute to and expand the reach of a regime that has chosen to discriminate against LGBTQ people.”
He added: “No legal or tax bonus gained in Bermuda can possibly be worth colluding with discrimination.
“Make no mistake, a cruise ship line that chooses to be flagged or remain flagged under a nation that has chosen to discriminate becomes complicit in discrimination. Can the ships of Cunard, Princess and P&O proudly fly the flag of Bermuda after this act?
“The right answer is for Carnival Corporation to stand by its values and protect the dignity and rights of all its customers by moving its ships from Bermuda to a jurisdiction that embraces marriage equality.”
Rights campaigner Peter Tatchell added: “Carnival is at risk of provoking a backlash by LGBT+ communities worldwide.
“Not only is Carnival colluding with a homophobic government by continuing to register its 24 ships in Bermuda, it means that same-sex couples can no longer marry on board, even in international waters. This is tantamount to direct anti-LGBT+ discrimination.”
In a response, a spokesperson for Cunard said: “Having been delighted and wholly supportive of the Bermuda Government’s change in law last May, which allowed us to conduct same sex marriages on board our ships we are disappointed with this more recent outcome.
“We will now be working closely with the Bermudan authorities to understand the legalities of ‘Domestic Partnership Act’ and whether we can offer our guests same sex marriages in the future.”
Cunard said it would not be providing refunds to guests who did not want to travel on a Bermuda-registered ship after the decision.
It told Mr Firestone: “We are unable to offer anyone a free of charge cancellation due solely to any personal opinion of the independent laws of Bermuda and must make you aware that a cancellation for this particular reason would not constitute a significant alteration to the package as booked.”
The company did say it would specifically provide refunds to couples who had booked wedding packages if they were unable to go ahead.
However, Bermuda last week confirmed the ban on same-sex weddings would only come into effect from May, allowing existing wedding bookings to go ahead.
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On the eve of the expiration of his 20th Century Fox deal, Ryan Murphy has signed a momentous multimillion-dollar deal with streaming service Netflix.
The implications of this new partnership are sure to allow Murphy to test even more boundaries and engage in even more controversy-baiting than he has in his previous anthology works, notably “American Horror Story” and “American Crime Story.” Beyond a few new TV shows, Murphy now has the potential to produce films and documentaries through the Netflix Studios imprint.
With his irreverent, campy, and macabre voice, Murphy will continue to serve as an important mouthpiece for the LGBTQ+ audience, and also inflict his unique brand on users of the streaming service who might not otherwise choose to get involved in his programming.
With his latest edition of “American Crime Story” going to extremely grim lengths to accent homophobia in the 90s (which has only persisted in the present) through the lens of Andrew Cunanan’s eventual assassination of Gianni Versace, one can only imagine where Murphy’s already insidious to the average American voice might go under the increased liberty of this fresh alliance.
Although Murphy’s foray into television began with a somewhat challenged start – the WB’s “Popular” – he has always managed to get by through crafting stories with incredible mass appeal that don’t sacrifice their niche appeal.
With “Popular” on for a paltry two seasons from 1999 to 2001, perhaps no network could have predicted just how loudly Murphy would have the last laugh. With each show growing bolder and bolder – ”Glee” being a strange exception – Murphy also proved himself cinematically adept through his adaptation of Augusten Burroughs’ illustrious memoir, “Running With Scissors,” back in 2006.
With regular collaborator Brad Falchuk at his side, Murphy already has a new show for Netflix in the pipeline: “The Politician,” with gay icon Barbra Streisand rumored to be in talks to guest star.
Best of all, maybe that still shelved screenplay, “Why Can’t I Be Audrey Hepburn?,” about an Audrey-obsessed bride who gets left at the altar, might finally come to fruition now that Murphy has even more creative and budgetary free rein.
Peter* had set up a Skype account just to speak to PinkNews.
Even though it has been six months since he left Russia to embark upon a new life in Belarus, he has to be cautious, and won’t tell me his real name.
Since Russia’s gay propaganda law came into action in 2013, a spate of attacks against the country’s LGBT+ community have a affected the gay, bi and lesbian community’s right to an education, a job, and even the right to their life.
An according to Peter, even sharing a post advocating for gay rights can result in your arrest.
