Lina & Ali: a trans family

Posted on Augusts 30, 20166 February, 2021 by Gayles.tv

History of a Trans Family

VIDEO GAYLES.TV | The life of Lina and Ali is anything but conventional. After 23 years of marriage and a teenage son in common Lina finally takes the step and decides to live as she has always felt: a woman. How does a couple live the transition? What did Ali feel when rereading his life? Can this change unite more to the couple, or as in most cases the relationship ends? Lina and Ali were infinitely generous sharing some of their privacy. They had an important reason to do so: to make visible a situation more frequent than we believe and thus to help people who go through the same thing.

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Hande Kader mutilated and burned

Posted on Augusts 20, 2016Augusts 20, 2016 by Gayles.tv

The body of the transgender activist found on the streets of Istanbul

LAST HOUR GAYLES.TV. - Hande Kader she had only 22 years and her great sin has been to face, for herself, for her rights and those of the LGTBI collective in a country as recalcitrant as Türkiye. She was always seen in the front row of protests and demonstrations, her political activism led to her being arrested on one occasion.

She made a living as she could and in her situation that meant taking to the streets as a sex worker. She was last seen last week getting into a customer's car for service from which she would not return. When he did not appear, his companions gave the alarm and his environment reacted immediately on social networks by publishing search messages but everything was unsuccessful. The body of the girl appeared in the streets of Istanbul horribly mutilated and burned. Now the networks are mobilizing again but this time they are looking to spread the tragedy and the recognition that the Hande fight deserves with the hashtag #HandeKadereSesVer.

The political turn that has taken place in Turkey with post-coup purges carried out by Erdogan, the situation of the LGTBI collective has not improved in a country that boasts of belonging to European democracies but where 80% of its inhabitants consider homosexuality morally unacceptable.

The body was found a few kilometers from where a few days ago a Syrian gay refugee was cruelly murdered. The situation is terrible and while authorities of the old continent look the other way, gays, lesbians and transsexuals suffocate in closets for fear of being killed, mutilated, burned.

Sources: Setting G

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Trans Model with Rembrandt Background

Posted on Augusts 8, 2016Augusts 9, 2016 by Gayles.tv

Valentijn De Hingh revolutionizes the Rijksmuseum

GAYLES.TV.- Shocking the image of Valentijn De Hingh in the Rijksmuseum de Amsterdam. The model poses with the flags of the 72 countries where homosexuality is illegal to denounce the homophobia and to make visible the expression of gender and identity in the world. Of these 72 countries, in 12 there is death penalty for being gay. The dress is a creation of the designer Mattijs van Bergen and the photograph is of Pieter Henket.

«The flag of each country that changes its legislation will be replaced by the multicolored flag. Let's hope that soon this dress represents a mosaic of rainbow flags », declared the trans model who hopes that it means more than just a dress and serves to take action. The ultimate goal would be for all the different flags to come together to form just one: the rainbow. The dress was created with the help of the local organization LGBT group COC Nederland who gathered the flags to transform them after the march of the Pride Festival of Amsterdam.

The photographic session was held in the room where works of art Rembrandt. Photography is much more powerful with «The Night Watch" background.

Sources: Style.Mic, Pink News

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Beating two gais in Barcelona

Posted on Augusts 6, 2016 by Gayles.tv

A new homophobic aggression in the heart of Barcelona

GAYLES.TV.- About two o'clock on Friday morning, two young people of 22 and 24 years suffered a homophobic aggression when they went to one of the gais celebrations that are celebrated on the occasion of the Circuit Festival 2016.

According to the victims' accounts, they were walking hand in hand along the Gran Vía in Barcelona when three individuals approached them and began to insult them. As the couple ignored the aggressors, one of them approached them saying that it was disgusting to see Barcelona full of fagots like them, which should give them shame and that would end up with the human species. Fed up with insults, one of the boys asked them to leave them alone, that they did no harm to anyone and that they were despicable homophobes. From that moment began the physical aggression, kicks and punches that provided two of them while a third watched that no one saw them.

Both young people, of Serbian and Spanish nationality, recover of the tremendous scare and the injuries caused by the blows and have manifested their intention to file a complaint to try to locate the aggressors.

The events took place precisely in the week when the CIrcuit Festival was held in Barcelona, attracting tens of thousands of LGTBI tourists of all nationalities to Barcelona with the economic repercussions that this entails.

We hope that they can be detained and that they be held accountable for their actions. And then it would be nice if someone taught them to hunt Pokemons to see if they left the staff alone.

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Source: cronicanegra.cat

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The Japanese company with the Gais

Posted on 31 July 2016Augusts 1, 2016 by Gayles.tv

30 Large multinationals equate homosexual rights with the rest

GAYLES.TV.- It seems that at last there is some light in the country of the rising sun in terms of LGBT rights. Because, paradoxically, Japan, which is one of the world's most technologically advanced countries, is not in terms of social rights. In Japanese society there is a strong sense of conservatism that makes only 6 of every 10 person tolerate relationships between individuals of the same sex.

Despite that the Japanese Constitution does not recognize any type of legal union of same-sex couples, yes it is true that winds of change have been blowing for some time. Just a month ago the Japanese government approved a law that provides for punishing any type of language or discriminatory action in the workplace considering it comparable to a lack of sexual harassment. The new law is expected to take effect in January so that companies have leeway to establish punishment protocols for offenders.

But the news in this case is that, advancing to any kind of legislation or regulation, a trentena of big companies with names as well known as Sony, IBM or Panasonic, have reached an agreement to recognize same-sex unions in their by-laws and to equate their employment rights with the heterosexual members of their staff. The measure contemplates affect the LGTBI collective as it contemplates improvements such as the possibility of obtaining permits for the intervention of sex change, request the sick leave of the spouse and the modification of internal statutes that regulate the use of sanitary facilities in companies or dress codes.

The agreement supposes a revolutionary action that does nothing but reflect the best of the globalization of the world in which we live. In the words of Panasonic spokeswoman Yayoi Watanabe: "We are a global company and we have already had cases like this in the US and in Europe, where homosexual employees are treated without discrimination".

A set of initiatives that, added to the decision of some Japanese local administrations like those of Shibuya or Setagaya in Tokyo to issue certificates of civil union between homosexuals, marks a tendency of change in Japanese society.

Source: PressReader La Vanguardia

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Nickelodeon and the gay family

Posted on 22 July 201626 July 2016 by Gayles.tv

In the Nickelodeon children's animation channel, a gay family appears for the first time.

GAYLES.TV.- We often fill our mouth with big words like integration, equality, normalization or equalization. We want everything and we want it already. But stubborn reality shows us day after day that, despite the importance of developing egalitarian laws, full normalization is only established from the transformation of the social base and this in turn is not achieved overnight, it is a race in the background, a change of mentalities that starts already in education, in school, and why not? in children's leisure.

That's why news like the one we bring today is so transcendent, because it involves the incorporation of a gay family in a children's series on equal terms with other families.

The channel has been given by the children's animation channel Nickelodeon and the series is popular "The Loud House" by Chris Savino, premiered last May's 2 in the US and later in Latin America with the title of "A crazy house".

The protagonist of the series is Lincoln Loud, an 11-year-old boy who lives with no less than 10 sisters. Well, in the episode aired this week, Lincoln invites his friend Clyde to a pajama party. The bell rings and just before opening the door the boy looks at the camera and pronounces the phrase "It's time to make history". A wink of the scriptwriters to the audience to emphasize the importance of what we will see next. And it is that Clyde arrives accompanied by two men, his two parents and for that it does not leave the slightest doubt, Lincoln receives them with the greeting of «Hello Mr. McBridge. Hello Mr. McBridge ». To finish the play is also an interracial couple, which does not involve any nonsense if we consider the one that is falling right now in the US with racial issues.

As expected, the first voices of protest have already been raised. The group "One Million Moms" has launched a protest campaign against the Nickelodeon channel requesting that the controversial sequence be withdrawn. The most curious thing is the argument on which they base their request: “children are exposed to same-sex marriages in a network that is designed for children. Only because something may be legal or because some choose a way of life that does not make it morally correct (…). Nickelodeon has decided to be politically correct instead of providing family programming. " There is no way to get this statement, but two sentences are very striking. What is “children exposed to same-sex marriage” supposed to mean? And the one that seems more serious to us: "instead of providing family programming". Because of course, ours are not families, those who knock on Lincoln's door leading their son by the hand are not family, children's programming can include everything, weapons, violence, usury, racism, everything except LGTBI families. Surely they would rather we didn't exist, but it feels like, we've come to stay.

