98% of people in the areas of lesbian gay bisexual and transgender (LGBT) in the capital of the country have been discriminated against or violated their rights, reports the largest study in Colombia so far. The survey was conducted in 213 thousand people and by sector reveals that those who feel most discriminated against are lesbians.
The 99 out of 100 say they have been discriminated against and their rights violated. The same says 97.34% of 'gays', 96.39% of bisexual, and 99.68% for transgender people, of these, 54.48%.
All claim that violations are due to their sexual orientation or identity gender.
The surveys are also shown with different people on these groups to 19.8% of people see the LGBT population as a risk to the community, however, of these, 46.26% never spoke with a lesbian gay, bisexual or transgender.
In the same survey asked people for what they think they should ban lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders.
The results show the non-recognition by the respondents and (aggravated by the claim of prohibition) of the potential foster and adopted children, emotional expressions in public (kissing) and establishing marital unions together (marriage).
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One million signatures to get gay marriage throughout Europe
One Million Signatures endorsed the request of an equal marriage across the European Union. To this end ExpoGays presented yesterday to mark the World Day Against Homophobia, a campaign that will launch a citizens' initiative in favor of gay marriage in Europe.
This mechanism was adopted by the European Commission last February 16, 2011 and allows presenting a million signatures of citizens of the EU in the European Parliament a group of EU nationals can apply directly to the European Commission to amend the legislation.
The signature collection campaign was carried out through the web www.peticiongay.com
Gay marriage is only legal in Sweden, Spain, Portugal, Belgium and the Netherlands, that is, five of twenty EU member countries, and civil unions, in the above, plus Denmark, Finland, United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Luxembourg and Austria and Hungary in unregistered cohabitation arrangements, ie fourteen (plus two) of twenty.
However, the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union sets out the equality of all European citizens before the law (Article 20) and explicitly prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation (Article 21):
"Any discrimination, and in particular on grounds of sex, race, color, ethnic or social origin, genetic features, language, religion or belief, political or other opinion, membership a national minority, property, birth, disability, age or sexual orientation. "
The difference in treatment in different countries based on Article 9 of this same treaty, which states that the right to marry is subject to "national laws governing the exercise" even though it guarantees "the right to marry and the right to found a family. "
The initiative will be presented in accordance with European Regulation, a Committee of Citizens of the Union, created for this purpose. The committee, once signed and accepted the citizens' initiative, will confirm the signatures received and submit competent bodies.
The site lets you choose the 27 nations that are part of the Union and will be progressively translated into all official languages. Currently appears in eight languages.
The text of the petition, which is addressed to European Commission president, is as follows: "We request a proposal for a European directive governing marriage in the context of the EU without discrimination based on sexual orientation, enabling marriages and marriages of same-sex couples the same effects as those of the opposite sex. " Taken
May 17 International Day of Homophobia NO (International Day Against Homophobia and transphobia IDAHO)
By Ricardo Montenegro-Vásquez * * TODAY we remember that the 17 May 1990 the World Health Organization WHO removed homosexuality from its list of diseases. Although we took a little over 20 years of global resolve to combat homophobia in Colombia, for the time and the present homosexuality is not considered a "normal" situation by high levels of prejudice arising from Catholic religious influence that points to homosexuals as sinners and acts contrary to God's law . In our country only until 1980 homosexuality was decriminalized and only until the issue of the Political Constitution of 1991 was allowed right to free development of personality (Article 16).
Despite not being forbidden, homosexuality is frowned upon by large majorities of the Colombian population and the national government has not made sufficient efforts to ensure that accepted this condition of life and very little to prevent the facts and homophobic attacks are perpetrated against people of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT). In Colombia there are worse crimes or penalties for homophobic attacks and many of the incidents against homosexuals go unpunished.
the past two decades, human rights activists in the LGBT population have observed with regret many of his comrades had to go outside the country or were killed as was the case Freddys Dario Pineda (16 of February 2008), Alvaro Miguel Rivera (6 March 2009) who appeared dead with signs of torture by strangers without even known by the authorities catch those responsible or processes, this pair of representative cases by the cruelty and brutal way as they occurred, are aware of the Organization of American States OAS as well as LGBT groups the world as the International Lesbian and Gay Association, ILGA, the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission IGLHRC.
But this fact is not new in 1993 was killed León Zuleta one of the founders of the gay liberation movement in Colombia in the seventies; the other co-founder of the movement Manuel Antonio Velandia Mora after a with an explosive attack on his home was exiled in Spain in 2007 , where he was granted asylum in April 2010.
