Comments on: We’re here, we’re queer, we’re young and we’re strong!

By: Bruno Selun

Bruno Selun — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:27:05 +0000

Thank you, Bastian and Ricardo!

Bastian, when it comes to Indonesia there was a lot of hope in the EU-Indonesia bilateral meeting of the 29 June 2010, but I don’t know what came out of it. Hopefully authorities will be keener to curb the current fundamentalist drive.

By: Ricardo Baruch

Ricardo Baruch — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:46:00 +0000

I’m surprised the issue didn’t get a lot of attention. I would have thought that more people would be interested to talk about the linkages between SRHR and LGTBQ issues but I guess that at the international arena they look a little far.

Agree with Bastian that is very well written

By: bastian

bastian — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:16:49 +0000

Hey Bruno, it’s impressive written. I like it. I hope more youth engaged with this issue, particularly the LGBTIQ activist also around the world. What I can say now about the movement it’s like euphoria among us, but less the awareness how to achieve the human right protection, specially for the non heterosexual. It seems, we are still afraid to speak out and take action. I hope with more articles on this issue, can trigger the youth to respond and address the problem sustainably.
Perhaps, you might put more cross cutting issue among the youth LGBTIQ. Like frankly to say the acceptance of its right in Asia region is barely accepted, even if it’s located in predominantly muslim country, like what happen in our country Indonesia, “we” (the special territory with religion rule) just released the Qanun Jinaya (a stoning law against homosexual and other matters). It’s just another from problem that coming up to eradicate or restrict our LGBTIQ movement here.
So I guess we can discuss about what happen in our respective country related to this or another matters.

By: Bruno Selun

Bruno Selun — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:24:31 +0000

Thanks for the comment Solana! I’ll pass the message onto ILGA, perhaps they could produce it but it’s up to them…

By: Solana

Solana — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:42:23 +0000

I enjoyed this post a lot, thanks for writing it. I wish ILGA would make a web version of the Map of LGBT Rights in the World as well as the PDF. It’s really helpful for showing how much still needs to be changed around the world before LGBT people have their basic human rights protected within their own countries.

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