You can find the sequence in https://www.facebook.com/gaylestv/videos/1039578612762503/

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Source: BuzzFeed.com Daily Mayil

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The "people of two spirits"

Posted on 20 July 201623 July 2016 by Gayles.tv

Native Americans, prior to colonization, knew up to 5 genera.

EDITORIAL GAYLES.TV.- In Europe we have hardly heard of "People of two spirits", but in America it constitutes a whole movement of struggle. "Two spirits" It vindicates the authentic cultural and social history of the Indian tribes regarding the issue of gender before its ideology was laminated by the Catholic faith imposed by the colonizers.

And it is that the Native Americans ignored any kind of rules of gender conduct that had to be fulfilled to be accepted as a "normal" member of the tribe. In fact, the children were not assigned gender roles at birth and their clothes tended to be neutral, what today we would know as "unisex". Beyond the supposed masculinity or femininity, people were valued for their contribution to the tribe. They had no previous ideas about how someone should love, it was simply understood as a natural act that arose without any kind of prosecution.

Contrary to the marginalization with which the West isolates the difference, in the pre-Columbian America the people of "two spirits" were venerated because it was understood that someone who gathered in their person masculine and feminine characteristics, was able to understand both sides of everything, to see the world with the eyes of both spirits and that was a gift from the Creator.

According to a study on the page "Indian Country Today", tribes like the Navajo, Cheyenne or Cherokee recognized, with nuances in the denomination, roles as woman, man, woman of two spirits, man of two spirits and transgender. The Navajo speak of "Nádleehí" which means "one that was transformed", in the Lakota environment it is mentioned "Winkté" in reference to men who behave like women and the Cheyenne named as "Hemaneh" who are "half man, half woman".

Of course the colonization ruined all this and the Europeans made an enormous effort to make disappear from history any kind of reference to the culture of "the two spirits", arriving some catholic monks to destroy Aztec codices to make disappear the stories and traditional native beliefs. From there the Indians were forced to dress and act according to the new gender roles imposed by the colonizer. Needless to say, cinema has just established the idea that native cultures reproduce Western gender roles. Perhaps among those who read these lines someone will remember the game of letters of families, the negritos, the Indians, the Chinese, children, dad, mom, grandfather, grandmother, a way to transfer ideology like any other.

A clear example of how these tribes lived the gender issues is that of the Lakota warrior Osh-Tisch which means "he who finds them and kills them". He was born male and married a woman, but he used to dress in women's clothes and lived his daily life as one more woman of the tribe. Curiously, he would go down in history for a feat performed at the Battle of Rosebud Creek in 1876, when he saved the life of a man from his tribe.

It is important to know the treatment that other civilizations and cultures have given to questions of sex and gender in order not to fall into the absurdity of the reductive binarism of Christian and Western morality.

Source: lamula.pe

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"Manhunt", contacts bluntly

Posted on 17 July 201620 July 2016 by Gayles.tv

Manhunt, the world's largest gay dating platform offering "any man, anytime, anywhere."

GAYLES.TV.- Manhunt meets 15 years and it is consolidated as the largest network in the world in terms of gay dating platforms. It was created in 2001 to satisfy a need: the growing demand for a gay dating network that did not exist at the time. It is currently present in 120 countries and allows communication in a dozen languages.

The essence of the key to Manhunt's success can be found in his advertising slogan: "To the point and without detours". And is that from the beginning make it clear that it is not a page to find a partner, (although you never know!), Is not far from a marriage agency to use. His message is clear, it is about facilitating sexual contacts and encounters between men. When entering your website is the first sentence that can be read: "Any man, at any time, anywhere". That clear, direct philosophy, without prejudice or taboos, is what has turned Manhunt into a giant, in the largest gay dating site in the world.

Registration is free and the subscription to the page generates priority with the client requesting it. They also ensure that you can find gay men for all tastes and unlike other platforms where the average user keeps little activity, the figures show that more than 86% of Manhunt users around the world maintain a regular activity on the web. And the figures are vertiginous if we consider that Manhunt has more than 30 million visitors every month and that the number of fixed users amounted to 6 million which the 56% are Latin (Spanish, Latin American and Brazilian). The broader age segment belongs to men aged between 21 and 54 years, no less than 70%, although these margins are broadened and enable contact between older people.

In short, it is difficult not to find who to contact with in mind that at peak times the average number of connected users is more than 70.000 men. The registration process is very simple and you can do it by entering www.manhunt.net. It is currently in the process of optimization as an app but it can already be found in the app Store.

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Nice, blue hell

Posted on 15 July 201617 July 2016 by Gayles.tv

A common offender responsible for the jihadist attack in Nice

EDITORIAL GAYLES.TV.- Azul is a color that we associate with the summer, the south coast of France, the explosion of the fireworks in the summer sky, the tones of a Mediterranean that generously bathes the coasts of sister cultures of Nice but also from Tunisia, in the native Masakin of Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhel, the 31-year-old man who last night took the lives of 84 people, many of them young creatures who just wanted to see the fireworks of July 14. Among the more than a hundred injured, 52 are in extremely serious situations and remain in intensive care.

Mohamed rented a refrigerated truck of 19 tons with which he pounced on the crowd celebrating the French national holiday. Apparently reached the 90 km per hour in a dantesco 2 km route along the seafront of the English. Eyewitnesses claim that he zigzagged with accelerators trying to cause as much damage as possible as if it were a macabre video game. The police managed to stop him by riddling the truck driver's cabin with bullets.

Politicians and authorities in all countries have been quick to present their condolences to France and to condemn the alleged attack, but for the moment no terrorist organization has been credited with killing. Lahouaiej was, according to some neighbors who have known him "a bad and lonely man who never said good morning". His own brother has declared that "He was not a practicing Muslim, he did not fast and he did not pray". And some French media have published statements by Mohamed's acquaintances who reiterate that "he did not pray, he was not very religious, he liked girls and salsa".

It is true that the method used coincides with the indications that some jihadist websites collect to end the lives of the infidels, but it is also suggesting to pass people by knife or crush them with stones. In a way, paranoia and fear have become the ideal breeding ground for madmen and delinquents of all skin give free rein to their unhealthy and criminal violence and meanwhile drums of global war start to sound and the confrontation between the east grows and the West, between Christians and Muslims between two models that seem to have renounced political solutions to feed the blood of civilians with the escalation of war.

It condemns itself, but also prudence and analysis and criterion to search the origin of the horror, to work in the solutions that leave without arguments to the delinquents, the crazy ones, the terrorists, the bad and solitary men who never say good morning. Everything else, the talion, the an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth will only make us blind to all.

Source: El Mundo La Vanguardia

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Assisted reproduction also for lesbians

Posted on 14 July 2016 by Gayles.tv

The Generalitat de Catalunya guarantees assisted reproduction in public centers for lesbians and single women.

That is why today a great step has been taken universalize assisted reproduction treatments and extend them to all women in charge of public health and that step has given the Generalitat de Catalunya. To date, the 2011 protocol has been applied under the provisions of an 2006 Royal Decree on Assisted Reproduction, which regulated these practices in a way that excluded women who did not prove to have had heterosexual intercourse for at least one year without having conceived. That is to say, what was treated was the infertility leaving aside other reasons that prevented the conception as the fact of maintaining homosexual relations.

In an effort of coherence with the law against LGTB phobia approved by the Parliament of Catalonia in the 2014 Health Counselor Toni Comín, accompanied by members of feminist associations and LGTBI, announced the extension of this right to all women regardless of their clinical status, affective situation or their sexual orientation. Comín declared: "Whatever the demand, we will cover it. We are talking about a right. "

Currently in Catalonia there are 4 public centers that practice in vitro fertilization techniques and 8 those that apply artificial insemination. Given the foreseeable increase in demand for care, it has been considered to expand the number to about 20 centers and the possibility of launching a public gamete bank is not ruled out. "For the moment we will resolve the demand (for sperm) with the banks that we have now, but we will have to think about institutionalizing a public bank," said Comín.

Great news and a breakthrough for the rights of lesbians that marks the way forward for other state-level institutions. A question of justice that from now on will put an end to the shameful fact that the right to motherhood was marked by the purchasing power of people.

Congratulations to all!

