What does it mean to be a family? Something very complicated but also very, very simple. This video created by Gays With Kids (an organization that offers support to single-parent couples) takes us into the life of Corey and Rocco, a gay couple from New York and their son Forge.
An ordinary Sunday between baby food, pampering, games in the garden and a visit to the grandparents. The peaceful serenity of a family full of love.
Doesn’t it melt your heart?
Adorable: there are no other words to define this spot by Campbell, the famous brand of canned soups in the United States, made for the Star Wars Edition. Two gay dads grappling with the meal time, a scene of daily love (with reference to the film) and the claim “Created for real, real life”.
In the face of those who think that rainbow families are “stuff from another world”!
Nothing like American kitsch is able to “normalize” everything. To make the new digestible to the average citizen who can send it down like a sip of Cocacola. We also see it in the marriage proposals, where the spectacularity prevails over the fact that the couple is made up of people of the same sex.
Then take a gay couple, put two beautiful sweaters on them and place it at the Christmas dinner, with the aunt the children and the inevitable dogs. Christmas, for an American, the party that embodies the idealization of the perfect family, all smiles and turkeys in the oven and hideous decorations on the fireplace. Around this east / ethics, American culture has persistently rotated since the 1950s(who does not have a family to spend Christmas with is a failure). Yet in this society, at least in a large part of it, the opening to the “new” is stronger than in Italy where, for some years, we have discovered that there is an alleged “traditional family” opposed to the others. In short, here in the Christmas spot of Kohl – department stores and obligatory stop for Christmas shopping – a gay couple appears, perfectly covered with the golden patina of the aforementioned aesthetic.
In spite of everything, sweet and moving. A sign that, in fact, American kitsch works.
2015 Istanbul LGBTI Honor March in Foreign Media. 2015 Istanbul Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Pride Parade
This video in which Corey, a transgender teenager, is receiving the first dose of female hormones from his mother, Erica Maison, is traveling around the world . A moment that Corey had been waiting for two and a half years. Mom recorded the scene because, as she said, she wanted to capture the happiest moment of her daughter’s life forever. The emotion overwhelms the girl as she realizes that she is about to start the journey in order to finally be herself.
“I would like parents of transgender children to open their hearts and accept their children for who they are, not for the gender they identify with or not.” Erica explained. “Their hearts do not change even if their external appearance changes. No child would like to be teased, injured, or targeted. No child would ever choose to be transgender, they were born 100% like this … We are all different, but at the same time we are all the same.
We all want to be loved and accepted by others, and that’s what every transgender child wants. Being loved and accepted, especially by parents “.
The Chinese Psychiatric Association has de-registered homosexuality from the list of mental illnesses for 15 years, and homosexuality itself is not a crime in China. Still, many clinics still offer treatments to “heal” from this “condition”.
The social and cultural stigma against homosexuals is still strong. For Chinese parents, the most important thing is that their children make them grandparents.
As John, a Chinese LGBT activist in this video, explains to us, for a Chinese person to come out with their parents is the most difficult thing.
The British Channel 4 has made a documentary in which a courageous Chinese LGBT activist has infiltrated one of the clinics that promise, with shock treatments, to “heal” homosexuality. The treatments people are subjected to in this clinic are horrifying and are IN fact dangerous. For example, there are various forms of electroshock – performed on different parts of the body – which should, in theory, make the patient associate a negative stimulus with the sexual impulse towards people of the same sex.
We can see the result in this trailer.
Other than continuing to chatter about DDL Cirinnà and civil unions: in Italy the time has come to say “Yes” to gay marriage. As they said it in the rest of Europe and in the world. And as they say “Yes” the boy and girl in this beautiful video, published by L’Amore è Uguale Per Tutti, a “virtual space to promote love”.
The small and tender story of two men who have loved each other for over 30 years in hiding, in the belief that they have no right, not even in the event of the death of one of the two.
Yet on the day of the Pride of Naples, which could be the last of their life together, they find the courage of a revolutionary gesture for them …
Giuseppe Bucci’s short film – starring Francesco Paolantoni and Patrizio Rispo – wins the best short film, the “ShorTS ilPiccolo” prize, at the prestigious Maremetraggio Festival which puts the 89 best-selling international shorts of the season in competition.
In Italy, in addition to Maremetraggio, Luigi and Vincenzo won the Florence Queer Festival, the Corto Imola Festival, according to the Gender DocuFilm Festival (Gay Village Rome), best original subject award at the Sorridendo Festival Cinecitta ‘, prize at the Pompei cinema Festival for two protagonists and is in the selection for the 2014 David di Donatello nomination .
But also around the world the short film has received very important statements such as the victory of the 10 grands moments de solitude in Paris (also screened in Cannes) the presence at the Europride in Oslo, and it is the only Italian short film to hit the official selection in aces poker of the North American LGBT Festivals (Frameline San Francisco, OutFest Los Angeles, NewFest New York, InsideOut of Toronto) as well as screenings at the Turin LGBT Festivals, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Brussels, and others, up to Rio and Mumbai and at the Tres Court in Paris which projects the finalists simultaneously in 100 cities around the world.
Eventually it will also happen in Italy. The homosexual marriage between gay and lesbian couples must necessarily be legalized in our country too. We are sure of it. Things change and history goes on.
And it also goes on thanks to people like Anita and Claudia who don’t give up, gather their strength and decide to get married in Kent, England, crowning their dream of love far from our country.
This beautiful video, created by the video agency 2become1, tells the emotions of that day in a few minutes.
Try not to be moved …
The complex universe of asexuals is still little known, little told and above all little understood.
Asexuality is sexual orientation characterized by a lack of interest or desire for sex. Therefore, an asexual person does not experience any physical attraction towards others, not even his partner.
What does it mean to be asexual and how do you explain it to others? Is it possible, as asexuals, to think that you have a lasting relationship?
In this Buzzfeed video, 15 asexual people confess on the social Whisper. Below the video you will find the translation.
My best friend just came out as an asexual … I don’t know if I should tell her that I am too.
When I tell people that I am asexual, they look at me like I am a caz * or unicorn … According to many people, we don’t exist.
I am openly asexual at school but not at home. I tried to tell mine but they say it is a phase, and that I will think differently growing up.
It makes me angry when people laugh because I’m 17 and still a virgin. They don’t understand that I’m asexual.
I don’t understand when people say “You can’t know you’re asexual if you’ve never tried to have sex.” It’s like saying “You can’t know you’re heterosexual if you’ve never tried to be with someone of the same sex.”
Today I told the girl that she has a crush on me that I am asexual. Now he hates me.
I’m afraid people wouldn’t find me so cute if they found out I’m asexual.
Just because I’m not sexually attracted to anyone and I don’t want to have sex doesn’t mean I don’t want a love affair.
I feel that being asexual reduces my chances of finding a relationship.
Asexuals don’t find love … nowadays it seems that love without sex is not possible.
I am asexual. I am also a rape victim. Even if people try to tell me that the two are connected, I can say 100% that these two are completely disconnected from each other.
The thing that scares me most about the future is to spend it alone, because I am asexual.
I just told my boyfriend I was asexual. He was absolutely comfortable. I love him so much.
To all my asexual friends out there … you are not wrong. We are not wrong.
I’m asexual and I’m hot to die for!