“Everyone knows everything about you. You can go to jail just for reposting stuff on social media,” he said.
The story of exile began for Peter* when the Russian’s neighbours began to gossip about Peter and his boyfriend.
Living in a small Russian town near Moscow, the 32-year-old found that news quickly spread about his sexuality.
St. Petersburg LGBT demonstration, 2013 (OLGA MALTSEVA/AFP/Getty Images)
“People in the city saw us and the gossips told everyone around the city. After that everyone in the community knew,” he said.
Although he had lived in his hometown for as long as anyone could remember, his life as a gay man started to become difficult as pressures from religious groups and the government mounted.
“Everyone knows me everywhere. In the city when I worked, everyone knew, no matter where I went or no matter what I did,” he said.
Since the introduction of the gay propaganda law, the little protections LGBT+ Russians had have now dissipated.
In order to survive, Peter started to take lower paid work as a programmer, as his sexuality was used as a bargaining chip for him to take lesser paid work.
“I couldn’t find work or live my life normally. There’s a forum where gay freelancers and programmers are listed. Everyone in the community online and offline knew me,” he said.
“I wasn’t beaten, but I was discriminated against. I identify as gay, and I’ve never hidden it. That’s why there were problems. There’s a website that writes about every programmer and freelancer there, and they outed me. After that, it was even hard to get work through unofficial channels.
“I would get lower paid work, when I could,” he added.
The stress of not being able to find paid work was compounded by the hostile reactions Peter faced from his family, which left him with no other options: he would have to move.
“My family knew about my sexuality, and were incredibly negative about me. One of the main reasons I left Russia was because I had so little support from my family there,” he said.
The pressure started to take its toll on Peter and his boyfriend.
After moving to a different city in the hope that life would improve, the relationship started to fall apart.
First, we lived together in a different city first, and moved together. But it may have been a different city, but the same attitudes remained. We couldn’t get work, and we were scared of being attacked. That’s when my boyfriend left me, and said “I don’t need this.” It’s really hard, and not everyone can manage to keep a relationship going under that pressure,” he said.
Now alone, Peter decided to ask a friend for advice on how to escape Russia, and decided to enter Belarus.
The post-Eastern Bloc nation of Belarus lies to the left of Moscow.
The landlocked country, which shares borders with Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia, is home to 9.5 million people – 800,000 more people than in London.
Around 8.3% of the country is made up of Russian migrants, and Russian is spoken as the country’s official language.
With its close ties to Russia, it was a feasible place for Peter to flee.
“You can access Belarus without a VISA or passport,” he said.
“It takes about two days to get to Belarus on the train. It took another three days on the car so we could get away from the border. You can go to Belarus without even a passport – it’s easier to enter even than Ukraine, which made the decision for me,” he said.
But unfortunately for Peter and other Russian LGBT+ asylum seekers, it shares a lot of the same hostilities.
“When I got there, friends took me in and helped me out. They even helped me with money and work when I first arrived. In Belarus, it’s more tolerant than in Russia,” he explained.
“I still can’t work properly, but at least I know I won’t be killed here. It’s not so tolerant, it’s old-fashioned, but they won’t kill you, like what happened in Russia,” he added.
Apart from with a small group of friends, Peter now lives his life in the closet, disclosing his sexuality only when he feels it is safe.
“If anyone found out about my sexuality, they might get aggressive, or even start a fight. There is not one way people react. There are only two ways, but in Russia, there’s just one: aggression all of the time. Some people are really easy about it here, some people are ridiculously aggressive. But in comparison to Russia, it’s a lighter load to bear,” he added.
But, similar to other post-Eastern Bloc LGBT+ asylum seekers from Russia, Peter is concerned that time is not on his side, and a move out of the country is essential to his survival.
“I try to hide my sexuality now, but as I am facing a small community just like before, it’s only a matter of time before people find out,” he said.
“I am working to save money to get out of Belarus. I want to go to the EU, an English-speaking country, where people are more tolerant,” he said.
BETA: Why is it important to have a good understanding of how PrEP is being used (or not used) by different communities?
Kenneth Mayer, MD
Kenneth Mayer, MD: We know that PrEP works. We have something that can protect people from HIV, but when it comes to implementation, the question now is: Is the glass 1/10 full or 90% empty? We might have more than 10% of people who are at risk for HIV taking PrEP, but we certainly don’t have more than 20% right now.
