Under both religious and secular laws, homosexual activity is illegal but this is the state’s first conviction for same-sex relations and the first public caning, the BBC reported. A few weeks ago, authorities removed the portraits of two LGBT rights activists from a public exhibition.

But maybe I’m being too harsh, and should just appreciate this endearing — if clumsy, and self-congratulatory — little trope in a not-exclusively-gay magazine by a dude. Only a deep and unnatural love of vaginas could ever cause you to have priorities other than a boyfriend? Really, I appreciate what this self-described “heterosexual man” is trying to do by extolling the gender-subversive values of Whip It’s hidden Lesbian Action in Psychology Today’s Lesbian Fantasy, Disguised, but he’s just a little bit too self-congratulatory about his sudden revelation that there are Lonely Lesbians who must seek Comfort in Girl Power Movies (the lonely lezzies in this article hail from Bovine, Texas — in the interview below this daily fix item, proverbial Lonely Lesbian was located in Iowa. Etsy’s 100% renewable electricity commitment includes the electricity used by the data centers that host Etsy.Finding herself in thrall to a pretty, older woman, she can’t stop the situation spiraling out of control once they are locked inside and she succumbs to being whipped and spanked as a kinky fantasy comes to life. People should not live in fear because they are attracted to people of the same sex,” Amnesty International Malaysia said in a statement. Lawyers and activists said the women, aged 22 and 32, were seated on stools facing the judges and given six strokes from a light rattan cane on their backs by female prison officers. The clip also includes interviews with the cast, so you get to see Liz Lemon and Tina Fey, all in one video! Members of the Kayapo tribe block the BR163 highway during a protest outside Novo Progresso in Para state, Brazil.

In 2019, with a better understanding of bisexuality, we have more options for media that actually gets it. Even Wikipedia's list of media portrayals of bisexuality includes "non-identified bisexual behaviour". Two women found guilty of attempting to have sex have been caned in Malaysia’s conservative north-eastern state of Terengganu, in the first punishment of its kind.

Rights groups had previously urged the Malaysian government to drop the case, which they argued constituted torture under international human rights law. It would have been easy – understandable even – to make the central character queer and have her discover that through roller derby. Human rights groups criticised the punishment as a setback for human rights and said it could worsen discrimination against people in Malaysia‘s lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender community. It was because I was a mostly closeted bisexual and Whip It seemed to have the queer undertones I craved. She’s an adolescent who likes to be different, is experimental and puts a boyfriend second to roller derby.