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23 ANOS DEPOIS, A COMUNIDADE LGBT ELEGE COMO SLOGAN A CONSCIENTIZAÇÃO CRÍTICA E O PODER DE SEU VOTO. NESTE DOMINGO, MILHARES DE PESSOAS SE REUNIRAM NA ORLA DE COPACABANA A FIM DE GRITAREM AOS QUATRO CANTOS QUE SEU VOTO TEM VALOR, E MUITO MAIS, ESSE VOTO TEM PODER DE ESCOLHER REALMENTE AQUELES CANDIDATOS QUE NÃO CONTRIBUEM PARA PERDAS DOS NOSSOS DIREITOS CIVIS. RESISTIR É PRECISO!
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Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933–1945 is a traveling exhibition produced by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Through reproductions of historic photographs and documents, this exhibition explores the rationale, means, and impact of the Nazi regime’s persecution of homosexuals, which left thousands dead and shattered the lives of many more.
Thousands of homosexuals, primarily gay men, perished at the hands of the Nazis along with millions of Jews and other victims including Roma (Gypsies), Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and the disabled during World War II and the Holocaust.
“The exhibition explores why homosexual behavior was identified as a danger to Nazi society and how the Nazi regime attempted to eliminate it,” says exhibition curator Edward Phillips. “The Nazis believed it was possible to ‘cure’ homosexual behavior through labor and ‘re-education.’ Their efforts to eradicate homosexuality left gay men subject to imprisonment, castration, institutionalization, and deportation to concentration camps.”
In 1933, the year Adolf Hitler assumed power, an estimated one million homosexual men lived in Germany. Nazi policy asserted that homosexual men carried a “degeneracy” that threatened the “disciplined masculinity” of Germany. As homosexuals were believed to form self-serving groups, the emergence of a state-within-the state that could disrupt social harmony was also feared. Additionally, the Nazis charged that homosexuals’ failure to father children was a factor in Germany’s declining birth rate, thus robbing the nation of future sons and daughters who could fight for and work toward a greater Reich.
Between 1933 and 1945, an estimated 100,000 men were arrested for violating Nazi Germany’s law against homosexuality, and of these, approximately 50,000 were sentenced to prison. An estimated 5,000 to 15,000 men were sent to concentration camps on similar charges, where an unknown number of them perished.
Today marks the 15th annual Celebrate Bisexuality Day. The day is also known as Bi Visibility Day or Bi Pride Day. To celebrate the last 15 years, GLAAD, BiNet USA and other bisexual organizations are launching Bisexual Awareness Week (#biweek www.bisexualweek.com). Some people may be wondering – why do bisexuals need a special day, let alone an entire week, to celebrate pride in their identity? Isn’t LGBT Pride Month enough? The truth is, bisexuals are often misunderstood and rejected not only by straight communities, but also all too often by our gay and lesbian allies. These misunderstandings stem from misconceptions that bisexuality is “just a phase,” or that because bisexuals are supposedly “half straight,” (actually, no, I’m 100% bisexual, thanks), they do not face as much stigma as gay or lesbian people for their sexual orientations.
Bisexual people experience a lack of understanding and a rejection of bisexuality known as biphobia – and it has costs, not only on the individual level, but also in the workplace. As someone who has lived and worked in locations with varied laws recognizing LGBT equality in the workplace, my own life experiences have taught me the importance of the ability to be out at work. I found it was incredibly stressful working in a state without workplace equality and with no anti-discrimination protections for LGBT people. The lack of out LGBT workplace role models made coming out at work unknown territory. Would I be fired? Harassed? Would people rally to my support or defense? Everything was an unknown. Every time my boss asked to meet with me and every time my co-workers paused their conversations as I walked by, I would wonder – “Did they find out? Will I be fired?” This inability to bring “my whole self” to work distracted from my ability to dedicate 100% of my mental abilities to my job – an outcome that surely lowered my maximum potential productivity.
