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Transvestites protest fatal raid The Jakarta Post, Saturday, 08 December 2007 Jakarta - Dozens of transvestites and activists staged a peaceful protest at City Hall on Wednesday, demanding the city administration investigate the death of a transvestite following a raid by public order officers. Making a Difference The Jakarta Post, Wednesday, 21 November 2007 Scores of transvestites mark November 20's International Transgender Day, with a rally on Tuesday at the Hotel Indonesia street circle, Jakarta. Indonesia’s transgendered community is raising its profile Inside Indonesia 90: Oct-Dec 2007 Before she even opens her mouth, the petite, jilbab-wearing and refined looking Shuniyya Ruhama Habiiballah has already gone a long way towards achieving one of her driving missions in life: to challenge the dominant stereotype of Indonesia’s large transgendered community, who describe themselves as waria, a term for transgendered people derived from the words wanita (woman) and pria (man). Queer as folk: Cinematic life of John Badalu The Jakarta Post, Features News - Saturday, September 01, 2007 When Q! Film Festival director John Badalu finally decided to come out to his parents, it's fitting that he was inspired to do so by a film. It was 1996 and John -- 25 at the time -- was on holiday in Singapore with his parents. While out shopping with his mother, he simply blurted it out. To build a Q-munity: Joko and Rizal on Q! founder The Jakarta Post, Features News - Saturday, September 01, 2007 Many words are used by John Badalu's film-industry peers to describe him: leader, motivator, father figure. Filmmaker and writer Joko Anwar, on the other hand, thinks of John a bit differently. Love, innocence, lush scenery blossom in 'Eternal Summer' The Jakarta Post, Features News - Saturday, September 01, 2007 A particularly intriguing thought immediately comes to mind upon seeing the promotional kit for Eternal Summer, a Taiwanese film currently showing at local cinemas. As a means to lure as many viewers as possible, the film's local distributor has put the words "Asian version of Brokeback Mountain" on its promotional flyers. Indonesia: Film fest tells taboo stories GayNZ, Monday, August 27, 2007 The opening of Indonesia's week-long gay film festival drew a flamboyant crowd in the capital Jakarta on Friday, with members of the audience dressed in colourful wigs, fish-net stockings and cupid wings. Indonesia film festival takes gay issues out of closet Reuters, Sun Aug 26, 2007 Jakarta (Reuters) - Indonesia's gay film festival faced violent opposition in its early years. Members of a hardline Islamic group tried to storm theatres to stop screenings, but as the festival enters its sixth year, organizer John Badalu has no such fears. HIV/AIDS prevention tough in a secret gay city The Jakarta Post, April 27, 2007 The grungy movie theater in Senen, East Jakarta, was full on the weekend, dark and hot from the lack of air-conditioning. Some of the audience wandered between the seats as a Japanese teen movie played on the big screen. Those still seated seemed not to mind. Aufbruchstimmung in Indonesien lässt Lesben und
Schwule hoffen How Might Homosexuality Develop? Putting the Pieces Together by Jeffrey Satinover,M.D. It may be difficult to grasp how genes, environment, and other influences interrelate to one another, how a certain factor may "influence" an outcome but not cause it, and how faith enters in. The scenario below is condensed and hypothetical, but is drawn from the lives of actual people, illustrating how many different factors influence behavior. |
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