There’s also data to suggest maldistribution of PrEP. The epidemic is disproportionately affecting African Americans and other people of color, but the relative rates of PrEP uptake are lower than they are for white people. Uptake of PrEP among women is certainly less. Even among men who have sex with men [MSM], there’s still substantial underutilization. PrEP can slow down the HIV epidemic, but it’s not being implemented as widely as it might be. That’s what led us to do this review.
You mentioned the “maldistribution” of PrEP, which is an issue many organizations and people working in HIV prevention want to address. What are some examples of strategies used to better reach people who may not be accessing PrEP because they’re marginalized from the healthcare system?
Anything you can do to promote awareness and reduce barriers to PrEP is going to be useful. In terms of increasing awareness, I know that the New York City public health department has been a leader. They implemented a large, sex-positive community-based education and awareness campaign that promotes PrEP for HIV-uninfected people and HIV treatment for people living with HIV. Campaign ads ran on city busses, on transit shelters, on social media, and in other places.
In terms of minimizing barriers, programs that allow people to access PrEP through pharmacies have been beneficial. People already go to pharmacies to get flu shots or hypertension monitoring. As long as there is renal [kidney] function monitoring, it’s certainly a safe medication to deliver through pharmacists.
PrEP navigators are another way to decrease barriers to PrEP. At a place like Fenway Health, there are probably more than 100 ways that people pay for PrEP. It can be bewildering for professional staff, let alone for people in the community. PrEP navigators help people navigate the insurance and patient assistance system, and figure out how to pay for PrEP.
If you could wave a magic wand and change one thing about the delivery of health care in this country that would improve PrEP uptake, what would that be?
I would transform our fragmented health care system into a single-payer model. Right now, there are disincentives for health insurance companies to pay for PrEP and to offer other preventative health care services. A person who may benefit from these preventative health care interventions may not be insured by the same payer in a few years, so insurers are sort taking the approach of ‘kicking the can down the road.’ With a single-payer system, it would make economic sense to make sure everyone at risk for HIV has good access to PrEP, in order to prevent costly HIV infections that would require triple therapy for life.
Your review highlights the fact that Black women account for two-thirds of new HIV infections in American women, but that PrEP uptake has been slow in this community. What are some of the challenges here, and what might be a solution?
One of the issues is that for Black women in the U.S. is that the mean number of recent sex partners is about 1.1 or 1.2. In other words, there are a small number of women who engage in sex work or have more partners, but the majority of women are serial monogamists. They may not feel they are at risk for HIV, but they’re becoming HIV-infected through their partners, because their partners are either unaware of their status or do not disclose their status.
A no-brainer solution is to make sure that providers who take care of women coming in for reproductive health care, who present with STDs, are given information and access to PrEP. In a lot of cases, this conversation isn’t happening already, so even introducing that conversation into reproductive health care for Black women would be a huge step.
Another thing people are looking at is trying to figure out how to coach women to have conversations with their partners about HIV and risk. It’s important for women to feel that they have the agency to have these conversations with their partners, but a lot of times, there may be cases where there is violence or power dynamic imbalances when this isn’t feasible.
What do you see as the take-home message from your review of PrEP delivery in the U.S.?
I work with a number of young colleagues beginning federally-funded PrEP implementation projects in places across the country. We informally get together and talk about issues related to implementation, in places including St. Louis, Missouri; Jackson, Mississippi; Providence, Rhode Island; and here in Boston. We were able to get different “snapshots” about what is working and what is not working in each of these areas.
One of the things we looked at are the facilitators and barriers of delivering PrEP in different health care settings. For example, STD clinics are a logical place to provide PrEP since they’re seeing people who may be at risk for HIV. If somebody comes in with rectal gonorrhea, it makes sense for the STD clinic to be able to provide PrEP rather than having to refer that person to a PrEP clinic across time. But barriers include limited counseling time and the fact that STD clinics typically don’t offer continuous care.
Community health centers are almost the opposite of STD clinics. They’re used to providing comprehensive care, but a lot of clinicians aren’t trained in sexual health care. They may manage a person’s hypotension or diabetes, but not used to asking people who they have sex with and having nuanced conversations about PrEP.
