20250113 Human Gay Male Conf. sold out. Two 1b mpox cases outside Africa. 90% of Thais support LGBT rights. Why?
Warrant issued against Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Homoerotic embroidery. Another conference on BL at Thai univ. Why has it made major changes in Thailand and not Japan.
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Human Gay Male conference is sold out.
Though most of the attendees are British, there are some from around the world. Further the organizer toured the United States and Canada to make contacts. I found a place for a meeting and paid for the dinner for the group in Dallas.
https://humangaymale.com/conference
Different people have different ideas how to support a Gay centric movement. I will be pursuing my efforts, but supporting theirs also.
We may have many different ideas on what to do, but we need to solidify as a team.
It is Saturday Jan. 25, 2025. I am counting the days.
This is a post with the breakdown of who is attending.
https://x.com/HumanGayMale/status/1878388951561412710
They have a London event, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025. Sign up to be on their mailing list.
Hopefully there are events happening in the USA in 2025.
Homoerotic embroidery.
Mpox 1b in France, China, Spreading out of control in Africa.
So far local authorities have been quick to do contact tracing and isolating infected people. Hopefully, this continues to be the case.
In Africa there is a new nation reporting their first 1b mpox nations and articles about the lack of the needed vaccines.
I know the percentage of Gays who are vaccinated is very high, but we aren’t at 100% and there always can be breakthrough infections.
Mpox 1b in France detected by a person infected by a returning traveler.
France 24, 1/7/2025, “France detects first case of new mpox variant.”
France's health ministry said the case concerned "a person who had not travelled to central Africa, a region where several clades variants of the virus have been circulating for several months".
"However this person was in contact with two people who returned from central Africa. Inquiries are underway to find the origin of the infection and identify all people in contact."
So there is at least one other person in France who is spreading it and who hasn’t been identified.
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250107-france-mpox-variant
There have been cases where a traveler returning from Africa had spread it to members of their family or to others in their apartment, but in this case in France, we don’t know if the two people recently returned from Africa and from whom the patient might have contracted it from were family members or persons they were living with. If the case is that the patient got it from someone who wasn’t living with them, it is very concerning. Mpox could already be spreading to multiple cases. We don’t know though.
It is hard to get follow up information. Did they track down the person who came back from Africa with mpox? Did anyone else get it? I am assuming that since there has been no further reporting the mpox outbreak is contained, but I don’t know for a fact.
Cluster of five cases in China.
China Daily, Jan. 9, 2025, “China identifies cluster of clade Ib mpox infections.”
Managed to spread to four individuals for a total of five cases at the time of this article. Again, the person returning to China from the Congo was spreading it to individuals and it wasn’t discovered until four had gotten sick and come down with symptoms.
https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202501/09/WS677fb8e6a310f1265a1d9f3b.html
Warrant executed on the Museum of Modern Art in Fort Worth, Texas.
Just letting you know what Texas is like. The reporting in national art media and local media is that “conservatives” are campaigning against the art and not Evangelicals, who are the driving force against the art. Further the fact that the people who are campaigning against the museum are the people who have been campaigning against the Pride events in the Dallas Fort Worth area and the drag shows is omitted.
According to reports the art was “secured” as evidence and no longer can be seen. Click on image.
Reporting on this takes a lot of time.
U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s indifference to Gay concerns.
One of the local Gay Dems was very upset that I would criticize their hero. I don’t play favorites and I am not keeping my readers in the dark.
Click on image.
Nine out of Ten Thai support LGBT rights.
I think we should understand why. Also, I think we need to stop thinking we are in the vanguard.
https://www.thailandnow.in.th/life-society/is-thailand-truly-a-queer-paradise/
I have finally gotten around to processing my photo documentation of Pride displays in Bangkok, and they dwarf anything you have in your town. I am processing them into tour videos. They are so extensive that a single location needs a tour to show the whole cluster of displays in one location.
Thai university has conference on why BL in Thailand has led to LGBT rights and Japanese BL hasn’t.
