The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Wednesday December 28th, 2022
Growing Persecution of LBGTQs in Malaysia by Murray Hunter
As western society – and even Taiwan, which in 2018 legalized same-sex marriage – has progressively grown more tolerant of different modes of sexuality, a progressively less liberal Malaysia is driving many of its gays to feel they are trapped within their personal psychic prisons in which they must secretly maintain their sexual orientation clandestinely to avoid reprisals and ridicule.
For instance, in October authorities raided a Halloween party attended by members of the LGBT community, turning them over to Islamic religious authorities to be questioned amid concern on the part of human rights groups and activists over growing intolerance.
There is great concern within the LBGTQ community that the newly appointed religious affairs minister, Mohd Na’im Mokhtar, intends to extend a Syariah Court measure pushed through in the waning days of Barisan Nasional rule, with crossdressing an offense and criminalizing males passing themselves off as female.
The issue of gayness – lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer,or LBGTQ –has particularly come to the fore since the November 19 election that brought the Pakatan Harapan coalition to power along with its leader Anwar Ibrahim, who was imprisoned twice on sexual conservative Islamic community in an attempt to vilify him.
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Some form of purity #poem by David Barger
“The brink of winter is upon me
Moving up my leg like a cold hand;
Each chilling fingertip up my spine.”
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Screws & Chips #50 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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