27th Torino LGBT Festival

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Apr 262012
 

Movies that change lives...

(BlogMensGo, April 26, 2012) The twenty-seventh edition of the Torino GLBT Film Festival began on april 19th.

From April 19 to 25 will take place the twenty-seventh edition of the Torino GLBT Film Festival, From Sodom to Hollywood, the most important Italian exhibition dedicated to the homosexual cinema and one of the most important in Europe.

More than 130 titles from around the world will take turns on the screens and, this year, in addition to the traditional contests for feature films, documentaries and short films, also created is the award titled “Queer Award” and “will be assigned to film sensitivity to language and has captured more effectively the reality of young people, for which, often, gender identity is a more fluid concept. ”

Godmother of the opening night will be Chiara Francini and special guest singer Arisa.

For further information on programming, the titles in competition, and tickets just go to the Festival site

This article has been translated from our Italian blog, to view the original, click here.

Giorgio & Matt / MensGo

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Kiss of the Moon finally finds its audience in primary schools

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Apr 042012
 

(Blogmensgo, April 4, 2012) Two years after its release, the distribution of the short animated film called The Kiss of the Moon (Le baiser de la lune) is officially allowed in primary schools. Two years ago, the film of Sebastian Watel had created a highly publicized controversy.

From fish there is vitamins...and love! ©Le-baiser-de-la-lune.fr.

Students of CM1 and CM2 (9-11 years) may now be interested in the love Felix the catfish and Leon moonfish despite the wishes of the most traditional Agatha, Felix’s Aunt who would prefer that the union between a male fish and female fish. In short, a beautiful and romantic love story without proselytizing or speeches on sexuality.

The Minister of Education had put the film in a waiting room, despite the support of the Breton department of Ille-et-Vilaine and by other departments, municipalities and associations. During the two years of embargo, the film has toured festivals and several primary school classes have watched, and have never risen up against its projection.

In two fascinating articles (but available only to subscribers) Liberation recounts how a particular school teacher extends the film by a French lesson on prefixes (homo) and suffixes (phobia). Children often do, immediately, have a reconciliation of racism – they know well – and homophobia. The main difference is that French National Education is stepping up initiatives to fight against racism, while the fight against homophobia in primary schools there is no teaching tool.

This article has been translated from our French blog.  To view the original, click here.

Philca & Matt / MensGo

(via release of 3 April 2012 in two articles [1] [2] for subscribers only and in French)

 

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Same sex parent Families in the bachelor’s literature in France

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Nov 032011
 

"Our homoparent ancestors ..." © Photoxpress.com / Andrei Kiselev

(Blogmensgo, November 3rd, 2011) By the 2012-2013 school year, some textbooks for high school seniors will discuss same sex parent Families under the option “Law and major issues of the contemporary world” (DGEMC). The original program did not include this issue, but the LGBT Family Association (ADFH) is said to have convinced the French Ministry of Education to change its official program in a less restrictive form.

The DGEMC is taught only in terminal L (literature), that is to say, during the preparatory year bachelor’s degree. The legal section includes items relating to “the evolution of the family” as defined by Schedule 2.6 of the Official Gazette No. 8 of the Special Department of Education, published October 13, 2011. The various forms of couple (marriage, civil unions, common-law) and affiliation (natural or adoptive) create a variety of contexts including the official program echoing:

“After seeing the lack of definition of the family, we will show, for legal and historical analysis, it has changed dramatically and became multiform (biological family, adoptive parent, homoparental, blended, nuclear, extended) and will offer students to find a definition. ”

[The bolding is mine. Where there is, in passing, that school curricula do not shine by their editorial style.]

Note further that Appendix 2.7 refers to “sex and the law”, including a section entitled “homophobia or discrimination.”

In a statement dated 31 October 2011, AFDH “welcomes the recognition of same-sex families in the educational program, and remember they are now an undeniable reality in the plurality of existing family forms.”

Comment. The ministerial order setting the 2011-2012 program dates back to July 12, 2011 and its publication in the Official Journal of 20 September 2011. But as France was mired in the famous dispute over the “gender theory”, the AFDH probably preferred to wait a bit before trumpeting it’s joy.

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Matt & Philca / MensGo

Via Le Figaro 31 October 2011

 

 

 

 

 

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