Source: El País, CCMA

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Masturbating the Forbidden Fruit

Posted on 8 July 201626 June, 2016 by Gayles.tv

Stephanie Sarley, the creative video that scandalizes Instagram.

GAYLES.TV.- A few weeks ago we talked about the work of Soraya Doolbaz in the text "The penis made art" that you can see by following the link. If Soraya bases her work on characterizing and portraying penises, today we want to tell you about another creator who in this case focuses her artistic work on female genitalia. His name is Stephanie Sarley and is an illustrator and video artist based in Oakland, CA. that has gotten Instagram it will close your account no less than 3 occasions.

self-portrait Stephanie Sarley — Self-portrait Stephanie Sarley

The reason for so much blocking is some photographs and videos with fruits through which Stephanie tries to explore female sexuality.

The artist, who has 140.000 followers on Instagram, states: "For me it is important to portray that the vaginas are not something shameful, something to protect, hide or control”. Sarley tries with his work to transform social aversion towards female sexuality and since January he has been doing so through a series of videos in which he offers an unusual sexual aspect and suggestive of all kinds of fruits.

We bring you here a summary video and some of his images, but we suggest you look for his complete work on his personal page or on Instagram.

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Drag Queens vintage

Posted on 7 July 201626 June, 2016 by Gayles.tv

10 Drag Queens images with a lot of history

We started in the month of May the series of LGTBI vintage photographs with the publication of the article "Vintage Lesbians", a careful selection of old photos of lesbian couples that surprised by the brazenness with which they showed their love to the camera, for its freshness and spontaneity. Last June, we expanded the proposal with the publication of "Vintage Gais", with anonymous photographs but also of characters as well known as Walt Whitman and Peter Doyle or the legendary image of Oscar Wild with his lover Sir Alfred Douglas.

Today we want to close the circle with another series of 10 images that have surprised us even more if possible, since it is about what we would call today Drag Queens, transvestites and transvestites who were normally part of the world of entertainment and posed for eternity dressed in women's clothing in unparalleled images that in some cases are more than a century and a half old.

As in previous compilations, the authorship of most of the images is anonymous or their rights have expired and we can find them in the Vikipedia Commons funds or in collections that are mentioned in all cases.

The first image is the Julian Eltinge, American actor of cinema and theater that appeared in a series of musical comedies written expressly for him. The first that catapulted him to fame was "The fascinating widow" of 1910. He was known by the nickname of Mr. Lillian Russell. Photo from Wikipedia Commons.

This photograph belongs to John Lind in his role of "La Gavotte Ancienne". He was a Swedish female impersonator, singer and dancer who reached international fame at the beginning of the 20th century. Photo from Vikipedia Common.

The third photo belongs to Francisco León and it is believed to be dated at 1919 approximately. She was an actor and vaudeville female impersonator and her graphic background is preserved in the "Harvard Theater Collection of Harvard University" where this image comes from.

Another image from the "Harvard Theater Collection of Harvard University". This time it is Neil Burgess, actor, comedy performer and female impersonator characterized for his role in "Vim".

Stella, nicknamed Ernest Boulton was recognized worldwide for being an excellent female impersonator and for her wonderful soprano voice. The image is dated in 1868 and comes from the collection of Oliver Sarony / Laurence Senelick via Viki Commons.

Apparently Stella maintained relations with Fanny, nickname with which Frederick Park was known that in the image of the collection of Frederick Spalding via Viki Commons appears in a dress of silk and the elegant touch of a delicate fan.

Stella and Fanny appear as a couple in this image taken in 1869, barely a year before they were arrested by the Metropolitan Police under the accusation of "conspiring and inciting people to commit crime against nature." The photo comes from "Essex Record Office".

In this curious image we can see a group of Marines preparing for a Christmas concert. The absence of women on board in the Royal Navy during World War II meant that sometimes it was the sailors who played the female roles. The image belongs to the Official Collection of the Admiralty of the "Imperial War Museums".

And again an actor, it is Bothwell Browne in his role as the widow Gibson. Of Danish origin, Browne was a film actor, comedian and a great female impersonator who triumph in the United States at the beginning of 1900. Image from Vikipedia Commons.

And we end up with someone who reached the status of myth by his imposing falsetto. We are talking about Brigham Young, known as Mrs. Pattirini. Son of a humble settler family whose father led the Latter-day Saint movement, his voice confused many of his followers who doubted that Brigham was really a man. The image belongs to the Vikipedia Commons background.

I hope these collections serve to rescue from oblivion those who preceded us in the task of claiming a space to be who they were.

Source: pride.com

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Sol @ in the PRIDE? Eat the world!

Posted on 1 July 201626 June, 2016 by Gayles.tv

5 reasons to enjoy the PRIDE without company

GAYLES.TV.- The sun going through the bars and discs has bad press, there is always someone who looks at you over your shoulder and sometimes like you do not know where to go because, get upset, the "I'm waiting for someone" does not sneak. But in the PRIDE the thing changes, in fact all are advantages if you can play the cards of solitude in your favor.

Do not have a partner? Half of your friends are on vacation and the other half are going out? Would you like to spend your holidays in the PRIDE of another city but nobody wants to accompany you? Do not despair, we are going to give you 5 reasons to convince you that for nothing in the world you should give up throwing yourself into the street and eating the world.

It is easier to start a conversation with someone who is strange if you are alone. Yes, or is it that if you see someone you like surrounded by a lively group of friends talking and laughing it's easy for you to approach and chat? For the rest of humanity is the same, the groups chase away the lonely. Being sunny @ facilitates contact.
It's easier to be invited to parties, to drink or give you promotional things like shirts if you go sun @. Normal, it is not the same to put a person in a small apartment than a group of 4, 10 or whatever they are. Neither pay someone a beer or invite a whole group. Believe me, solitude will open the doors of private parties where the sauce of Pride is cooked
You can do whatever you want. You're free! In the groups you always have to wait for everyone to be there or accept plans that do not appeal to you, at best, because then there is always the anger or the one who spends drinking, who ends up humping the party at all the world. Well, the waits and bad rolls are over. Go where you want, do what you want and when you want, nobody conditions you.
It's easier to flirt and take a powder from here I catch you here I kill you. Well, we already know that the Pride has a claiming character, but it is not bad to give the body a bit of joy either. Having someone by your side is not going to make it easy for you to want to flirt with you, it sure is much easier if you can fly free like a bird to get between the sheets with whomever you want.
And finally: you are going to meet new people, to make new friendships. After all, is not it about that? To be able to show openly, to shout to the world that you are there, open up to the new, to life, to colors and to the party.

In short, do not even think about staying at home because nobody wants to share the Pride with you, for sure there will be plenty of company, as I said, get out there and show your colors.

Sources: Pride.com

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The Mussolini gay archipelago

Posted on 30 June, 201626 June, 2016 by Gayles.tv

Fascist concentration camps that would end up being spaces of freedom for gays.

EDITORIAL GAYLES.TV.- We live in turbulent times, the European Union loses one of its pillars with the Brexit. The fear of migratory movements and the crisis of the refugees explodes a bomb from which we still do not know the extent of the damages caused. And in the meantime we close the way for thousands of people who knock at the doors of the old continent fleeing war and desolation to find the doors closed and the ignominy of being crowded in fields that hurt memory with images that some would want to forget. Images and experiences that remind others not so distant and sometimes we do not even know despite being very close.

But not to repeat the mistakes of the story before you have to know it. Today we bring you the story of some little-known facts that affected hundreds of gay people in Italy. Mussolini. For Italian fascism, homosexuality was nothing but a "foreign vice" imported from England and Germany. According to the Duce "Italians are too macho for homosexuals". That was why he ordered to withdraw an article from the penal code that sought to sanction homosexuality as a crime. Accepting it was tantamount to acknowledging its existence, and what was worse, questioned the myth of Italian virility.

It was much better to act outside the law, in silence, harassing, making illegal raids, extorting and beating whenever the sexual option was exhibited. In fact a decree of 1931 authorized "cleaning measures" against those who endangered morals and good manners. So it was to sweep and hide the dust under the carpet or what is the same: hundreds of so-called "Culattoni" they were deported during periods of 5 years to tiny and lost islands of the Italian geography.

The main ones were Lampedusa, San Domino, Favignana and Ustica. Some of them had been used as a prison since the time of the Roman Empire. In the period between 1938 and 1943 hundreds of homosexuals accused of pedophilia were confined in subhuman conditions. Some facts that would later fall into oblivion to be rescued with the recent publication of the book "La città e l'isola" (the city and island) of researchers Gianfranco Gorretti and Tommaso Giartosi, origin of the comic "In Italy they are all males" de Luca de Santis and Sara Colaone.