As a bisexual who has dedicated countless hours to LGBT organizations, causes, and movements, I have also experienced ridicule and rejection from gay and lesbian people who do not believe that bisexuality is a valid sexual orientation. I feared that my gay and lesbian colleagues might not support my coming out as bisexual – and that this rejection, even from supposedly peer LGBT community members – could encourage further ridicule from straight colleagues.
Even in states where LGBT employment protections for sexual orientation and gender identity exist, there are still misunderstandings and harassment based on bisexual identity. Biphobic comments in the workplace made by straight or gay and lesbian colleagues can create a hostile work environment that decreases workplace productivity. When people say, “your bisexuality is none of my business… why are you making it my business (by coming out at work?),” nothing could be further from the truth. Not feeling comfortable being out at work – whether as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender – decreases workplace productivity, hurting the bottom line. Creating a welcoming work environment for bisexuals – and all LGBT people – is literally everyone’s business.
So – how can recognizing events like Bisexual Awareness Week and Bi Visibility Day help? When an employer hosts a well-advertised, well-organized Bi Visibility Day event, they send a message it is okay to come out as a bisexual at work. Some employees will receive this message and choose to come out, creating the beginning of a Celebrating Bi Visibility Day. This will help bisexual employees to feel comfortable and accepted at work.
Seventeen years ago, around the world, many of us were dealing with the immense trauma that was September 11th, 2001. The attacks of that day have remained a somber beat on the hearts of American every day since. In the wake of that horrific tragedy, we felt and saw the country united in a way never before seen for many of us.
Though it happened many years ago, the effects of 9/11 have stayed with us. As time has passed there are some harsh realizations about the truth of what 9/11 did to this country. Its tragedy sparked a wave of unification across all fifty states. Americans postured about pride in our country and united in what ended up being a Christian nationalist movement. So many us were busy riding the wave of what we can now call “America first” sentiments we didn’t see the others who suffered and drowned along the way. Through a retrospective lens, it becomes clear that “our country” wasn’t really meant to include queer and other marginalized groups.
In the post 9/11 world, the reporting and stories that got told reflected the values of a white Christian nation determined to stand up for their place and power amongst global turmoil. The problem with that is that most Americans are not white Christians and that in these moments of unity, queer people often find themselves ostracized. With the rage over the attacks already in place, queer people have been erased, maligned and blamed for the horrors of that day still.
Jerry Falwell, a popular Christian conservative, went on the 700 Club with Pat Robertson and suggested that gay people were part of the reason it happened. “[T]he pagans and the abortionists and the feminists and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way,” Falwell said, “all of them who have tried to secularize America, I point the finger in their face and say ‘You helped this happen.'”
Though Falwell later apologized for those sentiments, they didn’t stop others from continuing that hatred. As more gay rights have come to fruition and we’ve moved the needle forward for trans rights and activism, Christian conservatives find ways to continually blame queer liberation for tragedies of the past. Like Anne Graham Lotz, daughter of evangelical pastor Billy Graham, who suggested that “transgender silliness” is why God allowed 9/11 to happen in response to the bathroom bills that have become a nationwide issue after the enactment of HB2 in North Carolina.
Placing blame on queerness for the troubles of the world was absolutely nothing new, but as the country united to combat terrorism, it didn’t stop the continued marginalization of queer people — including those who suffered directly from the attacks. Nancy Walsh, whose partner of 13 years, Carol Flyzik, died in the attacks on 9/11, had to fight in court to be awarded from the September 11th Victims Compensation Fund. The fund was a part of legislation signed into law by President Bush to award victims and their families compensation for their loss in order to prevent lawsuits against the airline industry. However, there were questions as to whether the fund would recognize the partnerships of queer couples considering that at the time the Defense Of Marriage Act only recognized heterosexual marriages on the federal level.