This situation is not only experienced by persons who come within the LGBT activism, ordinary people that make visible their homosexual condition are subject to different behaviors on their lives, honor and property . As one report by the nongovernmental organization Colombia Diversa in our country instead of decreasing increased killings and discrimination against the LGBT community . The report reveals that between 2008 and 2009 have been documented at least: 127 murders because of sexual orientation 57 were gay men, 31 from the category 'homosexual', four lesbians and transgender 35. 74 met violent deaths, 46 bias crimes (caused by the sexual identity of the victim) and seven homicides motivated by prejudice. Between 2006 and 2007 there were 99 homicides. Antioquia reported the highest rank of homicide (51), followed by the Valle del Cauca (19), Bogotá (14) and Risaralda (13). Draws attention to the case of Risaralda, which reported zero homicides in 2006-2007 spent a record thirteen cases between 2008 and 2009. These figures are unofficial because the Colombian government has a tool to provide factual, accurate and true about crime, police assaults and attacks against homosexuals .
Not all sites of the world are safe places for homosexuals in 76 countries still criminalize the homosexual acts, and seven 7 call for the death penalty on grounds of homosexuality . In my opinion, Latin America and Colombia, despite what is written in codes and laws remain a place where homosexuals have no peace of mind to live, where hundreds of thousands have been killed, abused, humiliated and beaten by authorities in their home country, shunned by their families and condemned to alienation by society because of their sexual orientation.
As stated by the sociologist Manuel Velandia asylum: in Colombia "homophobia is not only cultural but also is internalized and reinforced school, family and society in general and the Catholic Church in Colombia, the right-wing parties and paramilitary groups have made homophobia flag and a reason to stigmatize, exclude, separated socially, forcing the displacement , threatening to kill, kill and commit other hate crimes against LGBT people ". So, nursing is an option for those who have the means recourse to the protection of countries in which respect the freedom, dignity and civil rights of individuals.
TODAY discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender reflect about the role we play as citizens and we demand the state and society respect our part as members of humanity.
A young Italian has claimed that he was denied renewal of license Driving for being gay. The Italian Radical Party has made a parliamentary question to the Ministers of Transport and Defence to call for an end to this kind of homophobic discrimination of origin. Cristian
Friscina went to take a medical examination at a military hospital where e Bari doctor certified that he suffered "serious diseases" that could affect driving safety. The basis of diagnosis is Cristian homosexuality.
Radical Party and the Italian gay association Arcigay lead this cause to withdraw from this example of sexual discrimination that still exists in Italy.
is not the first time
is the second case in Italy in a short time a person is denied a driver's license renewal for homosexual. On the previous occasion, a Court of Catania ordered the ministries of Defense and Transportation to compensate with 20,000 euros a young man who also refused to renew her driving license because of their sexual orientation.
Almodóvar's move Movies, fotoproyecciones, lectures, conferences and more
About work "Patty Diphusa" , written by renowned English filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar , which is in season from May 11 to June 4, La Casa del Teatro Nacional has organized a series of events free entry. (The National Theatre House Carrera 20 # 37 - 54, Barrio La Soledad.Teléfono 3201448 http://www.teatronacional.com.co )
These include samples of some of Almodovar's films, a conference on "Almodóvar's cinema and aesthetics queer," a round table on "queer arts and aesthetics", a talk on "The reality LGBT in Colombia", in addition to the photo-projection of the play "Them" Janca the photographer.
Since 11 May, the Casa del Teatro is filled with brightness and lust with Patty
Diphusa The Almodóvar sex symbol in the body of Ximena Erazo
"The hardest thing for a person like me , which has so much to say, is to begin. My name is Patty Diphusa and belong to such women who lead the time in which they live. My profession? international sex symbol, or international porn star, whatever you call "
All Madrid scene of the 80's, with its bright colors, their catchy music, and its wave queer aesthetic naif will take the House of the National Theater with the premiere of "Patty Diphusa" Pedro Almodovar's work coming to Colombia for the first time in a production directed by and starring Leonardo Petro Ximena Erazo. A work sexy, brash and funny revive this fotonovelas porn star convert the room into a bar with tapas and beers to be running from 11 May to 4 June. Uncensored! In season: from May 11 to June 8, 2011. Functions: Wednesday to Saturday 8:00 pm Location: Cra 20 No 37 - 54. La Soledad Contact: 3201448
Them (fotoproyección) From May 11 to June 4 The renowned French-Colombian photographer Janca, submit a photo-screening of his latest book "Them", an exhibition of black and white nude photos of dracqueens, transvestites and other divas gay night, where "they" represent the flirtation, seduction and temptation of women.
This exhibition will be accompanied by some photos of other works by the photographer, put up in France, London, Mexico, New York, Vienna, Wahington, as "Taps Pin Up Stories", "Visions," Beauty and the Beast "and "Visions."
Almodóvar's cinema, an aesthetic Queer Lecture by Professor Victor Manuel Rodriguez Friday May 24 at 7:00 pm Creator of the art collective "I'm not that" the teacher Victor Manuel Rodriguez, will present an illustrated lecture with some of the films of Pedro Almodóvar, a faithful representative of the queer aesthetic, presenting all queer theory and its ability to intervene politically to appropriate and alter a culture more. " Thus, topics like "Almodóvar's films: drag, performance, performativity and queer melodrama" among others.
arts and aesthetics Queer Roundtable with Rolf Abderhalden, Alonso Sánchez Baute and members of the Collective I'm not that. Tuesday May 31 at 7:00 pm is a meeting with some Colombian artists who from their different disciplines have explored the queer aesthetic. They are the artist and theater director Rolf Alderhalden (Map Theater), the writer Alonso Sanchez Baute (To hell with the goddamn spring) and a representative of the art collective "I'm not that" it has organized events around the subject (The Concert Forbidden Film Series Rosa, etc.).