I think the take-home from the paper is that if you don’t have an integrated health care system, there isn’t going to be one place that’s ideal for PrEP delivery. The epidemic is heterogeneous—what works in Jackson, Mississippi isn’t the same thing that will work in Seattle.
San Francisco AIDS Foundation offers free PrEP services at Strut (470 Castro Street in San Francisco) and at their main office (1035 Market Street in San Francisco). Find more information and make an appointment online.
Askaboutprep.org is a website with information about what PrEP is, how to access and afford PrEP, and San Francisco Bay Area clinics and prescribers.
PleasePrEPme.org is a website linking people seeking PrEP services to PrEP providers across the U.S. The site includes a searchable directory (by state, zip code or street address) for users to find PrEP clinics and PrEP clinicians with hours, contact information and health insurances accepted for each listing.
San Francisco City Clinic offers free and low-cost sexual health care to people in the Bay Area regardless of immigration or insurance status. They offer same-day PrEP enrollment during drop-in hours:
We are offering our ver first LGBTQ training in Spanish “LGBTQ en Español” to better serve our Spanish-speaking young people and their families. This is one part of LGBTQ Connection’s new Latino LGBTQI Youth inclusion project funded by the LGBTQI Giving Circle. Presently, Sonoma County has essentially ZERO LGBTQ Spanish- speaking resources. Let’s change that; Our young people deserve better.
LGBTQ Connection está organizando un nuevo taller en español “LGBTQ En Español: Un Entrenamiento Para Profesionales Que Apoyan a Jóvenes y Sus Familias” en el Valle De Sonoma y ¡ud. está invitada/o! Basado en el corazón de los entrenamientos altamente recomendados de LGBTQ Connection, este entrenamiento está diseñado para aumentar las habilidades de profesionales que sirven a jóvenes y familias. El entrenamiento destaca maneras de apoyar las identidades de jóvenes latinas/os que también son lesbianas, gay, bisexuales, transgénero, queer, o explorando su identidad y como mejor entenderlas y discutirlas.
Los Detalles del Entrenamiento:
Hora: 1:00pm – 5:00pm
Día: 28 de Marzo
Ubicación: El Centro de La Luz; 17560 Gregor Street, Sonoma
Los Contenidos del Entrenamiento:
Están invitados las/los profesionales de habla hispana quienes trabajan con jóvenes y familias. Este entrenamiento educacional, interactivo, y divertido es especialmente para las/los profesionales quienes quieren aumentar su competencia para servir a gente LGBTQ. Reserve su espacio aquí: http://lgbtqconnection.eventbrite.com. Por parte del “Community Foundation Sonoma County LGBTQI Giving Circle”, podemos ofrecer este entrenamiento gratis. Hay cupo limitado para 40 personas, por lo tanto reserve su espacio lo más pronto posible.
Objetivos y Actividades:
Los objetivos incluyen:
Explorar la diferencia entre la identidad de género y orientación sexual y como discutirlas en español;
Nombrar varios factores estresantes que enfrentan jóvenes LGBTQ;
Interactuar con un panel de jóvenes Latinos LGBTQ;
Aprender varias maneras de abordar los retos que enfrentan jóvenes LGBTQ con mejores prácticas definidas por la comunidad y basadas en evidencia;
Practicar escenarios basados en las experiencias de las vidas reales de jóvenes LGBTQ;
Ganar más conocimiento de los recursos e información referencial para gente LGBTQ.
Favor de compartir esta invitación con tus redes y colegas.
Si tiene preguntas, póngase en contacto conmigo por medio de mi celular o este correo electrónico.
A synagogue has held the first known gender-neutral “B’nei Mitzvah” in the UK for a non-binary teenager.
The Jewish coming of age ritual is typically gendered, with males attending a Bar Mitzvah and females attending a Bat Mitzvah.
When Esther Thorpe, 14, came out as non-binary last year, their mother, Miriam, worried about how the important ceremony would be held.
Miriam Taylor Thorpe explained that despite the traditional routes of the ceremony, she felt strongly that her child should have something that felt right to them.
Miriam said: “I was quite concerned because if something is important in your coming of age, it should reflect who you are in a person and not squeeze you into the traditional two genders that we happen to have just because of history,”
The mother had previously faced fears of acceptance within their Jewish community as a different child had recently come out as gay.
