Passeios no campo com Marie Curie
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Conheço alguém que vai gostar disto (e não é pelas dicas do IRS)
“I’m involved in porn mostly because the social life of the art world is like living death.”
Lesbian candidate - a first for Japan
"Japan’s second largest political party, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), announced that Kanako Otsuji, the first openly lesbian politician in Japan, will be one of the party’s official candidates for this summer’s National Diet (parliament) election.
Ms Otsuji, 32, was elected as an Osaka Assembly Member in April 2003.
In August 2005, she came out of the closet in her book Coming Out and marched in the Tokyo Pride Parade (formerly known as Tokyo Lesbian & Gay Parade) along with about 2,500 people.
In her book, Ms Otsuji said:
"I believe coming out (as a lesbian) is the best thing that I can do for society to encourage people.
"I want to establish a society where everybody can be who they really are."
In May 2006 she worked with the organisers of Tokyo Pride, the Rainbow March In Sapporo and GayJapanNews for Act Against Homophobia.
The following month, she visited Washington D.C. and San Francisco through the International Visitor Leadership Programme operated by the US State Department.
Ms Otsuji has a good record of fighting for gay rights in Japan.
The major political parties in the country, including the DPJ, are reluctant to directly support gay rights, preferring instead to concentrate on wider discrimination issues.
Homosexual male sexual conduct is not illegal, but some regions (prefectures) have an unequal age of consent. The age for heterosexual consent is 13.
In October 2005, Osaka Prefecture started the House Sharing System which allows gay couples and other forms of couples that are not legally recognised as family to live in residences managed and operated by Osaka Housing Supply Corporation.
In 2005 and early 2007, Ms Otsuji submitted two statements about people with Gender Identity Disorder in cooperation with the New Komeito Party and other groups.
These statements were adopted by the Osaka Assembly.
Ms Otsuji didn't run in April’s local election because she had already decided to run for the upcoming national election.
In the local election, one gay and three transgender candidates campaigned, but only one transgender candidate, Aya Kamikawa, was re-elected to her second term.
Ms Otsuji says she thinks that she has to bring LGBT people’s voices to the National Diet and has made it her goal to seek a seat for that end.
DPJ leaders said they decided to endorse Ms Otsuji as an official party candidate to "bring society’s attention to the discriminated people."
If she wins, she’ll be the first openly LGBT national politician ever in Japan."
Eleições na Bélgica
"Politics are much more interesting in Belgium. Here in the US, we have debates over various issues, whether they are taxes, the war in Iraq, terrorism, foreign policy, whatever. Serious issues to be sure, but quite honestly not particularly interesting.
Over in Belgium, the NEE party is a bit fed up with the other candidates. Several parties have made some outlandish promises for job opportunities. There’s nothing worse than politicians making promises they can’t keep. So in response, the NEE party started a campaign, in which one of the candidates, a certain Tania Derveaux, posed naked, and promised 400,000 new jobs to her country. In case you didn’t catch on, the campaign is a parody, and designed to get attention.
Get attention it did. Hundreds of people emailed Tania, and said they would prefer to get 400,000 blowjobs instead. Tania was afraid of doing permanent damage to her jaw, as 400,000 is certainly an awful lot of blowjobs. As a compromise, Tania Derveaux has decided to give 40,000 blowjobs to further her party’s cause. To accomplish this, Tania would tour the world for 500 days non-stop, giving an impressive 80 blowjobs per day.
For those whose wives wouldn’t approve of recieving a blowjob from a Belgian politician, you also have the choice of recieving it virtually, via Second Life."
Aqui está o boletim de inscrição para os broches, no site do Partido
E aqui um video demonstrativo sobre o tema que vale a pena ver.
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