Reality in Colombia LGBTI Tuesday, May 17, 7:00 pm This discussion group will feature the people who have worked for the consolidation of policies against sexual orientation discrimination. They will talk about the situation and problems currently facing LGBTI people, cultural representations around it are managed, and public policies that guarantee their rights in Colombia today.
Almodovar Film Series Every Friday and Saturday at 5:00 pm From May 13 to June 4 A selection of eight films from Pedro Almodovar queer aesthetics work are part of this cycle of cinema forums, lectures, accompanied by some film experts. Dark Habits (1983) - Friday May 13 What I done to deserve this? (1984) - Saturday May 14 Matador (1985) - Friday May 20 Law of Desire (1986) - Saturday May 21 Heels (1990) - Friday May 27 The flower of my desire (1995) - Saturday May 28 All About My Mother (1999) - Friday June 3 Bad Education (2004) - Saturday June 4
We are floating in space and it is surprising to know how our existence is the result of a series of chaotic chain of events that have made possible harmonic structure the matter has been able to evolve to a level of biological complexity and variety as we know. For life you were able to develop up to current levels of organization have been necessary to give initial conditions and a set of random processes such as eg certain that an object collides against the ground, causing the moon, "explained by the prevailing theory on the formation of the moon, or the existence and exact location of the planet Jupiter in a place that prevent asteroids and comets in the cloud Oort collide with our world in its orbit toward the Sun Jupiter forms a large shield that protects our planet continuously shaken by meteors and the moon was of fundamental importance to stabilize the orbit of the Earth since before the days lasted five hours and when this object collided with earth slowed its movement to the current 24 hours.
Our solar system in the Orion Arm of the Milky Way galaxy
When we contemplate the sky at night we did not realize that we are sailing through space at thousands of miles per hour and orbiting dots that orbit many specks of light and so on. We are in a rotating galaxy, in turn around a local group of stars, making it around a cluster of a supercluster while expanding the space separating the center of the Big Bang scenario. As a curious word "cosmos" comes from kosmos, meaning order besides beauty and immensity, although its origin is quite chaotic and unfamiliar. But it is very beautiful in a huge chaos may arise the cosmos that we have the pleasure of knowing.
Our situation
Plantas que simbolizan cúmulos, galaxias, nebulosas o estrellas
Esta es una foto de un jardín que representa nuestra posición en la galaxia. Representa la galaxia Vía Láctea con un agujero negro supermasivo en el centro representado por la fuente y diferentes plantas que representan algunos cúmulos, nebulosas y galaxias, y con hojas que simulan las estrellas más brillantes. Nosotros estaríamos en el punto que representa el sistema solar en el brazo de Orión (uno de los 2 ó 4 brazos que los astrónomos piensan que tiene nuestra galaxia). Estaríamos en el Grupo Local (lo llamamos así por ser nuestro punto de referencia), en el cúmulo de Virgo. El agujero negro del centro de la galaxia no engulle las galaxias circundantes porque toda la materia estelar orbita en torno a él. Se intenta programar actualmente un supertelescopio, alineando los más potentes que existen para que su objetivo sea el más grande posible aprovechando el diámetro de la tierra con el fin de poder observar lo más cerca posible el agujero negro supermasivo del centro de nuestra galaxia.
Trifid Nebula
Hibiscos that simulate
Trifid Nebula in the Galactic garden
This is an instance where the hibiscus garden pretending to be nebulous. In this example the pink hibiscus mimic the Trifid nebula.
A full speed
Andromeda Galaxy, 2.1 million light years
Our tiny speck of dust in the Solar System, which belongs to one of the arms (Orion) of the Milky Way galaxy, which is part of the Local Group (given that our baseline) and orbiting toward the Virgo Cluster. These are the speeds, our planet rotates at about 30 km / second around the Sun, which orbits about 270 km / s (about 970,000 km / h) around the center of the galaxy, which rotates, in turn, 40 km / s around Group Local, which is directed towards the Virgo cluster about 560 km / s. In the future our galaxy will collide with Andromeda, to 2.1 million light-years and will be "swallowed" by this in the phenomenon known as galactic cannibalism. "
An obscure
During the first three minutes of the universe was forming a cosmic soup of particles: gluons, quarks, protons, positrons and neutrinos, but do not appear until the photons (light particles) the universe is not "on" and becomes "transparent." So we do not know about what happened before all the stars are lit. The structure of the tiniest is closely related to the large scale of the universe, so with the big collider LHC try to find the most indivisible part of matter: the hypothetical Higgs boson , because if its existence is proven then it would be further review of the equations of the universe. And here the most intriguing of all is that mathematics is able to explain 95% of the unknown, but check these data remains fundamental to the advancement of science. What can not explain this is attributed to a mythical region where from very primitive lives in the mystery religion.
