G Magazine

G Magazine In Brazil


G Magazine is a Brazilian gay men's magazine that features frontal nudity (including erections) and articles for the gay community, created by Ana Fadigas.

This is a monthly publication that sells approximately 110,000 issues every month, about half of Playboy. Its online version is G Online.

The magazine has featured nude photographs of dozens of Brazilian celebrities as well as foreign celebrities, such as Warren Cuccurullo, guitarist for Duran Duran. Among these Brazilian celebrities we find actors Alexandre Frota, Matheus Carrieri, and Victor Wagner; model Klaus Hee; DJs; singers Rodrigo Phavanello, Márcio Aguiar, and David Cardoso Jr. as well as soccer players of the national team and professional teams and contestants of the Brazilian version of Big Brother and other reality shows.

LGBT Activism In Brazil

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons in Brazil may face legal challenges not experienced by non-LGBT residents. Both male and female same-sex sexual activity are legal in Brazil, but same-sex couples and households headed by same-sex couples are not eligible for the same legal protections available to opposite-sex couples.

In 2004, a statement from the judges in the country said homosexual relationships existed and as such, deserved to be regulated by law. "Technically, this is not going to be called 'gay marriage' by the justice of the peace, but it is the equivalent," Tania Bampi, a spokeswoman for the court administration, said. The ruling gives same-sex couples broad rights in areas like inheritance, child custody, insurance benefits and pensions.[3] In that case is applied the legal analogy, when there is a law for the same fact.[4]

The number of LGBT rights in Brazil have expanded since the end of the military dictatorship in 1985.[5] The gay population in Brazil is more than 20 million people, however the confirmed do not represent neither 5%.[6] According to the Guinness Book, the São Paulo Gay Pride Parade is the world's largest Gay Pride celebration, with 4 million people in 2009.[7]

LGBT Activism In Japan

An example of Old Media is The Japanese politician Aya Kamikawa using historical political tactics like campaigning and canvasing to win the election.



Aya Kamikawa (上川 あや, Kamikawa Aya?, born 1968 in Tokyo)[1]) is a Tokyo municipal official, the first transsexual person to seek elected office in Japan. She was elected in April 2003.[2] Kamikawa, a 35-year-old writer, submitted her election application papers with a blank space for "sex".[3]

Running as an independent under huge media attention, she won her four-year term seat, placing sixth of 72 candidates running for 52 seats in the Setagaya ward assembly, the most populous district in Tokyo.[2] Despite an announcement that the government would continue to consider her male officially, she stated that she would work as a woman. Her platform was to improve rights for women, children, the elderly, the handicapped, and LGBT people.

In April 2007, she was re-elected to her second term, placing 2nd of 71 candidates running for 52 in the same ward assembly. She is the only openly LGBT official in Japan at this point.

Australia gay rights

Website provides healthy and anonymous place to gain information on Australian marriage and LGBT rights.

Egoli

Locally produced television programs also focus on gay life and the locally produced soap Opera Egoli even featured a long term gay relationship.



South Africa Survivor featured An openly Gay contestant, Spencer Duhm

LGBT Activism In South Africa

South Africa's post-apartheid constitution was the first in the world to outlaw discrimination based on sexual orientation, and on 1 December 2006 South Africa made history by becoming the fifth country in the world and first in Africa to legalise same-sex marriage

Gay Film Nights Festival (Romania)

Gay Film Nights (Serile Filmului Gay in Romanian) is an LGBT film festival organised annually in Cluj-Napoca, Romania by the LGBT association Be An Angel. By presenting a series of films with LGBT themes, it seeks to showcase LGBT culture and cinema, while also initiating a dialogue with other members of society.