In most of these islands, homosexuals shared exile or common prisoners as in the case of Favignana or with those whom the fascist regime considered undesirable of all kinds as communists, anarchists, socialists, republicans and even Jehovah's Witnesses. This amalgam was piled up in a real concentration camp in Ustica.

But one of those islands would go down in history because of the peculiarity of hosting only homosexual reclusive population, the island of San Domino. At first a total of 100 inmates were housed in two Spartan barracks without water or electric light. But in spite of the infernal conditions of their confinement, for many it was better than the jail of silence that lived in their cities of origin. Unexpectedly, in San Domino, fascist Italy had created a space in which all those exiles could, for the first time in their life, openly show themselves as they were. Giuseppe B. one of the interns, in an interview to the magazine Babylon stated: "In those days, if you were a femmenella (a word of Italian slang to talk about gay men) You couldn't even leave the house, make yourself noticed; the police arrested you. On the contrary, on the island we celebrated the day of our saints or the arrival of someone new. We did theater and we could dress like women and nobody said anything".

Despite the vigilance of the guards there was more than one romance and they say that when, after the outbreak of World War II, they were returned to their places of origin in a kind of house arrest regime, many of them cried for having to separate from their boyfriends and friends to return to the dark closets of an Italy that condemned and criminalized.

It is paradoxical that we are scandalized by these events while we remain silent to the conditions of absolute precariousness and desolation, to the extortion, blackmail and sexual abuse suffered by those who leave their lives knocking on the doors of a Europe that, too old to remember your own story, you risk having to relive it.

Sources: Public.es

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MasterChef will not preach

Posted on 24 June, 201625 June, 2016 by Gayles.tv

GAYLES.TV.- From the moment it was announced that reading the proclamation of the MADO run by the jury of MasterChef the controversy was served. The boiling point of social networks jumped through the air and in less than 24 hours the campaign organized through Change.org with the slogan "NO to the jury of MasterChef as preachers of the Pride of Madrid 2016, they do not represent us" collected 11.468 signatures.

Finally AEGAL (association of businessmen) that together COGAM and FELGTB MADO, responsible for the organization of the Pride in Madrid, has decided to retract and suspend the "proclamation of the famous", thus avoiding Samantha Vallejo-Nágera, Jordi Cruz and Pepe Rodríguez, members of the MasterChef jury, do your reading.

In the brief statement AEGAL does not clarify the reasons for the decision but instead aims at a response to the mobilization in social networks and does not offer an alternative, being limited to the suspension: "AEGAL deeply regrets having hurt so many sensitivities with this choice. That is why we have agreed and decided not to perform the act of the proclamation as planned with the criers we proposed.

And point ball, "we will continue to report." The reaction capacity they have had is laudable, but an explanation of why MasterChef has been rejected or even why it was considered adequate in its day is lacking.

The issue is that now supporters that the proclamation had been read by the jury of the contest, they say they feel ashamed of the ridicule done to veto in the act to "four heterosexuals", speak of heterosexismo and incoherence of the collective LGTBI to discriminate them. They also claim that it would have had a media revenue that will now prevent us from reaching more people. And that you go to know if we have lost what they had to say to us, that it went and moved us to the core.

But is that in no case in the note signed by more than 10.000 people questioned that they were heterosexual, what was pointed out is that "LGTBI people and civil rights are the center and the reason for this celebration. It is vital, therefore, to give voice to our collective and preserve the essence of Pride of Madrid as a vehicle of expression for LGTB people. "

The members of the MasterChef jury have unfortunately been controversial for their comments and macho attitudes who have gone from asking a contestant if her husband gave her permission to participate until drooling before the curves of a candidate to participate. Such attitudes and not heterosexual status is what makes them not be the ideal criers for the MADO and as the petition also collects, that honor was not granted to "other public figures who are known for their commitment to the mission fundamental of this event: the promotion of equality and the rights of LGBT people, rejection of hate-motivated behavior, and the promotion of non-discrimination. "

In a way it seems that what they had to tell us in the pregon will be better than they try to communicate in the day to day in its program, because yes it is certain that they reach many people and for that reason, precisely, its responsibility with respect to the ideology that transmit is tremendous.

Happy weekend!

Sources: Change.org, I am dancing, El País

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FIRE !! a scream made cinema

Posted on 22 June, 201622 June, 2016 by Gayles.tv

FIRE !! 21st International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival of Barcelona

GAYLES.TV.- The next day June 30 starts FIRE !! in its 21 edition of the "Mostra Internacional de Cinema Gai i Lesbià of Barcelona" with the projection of the film "La Belle saison" which will have the presence of the director Catherine Corsini and producer Elisabeth Pérez.

But we want to move forward presented here today the new SPOT FIRE !!! 2016, «DÉSARMÉS», made by Juanma Carrillo and the imposing Ariana Martínez.
Following the motto of FIRE !! 2016 "Liberté, égalité, diversité", the director puts the woman in the narrative center, in a context of protest, commitment and social change. But it places it in a peaceful, deep, silent plane, in which attraction and love arise ... the most powerful weapon to change mentalities, to change the world, to change oneself and others. Disarmed in front of the other, unarmed before love.

In a moment of crisis, of violence, of generalized extremism, FIRE !! it sends a cry of peace, of hope, of reflection and demands a space for women from any area of life, politics, culture and society, helps transform society from another place.

The contest, which will last until 10 in July at the French Institute of Barcelona, wants to recover the value of a motto that changed the story: "Freedom, equality and fraternity" adapting it to LGTBI reality with a small variation that the organizers themselves we explain: "Freedom, equality and diversity»Are not minor words. Not much less. It is a declaration of principles. We talk about Human rights. We are talking about people. Freedom to be yourself. Equality for being yourself and Diversity because we are all equal, and at the same time, different. "

And is that the Casal Lambda from Barcelona, who has already 40 years defending these words with his dedication and struggle, has decided to celebrate it as best they can do it, through the cinema and his FIRE !! Raising freedom understood as an antidote to the fear of difference, equality as a guarantee of the rights of all and diversity as a reflection of a world in which we can be different without fear.

As every year they show us, through a careful selection of films, the reality of LGTBI people from all over the world, without limiting themselves to the closest environment. Defending the globalization of Human Rights and its universal character, as well as the need to continue fighting until they are respected equally regardless of where they come from.

FIRE !! wants to be a cry to conscience and change and by placing women in the focus of the message makes them the protagonist of the graphic image of FIRE !! 2016. A powerful and free woman, a feminine representation of the transforming fire. A design of Gregorio Soria reminiscent of the 20 years of the last century, when women became aware of their power and claimed their role in the rupturist movements of the early twentieth century.

In this edition, films from Chile, Lithuania, Japan, Sweden, Kenya, Mexico, the United States, Austria, the Philippines and Spain will be seen. Regarding the themes, they focus on affective, sexual and gender diversity with stories of love, disappointment, pain and struggle… fictional stories and documentaries of lives worthy of being brought to the big screen.

We leave you with the SPOT FIRE !!! 2016, «DÉSARMÉS» and of course with the full programming trailer plus some of the titles that you can see in the show with their corresponding trailers.

Congratulations to Casal Lambda for his career and long life to FIRE !!

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Broadway sings to Orlando

Posted on 21 June, 201621 June, 2016 by Gayles.tv

The stars unite to record a charity song

GAYLES.TV.- "Love must prevail." Under this premise the stars of Broadway to pay homage to the victims of the June 12 massacre at the club Press de Orlando, Florida. Great figures of the musical theater sang in New York the classic «What of World Needs Now is Love«. It is a charity recording whose proceeds will go to the GLBT Community Center of Florida.

The draft Broadway for Orlando it's an idea of Seth Rudetsky and her husband the producer James Wesley. They were inspired by the initiative that in 1985 brought together great voices with the song «We are The World»And raised millions for Africa. This time the song is now available to download for US $ 1.99 through Broadway Records. Among the participants are Kristen Bell, Gloria Estefan, Lin Manuel Miranda, Whoopi Goldberg, Sean Hayes, Wayne Brady, Nathan Lane, Idina Menzel, Sarah Jessica Parker, Mathew Broderick, Sara Bareilles, Carole King, Rosie Perez, Fran Drescher, Renée Elise Goldsberry and Bernadette Peters.