Chaos allows the cosmos
Funnily enough chaos and irregularities or fluctuations that allow the universe to exist and evolve and essentially constant tension between two primitive forces: one that governs the universe's expansion rate or Hubble's law and gravity. The evolution of matter from its origins based on the ability of matter and energy to interact and this can not be if there are no conditions of instability where these elements can combine to generate elements relate to each other as complex as life. If the original cosmic soup of particles was scaled uniformly so that these elements do not collide with each other, then the universe would not have changed since the first time except in uniform expansion, so that if everything had been no order exist and either matter would have emerged and less life.
Darwinism theory explains how the increased complexity, entropy, enables the universe can recombine and self-organize their systems at a higher level. For example, supernovae or the violent death of some stars give rise to the periodic table of elements more complex and diverse, thanks to the increase of this variety can generate more structures that allow a more diverse organization. Another example is how the cosmic dust dispersed after the death of a star (and forming a hazy cloud of dust-and gas-) agglutinating will by force of gravity and is becoming stars and galaxies that rotate around a common center: a black hole. Currently looking in the large particle colliders the most primitive matter in the universe, because knowing this information about the microcosm give many clues to learn more about the universe as a vast scale and its possible or likely late or early.
currently most accepted cosmological theory of gravity, which dates the age of the cosmos in 13,700 million years, but this theory, Einstein's equations does not explain how there tanto carbono en el universo, ya que en el interior de todas las estrellas hay un núcleo de diamante formado por carbono. También sabemos que actualmente el universo se expande de manera uniformemente acelerada y que las primeras leyes y ciencia que rigieron estos momentos son radicalmente diferentes de las que conocemos ahora. Las mismas matemáticas y leyes físicas que rigieran esos momentos podrían ser también muy diferentes a lo que conocemos, como lo son las leyes de la física cuántica, del interior de un agujero negro o del Big Bang (por eso también se llaman singularidades ).
Two opposing forces
From the Big Bang scenario we know nothing about space or time during the first moments of creation of the universe. We only know that after a certain time there is instability between the two fundamental forces that shape the universe: Hubble's law (which causes the universe to expand) against the force of gravity (which contracts) and There is also an unknown component in space needed for the field of galaxies and clusters is not wind its rotation and that matter and energy called dark, believed to form about 96% of the unknown universe. The rest is visible universe. It is believed that this part of the universe exists because it says that galaxies and clusters do not collide with each other by gravitational attraction. This part of matter and energy is what allows these elements are far enough apart so that they can be dynamic conditions and a space in which to evolve the elements and physical and chemical particles in the periodic table so far known . It follows their lives for this reason and for the equations of Einstein-Penrose function as Big Bang theory and relativity.
space architecture It
overwhelming the story of how we got to evolve as a species on a planet like ours from the beginning of time. Everything we know about the cosmos is based on mathematical equations to which we entrust the existence of reality as matter and dark energy. According to those accepted scientific theories and consolidated all started with a battle between matter and antimatter, where the first battle won by very little. When these two principles come into contact they annihilate and if there had been more antimatter universe could not exist. A Since the birth of the matter is speculating that this was the beginning of what we know as space-time, from which arise one or more big bangs or singularities. The principle of all known and unknown.
black hole simulation. It is believed that the center of all galaxies there is one at least. What will the other side?
From this large initial burst would shape our space-time coordinates being conceived at the same time, as in philosophy, and content space and time as the print form or as we have to change. It's as if the score of the universe itself notes were the space and the relationship between them apart, succession or simultaneous time constituted. What has helped the world to be like from the initial burst, causing it to not have a uniform from the inside to the periphery has been the fact that the expansion was not uniform, but he left a few conditions initial chaotic, so that the first cosmic soup of elementary particles they began to collide disorderly. Before you create the light particles or photons the universe was not visible and therefore the physical laws of the first moments are impossible to know.
The known universe
The most in time we can know, with the appropriate technology, would this limit. This is what is found with particle accelerators like the LHC : tiny particles of matter and indivisible as the Higgs boson, the particle oldest of the universe, at least in theory. Since the emergence of the first particles, from the time of expansion we know will begin to form the first cosmic superstructures due to irregular shape which allow the particles interact with each other and not to expand each other without interrelate. To demonstrate how to grow in a vacuum an astronomer mixed sugar and salt in a bag in zero gravity, looking at how these tiny corpuscles were grouped as something akin to neural tissue or a road map lit up at night from space.
The structure of the universe as known scaling
These superstructures are very similar throughout the cosmos and are formed by groups of stars that are grouped together and converge at certain points in what looks like a motorway networks interstellar space. Within each of these stars begin to form the elements of the basic periodic table from its first moments of existence. Hydrogen is first formed, a proton, then the force of gravity is so strong that fuses this item himself, successfully overcoming the repulsive force and generating helium and little by little, until the elements iron and other heavier. But when the star reaches iron merge completes its life cycle and according to their solar masses or density produces a supernova, hypernova or big bang or a black hole.
