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Official. (at The University of Texas at Austin)

What do free hand sanitizer, condoms, and hot dogs have in...

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:24:18 -0600

What do free hand sanitizer, condoms, and hot dogs have in common? UT! #oscarmyer #hookem (at The University of Texas at Austin)

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atavus: Mark Wagner - Untitled, 2011

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Mark Wagner - Untitled, 2011

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bisikleta: Threaded (by Sebastian.gone.archi)

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 12:00:56 -0600

bisikleta:

Threaded (by Sebastian.gone.archi)

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"I think she was afraid to love sometimes. I think it scared her. She was the type to like things..."

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“I think she was afraid to love sometimes. I think it scared her. She was the type to like things that are concrete, like the ocean. Something you could point to and know what it was… And I think that’s why she struggled with love. She couldn’t touch it. She couldn’t hold on to it and make sure it never changed.”

- Carrie Ryan, The Dead-Tossed Waves (via sundaylatte)

sundaylatte: classy

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ffffffound: An Exquisite Paradox

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An Exquisite Paradox

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"I’m tired of living unable to love anyone. I don’t have a single friend - not one. And, worst of..."

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“I’m tired of living unable to love anyone. I don’t have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I can’t even love myself. Why is that? Why can’t I love myself? It’s because I can’t love anyone else. A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else. Do you understand what I am saying? A person who is incapable of loving another cannot properly love himself.”

- Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 (via sundaylatte)

suicideblonde: Marilyn Monroe photographed by Ed Feingersh

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Marilyn Monroe photographed by Ed Feingersh

nsfworld: Federico Guendel

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Federico Guendel

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fotojournalismus: In Uganda, gay people are being forced into...

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 20:00:59 -0600

A year ago, Kampala had several gay-friendly bars and clubs. Today, there is only one gay bar left, and its visitors are certain that it will close when the bill is passed.

Cleo is a transsexual woman. She lives in less danger than some of her peers because she has received hormonal treatment to enhance her feminine appearance.

'Bad Black' is a transsexual man who has struggled to make a living as a sex worker since his family threw him out of their home because of his sexuality.

Ema and Simon are a couple living in a shelter for gay people in Kampala. Their families shunned them when they found out they were gay.

Brian is the leader of the gay community project, Icebreakers. The project runs a free clinic for LGBT people, and a small shelter for those faced with homelessness.

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In Uganda, gay people are being forced into exile. If a new bill becomes law, homosexuality will be punishable by death – which means many people are choosing to leave and seek asylum elsewhere. With the vote on the country’s anti-homosexuality bill set to become public in the coming days, photographer Mathias Christensen met gay people in Uganda who fear the changing of the law.

Gay people in Uganda: love on the run

by Rasmus Thirup Beck

(via Guardian)

“Five police officers force three young men out of their one-room slum dwelling in Kampala, with no explanation. As they are dragged down the slum’s main shopping street, their neighbours’ hateful shouts make their “crime” all too clear: “Beat those gays up!” “Kill those monsters!” “Give them what they deserve!”

Threats were also issued – threats they had heard before:

“We’ll burn down your house!”

After two days in a small, dirty prison cell they are released. Now they’ve gone underground, and hope to gain asylum in another country.

“We don’t dare to live here any more. We have felt unsafe for a long time and it only gets worse. It’s all the talk about that law that agitates people. If it is passed I am sure they will burn down the house,” says one, a 23-year-old transsexual who prefers to be called “Bad Black” for safety reasons.

The law he refers to is the so-called “Kill the Gays” bill, which is set to become reality in Uganda within days. It is already illegal to commit a homosexual act in the country, but a unified parliament now supports a tightening of the law, which, among other things, will make it punishable by death to be a “serial offender”.

The parliamentarian behind the bill is David Bahati. He describes homosexuality as an evil that has to be fought. He also says that he and his peers “do not hate the homosexuals but the sin in them”.

Bahati’s reference to sin reveals the direct connection between Uganda’s politicians and a group of very influential pastors. One of these pastors is Moses Solomon Male, who travels the country presenting his talk, Understanding the Challenges of Homosexuality (Sodomy).

“Those homosexuals … They call it anal sex. It ruins the anus. And they say they enjoy it,” said Male in a recent speech to Sunday-school pupils in a Kampala suburb. He also described the cornerstone of both the pastors’ and the politicians’ argument against homosexuals: That they are “recruiting” innocents to their side – especially children.

LGBT rights advocates are doing their best to challenge these views – and the bill. One of these, transsexual activist Pepe Julian Onziema, has courageously come out with his message as well as his sexuality. Homosexuality is not something you become, it is something you are, he stresses.

“The only thing we can do is to try to inform as many people as possible about how we’re human beings just like them – just with different sexual preferences,” he explains.”

All photographs taken by Mathias Christensen.