17/09/2009
News Sent - 17th September 2009
In this week's e-mail newsletter: Equality Network News: Development Worker: Scottish Transgender Alliance Transition Support Project; LGBT Lives moves to National LGBT Forum; Forums News: No social justice for Glasgow's art?; Imaan Trustee Elections 2009-10'; Caster Semenya Runs "Like A Man"?; NHS: depth interviews; Homophobic protest against Kirk's selection of gay trainee minister successful; Talk Scotland Events: Bildwechsel Glasgow; Aberdeen: New THT Scotland Grampian Centre Open Day; Prime Time Edinburgh; Perth: Free Seminar on Identity and Rural Equalities - and local development session; Edinburgh: Scotland’s Future and Ethnic Minority Communities Conference; Aberdeen: Stormers FC Super Sunday Funday; Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness: Human Rights And Racial Discrimination Seminars; Edinburgh: LGBT-friendly 12-step programmes; A Gude Cause Maks A Strong Arm; UK News: Gordon Brown to Alan Turing: We're very sorry; Prescription for Change; International: Jamaica: Local police say "batty man" attack "not homophobic"; Lithuania: Parliament prepares to debate criminalisation of homosexuality; Asia Pacific NGO Forum on Beijing+15; Portugal: LES Online for lesbian issues; Working for All: Imaan: Volunteer website manager; LGBT Families, Civil Partnership and Cohabitation: Uruguay: Change to the law may not mean same-sex couples can adopt; LGBT Families, Civil Partnership and Cohabitation: Uruguay: Change to the law may not mean same-sex couples can adopt; US: George Takei and Brad Altman the first same-sex "newly-weds"
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Equality Network News
Development Worker: Scottish Transgender Alliance Transition Support Project
Three year post. Full time (35 hours a week). Starting Salary £22,513 pa. Based in Leith, Edinburgh and Central Glasgow
The Equality Network is a leading Scottish LGBT rights charity, which manages the Scottish Transgender Alliance. We are seeking a development worker to co-ordinate a programme of activities that will reduce the significant levels of social isolation and economic exclusion experienced by transgender people in Scotland. This will involve volunteer development, facilitating groups, and establishing and managing peer mentoring networks. This post is funded by the National Lottery through the Big Lottery Fund.
www.equality-network.org/vacancies
LGBT Lives moves to National LGBT Forum
Within the Scottish context, there are few clear and established links between the different sectors concerned with issues of sexuality and the LGBT communities, and little research that specifically addresses the Scottish LGBT population. The seminar series will promote and explore biographical and life course perspectives and seek to use this approach to forge connections between LGBT research, policy and project development. A focus upon the life course will afford the opportunity to bring together researchers and academics from diverse backgrounds and thereby foster novel and otherwise unlikely opportunities for collaboration and debate.
The next seminar in the series will be held on 23rd October 2009, at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen. If you are interested in attending, or if you want to join the LGBT Lives Network, contact Richard Ward (Richard.Ward@manchester.ac.uk), Project Worker, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, University of Manchester.
Community > Academia > LGBT Lives: Sexual/Gender Dissidence Over the Life Course > Seminars > Seminar Three: Bodies, embodiment, and bodily practices
Forums News
No social justice for Glasgow's art?
Glasgow’s artistic and gay communities have fiercely rounded on the agency in charge of the city’s museums and galleries, branding its handling of a major exhibition on human rights issues facing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people as “homophobic”, “censorious”, and “underhanded and cowardly”.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/boycott-threat-to-homophobic-council-in-censorship-row-1.919531
Omar Kholeif
writes in the Guardian: "In allowing censorship of the city's celebration of gay, lesbian and transgender art, Glasgow is betraying the very minorities it claims to represent."
