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Oct 262011
 

Here we go again....©Duck Sauce

BlogMensGo 26th October 2011, Duck Sauce are back again with another song….not sure how this one is going to go…maybe its a bit of a Marmite Track (Non UK readers are gonna have to look up the Marmite brand and logo for that one), my initial thought on hearing it is great the first time round, but not sure how I am going to feel if I keep hearing it in clubs or worse….its repeated on the radio every 30 mins.  What is catching the attention at the moment of the public is its controversial video, featuring ‘Crotch Faces’.  The video makes for some truly interesting viewing and is certainly worth a gander! Reminds me of something that may have been created by Aphex Twin or similar but in fact the song has been worked along with Armand Van Helden ‘You don’t know me‘ which takes me back to my days of being a closeted Jehovahs Witness.

Rolling Stone Magazine seems to be getting a lot of hits here with the video, they seem to have grabbed the article and video first! So all thanks goes to them for this article! and have a listen and view of that video here! Although I am very sure you are going to hear this everywhere from this weekend!

Oooh and Duck Sauce are on MySpace too!

Matt / MensGo

via Rolling Stone

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Botswana and Zimbabwe may be en route to the decriminalization of homosexuality

 Gay Rights  No Responses »
Oct 262011
 

Soon as friendly as South Africa (see poster), Botswana and Zimbabwe? © MediaClubSouthAfrica.com / Chris Kirchhoff.

(Blogmensgo, October 26, 2011) Festus Mogae and Morgan Tsvangirai, respectively former Botswana President and current Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, have recently made comments calling for decriminalization of homosexuality in their respective countries.

Very involved in the fight against AIDS, Festus Mogae chairs the National AIDS Council, a public body under the supervision of the National Coordinating Agency against AIDS (NACA). He called on 19 October 2011, the decriminalization of homosexuality and prostitution, and condom distribution in prisons.

This triple action is necessary to strengthen the fight against HIV / AIDS, said Mogae, who is said to be exclusively heterosexual. But homosexuals are “citizens” like any other and should not be stigmatized for what they are, insists the former head of state.

Botswana has embarked on a program 2010-2016 (PDF here) whose objective is “zero new infections by 2016.” The prevalence of HIV / AIDS reached a rate of 17% in Botswana.

The Botswana government is currently consulting to determine if it is necessary to amend the legislation to achieve this ambitious goal. In the meantime, no action is to decriminalize the agenda.

The decriminalization of homosexuality is not in the agenda in neighboring Zimbabwe, where President Robert Mugabe has been once distinguished by extremely homophobic virulence. His prime minister, Morgan Tsvangirai, will however introduce a right to “freedom of sexual orientation” in the Constitution to be submitted to referendum in 2012.

“For me, this is a human right,” said Tsvangirai on October 24, 2011, breaking with previous statements that were strongly homophobic. He also claims he will be an advocate for gay rights if he becomes president. Tsvangirai, 59, intends to succeed the immovable Mugabe, 87, who chairs the Zimbabwe government since 1987. The two men hate each other.

Morgan Tsvangirai leads the MDCT, said about his support for gay-friendly of its leader.

Mugabe says that gays and lesbians are “worse than dogs and pigs.” In 2010, Tsvangirai announced that he is “totally agree with the president” on LGBT issues.

This article has been translated from our French language Blog, to view the original article, please click here.

Philca & Matt / MensGo

Via BBC News, Slate Afrique, Zim online and The Herald.

 

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Are we heading towards the recognition of gay marriage in Italy?

 Gay Rights  No Responses »
Oct 252011
 

And if we got married at low tide? © Flickr.com / Andrea.

(Blogmensgo, October 25, 2011) The Court of Civil Affairs of Reggio d’Emilie, in Italy, was seized in mid-October 2011, with an application for a visa for a Uruguayan married to an Italian. The 42-year Italian and 30 year old Uruguayan and were married in March 2010 in Spain, where gay marriage is legal. Judgement was reserved until mid-November 2011.

The couple were married in Palma de Mallorca, while working in Spain. The couple finally decided to go to Italy because of the economic crisis in Spain. As a citizen of a country outside the European Union, the Uruguayan husband can not reside in Italy without an immigration visa. That is why the couple, legally married, applied for Decree No. 30 of 2007 which transposed into Italian law a European directive on the right to family reunification.

The application for family reunification was dismissed at trial, arguing that the Constitutional Council has ruled twice that gay marriage was illegal in Italy.

Lawyers for the couple state that they do not require the legalization of gay marriage in Italy, but more specifically the recognition of the right to family reunification as recognized, which the Italian couple was able to benefit from in another EU member countries, namely Spain. In this, they say, that Article 2 of Decree of 2007 contravenes the rules of European law and it is even unconstitutional.

Radical Association Certi Diritti, meanwhile stated that the Italian legislation is contrary to the treaties of Nice and Lisbon respectively regarding the free movement of persons and the fight against discrimination.

This article was translated from our french blog, please click here for the original article.

Philca & Matt / MensGo, according to an original article by Giorgio BlogMensGo.it
(via Gazzetta di Reggio, 18 October 2011)

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