The universe from these first moments is shaped by the tension of opposing forces and whether to observe it from its more general we would superclusters (having a form of sponge, or a map neural network light pollution with an irregular shape, because the initial formation process of the universe was unstable, which is called inflationary period-), clusters of galaxies, galaxies, nebulas (the result of the explosion of novae and supernovae), stars , planets, moons, other stellar objects, dust and gas. All these elements are important for self-regulation system itself. For example, from interstellar dust that form nebulae supernovae and stars form from the violent death rate of stars novas or supernovas are generated in the periodic table of elements heavier and complex and it is believed that without existence of the Moon have been possible to create conditions of stability so that it could sprout and sustain life.
But none of this would work properly if it were not for black holes, after which, according to mathematical equations believes there should be a corresponding Big Bang. Thus, according to some theories, rather than a single universe with a Big Bang, it is likely that there is more and be a multiverse, with parallel worlds where the universe is interconnected and fall back on itself (like a Moebius strip ) .
Omega Centauri globular cluster in the constellation of Centaurus
clusters, galaxies, nebulae and star
In areas where groups accumulate more stuff cumulus formations within which they arise, in turn, galaxies in the center of which are believed to be a black hole (with a hypothetical white hole on the opposite side by that would matter) and nearby is where stars are generated youth through processes of star formation and evolution of blue, white, yellow or red, depending on higher or lower temperature until they die a peaceful cooling and reducing its size to become brown dwarfs or white or exploding in the form supernova or black hole, when the force of gravity overcomes its opposite and implode (explode to the inside). Stars form in areas closer to the center of rotation of the galaxy (in the training of young stars - which are blue, with more temperature-), while the old are distributed more toward the outside (they are redder, with less temperature-). Stars form from interstellar dust that is generated when a star explodes. Our sun, for example, end up being a red supergiant that grows at least until Mars and engulf our planet.
Inside the stars are produced in fusion chain reactions that are transforming simple elements into more complex since the hydrogen (H), Helio (He), lithium (Li) or Carbon (C) to more complex elements. If you come to merge to the level of iron, so the star stops the combustion process and implodes (exploited to within) in what is known as novae or supernovae that result in spectacular nebulae like the Horsehead in Orion or M42 (the M indicates the Messier catalog, there is another classification, the NGC (New General Catalogue) we can see in the pictures. In these mammoth explosion spread through the universe the elements we know and pictures are amazing as Nebula ring, that of the egg , of \u200b\u200bthe crab or the eagle . Life comes from this great space laboratory.
Orion Nebula M42, Raúl Cacho
To produce a supernova that spreads their remains nebulous as it is necessary that the force of gravity is large enough to overcome the force of merger and get to the iron. Eg to fuse hydrogen, which has a positive charge has overcome the initial repulsion to be transformed into helium and so on in a chain reaction. In nuclear power the process of obtaining the same is done in reverse, by fission reactions, not fusion. To achieve fusion energy as much power as is needed to generate a sun, while for non-fission, but the problem is that there is radioactivity in the process of disintegration of the nucleus. Nuclear energy from plutonium (Pt) or uranium (U) are generated when electrons lose energy and change orbit or emitting a radioactive particle level.
Horsehead Nebula in Orion, Raúl Cacho
clusters, galaxies and stars from 0 onward classified according to their minor or major irregularity. The most common galaxies are spirals. The sun influences the climate of the earth by the well-known Maunder minimum and maximum. When solar activity is larger eruptions that occur on the surface expel charged particles that arrive via the solar wind to Earth's magnetic field, which forwards them to the poles, giving place, then the northern lights. The Mayans believed the world would end with one of these cycles, but astronomers say the only thing that can happen during a high solar activity is that we spoil the satellites, but that is something.
The darkness of the universe
must also have matter and dark energy (about 95% of the components of space), whose amount is decisive for galaxies and stars collide each other and so that there was so much that the universe could not come together and form a structure. The prevents dark matter scattering and scatter the field in their rotating movements, eg rotation of rotation of galaxies or clusters. Dark energy is the one that balances the equation of the Hubble Law and the force of gravity.