Community - Get Involved > Campaigns > GOMA and SH[OUT]
Eye for Film:
Dani Marti talks about film, art and HIV
Imaan Trustee Elections 2009-10
In accordance with Imaan's standing orders and constitution, the Imaan Trustees have confirmed eligibility to stand for the posts of chairperson, secretary, treasurer and events officer is open to LGBT Muslim people, who have attended an Imaan conference, three Imaan meetings since 2006, and who have been nominated by a fellow LGBT Muslim member of Imaan. Nominations are now open so, by agreement with the Imaan Board of Trustees, please contact Pav Akhtar, the current chair of Imaan by email: pav@imaan.org.uk to arrange a discussion about what the different roles entail and to receive your copy of the application form which must be returned by 5pm on 26 September 2009. Denis Fernando from the Lesbian and Gay Coalition Against Racism will act as the independent Returning Officer and scrutineer for the elections. Voting is open to all eligible members of Imaan through secret electronic ballot 3-9th October. Results announced at Imaan's AGM which will be held from 6-8pm on Monday 12 October 2009 in Victoria, central LLondon. If you would like to attend the Annual General Meeting (AGM) then please register your interest by emailing: pav@imaan.org.uk.
www.imaan.org.uk
Caster Semenya Runs "Like A Man"?
South African athletics officials met for a second day yesterday to discuss the controversy and said they would make a statement today. International athletics officials have said their verdict will be delivered at the end of November but that the world champion is unlikely to be stripped of her Berlin medal. (
Guardian)
International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission blogs: "If there’s no other lesson that the LGBT civil rights movement has taught the larger culture over the past forty years, I hope it is this one: the right to self-determination is paramount. Gender variant people around the world are watching Semenya’s struggle with a mixture of pride, anxiety and hope. No authority – religious, parental or in this case Olympic – should trump one’s right to self-determination, identity and expression."
NHS: depth interviews
CELLO mruk research has been commissioned by the NHS to conduct some in depth interviews with members of the public about a new service they will be launching in the near future to find out views and opinions on the new service. They're looking to speak to an LGBT man aged between 40-45, and an LGBT woman aged 38 or 39, at some point before the end of September. For further information, click here:
Community - Get Involved > Your Input Wanted > NHS - depth interviews
Homophobic protest against Kirk's selection of gay trainee minister successful
A senior Church of Scotland minister demanded an investigation into whether Hamilton Presbytery acted in defiance of the Kirk’s General Assembly when it approved Dmitri Ross's application to enter training for ordination as a minister in the Church of Scotland. For over a year, Ross, who is in a civil partnership, has been having his application tested by the Kirk's Enquiry and Assessment Process. Yesterday evening, Ross withdrew his application, saying "I do not wish, and have never sought, to be a cause of division within the Church I love so dearly." (
Herald,
PinkNews)
Talk Scotland Events
Bildwechsel Glasgow
Experiments In Living: 17th - 23rd September: A week long meeting and events around women's artists communities and groups, ways of living, utopias. On Carnarvon Street – see the door of 35 Carnarvon Street for daily details.
Europe Supports Artists blog
Aberdeen: New THT Scotland Grampian Centre Open Day
Saturday 19th September 2009, 10:30 to 2:30, THT Scotlland, 246 George Street, AB25 1HN. Contact: phone 0845 242 2152, Fax 0845 241 2152, e-mail info.aberdeen@tht.org.uk
Prime Time Edinburgh
2:00pm - 4:00pm,
Sunday 20th September, at the LGBT Health and Wellbeing Centre, 9 Howe Street EH3. The Edinburgh social group for gay and bisexual men of mature years 40+ and their friends. The group has been meeting for four years, initially from Gay Men’s Health and now meeting in the LGBT Centre for Health and Wellbeing every other Sunday 2-4pm. For further information contact John on 0131 556 1309 or alternatively Steve on 0131 558 9442 or email steve@gmh.org.uk
Perth: Free Seminar on Identity and Rural Equalities - and local development session
Tue 22nd September, Seminar on Identity and Rural Equalities (09.30 - 13.00 plus lunch). SREN Local Development Day. (14.00 - 16.30). You can learn more about the Identity Seminar and the SREN by visiting
www.hief.org.uk.