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Sources: Variety Latino, USA Today, Brodway Records

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Virgins with much pride

Posted on 17 June, 201617 June, 2016 by Gayles.tv

The Virgin of the Desamparados and the one of Montserrat give a kiss in the mouth

GAYLES.TV.- On Gayles.tv we are thinking that the archbishop Cañizares it becomes part of the writing and is that the man (that man!) gives subject to fill pages of information LGTBI every week.

The poor man does not win to disappointment in his fight against the “gay empire”. The last one was just given to them in Valencia, where on the occasion of the celebration of gay pride "Endavant" (Adelante), one of the organizations of the CUP, has published a poster in which the Virgen de los Desamparados and the Montserrat one kiss each other in the mouth. The images, popularly known as "la geperudeta" (hunchback) and "la moreneta" (brunette) have wanted to show solidarity with gay, lesbian and transsexual groups and make their love public. Because in the end the virgins, the "Endavant" and ours is love faced with the irrational hatred of Cañizares against everything that moves and smells of "gender dictatorship" as the Archbishop likes to call our right to be without more.

So the prelate, who by the way is already being investigated for a possible hate crime, has called a mass rosary as an injunction to the sacred images and later, during the celebration of a mass, has once again pronounced one of his controversies and incendiary homilies with statements such as: "There are ideologies that kill man, such as the gender ideology, that all figure in what you decide and there is no more, there is no nature and there is no body and there is no man and woman."

Not satisfied with the disqualifications, the cardinal archbishop has accused the "Endavant" group of desecration which, according to Cañizares "," deeply hurts the feelings of Catholics and of all men and women of good will. " It's funny how when he deigns to name women, he always does it second.

Perhaps what draws the most attention in Cañizares's rant is the fact that he speaks of intolerance and lack of respect for the beliefs of others ... and it is said by those who deny us the right to be and equality. No comment.

Valencia is going out today to the street under the motto "Against the sacred oppression, esteem com vulgues" (Against sacred oppression, love as you like) and will do so by celebrating for the first time "Orgull Festival" with 7 hours of celebration and music for everyone. Not missing Fangoria, Nancys or La Prohibida, but surely those who will not miss the appointment are "La Moreneta and Geperudeta".

Happy Pride, Valencia!

Sources: La Vanguardia, El Mundo, ccma.cat

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Islamic State and gay porn

Posted on 16 June, 201616 June, 2016 by Gayles.tv

Anonymous fills Islamic State accounts with gay porn

GAYLES.TV.- Wauchula Ghost, member of Anonymous, has filled with content LGTB +, gay porn and messages of peace the Islamic State account profiles. In an interview to the magazine Newsweek has declared for the lives lost in Orlando. "The Islamic State has praised the attack, so I thought of defending those who died, "said the hacktivist.

He has clarified that he does not want to offend Muslims, but rather that the actions are directed at the jihadists. "We respect all religions that do not kill innocent people," added Wauchula. The hacker has hacked more than 200 accounts.

Sources: EcoDiario.es, Newsweek

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Orlando furious

Posted on 15 June, 201616 June, 2016 by Gayles.tv

EDITORIAL GAYLES.TV.- "Orlando furious" is an epic poem written by Ludovico Ariosto in the 1532 that gave rise to the opera of the same name Vivaldi. Curiously, the epic theme and the combats that star the heroes of the poem are centered in the historical struggles between Moors and Christians. Always the same chant, 5 centuries later we continue to justify, channeling, telling the story from the perspective of the confrontation between creeds and go to know who takes advantage of all this.

And while in the storage room are the hidden, brutal motives, which triggered the spring of fury, blood and fire. Because we will never know what it was that really Omar Mateen to sow Orlando's festive night of corpses, to vomit his guilt and hatred on the young bodies whose only sin was to celebrate life.

And is that from the beginning something has not finished to square in all this history and the motives of the murderer. Islamic State on Sunday he limited himself to applauding Omar's action but did not claim it in the first instance. Already on Monday, in a statement through his radio station, he claimed responsibility for the attack, stating that Mateen "was one of the soldiers of the caliphate in the United States." After all, Mateen wasn't going to disprove that claim. It is true that before committing the massacre, he made an emergency call swearing loyalty to the Islamic State, perhaps he thought to make sense of so much death and incidentally buy a last minute ticket to paradise. Despite this, the president himself Obama in his appearance before the media, he said: "He announced his adhesion to the IS at the last minute, but there is no proof at the moment, that it was directed by them".

Of what, curiously, there is proof, is the possible repressed homosexuality of Omar. Several witnesses have claimed that Mateen went to the Pulse club a dozen times and was a regular user of apps to link between homosexuals like Grindr. His own ex-wife has assured that Omar had homosexual tendencies and to top it off it seems that the father, who on the same day of the massacre declared that his son hated homosexuals, had insulted him by calling him gay in public on several occasions.

Something smells rotten in Orlando. The confirmation of the theses that endorse the jihadist motives may have a specific weight in the advance of Donald Trump on their way to the presidency and IS assumes a free terror plus. But the truth is that the arguments of guilt increasingly weigh on unfulfilled desires, for a denied homosexuality, for the poison of an internalized homophobia that sows the self-hatred of who refuses in the most intimate.

How many potential Omar walk the world with the slab of guilt in the heart? How many are flagellated on the altar of denial and fanaticism unable to accept what they feel and who they are? It matters and much to get to the bottom of this question and put on the table any hint that helps to clarify Mateen's motives, because that hatred towards oneself ends up turning against others, against life and responsible are also those who inoculate it as a heart lonely and confused.

Respect for diversity is the only antidote against the poison of internalized homophobia and we should vaccinate massively against it because who does not learn from history is forced to repeat it.

Sources: La Vanguardia, El Mundo,

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Gay slaughter in Orlando

Posted on 12 June, 201623 February, 2017 by Gayles.tv

LAST HOUR GAYLES.TV.- Some media have identified an American citizen of Afghan origin as the perpetrator of the attack on a gay scene in the city of Orlando, Florida, which It has claimed the lives of 50 people and injured other 53, some of which have been in critical condition. Although the FBI has not yet confirmed the data, it appears to be Omar Mateen of 29 years He has also been shot down by police when he had barricaded himself with hostages inside the premises.

They were the 2 of the dawn, Orlando celebrated the PRIDE and the place was very crowded, especially by Cuban population since the Latin night was celebrated. According to some witnesses, the shooting has begun outside the environment club PULSE, one of the most frequented by the gay community of the city, later the attacker has begun to shoot bursts inside the premises towards the dance floor and the bar until the police intervention has ended his life.

According to police sources, the assailant was armed with a pistol, an AR-15 rifle and several explosives. There are many hypotheses that are shuffled about the motive of the assailant to perpetrate what is considered the biggest slaughter in American territory since the 11S. Precisely one of the first has been that it was a terrorist attack for ideological reasons. In that sense Danny Banks, responsible for the investigation, has stated: "Whether domestic or international terrorism, this is an aspect that we consider above any other hypothesis".

The father of the assailant has subsequently made a statement to the NBC television network that would point more in the line of a homophobic attack, since apparently a couple of months ago Omar Mateen would have witnessed, as he walked with his wife and son, as two men were kissing in the mouth and this fact had provoked an exaggeratedly violent repulsion reaction. It is precisely on her violent nature that an ex-wife of Omar has declared that Mateen was a very violent and unstable person who would have beaten her many times while they were married. He also said that he was not very religious even though within a few months of the wedding he established links with radical Islamist movements.

The FBI has called for citizen collaboration to provide any information related to the assault. For this same afternoon an appearance by President Obama is expected to make statements about the events.

The last hurried message on the site's Facebook page is scary: "Let the whole world come out, let the whole world run."

Sources: The Confidential, El Pais, CCMA.cat

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Vintage gals

Posted on 10 June, 201610 June, 2016 by Gayles.tv

GAYLES.TV.- About a month ago we brought you a selection of photographs of vintage lesbian couples in the article «Vintage Lesbians«, Which were surprising for their freshness, spontaneity and impudence in front of the camera. If those rudimentary lenses captured the complicit glances of desire among women of several generations ago, today we bring you the photos of male lovers, of gay couples in love that span a century, from the legendary photo of Walt Whitman with his lover Peter Doyle dated around 1869, to the pair of bearded hands that could well be part of the protest movements of the 60 decade in the last century.

