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•  US House approves Matthew Shepard hate crimes bill against resistance of Republicans
• Gay hand-holding campaigner has been honoured with award by UK government
• Gay marriage bill will most likely pass in Washington DC in December by congress
• Catholic Church blames gays for child abuse, says there are no pedos in church
• Family values group says 500,000 to boycott Pepsi over its ‘homosexual advocacy’
• Poland as a role model: France considers castration of sex offenders too
• US Department of Justice admits that telco companies are part of the government
• Canadian government using lies to sell Internet wiretapping law
• FBI arrests social worker because he helped organising G20 protest via Twitter

Matthew Wayne Shepard (1976 – 1998) was a student at the University of Wyoming who was tortured & subsequently murdered.

• CDU in Hessen verhindert entgegen Wahlversprechen Gleichstellung homosexueller Beamter
• Internetzensur von Gericht gestoppt bis gesetzliche Basis geschaffen wurde
• Französische Innenministerin will Gesetz zur chemischen Kastration von Sexualstraftätern
• Schäuble gibt zu, dass Internetzensur vor allem Wahlkampfpopulismus war
• Grüne ermöglichen Mitte-Rechts-Bündnis im Saarland, Schuld sind die Anderen?
• Platzeck bweweist mal wieder, dass er der einzige SPDler mit Restverstand ist
• FDP verabschiedet sich rasant von Vor-Wahl-Idealen: PKW-Maut angeregt 
• CDU und FDP begraben Solarenergie und sagen Atomausstieg ab

• Study finds no difference between children raised by gay or straight adoptive parents
• Poland’s lower house approves forcible chemical castration for sex offenders
• Amnesty calls for immediate repeal of new medieval anti-gay laws in Indonesia
• Germany obviously dumb: Gets Center-Right government of Christians & Capitalists  
• Germany mulls realities of first openly gay foreign minister in Europe but he’s a bitch
• Pirate Party and Socialists with strong results at German Federal Election (at least)
• Vatican doesn’t want that monopoly, says child abuse is rife in other religions too
• Wal-Mart employee reports mother to police over her kids’ bath time photos
• Apropos Wal-Mart: Short overview of the “values” of one of the biggest US companies
• UK  Border Agency wants DNA test to detect “true race” of asylum seekers
• 3 of 763 house searches under PATRIOT Act in US in 2008 were related to terrorism
• New law in France to cut off your internet if industry says you’re a pirate

• Weitere Studie bestätigt: Gleichgeschlechtliche Paare sind keine schlechteren Eltern
• ..in die Traufe: FDP würde gern in eimem Runumschlag den Sozialstaat abschaffen
• FDP als Bürgerrechtler? Haha. Erste Amtshandlung in Sachsen: Mehr Überwachung
• Dass ist also der Politikwechsel in Thüringen? SPD will mit CDU statt mit Linken regieren
• Rechtstaatlichkeit in Bayern: Zwei “Islamisten” werden grundlos “vorsorglich” festgenommen
• Potenzieller Außenminister Westerwelle spricht kaum Englisch, lässt BBC-Reporter abblitzen
• Studie des Bundesumweltamtes: Atomausstieg und Kohleverzicht keine Gefahr für Stromversorgung
• Verdammt in alle Ewigkeit: Amerikas Gesetze für Sexualdelikte erklären verliebte Teenies zu Verbrechern

• Indian government tipped to allow gay sex ruling, decriminalizing homosexuality 
• State of Washington to hold referendum on new gay rights laws
• New  Bill would give US president power to shut down internet for all Americans
• Lawless surveillance, warrantless rationales – Obama’s continuation of Bush policies
• DNA data bases useless? Scientists learn to fabricate DNA evidence
• How the UK government lies about number of file sharers with fantasy calculating
• Sweden seeks way out of selfish capitalism with negative interest rate for banks

• Umfragen zu Gewalt gegen Schwule manipuliert um Stimmung gegen Ausländer zu machen
• Unzensierte Nach-Wahl-Pläne der CDU aufgetaucht: Kein Mindestlohn und höhere Steuern
• FDP verhindert BND-Untersuchungsausschuss & klagt nur gegen Netztzensur wenn sie nicht gewählt werden
• CDU traut nicht mal den eigenen Parteimitgliedern, liest heimlich vertrauliche Mails mit
• Bundeswehr fordert Luftschlag gegen dutzende Zivilisten an, aber das ist natürlich eine Friedensmission…
• Nur gegen Kinderpornos? Österreich sperrt Website eines kritischen Journalisten
• Contentmafia mahnt jetzt schon der Wiederverkauf legal erworbener CDs ab
• Air France verbietet Männern neben allein reisenden Kindern zu sitzen

TV channel Fox started airing Skins on German TV recently. Skins, which was only available as download via BitTorrent or DVD import to Non-UK residents for a good while, became an insiders’ secret for gay teenagers all over the world but  the German perversion of dubbing foreign series turns it into a disaster.

Tony and Maxxie from Skins, season 1 | Photo via The Bats Nest

The BAFTA-winning teen drama that follows a group of teenagers in Bristol, South West England as they grow up is one of the most popular TV series in the United Kingdom and fans, as well as critics, appreciate its authenticity, humour and the sentimentality of puberty it shows. But the German version cut out too much of that. Not only is it hard to stand the desperate attempt to translate English youth slang into German which is moreover presented by bored, 40 year old voice actors but even the carefully selected original soundtrack of the series was replaced with mainstream soap trash.

Worst of all: In the original version Skins uses a loose but correct way of referring to homosexuality. In the German version ‘tho, the Gay character Maxxie sounds like the worst cliché of a nancy boy; and right in the first scene of the first episode Maxxie’s father is insulting him as a “little faggot” – nothing like that happens in the Original series. German TV has managed to turn a show that has a respectful approach to homosexuality into an amplifier of homophobic language and behaviour.[via queer.de]

• 2 teens murdered, 12 injured in Tel Aviv shooting at gay youth meeting
• Gay couples protest Australian gay marriage ban with mock weddings
• Aussie MP attacks plans to allow gay adoption, says homosexuality isn’t normal
• Cambodia relocates HIV families to AIDS Ghettos lacking clean water
• Boy dies after being shot in the back by police, Amnesty demands investigation
• UK wants to set thousands of families under 24/7 surveillance
• Football clubs take a stand for gay pride in Sweden

• Kommission für Jugendmedienschutz will mehr & schärfere Netzzensur
• Meinungsfreiheit als Sondermüll – CDU will Zensur ebenfalls ausweiten
• SPD-Spitzenkandidat meint, das Grundgesetz ist nicht so wichtig
• Auch Grüne wollen zensieren: Kommentar des Bremer Fraktionsvorsitzenden
• SPD will Grundrechte zu Gunsten von Urheberrechten schwächen
• CDU weiß seit 13 Jahren von Sicherheitsproblem in Atommülllager

Try to recognize him before you click on the Photo!

Looks a bit like German Wunderkind Tom Schilling, eh?

Toyin is a London-based fashion photographer. She undertook her formal education in photography at Bournemouth and Poole Institute of Art and Design. Her work has a distinctive sexualised quality and she professes an intimate approach to her models, who are often younger girls and especially boys. She has contributed editorial work to magazines including: Doing Bird, Visionaire, Vogue Nippon, Vogue Homme, Arena Homme Plus, Dazed and Confused, and she has also worked with Gucci. Toyin recently directed a recent Patrick Wolf video and did a film project for Dazed & Confused for the opening of Edwin Jeans’ store in Covent Garden. She continues to work on ‘The Cult of Boys’, her ongoing personal photographic project.

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