This is important since it discussing how BL is and isn’t effective in combating homophobia. The mention of why a subgenra isn’t effective leads to a discussion of what needs to happen. It also conceptualizes BL as a social force to change nations and to reduce homophobia. Today the discussion can be Japan, tomorrow it can be other nations including nations in the West and elsewhere.
https://www.facebook.com/Humanities.KasetsartU
The Faculty of Humanities and the Center for Advanced Studies in the Applied Humanities and Social Sciences, Kasetsart University Institute for Advanced Studies, in collaboration with the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Yamagata University; Global Education and Intercultural Advancement Center, Oita University; Harvard-Yenching Institute; Japan Foundation; and FEED, are organizing an international symposium, “Asian Boys Love Inter-references: From Japan to Thailand, Thailand to the World,” on the 11th of January, 2025, at 13:00 hours, at Chulabhornpisalsilp Building, Faculty of Humanities, Kasetsart University. Please scan the QR code or use the link https://kasets.art/H0VUUh to register.
🌟 Abstracts can be downloaded from this link: https://kasets.art/1TQ4bj
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#HumanitiesKU #ฝ่ายวิจัยและสร้างสรรค์
This is the download.
Boys Love as a Genre of Unpolitical Fantasy
Masao Imamura
(Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Yamagata University, Japan)
In the past ten years, Boys Love has been firmly established as a distinct literary genre in Japan. This genre is acknowledged for unique contributions to the mainstreaming of same-sex love in Japan. Although some gay activists used to criticize its typical stereotyping of same-sex (especially in the “yaoi debate” of the 1990s), many agree that by today the genre has evolved and maturing since then, overcoming the earlier generations’ shortcomings along the way. The growth of gay-friendly contents in the popular media, however, has not been accompanied by actual policy changes such as the legalization of same-sex couple in the country. This makes a sharp contrast with the situation in Thailand, where not only BL dramas but also campaigns for policy change have been remarkable successes. It has been suggested that in Thailand both television drams and political change have progressed in tandem.
To understand how the growth of BL is largely disconnected from the political change in Japan, I argue that Japanese BL is part of a larger narrative genre of fantasy. The point of this genre is that it allows the reader to imagine a radically different world. While we can find a variety of critiques in the imaginations, they do not render any common policy recommendations. One can make a similar observation about similar genres like xianxia and omegaverse, which are popular in Japan (but not so in Thailand).
Jan. 8, 2025 BL Conference in Chiang Mai update.
This was the earlier conference. I haven’t seen proceedings yet. I am working with my limited contacts to try to locate proceedings.
BL added to list to promote. Not necessarily watch.
I haven’t been bringing up BLs lately, because if they are really junky and I can’t bear to finish watching, I think perhaps they shouldn’t go on the list. A lot of them are given bad reviews by the BL fandom, and so promoting them to support BL isn’t a good idea.
Remember, we aren’t supporting BL based on its merits, we are supporting it to knock down homophobia which it seems to be able to do.
A bonkers Japanese BL. Remember, straight women write this for straight women. So feeling safe since it is projected onto two men, the one character can be very aggressive with the other.
I hate traffic accidents in BLs, but here it is.
Always looking to showcase artists.
It is free and I do all the work. The details are in this post. I have two artists lined up at this time. I would like to help as many artists out as I can in the comming year.
Houses of Hate mapping project is getting strong reactions both for and against.
It really surfaces the Gays who think begging for our rights is the way to go. One person wanted me to call homophobic churches to try to persuade them rather than map them. Others wanted me to make only a map of the churches that support LGBT.
However, most Gays are very supportive. If you are thinking of doing something in your town this is something that has broad support.
This is my planned tour of the Gayborhood and Turtle Creek area.
This is my planned tour for a section in Dallas which includes an artsy district and is close to my house.
This post has the previous field tour and resulting map.
tyhats a first for me, embroidery art WOWZA!!!