As in the collection of lesbian photos, the authorship of most of them is anonymous or their rights have expired and we can find them in the funds of Vikipedia Commons, some belong to collections of museums or universities of which you will find the reference next to the image.

In any case, it is worthwhile and moving to build a bridge with your eyes towards those men who not only had the courage to love each other at a time when it should not have been easy for them, but also wanted to leave testimony before the camera of their feelings.

For them goes our gratitude and our most heartfelt tribute.

And we started with the image we mentioned of a lovely couple of men holding hands while they read the press. It comes from the One National Gay & Lesbian Archives. Pat Rocco Papers " and it is not dated.

From the very bottom of the "One National Gay & Lesbian Archives" is this image of a clandestine kiss in one of the few places where it was safe, a photobooth booth. It is dated 1953 and the boy on the right is Joseph John Bertrund, Member of the Mattachine Society, an early gay organization, who also served in the Royal Canadian Air Force.

This anonymous couple of Americans posed around 1880 in an image that could well be of study. Origin: Vikipedia Commons.

In this photograph, also for study, the couple pose in a curious position that would surely have deserved censorship had it been published. It is dated 1875 and comes from Vikipedia Commons.

All the details in this 1880 image are overwhelmingly elegant, the gloved hands on the heart of the lover, the white handle of the cane and the hats resting one on another. Lucky to have the Vikipedia Commons studio portrait fund.

The protagonists of this image could well be our grandparents, but the discreet touch of the tips of their fingers and their glances give them away. It also comes from Vikipedia Common and is dated around 1890.

Less humorous showed this amusing pair of men, sitting one over the other in a clear and defiant attitude of pride. A love difficult to contain under appearances. Origin Vikipedia Commons.

A well-known photograph, that of Oscar Wilde with his lover Sir Alfred Douglas. The image is taken in 1893, before the trial that would end Oscar Wilde in prison, where he wrote the famous "De Profundis. Epistle in carcere et vinculis " destined to Sir Alfred. It also comes from Commons Vikipedia.

Perhaps this is one of the most curious images of the compilation, both because of the somewhat disheveled aspect of its protagonists and the fact that they do not seem to be posing in a studio. Well it could be a natural snapshot of anonymous characters. Closed on 1870 is in Vikipedia Commons.

A curious image that shows us two young and handsome firefighters holding hands in front of the target. Surely they would not have hesitated to offer "Firemen's Calendar"! It is signed by Vergenes VT around 1870 and comes from Vikipedia Commons.

And we end up with the beautiful image of the poet and his inspiration, Walt Whitman and his young lover Peter Doyle. The image was taken at 1869 and is preserved in the background of the "Ohio Wesleyan University. Bayley Collection ".

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Ibiza Gay Pride, in full color!

Posted on 8 June, 2016 by Gayles.tv

GAYLES.TV.- Finally, the Ibiza Gay Pride with a multitude of parties and activities that will last until next Sunday 12 of June.

This is its second edition and it starts with the force of a motto that makes it clear: "Full color". And for a week the colors of the rainbow will be present in the streets of whitewashed houses and against the blue of the Mediterranean. An extensive program of recreational, cultural and sports activities with the culmination of the march of gay pride that is convened on Sunday 12 in June at 18 hours in the port of Ibiza.

And, just as in the last edition, the nerve center of most activities and performances will be precisely the populous port of the island capital.

Parties are planned every day and for all tastes, "Libertines", "Animal Park", "La Troya" or "Main Party" They are some of the planned in different locations on the island. The performances of renowned artists are also expected Marta Sánchez, Innocence, Camilo Franco, Antonio Abella or Rebeka Brown. The complete list of performances and dj's you will find on the web http://ibizagaypride.es/.

But Ibiza Gay Pride not only brings us the best parties, you can also enjoy an exhibition of artisans that will remain open in the Artisan Center of Sa Pedrera, as well as Theater with the company "It's Devessai" that bring us the work "Proud Candidate".

In short 6 days to share and enjoy the island more Mediterranean LGTBI and if you still have doubts are sure to clear them with this video about "Ibiza, the LGBT destination of the Mediterranean".

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Transsexuality in animals

Posted on 5 June, 20165 June, 2016 by Gayles.tv

EDITORIAL GAYLES.TV.- A year ago, at this time, we published the editorial "Of animals and homosexuals" based on the splendid article of the biologist Marc Arenas Camps qualified "Homosexuality is very animal". In it, Marc tells us that in nature there are more than 1.500 animal species with habitual behaviors that could be considered homosexuals.

Marc Arenas surprises us now again with a reflection on transsexuality in the animal kingdom in the article "The change of sex is also a matter of animals". With his usual amusing and informative tone, Marc explains how certain animals, especially fish, molluscs, crustaceans, jellyfish, echinoderms and annelids, change their sex throughout their lives in what is known as sequential hermaphroditism.

You can access the text following the link of the article but we considered it opportune to reproduce Marc's article here in full.

We take this opportunity to thank Marc Arenas for giving us the first of this interesting article and recommend you do not miss the blog he runs: "All you need is biology", an LGTBI space fríendly dedicated to the dissemination of topics related to biology.

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CHANGE OF SEX IS ALSO ANIMAL THING

The change of sex is not only present in the human being (known as transsexuality), but there are some examples of animal species that change sex, that is, male or female are born and, throughout their lives, they change sex opposite. Do you want to know some of these species? Remember that you can also read an article in this blog about Homosexuality in the animal kingdom.

TRANSEXUALITY IN ANIMALS

The change of sex in animals is not very widespread, but it is present above all among fish and some mollusks,Jellyfish, crustaceans, echinoderms and worms.

However, in the case of animals, the term used is not that of transsexuality. Sex change in the animal kingdom is a particular type of hermaphroditism: sequential hermaphroditism.

Such a gender change is normally genetically programmed and influenced by the environment in which it is developed. However, at birth they already have both sexes, so that the sex determination it is not given by the genes.

There are different types of sequential hermarthiticism:

Protandria: when the organism is born male and changes to female, as is the case the clownfish (genus Amphiprion).
Protogynia: when the organism is born female and changes to male, like the labrids.
Bidirectional sex change: when the organism has complete female and male sexual organs, but acts as male or female during different stages of its life; as is the case of the fish Lythrypnus dalli.

What is clear is that this strategy is an important advantage over other species: under extreme conditions, organisms have the ability to ensure future generations with the change of sex.

THE CLOWN FISH

The clownfish is one of the best-known examples of sex change in the animal kingdom. Our friend Nemo, throughout his life is going to become a female. Clownfish are all born male, but after a certain age they change their sex. They can also change their sex if the female in the group dies, so even though Nemo's mother died, he found his mother in his father as well.

payazo fish sex change — Pair of clown fish, with the largest female with the male (Photo: Georggete Douwma,Arkive).

The form of reproduction of these colorful and well-known fish is the most curious: in each anemone, animals cnidarians with those who live in symbiosis, lives a harem, consisting of a female (larger in size than the male), a breeding male, and several non-breeding males.

Life cycle of the clownfish (Photo: The fisheries blog).

If the female dies, the reproductive male becomes a female and the larger non-reproductive male matures sexually.

JANTINIDOS

The quintinids are a group of marine snails with a very special feature: they use their drools to produce bubble rafts, which they use to float in the ocean. The most skilled can get to form one bubble per minute.

janthina janthina — Snail violet (Janthina janthina) (Photo: Roboastra).

Well, this family of gastropods is made up of individuals who can change sex. Like clown fish, organisms are born male and then change to female.

TREAT CLEANER

The cleaning thrush (Labroides dimidiatus) is a labric fish, in which the sex change is due to certain patterns of behavior.

Cleaner Thrush (Labroides dimidiatus) (Photo: Darwin Books Cats).

Normally, there is a dominant male that maintains a harem of females, but if it dies, the dominant female will assume the position of the male in a few hours, courting other females although the sex change may take about two weeks.

LAPA SNEAKER: SIZE QUESTION

There is a marine snail, the slipper lapa (Crepidula fornicata), that their change is controlled by the size of individuals. These molluscs are born as males but, from a certain size, they become females.

These are snails of the most curious: they live stacked one on top of the other, with the larger organisms at the bottom. This means that the specimen of the base is a female and the upper ones are male. Thus, when the female dies, the larger male becomes the female of the group.

It is a exotic species in Spain, which could be occupying the entire Galician coast. However, its natural range is North America.

