Amazon sells book on ‘gays going to hell’.

Amazon’s Kindle Store has sparked a backlash by offering a fundamentalist religious text which tells gay and trans people they are going to hell.

The book is one of 849 listed in Amazon’s Christian fundamentalist section.
The e-book‘s synopsis says: “LGBT Going To Hell is a small fundamentalist Christian book that seeks to tell the LGBT community that it is in sin and lives a lifestyle that is against God’s Holy Word the Bible.
“This is not a book to win friends but to call sinners to repentance.”
One American reviewer wrote: “There is no doubt that books like this are part of the reason why so many young LGBT people in USA commit suicide.”
Another wrote: “I have no idea if it is meant to be a serious work, or a satirical look at stereotypical christian attitudes, but either way, its mostly useless.”
The e-book, which costs 77p, begins by commenting on the world’s progress in medicine, science and technology, but condemns its fall into an “evil pit of violence, green, sexual immorality and paganism”.
PinkNews.co.uk has approached Amazon for comment.
At the end of last year, Amazon pulled a calendar by ‘Christian cartoonist’ Joe King.
I’m Not Gay, I’m Just a Sissy: 12 Months of Sexual Confusion, included jokes about AIDS and effeminacy in gay men.
While some questioned whether the cartoons were genuine satire not designed to cause offence, King took to his own Facebook page to rant about the gays who complained adding that it was not the first time he had been banned.
He said: “Hoo-we! Hell hath no fury like a he/she scorned…”
He added that AIDS was an “elective disease” which would stop “the day guys quit sticking it to each other. And for the tragedy of women and children infected… THAT stops the day their gay husbands and fathers stop cheating on them. Anyone need MORE education, science or funding to understand THAT?”
In 2009, Amazon apologised after a cataloguing glitch meant many important gay works were mislabeled as ‘adult’ products.

Πηγή:www.pinknews.co.uk

Malta considers hate crimes after bus attack on lesbians.

An off-duty Maltese bus driver has been charged after physically attacking two lesbian fellow passengers, reportedly for kissing.The incident comes amid public discussion on the island over the introduction of hate crime laws to protect gay and transgender citizens.
Driver Marco Borg, 43, was charged on Saturday with causing injury and disrupting public order.
While there is no further penalty for homophobic motivation under current laws, the Times of Malta reports that Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi has instructed Justice Minister Chris Said to work on amendments to laws to prevent hate crimes.
In footage of the incident filmed by another passenger, the driver in charge of the bus at the time is seen restraining Borg after he attacked the two women, aged 21 and 17, last Friday.
In the UK, it was reported this week that two lesbians were attacked on a train after kissing.
Bus company Arriva said he had been let go, adding that is had “a zero tolerance policy when it comes to violence of any sort and would like to make it very clear that it condemns categorically and without reserve not only this incident but indeed any bullish, violent and other such reproachable and anti-social behaviour”.
“Moreover, the bus operator wants to make it absolutely clear that it has a very clear and open diversity policy which all employees are bound to respect.”
Malta continues to debate new hate crime laws after two girls were the victims of a homophobic attack last month.
In an interview with Malta’s Sunday Times, the girl said two men, who were later arrested, had called her and her girlfriend “twisted” before attacking them, leaving her with bruises and facial injuries.
Cyrus Engerer, a spokesman for LGBT Labour in Malta said state intervention would be necessary to tackle anti-gay incidents.
He told Malta Today: “It’s not possible for a mentality of a country to change if the laws of that same country remain unchanged.”
But the introduction of special hate crime laws are opposed by some.
Lawyer and opinion writer Claire Bonello told the Times of Malta: “It makes little sense to punish the different motives of a crime when the end result is the same – injury to the victim …
“If a person is attacked because the aggressor feels some sort of personal animosity towards the victim, why should that attack be punished less severely than one where the aggressor hates the victim because of the latter’s religious affiliation or belonging to a minority group?
“The whole notion of hate crimes does away with the concept of equality in the eyes of the law.”
At a press conference today, Malta Today reports Prime Minister Gonzi saying the government will include homophobia in hate crime laws in future: “We are sending a message to society in general, not to pass judgement of people, and that we expect the forces of law to enforce laws and eliminate all forms of discrimination.”

Πηγή:www.pinknews.co.uk

Video: ‘Weekend’ screenplay wins Evening Standard British Film Award!