In the wake of this tragedy, just three years after the attacks, President George W. Bush supported a constitutional amendment that would define marriage as between one man and one woman. The bill was co-sponsored by Jon Kyl, a conservative senator from Arizona at the time, who is expected to fill John McCain’s now vacant seat by special appointment. The amendment never passed, but its formulation is a sobering reminder that efforts to protect America, freedom and its values so often include denying equal opportunities to LGBTQ people.
As many as 22 openly LGB people are reported to have died in the attacks on that day. Their stories and legacies remain a very small part of the narrative, both in queer culture and beyond. The first official victim of the attacks was Mychal Judge, a Catholic priest and the chaplain of NYC Fire Department who died while giving last rites to an injured firefighter when the North tower collapsed. He was named victim 001 of the 9/11 attacks. Judge was a celibate gay man. A little-known documentary, Saint of 9/11, was made about his life and narrated by Sir Ian McKellen.
Queer people have a history of being blamed for tragedies beyond our control or having our voices erased from the story. To many, queer people are part of the problem and never the solution. Our pain and suffering doesn’t register as valid in the eyes of many, because they believe the struggles of queerness are self-inflicted and, more nefariously, that they are justified.
Tragedies as recent as the Pulse nightclub massacre, a tragic shooting in which 49 people were murdered in an LGBTQ nightclub in Orlando, remind us of how the world responds to LGBTQ suffering. One of the biggest mass shootings in the history of the United States and by far the deadliest attack on LGBTQ Americans was almost immediately denied as a tragedy for LGBTQ people. Years later, as new evidence became available during trials, publications worked to remind us and clarify to a still-grieving queer community that this tragedy wasn’t about us. A petty moment of clarification meant to strip queer people of the illusion that the tragic deaths of 49 of their community members could actually be about them.
Tragedy and grief for LGBTQ people is different than it is for any other marginalized groups. For those of us living at an intersection of identities even more so, as that intersection sometimes creates a dilemma as to where our pain dwells most deeply. As we look back on 9/11, we should work hard to remember the ways in which these moments of tragedy affect our community at large, the picture they paint for our future in comparison to the one it paints for the future of those outside of it. We’ll find that so often we have to suffer twice.
Phillip Henry
Phillip Henry is a writer, comedian, advocate, and performer in New York City. His writing can be seen in various publications including Teen Vogue and Mic. He hosts a weekly LGBTQ comedy variety show The Tea Party in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan.
Nearly 2.3 million cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis were reported in the United States in 2017 — more evidence of a steep and sustained increase in these reportable infections and marking another record-breaking year for STDs in the U.S., federal officials announced.
According to preliminary data released by the CDC at the STD Prevention Conference in Washington, D.C., between 2014 and 2017, diagnosed cases of gonorrhea increased 67% from 333,004 to 555,608. Cases nearly doubled among men, and increased in women for the third year in a row.
The CDC noted concerns beyond the rise in cases, noting that the threat of untreatable gonorrhea persists in the U.S. and is reinforced by reports of antibiotic resistant gonorrhea abroad.
According to the CDC, gonorrhea is resistant to nearly every class of antibiotic used to treat it, except ceftriaxone, the only effective antibiotic used to treat gonorrhea in the U.S. In 2015, the CDC began recommending a dual therapy of IV ceftriaxone with oral azithromycin to treat gonorrhea with the intent of delaying the development of resistance.
But preliminary data for 2017 shows that 4% of gonorrhea isolates in 2017 showed emerging resistance to azithromycin, the CDC said. The concern is that azithromycin-resistant genes in gonorrhea could cross over into strains of gonorrhea with reduced susceptibility to ceftriaxone, leading to a strain that no longer responds to ceftriaxone, according to the agency.
Primary and secondary syphilis — the most infectious stages of the disease — increased 76% from 17,375 to 30,644 cases since 2013. Nearly 70% of those cases where the gender of the sexual partner is known were made up of men who have sex with men.
Chlamydia was the most common condition reported to the CDC, with more than 1.7 million cases diagnosed in 2017. Almost half of those cases were among females aged 15 to 24 years.