The existence of dark matter is hypothetical and is believed must exist to explain why galaxies are disrupted by rotating or the solar system. Dark energy would operate in the opposite direction to the force of gravity and this would create a tension between these two forces whose final outcome could be the final blackout all the stars, or that the matter of feeds itself through a series of possible big bangs that could be on the other side of black holes, in theory. The entropy (or second law of thermodynamics, which is to say that all systems tend to break or lose energy as heat that can be transformed into working order or one of the reasons why you can not travel past, further, that the past does not exist, since the energy is dissipated over time and breaks down as can not be reversed in materials of this principle is where engineers invented a Murphy's Law-) is generating greater complexity in systems and is opposed to order of galaxies and their self-organization.
supermatemáticas The mathematics is invented to overcome the limit of the senses and imagination. Thus, for example, how the name change to multiverse universe by adding new explanatory theories, each with different rules. In the same way, antimatter and antiuniverso little is known as M theory on or Matrix (Matrix) or theory of fundamental forces superunification (strong nuclear, weak nuclear, electromagnetic and gravity, the more difficult to unify this theory-), that of the superstring or branes (which vibrate as fundamental units in place of the particle, which has the dual property of being simultaneously wave-particle) - or property of supersymmetry. Are highly speculative construction, theory and mathematics and even if they can find very complete explanation of the structure and history of the universe and the lack of data makes empirical testing are slightly in the air. However, during periods of time talking about some of these speculations and this happens because sometimes certain investigations are in fashion. For example, now takes superstring theorizing and so this is what most end reporting, but this does not mean that these theories are more valid for it.
cosmos Possible late
If the universe will end or not and about how this depends basically on the strength we've seen before: the severity (contraction) and Hubble's Law (or expansion). The tension between the two determine whether the universe or multiverse have an end or not and continue to expand until all the stars go off at once, like someone blowing the candles, contract in a Big Crunch, or follow a cycle of big bangs and indeterminate Big Crunches. We will not live long enough to know, our lifetime is negligible compared with that of the cosmos we come from, but it is interesting to learn from the ashes reborn constantly subject matter and life, which remains an intriguing history as our origins. For us our life is immense, though brief, but from the point of view of age the universe are less than a small moment in history will end as part of its essence, the dust of stars, where we came. A brief pulse in the life of the universe, but can imagine all possible worlds.
Brazil's Supreme Court recognizes marriage and rights for gay couples
By Yana Marull (AFP) May 2011 BRASILIA - The Supreme Court of Brazil, the largest Catholic world, acknowledged Thursday unanimously "stable union" for same-sex couples and granted them the same rights as heterosexual ones.
The ten judges unanimously decided that unmarried couples made up of people of the same sex are a "family reunion" and have the same rights as unions between men and women.
"Those who choose homoafectiva union can not be mixed in your citizenship , Camen judge said Lucia. "Nobody can be deprived of their rights by their sexual orientation," he said on his part Judge Ricardo Lewandowski. The presiding judge asked Congress to govern the consequences of this decision.
"In the absence of a law passed by Parliament to regulate marriage and homosexual marriage, recognition of the Supreme is the best thing that could happen. It means that no judge can deny these rights" as a pension inheritance, extension of health benefits and adoption of children, told AFP the special judge Maria Berenice Dias.
This lawyer who has devoted years to the cause and chairs the Committee on Sexual Diversity Lawyers Guild of Brazil, explained that in this country, "the stable union rights are essentially the same as marriage because is recognized as a family entity. "
recalled that some gay couples had already gained the recognition of rights to more than 1,000 sentences that judges across Brazil have been proffered in recent years, but now the rule is clear and for all.
"Discrimination breeds hatred" said reporting judge Carlos Ayres Britto.
rights activists Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender appeared before the Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF).
"I hope this decision is an important step for further action and that the Senate follow the example of Argentina, which adopted the civil marriage for same-sex couples," he told AFP the president of the Grupo Gay da Bahia, Marcelo Cerqueira. Brazil organizes years which is considered the biggest gay pride parade in the world, Sao Paulo, but "we are the number one country in murders, discrimination and violence against homosexuals," he said.
The request for judicial action in the supreme governor left Rio de Janeiro, Sergio Cabral, who claimed equal rights apply to all staff, and the Attorney General of Brazil. "When the state refuses to recognize homosexual marriage, sacrifice their rights," said the attorney general, Roberto Gurgel.
The Church opposed front. "Plurality is limitless," said the lawyer of the Conference of Bishops, Hugo José de Oliveira, who defended the union for men and women, as stated in the Constitution.
Bishops at the annual meeting in Sao Paulo criticized the decision. The Archbishop of Maringá (south), Anuar Battisti, considered to represent an "aggression front "the family", said the site G1.
"Several countries in the region are recognizing these rights", said the state attorney, Luiz Inacio Adams.
The Argentine Senate approved in 2010 a law that made this country the first in Latin America throughout its territory legalize gay marriage.
In Colombia, another country deeply Catholic, unmarried couples of the same sex are recognized as the same social rights, property and inheritance rights as heterosexual ones.
Uruguay in 2007 became the first country in Latin America to legalize civil unions for gay couples and two years later, in approving the adoption.
Sanctioned players for being "very affectionate" / What is wrong with expressing affection?
-Sporting Cristal Players were fined for hugging and kissing in a training-Giancarlo
Yotún Yoshima Homes caresses and kisses shared as having a normal day of practice in Peru.
Football is a sport that celebrates the passions and feelings, but what happened in the Peruvian club Sporting Cristal, exceeds the imagination of many football fans.
is that during training of that Peruvian club, two players, Giancarlo Yotún Yoshima Homes, shared many hugs and kisses as they watched "huddled" practice.