Edinburgh: Scotland’s Future and Ethnic Minority Communities Conference
30 September 2009, 10:00 – 2:15, The Corn Exchange, 11 Newmarket Road Edinburgh, EH14 1RJ. Keynote Speaker: The First Minister RT Hon Alex Salmond MSP. This is a great opportunity for ethnic minority communities to be involved in a debate with the First Minister on Scotland’s future and have an input into the White Paper the Government will be producing stating the case for a referendum on Scotland’s future next year. The event is open to all people from the black and ethnic minority communities. Contact Fiaz Khan, CEMVO Scotland, for further information and a booking form: fiaz.khan@cemvoscotland.co.uk
www.cemvoscotland.co.uk
Aberdeen: Stormers FC Super Sunday Funday
4th October 2009, 4pm Seaton Park. Fun training taster session. Crazy competitions. Kickabout football. Food, drink & big-screen football from 6pm in HYPLOC bar. Meet the club members, find out more about the club. E-mail info@stormersfc.co.uk.
www.stormersfc.co.uk
Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness: Human Rights And Racial Discrimination Seminars
GARA is running a series of free half-day seminars (from 12.30pm to 4.30pm) across Scotland to discuss and reflect on recent human rights developments and to seize opportunities to influence the human rights agenda at the UN on race discrimination. The seminars will take place on:
- Monday 28th September - EDINBURGH, Edinburgh Central Youth Hostel, 9 Haddington Place, Edinburgh, EH7 4AL
- Monday 5th October - GLASGOW, Scottish Trade Union Congress, 333 Woodlands Road, Glasgow, G3 6NG
- Tuesday 13th October - INVERNESS, Scottish Highlands & Islands & Moray Chinese Association, 1 Ardconnel Terrace, Inverness, IV2 3AE
For more information and to book:
Glasgow Women's Network.GARA Seminars 09 (pdf).
Edinburgh: LGBT-friendly 12-step programmes
Al Anon:
Thursdays at 6.30.
Co-Dependents Anonymous:
Sundays at 5.
Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous (SLAA):
every first and third Sunday 2.30-3.30pm.
All at the LGBT Centre for Health and Wellbeing, 9 Howe Street.
www.lgbthealth.org.uk
A Gude Cause Maks A Strong Arm
Gude Cause was formed to mark the 100th anniversary of the Women's Suffrage Procession along Princes Street in 1909.
The March is split into Past, Present and Future sections. The Equality Network/Scottish Transgender Alliance has registered as a group marching in the Future Section of the
Gude Cause March.
Please join us in the Future section of the March in order to help represent the continuing need to: challenge gender stereotypes and the homophobia, biphobia and transphobia which can result from rigid social gender rules, increase understanding of gender as non-binary, strive for everyone to be empowered to freely self-determine their own gender identity and gender expression.
www.gudecause.org.uk
UK News
Gordon Brown to Alan Turing: We're very sorry
The prime minister told John Graham-Cumming that the way Alan Turing had been treated was "an injustice that ought to have been undone long ago. ... The debt of gratitude he is owed makes it all the more horrifying, therefore, that he was treated so inhumanely - in effect tried for being gay." (
BBC,
BBC Newsnight)
Philip Hensher
writes in the Independent: "If Gordon Brown is determined to ensure that Turing's fate will never be considered as normal, he could do worse than think about the United Nation's approach to human rights. Article 2 of the 1948 Declaration on Human Rights specifies non-discrimination on the grounds of "race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status". That "other status" ought to include sexual orientation, though the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, the Vatican See and some Catholic countries, all members or with observer status at the UN, have argued against this."
