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Soldata A lesbian who deserted the U.S. Army after suffering abuse and threats, applied for asylum in Canada. Bethany Smith said that his fellow soldiers of the unit at Fort Campbell, Ky., had discovered her lesbianism after seeing her with another woman.
According to CBC News, said that he was treated "less than human", beaten and thrown to the ground every day. Smith, 19, had also started to receive hate mail every night, and letters threatening to kill her.
Because gay and lesbian soldiers have to resign after admitting their sexuality, Smith had gone to take leave from his sergeant. But she was told that the practice of leave would be initiated after returning from a mission in Afghanistan. His lawyer Jamie Liew argues that the army has ignored its own policy of discrimination because it is short-staffed for Afghanistan. But Smith decided not to leave and deserted, crossing the border with Canada along with another soldier. It 'been helped dalll'organizzazione "War Resister Support Campaign" to settle in Ottawa and find a job, then asked to be recognized that the refugee status. Liew said that if he returned to the U.S. not only his life was in danger, but should also face a military trial for desertion, absence without leave and indecency. This accusation comes from the clause of "Do not Ask, Do not Tell ", which makes homosexuality a crime in the army and lesbianism, as a compromise, gay and lesbian personnel must keep secret her sexual orientation.
Smith's case comes just days after another incident happened in the U.S.: a gay sailor, was brutalized for two years after refusing to have sex with a prostitute. This officer third class Navy Joseph Rocha, beaten and raped by his comrades in the military base in Bahrain. This is just one of many abuse cases uncovered by an investigation of the Navy, after his complaint, Rocha was fired in disgrace, just under the clause of "Do not Ask, Do not Tell."

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-13979.html

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Homophobia? No thanks

Homophobia? No thanks
Rosanna Fiocchetto

Me too, the word "homophobia" does not like, as noted by Celia Kitzinger is in no way comparable to the "phobias" irrational, such as fear of spiders or that of small enclosed spaces. Celia stressed that the use of an invented word (in fact) from a male psychiatrist (George Weinberg, 1973) explains, "our oppression in terms of individual pathology, rather than shed light on the structural and institutional power" and urges us to give up the complaint of oppression systematic eteropatriarcali systems.
There is very clear the connection between sexism and rape should be as that between heterosexism and violent attacks (in a range that goes from harassment to murder). The use of a word and all-encompassing as mitigating "homophobia", now sadly become a convention, there is the exchange effect for the cause. Motivating the hatred and violence with fear, rather than an act of assertion and exercise of "power on", also distracts us from the violent conquest as a central justification of the privilege or mediated. The racism is more clear and few would dare to speak of "etnofobia" there is a history of colonization, predation, reduced in schiavitù, linciaggi, con innegabili motivazioni economiche e di sfruttamento molto visibili e acclarate, che rende piuttosto ridicolo giustificarlo solo con la psicologia. Ma già nel rapporto tra razzismo e sessismo si cominciano a perdere dei "pezzi" del mosaico: l'oppressione delle donne, come nel caso di quella dei gay e delle lesbiche, è meno percepibile a causa della manipolazione di una cultura maschile dominante che nega e mistifica i suoi metodi di controllo della sessualità, del genere e del corpo.
Perciò, quando magari sono costretta ad usare la parola "omofobia" o "lesbofobia" per farmi capire e senza fare troppi giri di parole, visto che un'altra ancora non ne circola, mi sento quasi una Veronica Lario quando Berlusconi says he is "cured" and "helped" ...
do not deny that by some people there may be a component of fear of lesbianism or homosexuality, since it dedicates just heterosexist culture - and actively - to instill this fear, down to terrorism. But this kind of fear is ruling over quite easily with the experience and knowledge, a ghost is transformed into something positive. Quite different is the attitude of those who dedicate themselves to systematically create fear, to find scapegoats and harass alleged superiority to impose its moral and material, to contribute to a political dictatorship or your personal power. These are people to whom oppose and fight, regardless of the simple "phobic", first in one way or another (one by one or in groups), we make out or deprive us of basic human rights. As indeed are already doing, to 360 °: their sense of the multiple connections have it, well built and structured.

Rosanna Fiocchetto

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Lithuania, passes legge omofobica

Lithuania's parliament has finally approved a law that prohibits information about homosexuality in schools, and in the media and public places accessible to minors. The law is called the "Law on the protection of children against the harmful effect of public information", includes as a factor that is harmful called "the propaganda of homosexuality or bisexuality." Had already been approved by parliament, but in June the Lithuanian President Adamkus had refused to sign it, but the parliament has the power to overcome his veto confirming a large majority, and so did today with a vote of 87 against 6.
The law should come into force from March 1 next year. The news was greeted with great concern by human rights activists who were mobilized to prevent the passage of the law. Kim Manning-Cooper of Amnesty International said: "This is a very bad day
for LGBT rights in Lithuania. By adopting this law deeply homophobic, the Lithuanian authorities have made a big step backwards. This law is a clear violation of freedom of expression and the right not to be discriminated against, and should be abolished immediately, "Ben Summerskill English association" Stonewall "defines the approval" a tragedy ", recalling the social harm that did in the United Kingdom, a similar law, the infamous "section 28" approved under the Conservative government in 1988, and then thankfully abolished in 2003.

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