It seems like it's more like a fetish or hobby that you enjoy. It doesn't seem to affect your personal life (with family and friends), sexually (you still like woman) or socially, so I think is fine. Unless you are spending way too much time on it, then it's unhealthy.

For now, during MCO we have more time, so I suppose you wanting to dress up more is not unusual too.

Well, if you read back a few replies I did mention it started since I was young.. xD So yeah.. As I said, I was caught a few times, like I think 3 or 4 times. Hobby? Maybe. Only during MCO. Most days only like twice a week. Depending. lol. Is that considered frequent?

Will people ever stop bring religion into this?

Ugh I know. But for her case I think it's purely for political purpose.

10 of the best lesbian films of all time

While male same-sex romances have been slowly making their way to the mainstream (Call Me By Your Name, Love, Simon, Moonlight), lesbian love stories are still massively underrepresented in cinema.

But if you look hard enough, you’ll find that there are some stunning depictions of queer female relationships and stories hidden away, in films such as the critically-acclaimed Blue is the Warmest Colour, the Oscar-nominated Carol and the groundbreaking Kenyan drama Rafiki.

Check out our ten favourites below…

Blue is the Warmest Colour (2013)



Cast: Léa Seydoux, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Salim Kechiouche, Aurélien Recoing, Catherine Salée, Benjamin Siksou

After meeting in a gay bar, French teenager Adèle (Exarchopoulos) falls in love with a blue-haired art student called Emma (Seydoux). The critically-acclaimed drama follows their relationship from Adèle’s high school years until her adult life as a school teacher. It received nominations at the Golden Globe Awards and the BAFTAs, and was declared one of the best films of 2013.

But I’m a Cheerleader (1999)



Cast: Natasha Lyonne, Clea DuVall, RuPaul, Melanie Lynskey, Eddie Cibrian, Katrina Phillips, Michelle Williams

Orange is the New Black star Natasha Lyonne stars as Megan Bloomfield, a popular high school cheerleader who is shipped off to conversion therapy camp after her parents discover her her lesbianism. The satirical comedy received negative reviews at the time of its release, because of its stereotypical portrayal of gay men and women, but has since developed a cult following in the queer community.

Carol (2015)



Cast: Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson, Jake Lacy, Kyle Chandler, John Magaro, Cory Michael Smith

Set in the 1950s, Carol stars Cate Blanchett as an older woman navigating a difficult divorce who embarks on a forbidden affair with an aspiring female photographer (Mara). Blanchett won universal acclaim for her performance, ultimately earning nominations at the Academy Awards, Golden Globes, BAFTAs, Critics Choice Movie Awards and Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Read the rest of the list here: https://www.gaytimes.co.uk/culture/120164/1...ms-of-all-time/

Even stranger thing lbgt now

Is like masturbation lo. We do it since young. Also maybe get caught. Again, I believe that as long as we are not too obsessed about it and it doesn't affect our daily lives, it's fine.

Masturbate 2 or 3 times - too frequent? Everyday is too frequent? No right or wrong, depends on individual. Key point is not to let it affect our lives too much.

Oh. Okay then. Hehe.

Netflix Doc Reveals the Queer Romance Behind A League of Their Own
Source: https://www.advocate.com/film/2020/4/22/net...eague-their-own


Terry Donahue was one of the players in the women's baseball league that inspired the hit film A League of Their Own. However, the most captivating part of her story would not be shown on the screen — until now.

A Secret Love — an upcoming Netflix documentary directed by Chris Bolan and produced by Ryan Murphy, Alexa L. Fogel, and Brendan Mason — depicts the decades-long relationship between Donahue and Pat Henschel.

The two women spent the majority of their 65 years together in the closet. The film shows the pair when they met, navigating their professional lives in Chicago, coming out to their conservative families, and debating whether or not to wed.

"Facing the hardships of aging and illness, their love proves resilient as they enter the home stretch," the documentary's description states.

A Secret Love, executive produced by Blumhouse with Now This, premieres on Netflix April 29.

The Limits of Compassion: Refugees in the Time of Corona



ACROSS THE GLOBE, the Covid-19 pandemic is exposing inequalities that have been allowed to fester for centuries within national borders. Black and brown people in the United States are more likely to be seriously ill from this virus; India’s lockdown has stranded millions of day labourers far from home, without the means to feed themselves or their families; East Asians face scapegoating and racist attacks in the West; Africans face the same in China. Most of us are quick to deplore these failings of nation states and communities: we feel that nations should be able to do better by all their citizens than the US and India have done, and we recognise hate crimes against minorities.

Yet when our compassion collides with the borders of the nation state, those borders win. On April 16th, the Bangladeshi coast guard intercepted a boat carrying Rohingya refugees. There were 396 starving humans on this boat; at least 32 people are reported to have died on it, from lack of fresh water, food, and medicines. Afloat at least 2 months, they were turned away two times from landing in Malaysia before they were eventually rescued in Bangladesh. The very next day, the Royal Malaysian Navy—following a tip off from a Royal Malaysian Air Force surveillance aircraft —stopped another boat load of 200 refugees from entering Malaysian waters. The passengers were given food before the boat was made to turn around. Its fate remains unknown.

