Queer Identities

Same-sex marriage and the third gender are legally recognized in Germany. But what are the consequences for the families concerned? An interview with professor of family law Nina Dethloff.

What does being a man mean these days? We have asked a few people in Germany what masculinity means to them.

The Argentinean writer Camila Sosa Villada defends the term “travesti” in contrast to the category “trans woman,” says she considers “identity a prison” and states categorically that: “People love our suffering.”

The fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising is a reason to celebrate, but also to continue fighting for queer rights. The exhibition Queer as German Folk will be on view at the Goethe-Institut New York until 3 August. It’s a space to experience the past and present of the queer movement.

At the beginning of 2019, population registers in Germany were amended to include a third gender category. The option box is headed ‘divers’, which translates as ‘miscellaneous’ or ‘other’, and it was introduced for a dual purpose: to remove the burden from parents faced with deciding an intersex child’s future and to show that being different can also be normal.

India’s Supreme Court struck down Paragraph 377, which had its origins in the British colonial period and criminalized “sexual intercourse against the nature’s order,” in a groundbreaking verdict. Four commentaries.

India’s Supreme Court legalizes homosexual behavior after over a hundred years. It’s a groundbreaking ruling.

The Bangalore Queer Film Festival (BQFF), perhaps the largest film festival to deal with LGBT themes in the south, is a yearly fixture in Bangalore’s cultural calendar. Run entirely by volunteers the festival is committed to the circulation of good queer cinema.

India’s LGBTI community is fighting over the right way to achieve better justice. Questions about homosexuality and transsexuality are a complex amalgam in India, made up of law, culture, tradition, religion and living environment.

The women’s movement, homosexuals and people who do not wish to commit to a traditional gender order have often supported one another. In concrete politics, however, the alliance also raises problems. Historian Miriam Gebhardt’s assessment.

In May 2015 the Irish came out in a referendum in favour of homosexual marriage. In Germany too the issue is being discussed in depth.

Manak writes about facing phobias, reclaiming and his first date.

‘Straight’ is slang for heterosexual. Yet this is just what a new magazine for ‘women who love women’ is called. In an interview, Felicia Mutterer, Editor-in-Chief of Straight, explains what makes the magazine stand out from the rest of the press reporting on the lesbian scene.

Belgrade, like many cities, struggles with the segregation of prejudiced ethnic groups, resulting in the “ghettoization” of the city. But how can the integration of the school with the neighbourhood promote a solution?

Why the queer populace of Kolkata needs to reclaim its public spaces.

I am a hopeless romantic. I believe in forevers. I believe in happy endings. Inevitably I suffer from terrible heartaches, breakups and series of bad relationships.

Homosexuality appears to be an almost conflict-free matter in the social order of the Federal Republic of Germany.  Yet sexuality itself remains a taboo.

Streets decked out in the colours of the rainbow and teeming with flamboyantly dressed revellers – that’s what most people associate with Christopher Street Day in Germany. The parade used to be far more than just a gaudy party, however.

What moves people who don’t feel like a man or a woman? jádu writer, Janna Degener, spoke to two trans people and learned how hard it is to access the subject of transgender in spite of all outspokenness.

Conservative and homosexual: How do they go together? For members of the working group, Lesben und Schwule in der Union (LSU), this combination isn’t a contradiction.