IN THE MEDITERRANEAN IT ALSO PASSES

So far we have seen only species that live far from us, but the truth is that this behavior is also present in some species of the Mediterranean Sea. Some examples are thecaptain starGibbose asterine) or the green fish (Thalassoma turkey).

The green fish is one of the most colorful and colorful that live in the waters of the Mediterranean. In this case, at birth they are females, but depending on the sex ratio, they can become males.

thalassoma turkey green fish — Green fish (Thalassoma turkey) (Photo: Matthieu Sontag, Creative Commons).

REFLECTION

If you are one of those who think that the change of sex in the human being is something unnatural, you see that in nature there are multiple examples of animals that do just this

MARC ARENAS CAMPS

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Cañizares against the "Gay Empire"

Posted on 2 June, 20162 June, 2016 by Gayles.tv

EDITORIAL GAYLES.TV.- The tone is not serious for an editorial, but often humor can also be a weapon, this time a lightsaber, of course. And it is that the one of Cardinal Antonio Cañizares, and most illustriously the Archbishop of Valencia, or we take it to laugh or we do not win for Kleenex.

For those of you who are not informed, it is worth doing a review of some of the pearls that this luminaries of the most rancid Spanish ultra-Catholic right have dropped. In full processing of the abortion law and in an interview with TV3 had to argue that child abuse was not as bad as abortion and that supposedly was apologizing for the abuse of minors committed by the clergy. Exactly said "it is not comparable what could have happened in some schools with the millions of lives destroyed by abortion ... because the first right is the right to life." Of course, of course, if you have all the logic, it is much better to let them be born even if they are not wanted children and if possible in unstructured families, that when they grow up there will always be a priest willing to give them a hand. Anyway.

canizares — Cañizares, PRIDE PARADE road?

Your opinions on policy issues are not wasted either. In a talk with businessmen and journalists about poverty in Spain and the alarming figures of Caritas, he responded: "I do not see more people begging in the street and living under a bridge than before". Normal, is that from the windows of the episcopal palace where he lives in the body of a king you can not see the street, the real one, not the one who sweeps this element with his purple coat of reinona purona.

Then there is the issue of the refugee crisis that worries you a lot, but do not call yourself deceitful, the sick children, starving and cold or dead without more, to dry, they bring it to the pairo, what really his eminence is concerned that it is "the Trojan horse of Europe", come on, the pool of people who do not share their religion and asks about it: "Refugees, are all wheat clean?". But what a shame! Where is Christian charity? Where does this man get so much bile?

And now he has taken it with what he calls "the gay empire" and he does so by calling for disobedience to the laws that protect "the most insidious and destructive ideology in the entire history of humanity, which is the ideology of gender." words of his most illustrious. And it continues, "an ideology that tries to impose on us world powers in a more or less sneaky way, with innocuous laws that it is not necessary to obey." Oh no? Well, stop her, but now. If it lays it to egg, it calls for disobedience to the laws. Isn't that called being an anti-system? And the police are not persecuting the anti-establishment?

What happens is that Antonio is misunderstood, poor thing, if all he wants is "To protect man's ideologies from gender", because of course, the woman does not exist, well yes, she exists to touch the miter of her illustrious one who denounces that Spain "has attended a important escalation against the family by political leaders, aided by other powers such as the 'gay empire' and certain feminist ideologies ".

To see if it's going to be that Empar Moliner hit the nail with what equals to Cañizares what is mola is "a gay in empire" and has bundled with the "gay empire." If they put a microphone in front and the pot is gone.

Sources: El Mundo, Ara.cat, The Confidential

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Disney lesbian princesses? Yes thanks!

Posted on 26 May 2016 by Gayles.tv

EDITORIAL GAYLES.TV.- Our friends from Make yourself heard with its president Ignacio Arsuaga at the head they did not give us a subject and we almost missed them. From the creators of · "All against abortion", "No to linguistic plurality" or "Withdrawal of public funds against sexist violence" now comes to us "Against a Disney of gays and lesbians" and with some arguments that will give you goosebumps and for sure they will make you cry.

Because this gang of fascists, ultra catholic and unpresentable (yes, let's start euphemisms), has begun a campaign to collect signatures so that the Disney factory does not include a lesbian princess in his second installment of Frozen. And they have collected more than 20.000 signatures (how much loose and boring facha, for God's sake!). The initiative of Hazte Oír is a response to a campaign on Twitter that with the hashtag #GiveElsaAGirlFriend asks the giant of the film industry to incorporate LGTBI characters that reflect social diversity into its films. The pathetic hashtag anti lesbian princesses is #CharmingPrinceForElsa. No comment.

But we go there with the arguments of Hazte Oír that are material for a monologue of the Comedy Club. «The homosexual lobby does not seek acceptance, they already have it. It seeks to impose its ideology. Our children will not be well educated until the homosexual dose corrects the pathology of the universal family that, why it is, does not just surrender to its dictates. This is her war: harass her ”, affirms Antonio Velázquez, promoter of the initiative. But Arsuaga is not short either: «These groups intend to impose a social and cultural model in which each one chooses their gender. This strategy needs to send its messages to children so that they assume 'new models' of the family and submit to the new totalitarian gender ideology. We are facing a global offensive against the family. And the auction: "We cannot let the gender ideology lobby destroy the great factory of childhood dreams".

We'll see…. "Impose an LGTB ideology?" "Social model of gender choice?" "Subject children to totalitarian ideologies?" To be honest, Make yourself heard and its followers would do well to stop getting into the cola-cao drug and in passing a little historical shame would not hurt either, because until now we believed that the imposed model was the patriarchal, that the oppressed and excluded people were part of the LGTBI collective and that Disney's "big factory of children's dreams" has been an immense leash of ideological transmission to date. But of course, it's all a matter of perspective.

In any case we are already delaying in plantar face, we respond with a hashtag in Spanish and very clear supporting characters that are the reflection of the society in which we live. Above the bun princesses and princes gais!

Source: eldiario.es, huffingtonpost.com

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II European Rainbow Cities Congress

Posted on 22 May 2016November 6, 2016 by Gayles.tv

GAYLES.TV.- This weekend, coinciding with the celebration of International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia, the second congress has been convened in Barcelona European Rainbow Cities that has gathered in the emblematic Casa MilaPopularly known as La Pedrera to a score of European experts to discuss policies for sexual and gender diversity.

The organization has been run by the University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia with collaboration from the Barcelona City Council, the Diputación de Barcelona and the Department of Labor, Social Affairs and Families of the Generalitat de Catalunya.

The Congress is a space for meeting, debate and exchange of experiences and knowledge in the context of public and local equality policies against LGTBIphobia, especially those that unfold in non-metropolitan environments. This year's presentations have focused on two main themes: the situation of LGTBI people in rural settings and issues affecting the transgender community.

At the opening of the Congress, the rector of the University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia, Jordi Mountain, has valued the importance of combining research and knowledge transfer to advance understanding, acceptance and respect of sexual and gender diversity. Even so, he added that, "although the full social normalization of the trans perspectives is still a complex project, the bases are becoming very solid".

Laura Pérez, Councilor of the Life Cycle, Feminisms and LGTBI of the City Council of Barcelona, remarked that "cities can be spearheads and the ideal space for the deployment of committed public policies that confront the different forms of discrimination". Mireia Mata, general director of Equality of the Department of Labor, Welfare and Families of the Generalitat de Catalunya, has emphasized the Law 11 / 2014 that has been defined as "a law of all citizens: everyone is a beneficiary". The deputy delegate of Equality and Citizenship of the Diputación de Barcelona, Antoni Garcia, has described this law as a pioneer and has said that "municipalism has to play a key role in its deployment, through plans adapted to the dimensions of the different towns and cities."

Gerard Coll Planas, Coordinator of the Congress and main researcher of the Research Group «Gender Studies: Translation, Literature, History and Communication» (GETLHIC) of the UVic-UCC, talks about the invisibility of the LGTBI collective outside the big cities and the fact that " Coming out of the closet directly involves the entire family environment, something that leads many people to live in hiding, to leave or to lead a double life ”. Experiences from the Canary Islands, regions of Catalonia, the collective Agrogay of Ulloa in Galicia or the program Movisie of the Dutch Center for Social Development.

The other big block has referred to the increase in bullying that for reasons of sexual diversity and gender suffer many people, especially worrying among children and young transsexuals that, beyond the educational centers ends up translating into discrimination in work environments. Miquel Missé, coordinator of the Congress and researcher of the GETLHIC Research Group of the UVic-UCC, has affirmed that "at school, the so-called LGTBIfòbia is basically discrimination based on gender."