Our media praised the “prompt action” of our air force and navy on April 16th as a “success”: if we allow “foreigners” in, we’re told, they “might bring Covid-19 into the country.” We’re asked to believe, in other words, that containing this pandemic is a mission that must supersede whatever convictions we may once have had about human rights, global inequality, and social justice, if those convictions are incompatible with national borders and visa requirements.

Read more@https://www.queerlapis.com/the-limits-of-co...time-of-corona/

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Xenophobes: They demand too much, bagi betis nak peha, we should just let them die!!
Homophobes: They demand too much, bagi betis nak peha, we should just let them die!!

Being a prosecuted community ourselves, LGBT people should be sympathetic towards Rohingya.

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1 in 5 Russians Advocate ‘Eliminating’ LGBT Community – Poll
Source: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/04/20/1...ity-poll-a70047

Almost one in five Russians believe that LGBT people should be “eliminated,” according to the results of a new independent Levada Center poll.

The figures showed 18% of respondents giving the response, marking a slight softening in attitudes toward members of the LGBT community since 2015, when 21% advocated their “elimination.” Similarly, 32% said this year that gays and lesbians should be “isolated from society,” down from 37% five years ago.

“The stigmatization of socially vulnerable people has decreased over the past 30 years, and norms that require helping and not isolating from them have expanded,” Levada sociologist Karina Pipiya told the Kommersant newspaper Sunday.

Positive attitudes have also improved over the past five years, with 9% of the respondents favoring helping the LGBT community, up from 6%, and 32% saying they should be “left alone,” up from 24%.

Levada’s results showed similar improved attitudes toward sex workers, HIV-positive people and the homeless.

“Besides state support measures, the development of the non-profit sector and the emergence of organizations working to improve the image of vulnerable groups in the eyes of society play an important role,” Pipiya was quoted as telling Kommersant.

Among other groups presented in Levada’s “Social Distancing” poll, terrorists elicited the least amount of tolerance, with 80% of the respondents advocating for their “elimination” in 2020. They were followed by pedophiles at 75%, murderers at 61% and extremists at 44%.

“The rigid approach toward the need to destroy those who can do harm and even those who don’t contribute to society doesn’t mean that people are ready to take up arms,” Kommersant quoted political analyst Alexei Makarkin as saying.

“There’s now a new generation that has fewer [Soviet-era] frustrations. Roughly speaking, these are people who did not stand in queues,” Makarkin was quoted as saying.

Levada conducted the survey among 1,614 respondents in 50 Russian regions between Feb. 20 and Feb. 26.

any comment? A vengeful Mak Nyah exposed the pictures of all gay men in Grinder and put them all in trouble, although they may not have anything to do with her account being banned.

Gay men abused in Morroco after photo spread online

“In all honesty, I did not want to out them, but they started this war. The Moroccan gay community shared my profile on many Facebook groups and were encouraging people to report me so that my account gets deactivated,” she said.

“They wanted to get me killed, sharing my account with religious radical groups....,” she added.

Mak Nyah goes on rampage and revenge to destroy her own kind



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She should learn not to take trolls seriously especially for someone of her stature. But she did what she did and there's no point apologizing now since many gay men in Morocco has already been forcibly outed, thrown out of their homes, fired from their jobs, etc. I hope what various LGBT NGOs are working on to get her banned on all social media sites will be accomplished.

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What is the difference between sex and gender? Here’s why you can’t assume a person’s gender identity
Source: https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/28/sex-g...ing-definition/



What is the difference between sex and gender identity, exactly? Whether you want to brush up on your knowledge or you’re questioning your gender identity yourself, you’ll find the answers here.

Sex and gender have historically been used interchangeably, but that doesn’t mean that they’re the same thing.

“We don’t know how to measure gender,” Marcia Stefanick, director of the Stanford Women and Sex Differences in Medicine Center, wrote in Stanford Medicine.

“Sex is generally assigned at birth…. after which a broad range of biological, particularly reproductive, sex differences are assumed. Individuals are then, usually, forced into a binary model of gender — with distinct masculine and feminine categories — when the possibilities are much broader and more expansive.”

As cisgender society begins discussing trans issues more openly, the distinction between sex and gender is an important one for many to understand.

So, what is sex?

When a person is born, they are given a sex based on their external genitalia. People with penises are assigned male at birth, while people with vaginas are assigned female.

Some also refer to chromosomes as markers of sex. Typically (but not always), people are born with either XX or XY chromosomes which determine their physical anatomy, and are assigned a sex based on these characteristics.

Essentially, the methods used to assign sex are based on a person’s body, however assigned sex doesn’t always accurately determine gender identity.

What is gender?

Gender is seen as a more personal, internal perception of oneself, that cannot be limited to biological characteristics. There are plenty of women who have penises, men who have vaginas, and non-binary people with either genitalia. A person’s body and genitals are their own business.

In most parts of society assigned sex is used to assume a person’s gender. Sometimes this is incorrect, and some people grow up feeling a disconnect between their assigned sex and their true gender.