The fact came to call attention to transform into a kind of scandal and the leadership of the club decided to warn both players, who reported having only "a beautiful friendship."
"Yoshima is a great friend of mine, I love him very much and in time we've been together we have pervaded well. We have a beautiful friendship, but that's of kisses and hugs " said Giancarlo Homes in this regard. Taken
a film about love between brothers, of an incestuous love
Brazilian film "Do Comeco Ao Fim" ("From Beginning To End" or "From Beginning to End")
From children, two half brothers in a family of Brazilian upper class maintain a special relationship called the attention of the adults around them, upsetting their parents and family. VIDEO
UP June 26 For full citizenship of LGBT people XV VERSION
OFFICIAL POSTER UP XV
Concentration Sunday June 26 at noon (12M) at the National Museum Join us
and participate in our all day and all the day in which we show to the rest of society, we have the same rights and duties, no more no less, exijásmosle the respect we deserve, unlike the rest of the world, we are not on the Day of pride, but on the day of the requirement of full citizenship; join us to change the social imagination, think of how we want the rest of society recognize us. The theme of this year's march is: we are family thousand colors, so we march with our diverse families (parents, siblings, cousins, aunts, friends), we show that we were born, grow and feel like that everyone, everyone vinculémonos the theme of the march, unifying in a single speech, let us show ourselves socially as a strong and united movement.
Welcome and welcome to this historic moment in which equity is our goal. guests and organizers
Blog Editor's Note: Speaking of May 1 Labor Day we invite you to reflect on the employment situation of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender. Our fight successfully culminate the day, breaking a transmission schemes is a bank manager or a male lesbian minister of state. Ricardo Montenegro-Vásquez
Homophobia at work by Line Chamberland
Despite his excellent skills, Estela lost his job as archivist when his employer learned of her lesbianism . The same thing happened to Alexandra, a professor specializing in youth and adults with metal deficiencies: the employer pretext staff reorganization but only she was fired. Catherine and Alexis, union members and beneficiaries of unemployment insurance, have been transferred but not dismissed: Catherine his superiors forced him to ask for a transfer to another sector, saying that teenagers in difficulty with those who worked could bring false accusations against him of sexual harassment. As for Alexis, had to shift because his boss felt that there could be an instructor in the construction industry, not because he was incompetent, but because this medium was too close to homosexuality . René, specialist in special education, retained his post but was withdrawn all students in their charge, is isolated from the rest of the staff , in short, did everything to push him to leave the post of his own accord ...
Here are some examples of the effects of homophobia , which can be defined as the expression of an aversion or intolerance toward homosexuals. In the workplace, its manifestations vary in severity. There is, first, the widespread homophobia that takes the form of jokes, ridicule, prejudice, rude comments, graffiti . Often, this homophobia is not addressed to any particular individual but to homosexuals or homosexuality in general. Is present, more or less intense, in most work environments, and is more pronounced in male dominated jobs which enhances virility. Because to its indirect nature, often diluted in the mood, expressions of homophobia may seem trivial fuzzy or dull. However, they carry messages that hurt and humiliate gays and lesbians who listen. Here / as placed on the defensive: "in this context, must disclose their homosexuality or shut up?
direct Homophobia is defined by attitudes that reject or devalue gays and lesbians who define themselves as such in their workplace, as well as those suspected to be. Here are some examples: stay away or break communication, refusal to cooperate in carrying out the work, mess tools or workplace, question the competence or professional reputation of an individual to disclose their sexual orientation without his consent or threaten to do so, point it out constantly and insistently in all dealings we have with him, particularly before third, show excessive curiosity towards their sexuality critical guide for gays and lesbians as a whole, as if the person had to or could speak on behalf of the entire group. In short, all interactions are marked and biased by the fact that the person is homosexual and that to disqualify. Direct homophobia contributes to the marginalization of gays and lesbians in the workplace and even to exclude, affecting their ability to integrate into the environment and the exercise of their professional duties.
Finally, one can speak of a homophobic environment, where the manifestations of homophobia take a constant character or exacerbated, when open hostility toward gays and lesbians is no longer the exception but involving several colleagues and superiors in the workplace. In this context, the manifestations of homophobia are all isolated or occasional but frequent and daily. To this, add the serious incidents as dismissals, intimidation or physical attacks , while the workplace tolerates the existence of such a climate, and the authorities do not provide no protection for workers potentially victims of homophobia. In short, in a climate of homophobia and intolerance, any expression of homosexuality is negatively sanctioned and attempt, through various means, to expel gays and lesbians. Discriminatory treatment
As the examples above illustrate, homophobia generates discriminatory treatment of gay and lesbian workers: denied hiring, not to call for temporary or contract jobs, denial of stability or promotion , barriers to professional development, pressure or unfair dismissal for the resignation . Where the law prohibits direct discrimination, it is camouflaged under false pretenses, complicating access to legal remedies for persons who are victims. In a recent survey conducted in Quebec, where since 1977, the Charter of the rights of the person prohibits discrimination and harassment based on sexual orientation, "9.8% of gays and lesbians surveyed admit to having suffered discrimination over the past five years, 7.6% harassment, psychological violence, 9.2% and 1% or verbal and physical violence. Job insecurity and the fact of belonging to minority groups (women, ethnic and cultural minorities, indigenous, people with disabilities) increases the risk of discrimination and the disastrous consequences that this entails. In this study, we see that lesbians are more reluctant than gay men to reveal their sexual orientation in the workplace because they fear discrimination as well as women.