   Andrew Haigh’s screenplay for the critically-acclaimed British gay romance Weekend beat off competition last night to win an Evening Standard British Film Award.      Tom Cullen and Chris New star as Russell and Glen, a pair of young gay men who meet in a Nottingham gay club on a Friday night.
   The film charts the way their relationship develops over the following 48 hours.
Haigh said the award was “amazing and unexpected; this past year has just been incredible. I just want to thank the actors, Tom and Chris, who really brought so much to the script and I share this with them.”
   The film has currently grossed over £200,000 at the UK box office after reportedly being filmed on a £120,000 budget.
   The director also won the British Breakthrough Film-maker award at last month’s London Film Critics’ Circle Awards.
   Two British Independent Film Awards also followed: for Achievement In Production and Most Promising Newcomer for actor Tom Cullen.
Cullen is next set to appear alongside Cynthia Nixon in an adaptation of Ken Follett’s World Without End.
   Best Film last night went to We Need to Talk about Kevin. Michael Fassbender won Best Actor and Olivia Colman took home the gong for Best Actress.

Πηγή:www.pinknews.co.uk

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Ugandan gay death penalty bill back in parliament.

An infamous gay death penalty bill has been reintroduced to the Ugandan parliament today.
David Bahati, the original sponsor of the legislation that would see gays imprisoned for life and executed for repeat offences, has tabled the draft law again, reports say.
Clauses call for the death penalty for “aggravated” or continued homosexuality, while those who fail to report incidences to police would be jailed.
The Anti-Homosexuality Bill is designed to “protect the traditional family” and also requires Uganda to not ratify any international treaty that would run contrary to its provisions.
It provides for life imprisonment for people who have gay sex, “touch another person with the intention” of having gay sex or have an illegal “gay marriage”.
The bill further requires the death sentence for anyone convicted of homosexuality who is living with HIV or who has been convicted of homosexuality before.
Attempted homosexuality carries a seven year prison sentence, as does aiding or abetting acts of homosexuality.
A fine of up to 500,000 shillings (£135) or a prison sentence up to three years are included for people who are aware of any gay offence but do not report it within 24 hours.
The bill received worldwide condemnation from countries, gay rights campaigners and human rights groups.
Last month, the former president of South Africa, Thabo MBeki, criticised the anti-gay bill, saying it “doesn’t make sense” to intervene in people’s private lives.
Mr Mbeki was taking questions at the Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR) in Kampala when he was asked about the draft legislation and specifically what he would say to its sponsor.
Mbeki, who served as deputy President and President of South Africa following the abolition of apartheid, said: “I would say to the MP; sexual preferences are a private matter. I don’t think it is a matter of the state to intervene.”
“I mean what would you want? It doesn’t make sense at all. That is what I would say to the MP. What two consenting adults do is really not the matter of law.”
US President Barack Obama described it as “odious”.

Πηγή:www.pinknews.co.uk

Αναδυόμενος προορισμός η Ινδία για τους ομοφυλόφιλους!

Πριν από 30 χρόνια η ομοφυλοφιλία ήταν ποινικό αδίκημα στην Ινδία, αλλά μετά την αλλαγή της νομοθεσίας το 2009, αυξήθηκαν κατά πολύ οι επισκέπτες με ομοφυλοφιλική σεξουαλική προτίμηση και σύμφωνα με την έρευνα της ταξιδιωτικής εταιρείας Roth στις ΗΠΑ, η Ινδία κατατάσσεται ως δεύτερος προορισμός μετά την Ταϋλάνδη για διακοπές.
Αυτή η κατάταξη έχει διευρύνει την επιχειρηματική δραστηριότητα για τους ταξιδιωτικούς πράκτορες, οι οποίοι προωθούν τον προορισμό και τον θεωρούν αναδυόμενο. Παράλληλα, η Διεθνής Ένωση γκέι και λεσβιών αναφέρει ότι υπάρχουν επτά μεγάλοι ταξιδιωτικοί πράκτορες στην Ινδία, που ασχολούνται αποκλειστικά με αυτό το κοινό. «Πριν από πέντε χρόνια, πολλοί γκέι συλλαμβάνονταν όταν ταξίδευαν στην Ινδία, αλλά τώρα τα πράγματα έχουν αλλάξει και κανείς δεν κινδυνεύει», δήλωσε ο Ινδός ταξιδιωτικός πράκτορας Sanjay Malhotra.
Άλλοι που ταξίδεψαν στην Ινδία αναφέρουν ότι «δεν νοιώθεις άβολα όταν κυκλοφορείς στους δρόμους πόλεων της Ινδίας χέρι- χέρι. Νοιώθεις ασφαλής κανείς οδηγός ταξί ή ξεναγός δεν θα είναι επιθετικός απέναντί σου».

Πηγή:www.biggaynews.com & www.traveltimes.gr

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