Sports and Culture

Singapore: Bans, censors, jail: perfect storm for gay arts in Singapore?

“From theatre to performance and visual art exhibitions, LGBT+ artists in Singapore have slowly carved out space and pushed the comfort zone for dialogue around gay counterculture,” said Tristan Cai, a Singaporean, who teaches art and Asian studies at St. Mary’s College of Maryland in the United States.

Hungary: Coca-Cola Fined for Ads With Same-Sex Couples ‘Undermining Adolescents’ Moral Development’

The Consumer Protection Department of Pest County has fined Coca-Cola for its short-term poster campaign launched in early August, featuring same-sex couples, promoting acceptance.

US: Lou Sullivan’s Diaries Are a Radical Testament to Trans Happiness

“I wanna look like what I am but don’t know what someone like me looks like,” Lou Sullivan wrote in his diary, in the mid-sixties, when he was living as a teen-age girl in suburban Milwaukee.