Art Pride 2

"UNA MIRADA EUROPEA AL MANGA GAY"
30.07.2009 > 20.08.2009

Con la colaboración de CIRCUIT FESTIVAL, el mayor evento Gay y Lésbico de Europa, la GALERÍA ARTEVISTAS BARCELONA presenta ART PRIDE 2, la segunda edición de su gran exposición de arte Gay y Lesbian.

Este año, una selección de artistas europeos ofrecerá su particular visión del cómic japonés de temática homosexual: el YAOI y el YURI MANGA


La inauguración tendrá lugar el 4 de agosto a las 20h en nuestra galería.

La ruta cultural empezará este mismo día a partir de las 19h en el ESPACE AMPLE (C/Ample 5) con la presentación de la exposición VANITY.

El 6 de agosto a las 17H, YURI PROJECT (las creadoras del primer fanzine de YURI MANGA en España) organizarán una charla en nuestra galería sobre el YURI, el comic japonés de temática lésbica y bisexual.

Art Pride 2

Vatican heaps praise on Oscar Wilde.. who it once condemned as immoral

The Vatican has praised the work of bisexual playwright Oscar Wilde, despite previously regarding him as an immoral degenerate.

The newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, which is seen as the official mouthpiece of Pope Benedict XVI, described him as "always looking for the beautiful and the good, but also for a God".

Wilde, who served two years' hard labour for "gross indecency", converted to Catholicism on his deathbed.

He was married with two children but was arrested in 1895 for his relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas and subsequently jailed in Reading, where he wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol.

The review added: "Wilde was a fortunate man, as more than 100 years after his death his works had not been forgotten and continue to fly off the shelves."

The turn-around has been met with surprise from Italian newspapers and commentators.

In December last year, Pope Benedict XVI said the existence of gay people threatens humanity as much as the destruction of the rainforests does, and that "blurring" genders through acceptance of transgender people would kill off the human race.

He also said man must be protected "from the destruction of himself" and urged respect for the "nature of the human being as man and woman."

"The tropical forests do deserve our protection. But man, as a creature, does not deserve any less," he said.

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'Gay man' disinterred in Senegal

The body of a man believed to be homosexual has twice been dug up from a Muslim cemetery in Senegal.

The man, in his 30s, was first buried on Saturday before residents of the western town of Thies dug up his body and left it near his grave, police say.

His family then reburied him, but he was once more exhumed by people who did not want him buried there. His body was dumped outside the family house.

Senegal outlaws homosexual acts but there is a tradition of effeminate men.

A police officer told the AFP news agency that the body was eventually buried away from the cemetery.

The state-owned Le Soleil newspaper reports that it was buried within the grounds of the family home.

"Goor-jiggen" (men-women) dress up as women, socialise with females and have long been tolerated in Senegal, a majority Muslim country. However, attitudes seem to be changing.

The AFP news agency reports that local imams, as well as some newspapers and radio stations, have denounced homosexuals after an appeals court last month overturned the conviction of nine people for homosexual acts.

They had been sentenced to eight years in jail after being found guilty of "indecent conduct and unnatural acts".

The men, who were part of an HIV/Aids group, were arrested in December at a flat in a suburb of the capital, Dakar.

In February 2008, the editor of a magazine in Senegal received death threats after publishing pictures claiming to depict a wedding ceremony between two men.

'Gay man' disinterred in Senegal