The conclusions reached at this second European Rainbow Cities Congress have been: firstly to appeal to all administrations to to work in a coordinated manner articulating the work done to encourage cooperation. "Currently the administration addresses the different axes of discrimination separately when in practice people are a crossroads of all of them and, therefore, the specific problems are not distinguishable or isolatable," said Gerard Coll Planas.

The speakers also warn about the lack of studies as a basis for designing equality policies. And finally, the development of public policies in rural settings is set as a priority.

The II Congress European Rainbow Cities It has had 300 people registered and waiting list for weeks.

Among the attendees there are technicians and politicians from the municipal area, researchers and activists like, Lucas Platero, Doctor of Political Science and Sociology, Surya Monro, Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Huddersfield in the United Kingdom, Juul van Hoof, director of the LGTB program at Movisie in the Netherlands, Patricia G. Ojeda, sociologist and responsible for LGTBI projects in the Public Administrations of the Canary Islands, Gabriel Reboredo, member of the Agrogay collective of A Ulloa de Galicia, Florencio Chicote of the LGTBI unit of the Berlin State Office, Cristina Garaizabal, coordinator of the Report on the model of assistance and assistance to trans people in Barcelona, Raoul Galarraga, responsible for LGTBI Policies of Amsterdam, Marta Cruells, senior adviser of the Department of Life Cycle, Feminisms and LGTBI of the Barcelona City Council, Simona Topolinjak, adviser to the Department of health and social assistance of Ljubliana, Gemma Garcia, responsible for the LGTBIQ Council of the City of Terrassa.

And the moderators Fran Sánchez, Councilor of LGTBI Policies of the City Council of Ripollet, Andreu Agustín, director of the LGTBI Plan of the Barcelona City Council and Sílvia Casola, Adviser of Equality and Citizenship of the Diputación de Barcelona.

In the framework of the Congress also a part of the work was represented Limbo, creation of The ImpluxiblesDirected by Miriam Escurriola.

In short, this is a great opportunity, which has been defined by the organizers as "a toolbox to share ideas and resources that can then be applied to each territory".

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Vintage lesbians

Posted on 19 May 201624 May 2016 by Gayles.tv

GAYLES.TV.- Looking at these images it is clear that we have not invented anything. These are women who loved other women, who kissed other women, who crossed intense and complicit looks with other women. And they were brave enough to do it before a camera more than a century ago. Probably some were captured with the system of the daguerreotype, the dark and mischievous camera and the timely click that stole a moment of intimacy for the story.

In most cases their authorship is anonymous, their rights have expired or are in the public domain. Some even have titles like "La donna delinquente" by 1915. A small compilation of delicious and in some cases surprising images that we collect here today.

- Image from "Wikipedia Commons". Two women supposedly outlawed, or at least so suggests the title of "The delinquent woman"

- Image of an anonymous author that represents two women in traditional Chinese dress, lovingly seated one on the other's lap. It comes from "Federal Archive of Germany"

- This photo of Swedish origin is titled "Outdoor Games at the Organ Festival in Falsterbo, 1922" and it comes from "Flickr Creative Common". And apparently they knew how to entertain themselves by playing ...

- A beautiful image where absolutely everything is suggestive: the posture, the look, the outfit. We love. It is dated 1900 and has been collected by Flickr Commons from the "Powerhouse Museum Collection"

- Little do we know about this couple who was surprised by the target cuddling on a hammock. It was taken in 1900 and its use is in the public domain. Comes from "Wikipedia Commons"

- A curious image of a passionate kiss between two women while the friend a little like she doesn't know where to look. Via "Flickr Creative Commons".

- And we end up with one that lacks a title but could well be called “Splendor in the grass”. A complicit hug reminiscent of "Celestial Creatures". Origin: "PhotoPin Creative Commons".

Images that provoke a pinch of nostalgia but also tend a bridge of complicity with those who could have been our grandmothers and who also felt and loved as today we love and feel. For them is our homage.

Source: pride.com

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Microhomophobia

Posted on 17 May 201617 May 2016 by Gayles.tv

International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia

GAYLES.TV.- Since 1990 each May 17 Is celebrated the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia commemorating that that year the World Health Organization eliminated homosexuality from the list of mental illnesses. It is true that since then things have changed a lot and each time we are freer and we have more laws that protect us. But from there to real equality there is an abyss.

It does not take homosexuality to defend the rights LGTB + and support is rarely received in the struggle from outside the collective. It seems that politicians in Spain are putting the batteries (now they all want to appear in the photo with the rainbow flag) but the initiatives take time to be applied and there are too many victims on the way. In Madrid we have more than 62 homophobic attacks so far as 2016 is concerned. And in theory Spain is an advanced country in terms of rights and freedoms of the community.

According to report annual report of the International Association of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transsexual and Intersex (ILGA) the number of countries that are betting on anti-gaz laws is growing. Norms that restrict freedom of expression and information related to sexual minorities as occurs in Russia, Algeria, Nigeria o Lithuania. Or as the controversial laws of North Carolina o Mississippi in which access to public toilets is difficult for transsexuals or services can be denied to gay couples, if religious reasons are mentioned. The study is alarming since the 45% of world population is against equal marriage and highlights that many citizens believe that homosexuality is a phenomenon of developed countries.

And maybe yes, maybe the imbalance is enormous between countries and cultures so diverse. But the serious thing is also the microhomophobia. What kills us is also the day to day, what we have internalized as normal. The serious thing is that your son is asked what girl he likes and they do not leave him other options. The serious thing is the bad jokes about ladybugs. The serious thing is to believe yourself liberal because you have a gay cousin without having counted how many heterosexual cousins you have. The serious thing is having to fill in the box in which it says "father" at school because no one has bothered to think that there are other types of families. The serious thing is that they believe that bisexuality is a phase. The serious thing is the ordeal that trans minors have to go through until they are understood. The serious thing is not realizing that society makes it a minority group.

Source: Purple Pig, RCNRadio, White Focus, Wikipedia, El País

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"Queen Cristina, the woman who was king"

Posted on 13 May 2016 by Gayles.tv

GAYLES.TV.- This weekend comes to the screens of Spanish cinemas the expected tape "Queen Cristina, the woman who was king" of the Finnish filmmaker Mika Kaurismaki a co-production of Finland, Sweden, Germany and Canada shot only in 35 days and whose protagonist is the enigmatic, passionate and mystified Swedish monarch. Rejected by her mother and worshiped by a father who, by dying in war without other heirs, has Cristina crowned to the 6 years of age.

Educated as a prince in a dark Lutheran court, Cristina grows up surrounded by men convinced that her only option is to marry to offer an heir to the throne. But Cristina systematically refused to marry as she struggled to resist the uncontrollable passion she felt for her cousin and lady-in-waiting. Ebba Sparre with whom he apparently maintained a torrid relationship. Obviously, there are no documents that prove the true scope of that bond and history has not bequeathed us a conclusion as to whether it was a transgressor romance in full order or remained on the platter of platonic love.

Be that as it may, Kaurismaki's film, a story of passion and power, deepens this relationship while claiming the figure of the queen who put an end to the Thirty Years' War that faced Catholics and Protestants although the Swedish people remember her more as a traitor who renounced Protestantism professing the Catholic faith. But the truth is that Cristina was advanced in her time, cultured, passionate about the arts and sciences, a free thinker who advanced many of the ideals of feminism, someone who in the seventeenth century had the philosopher as a personal friend and intellectual reference Descartes.

The comparison with another great 1933 movie that explored the figure of Cristina from Sweden is inevitable, especially for the group of lesbians who have in the image of Greta Garbo, that incarnated to the monarch, an iconic figure in spite of the censorship of the time prevented that it deepened in its condition of homosexual.

The role of what went down in history as "the virgin queen" is interpreted by the Swedish Malin Buska while the Canadian Sarah Gadon gives life to Countess Ebba Sparre. It is clear that Kaurismaki, current reference of auteur cinema in Europe, presents with this film a thesis against the unique thought and a lively defense of sexual freedom, culture and the feminine vision of history. Perhaps, to put some but, we could say that avoids portraying the excesses, arbitrariness and abuse that also characterized the Swedish monarch who emptied the public coffers to satisfy their many and extravagant desires.

So you know, happy cinema and happy weekend!

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Source: The imaginary spectator, 20 minutes, butxaca.com

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