In most countries, discrimination is also of a systemic, when neither the law nor the employer recognize same-sex couples and families they form. Homosexual persons are then deprived of the economic and social benefits linked to marital and family status, advantages that benefit their heterosexual colleagues, concerning, for example, social security, pensions, sick leave or death of someone close, etc. This is an obvious injustice as these benefits, which are fixed by law or have been negotiated in collective agreements apply in principle to all workers concerned. In addition, some schemes are financed jointly by employees and the employer, meaning that gay and lesbian workers make their contributions, and yet are excluded from the benefits they mean.
homophobic behaviors in the workplace are based on heterosexist representations, ie representations that establish and maintain a hierarchy of sexualities. On the one hand, heterosexuality is positioned as "natural" so obvious that the appointment is not intrinsically valued. On the other hand, the stereotypes constructed the categories of gay and lesbian assigning, in a generalized and simplistic, or lifestyle characteristics, usually negative, that would be theirs. They give a distorted picture of the lives of gay people and hide various aspects. In your workplace, gays and lesbians are perceived and judged through the prism of this reducer.
stereotypes of gay effeminate "and" male lesbian "are among the most common and provide the pretext for ridicule. Thus, the work environment feel that to be accepted, a "good gay" should not look too effeminate, nor show too much sexual preferences, which, for some, is the same. That is, should remain invisible and gender to portray "normal" so that their presence is tolerated. To draw the line between what is acceptable or not, this coercive pressure maintains standards of masculinity and femininity. Those men and women whose appearance deviates too much from the prescribed gender, are exposed to vilification and marginalization. The gender nonconformity may hamper the chances of employment or promotion within the company. For example, a lesbian will not be considered too masculine roles allocated for public performance or customer services. discrimination based on sexual orientation, then, is disguised by reference to the traditional models of gender. Heterosexism binding on all persons, whatever their sexuality, the binary model hombre-masculino/mujer-femenino and helps to reproduce the sexual division of tasks in the capitalist organization of work. Transsexual and transgender people are also heavily discriminated against at work, in particular, access and stability in employment.
Consistent with religious prohibitions and medical discredited homosexuality remains a sin, disease or abnormality, what would justify that homosexuals are not treated equally and that they were not afforded the same rights and the same benefits granted to heterosexual couples. The confusion between homosexuality and pedophilia is common, in the centers that work with vulnerable social groups by their young age or their physical or mental condition, suspicions and accusations toward gays come quickly even when there is no foundation. Instead of combating prejudice, employers think organizing to solve the problem that no homosexual person on staff. Side of lesbian, sexuality between two women seems simply inconceivable outside the orbit of the heterosexual norm, specifically out of the desire of men. Sometimes the male lesbian fantasies fed, sometimes described as a choice out of spite, after a rejection by men, due to traumatic or disappointing heterosexual experiences, or an absence of positive experience with the opposite sex. Disrupting
prejudices
In contexts where gays and lesbians have gained equal rights and greater visibility in the public sphere, other prejudices come to juxtapose the most old and result in reluctance and negative reactions to these achievements. So you create a new prototype that emphasizes-Gay-unqualified rampant sexuality attributed to all gay men, his alleged wealth, his hedonistic lifestyle which would escape all restrictions and all liability. On the other hand, accuses homo families, mostly founded by lesbians, not to provide a balanced framework for the child, which absolutely require the presence of a father and a mother. Or, criticize the manifestations of pride, and festive events, the existence of specialized sites meeting: they are accused of being too fiery, to injure the image of gays and lesbians, of being locked into a ghetto, in short, losing their own integration in society.
face of homophobia in the workplace, gays and lesbians may decide to shut his homosexuality, reaching a mask constructed heterosexual when the environment is very hostile to protect and advance the negative consequences preserve their economic and sexual autonomy. Those who decide to leave the closet devoted much effort to disrupt heterosexist bias in their work environment. If you have the possibility, which is not always the case, some will opt for a career in centers open to homosexuality, even if it entails a cost in terms of salary and career. The impact of these individual strategies is limited, if no parallel collective struggle against homophobia and heterosexism. For that, you need organize, to speak in public spaces and ally with other political forces fighting work organization capitalist and patriarchal.
Line Chamberland Québec is a sociologist, professor at the University of Quebec at Montreal. Article published in the magazine América Latina en Movimiento, No. 420, "Dissident Sexualities"