This is called gender dysphoria, and it is what is experienced by transgender people including non-binary people, whose innate gender is different to the sex they were assigned at birth. People whose assigned sex matches their true gender are called cisgender.

Gender incongruence can often be helped by medically transitioning, which is a path many trans people choose to go down in order to ease their gender dysphoria. However not all trans people choose this route, and gender dysphoria manifests differently in different people.

Some people socially transition by changing their name or presenting in a different way, which can also help minimise dysphoria-induced stress, but again, it is worth stressing that there is no one way to be trans.

So, what does intersex mean?

Sometimes, people are born with reproductive or sexual characteristics that don’t fully align with either male or female sex markers. These people are intersex.

Doctors often assign a sex to a baby based on its outer appearance, so accordingly intersex people often start life with a binary gender label.

For example, some might be assigned female at birth but have a typically ‘male’ anatomy and chromosome structure that isn’t visible from the outside of their bodies, or vice versa.

Labelling such as this can sometimes result in intersex people rejecting their assigned gender in favour of an identity that more closely matches up to their chromosomes and/or represents their true self better, but this isn’t the case for all intersex people.

There are no rules for how intersex people can label themselves or choose to present, and not all intersex people are transgender, despite that being a common misconception.

It has been thought that the amount of intersex people in the world is comparable to the number of people born with red hair.

Love love producers like Ryan Murphy who are very professional in bringing out LGBT community in TV series without whoring and shoving their issues down to everyone's throat like other hypocrite SJW. He makes homosexual relationship as something to be respected and equal just like straight couples.

I agree, he's amazing. Hopefully he won't stop producing these great LGBT contents anytime soon.

Why “Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin” Doesn't Work
Source: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wit...sin-doesnt-work

Religion can be an important source of unity. Many of our most important social bonds are with our religious communities. Religious teachings around the world emphasize love and understanding as cornerstone values of their faith. At the same time, religion can also divide us, and promote hatred and intolerance of those seen as outsiders or condemned by their religion (Burch-Brown & Baker, 2016).

One of the most striking examples of the negative side of religion is in how many religious communities view sexual minorities (e.g., lesbian women, gay men, bisexual men and women). Along with other researchers (e.g., Whitley, 2009), we found that those who more frequently attend religious services tend to have more negative attitudes toward sexual minorities and are less likely to support gay rights laws (Hoffarth, Hodson, & Molnar, 2018).

As the gay rights movement has shifted people’s attitudes toward sexual minorities, this divide has actually grown. From 1973 to 2012, tolerance of homosexuality increased much slower among those who frequently attend religious services (Twenge, Sherman, & Wells, 2016). We followed up on these findings by analyzing how strongly religious attendance is associated with negative attitudes toward sexual minorities in different countries. We compared countries where there is high recognition of gay rights (e.g., bans on discrimination and recognition of same sex marriages) to countries where there has been little to no progress on gay rights (e.g., homosexuality is still illegal). In many of our analyses, we found that religious attendance is more strongly associated with negative attitudes toward sexual minorities in countries with high gay rights recognition (Hoffarth, Hodson, & Molnar, 2018).

What psychological explanation might make sense of these findings? In earlier research (Hoffarth & Hodson, 2014; see this earlier Psychology Today post), we found that holding “conflicted” attitudes toward sexual minorities was associated with more negative attitudes toward sexual minorities. We believed that people who frequently attend religious services may be conflicted between motivations to be loving and tolerant (especially in countries where gay rights have progressed quickly) while also feeling pressure to oppose homosexuality as sinful. The common religious phrase “love the sinner, hate the sin” reflects this internal conflict. But does this conflicted attitude promote love, or does it promote hate?

In Hoffarth et al. (2018) we found that those who more frequently attended religious services more strongly endorsed the idea of “love the sinner, hate the sin”, and those who endorsed the idea of “love the sinner hate the sin” had more negative attitudes toward sexual minorities and were more opposed to gay rights. That is, whether or not someone endorses “love the sinner, hate the sin” beliefs help explain why those who more frequently attend religious services generally have more negative attitudes toward sexual minorities.

Importantly, we also found that there was variability in whether religious attendance was related to negative attitudes toward sexual minorities. For people who heard the phrase “I love the sinner, but hate the sin” frequently, religious attendance was strongly linked to negative attitudes toward sexual minorities; for those who rarely or never heard the phrase, there was almost no relation between religious attendance and negative attitudes toward sexual minorities. This further support the idea that “loving the sinner, hating the sin” promotes hate, not love.

What lessons can we learn from this research? Although most of us want to be tolerant and promote fairness, at the same time we want to hold on to our beliefs and what feels most comfortable to us. As a result, it is psychologically easier to justify our prejudices and the inequalities in society rather than to face those problems head on (see Crandall & Eshleman, 2003; Jost & Banaji, 1994; Jost et al., 2014). What seems to be going on here is that saying one “loves the sinner but hates the sin” enables some people to maintain their negative attitudes without feeling like a prejudiced person. But overcoming prejudice cannot come about simply by using nicer language to cover up the prejudice. Rather than “love the sinner, hate the sin”, maybe we should go back to “love” and start from there.

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P/S: Video was filmed prior to Covid-19 pandemic.

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