According to the CDC, most cases of STDs go undiagnosed and untreated, which can lead to severe adverse health effects including infertility, ectopic pregnancy, stillbirth and increased risk for HIV.
VOCÊ SABIA QUE O ÁLCOOL MATA MAIS DO QUE TODAS AS DROGAS ILEGAIS JUNTAS?
Para a maioria das pessoas, droga é somente aquela substância cujo consumo é proibido, ou seja, as chamadas drogas ilícitas ou ilegais. Entretanto, vale lembar que existem as drogas lícitas, aquelas cuja venda e consumo é permitida por lei, sendo o álcool a mais comum entre elas.
O álcool é uma substância depressora do sistema nervoso central, atuando no cérebro de forma a lentificar o seu funcionamento. Seus efeitos são percebidos em dois diferentes momentos:
Primeiro: o álcool age como estimulante, deixando a pessoa eufórica, desinibida, falante e com autocrítica diminuída.
Segundo: o álcool age como um depressor da atividade cerebral, acarretando em falta de coordenação motora, fala pastosa, lentificação dos reflexos, sonolência e prejuízos na capacidade de raciocínio e concentração.
O uso frequente (crônico) do álcool provoca diversos problemas , tais como:
Aumento da pressão arterial.
Pancreatite (inflamação do pâncreas).
Hepatite e/ou Cirrose alcoólica.
Alterações da memória.
Lesões no sistema nervoso central.
Distúrbios neurológicos graves.
O USO REGULAR DO ÁLCOOL FAZ COM QUE O INDIVÍDUO SE TORNE TOLERANTE A MUITO DOS SEUS EFEITOS. TOLERÂNCIA É A NECESSIDADE DE QUANTIDADES CADA VEZ MAIORES PARA SE TER O MESMO EFEITO.
Uma dose padrão de álcool equivale a:
40 mL de Vodka, Uísque e Pinga.
85 mL de vinho do Porto ou licores.
140 mL de vinho de mesa.
340 mL de cerveja ou chopp = 1 lata.
600 mL de uma garrafa grande de cerveja = 2 doses.
BAIXO RISCO: beber até 2 doses-padrão por dia e não mais que 5 dias por semana.
LEMBRANDO-SE DE QUE: ao dirigir ou operar máquinas, durante a gravidez ou amamentação, se estiver em uso de medicações controladas, se você não consegue controlar o quanto bebe, NÃO BEBA.
O indivíduo que ingere bebidas alcoólicas de modo excessivo pode desenvolver ao longo do tempo a dependência do álcool. Alguns sinais que demonstram quando este consumo evolui para uma dependência são:
1. Aumento da frequência de consumo e da quantidade do consumida.
2. Tolerância
3. Forte desejo de beber.
4. Dificuldade para controlar o consumo.
5. Abandono de outros interesses em favor do uso.
6. Aparecimento de sintomas desagradáveis após ter ficado horas sem beber (Síndrome de abstinência), como, por exemplo, desconforto, ansiedade, tremores nas mãos e enjoo.
Assim como foi o tema da Parada Gay de São Paulo deste ano, acredito que se faz necessário, mais do que nunca neste momento de grande retrocesso no nosso país, que façamos jus a seguinte frase: "Poder para LGBTI+, Nosso Voto, Nossa Voz". Viva a DIVERSIDADE!
23 ANOS DEPOIS, A COMUNIDADE LGBT ELEGE COMO SLOGAN A CONSCIENTIZAÇÃO CRÍTICA E O PODER DE SEU VOTO. NESTE DOMINGO, MILHARES DE PESSOAS SE REUNIRAM NA ORLA DE COPACABANA A FIM DE GRITAREM AOS QUATRO CANTOS QUE SEU VOTO TEM VALOR, E MUITO MAIS, ESSE VOTO TEM PODER DE ESCOLHER REALMENTE AQUELES CANDIDATOS QUE NÃO CONTRIBUEM PARA PERDAS DOS NOSSOS DIREITOS CIVIS. RESISTIR É PRECISO!