Pride in London celebrated by Jewish people
However, their local synagogue stepped up the game by welcoming the Thorpe family with open arms.
They worked with student rabbi Gabriel Webber at their synagogue in York to adapt the ceremony.
Webber explained that it was “the first” non-binary Mitzvah they have had “on the radar” it was “going to be far from the last one.”
Webber came to the decision to name the gender-neutral ceremony a “B’nei Mitzvah” because “b’nei” is a plural term which could refer to a mixed-gender group of people.
Other options had included “ban”, which combines the Hebrew for boy and girl, as well as “sera”, which means offspring or seed.
Esther explained that it was important for them to get the right terminology “for other non-binary kids in the future”.
“If you have a name that doesn’t give that tie into your family and your history, you are much more isolated, and that compounds isolation that I know Esther still does feel — if you are non-binary or trans and you are the only person in your shul that are already in a different position,” Miriam added.
Esther is now known as Esther chose “Esther mi beit Miriam,” which translates to “Esther from the house of Miriam.”
The gender-neutral service was well accepted by the Jewish community, although some people did purchase typical “bat mitzvah” gifts that would be aimed towards people who identify as a female.
Miriam explained: “It was quite easy to make the service be reflective of [Esther being] non-binary, once you have a rabbi that’s on board with it and you have a congregation that’s prepared to take that through and as soon as you left the service you’re back to it’s either a bar mitzvah or a bat mitzvah and there’s nothing in between.”
“I feel better,” Esther added. “I feel part of a community, accepted and acknowledged.”
The former governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee, resigned from the Country Music Association Foundation board of directors this week.
Huckabee faced a backlash over a number of stances against LGBT rights he has aired throughout his time as Governor of Arkansas and beyond.
Writing in a letter of resignation, Huckabee who has made his stance on LGBT issues clear in recent years, said that some had “bullied” him out of the appointments with threats of boycotts and the reversal of support.
He wrote: “I genuinely regret that some in the industry were so outraged by my appointment that they bullied the CMA and the Foundation with economic threats and vowed to withhold support for the programs for students if I remained.”
The two-time Republican presidential candidate Huckabee, has in the past hit out at same-sex marriage, comparing it to incest and polygamy, suggesting that adoption by same-sex couples is experimentation, has attacked trans people, joked about rape and murder, used gay as an insult, and various other anti-LGBT stances.
He oddly did not mention the controversy around his LGBT-rights stance in his letter.
But he did write: “If the industry doesn’t want people of faith or who hold conservative and traditional political views to buy tickets and music, they should be forthcoming and say it.”
The Country Music Association Foundation was warned by business owners that they would drop support if Huckabee remained as a board member.
Jason Owen, who is married to his same-sex partner and with who he has a son, is the co-president of Monument Records.
He told Monument CEO Sarah Trahern and CMA Foundation executive Tiffany Kerns that his companies and their clients would drop support of the foundation in light of Huckabee’s appointment
“Huckabee speaks of the sort of things that would suggest my family is morally beneath his and uses language that has a profoundly negative impact upon young people all across this country,” wrote Owen wrote in an email published by MusicRow.
“Not to mention how harmful and damaging his deep involvement with the NRA is. What a shameful choice.”
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Emperor,
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Coronation 54 Anniversary Monarchs:
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In Loving Memory, Their Imperial Majesties,
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Absolute Empress IX de San Francisco, Frieda
40 Year Anniversary
In Loving Memory, Their Imperial Majesties,
Emperor VII of San Francisco, After Norton, Bob Ross
Absolute Empress XIV de San Franciso, Ginger
35 Year Anniversary
In Loving Memory of Their Imperial Majesties,
Emperor XII of San Francisco, After Norton, Rich Carle
Absolute Empress XIX de San Francisco, Remy Martin
30 Year Anniversary
His Imperial Majesty, Emperor XVII of San Francisco, After Norton, Jerry Coletti
In Loving Memory, Her Imperial Majesty, Absolute Empress XXIV de San Francisco, Pat Montclaire
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In Loving Memory, His Imperial Majesty, Emperor XXII of San Francisco, After Norton, Chuck Adkins
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In the U.S., the CDC estimates that more than 