Stonewall:Prescription for Change
The
first major survey ever conducted into lesbian and bisexual women's health in Britain, also revealed that half of Britain's 1.8 million lesbians report a recent negative NHS experience. This deters women from visiting their GP, or coming out to them, making it less likely they'll be treated early and appropriately with inevitably higher costs for the NHS when accurate diagnosis finally takes place. (
PinkPaper)
International
Jamaica: Local police say "batty man" attack "not homophobic"
John Terry, 65, a British honorary consul in Jamaica, was found beaten to death in his own home a week ago. A note was reportedly found on the bed called him a "batty man" – a homophobic term of abuse. It added: "This is what will happen to ALL gays". Local police have said this is not a homophobic attack: this assertion is reported to have angered the Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All-sexuals and Gays (J-FLAG). (
Pink News,
Radio Jamaica,
Jamaica Star)
Lithuania: Parliament prepares to debate criminalisation of homosexuality
Joseph Galliano
writes in the Guardian: In 1993, in order to join the European Union, Lithuania decriminalised homosexuality. Can it be allowed to roll backwards now? Lithuania should be placed under strict pressure from the EU to cast these pernicious laws out, and if it doesn't then its membership of the EU should be suspended or withdrawn. Without this, the EU is nothing more than an amoral trading bloc.
Amnesty International say any move by the Lithuanian parliament to criminalize the promotion of homosexuality would violate the country’s international obligations to uphold freedom of expression and fight discrimination. The Lithuanian parliament prepares to debate during its autumn session legislative amendments which would criminalise the “promotion of homosexual relations in public places”. If adopted, they would permit the prosecution of an extremely wide variety of activities, including campaigning on human rights issues relating to sexual orientation and gender identity, providing sexual health information to lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) people or the organization of gay film festivals, or Pride events. “Anyone detained under the proposed amendment to the Penal Code would be considered by Amnesty International to be a prisoner of conscience,” said Nicola Duckworth, Amnesty's Europe and Central Asia Programme Director. (
UK Gay News)
Asia Pacific NGO Forum on Beijing+15
22-24th October, Miriam College, Quezon City, Philippines. Proposed on ILGA women“s list to encourage the women of ILGA, through ILGA-Asia and ILGA-ANNZAPI, to participate by proposing a panel, workshop or other activity to the organizing committee.
apww.isiswomen.org
Portugal: LES Online for lesbian issues
LES - lesbian issues discussion group, aims to create a greater visibility of lesbian issues by publishing a semi-annual online journal: LES Online. Call for papers (Portuguese, Spanish, English or French, 3500 words max) by 27th November 2009. Publication date: December 2009
www.lespt.org/lesonline
Working for All
Imaan: Volunteer website manager
Imaan are looking for a volunteer who's interested in working for the UK's national organisation for LGBT Muslims, to keep their website updated with the regular weekly newsletter, and with other information provided from time to time by the Board of Trustees. This could be done long-distance, working from home. Other volunteer opportunities are available for people with technical experience in website work.
www.imaan.org.uk
LGBT Families, Civil Partnership and Cohabitation
Uruguay: Change to the law may not mean same-sex couples can adopt
Previously, only married couples or single parents could adopt a child. The law changes this to allow couples in civil unions to adopt. In Uruguay, civil unions are open to mixed-sex and same-sex couples, and the new adoption law refers only to mixed-sex couples in civil unions. A lawyer for the national Institute of Children and Adolescents, Edgard Marzarini, told reporters that he doesn't know how to resolve a same-sex adoption given the law's requirement that a child take a mother and father's surnames: "These are the holes that later give us problems." (
Buenos Aires Herald,
Guardian)
US: George Takei and Brad Altman the first same-sex "newly-weds"
For the first time in 46 years, the US game show The Newlywed Game will feature husbands married last year in California, George Takei and Brad Altman, on 12th October. (
Queerty,
MSNBC)
The Equality Network’s website for information on all aspects of LGBT family law – including civil partnership, cohabitation, having children, breaking up – is
www.lgbtfamilies.org
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