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International Women’s Day: The fight for health and human rights in Uganda

Uganda is a country marked by struggle, but it is also a story of survival. The coming chapters remain unwritten and hopefully they will tell the tale of the end of marginalization and poverty and...

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CALL FOR WRITERS: Born this way? The role of the nature vs nurture debate in...

The question of what ‘causes’ homosexuality (understood here as any sexual orientation that differentiates from heterosexuality i.e. attraction to opposite sex) has been preoccupying widely ranging...

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How Murders of Thai Lesbians Show Nuances of Institutionalized Misogyny

The International Lesbian and Gay Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) recently wrote a letter to the Thai government, urging Thai officials to take the rape and murder of gender-variant women and lesbians...

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Welcome to the series “Born this way? The role of the nature vs nurture...

The question of what ‘causes’ homosexuality has been preoccupying widely ranging scientific fields and scientists: from medicine and neuroscience to cultural and behavioral studies. Is sexual...

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“Yes I am too, but am I really?” On queerness and socialization.

Sexual orientation can be regarded as a latent disposition that is present in an individual all along. It depends, however, on the ability of ‘escaping’ cultural inclinations of gender norms and value...

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Profile of a “Gaysian”

“I have always been gay,” says Johnson Ngo. “But, I did not realize I was gay until I was a teenager.” Ngo, 24, is a artist in Toronto, Ontario. With richly saturated and gloriously shiny black hair,...

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Dangers of identity politics: does science hold all the answers?

“I don’t care that you’re a faggot, just stay away from me.” It remains painful that these were the most memorable words said to me on my high school Austrian exchange trip my senior year. I was in the...

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Understanding my sexuality through queer theory

My junior year of college, I read Adrienne Rich’s “Compulsory Heterosexuality and the Lesbian Existence.” In it, Rich talks about a “lesbian continuum” and the idea that intimate activities between...

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Essentialism, constructionism, and why I like plaid

I have no idea why I’m queer. Like most people who identify as straight, gay or anything in between, I experienced a range of sexual desires in my teenage years. I was often nervous and scared about...

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Male, female, hetero, homo: does the binarism really exist or are we making...

Each time we want to discuss sexual orientation, we turn to people who identify themselves as LGBT. By doing so we are in a way accepting that heterosexuality is the norm (hence, the “normality”) and...

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