By Richard Ammon GlobalGayz.com Updated January 2017 A near-unanimous Muslim population in Algeria makes the fight for rights of gays a dangerous place and struggle. It is a huge country about the size of Western Europe with most of it rural desert with widely scattered villages and towns, many far from the major urban
Gay Brazil 2011
Brazil is a huge place with many faces to its LGBT scene scattered over thousands of miles. My trip this time included Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Iguaca Falls, Florianopolis and the city of Curitiba–more than enough for three weeks. Gay marriage was approved in June 2013.
Born Gay or Chosen Gay–Not the Issue
American actress Cynthia Nixon recently stirred up a storm of opinion as to whether a person is gay by birth or by choice. See the following news reports: -http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-cynthia-nixon-gay-by-choice-20120125,0,2504094.story -http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/01/27/cynthia-nixon-bisexuals-we-get-no-respect/ -http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2094099/Cynthia-Nixon-gay-choice-Actress-seeks-clarify-comments-causing-outrage.html?ito=feeds-newsxml This whole line of thinking is backwards and being looked at from the wrong end–whether or not homosexuality is inborn or chosen. The real
Gay and Lesbian Travel Books
Gay travel books are a genre in themselves with many published volumes in the past ten years. But books by gay authors on the road have been written for several generations, indeed for centuries. Listed here are just a few of these books. More will be added sooner or later. (Send us your suggestions) See
An Appreciation of Gay Rights Advocates and Ellen DeGeneres
Westhampton, MA – August 18, 2009 Richard Ammon – GlobalGayz.com This blog is a note of greeting and appreciation to the many LGBT activists – some whom I know – who made the July 2009 Copenhagen World OutGames Human Rights Conference a profound success: I was delighted and my heart was warmed to see your